An Amnesty report documents over 70 attacks and threats on journalists in Northern Ireland since 2019, with no prosecutions for threats from paramilitary groups (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)
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Ewig habe ich mich beim Linksabbiegen von der Lünertorstr. in die Schießgrabenstr. gewundert, warum da von rechts immer so nervös mit dem Gas gespielt wird.
Ich bin aber auch naiv. Ich war davon ausgegangen, dass wir, wenn wir schon vor den PS-Boliden quer aufgestellt werden, wenigstens ein wenig zeitlichen Vorsprung bekommen. Aber Pustekuchen, die eiligen Egomanen bekommen schon eine knappe Sekunde vor uns einen Tipp und ihre Röhrerlaubnis.
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Displaced Palestinians return to refugee camp Jabalia, bombed by Israel, in northern Gaza, during a ceasefire, 19 January 2025.
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If you take a walk along the coast, near Caleta Camarones in northern Chile, near an old archeological site called Camarones 15, it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies.
Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere to be seen growing anywhere nearby, but which the Chinchorro people used to keep their mummies intact like little dolls.
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world.
Thousands of years olde…
Seven people are missing
after multiple explosions
at a warehouse in Northern California that sent bright fireworks across the area
and ignited a brush fire.
The location is owned by an active pyrotechnics license holder, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Emergency crews were searching the property for the missing individuals Wednesday,
and investigators were also surveying the area with drones.
Authorities ha…
For the first time in over 80 years, young quaking aspens are growing tall and broad in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park.
The unexpected return of this iconic tree of the West is now being attributed to the return of another Western icon: the gray wolf.
What exactly do aspen trees and gray wolves have in common?
Aside from the color of their fur and bark, it’s the two species’ relationship with another of Yellowstone’s famous residents: elk
The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida
to aid federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to a statement by U.S. Northern Command.
The deployment is part of a broader push by the administration
❌ to ramp up deportations using active-duty troops.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump
🔥deployed some 4,000 National Guard personnel and 700 Marines to California
under a law known as Title X,
-- which allows troops to be …
Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat,
as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe.
A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July,
while Finland has had three straight weeks with 30C heat.
Scientists say it is the longest streak in records going back to 1961, and 50% longer than the previous record.
“Truly u…