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China has established the first bidirectional high-speed laser communication link between the Earth and the moon across more than 400,000 kilometers, state media announced — cutting the transfer of an 8K lunar image from four to five minutes over microwave to about 12 seconds, a leap with consequences for every future mission to the moon.

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Nepal Mudslide Toll Climbs Past 750 as a 'Cryosphere Instability' Warning Spreads

Nepal's August 26 mudslide disaster has now left more than 750 confirmed dead and around 2,500 missing, while Chinese state media frame the cross-border glacier collapse that buried Tibet's Gyirong port as a warning that the planet's frozen 'cryosphere' is destabilizing — with 208 people, including 38 Chinese nationals, pulled alive from a tunnel in the disaster zone.

A CCTV consumer investigation found loaves sold as whole wheat whose first ingredient is refined flour, darkened with caramel coloring to look healthy. The fakes thrive on China's sugar-cutting boom — and on the fact that real whole-wheat bread is rough, sour and hard to sell.