The North Korean floods
Putin offers Kim help with the floods
Russia offers humanitarian aid to North Korea hit by severe floods. Vladimir Putin has expressed his "deep sympathies" in a message to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Kim thanked and wrote that he "deeply experiences the special feeling of a genuine friend in a difficult situation".
The news agency AP describes it as another sign of the strengthened relationship between the two countries.
In the past, South Korea has offered its help to North Korea, something that was dismissed by Kim, who in a statement called the country "scum" and claimed that South Korean media inflated the death toll during the floods.
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The world's largest iceberg spins around the place
The world's largest iceberg, which has the name A23a and is located north of Antarctica, has been spinning in place for the past few months. The BBC reports.
Scientists say the iceberg, which is more than twice the size of London in surface area, has been caught in a rotating column of water.
Normally, the iceberg, which broke off the coast of Antarctica in 1986, should follow the strong ocean current, the West Wind Drift. Instead, it's now going nowhere, and scientists think it could stay that way for years.
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The forest fires in Hawaii
Billion settlement after fire inferno on Maui
Hawaii has reached a settlement after the devastating forest fires on Maui last year, several media outlets write.
Seven companies and authorities have agreed to pay four billion dollars, equivalent to SEK 42 billion, with plaintiffs. A little less than half of the sum must be paid by the electricity company Hawaiian Electric.
It is not clear how the fire started, but the main clue in the investigation is that it had to do with power lines belonging to the electricity company collapsing.
More than 100 people died in the fires and the cost of the damage has been estimated at six billion dollars, according to a report published this spring.
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