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Jeju, a southern resort island, may be directly affected by a super-strong typhoon approaching the Korean Peninsula early next week, the state weather agency said Thursday. At 3 a.m. Friday, Typhoon Hinnamnor, the 11th tropical storm of this year, is expected to move southwest into the sea 610 km south-southwest of Japan’s Okinawa Island Friday before turning northward, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said, according to Yonhap News Agency. The KMA forecasts Hinnamnor will reach the sea 70 km south of Jeju’s southern port city of Seogwipo next Tuesday after moving quickly northward. With an atmospheric pressure of 915 hectopascals…

The Indian Government has liberalized the Drone Policy under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to Secretary of State for Civil Aviation General V K Singh (Retd.). This will help those who wish to manufacture drones or start drone companies. According to him, nearly 90 per cent of the airspace has now been cleared for the deployment of drones. As part of the government’s efforts to promote the growth of drone manufacturing by private companies, Mr Singh added that the government has also introduced the Production Linked Incentive scheme. The minister spoke today at a program on…

An oil tanker stranded in Egypt’s Suez Canal late on Wednesday due to a technical problem with its rudder was re-floated by tug boats, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. Two navigational sources reported that Affinity V had been blocking the southern section of the canal, but SCA sources reported that traffic had resumed shortly after midnight local time. This incident occurred on the same stretch of canal where a giant cargo ship, the Ever Given, ran aground for six days in March 2021, disrupting global trade. Aframax tanker Affinity V lost control in the Suez Canal on Wednesday evening,…

A series of fires swept through Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in August, the most since 2010, according to government data released Wednesday. It was the highest number of fires since 2010, surpassing the fires that drew international attention shortly after President Jair Bolsonaro took office. In the first 30 days of August, INPE registered 31,513 fire alerts in the Amazon via satellite. This made it the most infernal August since 2010, when 45,018 fires were reported for the entire month. In an average year, INPE issues the majority of Amazon fire alerts in August and September, when rains often subside and…

As some of China’s most populous and economically significant cities battle outbreaks, Chengdu, one of the country’s largest cities, announced a lockdown of its 21.2 million residents as it launched four days of citywide testing for COVID-19. Residents of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, were ordered by the city government to stay at home for most of the day on Thursday. They were allowed to do some shopping for necessities per day, Reuters reported. Since Shanghai was closed for two months earlier this year, Chengdu is the largest city to be shut down. Whether the lockdown will be lifted…

Nearly 35,000 Emirates flights were operated to 130 destinations this summer, carrying more than 10 million passengers. The airline also ramped up operations to serve customer demand during this busy period. This included reinstating daily services to London Stansted, and expanding flights to 33 cities on popular routes across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In addition, the airline is also being expanded to popular vacation spots like the Seychelles, Maldives, Mexico and Miami. Emirates added Tel Aviv to its global network in June, and in July it added a third daily flight to London Gatwick to serve Heathrow passengers.…

First observations of a new type of proton aurora around Mars have been made by the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), the first interplanetary exploration by an Arab nation. The spatially variable proton aurora may provide new insight into the Martian atmosphere’s unexpected behavior. In order to fully characterize these observations, the EMM team worked with NASA’s MAVEN mission (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution). EMM’s global aurora images combined with MAVEN’s local plasma observations open up new avenues for understanding Mars’ enigmatic aurora. When the solar wind directly impacts Mars’ dayside upper atmosphere, it emits ultraviolet light as it slows down,…

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, has passed away, according to hospital officials in Moscow. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, removed the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and brought about the reunification of Germany through arms reduction deals with the United States. The Soviet Union fell apart as a result of his internal reforms, a moment President Vladimir Putin called the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century. “Mikhail Gorbachev passed away tonight after a…

A record two-decade low in the euro was recorded on Tuesday as renewed concerns over an energy shock pushed inflation higher and made Europe more likely to become recession-prone. The Chinese yuan slid down to a two-year low on Monday, while the pound briefly touched its lowest level since March 2020. Reuters reports that European business activity data weren’t as grim as feared, pushing the euro away from a 20-year low at $0.99005. In spite of this, by 0820 GMT, the currency was still down 0.15% to $0.9930 and remained below the key $1-level. “What we’re trying to figure out…

Earlier on Tuesday morning, the northern section of the grain silos at the Beirut port that were damaged two years ago when a blast occurred collapsed. This was after warnings were given that the structure was leaning too far for it to stand. LBCI television reported a cloud of brown-gray dust billowing over the waterfront following the crash. Currently, there are no reports of injuries. In a huge explosion at the port on Aug. 4, 2020, more than 220 people were killed and the northern section of the grain silos was gutted. This left wheat and corn spilling out in…