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New shooting in Serbia: 8 dead, 13 injured

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New shooting in Serbia: 8 dead, 13 injured, Magnate Daily
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Steph Deschamps / May 5, 2023

A new shooting left eight people dead and 13 wounded Thursday night in Serbia, a day after an unprecedented school shooting in the country.
 
A gunman opened fire with automatic weapons on a group of people from a moving vehicle near the town of Mladenovac, about 60 km south of Belgrade, and then fled, state-run television RTS reported. A suspected perpetrator was arrested by police later this morning.
 
Police blocked the road leading to the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona, in the area where the shooting occurred, according to an AFP photographer on the scene. Numerous police and ambulances have been dispatched to the scene, and helicopters are flying overhead.
 
Police said they had arrested the alleged perpetrator, announced the national television (RTS). “RTS has learned that the murderer was arrested near Kragujevac,” in central Serbia, the national channel said, following a manhunt launched after the killing late Thursday night in several villages near Belgrade.
 
The Serbian Minister of the Interior, Bratislav Gasic, called the events a “terrorist act ».
 
Concerned relatives gathered outside the Belgrade emergency medical center, where at least eight of the injured were hospitalized, TV station N1 reported. Health Minister Danica Grujicic briefly visited the center. 
 
This new shooting came a day after a 13-year-old student shot and killed eight children and a custodian in a Belgrade school, a killing that deeply shocked the country.
 
Seven people – six students and a teacher – were also injured in the attack, and two were still in critical condition Thursday after undergoing a series of surgeries.
 
The assailant was arrested shortly after the shooting in the schoolyard, where he was waiting for police to arrive, and was placed in a psychiatric hospital.
 
The father of the shooter, a well-known doctor and owner of the weapon used, was arrested and is to be heard Friday by a prosecutor. The mother was also arrested.
 
Three days of national mourning have been declared starting Friday. Most of the celebrations and events planned will be cancelled. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic lamented “one of the most difficult days in the contemporary history” of Serbia.
 
Some 765,000 weapons, including more than 232,000 pistols, are legally registered in Serbia, a country of about seven million people.
 
In April 2013, a villager shot and killed 13 people, including family members and neighbors, not far from Mladenovac, the same area as Thursday night‘s shooting. 
 
The Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday checks on homes to see if weapons were kept in safes in accordance with the rules. Offenders will have their weapons confiscated.
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China sends its first civilian astronaut into space

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Eva Deschamps / June 1, 2023

The three astronauts’ stay is scheduled to last six months, and marks a new stage in the progress of Beijing’s space program.
 
On Tuesday May 30, China sent three new astronauts to its Tiangong space station, including for the first time a civilian. This is a valuable experience for the Asian giant, which has reaffirmed its desire to send a Chinese astronaut to the Moon by 2030, a major objective of a space program that has been progressing steadily for several decades.
 
The trio on the Shenzhou-16 mission lifted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket at 9:31 a.m. local time from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert, according to AFP reporters on site. The launch was a “total success” and the “astronauts are in good shape”, said Zou Lipeng, director of the launch center.
 
Mission commander, veteran engineer Jing Haipeng, on his fourth space flight, is accompanied by engineer Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, a professor and the first Chinese civilian in space. A specialist in space science and engineering, Haichao will be in charge of experiments on the station. He does not come from the armed forces, as has always been the case until now. Their stay in Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace” in Chinese) is scheduled to last six months.
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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June

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Sylvie Claire /  June 1, 2023

North Korea confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch a military spy satellite in June, in order to “confront dangerous US military actions”, according to the official KCNA agency.
The “military reconnaissance satellite number 1” will be “launched in June”, in order to “confront the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”, according to Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission, quoted by KCNA.
On Monday, Japan announced that it had been informed by North Korea of a forthcoming satellite launch, a project which the Japanese government believed to conceal a ballistic missile launch.
According to Tokyo, Pyongyang has told the Japanese coastguard that a rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11, and is expected to land in an area near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and east of Luzon Island in the Philippines.
North Korea has already tested ballistic missiles in 2012 and 2016, which it described as satellite launches and which flew over the island department of Okinawa in southern Japan.
The development of a reconnaissance satellite was one of Pyongyang’s key defense projects unveiled last year by Kim Jong Un.
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China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

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Steph Deschamps / June 1, 2023

On Tuesday, China will send a civilian astronaut into space for the first time in its history on a manned mission to the Tiangong space station, the China Human Spaceflight Agency announced.

 

This astronaut, Gui Haichao, a “payload specialist”, is “a professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics”, Lin Xiqiang, spokesman for the space agency, told a press conference on Monday.

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Until now, all Chinese astronauts who have launched into space have been members of the People’s Liberation Army.

 

Mr. Gui will be “mainly responsible for in-orbit management of payloads” dedicated to space science experiments, the spokesman said.

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The civilian astronaut will orbit alongside Shenzhou-16 mission commander Jing Haipeng and astronaut Zhu Yangzhu.

 

The crew is due to take off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwest China at 09:31 local time, according to the space agency.

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Projects linked to China’s “space dream” are multiplying under the presidency of Xi Jinping.

 

The Asian giant has been investing billions of euros in its military-led space program for several decades, enabling it to make up most of the ground lost to the Americans and Russians.

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China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, and its Tiangong (“Celestial Palace”) space station has been fully operational since late 2022. In 2019, a Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. Then, in 2021, China landed a small robot on the surface of Mars. China plans to send its first crew to the Moon by 2029.

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