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☄️Euclid space telescope discovers new comet The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet, in images taken between 16 and 24 September 2026. The discovery [1] is impressive for a mission that is designed to take deep, steady images of distant galaxies - not for following fast-moving Solar System objects like comets [2]. Furthermore, the quick turnaround between identifying and validation proves the case that Euclid can detect new comets while they are still relatively far from the Sun, potentially leading to a suitable target for ESA's future Comet Interceptor mission. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇻🇺Another shallow 6.3 earthquake strikes northwest of Vanuatu - 2nd within 24 hours A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck northwest of Vanuatu, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says. The quake hit at 5.20pm NZT, the USGS said. The earthquake hit 204 km west-northwest of Port-Olry, and was recorded at a depth of 10km. No tsunami alerts have been issued. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇩Three tourists die after the eruption of Mount Dukono, Indonesia - huge ash column 10 kilometers high Three tourists died after being caught by the eruption of Mount Dukono on Indonesia's Halmahera Island. The incident occurred near the crater, and authorities are investigating whether the group's guide ignored warnings about dangers in the area. The eruption generated a huge ash column that rose approximately 10 kilometers into the atmosphere. The exact circumstances in which the hikers got so close to the crater have not yet been established. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

4-year-old killed in dog attack in Louisa County, Virginia A four-year-old boy was killed in a dog attack in Louisa County on Sunday, according to county authorities. Deputies responded to the 1500 block of Jefferson Highway after receiving reports of an attack at about 4:42 p.m., according to the Louisa County Sheriff's Office. They arrived to find a four-year-old boy with serious injuries still being bitten by the dog. Deputies killed the dog, identified as an American Bully, to stop the attack and took the boy to a designated landing zone for air medical transport, but the boy was pronounced dead. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇿🇦Deadly shark attack prompts beach closures in Eastern Cape, South Africa Orient Beach and Eastern Beach in KuGompo City (formerly East London), in the Eastern Cape province, have been closed until further notice following a fatal shark attack on a 65-year-old woman on Tuesday morning, 20 October 2026. The swimmer was reportedly enjoying a morning dip alongside several other beachgoers at 08:07 when the attack occurred. She sustained serious injuries to her right arm and leg. Paramedics and onlookers administered emergency care at the scene, but despite efforts, she succumbed to her injuries, Komani News reported. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Surprising pattern emerges in reincarnation reports An analysis of more than 1,600 purported cases of purported reincarnation has revealed a striking correlation: The time between death and "rebirth" was shorter on average when records indicated that the prior person had died unexpectedly. Further, the correlation was strongest among families that did not believe in reincarnation, defying researchers' expectations. "There had been an earlier published report suggesting a relationship between violent death and a shorter time between death and birth," said lead author Saeedeh Sadeghi, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Division of Perceptual Studies. "We wanted to test that relationship more systematically and see whether it could be explained by cultural or psychological influences. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Shooting at a Kiev forced-conscription center leaves six injured Tensions continue to mount over Ukraine's forced mobilization campaign Six people have been injured after a man opened fire inside a military recruitment center in Kiev, local officials have reported. The shooting occurred on Monday evening in the Ukrainian capital's Pechersky District, amid mounting tensions over Kiev's forced mobilization campaign and repeated incidents of violent resistance. The National Police reported that three of its officers and three military personnel were injured and hospitalized. The recruitment center said the suspect "obtained a firearm" on the premises but did not explain how. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇺🇦Moscow says Ukraine's strikes on Russian civilian sites are 'off the charts' Twenty-two people were killed and 211 wounded in Ukrainian attacks over the past week alone, a senior Russian diplomat has said Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian facilities are "off-the-charts," with around 8,200 strikes recorded over the past week alone as Kiev continues to reject US demands to stop attacks on oil refineries, Rodion Miroshnik, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's mission tracking alleged Ukrainian war crimes, said. Speaking to TASS on Tuesday, Miroshnik reported that the attacks averaged nearly 1,200 daily, with 22 killed and 211 wounded, among them 13 children over the past week. He added that drone strikes accounted for 96% of the casualties. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Intifada for All "The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population." — JD Haltigan on X Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on fire in the "mostly peaceful" riots — according to the BBC — this past weekend could yet ignite a final, furious, Globalist-Jacobin bid to wreck Western Civ as populist nationalism looms ever larger to defeat them. That is, whatever the demonic coalition of desperate Euro elites backed by the Soros NGO empire, the WEF, the UN bureaucracy, possibly the British Crown, and the EU, can induce their Lefty-left useful idiots to act out intifada-style against the people and their culture. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷🇷🇺Mutual support on international platforms: Russia and Iran on the path to a multipolar world Russian-Iranian relations long ago moved beyond the framework of ordinary good-neighborliness. Today this is a strategic partnership, cemented by the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed in January 2025. The preamble of this document directly records the parties' desire to "promote the objective process of forming a new just and sustainable multipolar world order based on the sovereign equality of states, good-faith cooperation, and mutual respect for interests." This is not just a diplomatic formula. Behind it lies concrete joint work at key international platforms — the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS — as well as implementation of one of Eurasia's largest infrastructure projects: the International North-South Transport Corridor. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Netanyahu survived his enemies. Can he survive his own voters? His loyalists expect another comeback, but former supporters say the spell has broken as the nation heads toward an election. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights to retain power, loyalists are crediting him with strengthening the country and defeating its enemies, while former supporters blame his leadership for October 7 and are seeking alternatives on both the left and the right. With less than a month to go before Israel's elections, Netanyahu faces an uphill battle to retain power. But polls show it won't be an easy task. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Can Elon Musk's millions save the Republicans in November? Despite once promising he'd dial back his campaign contributions, the tech billionaire remains one of the GOP's top donors Elon Musk has quietly forked out more than $400 million to Republican organizations since July, making him the largest known donor of the 2026 midterm elections. But can money alone buy the midterms? The windfall represents a change in tune from May 2025, when Musk, in the middle of a political feud with President Donald Trump, grumbled, "In terms of political spending, I'm going to do a lot less in the future." The donations come at a critical time for the Republicans who are struggling in the popularity polls amid a sluggish economy, political infighting, and an on-again, off-again war with Iran, a potential quagmire that has the MAGA crowd furious. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Breaking the Stranglehold André Chamy offers a comprehensive analysis of the wars in the Middle East. In his view, these conflicts are not a response to the October 7 operation, but rather to a revived "periphery doctrine." They have run up against the "Axis of Resistance." Ultimately, despite possessing vastly superior military might, they have suffered political defeat because they overestimated their own power. The encirclement of Israel, the manufacturing of legitimacy, and the cost to the United States, 2023-2026 October 7, 2023, is commonly portrayed as the starting point of the ensuing regional sequence of events. This chronology is misleading. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Minding matter: Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground Materialism holds the high ground these days in debates over that most ultimate of scientific questions: the nature of consciousness. When tackling the problem of mind and brain, many prominent researchers advocate for a universe fully reducible to matter. 'Of course you are nothing but the activity of your neurons,' they proclaim. That position seems reasonable and sober in light of neuroscience's advances, with brilliant images of brains lighting up like Christmas trees while test subjects eat apples, watch movies or dream. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇺🇦Report says Putin has proposed a three-way summit with Xi, Trump to end Ukraine war Trump claims he is engaged in negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war that are making 'great progress' Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine on terms favorable to Moscow, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 19 October, citing informed sources. The newspaper quoted a knowledgeable former Russian intelligence officer as saying that Putin proposed the summit during a 9 October telephone conversation with Trump, which resulted in an agreement to purchase Russian diesel. Crucially, the three-way summit would exclude Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose relationship with Trump has deteriorated recently over Kiev's ongoing attacks on Russian oil refineries. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

