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Cape Canaveral, Fla, :  Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring. Their capsule streaked through the late night sky like a dazzling meteor before parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Recovery boats quickly moved in with spotlights. “On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home to Planet Earth,” SpaceX Mission Control radioed from Southern California. Within an hour, all four astronauts were out of the capsule, exchanging fist bumps with the team on the recovery ship, The Associated Press (AP) reports.…

Abu Dhabi : His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, today departed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Kingdom of Bahrain. During the official visit to the UAE, His Royal Highness met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to review and build upon longstanding ties between Bahrain and the UAE, and to explore ways to further enhance bilateral cooperation and coordination, as well as to discuss regional and international developments. His Royal Highness…

Bahrain  The National Initiative for Agricultural Development (NIAD) announced that it has received support from Dar Aqua and Agriculture Company for the afforestation of Al-Ghous Walkway in the Muharraq Governorate, and from SICO investment bank to plant trees along the Mazarea Highway in Northern Governorate. The projects, implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning and the Supreme Council for the Environment, are within the national afforestation campaign, “Forever Green”. The representative of the Dar Aqua and Agriculture Company Manager, Abdulla Al-Fahal, Muharraq Municipality’s Director-General, Ibrahim Al-Jowdar, senior officials, municipal council members and MPs attended…

Bahrain : Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs, Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, received today Bahrain Friends Group at the European Parliament, in the presence of member of the Representatives Council Ali Ishaqi. The Minister of Justice welcomed the European delegation, praising the efforts of Bahrain Friends Group in boosting cooperation between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the European Parliament member states. The meeting reviewed ways of boosting joint cooperation and exchanging experiences in the legal and judicial field.

Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station, said an AP report. Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s main module on Sunday evening, spending more than six hours outside installing equipment and carrying out tests alongside the station’s robotic service arm, according to the China Manned Space agency. The third member of the crew, Ye Guangfu, assisted from inside the station, CMS said on its website. Wang, 41, and Zhai, 55, had both traveled to China’s now-retired experimental space stations, and Zhai…

Bahrain :BAC Chief Development and Technical Officer Abdulla Janahiis now complete, Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) has said. Conducted twice annually over a period of 20 days, the work is vital to maintain civil and airfield ground lighting of the runway, helping to ensure safe and smooth aircraft operations. During the process, all aircraft operations are suspended between 3:50am and 6:30am. “Regular airfield maintenance is crucial to airport safety,” BAC Chief Development and Technical Officer Abdulla Janahi said. “Runways, taxiways, and strip areas experience a great deal of wear and tear during normal operations. Maintaining these surfaces without disrupting flights is part…

Bahrain: Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister Essam bin Abdullah Khalaf received lawmakers Dr. Abdullah Al Thawadi and Basem Al Maliki to discuss the service and municipal needs of Hamad Town. The meeting reviewed projects and plans related to the development of main streets and the entrances and exits of Souq Waqif, as well as infrastructure projects such as the sewage network and parking lots.

Bahrain : The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s President Ali Ahmed Al Derazi received a delegation from the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, headed by Professor Tatiana Moskalkova. Al Darazi noted the importance of activating the MoU recently signed between the two sides, starting information exchange and technical cooperation, and working on holding events and training programs to introduce human rights concepts and principles at various local, national and regional levels. Moskalkova thanked NIHR’s president for the opportunity to gain insights into the NIHR’s role in protecting human rights and its efforts to promote human rights…

Rehoboth Beach:  President Joe Biden doesn’t need to look any further back than his time as vice president to grasp the challenges that lie ahead in promoting his new $1 trillion infrastructure deal to the American people and getting the money out the door fast enough that they can feel a real impact. When President Barack Obama pushed through a giant stimulus bill in 2009, his administration faced criticism that the money was too slow to work its way into the sluggish economy, and Obama himself later acknowledged that he had failed to sell Americans on the benefits of the…

Bahrain : Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air has celebrated the successful launch of its private charter services which allows its global clientele to book private direct charter flights with personalized itineraries after their first Boutique Charter flight had landed back from Malaga, Spain. The event was held in the airline’s headquarter in Muharraq where Gulf Air’s Acting Chief Executive Officer Captain Waleed Abulhameed Al Alawi recognized some of the airline’s staff from the Commercial and Operations departments for their efforts to make this project a success by distributing certificates of appreciation. “This is yet another achievement to add for the…