Day: September 30, 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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