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Warning of likely impact to health service as amber heat alerts issued for swathes of EnglandAmber heat-health alerts have been issued for five regions of England from 9am on Tuesday until 6pm on Wednesday: the West Midlands, East Midlands, south-east, London, and the east of England.Amber alerts mean an increased likelihood of health impacts for those aged 65 and older and people with pre-exisiting conditions, although there may also be impacts to younger people too. The weather impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service under this category, which is below red, the most severe.The UK Health…

At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, officials have said. One child was among the victims with 75 more people injured, Russian authorities said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale war in Ukraine.Kyiv has not yet commented on the strike on the city of Nizhnekamsk, which is more than 1,100 kilometres (680m) from the Ukrainian border.Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed Nizhnekamsk’s Tanevo oil refinery had been hit, while Ukrainian defence technology manufacturer FirePoint said its FP-1 drones had been used in…

Thames Water has paid its chief financial officer, Steve Buck, a £1m signing fee despite intense scrutiny of Britain’s biggest water company’s finances as it tries to avoid being taken into public control.The utility revealed that it made the payment last month, in a letter sent last week by Adrian Montague, its chair, to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs select committee, Sky News first reported.Thames is one of at least eight water companies banned from paying performance-related bonuses because of continued environmental failings from its creaking infrastructure. The company, which provides water and sewage services to 16…

A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.The development is likely to be a blow to the prime minister and home secretary. Andy Burnham has vowed to be “relentless” and “bring back control”, while Shabana Mahmood has said the government is “bearing down” on small boat crossings.French authorities told the Guardian that before an incident…

Solar energy, at any time of day or night — that’s the dream of space mirror projects. Futurists have been imagining satellite mirrors that could reflect the sun’s light onto the Earth’s surface for over a century. Russian scientists experimented with the concept in the ’90s with the Znamya project. The idea is to put a large mirror in orbit and angle it such that sunlight can be reflected onto a specific geographical area for illumination or the generation of solar power.Now, the California-based company Reflect Orbital wants to try this idea again, launching a test satellite named Eärendil-1 as…

SigninLogs | where TimeGenerated > ago(1h) | where ResultType in (“50034”, “50126”, “700016”) or isempty(AppDisplayName) | summarize DistinctClientIDs = dcount(AppId), ResultCodes = make_set(ResultType), Usernames = make_set(UserPrincipalName) by SourceIPAddress, UserAgent, bin(TimeGenerated, 15m) | where DistinctClientIDs > 5 | where ResultCodes has “700016” The two variables that matter most are DistinctClientIDs, because a single source cycling through many unregistered app IDs is the tell that per-application thresholds miss, and the presence of AADSTS700016 in that same window, which elevates the event from configuration noise to possible credential validation in progress. Layer in username-pattern detection, alphabetic or dictionary progression across attempts from the…

In brief Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink on Monday with a price target of $200 by end-2030, up from around $8 today. The bank expects tokenized assets on-chain to reach $4 trillion by end-2028 and assets deployed in DeFi to grow 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by 2030. LINK was trading at around $8.25 Monday, down 0.8% on the day, according to CoinGecko. Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Chainlink with a price target of $200 by the end of 2030, implying a roughly 25-fold gain from around $8 today and outperformance of both Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period.Geoff…

Governments have urged people to avoid outdoor activities, while several top tourist attractions remain closed, including parts of Disneyland and Legoland, and several viewing platforms along the Bund in Shanghai.Footage on state media show ground-floor businesses flooded in the former French Concession in Shanghai, an area popular with tourists, and people wading through ankle-deep waters.Several state media outlets have reported that a nine-year-old boy from Wenling, Zhejiang is missing after being swept into the sea. Chinese officials have not reported any casualties.Parts of Zhejiang could receive 250mm to 500mm of rain over the next few days, forecasters say.Authorities in Hangzhou,…

Following proof of the presence of microplastics in Amazonian rivers, streams and lakes, researchers are investigating how these particles affect fish health and physiology.A study highlights the risks associated with microplastics in the air-breathing organs of the pirarucu, a giant fish that must rise to the surface to breathe.Studies conducted with Amazonian fish show microplastics in their gills and digestive tracts, and experiments with the tamoatá point to increased stress and weight loss.Scientists warn of risks to human health in a region where fish is a dietary staple; in Brazil’s Amazonas state, average annual consumption is 14 kilos per…

DOF Group, a Norwegian operator and owner of a fleet of advanced vessels for the energy and marine sectors, has lined up work for two anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region, encompassing member states and territories across the Caribbean, as well as Belize in Central America and Guyana and Suriname in northern South America. Illustration; Source: DOF DOF has been awarded firm contracts with a combined duration of 150 days for two of its undisclosed AHTS vessels in the CARICOM region, a grouping of 23 countries that represents a political and economic union of…