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August 12, 2023
Russia says it destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones over Crimea
August 12, 2023
EU welcomes the unloading of oil from Safer tanker
August 12, 2023
Migrant boat sinks in Channel killing six people
August 12, 2023
Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant initiates reactor shutdown following water leak: IAEA
August 10, 2023
West sanctions Belarus 3 years after Lukashenko's re-election
August 09, 2023
Fire at French holiday home leaves at least 9 dead
BERN — A Bronze Age arrowhead unearthed in Switzerland was made from a meteorite, a new study has found.Dating back to between 900 and 800 BC, the 39-millimeter-long (1.5-inch-long) arrowhead was found on a pile-dwelling site in Mörigen on Lake Biel, Switzerland, during excavations in the 19th century, according to the study conducted by a team of researchers at the Natural History Museum of Bern.The nearly 3,000-year-old artifact was created with iron from a meteorite that landed in Estonia, the study noted. This indicates that meteoritic iron was traded in Europe by 800 BC or earlier, the researchers said, adding how unusual it is to find meteoritic iron used so early in history.“Such evidence of an early use of meteoritic iron is extremely rare,” according to a news release on...
August 09, 2023
Arrowhead made from meteorite 3,000 years ago found near lake in Europe
August 09, 2023
Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy
MADRID — In early June a sadly common sight in the Mediterranean was repeated on the Spanish coast.A small group of fishermen found a migrant boat with 52 people on board trying to reach the Canary Islands. On board was a pregnant woman who did not survive the crossing.Despite the Canary Islands receiving an average of 100 migrants per day, Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals nationally by 3.3%.This figure, published by the Ministry of the Interior, is not particularly striking on its own, but in comparison with the country's European neighbours, it is.Italy has seen the number of arrivals increase by 115% and Greece by 65%, according to UNHCR figures, yet Spain has seen its numbers fall.When the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, took office in autumn 2022, she...
August 09, 2023
Spain curbs irregular immigration as other European countries see increases
August 08, 2023
UN-backed project boosts early warning services in the Caribbean
