🇮🇳Fresh May snowfall in Kashmir, India
Fresh snowfall was reported from Minamarg and the Drass sector near Zoji La on Monday, bringing down temperatures sharply and covering higher reaches under a fresh layer of snow.
Reports said heavy snowfall lashed the upper reaches of Minamarg and areas around Drass near the strategic Zoji La axis, turning vast mountain stretches white.
The fresh spell of snow was accompanied by a noticeable drop in temperature, reviving cold conditions across the region.
Locals and travelers said snow accumulation was visible across higher elevations, while chilly winds and overcast skies added to the wintry conditions.
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Fresh snowfall was reported from Minamarg and the Drass sector near Zoji La on Monday, bringing down temperatures sharply and covering higher reaches under a fresh layer of snow.
Reports said heavy snowfall lashed the upper reaches of Minamarg and areas around Drass near the strategic Zoji La axis, turning vast mountain stretches white.
The fresh spell of snow was accompanied by a noticeable drop in temperature, reviving cold conditions across the region.
Locals and travelers said snow accumulation was visible across higher elevations, while chilly winds and overcast skies added to the wintry conditions.
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Paradoxically fear is the foundation of stability: deterrence works
Professor Sergei Karaganov has written a paper - How to Win a World War - that advocates a limited nuclear strike on an adversary by Russia, as the means of preventing a World War.
On the face of it, this may seem to be an oxymoron - a nuclear strike precisely done to prevent World War.
A number of western commentators have reacted with unalloyed hostility, with Professor Karaganov being presented as a political outlier, advocating fringe policies that could open Pandora's box to wider nuclear conflict.
Is it bluff or a revolutionary re-think of Russia's defence strategy?
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Professor Sergei Karaganov has written a paper - How to Win a World War - that advocates a limited nuclear strike on an adversary by Russia, as the means of preventing a World War.
On the face of it, this may seem to be an oxymoron - a nuclear strike precisely done to prevent World War.
A number of western commentators have reacted with unalloyed hostility, with Professor Karaganov being presented as a political outlier, advocating fringe policies that could open Pandora's box to wider nuclear conflict.
Is it bluff or a revolutionary re-think of Russia's defence strategy?
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🇵🇭☄️Meteor fireball seen over erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines on May 25
A meteor was recorded passing over the slopes of Mayon Volcano on Monday evening, May 25, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs said its Ligñon Hill IP Camera in Legazpi City captured the meteor at around 10:33 p.m., but noted that it disintegrated while still in the atmosphere and did not reach the slopes of Mayon.
At the time of the sighting, the active volcano in Albay was on its 140th consecutive day of effusive eruption, marked by the slow outflow of lava and intermittent pyroclastic density currents.
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A meteor was recorded passing over the slopes of Mayon Volcano on Monday evening, May 25, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs said its Ligñon Hill IP Camera in Legazpi City captured the meteor at around 10:33 p.m., but noted that it disintegrated while still in the atmosphere and did not reach the slopes of Mayon.
At the time of the sighting, the active volcano in Albay was on its 140th consecutive day of effusive eruption, marked by the slow outflow of lava and intermittent pyroclastic density currents.
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The importance of inexpert opinion
I was out with a friend for lunch the other day (yeah, I still have a few of those left). This friend leans more to the liberal side of things.
He certainly doesn't care for Trump, is a vax advocate, etc.
A very nice guy, I have to say — a superb artist, an excellent father, and just a good all-around person.
I won't go off on a tangent here, but sheep types are typically not bad people.
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I was out with a friend for lunch the other day (yeah, I still have a few of those left). This friend leans more to the liberal side of things.
He certainly doesn't care for Trump, is a vax advocate, etc.
A very nice guy, I have to say — a superb artist, an excellent father, and just a good all-around person.
I won't go off on a tangent here, but sheep types are typically not bad people.
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Acceptable till it wasn't: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Global Sumud Flotilla
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise.
When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is, Israel's Minister for National Security had to be seen as aberrant, the man who strayed, if only slightly.
The conduct in question involved Itamar Ben-Gvir's posting of footage on social media mocking the fate of activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla who had made a failed humanitarian effort to break the blockade of Gaza.
The activists, seized in international waters by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus, had been blindfolded, their hands bound, and forced to kneel on the floor at the Port of Ashdod.
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It has been a sorry though predictable exercise.
