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Footage has emerged of what is thought to be the first major use of Western-made weapons systems by Ukraine’s armed forces to destroy targets on Russian soil, prompting a top Kremlin official to warn of ‘fatal consequences’.
It is believed the Ukrainian military struck a S-300 or S-400 air defence system using US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and completely destroyed it in a devastating attack yesterday.
A stunning clip taken by a Russian soldier and shared to the
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Dieser April war der heißeste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen weltweit – und laut neuen Zahlen der elfte Rekordmonat in Folge.
Laut Copernicus, dem Klimadienst der EU, war der April 2024
He made history this month when he smashed a world chess marathon record by playing for 60 hours straight, but Tunde Onakoya’s story is even more extraordinary than people realise.
The 29-year-old Nigerian chess whizz has got tongues wagging in his home nation as well as around the world after he played the tactical board game for a whopping 60 hours in New York’s Times Square.
Fans and stars alike – including singers Davido and Adekunle Gold – turned out
Eine Nachricht, die für die meisten Briten keine Überraschung sein wird: Das Met Office hat bestätigt, dass der April der sechstnässeste seit Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1836 war.
Insgesamt fielen 55 Prozent
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A male western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) flies over a natural meadow near Dranske on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen at dusk.Wolfram Steinberg/ZUMA
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild.
Such a record had previously been
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s supporter Christopher Bouzy has doubled down on a bizarre conspiracy theory about the Princess of Wales, claiming that she hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas Day.
The Tech CEO, 48, from New York, who appeared in the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary, took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his doubts about the recent sighting of Kate Middleton and Prince William shopping at a farm shop in Windsor.
‘Serious question: Has any reporter taken the time
