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Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon | US news newsthirst.

Nasa has dropped its longstanding public commitment to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, in response to Donald Trump’s directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies. The promise was a central plank of the space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to…

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Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86 | MI6 newsthirst.

Oleg Gordievsky, the UK’s most significant cold war double agent inside the KGB, has died at his home in Surrey aged 86. Gordievsky, who would eventually defect to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure, was considered a key agent operating for the UK’s intelligence services working within the Soviet Union. While counter-terrorism police were…

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