Temperatures in London climbed to 34C on Thursday with the Met Office forecasting daily highs no lower than 29C until the end of next week.
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More than 830 cases of the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no proven treatment or vaccine, have been confirmed in Congo, 196 of them fatal. The disease, transmitted through body fluids even after death, is spreading fast across three provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, government data shows.
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A Russian warship fired warning shots near a UK-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning after the two vessels came into close contact.
It involved Russian frigate the Admiral Grigorovich, and happened between the Isle of Wight and Normandy shortly before midday.
The Ministry of Defence has described the encounter as an "isolated incident" and not linked to the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Channel on Sunday.
The Russian Defence Ministry said the yacht had been on a "dangerous approach" towards the warship, and its crew fired into its path with rifles after making several attempts to contact it over the radio and after launching warning flares.
It also said its sailors had acted in "strict accordance with international shipping regulations", while the MoD said it was investigating the incident.
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MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Long stretches of shoreline are now visible, while coral reef and seagrass beds have been exposed at the Pangyan Marine Sanctuary in Barangay Pangyan, Glan, Sarangani Province, following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck parts of Mindanao on June 8.
This was confirmed through an aerial survey and ground validation conducted on June 11 by the Department of Science and Technology–Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources–Mines and Geosciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) in Soccsksargen (Region XII).
In an advisory dated June 13, which DENR Soccsksargen posted on its Facebook page on Sunday morning, June 14, the agency said the uplift raised the seabed by approximately two meters and extended the shoreline by about 200 meters, exposing extensive areas of coral reefs and seagrass beds.
The assessment was conducted following reports from concerned residents of Glan on June 10, noting that sea levels in the area had remained unusually low and had not returned to normal since the earthquake. The situation resulted in the exposure of coral reefs and seagrass beds, particularly within the Pangyan Marine Sanctuary in Barangay Pangyan, Glan, Sarangani Province.
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A striking new study on earthquake risk has been published for Southern California, one of the most densely populated regions of the United States.
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