The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo / Asia News Network(TNS) Sep. 27—TOKYO (YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN) — A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer has sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time since the Self-Defense Forces were formed, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The Sazanami traversed the strait Wednesday in…
dpa(TNS) Kiev — The Russian Air Force fired four Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday morning, after sending dozens of combat drones overnight, Ukrainian officials said. The missiles’ target was the city of Starokostyantyniv in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine. There is a…
Simone JasperMerced Sun-Star (Merced, Calif.)(TNS) A pioneering chimpanzee went into space for NASA — then retired to North Carolina 44 years ago. Ham the “Astrochimp” made history when he became the first member of his species to be launched into space in…
dpa(TNS) MOSCOW — The Kremlin has sharply criticized the appearance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the U.N. Security Council. Zelenskyy said in his speech on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not voluntarily end the war he had…
Terry BrownTimes Union, Albany, N.Y.(TNS) Sep. 23—Army Pvt. John Greschiak of Watervliet, who was killed in action on Sept. 16, 1944 during a successful rescue mission outside Niedersgegan, Germany, received a belated posthumous New York State Conspicuous Service Cross last…
Nandini SircarKhaleej Times, Dubai, United Arab Emirates(TNS) Sep. 20—Miss America 2024 and US Air Force pilot Madison Marsh is in the UAE on her mission to break stereotypes surrounding women, the military, and pageantry while encouraging females in the country to chase their aspirations. The stereotype…
