“If [the jihadists] knew I was a government official, they would have beheaded me,” Tomas Langa, a civil servant in northern Mozambique, told the BBC. He feels he had a lucky escape. We have changed his named for his safety. Woken in the early hours of 10 May by heavy gunfire, Mr Langa looked out […]
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Sun unleashes 2 powerful X-class solar flares in 12 hours (video)
The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for May’s incredible auroras has done it again, firing off not one but two X-class solar flares in less than 12 hours. The first X-class solar flare peaked at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203GMT) on Friday (May 31), and the second did so at 4:48 a.m. EDT (0848 GMT) today (June […]
Jaw-dropping northern lights from massive solar flares amaze skywatchers around the world. ‘We have a very rare event on our hands.’ (photos)
An aurora show like no other is playing out in the night sky this weekend as a historic northern lights display spawned by intense solar storms paints the sky in spectacular hues of pinks, purples and greens. “We have a very rare event on our hand,” Shawn Dahl, Service Coordinator of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction […]
Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares from hyperactive sunspots (video)
The most active sunspot of Solar Cycle 25, AR3663, has done it again! Launching yet another X-class solar flare as it approaches the sun‘s western limb. And it’s not alone; its sunspot ‘cousin’ AR3664 also unleashed an X-flare and several M-class solar flares. The pair of sunspots don’t look like stopping anytime soon. The two […]
A Chinese fighter jet popped flares in the path of an Australian military helicopter in an ‘unsafe’ Yellow Sea intercept, Canberra says
A Chinese jet released flares close to an Australian military helicopter. This intercept is not the first ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ incident involving Chinese aircraft. China routinely engages in unsafe intercepts of US and allied aircraft. The Australian government said Monday that a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force fighter jet released flares dangerously close to […]
Australia accuses China of unsafe behavior when fighter jet released flares in a helicopter’s path
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, left, speaks alongside Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong during an Australia and South Korea Foreign and Defence Ministers meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on May 1, 2024. Australia has protested to Beijing that a Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian navy helicopter with flares in international waters, […]
A New Issue Flares in the 2024 Race: Campus Protests
Protests and arrests on college campuses exploded into the forefront of the presidential race this week, opening up a new line of attack for Republicans and forcing President Joe Biden to directly address an issue that has divided the liberal wing of his party. With former President Donald Trump largely stuck in a New York […]
Watch 4 solar flares erupt from the sun at nearly the same time in extremely rare event (video)
The sun put on quite the show this morning (April 23), blasting out not one, not two, but four solar flares in near-perfect harmony. And NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught it on camera. Solar flares are explosions from the sun’s surface that emit intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation. They occur when magnetic energy […]
More than 14 Palestinians killed as violence flares in West Bank
By Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi NUR SHAMS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said. Israeli forces began an extended […]
Florida Permitting Fight Flares in Congress
As court battles continue, supporters of Florida keeping permitting authority for projects that affect wetlands are trying a different tack: Put it in federal law. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS U.S. Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., this week added an amendment to a bill to try to codify a 2020 decision by the U.S. Environmental […]