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Wreck of ship sunk by Israeli military in Irgun clash found after 78 years

The wreck of the Irgun underground's Altalena ship, bombed by the Israeli military in 1948 and deliberately sunk in 1949, was located off Israel's coast at a depth of 1,650 feet.

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China abruptly delays unmanned moon mission over ‘launch conditions’

China’s manned space agency said on Sunday it is delaying a research moon mission that is part of Beijing’s efforts to land a crew there by 2030, less than two weeks after a rare launch failure. The agency said after a “comprehensive assessment” the mission, which involved sending the Chang’e-7 lunar probe on a Long […]

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