The Virtual Tribune
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Aster Shifts Crude Buying to Americas, Africa Amid ME Disruptions
SINGAPORE, September 10 — Aster Chemicals and Energy has shifted a substantial part of its crude procurement away…
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Russia Now Imports Fuel as War Economy Hits Its Limits
MOSCOW, July 10 — Vladimir Putin has now been in power in Russia for more than two decades,…
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Anak Krakatau Erupts for Over 24 Hours, Shutting Eight Airports in Indonesia
Anak Krakatau spent more than 24 hours in continuous explosive eruption in early September 2026. The blast sent…
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China Plans 2028 Launch of Tianwen-3 Mars Sample-Return Mission
BEIJING, Sept. 9 — China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission in 2028, according…
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Mosaicism in Gene-Edited Embryos Poses Challenge for Scientists
June 9, 2026 — cyberinktimes.com — Mosaicism. That is the word now hanging over the future of human…
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ITER’s Chessboard: Russia Still Inside the World’s Biggest Fusion Project
CADARACHE, July 6 — The geopolitical chessboard of energy security is shifting, and the world’s largest fusion experiment…
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India, China, S. Korea Join Nepal Rescue as Death Toll Tops 1,000
KATHMANDU, September 7 — Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that catastrophic flash floods along the Bhotekoshi…
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Indonesian Wildfires Blanket Southeast Asia in Toxic Haze
JAKARTA, Sept 6 — A thick blanket of toxic haze is again smothering large parts of Southeast Asia,…
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Volcano Watch: September is National Preparedness Month
Hawaii, September 5, 2026 On the windswept slopes of the Big Island, residents are reminded that National Preparedness…
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Nepal Floods: Foreign National Rescued Alive as Death Toll Tops 1,300
KATHMANDU, Sept. 5 — Rescue teams in Nepal pulled a foreign national alive from the tunnel of the…
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Major Disaster Declaration Approved For May 22 Kona Earthquake
HONOLULU, September 4 — President Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for Hawaiʻi County, unlocking federal…
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Asia Builds Strategic Oil Reserves Closer to Home After Hormuz Crisis
Tokyo, September 4 — Six months after the United States and Israel went to war with Iran, Asian…
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NASA Launches $4.3 billion Roman Telescope to Probe Dark Energy and Hunt Exoplanets
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Sept. 3 — The launch pad at Kennedy Space Center fell quiet again early Saturday…
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Nepal floods death toll climbs to 1,252 as rescue efforts continue
KATHMANDU, September 3 — Rescue teams are pressing ahead with search and recovery work across Nepal after catastrophic…
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TerraPower Awards Three Natrium Supplier Contracts for Wyoming Reactor Project
KEMMERER, Wyoming, Sept. 3 — The high desert town best known as a coal hub is now the…
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Himalayan Communities Face Cascading Threats as Mountains Thaw
KATHMANDU, Sept 2 — A glacier break in Nepal on Wednesday unleashed a flood described as a “mud…
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Water Mission Sends Disaster Team to Nepal for Clean Water Aid
CHARLESTON, S.C., September 2 — The story begins with water, and with what happens when it turns against…
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Recovery Update on Tropical Cyclone Lala and Tropical Storm Moke
HILO, Sept. 2 — The hum of chainsaws and the whir of utility helicopters are replacing the roar…
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NNSA Failed to Report Uranium Enrichment Costs to Congress
WASHINGTON, September 1 — The National Nuclear Security Administration has failed to report the true, long-term cost of…
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Wang Xiaojun’s Mars Math: China’s 2033 Date Was Never A Schedule
BEIJING, July 10 — The president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), Wang Xiaojun, has…
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Highlands and Islands Enterprise Buys Orbex’s Sutherland Spaceport Assets From Liquidators
Sutherland, Scotland — Orbex sold its Sutherland Spaceport assets to the Scottish Development Agency for £20.1 million (about…
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China Curbs Seven More Rare Earth Exports as US Import Reliance Stays High
U.S. Rare Earth Output Reaches 40,000 Tons in 2023 According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the United States…
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Night Quake in the Gulf of Aden: USGS Logs a Shallow Magnitude 6.0 Event
The shallow depth of Thursday morning’s earthquake in the Gulf of Aden is the detail that tells seismologists…
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Nepal Police Put Flood Death Toll at 469 as Rescuers Search for 1,400 Missing
Bidur, August 28 — The death toll from devastating flash floods and landslides near the Nepal-Tibet border has…
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