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POWERFUL HURRICANE STILL AIMED NEAR HAWAII — KAUAI WATCHES LIKELY LATER TODAY
- Powerful hurricane still aimed near Hawaii — Kauai watches likely later today
- Huge ash cloud from Krakatau reaches jet-altitude — still pouring out
- Sudan war appeal barely half funded — more villages emptying in the south
- After a month of quiet, U.S. and Iran trade strikes again across the Gulf
- A small asteroid skimmed past Earth today — close, not a hit
Earth systems
- Sun spat a radiation burst at Earth — storm magnets still quiet
- More solar debris may brush Earth early next week — no big magnetic storm called
- Strong quake off Vanuatu — felt risk low, no tsunami flag
- Drought could lock in fast across the middle of the country — heat risk next weekend
- Moderate quake east of Russia's Kuril Islands — ordinary seismic pin
- Kīlauea ground keeps swelling — next eruption window still next week
Human systems
- Congo's Ebola outbreak past 2,700 dead — still a global health emergency
- Over 13,000 Gaza patients got out — ambulances still blocked as winter nears
- UN peacekeepers count a sharp jump in fire along Lebanon's border
- Hackers are already using a Chrome engine bug — U.S. tells agencies to patch
- Factory and plant software bugs get a fresh U.S. industrial warning