When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is, Israel's Minister for National Security had to be seen as aberrant, the man who strayed, if only slightly.
The conduct in question involved Itamar Ben-Gvir's posting of footage on social media mocking the fate of activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla who had made a failed humanitarian effort to break the blockade of Gaza.
The activists, seized in international waters by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus, had been blindfolded, their hands bound, and forced to kneel on the floor at the Port of Ashdod.
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The DNC finally releases its 2024 autopsy, and it's a total whitewash
The Democratic National Committee has released its long-awaited "autopsy" of the 2024 presidential election, and it is getting panned from all sides for being evasive, poorly constructed, and conspicuously silent on the two most consequential decisions the party made in 2024.
DNC Chair Ken Martin had been sitting on this report since late last year.
He pledged transparency, then reversed course in December, saying he would not release it.
The reversal created a slow-motion credibility crisis.
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The Democratic National Committee has released its long-awaited "autopsy" of the 2024 presidential election, and it is getting panned from all sides for being evasive, poorly constructed, and conspicuously silent on the two most consequential decisions the party made in 2024.
DNC Chair Ken Martin had been sitting on this report since late last year.
He pledged transparency, then reversed course in December, saying he would not release it.
The reversal created a slow-motion credibility crisis.
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EU leaders silent on deadly Ukrainian attack on college dorm
Western officials have condemned Russian retaliatory strikes on Kiev, while omitting to mention the Friday drone attack that killed 21 people.
The European Union's top brass and the leaders of several member states have issued statements on the latest exchange of strikes between Kiev and Moscow that ignore the recent deadly Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory that preceded Russian retaliatory strikes.
According to the Russian authorities, 21 people, mostly teenage girls, lost their lives and 60 more sustained injuries after three waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College in the Lugansk People's Republic overnight from Thursday to Friday.
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Western officials have condemned Russian retaliatory strikes on Kiev, while omitting to mention the Friday drone attack that killed 21 people.
The European Union's top brass and the leaders of several member states have issued statements on the latest exchange of strikes between Kiev and Moscow that ignore the recent deadly Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory that preceded Russian retaliatory strikes.
According to the Russian authorities, 21 people, mostly teenage girls, lost their lives and 60 more sustained injuries after three waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College in the Lugansk People's Republic overnight from Thursday to Friday.
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🇦🇿Americanization of Azerbaijan's foreign policy
Azerbaijan is rapidly moving closer to the United States and NATO as Washington redirects its geopolitical focus from the Russo-Ukrainian War toward the South Caucasus.
Azerbaijan's expanding military, political, and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation involving Russia, Iran, and Western powers.
The US is finding another shoulder to shoot fire at its rivals, and this time it's none other than Azerbaijan.
It's often said in geopolitics, "Once you enter the realm of realpolitik, there is no way out." No matter what the current Trump administration thinks of Russia, the US strategic circles are determined to create instability near the Russian borders.
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Azerbaijan is rapidly moving closer to the United States and NATO as Washington redirects its geopolitical focus from the Russo-Ukrainian War toward the South Caucasus.
Azerbaijan's expanding military, political, and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation involving Russia, Iran, and Western powers.
The US is finding another shoulder to shoot fire at its rivals, and this time it's none other than Azerbaijan.
It's often said in geopolitics, "Once you enter the realm of realpolitik, there is no way out." No matter what the current Trump administration thinks of Russia, the US strategic circles are determined to create instability near the Russian borders.
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LaRouche's Peace Through Development: A vision for solving humanity's crisis
Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development?
Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world?
As Europe lay in ruins by the end of World War II, the United States adopted the Marshall Plan, an economic development program that, rather than seeking collective punishment or reparations extraction from defeated countries, was designed to rebuild their war-torn economies.
The result was transformative: bitter enemies became prosperous partners, and economic interdependency — regardless of long-term eventualities caused by multiple other factors — became the foundation for lasting peace.
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Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development?
Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world?
As Europe lay in ruins by the end of World War II, the United States adopted the Marshall Plan, an economic development program that, rather than seeking collective punishment or reparations extraction from defeated countries, was designed to rebuild their war-torn economies.
The result was transformative: bitter enemies became prosperous partners, and economic interdependency — regardless of long-term eventualities caused by multiple other factors — became the foundation for lasting peace.
