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Apr 21, 2024

Nigerian chess champion breaks record in 60-hour marathon

Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya appears to have broken the world record for the longest chess marathon, managing to play unbeaten for 60 hours on New York City’s Times Square.

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Apr 20, 2024

Fact check: Did cloud seeding cause the Dubai floods?

Most climate scientists do see a link between climate change and heavy rainfall. “In many cases, global warming does play a role in extreme weather patterns,” Friederike Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London, told DW a while back.

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Apr 20, 2024

Paris tests AI surveillance ahead of Olympics

Weekend tests will cover two large events and nearby public transport sites.

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Apr 20, 2024

Man lights himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse

New York Police Department Chief said the man walked into the center of the park across the street from the courthouse and set himself on fire.

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Apr 19, 2024

Iran-Israel tensions: Which countries can influence Tehran?

Israel has vowed a response to Iran’s massive missile and drone attack over the weekend, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying in a meeting of Israel’s war cabinet on Wednesday that the country will do “everything necessary to defend itself.”

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Apr 19, 2024

UAE: Dubai scrambles to resume flights after deadly floods

The unprecedented storm led to the cancellation of some 1,244 flights and the diversion of 41 others on Tuesday and Wednesday. Flight crews and pilots struggled to reach the airport, and runways were flooded.

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Apr 18, 2024

Climate change to wreck global income by 2050, study shows

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Apr 18, 2024

How microbes could help catch murder suspects

In recent years, scientists have been researching whether analysing bacteria and fungi could offer an accurate method of pinpointing precise times and causes of death.

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Apr 18, 2024

Paris police evict hundreds of migrants ahead of Olympics

The makeshift camp at the site of an abandoned bus company office had been home to roughly 450 migrants, mainly young men but including some mothers with small children as well.

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Apr 17, 2024

Nigeria rolls out world’s first full shot against meningitis

Nigeria has become the first country in Africa’s “meningitis belt” to introduce the new meningitis vaccine. It is the world’s first vaccine to provide protection against all five strains of the meningococcal bacteria.