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04/08/2021

US-CA: Incredible footage has captured the moment a tree split in half after being struck by lightning on Saturday, July 31, inside the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California.

The Jeffery pine splits in half after reportedly being struck twice by lightning while plumes of smoke and embers rise up from the flames.

“It was a gorgeous 200+ year old healthy tree that had an unlucky day,” said Michael Bogan, who filmed the footage.

Firefighters worked to extinguish the flames from several lightning strikes and took down the scorched tree on Sunday, according to the San Bernardino National Forest.

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02/07/2021

US-CA: At least 16 people were injured, several structures and vehicles were damaged after police failed to safely dispose of illegal fireworks seized from a South Los Angeles home on Wednesday, June 30.

The explosion rocked the neighbourhood after police attempted to dispose of over 2,000 kgs of fireworks, which were found earlier in the day, in an armoured container, according to local reports.

The explosion destroyed the container, injuring at least 16 people, including Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) officers and residents.

Three people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, local media reported.

The bomb squad was called to the scene to help with the operation, as some of the explosives would be sent away to be detonated elsewhere, while others were due to be destroyed on-site.

LAPD said the blast happened as some of the illegal fireworks were being stored in their bomb squad trailer as a precautionary measure, adding that the cause of the incident was under investigation.

Police discovered the explosives near a home after officers received a tip, and arrested an unidentified man on suspicion of possessing fireworks, according to media reports citing local officials.

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02/07/2021

CANADA: Stunning timelapse footage captured at Charlie Lake in eastern British Columbia showed noctilucent clouds which formed with a glimpse of the aurora taken between 1:00 to 3:00 a.m. PDT.

“What’s better than watching the noctilucent clouds with a hint of lady aurora come out afterwards? Absolutely nothing,” said Jeff Adams who captured the footage.

Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night-shining clouds, are phenomena of ice crystals in the sky that are only able to be seen during astronomical twilight.

These clouds are most commonly spotted in the Northern Hemisphere in the summer months of June and July, and can only form in the highest part of the atmosphere, typically at an altitude of around 80 kilometres.

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The high altitude clouds were captured on time lapse above over Charlie Lake in Canada's westernmost province during the early hours of 30th June 2021.

01/07/2021

CANADA: An Alberta resident captured a timelapse video on Wednesday, June 30, showing a pile of gummy bears melting in the extreme temperatures that have been gripping parts of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest in recent days.

The uploader of the video said in the caption that it took an hour for the gummy bears to melt into a “gummy puddle” adding that “the sour cherry gummies are much more resilient.”

The unprecedented heatwave in western Canada has seen all-time temperature records broken for three days straight with the village of Lytton, British Columbia, recording a staggering 49.6 degrees Celcius on Tuesday, according to media reports.

A statement by the chief coroner of British Columbia, Lisa Lapointe, quoted by CNN on Wednesday said that there had been a “significant increase in deaths reported where it is suspected that extreme heat has been contributory.”

The statement by Lapointe added that 233 deaths had been reported from Friday through Monday whereas the usual number for a four-day period would be 130.

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25/06/2021

HONG KONG: Crowds gathered outside the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily building and queued across Hong Kong to buy copies of its final edition after authorities froze its assets under a new Beijing-imposed national security law.

Hong Kong residents braved the rain in the early hours of Thursday, June 24, to show support for Apple Daily staff outside its building, as scores queued in front of newsstands to snap the paper’s last edition.

Apple Daily announced its closure on Wednesday “in view of staff members’ safety” and that it would “cease operation immediately after midnight”, after asset freezes and a string of arrests.

Hundreds of police officers raided the Apple Daily offices last Thursday arresting five editors and executives, who have been charged under the controversial national security law.

Local media reported that two further journalists at Apple Daily were arrested on Wednesday including a columnist and a reporter – the charges were not immediately clear.

Apple Daily is owned by pro-democracy activist and tycoon Jimmy Lai, who was arrested last year under the same law, on charges relating to the protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019.

China imposed the national security law in Hong Kong in June last year, which led to to the arrest of several pro-democracy activists and politicians.

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25/06/2021

FRANCE: An American special effects artist living in Bordeaux set the internet alight and confused many residents of the French city after he posted a video of a tram made to look like a bottle of red wine zipping through the streets.

