33,211 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 53 of 333.
“Prenga will be Joshua's first competitive fight since his knockout loss to IBF world champion Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in September 2024.”
“The United States and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement that could pave the way for the kingdom to develop uranium enrichment capabilities for its civilian nuclear programme... The agreement is expected…”
“He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people, for the maiming of tens of thousands of children as those who survive undergo amputation without anesthesia,”
“Canada will provide annual economic participation payments, outside the 2012 Canada–Michigan Crossing Agreement equal to fifty (50) per cent of net bridge and crossing related revenues for the first fifteen (15) fiscal years of bridge oper…”
“Due to the ongoing security situation, we have taken the precautionary measure to temporarily withdraw UK staff from Iran. Our embassy continues to operate remotely. UK Government support is extremely limited in Iran. No face-to-face consu…”
“Energy Secretary Chris Wright traveled to Saudi Arabia last year shortly before Trump visited the kingdom and discussed building out the kingdom’s commercial nuclear power industry with his Saudi counterpart.”
“46-year-old”
“US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed the agreement, known as a 123 agreement, along with what the Trump administration described as a bilateral safeguards agreement.”
“The remarks by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are a reckless distortion of the truth. They are pure antisemitism, with no basis in fact.”
“The bridge is set to open on July 27 after several months of delays”
“the average time for British travellers to clear border checks has surged from seven minutes to 20, nearly three times longer than before the system's introduction”
“The United Arab Emirates, a neighbor to Saudi Arabia, signed what is referred to as a “123 agreement” with the U.S. to build its Barakah nuclear power plant with South Korean assistance. But the UAE did so without seeking enrichment, somet…”
“If it's not Saturday night where we face-off, it will be within the next four to six weeks.”
“According to the National Hurricane Center, Bertha came ashore in St Bernard Parish, around 40 miles east of New Orleans, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kmph).”
“But parroting Hamas lies on starvation, sympathizing with terrorist[s] who murdered and raped innocent Israelis on Oct. 7, libellously claiming IDF targeted journalists and aid workers, and deceitfully repeating calls of ‘genocide’ are not…”
“Canada originally paid the entire $6.4 billion cost to build the bridge, and under the terms of the original 2012 agreement with Michigan, Canada would have been entitled to receive all toll revenues until its total debt was recuperated.”
“Sometimes what used to be a 10-minute queue... takes over 30 minutes”
“He vigorously rejected the first two as wasteful. He practiced what he preached: over 18 years, he gave away roughly $350 million, about 90% of his fortune, personally funding 2,509 libraries, Carnegie Hall, and Carnegie Mellon University …”
“Now the regulator says the threshold has been reached for a drought to be declared across north and parts of mid Wales - based on exceptionally low river and groundwater levels, dry soils, impacts on wildlife, farming and forestry.”
“Tropical storm-force winds extended nearly 100 miles (160 km) from the storm's centre.”
“Mayor Mamdani: New Yorkers elected a mayor to lead this city — not to make Israel the centerpiece of your political grandstanding. Your video is rife with distortions and disinformation. And at a time of rising antisemitism, repeatedly sin…”
“At the start of July, Greer said the U.S. would not renew CUSMA for another 16-year term despite calls from Canada and Mexico to do so.”
“a wait lasting roughly 90 minutes, joining the queue at 12.30pm and not clearing it until shortly after 2pm”
“Buffett has given away more than $60 billion since 2006—a real, record-setting total.”
“Wales has seen about 5% of the average rainfall for July, after a series of back-to-back heatwaves and a drier than usual April to June.”
“Forecasters said coastal areas of Louisiana and Alabama could experience storm surges of up to 3 feet (1 metre), while rainfall of 1-4 inches (3-10 cm) is expected, with isolated locations likely to receive higher amounts.”
“I’m hopeful that before the end of the year we can have at least options for President Trump and the leaders of Canada and Mexico to consider potential interim arrangements...”
“The scale of demand remains stark. According to Trussell, food bank usage among children is still 34 per cent higher than before the pandemic, with emergency food parcels for under-fives rising by 24 per cent over the same period.”
“Gates’s own vehicle, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is precisely the kind of professional-administrator structure that Carnegie thought was a cop-out; it has a 20-year sunset clause after Gates’s death, but it will continue operating…”
“July is on course to become the driest in Wales for almost 190 years if significant rainfall does not arrive before the end of the month.”
“It said this is the first such occurrence in the region in at least two decades, based on records dating back to 2005.”
