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🇸🇳Deadly floods sweep through Dakar, Senegal on 4th October - 5.5 inches of rain in a day Torrential rains battered several cities across Senegal on 4 October 2026, causing severe flooding. The regions of Kaolack, Matam, and Dakar were among the areas affected. According to local authorities, at least five people have died, although the death toll could rise. The flooding has also caused significant material damage, including destroyed buildings, damaged roads, and submerged vehicles. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇺🇸🇷🇺Russia drops below -25C; Mid-October Arctic blast for US?; Atolls aren't disappearing; Britons warned to prepare for blackouts; + CME due Oct 9 Russia Drops Below -25C Winter is tightening its grip on northeastern Russia, with Sakha (Yakutia) cooling hard fast. Batagay-Alyta (Sakkyryr) has plunged to -25.7C (-14.3F), with several other stations also sinking deep below -20C: Sebyan-Kyuyol: -24C (-11.2F) Habardino: -23.6C (-10.5F) Verkhoyansk: -23.5C (-10.3F) Selagoncy: -22.3C (-8.1F) At Verkhoyansk, the -23.5C reading came just shy of the Oct 7 daily record in a station archive extending back to the late 19th century. The freeze is widespread, not just confined to the northeast. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

☄️Bright green meteor fireball lights up Arizona sky on October 6 Arizona got an unexpected light show early Tuesday morning when a bright green fireball streaked across the sky. The meteor was captured on a webcam in Dragoon, southeast of Tucson, at about 1:03 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The video shows the bright object racing across the sky before appearing to flare as it traveled through Earth's atmosphere and then disintegrate near the horizon. The green glow made the fireball especially striking. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Babies will die! Heat and pregnancy is this week's new scare to add money and power for the UN Shameless: The UN is using pregnancy and babies to boost their own job opportunities In the news this week is Julia Gillard, former Australia PM, who announced a sob-story, sorry, 'study' about pregnant women suffering due to extreme heat (like this hasn't been happening for the last ten thousand years). But the study turned out to be just a poll of 1,000 health workers who'd seen cases of something untoward that they "believed" was due to extreme heat. It's not like they had new actual data, trend lines, temperatures or anything. The Wellcome Trust funded the poll, and released the paper, all of seven pages, titled Keeping Mothers and Babies Safe from Extreme Heat. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇩🇪No, the AfD are not the Nazis - and neither are they Germany's main problem right now President Steinmeier invokes the Weimar Republic as a warning to his people - deliberately misremembering history to shut those people up. Unlike in countries such as Russia, the US, or France, the German presidency is not a powerful office. At least not in terms of what it can do directly or independently. Instead, Germany's president is a largely representative figure, while real power to lead national policy belongs to the chancellor. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Rosalind Franklin knew about DNA's helical structure ahead of Watson and Crick, a new study of her photos and notes reveals Rosalind Franklin, whose photographs of the molecular structure of DNA led to a 1962 Nobel Prize for three other scientists, knew that her famous images held the secret of the double helix, new research suggests. An examination of archival material reveals that Franklin's Photograph 51, which was taken in May 1952 and later published to show the double-helix structure, was specifically taken for the purpose of publication — not, as some narratives have held, an experimental shot that Franklin believed was insignificant. The new research revealed that Photograph 51 was a new exposure of a sample Franklin had already photographed. She started Photograph 51 the same day she saw that photograph, Photograph 49. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Severe flooding hits Türkiye's Hatay Severe rainfall and hail triggered flooding across parts of Hatay Province in southern Türkiye, affecting Arsuz and İskenderun. Floodwaters inundated roads, homes and agricultural areas, while containers were swept away in the Madenli area of Arsuz. Local authorities had issued warnings for strong rainfall and flash-flood risks in coastal Hatay. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

A gamma-ray burst with a month-long engine and a luminous supernova Astronomers have observed the longest-lasting central engine activity ever recorded from a gamma-ray burst. The burst occurred at a redshift of 0.8577, and the activity lasted about 27 days in the burst's own rest frame — around 20 days longer than the previous record. The paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept. 18, explores different mechanisms that could be powering this puzzling burst. Rare, long bursts Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic explosions in the universe, typically linked to the collapse of massive stars into black holes (producing long-duration GRBs, often with an accompanying supernova) or the merger of neutron stars (producing short-duration GRBs). Ultra-long GRBs are a rare subclass of gamma-ray bursts in which the object driving or powering the explosion stays active longer than in typical bursts. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇿🇼Severe hailstorm batters Zimbabwe, damaging homes and vehicles A severe hailstorm tore through Masvingo in neighbouring Zimbabwe, damaging homes, vehicles and infrastructure and leaving some families in need of temporary shelter. The storm struck on Monday evening, 5 October, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and large hailstones to parts of the city. Homes and vehicles damaged by severe hailstorm Masvingo City Council said the storm caused extensive damage to homes, private property and critical city infrastructure. Strong winds ripped roofs from some homes, while hail damaged windows, sliding gates, vehicle windscreens and solar panels. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇿🇼Lightning strike kills four at gold mill in Zimbabwe Four people were struck and killed by lightning at Jumbo Mine in Mazowe Township last Thursday while operating a hammer mill. The victims were identified as Obey Chimusoro (26), Kuda Mwateni (30), Liberty Jowina (34) and Stella Nyagana. National police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the deaths, saying the victims were operating the hammer mill when lightning struck. "They were operating a hammer mill when a group of people came with their gold ore for milling. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

