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Iran executes man convicted over January protests
Majid Adineh was executed on August 23, 2026, after Iran's judiciary said he was convicted of "operational action in favour of hostile groups" during…
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Teen volunteers fight Borneo peatland fires in Superman costume
Indonesian peatland fires have burned over 200,000 hectares between January and July, producing thick smog that reached Malaysia and prompting the…
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Nigerian Navy dismantles three illegal refining sites
The Nigerian Navy, under Operation DELTA SENTINEL, dismantled three illegal refining sites in the Okolomade and Ogbogolo areas of Rivers State after…
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NASA to launch Roman space telescope next week
The Roman space telescope, named for Nancy Grace Roman, will launch on the 30th aboard a SpaceX rocket and deploy about 1.5 million km from Earth…
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FBI asks court to keep records on Tinubu secret
On August 20, 2026 the FBI filed to submit a confidential ex parte declaration explaining why records tied to Nigerian president Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
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Federal indictment charges Bronx 'War Room' with $12 million Medicaid fraud
Federal prosecutors unsealed a nine-count indictment charging four members of a Bronx-based racketeering group called the "War Room" with…
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Delayed rains and low Nile levels deepen Sudan farming crisis
Delayed seasonal rains and sharply lower Nile flows are worsening an agricultural collapse in Sudan already driven by internal war and rising input…
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Police rescue 75 travellers abducted near Birnin Gwari
Police operatives rescued 75 travellers who were abducted on August 19 near Folwaya Village in Birnin Gwari local government area, Kaduna State…
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Interior cuts Colorado River water allocations to three states
The Department of the Interior signed 2027–2028 operating guidelines on Aug. 21 that reduce Colorado River allocations to Arizona, Nevada and…
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Starcloud raises $250 million at $2.3 billion valuation
Starcloud Inc. said it raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation in a Series A extension led by Manhattan West and joined by Nvidia and Cisco…
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Senescent cells accumulate and drive age-related tissue dysfunction
Senescent or "zombie" cells are living cells that stop dividing but remain metabolically active and alter tissue function. They show markers such as…
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Thunderstorms produce seismic signals that map shallow crust
A Penn State team built a seismic model to interpret thunder-induced 'thunderquake' signals and tested it using two years of data from a 4 kilometer…
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Judge rules Michael Jeffries competent for trial
U.S. District Judge Nusrat Choudhury concluded in a 157-page ruling that Michael Jeffries is mentally competent to stand trial after reviewing…
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China solar expansion reduces bird biodiversity
A Science paper by researchers from China, Vietnam, and the United States analyzed over 2,000 Chinese counties and found that rapid expansion of…
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South Africa police arrest suspects after meth lab discovery
South African police raided a farm near Musina in Limpopo after a two-month probe and arrested five people including two Mexican nationals, two…
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Communities shift to climate-based forestry
Harela and similar tree festivals highlight longstanding cultural respect for trees while raising practical questions about modern afforestation…
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Judge throws out espionage counts against former Google engineer
A federal judge, Vince Chhabria, threw out seven economic espionage convictions against former Google engineer Linwei Ding on the ground that…
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U.S. deports more than 160 people to Haiti
The United States returned 161 people to Haiti on Aug. 20, 2026, in the first deportation since courts cleared a path to end Temporary Protected…
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Study finds Earth microbes could survive in lunar south pole
A new study compared laboratory survivability data for three bacteria and two fungi commonly found on crewed missions with lunar south pole maps and…
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Study finds cytotoxic CD4 T cells abundant in supercentenarians
Researchers analyzed blood from 28 Japanese participants and reported that rare cytotoxic CD4 T cells (CD4 CTLs) increase with extreme age, with…
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Detroit-based drug and money laundering network dismantled
Federal and local authorities uncovered and dismantled a Detroit-based drug trafficking and money laundering organization that operated in five…
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Astromech raises $20 million to build evolution early-warning ai
Astromech, co-founded by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church, announced $20 million in new funding at a $3.8 billion valuation and plans to…
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Germany identifies suspected 1970 arsonist in Munich Jewish centre attack
Prosecutors in Munich say they have compelling grounds to identify a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi as the perpetrator of a 13 February 1970 arson that…
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Poland arrests Ukrainian suspect in plot to kill arms official
Poland arrested a Ukrainian man identified as Serhii P. who is accused of planting an improvised explosive device under a car used by a…
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