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Russian satellites helping Iran direct strikes in Middle East, says Ukraine’s Zelensky

Straits Times

Russian satellites helping Iran direct strikes in Middle East, says Ukraine’s Zelensky

Russia is passing on its satellite observations in the Middle East to Iran, Zelensky said.

Straits Times

Why these Sydney neighbours built a backyard wildlife corridor

ABC News

Why these Sydney neighbours built a backyard wildlife corridor

Concerned about developments on Sydney's urban fringe, these residents combined their powers to save space for the natural world on their doorstep.

ABC News

Locals fear for their children’s quality of life if the biggest coalmine extension in NSW is approved

Locals fear for their children’s quality of life if the biggest coalmine extension in NSW is approved

Minns government promised no new coalmines but permits expanding existing sites, despite being behind on climate targets Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast At Branxton community hall in the New South Wales Hunter…

Elon Musk calls himself ‘former trillionaire’

On June 12, Musk became the first person in the world whose net wealth exceeded $1 following the initial public offering of his company SpaceX, jn June 24, his assets fell to $957 billion

Scorching US heat wave to hit 70 million people with third ‘heat dome’ in month

Scorching US heat wave to hit 70 million people with third ‘heat dome’ in month

Temperatures of 95-105F (35-40C) are expected, spanning Gulf of Mexico coast to the Great Plains and the midwest About 70 million people in the US are set to face excessive heat advisories as dangerously hot temperatures scorch much of the…

Ebola deaths in DRC surge past 1,300 as virus ‘spreading like a wildfire’

Al Jazeera

Ebola deaths in DRC surge past 1,300 as virus ‘spreading like a wildfire’

The outbreak is spreading at the fastest rate ever recorded and threatens to become the worst in history.

Al Jazeera

Residents 'upset and angry' over Cairngorms wildfire evacuation orders

Sky News

Residents 'upset and angry' over Cairngorms wildfire evacuation orders

Residents are "upset, angry and frustrated" over evacuation orders in a Highlands village and smoke from a nearby wildfire that has been called "apocalyptic".

Sky News

Nearly 98,000 hectares burned in France, a 'historic record' says government

France 24

Nearly 98,000 hectares burned in France, a 'historic record' says government

The threat posed by a wildfire raging in the southwestern French department of Gironde "remains very serious," the top regional official, Sophie Brocas, said Saturday."The threat remains very serious. We are still facing a grave…

France 24

Cairngorm residents say wildfire response 'too slow'

BBC

Cairngorm residents say wildfire response 'too slow'

Nethy Bridge residents were evacuated on Friday and a major incident was declared.

BBC

47 Arrested over Environmental Sanitation Violation in Nasarawa

Daily Trust

47 Arrested over Environmental Sanitation Violation in Nasarawa

A total of 47 defaulters have been arrested in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital, during this month’s environmental sanitation exercise, with Keke Napep operators accounting for the majority of those apprehended. Dr. Abubakar Muhammad, Chief…

Daily Trust

What’s life like under wildfire alert? For Kimberley, B.C., residents, it’s part prep, part wait and see

CBC

What’s life like under wildfire alert? For Kimberley, B.C., residents, it’s part prep, part wait and see

Three Kimberley, B.C., residents describe what they would pack, leave behind and hope to return to as the Matthew Creek wildfire keeps the city under evacuation alert.

CBC

Roscosmos plans to continue cooperation on Baikonur — head

Russia and Kazakhstan have agreed to launch nine Proton-M rockets, the corporation’s Director General Dmitry Bakanov said