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    Barn owl family nests in Manhattan water tower, a first in recorded history

    A barn owl family has settled in a water tower on a building near Central Park, drawing crowds to the Upper West Side every night. Residents first noticed the birds through screeching sounds that started in early September.

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A Peshawar school roof collapses

Zelensky resumes refinery strikes as Peshawar school collapse kills dozens of children

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian refineries after a roughly three-day US-requested pause, as Kyiv counted more than 850 Shahed drones between midnight and 9am on 15 October. In Peshawar, a private-school roof collapsed onto classrooms, killing at least 32 children and a teacher in the latest hospital count.

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  • Oregon elementary school shooting

    Police say the 16-year-old gunman was shot inside Silver Rail Elementary by a bystander who followed him into the building.

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Climate: from mitigation to adaptation

Istanbul flooding and a UK resilience taskforce add to expected extreme-weather and adaptation news without altering the EU budget or policy frame.

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