Category: Europe
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Ukrainian intelligence says Russia fired 198 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in July and is rebuilding stockpiles for a winter campaign against the grid. Kyiv says it has run out of interceptors.
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Millions were told Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds during the 12 August eclipse, killing 40 million people. It didn’t. How the “Project Anchor” hoax was built, and the three questions that would have caught it.
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At his general audience on 12 August, Pope Leo XIV told Catholics that watching Mass online cannot replace being there — while urging communities to make it possible for those who work Sundays to attend.
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Deep brain stimulation eases Parkinson’s symptoms, but not equally for everyone and nobody could fully explain why. Researchers now report that the benefit tracks a specific brain network communicating at 20 to 35 hertz.
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German researchers report identifying 197 test subjects with near-perfect accuracy using nothing but ordinary WiFi signals — no camera, no phone, nothing carried. What the study actually shows, and what it doesn’t.
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A cargo of 42,000 tonnes of gasoline from an Indian refinery part-owned by Rosneft reached a Russian port on 5 August, routed through a ship-to-ship transfer off Egypt. It is the clearest sign yet of how far Ukrainian strikes have cut into Russian refining.
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Speaking aboard a warship during Pacific Fleet exercises, Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond in kind if European states begin confiscating Russian vessels and selling their cargo — and that the response would not be limited to the waters where seizures happen.
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Former Ukrainian prisoners have described torture in Russian detention. Why survivor testimony is gathered, why prosecutions take decades, and what documentation achieves anyway.
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Eighteen years before her sister’s escape by sea, Sheikha Shamsa ran from her family’s Surrey estate and spent weeks living quietly in England. She was found in Cambridge in August 2000. A British court later found she was abducted. She has not been seen in public since.
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Yesterday’s eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and Spain. Baily’s beads, the diamond ring and totality — what each stage was, and what to do if your eyes hurt today.