[14:19] Baltic states switch to EU power grid, ending Russia ties

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they had successfully synchronised their electricity systems to the European continental power grid, a day after severing decades-old energy ties to Russia and Belarus.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0209/1495639-baltic-states-power-lines/

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[10:32 AM] Voyager I located by volunteers at decades-old radio telescope in Drenthe

Volunteers at the decades-old Dwingeloo radio telescope in Drenthe picked up a signal from the Voyager 1 space probe, which was launched in 1977 to visit the outer planets of the solar sy

https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/11/voyager-located-volunteers-decades-old-radio-telescope-drenthe

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Voyager I located by volunteers at decades-old radio telescope in Drenthe

Volunteers at the decades-old Dwingeloo radio telescope in Drenthe picked up a signal from the Voyager 1 space probe, which was launched in 1977 to visit the outer planets of the solar system and then sent out into interstellar space. The Voyager 1 is now almost 25 billion kilometers away from Earth, over four times as far as Pluto, so the signal is weak, but there, the organization behind the telescope reported.

NL Times

[08:25] Longest-serving death row inmate says acquittal 'victory'

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner has thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0930/1472679-death-row-inmate-acquitted/

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