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<title>Harunagi — 春凪 · the spring calm</title>
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<description>World news rewritten in-house from primary sources, weather probabilities, and world time. Calm, cited, original.</description>
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<title>A summer outbreak that reached 12,883 people has been declared over</title>
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<category>Americas &#183; Health</category>
<description>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closed its investigation on 11 September. The last illnesses began in mid-August, and the parasite had arrived on processed iceberg lettuce.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Sweden has counted nineteen districts in twenty, and three seats separate the two sides</title>
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<category>Europe &#183; Sweden</category>
<description>On the Election Authority&#8217;s preliminary count at 11:41 on Monday, with 6,277 of 6,626 districts reported, four parties hold 176 of the Riksdag&#8217;s 349 seats and four hold 173. The final count has begun.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The forecast was six days old when oil went past the level it assumed</title>
<link>https://harunagi.net/article/eiasteo</link>
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<category>Middle East &#183; Energy</category>
<description>The US Energy Information Administration finished its September outlook on 3 September and published it on the 9th. By the time it appeared, Brent had touched $100 a barrel &#8212; ten dollars above the average the forecast assumes for the rest of this year.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Norway buried a king who had reigned for thirty-five years</title>
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<category>Europe &#183; Norway</category>
<description>More than forty-six thousand people filed past the coffin in the Palace Chapel before Wednesday&#8217;s service in Oslo Cathedral. Harald V had been king since 1991.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Kauai is under a hurricane warning for a storm that took six days to turn</title>
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<category>Americas &#183; Weather</category>
<description>Lowell has been a major hurricane since Tuesday. At two in the morning on Monday in Honolulu it was 415 miles from Lihue and moving north-north-east at 10 miles an hour, its first rainbands already over Kauai and Oahu.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Saxony-Anhalt has counted, and the night&#8217;s 44 became 43.8</title>
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<category>Europe &#183; Election</category>
<description>The public broadcasters&#8217; projections put the AfD at 44 per cent. The preliminary official count, complete at 3.21 on Monday morning, put it at 43.8 on a turnout of 77.8 &#8212; the highest in a state election there since reunification.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>France has had its hottest summer on record, nearly a degree clear of 2003</title>
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<category>Weather &amp; Climate &#183; France</category>
<description>M&#233;t&#233;o-France puts the season 3.6&#176;C above normal &#8212; 0.9&#176;C beyond the summer of 2003, which had stood for more than twenty years as the country&#8217;s benchmark for extreme heat.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The General Assembly votes for a map that gets Africa&#8217;s size right</title>
<link>https://harunagi.net/article/equalearth</link>
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<category>United Nations &#183; Cartography</category>
<description>164 states backed equal-area projections, one voted against, and the resolution obliges nobody to do anything.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Amsterdam moves 86 tonnes of gold to London, and files the announcement under tradability</title>
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<category>Markets &amp; Economy &#183; Reserves</category>
<description>Most of the transfer was a book entry rather than a convoy. The Dutch central bank&#8217;s stated reason is neither price nor politics, but being able to sell the metal quickly.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The UN&#8217;s environment agency says 1.5&#176;C is set to be crossed, and turns to the question of coming back</title>
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<category>Weather &amp; Climate &#183; Overshoot</category>
<description>A threshold that has been discussed for a decade as a limit to hold is now treated as one to pass, peak beyond, and return from. That asks something different of policy.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>A Sumatran volcano that had been quiet since 2021 sends ash three and a half kilometres up</title>
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<category>Asia-Pacific &#183; Volcanoes</category>
<description>Indonesia raised Mount Sinabung to its second-highest alert level after the mountain&#8217;s first eruption since 2021 sent ash roughly 3,500 metres above the summit. More than six hundred people have moved out of the danger zone, and the agency that watches the mountain is not ruling out a larger eruption.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s electoral commission reports seven in ten votes for a stronger presidency</title>
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<category>Africa &#183; Referendum</category>
<description>About 70 per cent of votes backed a constitution that lets the president appoint and dismiss governments and dissolve parliament, on turnout close to 60 per cent. The chamber shrinks from 102 seats to 65 &#8212; and it is December&#8217;s elections that will show what the new arrangement does in practice.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>On the Bhotekoshi, the water rose nine metres in half an hour</title>
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<category>South Asia &#183; Floods</category>
<description>At least 162 people are confirmed dead across seven Nepali districts, and hundreds remain unaccounted for on both sides of the Nepal&#8211;China border, after a flash flood tore down the Trishuli valley on Wednesday morning. The suspected trigger sits high on a glacier.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Indonesia widens its aerial firefighting as haze drifts into Malaysian Borneo</title>
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<category>Southeast Asia &#183; Wildfires</category>
<description>More than 24,000 firefighters, thirty water-bombers over Kalimantan and twenty-two helicopters over Sumatra &#8212; and across the Strait, close to 600 Sarawak schools shut. The peat, not the wind, will decide how long it lasts.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Afghan hospitals report a third more complicated malnutrition cases than a year ago</title>
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<category>South Asia &#183; Afghanistan</category>
<description>UNICEF counts 8,000 children admitted with complicated severe malnutrition in July &#8212; a third more than a year ago &#8212; with a million children carrying the life-threatening form and beds outnumbered three or four to one in the south.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The ocean&#8217;s warmest day on record arrived in the wrong season</title>
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<category>Weather &amp; Climate &#183; Oceans</category>
