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Yemen
Separatist Accused of Treason
The Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council, Yemen’s governing body against the Houthi rebels, has expelled the leader of the southern separatist movement and charged him with treason after he reportedly declined to travel to Saudi Arabia for talks. This is the latest escalation between Saudi-backed forces and the Southern Transitional Council (STC), which had been backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The council accused STC leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi of weakening the country and forming an armed group responsible for killing military officers and soldiers. The STC said its leader is still in the southern city of Aden, and accused Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes in Yemen’s al-Dhale governorate, causing casualties. Tensions rose in December when STC forces moved into eastern regions previously controlled by Saudi-backed groups. Saudi Arabia has recently carried out airstrikes against STC forces and blocked weapons shipments from the UAE. Under pressure, the UAE announced it had withdrawn its forces from Yemen.
This map depicts control over Yemeni territory by five rival factions. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Deutsche Welle
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Germany
Power Outage from Arson Attack
Thousands of people remain without power in the German capital of Berlin following an arson attack on power infrastructure this past Saturday. The damage to a cable transom carrying power across a canal from the Lichterfelde heat and power station initially caused power cuts to 45,000 homes and 2,200 businesses, and restoration of service has taken days while the city has suffered from sub-freezing temperatures. A far-left environmentalist organization called Vulkangruppe claimed responsibility for the attack as part of its campaign against the energy industry. With full restoration of power not expected until sometime today, residents are voicing frustration and concern for the security of Germany’s critical infrastructure.
This map depicts the location of Berlin, Germany, and the cable transom that was damaged by an arson attack that has left a large part of the city without power since Saturday. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Anadolu Agency
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Russia
Kamchatka Tsunami Findings
New analysis of data recorded by one of NASA’s most cutting-edge satellites has revealed unexpected findings on the wave patterns of tsunami. One of the largest-ever earthquakes, 8.8 on the Richter scale, was recorded off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, 2025. Around the same time that the quake hit, NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite was passing overhead nearby and captured the first-ever high-resolution track of a subduction zone tsunami from space. The data from the SWOT satellite showed that the earthquake tsunami came in an intricate pattern of waves, which is in contrast with the previous assumption that tsunami move as one large, simple wave. The researchers behind these findings emphasize that the SWOT data, in this instance and others, is providing critical new insights that help make better sense of data collected by surface-level tracking buoys that can help improve tsunami warnings in the future.
This map depicts an image of the tsunami that resulted from a massive subduction zone earthquake recorded off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: With over 220 pyramids dating back 4,600 years, which country touts the world’s most?
A: Sudan
With somewhere between 220 and 255 pyramids standing within its borders, Sudan is the country with the world’s most. Typically smaller than those found in neighboring Egypt, the Sudanese pyramids were constructed by the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Emerging as a major power in the eighth century BCE within the region on Nubia, which stretched from Aswan in Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan, the Kushites even ruled over ancient Egypt during the 25th dynasty, producing a line of kings known as the Black Pharaohs. It would take until the 1830s for the history of this once great civilization to be rediscovered by archaeologists. The gradual process of decay has not been helped by Sudan’s multiple recent civil wars, with ongoing conflicts since the 1950s representing a major barrier to tourism and the funding this brings for archaeology.
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Q: A swift ocean current carrying sands to depths of 2.5 miles (4,000 m), creates the illusion of an underwater waterfall off the coast of what island nation?
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