Daily Archives: 08/20/2023


Japan’s Kishida Visits Fukushima Plant Ahead of Water Release

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a brief visit to the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday to highlight the safety of an impending release of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, a divisive plan that his government wants …


Russia’s Luna-25 Crashes Into Moon 

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon. “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon,” Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said Sunday. On Saturday, …


General Heading Notre Dame Cathedral Restoration Dies at 74

The decorated French general in charge of the ambitious, big-budget restoration of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Jean-Louis Georgelin, has died. He was 74.  President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute Saturday to one of France’s “greatest soldiers, greatest servants,” who …