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Unlike normal lakes, glacier lakes are unstable because they are often dammed by ice or sediment composed of loose rock and debris
World
17.08.2024
Climate change fuels sharp increase in glacier lakes
Palestinian militants have been using improvised balloons to carry incendiary materials across the Gaza border into Israel, which imposes a tight blockade on the enclave
World
17.08.2024
Hamas and Israel strike deal to end Gaza escalation
Guinea's President Aloha Conde is a former opposition figure who was jailed under previous regimes
World
17.08.2024
Guinea's Conde to run for 3rd term, says ruling party
Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez (R) and Economy Minister Martin Guzman greet each other with a fist bump after announcing the restructuring of a $66 billion foreign-law debt
World
17.08.2024
Creditors back Argentina restructuring of $66 bn debt
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) has pardoned more than 100 lawmakers and associates of opposition leader Juan Guaido
World 17.08.2024
Venezuela's Maduro pardons opposition lawmakers
Iced sheet mass loss due to melt-water and crumbling ice from 2007 to 2017 aligned almost perfectly with the IPCC's most extreme forecasts
World 17.08.2024
Earth's ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios
Hong Kong police patrol outside a sports complex that will be used as a coronavirus testing centre
World 17.08.2024
Hong Kong starts mass virus testing as China distrust swirls
A girl stands in line to receive aid with women at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on August 18, 2020, where families of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters are held.
World 17.08.2024
US vetoes jihadist resolution at UN over repatriation: diplomats
A statue of the first Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald lies on the ground, with the statue's head a few meters away, at Canada Park in central Montreal on August 29, 2020, after it was pulled down by anti-racism protesters during a demonstrati...
World 17.08.2024
Trudeau condemns toppling of statue of Canada's first prime minister
Michel Platini arriving for Monday's hearing
Other Sports 17.08.2024
Michel Platini grilled by Swiss prosecutor in payment probe
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called for an end to the "lawlessness" and violence gripping protest-hit US cities, but also demanded that President Donald Trump stop fanning the flames by expressing support for right wing militias
World 17.08.2024
Biden calls for end to 'lawlessness' in protest-hit US cities
German police on Saturday halted a Berlin march by tens of thousands of people opposed to coronavirus restrictions, but several hundred broke through a police cordon to storm parliament
World 17.08.2024
WHO urges 'dialogue' with virus protesters
Frontline health workers have been among those killed by the coronavirus in Kenya
World 17.08.2024
Kenya ministry told to publish Covid-19 deals amid graft scandal
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