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Official says facility was not evacuated because it was considered to be in a safe zone The official death toll from storms in Beijing has risen to 44, with Chinese officials saying on Thursday that 31 people died in a flooded nursing home. Beijing vice-mayor Xia Linmao said the nursing home was in the mountainous…
January 2022 Eruption Of Tonga Volcano Produced Highest-Ever Recorded Volcanic Plume
Using images captured by satellites, researchers in the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have confirmed that the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano produced the highest-ever recorded plume. The colossal eruption is also the first to have been directly observed to have broken through to the mesosphere…
France bans public, short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions — but critics say it ‘will have very little impact’
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Gold gains after Fed rate cut, silver hits all-time peak
Gold prices reversed course to rise on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve’s rate cut, though uncertainty over next year’s policy outlook persisted, while silver hit an all-time peak. Spot gold rose 0.7% at $4,236.57 per ounce. U.S. gold futures for February delivery settled 0.3% lower at $4,224.70. The Fed cut interest rates in another divided…
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – August 22, 2025
Greetings from Tyler, Nobody walked out. That’s the best news. So now we’re in for round two in a couple of weeks? Maybe that’s just enough time for the players to consider what the consequences of intransigence might be. Trump is playing deal-maker, peace-maker and trying to convince the parties to cooperate on some shared…


