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  • Aug 2

    Bartłomiej Kubkowski becomes first person to swim across the Baltic Sea, covering over 160 km in 55 hours

    Polish ultra-distance swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski reached the beach in Dziwnów on Sunday evening after roughly 55 hours in the water, succeeding on his fifth attempt and raising nearly 670,000 złoty for the Cancer Fighters foundation.

  • Jun 29

    YouTuber Książulo abandons stay at Poland's largest hotel after air conditioning fails and yellow water flows from taps

    Szymon 'Książulo' Nyczke paid 4,843 PLN for a night at the newly opened Hotel Gołębiewski in Pobierowo, but left early after the room temperature hit 32°C and the tap water ran yellow.

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Hormuz, heat and shattered homes

Iran squeezes oil routes as Colombia digs out and Europe sweats through record heat

The past half-day mixed hard power, hard weather and harder rubble. Oil traders watched the Gulf, rescue teams searched Colombian ruins, and European governments discovered that heat alerts do not cool hospitals.

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  • Rotterdam port explosion

    Kills one person and injures several others following a blast at the Europoort industrial area in Rotterdam

  • West Bank settler siege in Qusra

    Lockdown imposed on West Bank village by Israeli authorities following the settler siege, as US officials continue to condemn the violence as an act of terror.

  • US and Israel plan Iran energy strikes

    Iran asserts control over the Strait of Hormuz after Donald Trump claimed the United States maintains total control of the strategic waterway.

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World · Updated 1h ago

China and the West: decoupling

The tick adds a new military drill by Taiwan and reports increased Chinese patrols, which are incremental developments within the established pattern of regional military activity.

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