Ian Padgham published the video of the tram looking like a bottle of Château de Cérons on June 8 and it soon attracted a lot of attention. As of the time of writing it has been viewed more than 600,000 times on Twitter and more than 12,000 times on Instagram.

The day before he published the “bottle tram” video, he posted a video of a bus made to look like a baguette, which has been viewed almost a million times on Twitter.

The “bottle tram” video is only ten seconds long, but looked so realistic that Bordeaux’s transit authority took to Twitter to ensure residents that there was not, in fact, a tram looking like a bottle driving around in the city.

Padgham is reportedly a well-known figure in Bordeaux who has for a number of years been incorporating locations and landmarks in Bordeaux into his special effect videos.

The video of the “bottle tram” was published just over a week before the Bordeaux Wine Festival begins on June 17 which might help explain why some internet users were convinced it was real.

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25/06/2021

US-MI: At least five waterspouts were spotted over northern Lake Michigan on Wednesday morning, June 22, to the delight of onlookers.

The International Centre For Waterspout Research (ICWR) forecast the phenomenon, which was later confirmed by eyewitnesses capturing the sights on camera.

It took place as water “temperatures were nearing 15 Celsius, while temperatures about five kilometres off the ground were struggling near 4.5 Celsius”, local forecasters said.

Waterspouts are usually more of an autumn phenomenon, as “cold air typically rolls over relatively warmer lake water,” they added.

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24/06/2021

US-NH: Home surveillance footage captured a four-legged suspect breaking and entering into a truck with its bear hands in Thorton, New Hampshire.

The footage shows a bear standing on its two legs to open the car door, and then crawling into the vehicle.

The bear was most likely searching for food or trash, according to local authorities.

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Home security camera footage captured a bear nonchalantly approaching and then opening the door of a car in the US state of New Hampshire last week.

21/06/2021

FRANCE: A severe thunderstorm ripped through the Île de France region on Saturday evening, June 19, bringing hail, heavy downpours and gusts of up to 137 kph, according to local reports.

Météo France issued an orange thunderstorm warning for the region throughout the day.

The Val-de-Marne department, south of Paris, was especially hard hit with reports of injuries, electricity cuts and roads blocked by downed trees.

The worst of the damage was seen in Alfortville, where a roof was torn off a building injuring two people.

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'Hail and Thunder Storms BATTER France, Felling Trees and Tearing Rooves from Buildings'Severe thunderstorms have brought heavy downpours, hail, and flooding...

18/06/2021

THAILAND: Video captured by a scuba diver reveals a large fishing net trapped in a coral reef off the small island of Koh Losin in the Gulf of Thailand.

The diver who filmed the video was on a liveaboard dive trip between June 11 and 13 when he spotted the net and told the EBU he was shocked by how big it was.

“It covered most area of the hard coral gardens around the dive site. I previously had done a couple of diving trips to Losin in the last couple of years but I had never seen Losin reef this bad before,” diver and photographer said.

‘Ghost nets’, such as the one found in Losin, can have a devastating impact on coral reefs, by breaking the reefs and preventing healthy growth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Koh Losin is a popular dive spot located around 100 km east of Narathiwat in the south of Thailand.

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14/06/2021

PUERTO RICO: A fire at an electrical substation in Puerto Rico has caused widespread power outages that affected one in 10 residents on the island on June 10.

Some 400,000 customers have been affected, with LUMA Energy tweeting that it was working to restore power late on Thursday.

The cause of the fire at a transformer at LUMA’s Monacillos substation was under investigation.

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10/06/2021

SPACE: On Thursday, June 10, people across the northern hemisphere will have the chance to experience an annular or partial eclipse of the Sun.

A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth, fully or partially blocking the Sun’s light in some areas. During an annular eclipse, the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky. Since the Moon does not block the entire view of the Sun, it will look like a dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk. This creates what looks like a ring of fire around the Moon. People in parts of Canada, Greenland, and northern Russia will experience the annular eclipse.

In some places, viewers won’t get to see this ring around the Moon. They’ll instead experience a partial solar eclipse. This happens when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not exactly lined up. The Sun will appear to have a dark shadow on only part of its surface. Viewers in parts of the eastern United States and northern Alaska will see a partial solar eclipse on June 10, along with Canada and parts of the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.

