Mon 17 June 2024: Climate skeptics are scapegoating a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding to deny the role of global warming in historic floods that have recently devastated countries from Brazil to Kenya. Record rainfall brought to some regions by the natural weather cycle El Nino matches an expected increase in extreme events, […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Rescue operation or massacre? Wikipedia editors clash over the recent Israeli raid in the central Gaza refugee camp. A fierce “edit war” has broken out on Wikipedia over a page dedicated to a deadly Israeli raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on the morning of June 8. […]
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Mon 17 June 2024: Reuters news agency investigation reveals how US military launched a clandestine programme during the pandemic to discredit China’s medical efforts. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially […]
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Sun 16 June 2024: Russian special forces freed two prison guards and killed several hostage-takers at a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don. The guards were seized by six detainees earlier on Sunday. Initially, negotiations were attempted, but the siege ended with a special operation. “The criminals were eliminated,” stated Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, confirming the […]
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Sun 16 June 2024: China’s President Xi Jinping told European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen that Washington was trying to “goad Beijing into attacking Taiwan,” the Financial Times said on Saturday. In a report based on information from people familiar with the matter, the British daily said Xi issued the warning in a meeting […]
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Sand buried villages in Al madam, United Arab Emirates. The villagers who built this beauty in 1970 abandoned it shortly after. Sun 16 June 2024: The world is losing four football fields worth of healthy land every second, warned the United Nations chief in a strong message ahead of the World Day to Combat Desertification […]
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Sun 16 June 2024: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank are marking a sombre Eid al-Adha as the Israeli military continues its deadly attacks more than eight months after the start of the war. In the besieged enclave, where more than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed, people gathered in the rubble of their […]
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. A soldier walks in front of a burned truck near Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, in September 2021 [Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP] Sun 16 June 2024: As Cabo Delgado province juggles large LNG reserves and ongoing violence, vulnerable civilians are paying the price. Palma, Mozambique – It was late afternoon and darkness was approaching when Awa Salama* […]
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Sat 15 June 2024: The war has created the worst humanitarian situation in the world with an estimated 756,000 people in Sudan facing ‘catastrophic food shortages’ by September. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a major attack on el-Fasher in North Darfur a day after the UN Security Council demanded the militia halt its weeks-long siege of […]
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Sat 15 June 2024: Pope Francis called for a ban on “lethal autonomous weapons” in an address to the G7 leaders’ summit in Italy on the perils of artificial intelligence (AI). On Friday, the pontiff was the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to ever attend a Group of Seven meeting. “In light of the tragedy […]
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