Middle East Crisis: Gaza City Neighborhood Left in Ruins After Israeli Withdrawal
Residents and rescue workers say they found dozens of bodies and most of the buildings destroyed in the Shajaiye neighborhood after Israeli forces ended a two-week offensive against Hamas fighters. ⌘ Read more

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Middle East Crisis: Gaza City Neighborhood Left in Ruins After Israeli Withdrawal
Residents and rescue workers say they found dozens of bodies and most of the buildings destroyed in the Shajaiye neighborhood after Israeli forces ended a two-week offensive against Hamas fighters. ⌘ Read more

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Middle East Crisis: Gaza City Neighborhood Left in Ruins After Israeli Withdrawal
Residents and rescue workers say they found dozens of bodies and most of the buildings destroyed in the Shajaiye neighborhood after Israeli forces ended a two-week offensive against Hamas fighters. ⌘ Read more

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Letter in The Lancet Raises Question of Excess Deaths in Gaza War
A letter in a major medical journal has prompted a discussion about the importance, and difficulty, of tallying those killed as an indirect result of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. ⌘ Read more

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Dubbed the ‘Star Wars Project’, South Korea plans to use drone-melting lasers against North Korea
Officials say the technology will allow them to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles from the North but not all experts are convinced. ⌘ Read more

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Venice’s debated tourist fee expected to increase ‘in coming years’, says tourism councillor
A Venetian councillor behind the measure introduced to thin out tourism says the trial run has been successful even though large crowds remain. ⌘ Read more

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British man sentenced to life in prison for attempted kidnap and murder of UK presenter Holly Willoughby
A British security guard who plotted in an online forum about kidnapping former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby has been sentenced to life in prison. ⌘ Read more

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It Turns Out the Picassos Anchoring a Gallery’s Exhibit Were Not by Picasso
The Museum of Old and New Art in Australia claimed to have placed several Picassos inside a women’s restroom to protest a court ruling against the women-only exhibit. The curator now says they were fake. ⌘ Read more

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AI model harnesses physics to autocorrect remote sensing data
Turbulence, temperature changes, water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, and other gases absorb, reflect, and scatter sunlight as it passes through the atmosphere, bounces off the Earth’s surface, and is collected by a sensor on a remote sensing satellite. As a result, the spectral data received at the sensor is distorted. ⌘ Read more

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Bridging culture, cuisine, and urban planning: New book explores the connections between food and urban spaces
Agriculture, fishing, hunting, and gathering—through thousands of years of urbanization, these ways of acquiring food, which were deciding factors in settlement landscape patterns in the primitive society, have gradually been replaced by the manufacturing, financial, and service industry. Nowadays, urban planning seems to have lost its connection with food. ⌘ Read more

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Hubble measures the distance to a supernova
Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly when it comes to studying the early universe, but it’s a difficult one to complete. ⌘ Read more

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Scientists create computer program that ‘paints’ the structure of molecules in the style of famous Dutch artist
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a computer program that “paints” the structure of molecules in the style of famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian, whose beautiful artworks will be instantly recognizable to many. ⌘ Read more

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Donald Trump is Unfit to Lead
The Editorial Board,    -  The New York Times

Stephan: I completely agree with this.

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Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstra … ⌘ Read more

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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to Visit Trump Following NATO Summit and Putin Meeting
JENNIFER JACOBS and ALBERTO NARDELLI,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Two christofascist criminals, Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hung out together at Mar-a-Lago, just after Orban met with Putin. Do you think for a moment that Orban didn’t bring a message from Putin to Trump, and that Trump didn’t respond? I am sure Orban will now pass s … ⌘ Read more

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Busted: GOP lawmaker pushed millions for pipeline to benefit companies that donated to her
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: When I tell you that the United States has one of the most corrupt governmental structures amongst the developed democracies of the world this is exactly what I mean. This is a report on a MAGAt Representative, but the trial of Senator Menendez is a Democrat example. Citizens United legalized … ⌘ Read more

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Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on the Rails
MATT SIMON,    -  truthdig

Stephan: Climate change, and the rise of temperature it is producing is having all kinds or negative effects, but have you ever heard anyone talking about buckling railroad rails? I think this is just one of hundreds of climate change problems few have thought about, predicted, or for which preparations have been made.

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Live: Collingwood’s finals hopes on the line in blockbuster clash against Geelong
The reigning premier’s defence is on a knife’s edge after last week’s loss to Essendon as they hope to rebound against a resurgent Geelong side at the MCG. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

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