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Since then, the Air Force has offered up unused land on five installations for private companies to build data centers. The Army has already entered into two conditional agreements with private companies to build “commercial hyperscaled data centers” on its installations, the branch said in a news release. The investment firm Carlyle Group will build a data facility on 1,384 acres on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, by 2027. Data center developer CyrusOne will build a facility on 1,201 acres on Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground by 2029, according to an Army fact sheet. The Army has stated that the projects will come at…
Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least eight people and injured dozens more over the last 24 hours. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and nine were wounded in a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv. “All the necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site,” Zelenskyy said, adding that residential buildings had been hit. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two women aged 35 and 74 were killed after Russia struck three districts in the area with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs on Saturday, per local authorities. One person died and 12…
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A species that resembles a jellyfish but, unlike a jellyfish, has no stinging cells reached Europe in the 1980s. As W.M. Graham and K.M. Bayha point out in the bookBiological Invasions by Marine Jellyfish (source in Polish), it was carried there by ships calling at Black Sea ports from the Atlantic coasts of North and South America. It soon became one of the dominant organisms in those waters. In 1988, at the height of the invasion, the density of Mnemiopsis leidyi reached as many as 400 individuals per cubic metre. Shortly afterwards, however, as it consumed huge quantities of zooplankton,…
Published on 26/07/2026 – 10:36 GMT+2 A third drone has been shot down by Romanian forces in just three days, Romanian President Nicușor Dan has announced, adding to a string of drone-related incidents in the country. In a statement on social media, Dan said a Romanian air force F-16 fighter jet had intercepted a drone over Romania’s territorial waters at around 10:13 am on Sunday morning. The incident reportedly occurred in the Sulina–Chilia area of the Danube Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. “I would like to congratulate the Romanian pilots and ground crews on the professionalism, courage and…
Chickenpox is spreading rapidly through Gaza’s displacement camps, with around 9,300 cases recorded in just two weeks across more than 130 health facilities, as doctors warn that the real scale of the outbreak is almost certainly larger than the figures suggest. The UN health cluster attributed the surge to extreme overcrowding in displacement sites, high summer temperatures and declining access to clean water. More than half the recorded cases were concentrated in Khan Younis governorate. In the same week, health teams recorded more than 18,000 new cases of infectious skin diseases across the Strip, including scabies, head lice and impetigo.…
The Christopher Street Day parade took place on the Straße des 17 Juni, or Street of June 17, in the Tiergarten park and Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. A photo published by German tabloid Bild (like POLITICO part of the Axel Springer group) showed a white van with a smashed hood. According to regional media, the man drove the van into a crowd on one of paths in the Tiergarten park. Both Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the attack. Wegner wrote on X: “It is an attack on our free and open society — after a peaceful…
After a successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection has opened at Paris’ Jeu de Paume arts centre. Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost private photography collections, the exhibition presentsmore than 300 photographs selected from 7,000 works gathered by the couple over 30 years. Some critics have described the show as a passage through time that tracing the development of photography from the 1950s to the present day. Sir Elton John began collecting photography in 1991, drawn to the medium’s ability to capture reality with…
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By Lena Roche Published on 26/07/2026 – 7:30 GMT+2•Updated 7:33 A car ploughed into a crowd celebrating Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride event on Saturday night, killing one person and leaving at least 16 others injured. The incident occurred at around 10 pm. Three people remain in a life-threatening condition. According to initial information, a vehicle drove into a crowd on Lennéstrasse. The car then collided with a tree before the suspect apparently managed to flee. Berlin police have since announced that they had identified a suspect who they said is “known to the police” and “believed to be associated with…