ISTANBUL: SpaceX’s private crew of four astronauts made history on Thursday by performing the world’s first commercial spacewalk on the third day of their five-day journey to Earth orbit. “The Polaris Dawn spacewalk is now complete, marking the first time commercial astronauts have completed a spacewalk from a commercial spacecraft,”

ANKARA: Australia on Thursday stripped its military officers of distinguished service medals over war crimes in Afghanistan, local media reported. Announcing the decision in parliament, Defense Minister Richard Marles said he stripped a number of current and former defense officers of medals over alleged war crimes that happened under their

ISTANBUL: The anti-drug policies of the interim Afghan Taliban administration provide an opportunity to stabilize the Afghan economy, an international think tank said Thursday. While acknowledging ‘one of the most successful poppy elimination efforts in modern history,’ the International Crisis Group’s Afghan analyst, Ibraheem Bahiss, said ‘the ban has also