Russia says blasts led to deadly train crashes in regions bordering Ukraine
Separately, railway track on the Unecha-Zhecha section in Russia’s Bryansk region was damaged without casualties, the national operator, Russian Railways, said. Videos posted on social media from Bryansk showed rescuers climbing over the mangled chassis of a Russian Railways train, while screams could be heard in another video. Separately, in the Kursk region a rail bridge collapsed, derailing a freight train that was going across. after newsletter promotionView image in fullscreen The freight train at the scene after a railway bridge collapsed in the Kursk region. Russia’s emergency ministry said a team was on site in Bryansk, while Russian Railways said it had sent repair trains.
Source:The Guardian
June 01, 2025 22:35 UTC
Footage shows major Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers – video
Ukraine conducted a 'large-scale' drone attack on Russian military aircraft on Sunday, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said. The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks in Siberia would mark Ukraine’s most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday. Among the aircraft reportedly hit were Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers, which Russia uses to fire long-range missiles at Ukrainian cities
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June 01, 2025 22:27 UTC
‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain
The entire mass descended into the valley below, obliterating the village that had been there for more than 800 years. In short, this is ground zero for Blatten.”Moment glacier partially collapsed, burying part of the Swiss village Moment glacier partially collapsed, burying part of the Swiss village. View image in fullscreen A large part of the village of Blatten was buried under masses of ice, mud, and rock. View image in fullscreen The village of Blatten pictured on 23 May 2025, left, and one day after the glacier collapse, right. For now, the only version of Blatten village that exists is invisible, Bellwald says, held in the minds of the people that have left.
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June 01, 2025 21:46 UTC
Russia says ‘explosions’ led to deadly train crashes in Bryansk – video report
Russian investigators said at least seven people died after two bridges collapsed in the Kursk region and Bryansk, which border Ukraine. Officials said blasts caused the two bridges to collapse, triggering the train derailments
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June 01, 2025 21:18 UTC
Moment Israeli airstrike hits building in Gaza City – video
A camera captured on video the moment an Israeli airstrike hit a building in Gaza City on 1 June, causing significant damage. People ran for cover as the missile landed in an area behind them but then ran to the site to help rescue survivors. The Israeli military, which relaunched its air and ground campaign in March following a two-month truce, said on 31 May it was continuing to hit targets in Gaza. The campaign has laid waste to large areas of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, and destroying or damaging most of its buildings, leaving most of the population in makeshift shelters
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June 01, 2025 19:52 UTC
Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman
Ukraine needs more than long-range missiles and fibre-optic drones in its fight with Russia. In particular, the war-torn nation should be handed the €300bn (£250bn) of frozen Russian assets stored mostly in accounts hosted by the Euroclear trading system. One analyst said: “Europe needs to move quickly to take advantage of growing disillusionment in the US economy”. The interest generated by Russia’s frozen assets is given to Ukraine, and Belgium hands its shareholder dividend payments to the Volodymyr Zelenskyy war effort. And earlier this month Euroclear said it plans to seize and redistribute about €3bn of Russia’s funds after Moscow last year grabbed investor cash of the same value.
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May 31, 2025 19:31 UTC
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
A study shared exclusively with the Guardian found the long-term climate cost of destroying, clearing and rebuilding Gaza could top 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). It also provides the first, albeit partial, snapshot of the carbon cost of Israel’s other recent regional conflicts. This is on a par with the entire 2023 emissions generated by Afghanistan. Israel’s military budget surged in 2024 to $46.5bn – the largest increase in the world, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Based on one methodology, Israel’s baseline military emissions last year – excluding direct conflict and reconstruction climate costs – rose to 6.5m tCO2e.
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May 31, 2025 05:25 UTC
‘Like touching climate change’: glaciers reveal records of the way the world was
View image in fullscreen Part of the machinery used to extract the ice cores. Photograph: Riccardo Selvatico/Ca’ Foscari UniversityThe scientists do this by drilling a borehole and extracting long, cylinder-shaped ice cores. View image in fullscreen Ice cores contain climate information dating back over 10,000 years. Photograph: Riccardo Selvatico/Ca’ Foscari University“A glacier is like a book made up of many pages,” said Jacopo Gabrieli, a glaciologist at CNR. The first of the two ice cores was extracted and transported down the mountain, and the second followed a week later.
