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Why is Europe facing record-breaking heatwaves?
Western Europe has recorded its hottest June, and the continent is the fastest-warming in the world.
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Climate & War: The Destruction of Gaza’s Cropland
Israel’s war on Gaza has wiped out cropland and trees ...
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‘Catalyst for progress’: Nvidia CEO hails China’s AI at Beijing expo
An estimated 650 companies from 60 countries have gathered at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.
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Israel strikes Syrian military HQ in Damascus as fighting rages in Suwayda
Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters as fallout from sectarian violence in Suwayda reaches Damascus.
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Thousands of Nigerians attend funeral of ex-President Buhari
Thousands of Nigerians attended the funeral procession of former President Muhammadu Buhari, in his hometown of Dauru.
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Indonesia’s Prabowo hails ‘new era’ in US ties after Trump trade deal
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto welcomes deal to lower tariff rate from 32 to 19 percent.
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Cambodia deploys rodents for life-saving mine detection operations
Giant pouched rats expertly detect TNT, helping clear mines and remnants from Cambodia's conflict-ridden terrain.
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Mystery buildings in Rafah raise concerns
Some buildings remain standing in Rafah despite widespread destruction. Were they left intentionally, and if so, why?
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‘North Korea is now a more important ally for Russia than Iran or China’
Pyongyang is reportedly planning to deploy thousands more troops to back Russia.
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France, UK, Germany to reimpose Iran sanctions in August if no progress
France's foreign minister says sanctions lifted under a 2015 deal would return if no breakthrough on nuclear issue.
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Thai ex-PM Thaksin could face 15 years in prison in royal defamation case
Just two weeks earlier, his daughter Paetongtarn was suspended as prime minister by the country's Constitutional Court.
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Twelfth volcanic eruption in four years felt in Iceland near capital
Residents in the nearby fishing town of Grindavik and guests at a luxury geothermal spa resort are evacuated.
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China jails Japanese businessman for espionage, embassy says
Astellas Pharma employee sentenced to three and a half years in prison, Japan's embassy in Beijing says.
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Cuban minister resigns after suggesting beggars are pretending
Labour Minister Marta Elena Feito Cabrera's comments dismissing poverty in the Caribbean nation trigger angry backlash.
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Trump says Ukraine should not target Moscow
US president's remarks follow report saying he encouraged Kyiv to step up strikes inside Russian territory.
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Emmy nominations 2025: The contenders in key categories
Severance earned 27 Emmy nods, while HBO’s dark Batman spinoff, The Penguin, secured 24 nominations.
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Johnson & Hancock awarded Nobel prize for work on ‘not following the science’
The thorny question of whether or not the UK government was really following the science has been solved by this year’s Nobel Laureates.
Johnson and Hancock’s valuable research over the last 18 months hypothesised what would happen if senior members of a government told everyone they were following the science but, in fact, were ‘not following the science at all.’
A spokesperson for the Nobel medicine Committee said the UK team’s ‘doing the exact opposite’ research project allowed us to make sense for the first time the government thinking behind such policies as:
– The ‘delay in taking any action whatsoever’ strategy
– The ‘not stopping flights coming to the UK from Wuhan until the day before the Chinese locked down the city; strategy
– The ‘Boris Johnson still shaking hands despite warnings from the Spi-behavioural group’ strategy
– The ‘let’s go for herd immunity’ strategy
– The ‘don’t bother with facemasks’ strategy
– The ‘we’re not listening to the WHO’ strategy
– The ;send PPE to China even though we might need it’ strategy
– The ‘abandoning the idea of a circuit-break lockdown’ strategy
– The ‘let massive sporting events with massive crowds go ahead’ strategy
The spokesperson also praised the Johnson & Hancock team for investigating what caused some cabinet ministers such as Rishi Sunak to go completely rogue, although they didn’t have time to come to any firm conclusions. He set up his EAT OUT TO HELP OUT strategy without asking any scientists or any advice whatsoever.
‘This is understandable as it would have detracted from the already excellent hypothesis that the team had on their main subject’, said the spokseperson. ‘However, they’ve not ruled out further explorations into the ‘I’m a minister, I’ll do what I f*cking well want if it means getting the cash tills of business ringing,’ strategy.’
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Fears for life expectancy in Scotland triggered by Scottish Widows getting so much younger
Population forecasters are tinkling in their tighty whities. The clearest indication yet that life expectancy in Scotland is plummeting has sent shockwaves through the back of a fag packet totter community.
Experts in looking at women and assessing their relative ages examined Scottish Widows adverts over the past few decades and have declared that they are definitely getting younger. Professor Iain James explained, ‘We went back all of the way to the the 1980s and had a stab at guessing the ages of each Scottish Widow smirking knowingly in her black hooded cape.
‘What we found was shocking. Firstly, there was not one wrinkly old Scottish Widow with missing teeth in her 70s. There was one who might have been in her late forties, but her skin was as smooth as a plump haggis and her perfect white teeth glistened in the Glasgow rain.
‘But I’m afraid it gets much sexier. You can see that every few years each one is replaced with a younger model: Early forties; then late thirties; and by the 2010s she is early thirties, tops.
‘In the latest Scottish Widows advert she looks about 23. That can’t mean anything else other than the men they were married to are dying much, much younger than we had previously dared consider.
‘At these rates, we estimate the population of Scotland will be -17 in 2041.’
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