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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign Mecca defense pact
On August 7 Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan announced the Mecca joint defense agreement, a pact that frames an armed attack on one as an attack on…
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Lee proposes talks to end Korean War
South Korean president Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 15 proposed direct talks with North Korea aimed at ending the peninsula's long-running war and…
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Michigan reports human case of swine influenza after county fair
Michigan health officials are investigating a confirmed human infection with influenza A H1N2 variant in an Ionia County resident who exhibited swine…
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FTC probes Epic Systems over medical data access
Reuters reported on Aug. 14 that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust investigation into Epic Systems, a health records…
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Heat disrupts summer travel and routines
This summer's widespread heat waves, driven by burning of oil, gas and coal and a supersized El Niño, have pushed temperatures and extreme weather…
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NASA team predicts sunspot emergence with AI
A multidisciplinary team within NASA's COFFIES center developed a novel machine learning model that predicts the emergence of solar active regions up…
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UK team plans lunar satellite to seek 21cm hydrogen signal
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are developing a suitcase-sized satellite called CosmoCube to orbit the moon and measure the redshifted…
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Judge blocks parts of Idaho abortion ban over health exceptions
U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill found that Idaho's near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional to the extent it forbids abortions needed to protect…
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War limits maternity care in Darfur
UNFPA reports that expectant mothers in western Sudan's Central Darfur face life-threatening delays because specialist maternity care, emergency…
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German auto industry employment falls to lowest since 2005
Germany's automotive industry employed 691,500 people at the end of the first half of 2026, down 42,300 jobs or 5.8% year-on-year, Destatis reported…
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WHO recommends testing Ervebo vaccine in DRC trial
The World Health Organization has recommended prioritising testing of the Ervebo vaccine in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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U.S. retail sales fall as tax refund boost fades
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly declined 0.6% in July, the largest monthly drop since May 2025, reversing a revised 0.2% gain. The report attributes…
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Dangote refinery plans October IPO to broaden Nigerian ownership
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has submitted an application for a roughly $5 billion initial public offering to Nigeria's securities regulator as part of…
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Heatwave fuels wildfires across Europe
A new wave of record heat and exceptional dryness has driven multiple wildfires across France, central England and northern Greece, forcing…
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Supertankers go dark to transit Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb
Supertankers are prolonging periods of going dark by turning off automatic tracking to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb…
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Pony.ai and Uber plan deployment of 2,000 robotaxis across Europe
Pony.ai and Uber announced an expanded strategic partnership to collaborate on deploying more than 2,000 Pony.ai Robotaxis across Europe, building on…
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Whole Foods products recalled over possible salmonella contamination
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall for several Whole Foods Market products available in Ontario and online after a U.S. Food and…
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FDA upgrades Midwest Poultry egg recall to Class I
The FDA upgraded a Midwest Poultry Services egg recall to its highest risk level after the company recalled 1.6 million brown and white eggs produced…
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Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday
Silver Lake has held confidential talks in recent months to acquire Workday, a human-resources and financial management software company with a…
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Ancient warming thinned forests, reducing carbon storage
Researchers report that forests thinned dramatically during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum about 56 million years ago after massive volcanic…
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Apple hires Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs
Apple has appointed Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs, with his start date on August 31 and a reporting line to Jennifer Newstead…
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WHO says eastern DR Congo Ebola outbreak may eclipse 2014 epidemic
The Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has caused more than 2,000 deaths among over 4,300 reported cases and genetic sequencing shows it began in…
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Golar signs EPC deal for fourth FLNG vessel
Golar LNG has signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore to build its fourth floating LNG…
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Pakistan names lunar rover Jinnah-1
The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission officially named Pakistan's first lunar rover Jinnah-1 after a nationwide contest that drew about…
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