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  • Angry crowds confront Spanish king in flood-hit Valencia

    Angry crowds confront Spanish king in flood-hit Valencia

    Video shows angry crowd confronting Spanish king King Felipe VI of Spain has faced angry protesters while visiting the Valencia region, which has been hit by unprecedented floods. Footage shows an angry crowd shouting “murderer” and “shame” at the king, who was also asked why nothing had been done… Continue Reading

  • Spanish king confronted by angry crowd

    Spanish king confronted by angry crowd

    Spain’s King Felipe VI arrived in the Valencia region, which has been hit by unprecedented floods – killing more than 200 people, with many still missing. Footage shows an angry crowd confronting the king during his visit. Chants of “murderer” were directed at him and a young man asks why he… Continue Reading

  • Part of Russian missile found in forest in Kyiv

    Part of Russian missile found in forest in Kyiv

    In the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, while walking in the woods, a local resident found an object that is likely to be a damaged part of an enemy missile. According to Ukrinform, the Kyiv patrol police reported this on Facebook. The man called 112, after which… Continue Reading

  • Uptake Of New Non-Opioid Drug Suzetrigine May Benefit From No Pain Act

    Uptake Of New Non-Opioid Drug Suzetrigine May Benefit From No Pain Act

    This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid … [+] treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be boosted by implementation of the No Pain Act in 2025, which facilitates reimbursement of… Continue Reading

  • Australia donates retired JDAM-ER precision bombs to Ukraine

    Australia donates retired JDAM-ER precision bombs to Ukraine

    Australia has donated an undisclosed number of Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended-Range (JDAM-ER) glide bombs to Ukraine following their withdrawal from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) service, Australian Defence Magazine reports. Ukraine is actively using these bombs against hardened… Continue Reading

  • Ambulance comes under Russian strikes in Kherson region

    Ambulance comes under Russian strikes in Kherson region

    The Russian army attacked an ambulance in Bilozerka, Kherson region. That is according to the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Ukrinform reports. “Around 11 o’clock in the afternoon, Russian troops attacked Bilozerka. An ambulance came under fire. The… Continue Reading

  • Second Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber downed by Ukrainian F-16, sources claim

    Second Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber downed by Ukrainian F-16, sources claim

    A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber has been downed under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of 1 November, Defence Blog and Militarnyi reported, citing Russian military bloggers, marking the second such loss in recent weeks. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian authorities have officially… Continue Reading

  • HUR shows footage of Belarusian volunteer fighters eliminating invaders in Kharkiv region

    HUR shows footage of Belarusian volunteer fighters eliminating invaders in Kharkiv region

    Belarusian volunteers from the “Kastuś Kalinoŭski” Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are eliminating Russian invaders with grenade launchers in the Kharkiv region. The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine published a… Continue Reading

  • British ‘mega poll’ leans toward Harris victory

    The British are a-coming. This time, they’re wielding a new polling technique with a huge survey sample that some say is more accurate than anything currently in widespread use in U.S. politics — and it’s tentatively predicting a Kamala Harris win. Focaldata, a U.K. polling company,… Continue Reading

  • The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

    The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

    “It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said Marcus Spradlin, a physicist at Brown University who has been picking up the new tools of surfaceology. “There’s an exponential compactification in information.”

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