They are abbreviated as “pyrocb” and have previously been most associated with nuclear bombs and volcanic eruptions. But during Australia’s so-called Black Summer of 2019-20, they became more widely known as a horror scenario in intense bushfires. Now, for the first time, the “fire thunder clouds” have been noted as far north in Europe as France.
WorldChinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin praised their countries' "unwavering" ties during talks in Beijing.
WorldThe United States is imposing sanctions on two more judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in support of Israel's war crimes suspect leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
World politicsFrance is returning a very rare dinosaur fossil to Mongolia.
WorldSusan Sontag has called him "the apocalyptic master of contemporary Hungarian literature". It is true that the Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai's books often land in a dystopian darkness. Yet he gets the reader to crack a smile.
EntertainmentXi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un – side by side in public for the first time. At a military power demonstration in Beijing, a united front is to be shown in a revamped world order.
WorldAfter many years of negotiations, the state-controlled Russian gas giant Gazprom has signed an agreement with China on a new gas pipeline, reports Bloomberg.
WorldSwedish researchers have managed to visit two snow leopard lairs in Mongolia where they studied and counted the cubs. The hope is to get detailed information on how many cubs survive the first months of life.
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