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Cheltenham’s GCHQ to get a massive, cyber-oriented tech startup campus right next door

Since the UK’s spying headquarters of GCHQ was established in the city in the 1950’s, Cheltenham has attracted large firms like IBM, Raytheon, Microsoft, BAE Systems to the region. However, startups l

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Fortnite’s new ‘superstar’ virtual music tour kicks off next week

Epic Games is teasing the biggest in-game event since Travis Scott psychedelically stomped through Fortnite’s virtual meadows.The mysterious new event, which Fortnite-maker Epic is calling the &

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Southern Europe ablaze as wildfires sweep across continent

People stand back and look at a forest fire in the town of Fabrezan, France. /Idriss Bigou-Gilles/AFP Europe's fire services are facing another extremely challenging summer.A dry winter, stron

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Western wildfires: California blaze crosses into Nevada

A Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting new evacuations, but better weather has been helping crews battling the nation’s largest blaze in southern

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Huge wildfire in N California grows to nearly 250 square km

Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Placerville station battle the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, California, U.S., July 9, 2

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Beijing on yellow alert for heavy rain

The Beijing Meteorological Observatory on Sunday morning issued yellow warnings for both rainstorms and gale force winds, as the capital city is poised for the heaviest

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COVID-19: Delta variant a global warning to accelerate vaccination

Refilling oxygen cylinders inside an oxygen factory amid a countrywide lockdown due to the COVID-19 in Dhaka, Indonesia, July 8, 2021. /CFP The global fight against the coronavirus pandemic ha

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8 more dead pulled from rubble of collapsed Florida condo

The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday, with the death toll at three dozen, more than 100 people

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Elsa weakens to a tropical storm as it takes aim at Florida

Elsa weakened to a tropical storm as it threatened Florida’s northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday after raking past the Tampa Bay region with gusty winds and heavy rain.The

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Tropical Storm Elsa slams Florida

00:59 Rain and winds of 70 mph have been slamming Key West, Florida on Tuesday, as Tropical Storm Elsa makes it way towards to northeast. Hurricane warnings have been put into effect fo

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Tropical Storm Elsa, back over water, takes aim at Florida

The conditions in southern Florida have begun to deteriorate as Tropical Storm Elsa took aim at the Florida Keys early Tuesday, prompting a hurricane watch for portions

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Tropical storm Elsa batters Cuba, moves onto Florida

01:43 On Monday, tropical storm Elsaswept across western Cuba near Havana with65-kilometer-per hour winds and heavy rains, and is now unleashing on Florida.The approach of the storm dee

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Search back on after rest of South Florida condo demolished

Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives t

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Forest fire in Cyprus 'under full control': Forestry department

The Cyprus Forestry Department said Monday that deadly fire, the island's worst in decades, was now "under full control."The blaze, fanned by strong winds, broke out Saturday afternoon and swept thro

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EU deploys planes and satellite for Cyprus as huge forest fire rages

Smoke from a forest fire is seen in Ora village, Larnaca, Cyprus, July 3, 2021. /Reuters The European Union on Saturday deployed airplanes and a satellite to help Cyprus contain a huge forest

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Storm Elsa hits eastern Cuba

01:13 Tens of thousands of people along the southern coast of Cuba are evacuatingas Cubans bracefor Tropical Storm Elsa.Rain bands and winds are already hitting the eastern part of the

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What is a heat dome? Record-breaking weather system hits US and Canada

The weather system is breaking records for high temperatures in the United States and Canada, with more than 100 deaths so far.