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Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway‘s largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the
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A Mexican congressional hearing where two alleged “non-human” alien corpses were displayed has been described as an “unsubstantiated stunt”. The mummified specimens were displayed in glass cases during a hearing at Mexico’s Congress. Ryan Graves, a former US Navy pilot who in July claimed the number of UFOs or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) was being
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Earth is exceeding its “safe operating space for humanity” in six of nine key measurements of its health, and two of the remaining three are heading in the wrong direction, a new study has said. The planet’s climate, biodiversity, land, freshwater, nutrient pollution and “novel” chemicals (human-made compounds like microplastics and nuclear waste) are all
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has crossed the border into Russia for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. This is the first time since 2019 that Kim has left North Korea – and a lot has changed since then. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson sits down with security and defence analyst Professor
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Airstrikes have been pummelling Khartoum in the Sudanese army’s aerial war against paramilitary forces who have terrorised and occupied residential areas for nearly five months. At the weekend, an airstrike that hit a market in the capital left at least 43 people dead and 60 injured. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed the military’s
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Libya has asked for international help with around 2,000 people feared dead after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a powerful storm. Mediterranean Storm Daniel has caused catastrophic flooding, resulting in the complete engulfing of entire neighbourhoods after it hit the country’s eastern region. On Monday night, Libya’s government declared the
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Israel’s Supreme Court will today hear a challenge against the government’s judicial reforms that threatens to throw the country into a constitutional crisis. In July, the ruling coalition successfully changed a law removing the power of the Supreme Court to strike down government laws on the grounds of ‘reasonableness’. Israel has no written constitution or
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Ethiopia says it has finished filling a reservoir for its controversial hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river – a project which once prompted Egyptian politicians to discuss military action. Construction of the $4bn (£3.2bn) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam began in 2011 and Ethiopia sees the project as crucial to powering its economic development. “Our
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French President Emmanuel Macron was booed during the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup. It began when he walked onto the pitch at the Stade de France in Paris. While chants of “Allez Les Bleus” also rang out around the stadium, some of the jeering continued. Image: Emmanuel Macron at the Rugby World Cup
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Mexico’s Supreme Court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. The decision comes almost two years after the court unanimously ruled that penalising abortion is unconstitutional, in what was hailed a “watershed moment” for all women. That ruling in September 2021 only covered the northern state of Coahuila, where officials declared any woman imprisoned for terminating a pregnancy
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