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Wildfires blaze through parts of Europe as heatwave hits | Climate Crisis News

Fires threaten a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Spain as temperatures hit new records.

A new heatwave has gripped parts of Europe, sending temperatures up to 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit), with wildfires wreaking havoc and forcing evacuations as the impact of global warming is keenly felt on the continent.

Firefighters in northwestern Spain struggled on Monday to contain a wildfire that damaged an ancient Roman mining site and forced hundreds of residents to flee.

Regional…

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August 11, 2025
Syria vows to investigate footage of Sweida hospital killing

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria’s interior ministry said on Monday that it would investigate footage showing men in military fatigues shooting an unarmed man in scrubs at point-blank range in the main hospital in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida last month.

Syria’s interior ministry said in a written statement that it had seen the “disturbing video” and “condemns and denounces this act in the strongest terms”.

The statement said the ministry tasked the deputy minister for security affairs “to…

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August 11, 2025
Gaza: Hospitals receive 69 martyrs, death toll climbs to 61,499

GAZA, (PIC)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 69 civilians, as well as 362 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to Gaza’s health ministry on Monday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 9,989 people have been killed and 41,534 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the…

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August 11, 2025
What scientists discovered about french fries and diabetes

Eating three servings of French fries a week is associated with a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but eating similar amounts of potatoes cooked in other ways — boiled, baked or mashed — does not substantially increase the risk, finds a study published by The BMJ on August 6.

What’s more, replacing any form of potatoes with whole grains was associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk, but swapping them for white rice was linked to an increased risk, the results…

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August 11, 2025
Trump to deploy National Guard to Washington DC | Newsfeed

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US President Donald Trump said he is taking control of Washington, DC’s police force and deploying the National Guard, calling it “Liberation Day” for the US capital. He cited a need to combat “crime, bloodshed and bedlam”, despite data showing violent crime is at a 30-year low.

Published On 11 Aug 2025

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August 11, 2025
Italian defense minister says Israeli government has ‘lost its sanity, humanity’ – Middle East Monitor

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has sharply criticised Israel’s conduct in Gaza, saying the scale of civilian suffering shows its campaign has strayed far from legitimate self-defence, Anadolu reports.

In an interview with the La Stampa newspaper on Monday, Crosetto said: “The Israeli government has lost its sanity and humanity. Fighting terrorists is no longer an excuse.”

He argued that the situation in Gaza and the West Bank has crossed a…

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August 11, 2025
Five more people, including child, die of malnutrition in Gaza

GAZA, (PIC)

Gaza’s health ministry said on Monday morning that five more people, including a child, have died of malnutrition in the past 24 hours.

These new fatalities bring the total number of people who have died from hunger-related causes during the genocidal war on Gaza to 222, including 101 children.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to worsen amid tight siege and ongoing genocide.

Since March 2, 2025, the Israeli occupation regime has been closing all the border…

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August 11, 2025
Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Firefighters in Turkey are battling wildfires in the centre of the northwestern province of Canakkale, fanned by strong winds, and hundreds of residents have evacuated in precaution, local authorities and media said on Monday.

Airplanes, helicopters, vehicles and around 700 personnel are fighting against the blazes, city governor Omer Toraman said in a post on X.

Authorities also launched precautionary evacuations in areas at risk including a university campus, military…

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August 11, 2025
Israel imposes new restrictions on lawyers of Palestinian prisoners

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that Israel has imposed intensified restrictions on lawyers monitoring the conditions of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its jails, both during prison visits and court hearings.

In a joint statement on Monday, the two organizations said that, on top of limitations enforced since the start of the genocide in Gaza, the Israeli prison administration has now banned…

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August 11, 2025
Anas raised his voiced, but the world refused to listen | Israel-Palestine conflict

“I have lived pain in all its details and I have tasted pain and loss repeatedly. Despite this, I have never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification. May God be a witness against those who remained silent and accepted our killing, and against those who choked our breath and whose hearts were not moved by the scattered remains of our children and women, and who did nothing to stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.”

This…

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August 11, 2025