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NOAA has declared #ElNino and puts it at a 63% chance of turning very strong by winter. The sharper worry for #India is the #monsoon, the rain that farms and food prices ride on. And this one lands on a planet already living through its hottest years on record. How one warm patch of the #Pacific reaches your plate, in the reel. nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #Heatwave #IntenseStorms #ExtremeWeather #ClimateRisk #WeatherAlert #USWeather #EuropeWeather #ElNinoForecast #ClimateScience #OceanTemperatures #GlobalWarming

Something in the #Pacific is off, and early. "What is going on with the ocean temperatures in the Pacific for June is highly unusual," says climate scientist @simondonner. The warmth, he notes, has arrived earlier in the year than it should. @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino #ExtremeHeat #SevereWeather #ClimateCrisis #USWeather #EuropeWeather

#ElNino is not arriving on calm ground. The planet has just logged its 11 warmest years on record. #Pakistan hit 51.5°C on May 28. #India touched 46°C in April. #CapeTown saw 42.1°C, its hottest March in 66 years. The baseline is already broken. @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino2026 #Heatwave #IntenseStorms #ExtremeWeather #ClimateRisk #WeatherAlert

The headlines will say a monster #ElNino is bearing down on #Europe. The scientists do not agree. The #WMO gives it a 90% chance of reaching Europe by the end of 2026, and warns of "extremely hot months". Josef Ludescher of the Potsdam Institute is unconvinced. "Europe is the continent least affected by El Niño," he says. The Atlantic, he argues, can drown out the faint Pacific signal. Same summer, two readings. @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino2026 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather

#ElNino's real test is not the forecast. It is whether our systems can take it. Farming, power grids, the way cities are built. "We've developed all of our systems for the past climate," says climate scientist Simon Donner. That climate is now shifting. The systems built for the old one may not hold. #ClimateChange @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino2026 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather

#Europe is warming twice as fast as the planet, already past 2.5°C above pre-industrial. #ElNino just rides in on top. @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNinoForecast #ClimateScience #EuropeWeather #OceanTemperatures #GlobalWarming #WeatherPatterns

#NOAA put a number on the months ahead. On June 11 it forecast a 63% chance of a "very strong" #ElNino this season. For North America and #Europe, that points to one of the most sweltering summers and most intense storms in years. "This will impact the U.S and Europe in stronger, wetter storms," says climate and energy expert @dan_kammen. @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino2026 #Heatwave #IntenseStorms #ExtremeWeather #ClimateRisk #WeatherAlert

How do scientists know #ElNino is coming? They watch one patch of the #Pacific, about 3,000 km from Hawaii, for water just 0.5°C warmer than usual, held for months. "It's kind of an arbitrary box," says climate scientist @simondonner, "a theoretical box over the ocean that straddles the equator." A line drawn in the sea that reshapes weather across the planet. #ClimateScience @thandojo nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #ElNino2026 #ExtremeHeat #SevereWeather #ClimateCrisis #USWeather #EuropeWeather

This Indian prominent businessman’s post claimed a #Swiss hotel had singled out #Indian guests with special rules. Most people shared it. We #investigated it. What we found was different. The notice was not recent. It was issued in 2019, displayed for only two days after a dispute involving an Indian family, and later withdrawn following public backlash and an apology. This was confirmed to @NWS_Network by Amina Matti, Operations Manager of #HotelArcenCiel Gstaad. That's the difference between chasing virality and chasing #facts. At #NWS, we don't follow the crowd. We follow the evidence. That same approach led us to a bigger question: Are viral incidents involving #Indian tourists causing countries to tighten #Immigration checks on Indians, or is a more complex story unfolding behind the #headlines? To find out, #NWS spoke #Thailand's Deputy Permanent Secretary for #ForeignAffairs, former Indian Foreign Secretary @harshvshringla, #Immigration lawyers in #Georgia and #India, travel experts, and #travellers who faced increased scrutiny. From #Bangkok to #Tbilisi, we followed the facts, not the noise. Story drops soon. #NWS #Journalism #FactCheck #Immigration

Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka

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A Swiss hotel once displayed a list of special rules exclusively for Indian guests which I personally saw and was appalled. Today, videos of garba in restaurants, loud conversations in airports, and turning aircraft cabins into picnic spots keep doing the rounds. Even in Davos,

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In 50 years, #Ebola has killed about 15,000 people. #Malaria kills that many in nine days. There is a new outbreak now in #DRC and #Uganda, and the strain, #Bundibugyo, has no vaccine. But you can only catch it from someone already too sick to hide it, which is why every past outbreak was stopped. Virologist @GKangInd on what actually decides whether it spreads: nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #WHO #GagandeepKang #GlobalHealth #SouthAsia #PublicHealth #NWSFacts

Up to 21 days. That is how long someone can have #Ebola before a single symptom shows. That window is the weak point in airport screening, the virologist Gagandeep Kang told NWS. A person infected days earlier shows nothing, passes the check, and only falls sick after entering the country. Ebola spreads by contact, not through the air like #Covid, so the risk is who they reach once they fall ill. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWS

It took ten extra days to work out what was killing people in eastern #Congo. The rapid tests used in the field were built to catch the common #Ebola strains, #Zaire and #Sudan. This #outbreak is a rarer one, #Bundibugyo, and the standard tests kept missing it. Only genome sequencing pinned it down. The WHO declared an emergency on May 17, 2026. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWS

The #WHO rates the risk to countries outside #Africa as low. One of the world's leading virologists will not go that far. "I would never say there is no chance of it spreading," @GKangInd, the first Indian woman elected to the Royal Society, told NWS. What stands between the outbreak and everyone else, she said, is airport screening. @Banjotkaur nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #Ebola #Bundibugyo #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWS

Past #Ebola outbreaks were caught faster. Three things made this one different, says virologist @GKangInd. • The early tests could not detect this strain. It took genome sequencing to identify it. • The region is rife with #malaria, so the first deaths were blamed on that. • It is spreading through rural areas, where health facilities barely exist. @Banjotkaur nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… #Bundibugyo #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWS

695 cases. 138 dead. And the experts say that the count is too low. An #Ebola outbreak is spreading through eastern #Congo faster than anyone expected. There is no #vaccine for the strain driving it. nwsfacts.com/world-exclusiv… @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Bundibugyo #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWS

Virologist @GKangInd is firm that this is not the next #pandemic, and her reasoning is exact. For the #Ebola outbreak to become one, the #virus would have to mutate enough to change the very way it spreads, and she means many mutations stacking up, not a single one. That is a high bar, and nothing about this strain suggests it has been cleared. @Banjotkaur #Bundibugyo #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWSfacts

There is a loophole inside that 21-day window. Airport screening checks where you have flown in from, but a traveller can leave #Congo, break the journey in a country with no #outbreak, and fly on with a clean-looking ticket. Nobody flags them, and they may fall ill only after arriving. That gap is what honest travel histories are meant to close. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Ebola #Bundibugyo #DRC #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #WHO #GagandeepKang #NWSfacts

Lethality is only half the danger. The big 2014 #epidemic spread through cities; this one is moving through rural areas where clinics and labs barely reach. Lower density sounds safer, but weak detection lets the chain run on unseen. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Ebola #Bundibugyo #WHO #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWSfacts

The delay was not only about faulty tests. Laboratory cover across this part of #Africa is thin, and the area is endemic for #malaria and other fevers, so when people first started dying the deaths were put down to something more familiar. Only genetic sequencing revealed a rarer strain of #Ebola, and by then it had a long head start. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Bundibugyo #Uganda #GlobalHealth #WHO #GagandeepKang #NWSfacts

It crossed into #Uganda for a simple reason. In these conflict-hit parts of eastern #Congo the government's reach is weak, and people cross the border constantly. That is how a virus born in remote districts reached #Kampala, a capital of millions, where it spreads on very different terms. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Ebola #Bundibugyo #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #GagandeepKang #NWSfacts

There is a vaccine for #Ebola, but it was made for an earlier form of the virus. This outbreak is a different species, #Bundibugyo, so the shot does not protect against it, and there is no specific drug either, only supportive care. @Banjotkaur @GKangInd #Uganda #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Congo #GagandeepKang #WHO #SouthAsia #DiseaseSurveillance #NWSFacts