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California’s Madre wildfire explodes; scorching over 70,800 acres of land, fire officials warn of ‘extreme’ weather conditions | World News

California’s Madre wildfire explodes California’s Madre fire has ballooned into the state’s largest active blaze by Friday evening, scorching about 70,800 acres in a remote stretch of Central California north of Santa Barbara and west of Bakersfield. The wildfire, which ignited on Wednesday, July 2, advanced rapidly overnight, doubling its footprint to roughly 35,000 acres […]

Extreme heat wave hits eastern United States

Extreme heat wave hits eastern United States (Image: AP) A brutal heat wave has gripped the eastern part of the United States as tens of millions of people sweltered in record high temperatures on Tuesday.A climate phenomenon called a “heat dome” has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous triple digits in some cities while also trigerring […]

Leaked North Korean phone shows regime’s extreme censorship of foreign media

A smuggled mobile phone from North Korea has revealed new details about the country’s strict censorship system, which blocks nearly all access to foreign content, especially anything related to South Korea.According to a BBC report, North Korean smartphones automatically censor language and monitor user activity. Common South Korean words are altered or corrected, and the […]

Elon Musk’s drug use reached extreme, it affected his bladder: Shocking details revealed

Elon Musk has always been open about taking drugs but he denied ever overdoing it. Elon Musk’s daily medication box with which he travels has about 20 pills, including stimulant Adderall that is marked separately, a New York Times report claimed citing those who have seen the box. The report chronicled Musk’s brief stint in […]

Extreme wind blamed for sinking of superyacht off Sicily last year, British probe says

Hebo Lift 2 monitors the stretch of sea where the British superyacht Bayesian sunk (AP) LONDON: The superyacht of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, which capsized last August off the coast of Sicily at the cost of seven lives, was knocked over by “extreme wind” and could not recover, British investigators said Thursday. Billionaire entrepreneur […]

The Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage. The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires, […]

‘Unjustified trade war’: China hits out at ‘extreme selfishness’ of tariffs

China on Saturday slammed the “extreme selfishness” behind tariffs, indirectly referring to the steep duties imposed by US President Donald Trump, describing it as an “unjustified trade war.”According to the Chinese foreign ministry’s statement, top diplomat Wang Yi told his Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov on Friday that, “Certain countries” resort to “pressure and coercion, and […]