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El Nino is expected to send world temperatures soaring, Russia says Ukraine has attacked Moscow with at least five drones, and China's restriction of exports of some metals has ramped up a trade war with the US.

Plus, ferocious black holes reveal 'time dilation' in the early universe.

By Kate Turton

Today's Top News

Cracks run through the partially dried-up river bed of the Gan River during a regional drought in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, China, August 28, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Temperatures are expected to soar further across large parts of the world after the El Nino weather pattern emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, the World Meteorological Organization said. The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is moving out of reach.
U.N. aid agencies voiced alarm at the scale of the ongoing operation in the West Bank town of Jenin, where ten Palestinians have been killed, and said there were restrictions on medical access.
Russia said that Ukraine had attacked Moscow with at least five drones that were all either shot down or jammed, though one of the capital's main airports had to reroute flights for several hours. Putin reassures Asian allies of Russia's stability after mutiny.
Workers repairing a rail-road barrier in India made faulty connections in the automated signaling system on the network, leading to the country's worst rail disaster in two decades on June 2, an official probe has found.
Japan is set to receive a final report from a U.N. watchdog that is widely expected to approve a plan for the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant to release radioactive water into the ocean over the next 30 to 40 years.
Sofia Gominova is among a new cadre of young Russian lawyers outraged by suppression of dissent. She has joined OVD-Info, one of Russia's biggest legal defense groups that supports thousands detained for opposing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Four people were killed and two were injured in a shooting in Philadelphia, and a suspect was taken into custody, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a late night news conference.

Business & Markets

China will control exports of some metals widely used in the semiconductor industry, its commerce ministry announced, the latest salvo in an escalating war over access to high-tech microchips between Beijing and the US. Where are strategic materials germanium and gallium produced?
A section of the US Treasury yield curve hit its deepest inversion since the high inflation era of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, reflecting financial markets' concerns that an extended Federal Reserve rate hiking cycle will tip the US into recession. What is the inversion telling us?
British billionaire Richard Branson severely damaged Virgin Group's reputation by residing in a tax haven while UK-based airline Virgin Atlantic sought a government bailout during the pandemic, according to internal Virgin emails cited in a $250 million London lawsuit.
Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft have notified the European Commission that they qualify as gatekeepers under new EU tech rules, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said.
Global stocks held steady, as investors balanced the inflationary force of rising oil prices with hopes that central banks would not over-tighten monetary policy into a potential recession.

The 'Buck Moon' above the Temple of Poseidon

A person takes a photo as a full moon known as the "Buck Moon" rises behind the Temple of Poseidon, in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece, July 3, 2023. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Photographer Alkis Konstantinidis speaks to the Reuters World News podcast about shooting the supermoon.

Photos: More of the best images from Reuters photographers around the world.

And Finally...

This artist's concept shows a galaxy with a brilliant quasar. NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI)/Handout via REUTERS.

Time is a slippery thing, as profound thinkers like physicist Albert Einstein and, well, fictional time traveler Dr. Who plainly understood. The latter, in a 2007 episode of the British sci-fi series, accurately described time as "wibbly wobbly."

Scientists made that point anew on Monday in a study that used observations of a ferocious class of black holes called quasars to demonstrate "time dilation" in the early universe, showing how time then passed only about a fifth as quickly as it does today.

Read more: Ferocious black holes reveal 'time dilation' in early universe

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