First snow of the season recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire as winds gust to 110 MPH In a sign of things to come for the rest of New England, the summit of Mount Washington saw its first measurable snow of the season on Monday. And the picture painted by the Mount Washington Observatory hardly sounds like a winter wonderland. "The snow was accompanied by thick rime ice, subzero wind chills, and a peak wind gust of 110 mph!" the New Hampshire-based observatory said in a social media post. Rime ice is a common phenomenon on New England's highest peak throughout the winter season. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod, Massachusetts Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population, but now the holiday hotspot has another extraordinary animal to showcase: A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin that is surviving against the odds. The baby turtle, which weighed just 0.18 ounces (5.2 grams), was brought to the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, according to a Facebook post from the wildlife center. It was originally found by representatives of the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at a protected nesting site in the town of Wellfleet. The turtle's condition, known as bicephaly, is a rare developmental disorder that's typically caused by the incomplete splitting of a single embryo during the formation of identical twins. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Wait... isn't that racism? Elite university uses AI to race-swap students in advertising photo You might think that in the world of today's woke academia, kids aren't learning much in college. Or, at least, not much that is useful. In California's elite Stanford University, however, they're learning just how devious and hypocritical their own administrations can be. Apparently, the school's Residential & Dining Enterprises operation wanted to get just the right look for an advertising campaign — a more diverse one — so they swapped out the race of one student in a group photo and slimmed down the two others. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇳🇱Doctors in The Netherlands euthanize 17-year-old girl who had depression and anxiety The DutchNewsNL reported that the Dutch federation of doctors (KNMG) rebuked 14 psychiatrists for sending a letter to urge the prosecution office to investigate the euthanasia death of a 17-year-old. The DutchNewsNL reported that: The case revolves around Milou, who had suffered from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts from the age of 11 following sexual abuse. She was again sexually abused in an institution by another patient. After years of treatment and various suicide attempts, she chose euthanasia at the age of 17 on the grounds of unbearable mental suffering. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

CIA warns of potential Israeli civil war, state collapse: 'Fracture from within' International isolation, erosion of the Israeli economy, and deep political and societal fragmentation are among the factors cited in the US intelligence report A classified CIA assessment has warned that Israel is at risk of "civil war or state collapse," according to a new report co-published by Drop Site News and Capital & Empire, released on 5 October. The report was drafted in August and is titled "Fracture from Within." It was put together by "experts in the CIA's Red Cell," two US sources told Drop Site News. The Red Cell provides "alternative analysis" within the CIA. It drafted the report using a mix of open-source information and US intelligence. "The assessment appears to refer only to Israel's Jewish citizens," Drop Site News added. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

UK MPs call for investigation after Howard Lutnick-Jeffrey Epstein whistleblower dies The treatment of whistleblowers by the UK's financial watchdog must be investigated following the death of a British trader who exposed evidence of links between US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, MPs have said. Simon Andriesz, a former senior employee of BGC Partners - the international firm of financial brokers founded and run by Lutnick before his appointment by US President Donald Trump - died last month in Thailand. Earlier this year, Andriesz raised concerns with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the FBI and other watchdogs about evidence he had uncovered of business links between Epstein and Lutnick. It cast doubt on Lutnick's public statements about his associations with the late sex offender. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Donald Trump acknowledges the limits of Jacksonism Events are going badly. At a time when President Trump is launching his Kulturkampf against the Catholic Church to reaffirm the Anglo-Saxon and not Aztec character of his country, he is suffering a heavy failure against Iran. He must note that his way of conducting commercial affairs cannot replace diplomacy, at least with this interlocutor. And that his *Jacksonian ideology, which works wonders on domestic issues, does not allow strategic problems to be answered. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇷🇺What are Russia's top three strategic challenges? The new "cordon sanitaire" that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia's future. Putin wisely advised Russians during his keynote speech at the Valdai Club's latest annual meeting that "we certainly need a roadmap for our movement into the future. What we need is not wishful thinking, an abstract and speculative construct or an unrealistic visualisation of our wishes, but a realistic assessment of risks, capabilities and essential objectives." His clarion call inspired the present piece that'll enumerate Russia's top three strategic challenges and propose pragmatic ways to address them. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷Iran's NPT debate moves beyond parliament After two wars, Iranian lawmakers are pressing for an NPT exit. The argument inside Tehran now extends to whether a bomb would deter another attack. After two rounds of US-Israeli attacks in the space of a year, pressure is mounting on Iran's leadership to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Advocates say the treaty has failed to protect Iran's civilian nuclear program or its scientists. Their opponents warn that withdrawal could provide Washington and Tel Aviv with a pretext for another assault. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇱Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. Sally Assi, 34, recalled watching her 11-year-old daughter, Aline, a third-grader at Nour al-Huda School in the town of Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem, arrange her drawing supplies before asking her, "Do you know why we draw Jerusalem?" "Because it's beautiful... right?" Aline answered. Assi told Mondoweiss: Assi smiled, but her question to her daughter wasn't really about drawing. "Jerusalem isn't just walls and the Dome of the Rock. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate