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Solar storm brings dazzling aurora, threatens power grids
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/05/2024
» LOS ANGELES - A severe solar storm this weekend brought a dazzling display of the Northern Lights that could be seen across Europe and as far south as Alabama in the United States, while threatening to trigger blackouts and disrupt navigation systems around the world.
Child killed in Finland school shooting
Published on 02/04/2024
» HELSINKI - One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody.
Moon lander launched half century after last Apollo mission
Reuters, Published on 15/02/2024
» CAPE CANAVERAL - A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first United States lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.
Major Japan quake kills four, triggers tsunami waves
AFP, Published on 02/01/2024
» TOKYO - At least four people have been confirmed dead after a major earthquake struck central Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami waves over a metre high, damaging homes and sparking a major blaze.
Russia says advancing on all fronts in Ukraine
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday its troops were advancing in every section of the Ukrainian front, despite observers seeing little movement.
Ukraine's Avdiivka empties in face of Russian assaults
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: On a narrow asphalt strip scarcely visible late at night, a Ukrainian soldier sped along with his lights off at the wheel of a large armoured Humvee jeep.
EU: ‘No excuse for hitting a hospital’ in Gaza
AFP, Published on 18/10/2023
» STRASBOURG, France - European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday said there is "no excuse for hitting a hospital full of civilians" in Gaza, but did not apportion blame for the blast.
'Shaken beliefs': Israelis evacuate from tense Lebanon border
AFP, Published on 17/10/2023
» TIBERIAS (ISRAEL) - Israel has been bombing Gaza since Palestinian militants launched their bloody attack but tensions have also flared on the northern border with Lebanon, the base of another sworn enemy, Hezbollah.
Biden, in environment push, protects lands near Grand Canyon
AFP, Published on 09/08/2023
» GRAND CANYON (UNITED STATES) - Joe Biden used the backdrop of the Grand Canyon Tuesday to champion the climate fight -- and distinguish himself from the Republican right -- by designating large swathes of surrounding sacred land with protective status.
Fleeing a brutal marriage trap
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Like many other women in the state of Punjab, long a hub of emigration from India, Sharndeep Kaur aspired to marry an Indian working abroad and follow him to a more prosperous life overseas.