“Greer acknowledged under questioning from Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon that “a small handful” of Canadian products will be tariffed higher than China if and when the new 50 per cent tariffs come into effect.”
“Matthew van Duyvenbode, co-chief executive of Trussell, noted that the organisation's food bank network handed out more than 900,000 parcels for children last year, calling the levels of hunger facing families "unacceptable."”
“Gates and Buffett have openly credited Carnegie’s essay as the direct inspiration for their 2010 Giving Pledge, which asks billionaires to commit at least half their wealth to charity during their lifetime or at death.”
“High river temperatures were also leading to concerns for the survival of aquatic life, she added, with water temperatures as high as 28C recorded in the Wye and Usk.”
“Bertha is the second named tropical storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, following Tropical Storm Arthur, which brought heavy rainfall to the southeastern US in June.”
“Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Canada was weighing “all options” to respond if the new tariffs go ahead on Aug. 19.”
“Warren Buffett spent two decades as the single largest benefactor of Bill Gates’ philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, having donated about $48 billion.”
“Tudur Roberts farms in Abergele, keeping 27 pedigree Angus cows and 200 sheep, and said the weather has been "really bad the last two weeks". "It's dried up, we're on well water and the well's dried up, we've got one spring going. We've be…”
“The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kmph) and is forecast to strengthen gradually.”
“Navarro added that Section 338 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1930, the statute Trump is using to impose the new tariffs, “was written for such conduct.””
“Just last week, Buffett omitted the Gates Foundation from his annual charitable stock gifts for the first time since 2006, instead directing roughly $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway shares to four foundations run by or named for his family.”
“The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on 11 April 1952 following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off.”
“Shah also accepted PM Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India soon after taking office, but that visit has still not taken place.”
“Trump signed three executive orders Monday to impose a 50 per cent tariff on many Canadian goods under Section 338 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930, which allows a president to tariff any country that “discriminates” against U.S. commerce.”
“I ended up winning a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for it.”
“Everyone onboard survived the impact - but passengers struggled to locate life vests and rafts as the plane rapidly sank. Of the 69 passengers and crew onboard, just 17 survived.”
“Lamichhane’s visit sharpened the contrast. He met Modi, home minister Amit Shah, external affairs minister S Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval, Misri and BJP president Nitin Nabin, among others, signalling that New Delhi had opened its top politi…”
“Europe doesn’t have a tendency to close its doors,” Joly told reporters.”
“The Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize scored my debut a 9.5 out of 10.”
“The disaster led to sweeping reforms in aviation safety, including compulsory pre-flight safety briefings on every commercial flight.”
“At that meeting, attended by representatives from 17 countries and the United Nations, he spoke of a 'balanced and pragmatic foreign policy' and relations based on 'trust, mutual respect and shared prosperity'.”
“If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll and if you don’t pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent w…”
“Kirkus called it 'an exuberant life story written with humor, panache, and heart'.”
“The plane had been carrying 64 passengers and five crew to New York when the pilot was forced to make a violent water landing.”
“Border communities also protested strict enforcement of customs duty on goods worth more than Nepali Rs 100 brought from Indian markets.”
“The U.S. in response to Iran’s attacks restarted a blockade of Iranian ports, turning around vessels engaged in trading Iranian oil.”
“Simon & Schuster’s Dutch group is trialing AI to translate novels into English.”
“The expedition to find the wreckage was led by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation in partnership with the Discovery Channel's Expedition Unknown show and several other organisations.”
“Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to traffic cocaine into the United States.”
“Amazon is beta-testing a whole AI voice studio inside Kindle Direct Publishing.”
“Researchers used historical records and weather data from the time of the crash to identify the 10 square nautical miles of Atlantic Ocean seabed where the wreckage was likely resting.”
“Maduro faces four felony counts, including narcoterrorism conspiracy and conspiracy to import cocaine.”
“HarperCollins is also producing audiobooks with synthetic voices and has licensed part of its nonfiction backlist as AI training data, reportedly to Microsoft.”
“It disappeared 12 years ago with 269 people onboard and, despite numerous searches in the Indian Ocean, has not yet been located.”
“at least 31 people have died and over 100 reported missing in the last 24 hours, authorities said early on Wednesday, as Assam’s flood situation turned catastrophic with eight lakh people affected across 16 districts, raising the overall t…”
“Bloomsbury put an AI-generated stock image on a Sarah J. Maas cover.”
