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| | | | | Bull’s-Eye! | DART Probe Impacts Successfully With Dimorphos Asteroid Controllers at Johns Hopkins University watched with bated breath as the rocky surface of Dimorphos — an asteroid about the size of a football field — filled DART’s camera feed … and cheers broke out when the feed went blank at the point of impact. While it’ll be weeks till experts know whether the attempt to redirect the asteroid’s orbit by crashing into it has been successful, NASA director Lori Glaze struck a confident tone: “We’re embarking on a new era of humankind, an era in which we potentially have the capability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous hazardous asteroid impact.” (Source: BBC) |
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| | | Fraught Farewell | Japan’s Abe Given State Funeral Despite Swirling Controversy Over 4,000 mourners — including Vice President Kamala Harris and the Australian and Indian prime ministers — gathered to honor the slain former Japanese leader at a rare state funeral. Prime Minister Fumio Kushida was full of praise— “Abe-san, you were a person of courage” — but the Japanese people were less convinced. Almost two-thirds of survey respondents opposed the decision to give Japan’s longest-serving PM a state funeral, citing the $11.5 million price tag and Abe’s close ties to the controversial Unification Church. When he resigned due to ill health in 2020, Abe stood accused of cronyism and misusing political funds. (Sources: Al Jazeera, The Guardian) |
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| | | ‘This Is Not a Drill’ | Hurricane Ian Hits Cuba, Will Strengthen Before Reaching Florida The Category 3 storm made landfall on Cuba’s western tip, lashing the ill-prepared island with sustained winds of 115 mph and threatening storm surges of up to 14 feet. Ian is forecast to strengthen to a Category 4 storm as it passes over the Gulf of Mexico before hitting Florida with winds of 140 mph on Wednesday. Tampa and St. Petersburg look most likely to receive a direct hit — their first since 1921 — but authorities warned of mayhem across the Sunshine State. “Please treat this storm seriously. It’s the real deal. This is not a drill,” said Hillsborough County’s Timothy Dudley. (Sources: AP, NYT) |
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| | | ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’ | Gang Violence, Food Insecurity, Inflation Plague Haiti “The situation in Haiti has sadly reached new levels of desperation,” said Valerie Guarnieri of the World Food Program. Gang violence has reached chronic levels, inflation is higher than it’s been in a decade, fuel prices have skyrocketed and 4 in 10 people are relying on food aid to survive. Helen La Lime, the country’s U.N. envoy, said Monday that around 2,000 tons of food aid, worth almost $5 million, had been lost in repeated attacks on U.N. warehouses. “That would have collectively supported up to 200,000 of the most vulnerable Haitians over the next month,” she said. (Source: BBC) |
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| | | Briefly | Here are some things you should know about today: Cuba libre. Cubans voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt children in a historic referendum Sunday. “As of today,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel, “we will be a better nation.” (Source: NYT) Chess cheat? Magnus Carlsen released a statement saying that Hans Niemann, who recently ended Carlsen’s 53-game unbeaten run, had “cheated more — and more recently — than he has publicly admitted.” Carlsen didn’t provide evidence. (Source: BBC) Mystery leaks. Shortly after Danish authorities discovered a leak in Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Sweden confirmed two leaks in a nearby section of Nord Stream 1. Neither pipeline is operational but both are pressurized. (Source: Reuters) |
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| | | | | Something Fishy | Sturgeon Deaths Have Canadian Scientists Puzzled, Alarmed Sturgeon have ruled their habitats for 200 million years — but for how much longer? This month, 11 of the fast-flowing Nechako River’s 500 surviving white sturgeon died within a few days. “I’m deeply saddened,” said biologist Nikolaus Gantner who’s been fighting to bring the keystone species back from the brink. “These last couple of weeks, I feel like I’m going through grief.” The mysterious die-off affected only the largest sturgeon, and there weren’t signs of trauma, chemical exposure, disease or human interference. Some say a rise in water temperatures is to blame; but there have been other hot summers on the Nechako. (Source: The Guardian) |
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| | | It’s Complicated | Putin Grants Edward Snowden Russian Citizenship The former U.S. security contractor who famously blew the whistle on illegal government surveillance programs has been living in Russia since 2013. “After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our SONS,” he tweeted Monday. “A little stability will make a difference for my family.” Spokesperson Ned Price said the State Department’s position hasn’t changed. “Mr Snowden should return to the United States where he should face justice as any other American citizen would,” he said, before adding that Snowden now risks being conscripted to fight in Ukraine. (Source: Al Jazeera) |
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| | | Cold War | Ukraine Braces for ‘Massive Cyberattacks’ From Russian Hackers Is Moscow taking its war efforts to a new battleground? The Ukrainian government said Monday that the Kremlin is plotting “massive cyberattacks” aimed at crippling Ukraine’s electrical grid during the icy winter months. They’ve done it before — in 2015 and 2016 — and a modified version of the sophisticated INDUSTROYER software responsible for the second attack was detected within the Ukrainian grid earlier this year. Cybersecurity expert Chris Sistrunk praised Ukrainian defenders for being “very aggressive and very good at confronting Russian actors.” But he also warned that Russia’s state-backed Sandworm collective is one of the world’s most elite hacking groups. (Source: Ars Technica) |
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| | | Be Careful What You Wish For | Indian Man Regrets Winning $3M Lottery Jackpot Anoop was “overjoyed” to win $3.06 million in Kerala’s state lottery. The auto driver bought his ticket Sept. 17, a day after having to raid his son’s piggy bank to fly to Malaysia for work. But now, after being besieged daily by strangers seeking financial assistance, he says, “I wish I hadn’t won. The third prize may have been better.” Anoop, who’ll only get $1.84 million after tax, has been staying with family to escape the attention. “I can’t leave the house, I can’t go anywhere. My child is ill and I can’t take him to the doctor,” he said. (Source: BBC) |
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| | | Missing | Renowned US Ski Mountaineer Falls Down Crevasse in Nepal The day started out well. On Monday morning Hilaree Nelson, Jim Morrison and their three Sherpa guides hugged, whooped and snapped selfies after summiting Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest peak. Now to ski down the 26,781-foot monster. Just 15 minutes into the descent, tragedy struck when Nelson fell into a 2,000-foot crevasse. Weather permitting, a helicopter will be sent to look for “the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation” on Tuesday. But local tourism official Bigyan Koirala wasn’t optimistic: “Based on the briefings and difficult terrain, it’s really hard to say whether we will be able to rescue her alive.” (Source: NYT) |
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