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Pervasive, persistent and poisonous: How one US company helped pollute the world with forever chemicals., People & Power Pervasive, persistent and poisonous: How one US company helped pollute the world with forever chemicals. When scientists discovered a new class of chemicals in the 1940s, they knew they had struck gold.Continue Reading

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Since Madagascar’s October 2025 coup, Russian military personnel have joined the parliament speaker’s security detail, and Russian instructors have begun training Malagasy soldiers, RFE/RL reported. OSINT investigators traced a flight carrying a senior Russian military intelligence officer and 40 of Russia’s Africa Corps members to the island on 20 DecemberContinue Reading

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Russia’s large combined missile-and-drone attack on Kyiv early on 24 September killed two people in the capital and damaged residential and civilian infrastructure, including a maternity hospital, according to Vitali Klitschko, the capital’s mayor. The strike involved 282 attack drones alongside ballistic and hypersonic missiles, Ukraine’s Air Force said. The strikeContinue Reading

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Thomas, 37, arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, endangering the safety of a ship., Thomas, 37, arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, endangering the safety of a ship. British police have arrested a far-right anti-immigration activist after he live-streamed footageContinue Reading

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Incident highlights growing concerns about AI’s impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts., Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known caseContinue Reading