<description>Copernicus measured 21.1&#176;C across the world&#8217;s ocean surface on 22 August &#8212; a hundredth of a degree past the March 2024 mark, set in the season when the global sea surface is normally near its coolest.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Three months on, the Congo outbreak passes every earlier Ebola count</title>
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<category>Africa &#183; Health</category>
<description>Africa CDC calls it the deadliest Ebola outbreak in Congo&#8217;s history and the fastest-growing on record &#8212; past the 2018&#8211;2020 epidemic&#8217;s toll in twelve weeks, where that epidemic took close to two years.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Canada suspends trade talks with Washington and sets counter-tariffs for 8 September</title>
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<category>Americas &#183; Trade</category>
<description>Ottawa recalled its negotiators on 21 August as a US tariff of 50 per cent took effect on a tranche of Canadian goods. Canada says it will answer dollar for dollar &#8212; from the Tuesday after Labour Day.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Congo&#8217;s Bundibugyo outbreak passes 5,000 confirmed cases as first vaccine doses are allocated</title>
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<category>Africa &#183; Epidemic</category>
<description>The ECDC counts 5,290 confirmed cases and 2,516 deaths as of 19 August. Seventy thousand doses of a vaccine made for a different Ebola virus are on their way &#8212; 20,000 of them to find out whether it works against this one.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Forecasters raise the odds of a record El Ni&#241;o</title>
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<category>Weather &amp; Climate · El Ni&#241;o</category>
<description>The US Climate Prediction Center now puts the chance of a very strong El Ni&#241;o this autumn and winter above ninety per cent &#8212; and gives it a sixty-nine per cent chance of becoming the strongest event in a record that begins in 1950.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Agencies count 200,000 newly displaced in Sudan&#8217;s Kordofan</title>
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<category>Middle East &amp; Africa · Sudan</category>
<description>Fighting concentrated around el-Obeid has driven more than 200,000 people from their homes since late 2025, the International Organization for Migration says &#8212; while floods take shelters from those already displaced.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>A narrow sea reopens, then closes again</title>
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<category>Markets &amp; Economy · Energy</category>
<description>Sixty days of partial passage through the Strait of Hormuz lapsed this week. Tanker data suggest traffic never came close to normal &#8212; and crude is pricing the difference.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Dhaka votes for a president, and the vote is contested</title>
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<category>Asia-Pacific · Bangladesh</category>
<description>For the first time since 1991, more than one name went before parliament. The office is largely ceremonial; the contest was not.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Emirates Close a Door That Had Stayed Open</title>
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<category>Middle East &amp; Africa · Diplomacy</category>
<description>The United Arab Emirates has halted all trade, commercial exchange and financial transactions with Iran until further notice — closing, by its own choice, the main channel through which imported goods have long reached the Iranian economy.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Seoul and Washington Cut the August Exercise Short</title>
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<category>Asia-Pacific · Alliances</category>
<description>This month&#8217;s Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise will end several days early, South Korea&#8217;s Joint Chiefs said — days after President Trump called the drills costly and directed the Pentagon to reduce them.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Russia’s Supreme Court keeps Yabloko off September’s ballot</title>
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<category>Europe · Russia</category>
<description>The appeals chamber upheld the cancellation of the party&#8217;s federal candidate list &#8212; closing the last formal route by which a voter opposed to the war could say so at next month&#8217;s State Duma elections.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>Zambia returns Hichilema for a second term, and the opposition weighs a petition</title>
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<category>Middle East &amp; Africa · Zambia</category>
<description>The Electoral Commission of Zambia declared President Hakainde Hichilema the winner of the 13 August general election in the early hours of Tuesday, giving him a second five-year term.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>A river in Indiana breaks a mark that had stood since 1913</title>
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<category>The Americas · Flooding</category>
<description>The White River crested at 24.93 feet at Anderson, more than a foot above a record that had stood for 113 years. Seven people are confirmed dead and 53 counties now sit inside a federal emergency declaration.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>On Flores, the count that keeps rising is not the dead but the displaced</title>
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<category>Asia-Pacific · Indonesia</category>
<description>Five days after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the north coast of Flores, Indonesia’s national disaster agency has raised its official count to 70 people killed, 1,182 injured and 40,040 displaced across seven regencies of East Nusa Tenggara.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The IEA widens its 2026 shortfall, and points at one waterway</title>
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<category>Markets &amp; Energy · Oil</category>
<description>A shut strait has now bent a full year of global oil accounts out of shape. The agency’s August ledger shows how far.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The million-dollar equation inside every weather forecast</title>
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<category>Science &amp; Sky · Mathematics</category>
<description>One of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems concerns the equations that govern every flowing fluid on Earth. Nobody has solved it. The weather report arrives anyway.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The coin flip hidden inside the whole numbers</title>
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<category>Science &amp; Sky · Mathematics</category>
<description>Pick a whole number at random. The chance it is “clean” of square factors is exactly 6/π² — the circle constant, presiding over a question with no circle in it.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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<title>The ocean has just had its warmest July on record</title>
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<description>Copernicus reports the highest July sea surface temperature in its records, while the month tied as the joint-second-warmest ever measured on land and sea combined.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
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