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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 12, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 03:08 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

How 23 giant Chinese rockets could save the world from ‘doomsday’ asteroid

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jul 06 01:29 PM

China’s space program could one day save the world, with massive rockets traveling for years to defend the planet from huge asteroids capable of wiping out entire cities, according to the government.   Read more »

China ready to launch first crew to new space station

Ludovic Ehret and Poornima Weerasekara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 11:57 AM

The first crew for China's new space station prepared to blast off this week for the latest step in Beijing's ambitious program to establish itself as a space power. Read more »

Elon Musk says all transport, apart from rockets, will be electric in future

Reuters
Posted at May 21 04:47 PM

Elon Musk said on Friday that all transport will be electric in the future, with the exception of rockets. Read more »

Hamas official predicts ceasefire soon in Israel-Gaza conflict

Nidal al-Mughrabi and Rami Ayyub, Reuters
Posted at May 20 02:26 PM

A senior Hamas official predicted a ceasefire within days in the Israel-Gaza conflict, after U.S. President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a "de-escalation" in the fighting. Read more »

World powers urge truce, as Israel-Palestinian conflict rages

Nidal al-Mughrabi, Jeffrey Heller and Stephen Farrell, Reuters
Posted at May 19 07:17 AM

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull during which the U.N. sent a small fuel convoy into the enclave, where it says 52,000 people are now displaced. Read more »

OFW defies advice to abandon bedridden Israeli employer amid escalating violence

John Gabriel Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 19 12:17 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) - Some Filipino caregivers and helpers in Israel have been told to leave their ill employers during a barrage of rockets, as violence between the Middle Eastern state and Palestinian militants continues to escalate. Read more »

Filipinos 'safe' as violence in Israel escalates: OWWA

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 17 06:46 PM

Filipinos in Israel are "safe and sound" in general, after Palestinian militants fired rocket barrages at Israeli cities as fighting spilled into a second week, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said on Monday.  Read more »

Gaza pummeled by fresh Israeli strikes, more than 200 dead in a week

Adel Zaanoun with Claire Gounon in Jerusalem, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 17 01:17 PM

Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip pre-dawn Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Islamist militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded.   Read more »

China’s Long March 5B rocket makes splash, but good news burns up in the atmosphere

Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 12 01:19 PM

Casualties were avoided, but China is criticized for failing to plan a ‘targeted re-entry’ to determine where debris would land. The rocket and its predecessor – debris from which landed in Africa – have made the largest uncontrolled descents in 30 years, amid differing views on the risks. Read more »

At least 35 killed in Gaza, 5 in Israel, as violence escalates

Nidal al-Mughrabi, Jeffrey Heller and Stephen Farrell, Reuters
Posted at May 12 11:35 AM

Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza into the early hours of Wednesday, as the Islamist group and other Palestinian militants fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and Beersheba.   Read more »

Israel's Iron Dome intercepts rockets

Amir Cohen, Reuters
Posted at May 11 03:47 PM

Streaks of light are seen as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel May 10, 2021. Read more »

Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 09 01:09 PM

A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the Chinese space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-ton object would come down. Read more »

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by Sunday - tracking centers

Reuters
Posted at May 09 01:01 AM

SHANGHAI - Remnants of China's largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, European and US tracking centers said on Saturday. Read more »

China says its rocket debris unlikely to cause any harm

Reuters
Posted at May 07 06:01 PM

BEIJING - Most debris from a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend will be burned up on reentry and is highly unlikely to cause any harm, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday.    Read more »

Touchdown! SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 06 10:22 AM

WASHINGTON - SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. Read more »

A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth. Should you be worried?

The Conversation/Reuters
Posted at May 04 07:20 PM

A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that’s space speak for “out of control”), and parts of it are expected to crash down to Earth over the next few weeks. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 29, 2021

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Updated as of Aug 16 03:29 PM

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Shooting for the stars

AFP
Posted at Apr 29 07:26 PM

A band plays music as a Long March 5B rocket, which carries China's Tianhe space station core module, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center, in southern China's Hainan province on Thursday. Read more »

China begins construction of its fifth rocket launch site

Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 12:59 PM

A port city in eastern China has launched an ambitious plan to build the country's fifth rocket launch site, under a longer-term goal to ramp up space infrastructure to meet the demands of an expected boom in commercial missions. Read more »