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DPRK
ICBM tested in show of strength, KCNA reports
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a launch drill of an intercontinental ballistic missile to show its "toughest retaliation will and overwhelming strength" against mounting military threats from the United States and the Republic of Korea, the country's state news agency said Tuesday. The DPRK test-fired an ICBM called "Hwasongpho-18", which traveled up to a maximum altitude of 6,518.2 kilometers and flew a distance of 1,002.3 km for 4,415 seconds before accurately landing on a preset area in the eastern open waters off the Korean Peninsula, according to a report by the official Korean Central News Agency. The launch drill was conducted in response to the second Nuclear Consultative Group meeting the United States and ROK convened late last week in Washington, said the KCNA.
EUROPEAN UNION
Musk's X probed over possible law breach
The European Union is investigating social media company X over suspected breaches of obligations, partly relating to posts following Hamas attacks on Israel, its first probe under the Digital Services Act. The DSA came into force in November last year and requires very large online platforms and search engines to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security. The probe is expected to focus on countering the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, and the effectiveness of measures taken to combat information manipulation.
NASA
Feline frontier: Cat video sent from deep space
NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometers away from Earth — to send a high-definition cat video. The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space, and demonstrates it's possible to transmit the higher-data-rate communications needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars. The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver on the Psyche probe, which is journeying to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore a mysterious metal-rich object.
Xinhua - Agencies
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