In the United States, the partial eclipse will be visible along parts of the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, and Northern Alaska. In many of these locations, the eclipse will occur before, during, and shortly after sunrise. This means that viewers will need to get a clear view of the horizon during sunrise to see the eclipse.

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10/06/2021

US-OR: Oregon Zoo shared a video of its resident elephant Samudra enjoying a mud bath on June 9.

For elephants, mudslinging is a way of life. These giants produce a lot of body heat, and lack sweat glands. Mud wallowing serves several purposes, including sunblock, parasite removal and cooling agent.

Water evaporates slowly through mud, which keeps elephants cooler than a dip in the pool. After a wallow, elephants may give themselves a dirt shower to create a thicker coating. And that’s the dirt on mud baths!

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09/06/2021

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has lost an appeal against his conviction for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity ending the last major Balkans war crime trial before a UN court.

A panel of five judges on Tuesday found that Mladic, 78, had not provided enough evidence to overturn his 2017 conviction that handed him a life sentence for his role in the killing of about 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebenica in 1995.

The verdict by the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals is final and cannot be appealed.

Prosecutors had also brought a second appeal to extend Mladic’s conviction for crimes committed against Bosnian Muslim in other areas during the conflict, which was also rejected by the judges.

This footage shows the reaction to the verdict in Sarajevo’s city hall.

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09/06/2021

TURKEY: A mucus-like organic matter known as ‘sea snot’ has been clogging up parts of Turkey’s coastline since late December last year.

Scientists have warned that the gloopy, gelatinous substance is the result of global warming and can have a devastating impact on marine life.

The sea snot was first reported in Turkish waters in 2007 and is created in areas with abundant nutrients in the water and during periods of prolonged warm temperatures and calm weather.

The sea snot is not usually a problem, but when the phytoplankton grows out of control, the substance can suffocate marine life, impacting the breeding grounds for fish while also impacting immobile organisms like coral.

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08/06/2021

US-CO: A tornado touched down in Colorado’s Weld County on June 7 covering a path of 14 miles.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a tornado warning for the Firestone, Frederick, and Fort Lupton areas until 5:30 PM MDT on Monday.

The twister downed powerlines in several areas, causing a home located at Highway 66 to catch fire.

No human injuries were reported, though two calves were killed as a result of the tornado, according to reports.

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A tornado funnel was spotted 35 miles north of Denver, Colorado. The tornado was characterized as a landspout, which grows from the ground up.

08/06/2021

CANADA: A statue of 19th Century Canadian educator Egerton Ryerson was toppled on Sunday evening, June 6, following a protest in Toronto in honour of residential school victims.

The statue was located at Toronto’s Ryerson University, which has said that it will not be “restored or replaced”.

The monument to the educator, who was influential in the design of Canada’s indigenous residential school system, has long stoked controversy and became a flashpoint after the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children at the site of what was once the country’s largest residential school last month.

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07/06/2021

US-WI: An intoxicated teen made a mistake he is not likely to forget after breaking into and falling asleep inside an Airbnb residence being rented by police officers.

The incident happened over the weekend while three out-of-state sheriff’s deputies from Montana’s Flathead County were attending emergency vehicle operations instructor training in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Deputies Pesola, Vander Ark and Grant, who documented the incident on TikTok, said the alarm was raised after one of the deputies heard a noise from an upstairs room at 2:30 am.

Upon searching the residence, the deputies found a man lying in a bed.

“Apparently, a drunk dude crashed with us last night,” one of the deputies said in the video

“This silly guy found the one Airbnb in all of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin loaded with cops,” one deputy said. “He woke up in handcuffs.”

The 19-year-old was taken away by officers from the Milwaukee Police Department, who investigated the incident but decided not to press charges in the matter.

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04/06/2021

UK: Two drug dealers sped down a motorway hard shoulder to avoid queuing – but they unwittingly undertook one police officer who caught up with the pair and found them with a stash of co***ne.

Dashcam from the patrol car shows Simon Pagett undertaking on the M6 near junction 7 on 5 November last year and the officer exclaiming “Really?” in disbelief at their audacity.

Pagett, alongside pal Dean Stone, intimated to pull over on seeing the blue lights but then accelerated away at speeds topping 100mph.

