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Month: August 2024

French authorities arrest suspect in an explosion at a synagogue that injured a police officer

Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French acting Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says police have apprehended a suspect in an arson attack on a synagogue in a southwestern Mediterranean town in which a police officer was injured. Antiterrorism prosecutors said Sunday the suspect was injured during an exchange of fire with police before he was

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Coating clothes with this simple material could cool your body by up to 8 degrees

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Spending time outside during a heat wave can be sweaty, uncomfortable, even health-endangering, but scientists have come up with an innovation they say could provide relief: clothes that physically cool down the body. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a flexible, chalk-based coating which can be

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A flash flood on Indonesia’s eastern Ternate Island sweeps away buildings and leaves 13 dead

Associated Press TERNATE ISLAND, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say torrential rains caused a flash flood on Indonesia’s eastern Ternate Island, sweeping away residential areas and leaving 13 people dead. The deluges Sunday cut off the main road and access to the village of Rua in North Maluku province, the most hard-hit area, and buried dozens

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This bird species was extinct in Europe. Now it’s back, and humans must help it migrate for winter

Associated Press PATERZELL, Germany (AP) — The northern bald ibis, or the Waldrapp, once soared over North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Europe. They were hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century. While breeding and rewilding efforts have been successful, the birds no longer knows the route to migrate for the winter.

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A Sacramento woman died at the hospital. Her family, unaware, ​searched for her for more than a year​​

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sacramento, California (CNN) — A lawsuit filed in California alleges a hospital misplaced a patient and failed to notify her family. Here is what the family says happened: Jessie Peterson suffered a diabetic episode and was taken to a hospital in Sacramento, California, on April 6, 2023. The 31-year-old spoke with

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Hezbollah afirma que la”primera fase” de la respuesta a Israel concluyó con “éxito total”

Sofía Barruti (CNN) –Hezbollah dijo que la “primera fase” de ataques contra Israel”ha terminado con completo éxito”. Hezbollah  había dicho anteriormente que los ataques eran en respuesta al asesinato del alto comandante militar Fu’ad Shukr el mes pasado, así como de otros muertos en el ataque. En su comunicado, Hezbollah dijo que esta fase se

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Jamila and her family in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar

‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid

By Michael Mitsanas, Tanbirul Miraj Ripon, Helen Regan, Rebecca Wright and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed their village of Byine Phyu,

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How do you deal with stress? In Nigeria, swinging a sledgehammer in a ‘rage room’ helps

Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In Nigeria’s largest city, stressed-out residents are finding their reset button in a “rage room” where they pay to smash electronics and furniture with a sledgehammer. It’s a break from the strain of the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation in Africa’s most populous country. Times are tough in

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