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  • Numerous homes have been damaged and people have been injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Bafliyeh in southern Lebanon.
  • As Israeli forces step up their attacks on Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has rejected an upcoming talks between the Lebanese government and Israel in the United States, calling such efforts "futile."
  • The blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports by the US military has now started.
  • A new US naval blockade of Iran's ports was denounced by Tehran as "an act of piracy," according to a Monday report from the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
  • Asserting that it is "clear" that "there is no military solution" to the conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is urging the United States and Iran to resume talks in an effort to put an end to the conflict.
  • In response to President Donald Trump's criticism, Pope Leo XIV told reporters on Monday that he had "no fear" of the Trump Administration when visiting Algeria.

Tag: Apollo 11

July 30, 2019

After Anniversary, NASA Aims Beyond Earth...

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the crowning achievement in crewed space flight, but also reminded the public the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is not currently sending astronauts into space from the U.S

July 17, 2019

How ‘Rocket City’ Helped NASA Get...

In the race to the moon in the 1960s, the development of the large rockets that could thrust the spacecraft beyond Earth’s atmosphere became a critical element in the success of the Apollo program. The place where the Saturn V rocket was developed — Huntsville, Alabama

July 16, 2019

In Exclusive VOA Interviews, NASA Astronauts...

World celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic mission to land humans on the surface of the moon

July 8, 2019

How Film Imagined and Captured Moon...

Science and the determination of the human spirit propelled Apollo 11 to the moon fifty years ago, but it was popular culture that imagined man there, long before July 16, 1969 say filmmakers, and popular culture experts

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