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Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU’s global warming monitor said Monday. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent and the first two months of summer have been marked by successive heatwaves, scorching temperatures and bone-dry conditions. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said the combined average temperature in western Europe for June-July was 21.62C — beating the 2022 record for the same period. This reflected “the exceptional persistence of heat” so far this summer, Copernicus said. Levels of soil moisture were “significantly lower”…

Typhoon Dolphin, the most ​powerful tropical cyclone to hit China this year, made landfall on the country’s eastern coast on Sunday, bringing torrential rain ‌and strong winds and triggering warnings of flooding and landslides. The typhoon has already swept through Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture, injuring six people and cutting power to more than 50,000 buildings. Typhoon Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan in eastern Zhejiang province at about 5:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) on Sunday, China’s meteorological authorities said. The storm packed maximum sustained winds of ​42 metres per second (151 km/h) near its centre at landfall, equivalent to a Category 1…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) :  Fourth Wall Studios brings English theatre back to the big stage at PNCA this August 21st, 22nd & 23rd! Following a sold-out run at Islamabad Club, the hilarious English comedy Room Service, written and directed by Halimah Tariq, now arrives at PNCA for five performances. The 2000s marked a golden era for English theatre in Pakistan, when large-scale productions regularly filled stages across the capital. Over the years, that presence gradually faded and it has now been more than a decade since PNCA hosted an English theatre production of this scale. This August, Fourth Wall Studios…

The 2026 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) opened  at Beijing’s Huairou Science City, awarding its inaugural Basic Science Medal to nine scientists whose research spans algebraic geometry, particle physics, flexible electronics and gene editing – four of them women researchers, a notable first for a major basic-science prize of this scale. Roughly 1,000 participants from over 30 countries and regions gathered for the opening ceremony under the congress theme “Advancing science for humanity.” The audience included four Fields medalists – Shing-Tung Yau, Maxim Kontsevich, Martin Hairer and Caucher Birkar – and Turing Award laureate Robert Tarjan, along with some…

The first phase of China’s Bozhong 19-6 gas field, the country’s first 100-billion-cubic-meter-scale gas field in the Bohai Sea, has entered full operation, with daily oil and gas output exceeding 5,200 tonnes, China National Offshore Oil Corporation said on Sunday. The project’s commissioning is of great significance for optimizing the regional energy structure and supporting high-quality economic and social development. Located in the central waters of the Bohai Sea, the Bozhong 19-6 gas field has proven geological reserves of more than 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas and over 200 million cubic meters of oil liquids. The gas field…

As a livestream promoting local mushrooms gets underway in Qingyuan County, Lishui City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, the steady rhythm of packing tape and scanning labels fills the small workshop. Villagers move briskly behind the camera, sorting products, sealing packages and preparing orders for delivery. This is the Xiangxingu mushroom workshop, run by local entrepreneur Wu Xiaojun. Inside the workspace, shelves of locally grown mushrooms line the walls as workers shift between packaging and managing online orders for customers across China. Such a workshop is part of Zhejiang’s growing network of “common prosperity workshops” – a development model designed to…

Typhoon Dolphin slammed into another spot on China’s east coast on Sunday evening, just over an hour after its first landfall, according to China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC). The center of the 13th named storm reached the shore at about 6:40 p.m. in Yueqing City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, with maximum wind speeds of 38 meters per second near the center (Force 13) and a minimum central pressure of 950 hectopascals, the NMC said. The typhoon had earlier made landfall at around 5:30 p.m. in the same province, as a severe typhoon with 42 m/s winds and a central pressure of 945…

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Army captain was martyred while seven India-backed terrorists were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) conducted by security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The operation was launched on August 7 after security forces received intelligence regarding the presence of Fitna al-Khawarij terrorists in the area, the military’s media wing said in a statement. Security forces effectively engaged the militants’ hideout and eliminated seven terrorists during the operation, it added. However, Captain Hamza Akram, 27, a resident of Narowal district, embraced martyrdom during the operation. The ISPR said that the…

Scholars and experts across the Taiwan Strait on Friday called for deeper cross-Strait exchanges to advance China’s complete reunification and national rejuvenation. The 12th cross-Strait think tank academic forum, held in Wuxi, east China’s Jiangsu Province, attracted more than 50 scholars and experts who shared views on the future of cross-Strait relations. This year has witnessed positive developments in cross-Strait relations, said Sun Yafu, vice president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, citing the mainland’s efforts to promote cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation and oppose “Taiwan independence” separatists. “Reunification is an irreversible trend,” said Wang Weixing, vice president…

Typhoon Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year, entered China’s 24-hour warning line late Friday, prompting multiple government departments to upgrade emergency responses as the powerful storm continued to approach China’s eastern coast. As of 10 p.m. Friday, Typhoon Dolphin was located about 600 kilometers east of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, and was moving slowly westward at a speed of 5 to 10 km per hour, according to authorities. It is expected to make landfall along the coast between Zhoushan in Zhejiang and Fuding in Fujian from Saturday night to early Sunday. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on…