Heatwaves and wildfires helped expose 34 percent of the world’s population to “extremely poor” ozone air quality in the first eight months of 2026, according to a European Union report published Wednesday. Asia recorded the highest exposure, while ozone pollution remained difficult to curb despite decades of progress in reducing other harmful emissions.
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Former Hurricane Polo, now a tropical storm, is expected to bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the southwestern United States.
It's the second time the U.S. has withdrawn all military forces from Iraq.
Minor bump on the French far-right’s road to power—or a car crash that wipes out years of rebranding? Bombshell allegations of past antisemitic tropes by the man Marine Le Pen has touted as her future prime minister could test her years-long effort to convince French voters that the National Rally is a party of government, rather than the fringe far-right National Front of old.
Mindgard said it discovered in July that Kimi models K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade developer's safety limits.