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Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91 (John Rogers/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4

Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son says Arnett died in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer. He was 91. Arnett’s reporting on the Vietnam War for The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1966. He is likely best remembered, however, for his gripping live reports of the 1991 U.S.-led…

"World’s First Ever Large-Scale Carbon Storage Site Successfully Injects CO2 Below Seabed"
#CarbonDioxide #Climate #ClimateChange

World's First Ever Large-Scale Carbon Storage Site Successfully Injects CO2 Below Seabed | Happy Eco News
Norway’s Northern Lights project achieved the world’s first large-scale carbon storage injection beneath the seabed. By capturing and permanently storing CO₂ from industrial facilities, the initiative marks a major milestone for climate mitigation. The project demonstrates how international collaboration and technology can scale carbon capture to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

'We blew it up. And we’ll do it again’.
‘I don’t give a shit what you call it.’
These words, of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance, respectively,
refer to the first of five US bombings of boats in international waters near Venezuela in the last month,
which have reportedly killed twenty-seven people overall.
Washington claims the boats were carrying drugs destined for US shores but has offered no proof;
evidence indica…

Gabriel Hetland, Murder in the Caribbean — Sidecar
The campaign against Venezuela.

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point #environment

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point
The world faces a "new reality" as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a report released by the University of Exeter and international partners.

What to know about the NFL's first Berlin game: Falcons and Colts clash in Germany https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787759/2025/11/09/falcons-colts-nfl-international-berlin-how-to-watch/

1000–10,000 M⊙ #PrimordialStars Created the Nitrogen Excess in GS 3073 at z = 5.55: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1a63 -> Astronomers find first direct evidence of “Monster Stars” from the cosmic dawn: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/astronomers-find-first-direct-evidence-of-monster-stars-from-the-cosmic-dawn - using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.

🐐 Bundled climate solutions for better production: Scientists listen to West African farmers
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-bundled-climate-solutions-production-scientists.html

Bundled climate solutions for better production: Scientists listen to West African farmers
The rain delays, sorghum withers; when a storm finally breaks, complaints rise again. To break this cycle of uncertainty, scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, INERA, and the University of Ghana conducted the first large-scale survey on agricultural climate services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal.

In other news, today was my first day learning to use a microINR device, intended to monitor my blood anticoagulation levels. The INR, or International Normalized Ratio, is a measure of how long it takes your blood to clot.

So basically this is what I do:

1. Wash my hands, make sure they’re warm and dry.
2. Take a chip (or test strip) and insert it into the device.
3. The device powers on and I wait until it is ready (it has to heat up to a certain temperature)
4.…

Let's call the Everett Police Department and ask them to traffic kids to us, as they did to ice.
13 year old has been taken without any due process, no child advocate or anything.
Everett, MA PD
Main: 617-389-2120
Sex Offender Registry Office: 617-394-2293
Court Prosecutor: 617-394-2362
[non-US callers, add your international calling code first, then the number 1 and the number here]

Commanders stumble in OT as Dolphins win NFL’s first regular-season game in Spain https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2025/11/16/washington-commanders-miami-dolphins-score-spain-marcus-mariota-tua-tagovailoa…

Desconhecia esta história.
Desgraçado do homem...
https://pixelfed.social/p/caoimhin/883365408894480960

caoimhín scott (@caoimhin@pixelfed.social)
Born in 1916, Valentim de Barros was a Portuguese #balletdancer and considered the first from #portugal to build an international career. In 1939, he was deported from Germany. Once in Portuguese territory, he was handed over to the PVDE and held for 3 months and then committed to the Miguel Bombarda psychiatric hospital for homosexuality. In 1949, he was subjected to electroshock therapy and a lobotomy. He was discharged after the Revolution of April 25, 1974, but as he had no family to care …

Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which will also have prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-finance…

Google Finance wants to become your smartest investing assistant with these new features
Google Finance is getting Deep Search as well as prediction markets data from Kalshi and Polymarket, alongside an international expansion.

🎈 First complete record of global underground CO₂ storage released
#co2

First complete record of global underground CO₂ storage released
The first-ever audited account of the actual amounts of CO2 stored underground by CCS projects globally has been released. It was created by a new international consortium of scientists and industrial partners, including NTNU.

This job advert is absolutely mindbogglingly batshit crazy from the first line all the way down to the salary.
https://jobs.tutors.international/advert/612

London, England
A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced Tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman. The Tutor must be an Early Years specialist, committed to fostering a quintessentially English, culturally enriching learning environment that promotes early academic development.

Today marks exactly 14 years since I experienced my first #EV charging session through international roaming. Unfortunately, it didn't work as it should have.
Rien n'a changé?

"Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal"
#Bhutan #Nepal #Renewables

Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
For the first time, renewables have toppled coal as the world's leading source of electricity, in keeping with International Energy Agency projections for this historic shift.

The LLMs are useful for some tasks, I'm currently tidying up, proof reading and editing a document written by many international co-authors.
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs. It still needs an experts eye (mine!) to check no mistakes have been introduced or complexities over-simplified.
This is actually the first time I've used an LLM for this task. It's making it much faster and less painful.
It also explains a lot about academic publishing lately..

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished,
far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition,
a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
The study, published on Wednesday, and led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa),
offers a month-by-month breakdown through much of the two-year conflict,
and shows for the first ti…

The Silicon Strip Detector Subsystem for the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)
John F. Krizmanic (for the TIGERISS Collaboration), Scott Nutter (for the TIGERISS Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01081

The Silicon Strip Detector Subsystem for the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)
The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS) is under construction and is planned for launch in 2027 and will be attached at the SOX location on the Columbus module on the ISS. TIGERISS will make the first definitive measurements of Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic Rays (UHGCRs; Z >29) on an individual element basis past barium ($^{56}$Ba), through the lanthinides, and to lead ($^{82}$Pb). TIGERISS has a geometry factor of 1.06 m$^2$ sr and is comprised of …

My recent article (online first already since 30.12.24, #OA ) has a number and a page range.
Yeah!
"Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland"
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2025, 38(3), 674–689

Happy International #Coffee Day!

Trump just keeps killing people illegally in international waters, regardless who they are , they deserve a trial, this is not a war situation.
But all Trump allies (or countries that keep pretending they are) stay silent.
#trump #criminal

US forces kill two in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific
This is the eighth US strike on alleged drug trafficking vessels near Latin America, the first on the Pacific side.

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life - The National Archives
  The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible to researchers anywhere in the world. Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map […]

Berlin debut: Scenes from Falcons-Colts on NFL's stage in Germany https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46878112/nfl-berlin-germany-falcons-colts-scenes-week-10-2025

Luma AI opens its first international office in London and appoints former WPP and Monks executive Jason Day to lead its global expansion outside the US (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Luma AI Opens London Office, Led by Former WPP Executive Jason Day
Putting multimodal artificial generative intelligence (AGI) into "the hands of creative professionals around the world – be they marketers, gamers, or film studios – will transform the entire creative process."

Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ali…

"Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Technology

Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water
Rice University researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic "forever chemicals" (PFAS) in water. The findings, recently published in Advanced Materials, mark a major step toward addressing one of the world's most persistent environmental threats.

After identification of a Thai worker's remains, the first phase of Gaza’s tenuous 8-week-old ceasefire is
a step closer to completion, with one more hostage’s remains still to be returned.
The subsequent phases under a U.S.-drafted, U.N.-backed plan for Gaza remain deeply uncertain.
There has been no word on how provisions for Hamas’ disarmament will be carried out,
or how a planned international administration and security force will be established.

A single hostage remains in Gaza after identification of Thai worker's remains
JERUSALEM (AP) — The subsequent phases under a U.S.-drafted, U.N.-backed plan for Gaza remain deeply uncertain.

GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
Priscilla Muheki, Mirjana Povi\'c, Somaya Saad, Salma Sylla Mbaye, in collaboration with Vanessa McBride, Naomi Asabre Frimpong, Meryem Guennoun, African Science Stars team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05195

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
In preparation for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024, the first GA held in Africa, the African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) embarked on a visionary project: the creation of an inspiring storytelling book that showcases the remarkable journeys of professional female astronomers in Africa. This book is not merely a collection of biographies; it is a tapestry of resilience, passion, and scientific excellence woven through the lives of women who have ven…

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop. The condemnation on Friday appeared to mark the first from a U.N. organization. U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary to stem drug flow into the U.S. Volker Türk, the rights chief, calls for an investigation, noting over 60 reported deaths since early September. The strikes reportedly violate international human right…

Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to "reduce costs" in international payments (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/k

🗡️ How the GPU Murdered Trotsky
#politics

How the GPU Murdered Trotsky
This volume presents the documents published during the first year of the Security and the Fourth International investigation, launched by the ICFI in May 1975.

The Council of Europe has officially adopted the final text of the Convention on the co-production of audiovisual works in the form of series – the first international legal framework specifically dedicated to the independent co-production of series for television and streaming platforms. This marks a significant step for the European and international audiovisual sector, strengthening cultural cooperation, supporting independent producers and enhancing transparency.
https://www.coe.int/en/web/programme-for-series-co-productions/convention