Month: September 2023

US calls for immediate withdrawal of forces as British troops sent to reinforce Nato peacekeeping force

The White House has said there is an “unprecedented” buildup of Serbian troops and armour along the Kosovo border and called on Belgrade to withdraw them immediately.

The Nato peacekeeping force in Kosovo, Kfor, has been reinforced with British troops and the Biden administration said it was consulting with allies to ensure Kfor’s posture “matches the threat”.

“We are monitoring a large Serbian military deployment along the border with Kosovo that includes an unprecedented staging of advanced Serbian artillery, tanks and mechanized infantry units,” the spokesperson for the US national security council, John Kirby, said on Friday.

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Sunspot AR3245 is splitting in two. This 24-hour movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sunspot’s primary core dividing like a eukaryotic cell as it turns toward Earth.

The bright, linear gap between the sunspot’s two halves is known as a “light bridge.” It measures 20,000 km from end to end.

The nature of light bridges is not fully understood. They often herald the break-up of a sunspot, with jets of plasma shooting up from the chasm as the sunspot decays. Some research suggests that magnetic fields at the base of a light bridge are busy cross-crossing and reconnecting–the same explosive process that sparks solar flares.

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#BREAKING #Greece #Volos Look at the damage caused by the floods in Volos, Greece. pic.twitter.com/SMXgiqhQVo

— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) September 28, 2023

Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway.

Bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations, parts of the vital economic passage are claimed by multiple governments, with Beijing asserting ownership over almost all of the waterway in defiance of an international court ruling.

Over the past two decades, China has occupied a number of obscure reefs and atolls far from its shoreline across the South China Sea, building up military installations, including runways and ports.

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Russian air defenses destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones at night: one of them over the Kaluga Region and 10 over the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. 

“Overnight to September 29, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on facilities on Russian territory was stopped. Air defense systems on duty destroyed eleven Ukrainian UAVs: one of them above the Kaluga Region and 10 above the Kursk Region,” the ministry said.

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Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT can now search the internet on its own, parent company OpenAI announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.

“ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources,” the company wrote in a thread on the platform, explaining that the wildly popular chatbot was “no longer limited to data before September 2021” thanks to integration with Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

While the new feature is currently only being offered to paying users, the company said it plans to expand it to all users “soon,” having taken into account “useful feedback” from an earlier failed attempt to give the large language model access to the live internet.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman retweeted his company’s announcement from his own account on X, declaring “we are so back.”

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The Russian forces launched a cruise missile strike at the joint ammunition depot of the Ukrainian troops destroying more than 3,000 tonnes of ammo, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Tuesday. 

Russia carried out a precision strike at the Ukrainian ammunition depotnear the village of Kyselivka, Kherson region, the ministry reported. 

“As a result of the strike and subsequent detonation, 12 hangars were destroyed, in which more than 3,000 tonnes of ammunition of various calibers were stored,” the ministry said.

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#BREAKING #UkraineWar #Russia Members of the Russian Armed Forces targeting a Ukrainian drone. pic.twitter.com/xCIQEonmxZ

— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) September 26, 2023