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Orange County fire chiefs issue update on chemical plant disaster, says threat of explosion 'eliminated'
The worst fears around an unstable, increasingly high-temperature chemical plant in Orange County will fortunately not come to pass, fire officials announced Monday.
The Orange County Fire Authority said the threat of a massive chemical explosion has been "eliminated." "The BLEVE is off the table," officials said, using the acronym for "boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion." There had been worries that a rupture in the container filled with methyl methacrylate, as temperatures increased, could result in a devastating explosion as one of the possible scenarios.
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The worst fears around an unstable, increasingly high-temperature chemical plant in Orange County will fortunately not come to pass, fire officials announced Monday.
The Orange County Fire Authority said the threat of a massive chemical explosion has been "eliminated." "The BLEVE is off the table," officials said, using the acronym for "boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion." There had been worries that a rupture in the container filled with methyl methacrylate, as temperatures increased, could result in a devastating explosion as one of the possible scenarios.
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AOC tells New Yorkers to 'pull up' to Alabama while giving rally speech behind bulletproof glass
Todd Spears' TikTok reaction video mocking the congresswoman's security setup went viral with 1 million views Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week, demanding that northern progressives "pull up to the South." Speaking at the "All Roads Lead to The South" rally on May 16, the prominent "Squad" member claimed the U.S. was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being "part of that long history of regression and repression in America." Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that "the North" travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia,...
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Todd Spears' TikTok reaction video mocking the congresswoman's security setup went viral with 1 million views Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week, demanding that northern progressives "pull up to the South." Speaking at the "All Roads Lead to The South" rally on May 16, the prominent "Squad" member claimed the U.S. was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being "part of that long history of regression and repression in America." Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that "the North" travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia,...
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It's time to talk about Massie
Thomas Massie did not lose because the people of Kentucky suddenly rejected him.
He lost because Washington sent a message to every politician in America that if you dare question the foreign policy agenda, if you dare oppose endless war funding, and if you dare call out the influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby, the full weight of the political machine will be dropped directly on your head.
The Kentucky election was rigged by a foreign government! Openly.
A foreign government openly rigged a US election and installed a puppet candidate.
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Thomas Massie did not lose because the people of Kentucky suddenly rejected him.
He lost because Washington sent a message to every politician in America that if you dare question the foreign policy agenda, if you dare oppose endless war funding, and if you dare call out the influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby, the full weight of the political machine will be dropped directly on your head.
The Kentucky election was rigged by a foreign government! Openly.
A foreign government openly rigged a US election and installed a puppet candidate.
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The monetary devil neither political party will name
The hidden wealth transfer system buried beneath modern central banking and market bailouts.
The widening wealth inequality gap is the political third rail nobody in power truly ever wants to touch.
Politicians will scream at each other all day over taxes, healthcare, immigration, tariffs, student loans, climate policy, or whatever outrage is currently driving engagement on cable news and social media.
But the second the conversation turns toward monetary policy, toward the machinery of money creation itself, the room suddenly gets very quiet.
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The hidden wealth transfer system buried beneath modern central banking and market bailouts.
The widening wealth inequality gap is the political third rail nobody in power truly ever wants to touch.
Politicians will scream at each other all day over taxes, healthcare, immigration, tariffs, student loans, climate policy, or whatever outrage is currently driving engagement on cable news and social media.
But the second the conversation turns toward monetary policy, toward the machinery of money creation itself, the room suddenly gets very quiet.
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Sex-Ed: Eighth graders given class project to design a brothel
A German school was forced to withdraw a sex-ed lesson after children aged 13 and 14 years old were given the classroom task of designing a "new brothel for all". Children in an eighth-grade class at a Catholic high school in Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, were assigned the classwork of designing an inclusive brothel, including floor plans.
The local Rheinische Postreported on the remarkable lesson plan on Wednesday, and news quickly spread nationwide, leading to the headmistress and mayor facing demands for explanations.
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A German school was forced to withdraw a sex-ed lesson after children aged 13 and 14 years old were given the classroom task of designing a "new brothel for all". Children in an eighth-grade class at a Catholic high school in Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, were assigned the classwork of designing an inclusive brothel, including floor plans.
The local Rheinische Postreported on the remarkable lesson plan on Wednesday, and news quickly spread nationwide, leading to the headmistress and mayor facing demands for explanations.
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Ancient DNA reveals patchwork of families more than 5,000 years ago
Children from previous relationships growing up as siblings in a new family, couples adopting or fostering children - so-called patchwork families are a widespread way of life today.