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May 31, 2025 04:10 UTC
Remains of Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old unearthed in Guatemala
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site. “The site presents remarkable architectural planning” with pyramids and monuments “sculpted with unique iconography from the region”, said the ministry. The city takes its name from two human-like sculptures of an “ancestral couple” found at the site. That find was interpreted as proof of ties between the two pre-Hispanic cultures, which were located about 1,300km (800 miles) apart. Tikal, about 23km (14 miles) from Uaxactun, is the main archaeological site in Guatemala and one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions.
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May 30, 2025 17:46 UTC
From sixth tier to Swiss Cup final: Biel-Bienne ready for time of their lives
The Swiss Cup was established in 1925 and with the competition celebrating its centenary a remarkable story has emerged – a third division team has reached the final for the first time. Ice hockey is more popular in the city than football, as EHC Biel-Bienne play in the top division and FC Biel-Bienne do not. “We were established in 1896 and are one of the oldest football clubs in the country,” says the FC Biel-Bienne president, Dietmar Faes. “We started over in the sixth division, and had nothing,” the FC Biel-Bienne financial director, Mauro Ierep, says. “In 2019, we played against Young Boys in the first round and the referee stole the win from us,” says Faes.
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May 30, 2025 17:34 UTC
‘I worried I might start finding it normal. But I never did’ – what I learned as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent
I left for Jerusalem the next morning, through the border fortress the Israelis called Erez, and went to Shabbat dinner with Jewish and Arab Israeli friends that night. I took the job as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent in 2021, although I was reluctant about it. Photograph: Quique KierszenbaumIt’s strange to say this now, but in comparison with Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the West Bank, Gaza had been relatively quiet. I was worried that I too would start finding the situation normal. In Gaza – where Israel has blocked access for international journalists – I haven’t even been that.
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May 30, 2025 05:30 UTC
Paraglider survives accidental 8,000-metre-high flight in China – video
A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally carried more than 8,000 metres into the air by an updraft has been banned from flying for six months after footage of his ordeal went viral. Peng Yujiang started his reported practice flight from an elevation of about 3,000m in the Qilian mountain range in northern China but was caught in a strong updraft, soaring more than 5,000m higher
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May 30, 2025 04:40 UTC
Chinese paraglider survives accidental 8,000-metre-high flight above the clouds
Video from Peng’s mounted camera showed him above the clouds and covered in icicles as the temperature dropped to a reported -35C, as he tried to control his equipment. Gu later posted a video of Peng’s flight and comments on the ground to Douyin, China’s domestic version of TikTok, where it soon went viral. “Gu Zhimin posted a flight video without permission, which had a bad impact,” the report said. His flight nears the world record of 9,946m set by German paraglider Ewa Wiśnierska in 2007, when she was caught in a similar updraft while paragliding in Australia. Wiśnierska was unconscious for about 40 minutes, only learning how high she had flown after safely landing and checking her flight data.
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May 30, 2025 02:20 UTC
UN envoy breaks down in tears over death of children in Gaza – video
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, delivered an emotional address to the security council. He broke down in tears as he described the suffering of Palestinian children and the ongoing war in Gaza. He slammed his fist on the table, pausing his speech, and told the summit: 'I have grandchildren, I know what they mean to their families.' It has been 600 days since the war in Gaza began, killing more than 54,000 Palestinians
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May 29, 2025 16:01 UTC
Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?
At first, Zora Schelbert, the chief operating officer and tour guide at the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker in Lucerne, Switzerland, wasn’t sure whether the requests she was receiving were a joke. With the rise of the peace movements in the 70s and 80s, however, more people began to question whether nuclear bunkers were necessary – or practical. One of the most enduring criticisms is whether bunkers in fact enable nuclear war: what’s to stop countries from using the nuclear option if it is, in fact, survivable? View image in fullscreen Visitors in the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker tunnels. The planning was exceptional, the engineering impressive; Swiss civil protection services thought of everything.
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May 29, 2025 16:00 UTC