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Attacks on Middle East Desalination Plants Highlight Risks of Near-Total Dependence on ‘Fossil Fuel Water’ Censored Internet

Attacks on Middle East Desalination Plants Highlight Risks of Near-Total Dependence on ‘Fossil Fuel Water’

Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for a humanitarian crisis if the region’s freshwater production facilities are subjected to more widespread destruction. The attacks also underscore the region’s heavy reliance on an energy-intensive method of producing drinking water…
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March 11, 2026
Iran plots ‘infrastructure warfare’ against US tech giants Palantir

Iran plots ‘infrastructure warfare’ against US tech giants

Iran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has pinpointed 29 locations in Bahrain, Israel, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates…
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March 11, 2026
UAE AIR DEFENCES INTERCEPT SIX BALLISTIC MISSILES, SEVEN CRUISE MISSILES, 39 UAVs Drones

UAE AIR DEFENCES INTERCEPT SIX BALLISTIC MISSILES, SEVEN CRUISE MISSILES, 39 UAVs

WAM - The UAE air defiance systems on 11 March 2026 intercepted six ballistic missiles, seven cruise missiles and 39 drones, launched from Iran. Since the onset of the blatant Iranian aggression, UAE air defences have intercepted 268 ballistic missiles, 15 cruise missiles and 1,514 UAVs. These attacks have resulted…
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March 11, 2026
Trump DOJ runs to Supreme Court in bid to end Haiti immigration protections Syria

Trump DOJ runs to Supreme Court in bid to end Haiti immigration protections

The Trump administration has launched its latest urgent complaint to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to immediately halt a lower court order that stops the administration from quickly ending humanitarian immigration protections — this time for Haitians. The government’s application Wednesday comes after another recent one regarding Syria that the high court could rule…
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March 11, 2026
Black hole and neutron star mergers push the laws of physics with their odd orbits Black Hole

Black hole and neutron star mergers push the laws of physics with their odd orbits

An Illustration of an eccentric neutron star–black hole binary. The neutron star’s path is shown in blue and the black hole’s motion in orange as the two objects orbit each other. (Image credit: Geraint Pratten, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Birmingham) Scientists have discovered that before black holes…
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March 11, 2026