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Australia: Australia has evacuated a sick expedition member from a remote outpost in Antarctica in a rescue operation spanning thousands of kilometers. According to reports, the urgent rescue operation was launched last week to reach the researcher, who has an undisclosed “developing medical condition.” The mission involved a medical retrieval team, a massive icebreaker ship, and two helicopters. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) said in a statement that the icebreaking ship RSV Nuyina had sailed more than 3,000 kilometers from Hobart in Tasmania to the Casey Research Station in the east Antarctic to attend to the unnamed patient. Medical facilities…

China: Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has concluded her visit to China, praising the ‘productive and substantive’ talks with Chinese officials. In July 2023, the IMF issued a warning that the global economic recovery from the pandemic was slowing down, despite a slight improvement in its outlook for this year’s world growth. In China, the IMF predicts 5.2 percent growth in 2023, which is slightly above Beijing’s target of approximately 5 percent. Yet, growth in the Asian nation has faltered in recent months due to factors such as low consumer demand, elevated youth…

United Kingdom: A group of respiratory experts has warned that the climate crisis may result in more risks for people with respiratory illnesses, with high temperatures and changing weather patterns worsening lung health problems. In a report published by the European Respiratory Journal, the experts have called on the EU to lower its regulatory limits for air pollution in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO). “We need to do all we can to help alleviate patients’ suffering,” the report noted. The report pointed out that the impact of the climate emergency on human health had become interlinked and was now…

United States: Four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) made a successful splashdown landing in their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule off the Florida coast. The astronauts have successfully completed their six-month space mission. The astronauts, part of NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission, left the space station at 7:05 am ET on September 4, 2023. They spent the day on the 13-foot-wide Crew Dragon as it navigated Earth’s orbit towards its landing site off Jacksonville, Florida. They reportedly landed there after midnight. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1698562657077563791?s=20 “Dragon splashes down off the coast of Florida with the Crew-6 astronauts, completing Dragon’s sixth long-duration mission…

Ukraine: Ukrainian President Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that he would ask parliament this week to dismiss Defence Minister Mr. Oleksii Reznikov, suggesting Mr. Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s main privatisation fund, as the new Defence Minister. The announcement came following Mr. Reznikov’s statement that Ukraine’s allies will deploy the F-16 fighter jets by the upcoming spring. Mr. Reznikov also highlighted Ukraine’s intentions to ramp up drone production during an interview with the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. Mr. Zelensky’s announcement set the stage for the biggest shakeup of Ukraine’s defence establishment during the war, as per the statement. Mr. Reznikov,…

South Africa: South African President Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that an independent inquiry has found “no evidence” that his country supplied weapons to Russia. Mr. Reuben Brigety, the United States ambassador to South Africa, had previously claimed the Russian ship Lady R was loaded with arms at a naval base near Cape Town in December 2022. The South African inquiry found that the Russian cargo ship instead delivered armaments that had been ordered in 2028 for the South African National Defence Force. Mr. Ramaphosa stressed that there was no evidence that any arms had been exported, based on interviews…

London, UK: Analysis of genomic data from 3,154 modern humans indicates a dramatic population decline around 900,000 years ago, dropping from around 100,000 individuals to only 1,280 breeding individuals. This staggering 98.7 percent reduction persisted for 117,000 years and posed a severe threat to humanity’s survival. The existence of our large and thriving population today serves as evidence that extinction did not occur. However, the findings, led by geneticists Mr. Haipeng Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ms. Yi-Hsuan Pan from East China Normal University in China, could provide an explanation for a puzzling gap in the human…

India: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that the rover Pragyan from the Chandrayaan-3 mission has finished its tasks and has been put in sleep mode. The ISRO shared this update on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Currently, the battery is fully charged. The solar panel is oriented to receive light at the next sunrise, expected on September 22, 2023. The receiver is kept on,” ISRO stated. “Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments. Else, it will forever stay there as India’s lunar ambassador,” the space agency said. The 26-kilogram, six-wheeled rover named Pragyan is…

North Korea: North Korea has declared that it carried out a practice drill involving two long-range missiles fitted with imitation atomic warheads, simulating a “tactical nuclear attack.” According to a report by the KCNA news agency, North Korea conducted the drill on September 2 as a warning to potential adversaries, indicating its readiness for nuclear conflict. The country also reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening military deterrence against South Korea and the United States. The report stated that the two cruise missiles, carrying simulated nuclear warheads, were launched towards the West Sea off the peninsula. They traveled a distance of 1,500…

India: India has launched Aditya-L1, its first space mission to the sun. The launch comes days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the moon’s south pole. Aditya-L1 lifted off from the launch pad at Sriharikota. It will travel 1.5 million kilometres (932,000 miles) from the Earth, or 1 percent of the Earth-Sun distance. According to India’s space agency, it will take four months to travel that far. The mission is named after Surya, the Hindu god of the sun, also known as Aditya. And L1 stands for Lagrange Point 1, the exact place between…