DAILY NEWS Stream – July 19, 2025

NATO chief Mark Rutte praises US President Trump’s weapons sales to Europe as a “significant” move that could force Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine (Fox News)

Putin’s adviser Boris Titov warns about Russia’s economy, with falling investment and tight credit access raising recession risk despite recent interest rate cuts. Western sanctions are likely a major factor as Europe and the US push Putin to end his unlawful invasion of Ukraine (Thanh Niên)

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska gives a heartfelt speech at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome [Italy], urging international support to help rebuild Ukraine with a focus on its people amid ongoing Russian attacks. Key areas include: + Mental Health Over 80% of Ukrainians face chronic stress. First Lady Zelenska’s “How Are You?” program offers nationwide mental health support, now part of national law. + Physical Rehabilitation Ukraine now has 11,000 rehab specialists—up from 1,500 in 2022—helping 600,000 people, with global partners aiding training. + Education With thousands of schools damaged or destroyed, Ukraine has opened 15 underground schools and plans 200 more. Global help supports continued learning, especially for young children. + Accessibility & Equality The “Ukraine Without Barriers” program boosts access and inclusion for the disabled, elderly, and women—who now lead in social work and business (BNC Now)

US President Trump gathers over 60 business leaders and CEOs at the White House Faith Office for a first-of-its-kind meeting on faith and the economy, aiming to renew the US spiritually and financially (Fox News)

India releases a preliminary report on last month’s Air India Boeing 787 crash— which killed over 240 passengers—revealing a critical error: Both engines’ fuel supplies were cut off just three seconds after takeoff, one second apart, causing rapid altitude loss. Investigators found no clear reason for the fuel cutoff, as controls have safeguards against accidental activation. It’s not yet known whether it was done on purpose by the pilots or was due to a technical problem (KHỎE TỰ NHIÊN)

Veteran Indian Air Force pilot Sharath Panicker says it’s “extremely unlikely” the pilots caused the Air India crash, suggesting other factors, like microswitch issues in the fuel system, should be investigated (ANI News)

AI [artificial intelligence]- driven spam text messages are spiking in Canada, with officials warning users to avoid suspicious links and report fraud amid more than 800 cases so far in 2025 (Delta Optimist)

Florida [US]: A new orthoreovirus is found in a dead shrew animal-person, raising concerns about cross-species infection causing pneumonia or brain swelling in humans (Science Daily)

India sees rising cases of hyponatremia [a dangerous decline in the body’s sodium levels] due to extreme heat, with symptoms like seizures and comas as temperatures exceed 40ºC across Maharashtra State (Live Science)

Air pollution and social inequality make people age faster, says a global study covering 40 countries, with Latin America and Africa seeing the widest aging gaps between rich and poor (Inside Climate)

Analysis: Disasters have surged worldwide since June 2025— Texas [US] floods, deadly heat in Europe, Guatemala earthquakes, and Swiss glacier collapses bring fresh attention to global warming (TOÀN CẢNH 24H)

Quảng Ngãi [Vietnam] has experienced hundreds of earthquakes since 2021, including one in Măng Bút Commune on July 12, 2025 (VẤN ĐỀ HÔM NAY)

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake strikes off southern Spain’s Almería coast, shaking parts of North Africa and southern Europe (Morocco World News)

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands (Reuters)

Spain is hit by a powerful storm that triggered deadly floods across several regions, with at least two people swept away. Torrential rains, hailstorms, and violent winds hit parts of Catalonia, Valencia, Zaragoza, the Balearic Islands, and other popular tourist destinations (CNN-News18)

Spain floods: Over 70 patients evacuate the Penedès Regional Hospital, southwest of Barcelona, as more than half of Spain’s provinces are hit by heavy rain (The Independent)

New Zealand: Heavy rain floods roads and triggers landslides in Nelson and Tasman, closing schools and damaging hundreds of properties — marking the second storm this July (Reuters)

US: Flash floods across New Jersey and New York State shut down subway lines, submerge roads, start house fires, and force multiple state emergencies and rescues (AP)

Four wildfires erupt on Canada’s Vancouver Island, including near Ivanhoe Creek and Cowichan River, as fire danger remains extreme in the region (Times Colonist)

Canada warned people in and near Ontario to stay indoors as wildfire smoke filled the air, raising serious health risks and cutting visibility through July 15, 2025 (Collingwood Today)

The UK’s Thames Water company bans hosepipe use across southern England as a record-dry spring leaves London and nearby areas facing worsening drought and water shortfalls (Reuters)

An ominous “Doomsday cloud” shrouded Maryland [US] in darkness on July 9, 2025, turning day into night. Weather officials warned of a strong storm with heavy rain, lightning, and possible tornadoes, urging people to stay safe indoors (TCT - KHÁM PHÁ; Daily Mail)

Vietnamese man Châu Ngọc Phát shares his near-death experience: A journey to hell where he was given a delicious vegetarian feast and shown punishments tailored to individuals’ past deeds— men, women, and children facing tortures like burning, piercing, or being bound, reflecting their karma. Mr. Phát was warned by two hell-guardians to live virtuously to avoid such fates. After reviving, he took the experience as a wake-up call to deepen his Buddhist practice and now urges others to follow the Five Precepts—non-killing, non-lying, non-stealing, non- sexual misconduct, and non-intoxication—to avoid suffering in this life and the next (Hải Nguyễn Miền Tây)

US space agency NASA discovers a super-Earth planet emitting strange signals at regular intervals, 154 light-years away. The planet, named TOI-1846 b, is in close orbit around a red dwarf star and may help scientists understand how hot worlds with water evolve over time (Giáo dục và Thời đại)

UK scientists find a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite in Africa, revealing that the Moon was volcanically active far longer than previously thought (Science Daily)

New York judge Aaron Maslow rules that dog-people can count as “immediate family” in certain legal cases, allowing humans to seek emotional distress damages when a companion dog-person is killed (NewsBreak)

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approves a bill that would ban cosmetic testing on live vertebrate [back-boned] animal-people. The bill’s final step is approval by the President of Brazil (Vegconomist)

Philippines survey finds over 80% of Filipinos plan to eat more plant-based food, with rising demand boosting local vegan brands like WTH Foods (Vegconomist)

Kenyan animal-people rescuer Joseph Keter has spent 15 years saving orphaned wild animal-people near Lake Naivasha, including lion- and buffalo-people, through his work for conservancy Animal Rights Reserved (Castanet)

Mumbai [India]: 150 students and startups gather for a 24-hour AI [artificial intelligence] hackathon to create tools to solve urgent animal-people welfare challenges, including human-wildlife conflicts and animal-people abuse (India Today)

Elevating quote of the day: “A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss.” – The Venerated Enlightened Lord Mahavira (vegan)