Ukrainian soldiers ride an infantry fighting vehicle along a road not far from Bakhmut, Donetsk region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. PHOTO: Anatolii Stepanov, AFP Russia plans to display NATO equipment it has destroyed in Ukraine outside the embassies of Western countries that supplied it, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday. “The proposal to install burned equipment …
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This summer’s flight headaches, many of them caused by extreme weather, continue to wreak havoc at airports across the US and beyond, with 11,337 delays and 2,077 cancellations reported so far. And it’s not likely to get much better any time soon. The hardest-hit airports on Monday, which saw the bulk of the cancellations, were Newark Liberty International, Dallas–Fort Worth …
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Silo, Apple TV’s thrilling adaptation of Hugh Howey’s series of novels of the same name, has come to the end of its first season on the platform. A second season of the show has been greenlit, with filming already underway according to series star Rebecca Ferguson. The show takes its dystopian premise to its limits. Full of lavish visuals, edge-of-your-seat …
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These are the devastating effects that Pakistan’s deadly floods are wreaking on the country. Dubbed “the monster monsoon of the decade” by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman, torrential rain in the region has killed at least 982 people since June, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. Every 24 hours, the agency lists hundreds of men, women, and children …
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This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction far from rivers or coastlines, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen anywhere, with almost no warning. And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat. The idea that anywhere it can rain, it can flood, is not …
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