Ukraine Sends Grenade-Launcher Robots Into Russian Positions Instead of Infantry – UNITED24 Media

  1. Ukraine Sends Grenade-Launcher Robots Into Russian Positions Instead of Infantry  UNITED24 Media
  2. 3,000 Russian Casualties Claimed: Ukraine Drops Combat Robots 10km Behind Enemy Lines  Yahoo
  3. A Ukrainian commander tells us why troops attack in the day and roll out their war 'robots' at night  Business Insider
  4. Ukraine’s 93rd Brigade Develops Heavy Drone System to Deploy Combat Robot  Межа. Новини України.
  5. Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer  arstechnica.com
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Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules

Firms manipulating process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental groups warn

Datacenter developers are manipulating the EPA’s air pollution permitting process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental advocates allege.

Companies need federal permits to emit a range of pollutants. In their permit applications, some in big tech are avoiding “major” reviews by dividing their emissions sources into separate, multiple “minor” sources that require less regulatory oversight, the advocates say.

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El Niño has surged into record waters. 11 charts and maps that show its strength – Sacramento Bee

  1. El Niño has surged into record waters. 11 charts and maps that show its strength  Sacramento Bee
  2. Opinion | The Super El Niño Is About to Unleash Weather Chaos. Get Ready Now.  The New York Times
  3. Super-sized El Niño could cause more than 450,000 heat deaths by February, study suggests  CNN
  4. What is a 'super El Niño' and how will it affect the weather?  Reuters
  5. The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño  theclimatebrink.com
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Bomb squad searching vans near U.S. air base in Britain as five men arrested on terror charge – NBC News

  1. Bomb squad searching vans near U.S. air base in Britain as five men arrested on terror charge  NBC News
  2. 5 arrested over alleged terrorism offenses near U.K. base used by U.S. Air Force  Axios
  3. ‘Police were banging on the door’: villagers near RAF Fairford describe evacuation  The Guardian
  4. UK police arrest several under explosives act in 'major incident' near US air base  Yahoo
  5. British police arrest five men at US air base in major incident  Reuters
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Two giant pandas arrive in Atlanta from China after Xi-Trump summit

Ping Ping and Fu Shuang to live at Atlanta zoo in Georgia as part of loan deal between Chinese and US governments

Two giant pandas from China arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday morning as part of an agreement between the Chinese and American governments.

While in Washington DC for a three-day summit with Donald Trump, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that the pandas would arrive in Atlanta in the coming days. The loan of the pandas to the Atlanta zoo was one of the few concrete outcomes to come out of Xi’s state visit with the US president, which saw expressions of goodwill between the leaders, but no fixes to any of the longstanding differences between the two countries.

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Northern Ireland protesters block Orange Order march in Portadown – Al Jazeera

  1. Northern Ireland protesters block Orange Order march in Portadown  Al Jazeera
  2. Controversial Northern Ireland march set to be held for first time since Good Friday Agreement  CBS News
  3. Portadown stand-off: Taoiseach says decision to allow Orange Order to march on Garvaghy Road was ‘incomprehensible and wrong’  Irish Independent
  4. Protesters block Orange Order from marching through Catholic area in Northern Ireland  Reuters
  5. Drumcree: DUP leader says Sinn Féin presence at Orange Order protest 'unlawful' as march delayed for hours  BBC
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Four American tourists among 6 killed after explosion levels building near Athens’ Acropolis – Fox News

  1. Four American tourists among 6 killed after explosion levels building near Athens’ Acropolis  Fox News
  2. Four Americans among six killed in Athens blast that collapsed building near Acropolis  WXLV
  3. 4 American tourists dead after building explosion and collapse in Athens  cbsnews.com
  4. 4 Americans among 6 dead after explosion collapses building in Athens  abcnews.com
  5. Six Dead After Explosion in Athens Tourist District  The New York Times
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Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for war in occupied West Bank – Al Jazeera

  1. Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for war in occupied West Bank  Al Jazeera
  2. Smotrich: Israel should ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do what we did in Gaza’  Ynetnews
  3. 'Do there what we did in Gaza': Smotrich calls for full-scale war in occupied West Bank  Middle East Eye
  4. Palestine: Smotrich's remarks explicit call for escalation  Breakingthenews.net
  5. Smotrich: Israel must 'go to war' in West Bank as 'we did in Gaza,' annex most of Strip, south Lebanon  The Times of Israel
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Only 3% of US sickle cell patients receive red blood cell exchange for disease, researchers find

Various factors block sufferers of disease from receiving treatment that is effective and has widespread availability

Sickle cell patients are missing out on an effective treatment despite widespread US hospital access to the technology, new research has found.

That treatment is called a red blood cell exchange, a procedure that discards a patient’s damaged red blood cells while simultaneously mixing the patient’s remaining plasma, platelets and white blood cells with red blood cells from a donor before returning them to the body.

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