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German federal police found a quadcopter drone rigged with an explosive device and a detonator on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle Airport late on August 4, near cargo aircraft operated by Ukraine's Antonov Airlines; a bomb-disposal robot removed...
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Elite Exped, the expedition company founded by Nirmal "Nimsdai" Purja, confirmed on August 1, 2026 that the 43-year-old mountaineer died in an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak (8,051m).
The avalanche struck a 10-person expedition around 9 a.m....
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An avalanche struck a 10-member international climbing team on Broad Peak (8,051m/26,414ft) in Pakistan's Karakoram range on the morning of Thursday, July 30, 2026, as the group moved between Camp 2 and Camp 3 at roughly 6,600–7,000...
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A study led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), published in Biological Invasions, warns that more than 1,500 vessels stranded in the Persian/Arabian Gulf since the...
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Death toll now 35, one more under investigation. Kumamoto Prefecture confirmed 35 fatalities Friday morning, July 31, up from 25 just a day earlier, with dozens more injured as the 72-hour survival window closed.
Both major disaster...
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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake (registered as 6.8 by the USGS) struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island at 4:27 p.m. local time on July 28, 2026, producing the maximum shindo 7 intensity in at least two municipalities.
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Member states of the International Criminal Court voted 82-13, with 15 abstentions, on July 24, 2026, to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan — the first time in the court's 24-year history that a sitting prosecutor has been...
Why This Matters Now
For more than 20 years, nuclear physicists have puzzled over a stubborn anomaly buried in the data of atomic decay: excited nuclei kept emitting far more low-energy gamma rays than any standard model predicted. The effect,...
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The Strait of Hormuz — a corridor that normally carries roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil and LNG — has been effectively shut for most of 2026, following a February war between the US/Israel and...
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New Chancellor John Healey has retained several Treasury ministers from Rachel Reeves' team and confirmed the government will keep pushing the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, the pro-City agenda built under Keir Starmer.
Outside the City,...
