Russian Cosmonauts Set for Spacewalk on NASA TV
NASA Television will broadcast live coverage of a six-hour spacewalk by two Russian crew members aboard the International Space Station beginning at 9:45 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 10. Expedition 44…
U.S. Faces Fresh Threats from Russia and China
Russia, China, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, North Korea are just a few of the situations that the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will have to deal with. The…
Narendra Modi Is Having a Ball at Your Expense
By Rakesh Raman “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.” – Adolf Hitler This saying goes well for India’s jet-setting Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is…
Russia’s Crackdown on Salafi Muslims in Dagestan
The government’s response to a decade-long insurgency in Dagestan, a southern Russian republic, has been marked by serious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.…
UN Chief Meets President Putin in Russia
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Russia for ‘Victory Day’ marking 70 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe, met with President Vladimir Putin to discuss…