“At least seven oil tankers have made U-turns close to Yemen since the Iran-linked Houthi group announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia on Monday, ship-tracking data shows.”
“According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 20 people, including four women and two children, drowned in Sivasagar district alone in last 24 hours.”
“The detection company Pangram scored her novel Shy Girl to be 78% AI.”
“Nearly 15% of global sea trade moves through the Red Sea, which connects the Mediterranean and Gulf of Aden through two choke points - the Suez Canal in Egypt and the Bab al-Mandab Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa.”
“Sarma announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh for the next of kin of each deceased.”
“Run this article through the same detector. I did. It came back 82% 'AI generated'.”
“The day before the Houthis announced their blockade, 20 vessels entered the Red Sea and 22 exited via the Bab al-Mandeb strait, according to maritime intelligence firm Kpler.”
“Sivasagar has emerged as the worst-affected district, with nearly 3.6 lakh people impacted, followed by Jorhat with around 88,000 affected and Charaideo with over 72,500 people reeling under floodwaters.”
“I’d prefer to treat writers as professionals who decide on their tools and creative workflow, then judge based on output, not process.”
“The EU's naval force in the region Aspides recommended on Wednesday that "merchant vessels linked to Israeli, US or Saudi interests avoid transiting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden until the threat level decreases", according to an advisory s…”
“The floods have submerged 872 villages and damaged 24,210.35 hectares of agricultural land.”
“The IBPA Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards didn’t restrict AI-assisted work. Three IBPA judges read the finished book, disclosure and all, and gave it a medal.”
“In an email to shipowners on Monday, which the BBC has seen, the Houthis said "vessels are banned from loading or discharging cargo at any Saudi ports". It added that ships "may be subject to targeting in any location within the operationa…”
“A cloudburst triggered exceptionally heavy rainfall in the upstream states of Arunachal Pradesh & Nagaland, with precipitation of 141% and 181% above normal, respectively.”
“The Authors Guild now offers a 'Human Authored' certification that runs on the honor system.”
“Since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia has diverted more than 70% of its crude exports from the Gulf to the Red Sea port of Yanbu through an east-west pipeline.”
“According to ASDMA, 273 relief camps and relief distribution centres are currently operational in 10 districts, sheltering 12,284 displaced people.”
“About four million barrels per day have been shipped from Yanbu in recent weeks, compared with about 973,000 a year earlier, according to data from Kpler and maritime analytics platform Signal Ocean.”
“In February this year, chief minister Conrad K. Sangma announced a scheme offering 70 per cent subsidy support for homestays across the state, timed to meet accommodation demand ahead of the National Games 2027.”
“Naveen Das, a senior oil analyst from Kpler, told BBC Verify the only option left to the Saudis if the Bab al-Mandab Strait is effectively closed would be to move oil all the way through the Mediterranean and around the southern tip of Afr…”
“Support of up to 70 percent of a homestay's project cost, rising to 80 percent (capped at Rs. 8 lakh) for applicants with disabilities.”
“At least 50 vessels in the region are broadcasting they have armed guards on board, according to data from MarineTraffic.”
“A per-room grant of Rs. 50,000, up to Rs. 2 lakh, specifically for owners upgrading homestays they already run.”
“Most bus fares in England to be capped at £2 from January”
“Someone looking to upgrade a property already in operation has a different bar to clear: they need at least six months of running history and a guest register recording a minimum of 50 bed-nights.”
“She said that despite the current £3 bus cap in England, a single on her bus costs at least £4.20, despite the journey being 'entirely in England'.”
“He also pointed to the Rs. 130-crore Holiday Inn Resort coming up in Tura as a marker of how far the Garo Hills region's hospitality sector has come.”
“In January 2025, an England-wide bus fare cap rose to £3 under Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government, although Liverpool and Manchester are examples of city regions where fares have been held at £2.”
“That list includes a runway expansion at Shillong airport, a Rs. 50-crore state-funded revival of Tura Airport aimed at bringing UDAN flights back...”
“The closure of the strait, through which one-fifth of the world's traded oil and gas passed during peacetime, has jolted the global economy, with effects reaching far beyond the Middle East”
“A total of 5,200 applications have been received for the Ram temple trust CEO post.”
“We have decided to set up a permanent institute for training priests, who would be certified by the Ram temple trust.”
“The committee will comprise nine saints, including five from Ayodhya and four from outside, to supervise the temple's religious activities.”