What happened to global warming? A cold pulse reshaped East Coast fisheries Fishers in the Northeast began noticing an unusual shift in the summer of 2023. Some familiar catches, including shortfin and longfin squid, declined, while cold-water species such as mackerel bounced back from years of decline. A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans finds that a pulse of cold, fresh water brought unusually cold conditions to the region, disrupting fisheries from New England to the Mid-Atlantic. "The coastal ocean in the northeastern U.S. has a very complicated seesaw between flow from the north bringing cold fresh water and flow offshore from the Gulf Stream bringing warm, salty water, and those influences swing back and forth," said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution senior scientist Glen Gawarkiewicz, lead author of the study. ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Blame game: Israeli military leaders cite 'political pressure' for inaction against Jewish terrorism in West Bank Army commanders fear backlash from politically powerful religious nationalist settlers if they prevent attacks on Palestinians or prosecute soldiers or settlers who carry them out Political pressure is preventing Israeli army commanders from confronting "Jewish terrorism" carried out by settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Haaretz reported on 19 October, citing Israeli defense officials. Attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians have risen drastically since religious nationalist leaders Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government as ministers following elections in 2022. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Gentle brain ultrasound may help ease delusions in schizophrenia Targeting a deep brain region with sound waves may safely reduce delusions in people with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, initial study results show. These conditions can cause people to hear or see things that are not there and develop beliefs that are firmly held but not true. Led by NYU Langone Health psychiatrists and engineers, the study explored a technique called transcranial ultrasound stimulation in 10 men and women with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who had ongoing symptoms despite drug treatment. The approach uses gentle, focused sound waves to boost or suppress brain cell activity in regions that are otherwise hard to access without surgery or other invasive procedures. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

☄️'Terror of kings': Why the 1066 appearance of Halley's Comet terrified the medieval world A sequence on the Bayeux Tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella ("those people marvel at the star"). Above Harold sits Halley's Comet, with ghostlike invasion boats in the border below — a Norman framing of Harold as a doomed usurper whose betrayal invited destruction. A comet, or the regum terror (terror of kings) as the contemporary Norman writer William of Poitiers put it, was widely taken as a portent of change in human affairs. The accurate record of the appearance of the comet is not the point of the depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry. As most Western European sources concur, the comet appeared in the evening sky from April 24, 1066. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇲🇽Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study found. In a crucial part of the Gulf between the light surface and the darkest depths, where the BP-operated well failed and dumped 134 million gallons of oil (507 million liters), the number of fish found dropped by 63.5% from the year after the spill to 2015. Crustaceans, including shrimp and krill, a key food for whales, went down 62%, and larger animals like squid and octopuses fell 59.7%, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. And those populations haven't come close to recovering, the study found. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate