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A significant industrial area near Jakarta, Indonesia, is facing radioactive contamination after authorities detected the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 across 22 factories within the zone. Some of the affected businesses are involved in exporting frozen seafood. Authorities initiated emergency cleanup efforts and relocated nearby residents following the discovery, which came after

When Shelby Riskin received circular soil samples from Toronto’s waterfront that were more than a century old, the ecosystem scientist hoped to uncover traces of plants—such as cattails, bulrushes, water lilies, and irises—that once thrived in a now-vanished wetland. Yet as she and a graduate student examined

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has sparked controversy in Washington after alleging that the U.S. was responsible for the deaths of Colombian nationals during a recent maritime operation in the Caribbean. “A new conflict zone has emerged: the Caribbean,” Petro stated on his official social media account. Since early September,

Over the past two years in Gaza, the global community has observed one of the most severe assaults on civilians in recent times, with little success in halting it. More than 66,200 individuals have lost their lives, while nearly 169,000 have been injured, amounting to roughly 10% of

For 733 days, Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv’s “hostages square,” wearing yellow tape on their shirts marking the number of days since 251 people were taken by Hamas-led militants. On Thursday, the yellow stickers remained, but the count was replaced with a single message: “They’re coming home.” For

Husamettin Dogan, 44, an unemployed construction worker, had challenged his initial conviction from last year. His retrial took place this week at the appeals court in Nîmes. On Thursday, a jury of five men and four women, alongside three judges, found Dogan guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot in her home