It is considered modern, but is in fact ancient.
This is demonstrated by the latest analyses of human genetic material from the Neolithic period.
"We can show that even more than 5,000 years ago, people in Central Europe lived in communities where biological ties and social bonds were surprisingly flexible," explains Professor Ben Krause-Kyora, an expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis at the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at Kiel University.
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Children from previous relationships growing up as siblings in a new family, couples adopting or fostering children - so-called patchwork families are a widespread way of life today.
It is considered modern, but is in fact ancient.
This is demonstrated by the latest analyses of human genetic material from the Neolithic period.
"We can show that even more than 5,000 years ago, people in Central Europe lived in communities where biological ties and social bonds were surprisingly flexible," explains Professor Ben Krause-Kyora, an expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis at the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at Kiel University.
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Here's why many Western leaders' approval ratings are tanking
The difference between ideology and citizens' lived experience is becoming explosive.
Every political and social order comes in two flavors: What its small elite and the minority exploiting it to the full want everyone to believe, and the reality that most of its members actually live in.
The two never match, but this mismatch need not be a big problem.
However, if the difference becomes too great and too obvious for too long, no order can continue unchanged.
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The difference between ideology and citizens' lived experience is becoming explosive.
Every political and social order comes in two flavors: What its small elite and the minority exploiting it to the full want everyone to believe, and the reality that most of its members actually live in.
The two never match, but this mismatch need not be a big problem.
However, if the difference becomes too great and too obvious for too long, no order can continue unchanged.
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🇨🇱6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern Chile
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). However, there have been no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
According to the US agency, the earthquake occurred in the Atacama Desert region, around 31 kilometres from the city of Calama, at a depth of about 100 kilometres (63 miles) below the surface.
Chile's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said there was no tsunami threat from the quake and no reports of injuries or serious damage had been received so far.
Local media reported that tremors were felt in the regions of Arica, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, and Atacama.
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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). However, there have been no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
According to the US agency, the earthquake occurred in the Atacama Desert region, around 31 kilometres from the city of Calama, at a depth of about 100 kilometres (63 miles) below the surface.
Chile's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said there was no tsunami threat from the quake and no reports of injuries or serious damage had been received so far.
Local media reported that tremors were felt in the regions of Arica, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, and Atacama.
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☄️Meteor fireball over Italy and 4 other countries on May 25
We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over Abruzzo, Basilicata, Lazio, Marche, Puglia, Republika Srpska and Split-Dalmatia County on Monday, May 25th 2026 around 19:30 UT. For this event, we received one video.
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We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over Abruzzo, Basilicata, Lazio, Marche, Puglia, Republika Srpska and Split-Dalmatia County on Monday, May 25th 2026 around 19:30 UT. For this event, we received one video.
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Lightning strike kills 5 cattle on farm in Marion County, Florida
A lightning strike killed four cows and a calf on a Marion County farm during severe thunderstorms over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville and the farm owner.
Lettelier Brangus, a private cattle breeding operation in northern Marion County, said the animals were found beneath a tree after storms moved through the area late Saturday night.
What they're saying: The farm said the loss included several of its top-bred donor cows, identified as LB Ms.
Stormi, LB Ms.
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A lightning strike killed four cows and a calf on a Marion County farm during severe thunderstorms over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville and the farm owner.
Lettelier Brangus, a private cattle breeding operation in northern Marion County, said the animals were found beneath a tree after storms moved through the area late Saturday night.
What they're saying: The farm said the loss included several of its top-bred donor cows, identified as LB Ms.
Stormi, LB Ms.
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Woman dies when her SUV was swept away by flash flooding in Petal, Mississippi
A Mississippi woman is dead after flash flooding submerged and swept away her SUV while she was still inside, even as bystanders tried to rescue her.
The incident happened around 3 p.m.
Monday in the parking lot of the Eastbrook Commons shopping center in Petal.
Luisa Ortega is an employee at Los Charros Mexican Grill in the shopping center.
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A Mississippi woman is dead after flash flooding submerged and swept away her SUV while she was still inside, even as bystanders tried to rescue her.
The incident happened around 3 p.m.
Monday in the parking lot of the Eastbrook Commons shopping center in Petal.
Luisa Ortega is an employee at Los Charros Mexican Grill in the shopping center.
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