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Before and after satellite imagery shows extent of damage after flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, which have claimed hundreds of lives, with more than 1,000 people still missing. #dwnews #nepal For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social media: ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwnews ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dwnews ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwnewsContinue Reading

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King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. (Produced by Elaine Carroll) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ ThisContinue Reading

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Finnish police and the Border Guard suspect a scheme that turned paper employment into residence permits and citizenship, Yle reported. Investigators believe one man organized it through companies that did little or no business, and that it may have run for more than two decades. The suspected organizer and the people who obtainedContinue Reading

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All of Lukoil’s major refineries in Russia are now offline after a Ukrainian drone strike halted crude processing at its NORSI plant on 26 August, Reuters reported the shutdown. NORSI is Russia’s fourth-largest refinery and second-largest gasoline producer. The latest attack produced the plant’s fifth drone-related shutdown in less thanContinue Reading

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Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture. By Liza Gross Farmers have relied on plastic since the 1960s, when the mass production of affordable agricultural tools derived from petrochemicals made them widely accessible. Plastic mulch quickly became a cornerstone of cropContinue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time

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(Main) An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist’s rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars. As a result, they found that forming planets is a real race against time. ThisContinue Reading

Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty

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Former NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim services an experimental carbon dioxide removal device aboard the International Space Station in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departingContinue Reading

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Notice anything different about me? I didn’t actually get taller while writing my new memoir. But I hope the stories I share (especially the stories about failure) will help us tackle our biggest problems and grow into a better nation. COMING UP SHORT out now in paperback. https://bit.ly/46nwUCcContinue Reading

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