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Mali
Militants Attack Boat & Army Base
Islamist militants have attacked a river boat in northeastern Mali, killing at least 49 civilians. The group reportedly attacked the boat with three rockets as it was traveling on the Niger River – a key transport link in a region with few quality roadways – from the town of Gao to Mopti. The group also reportedly attacked an army camp in Bourem Circle, and administrative division in the Gao region, resulting in the death of 15 soldiers and around 50 militants. The interim government has declared three days of national mourning. The al-Qaeda linked group, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), is one of several Islamist groups operating in northern Mali and surrounding countries. Mali has been under control of a military junta since 2020, which has shown little progress in its fight against Islamist militants who dominate parts of the country.
This map depicts the areas in northeastern Mali where militants attacked an army base and river boat. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC News
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England
London Search for Terror Suspect
British authorities have vowed to track down a terror suspect who escaped prison on Wednesday and is still on the loose. Daniel Abed Khalife, aged 21, is a former British soldier who was discharged from the army in May. He is accused of eliciting or trying to elicit information that is likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism while he was based at barracks in central England in 2021. He is also charged with obtaining information which might be “directly or indirectly useful to an enemy.” Separately, Khalife was accused of making a bomb hoax by placing three canisters with wires on a desk. Khalife was being held in pretrial detention in Wandsworth Prison in London. The fugitive was working in the prison kitchen at the time, and authorities found strapping on the underside of a delivery van which indicates he may have clung to the bottom of it in order to escape.
This map depicts the route of the van believed to have carried terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife during his escape from a prison in London. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Turkey
Sick Spelunker Stuck in Cave
An American researcher has fallen ill 3,000 feet (914 m) underground inside of the Morca cave in Southern Turkey. During his expedition to map the cave, Mark Dickey became sick and unable to leave the cave unassisted. While Dickey has been able to receive medical care inside of the cave, his condition still does not allow him to make the trek back to the surface. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) of Turkey and the National Medical Rescue Team are planning to hoist Dickey out of the cave in a process that could last several days. Communication with Dickey has been conducted by a runner going between Dickey and a location below the surface equipped with a phone line to communicate with those above ground.
This map depicts the location of the Morca cave, where American researcher Mark Dickey remains trapped after falling ill.
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Q: Massive thawing of what region of the world is releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases from the soil?
A: Arctic
What was once grassy Arctic tundra is now thawing, with permafrost – the long-frozen layer of soil that has underpinned the Arctic tundra and boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, and Russia for millennia — upending the lives of the 3.6 million people who live in the polar regions. Now the land has massive sinkholes, newly formed or drained lakes, collapsing seashores, and wildfire damage. The vast amount of carbon stored in the northernmost reaches of our planet is an often overlooked and underestimated driver of climate change. The frozen ground contains an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon — 51 times the amount of carbon the world released as fossil fuel emissions in 2019, according to NASA. This thawing of “Earth’s freezer for ancient biomass” is allowing methane and carbon dioxide to escape from the soil and into the atmosphere, with a magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions which could be equal to or bigger than present-day emissions from major fossil fuel-emitting nations by the end of this century.
Source CNN
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Q: What empire was referred to as Tawantinsuyu (“Realm of the four suyus”), with four provinces divided along the cardinal points, each extending from the capital city?
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