The 39-year-old weaved between cars on the A34 towards Walsall, at one point hitting the central reservation, and jumped several sets of red lights.

He even did a lap of Toby Carvery car-park in a desperate bid to give our advanced driver the slip before going off-road near Springvale Avenue where Stone jumped from the car and ran off clutching a rucksack.

The 40-year-old didn’t get far as he was arrested trying to get into a taxi nearby, while the rucksack was recovered in bushes.

It was found to contain five 1kg slabs of high-purity co***ne with a value of around half a million pounds.

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04/06/2021

CHINA: A herd of 15 Asian elephants has reached the outskirts of the capital of China’s southwestern Yunnan province, prompting authorities to close off roads and residential areas, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday, June 3.

The herd, which includes three calves, started their journey in March 2020 after escaping a nature reserve in Xishuangbanna.

On Wednesday, the elephants reached the outskirts of Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, prompting the authorities to shut down several roads and ask residents to stay indoors.

According to Xinhua, the group, initially consisting of 16 wild elephants, arrived in Pu’er in Yunnan in November 2020 where a female elephant gave birth to a baby.

The herd then stayed in Pu’er for five months before embarking on their journey toward north.

In the meantime, two left the group, leaving 15 to slowly wander across the roads.

It is not clear why the elephants left their natural habitat.

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SRI LANKA: A fire-stricken container ship has begun to sink off the Sri Lankan coast containing several hundred tons of oil still in its fuel tanks leading to fears of an impending marine disaster. Authorities still struggled to douse the flames on Wednesday, June 2, 13 days after it first broke out, according to local reports.

According to the latest statement released on Wednesday, despite salvors gaining access to the MV X-Press Pearl to attach a tow wire to transport the vessel into deeper waters, their efforts failed as of 3 pm local time with smoke continuing to billow from the ship.

The Singapore-flagged vessel, which was transporting chemicals, including 25 tons of nitric acid, was waiting to enter port 9.5 nautical miles off the coast of Colombo when the fire broke out.

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28/05/2021

US-NE: A tornado swept through southwest Nebraska near the city of Benkelman on Wednesday afternoon.

The tornado touched ground in Dundy County around 3:30 p.m. local time while severe thunderstorm warnings and flash flood warnings were issued across the Great Plains in parts of Kansas and Nebraska on Wednesday.

A cluster of tornadoes was also reported across the rural plains of Benkelman on Wednesday.

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28/05/2021

AUSTRALIA: Australian farmers have been battling a rodent plague, the worst in decades, which has infested large parts of New South Wales and destroyed crops and stored grain.

Millions of mice have caused extensive damage to farming machinery, electrical wires and household items.

According to media reports, hospitals in eastern parts of Australia have also reported damage to infrastructure as well as complaints by patients who have been bitten by mice.

Following the devastating plague, Australian government granted an emergency permit to farmers, allowing them to use a stronger poisonous bait that was previously banned in the country.

The government has also introduced a 50 million Australian dollar package to fight the plague.

Videos shared on social media platforms show the scale of the issue.

One video captured in Tullamore, New South Wales, showed mice raining down from a farmer’s auger as soon as it was turned on.

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27/05/2021

US-OR: The Oregon Zoo in Portland released a video on Wednesday, May 26, of its male Asian elephant Samudra going for a swim and snacking on honeydew melons.

12-year-old Samudra, whose name means “Lord of the ocean” in Sanskrit, is fond of going for baths in the pool while bobbing for melons, pumpkins, apples or other snacks, the Oregon Zoo said.

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27/05/2021

YAAS: Cyclone Yaas was intensifying over the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, May 25 and was expected to hit the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, according to the India Meteorological Department.

The department said the “very severe cyclonic storm”, the third-worst category, could pack winds of up to 165 kilometres per hour (102 miles per hour) when making landfall.

Yaas is the second major storm to hit the coronavirus-stricken nation in 10 days after Cyclone Tauktae killed at least 140 people across western India.

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27/05/2021

ECUADOR: Tests have confirmed that a giant tortoise found on the Galápagos Islands in 2019 is from a species scientists believed to have died out more than a century ago.

A team from Yale University compared DNA taken from the female tortoise with a sample taken in 1906 from a male member of the Chelonoidis phantasticus species – and the pair were found to be a match.

