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Blast from confiscated explosives at police station in Indian-controlled Kashmir kills nine

15 novembre 2025 à 08:18

The accidental explosion comes days after a deadly car blast in New Delhi which killed at least eight people near the city’s historic Red Fort

At least nine people were killed and 32 injured after a cache of confiscated explosives detonated inside a police station in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police have announced.

The blast occurred in the Nowgam area of Srinagar, the region’s main city, late on Friday while a team of forensic experts and police were examining the explosive material, said Nalin Prabhat, the region’s police director general. He ruled out any foul play, saying it was an accident.

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© Photograph: Basit Zargar/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Basit Zargar/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

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Baby sea otter named Caterpillar rescued off central California coast

14 novembre 2025 à 17:58

Marine Mammal Center in Morro Bay and local harbor patrol teamed up for mission to reunite pup with its mother

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro Bay.

The center’s experts were able to determine that the calls – which sounded almost like a human baby screeching – were coming from a roughly two-week-old sea otter pup that had been separated from its mother.

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© Photograph: Brian Simuro/AP

© Photograph: Brian Simuro/AP

© Photograph: Brian Simuro/AP

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches rocket carrying twin Nasa spacecraft to Mars

14 novembre 2025 à 00:54

A huge New Glenn rocket successfully took off to place two spacecraft in orbit for a later boost to the red planet

Blue Origin successfully launched its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon.

The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from the Cape Canaveral space force station, sending Nasa’s twin Mars orbiters on a long journey to the red planet. Liftoff was stalled for four days by inclement local weather as well as solar storms strong enough to paint the skies with auroras as far south as Florida.

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© Photograph: John Raoux/AP

© Photograph: John Raoux/AP

© Photograph: John Raoux/AP

The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat

14 novembre 2025 à 03:34

Charvet Drucker captures dramatic video and photos of seal being hunted by orcas in Salish Sea, north-west of Seattle

A wildlife photographer on a whale-watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering on to the stern of her boat.

Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20ft (6 metre) boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles north-west of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas.

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© Photograph: Charvet Drucker/AP

© Photograph: Charvet Drucker/AP

© Photograph: Charvet Drucker/AP

Melania Trump launches new initiative to help children raised in foster system

13 novembre 2025 à 23:04

Donald Trump signed order creating ‘Foster the Future’ to develop opportunities and online hub for resources

Melania Trump, the first lady, is spearheading a new initiative aimed at improving career and education opportunities for children raised in foster care.

Her husband, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on Thursday that creates a “Fostering the Future” program that brings together federal entities, non-profits, educational institutions and the private sector to develop those opportunities for foster youth.

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© Photograph: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Hundreds evacuated and dozens hospitalized after an ammonia gas leak in Oklahoma

13 novembre 2025 à 15:10

People in immediate area were in respiratory distress after a tanker truck spewed a plume of anhydrous ammonia gas

Hundreds of people were evacuated from a city in Oklahoma and others were told to shelter in place after a tanker truck that was leaking in a hotel parking lot spewed a plume of anhydrous ammonia gas, authorities said Thursday.

The gas release happened shortly before 10pm on Wednesday. People in the immediate area were in respiratory distress and at least 36 people were taken to a local hospital, city officials said at a news conference.

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© Photograph: JasonDoiy/Getty Images

© Photograph: JasonDoiy/Getty Images

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