The head of a Dutch-backed ceasefire mission resigned without warning, saying its published patrol count masked a year and a half without a single visit to the monitored border. Interviews and transport records reviewed by The Plausible Post support her account, just weeks before the mission is due to close.
A lawsuit by 14 fishing cooperatives has brought an unexplained mass of unusually warm water beneath the Flores Sea into public view. Oceanographers warn that if it rises toward the surface before mid-December, reefs and fisheries across eastern Indonesia could face a damaging marine heatwave.
A routine review of municipal accounts in western Serbia has uncovered 38 tool-lending sheds and repair workshops paid for through a road-maintenance budget. The discovery has complicated new councillors’ calls for resignations: the spending was concealed, but the network has helped residents fix thousands of household items.
A strike by tug crews and dock staff left only one harbour tug available when a container ship struck a gantry crane at Ghana’s Port of Tema. Two workers were treated for minor injuries, and six containers fell into the water as the country’s main seaport shut its busiest berth.
Seven people were hurt when a raised viewing deck partly gave way at a Lahore exhibition venue on Friday, hours after television star Rimsha Valeen announced she was joining a dance competition. Organisers said about 4,000 people came to see her; two of the injured were in serious but stable condition.
A newly published study says an almost windless rain pattern over Ireland has occurred three times more often than its historical average, with climate change making such seasons markedly more likely. Forecasters warn that saturated ground and another wet spell could bring flooding to western counties within days.
A viral video from Lyon has drawn attention to a French study finding that brief pollution surges outside schools can reach more than four times nearby official readings. Researchers say citywide air-quality averages miss the worst minutes of the school run.
A timing fault at a northern Swedish observatory kept an approaching asteroid out of its alert system for nearly three weeks. Astronomers now put the chance of a 19 February impact at 2.8%, with a still-uncertain corridor stretching across the Norwegian Sea and northern Scandinavia.
A public hearing in Riga has revealed that 23 Latvian officials were asked to surrender their passports during negotiations over a major gas project. The practice, described by witnesses as an unofficial travel restriction, had no court order and blocked several officials from attending meetings abroad.
A community-run exchange spanning 117 towns across four Balkan countries logged 41,206 trades in a single day, organisers say. Its paper tokens and handwritten lists offered a striking alternative to the paid apps many local groups rely on.
An Italian programme worth €312 million for municipal projects in Albania and Montenegro was steered by a foreign party liaison office, a newly published audit says. Rome has frozen its next €190 million payment and is seeking answers about how local officials lost control of decisions.
A volunteer scanning public solar images has spotted a second, faster cloud of charged particles racing towards Earth, sharply raising the risk from a severe geomagnetic storm. Forecasters say the combined blast could reach the planet as early as Wednesday night, threatening satellite navigation, polar flights and parts of Britain’s power system.