“The investigation confirms that this individual belongs to the Chelonoidis phantasticus, a species declared extinct since 1906. This confirmation gives us lots of hope to continue programmes to save the land tortoises of the Galapagos islands,” Danny Rueda Córdova, Director of the Galapagos National Park said.

Giant tortoise populations were devastated throughout the 19th century by whalers and buccaneers, the Galapagos National Park said, adding that volcanic eruptions in the past may have impacted tortoise populations as well.

The park estimates the current tortoise population on the Galapagos Islands to be around 60,000.

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19/05/2021

TAUKTAE: Pakistan’s biggest city was hit by rain and a dust storm on Tuesday following several days of sweltering heat.

The storm left several areas of the city without power and a 10-year-old was reportedly killed by a collapsing wall.

The dust storm comes as Cyclone Tauktae batters neighbouring India, prompting Pakistan’s Meteorological Department (PMD) to issue weather alerts.

“Karachi, Hyderabad, and Shaeed- Banzirabad, districts likely to experience hot/very hot weather with gusty winds during next two days. Sea Conditions will remain rough to very rough and fishermen are advised not to venture in the sea till 19 May 2021,” the PDM tweeted on Monday.

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Pakistan's biggest city is hit by a dust storm after the cyclone ravaged coastal India, killing at least 19.

19/05/2021

US-CA: A total of 540 firefighters from multiple agencies continued on Monday to combat a growing brushfire suspected to have been started by an arsonist in Pacific Palisades, California on Friday. Residents of more than 500 homes have so far been evacuated because of the blaze.

The fire, dubbed the Palisades Fire, broke out near Pacific Palisades and Topanga Canyon and had spread to 800 acres on Saturday.

By Sunday, the fire remained at zero percent containment and nearly doubled in size reaching 1,325 acres, according to the L.A. County Fire Department.

Officials confirmed on Monday that the fire had an eastward growth overnight into Monday morning.

A suspected arsonist has been arrested in connection with the fire and is receiving medical treatment, according to the Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti.

Evacuation orders have been given to a total of more than 1,000 residents living near Topanga Canyon, according to authorities.

Several helicopters have been deployed to drop fire retardant and water on the flames in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Officials closed down major commuter roads on the Pacific Coast Highway and Mulholland Drive due to the fire.

One firefighter suffered a minor injury, and no casualties had been reported as of Monday.

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19/05/2021

US-IL: Firefighters have shared the moment a desperate cat leapt from the 5th floor of a burning building in Chicago.

Firefighters were filming the outside of a multi-story apartment building on Thursday afternoon when the cat appeared through the thick smoke at a broken window.

The black cat paused for a second, tested the side of the building with his paws and took the plunge.

Onlookers gasped and shrieked as the cat fell gracefully through the air and narrowly missed a wall before landing on his feet with a bounce on the grass.

The cat then ran out of shot and was reported to have been uninjured.

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13/05/2021

ISRAEL: Police in Israel dispatched forces and deployed water cannon to several cities across the country on Tuesday night, May 11, to disperse Palestinian protesters.

Police said violence erupted across several towns including Acre, Umm al-Fahm and Haifa where they deployed water cannon and detained a number of Palestinian protesters who were throwing stones at security forces.

Elsewhere, Israel has ramped up its airstrikes on Gaza Strip, killing 35 Palestinians including 12 children, according to Palestinian health ministry, in response to the barrage of rockets that Hamas militants continued to launch on the country.

In Israel, at least 5 people have been killed on Tuesday night as a result of rockets being fired from Gaza, according to a military spokesman.

Palestinian Ministry of Health said 233 Palestinians were also injured due to the Israeli airstrikes that continued into the early hours of Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile, warned that Hamas “will pay a very heavy price for their aggression.”

The sharp escalation, the most intense since a 50-day war in 2014, follows days of violence in east Jerusalem amid protests over the possible eviction of several Palestinian families in the predominantly Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to make way for Israeli settlers.

On Monday more than 300 Palestinians were wounded when Israeli security forces raided Al Aqsa-Mosque, firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.

The rocket fire came after Hamas issued an ultimatum, calling on Israel to remove its security forces from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following the attack on Palestinian worshippers.

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