DAILY NEWS Stream – February 2, 2026

Âu Lạc (Vietnam) and the European Union upgrade their bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership making Âu Lạc (Vietnam) the first ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] member nation to reach this level with the EU — strengthening trade, green transitioning, and Indo-Pacific cooperation amid global shifts (Tuổi Trẻ)

Poland, Czechia, and Croatia dispatch generators and power transformers to bolster Ukraine (Ureign)’s strained energy grid, delivering critical equipment to Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy regions to help maintain essential services during winter attacks (Inkorr)

The French National Assembly passes a bill banning social media access for under-15s, advancing child protection efforts against mental health risks and addictive algorithms as the measure heads to the Senate (Citizen Digital)

The United Kingdom government expands its AI [artificial intelligence] Skills Boost program in partnership with major industry players — offering free online AI foundations training to all adults — targeting 10 million workers skilled in practical AI tools by 2030 to boost economic output, job quality, and national competitiveness (Gov.uk)

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awards its Leadership Medal to Moroccan planetary scientist Dr. Kamal Oudrhiri — recognizing his over two-decade contributions to NASA, including leading the Cold Atom Laboratory on the ISS [International Space Station] and key roles in Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto missions (Morocco World News)

Âu Lạc (Vietnam) experts warn of fraud risks from “silent call” scams — where scammers record victims saying “yes” or “vâng” during silent automated calls to exploit voice authentication for bank or utility fraud — urging people to hang up immediately on unknown silent calls to prevent asset theft and number targeting (VnExpress)

Doctors sound the alarm as “thunderclap” headaches signal life-threatening strokes. Experiencing a “worst-ever” headache could be indicative of a stroke requiring emergency neurological care. Experts urge using the BE FAST acronym to look out for other stroke symptoms:

Balance [sudden loss of balance/coordination]; Eyes [changes in vision];

Face [facial drooping or numbness]; Arms [weakness or numbness in one arm]; Speech [difficulty speaking or slurred speech]; and Time [time to call for help if any of these symptoms observed]

High-risk groups include individuals over 50 and those with hypertension. One must act within the “golden hour” [60 minutes] to prevent permanent paralysis (VnExpress)

The Bạch Mai Hospital’s Anti-Poison Center [Hanoi, Âu Lạc (Vietnam)] has recently received many carbon monoxide poisoning cases, including one individual who died and others left in critical condition. These victims suffered severe brain and heart damage from using indoor coal fires for warmth. Experts warn this “silent killer” replaces oxygen in the blood, causing unconsciousness and long-term neurological trauma (VnExpress)

Wild blueberries provide a powerful boost to cardiovascular health by enhancing blood vessel function and circulation. Research shows their polyphenols improve nitric oxide signaling and reduce oxidative stress. These berries also sharpen insulin sensitivity and increase brain blood flow in older adults. Scientists confirm that improved vascular response is the most reliable benefit for maintaining a healthy heart (Earth.com)

Storm Kristin batters Portugal, killing five people and cutting power to nearly 450,000 customers. Heavy winds disrupt rail networks and force school closures across central and northern regions (Báo Tin Tức)

Severe storms devastate Türkiye’s Antalya province, spawning multiple tornadoes that destroy 202 hectares of crops and greenhouses. The extreme weather damages homes, boats, and roads across the region (The Watchers)

The River Nyamindi dries up, plunging Kiambu, Kenya, and nearby areas into an acute water crisis. Residents struggle with failing crops and costs of purchasing water from water vendors. Fears of waterborne diseases mount due to the purchased water being sourced from the possibly contaminated River Thiba (Citizen Digital)

Southeast Australia swelters under record heat near 50°C, fueling three out-of-control bushfires in Victoria state. Rural towns shatter temperature records as officials urge caution (VnExpress)

Montenegro’s public company Možura launches a 1.5-megawatt biogas power plant at the Možura landfill — converting landfill gas into electricity that could power up to 400 households annually while selling surplus via traders — reducing methane emissions and advancing sustainable bioenergy in partnership with Slovenia and local eco-funds (CEenergynews)

A new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza is pushing South Africa’s already critically endangered African penguin-people closer to extinction (VietnamPlus)

Australia’s electricity mix passes 50% renewables for the first time in the quarter ending December 2025, as the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) — the body that runs the national power system — reports strong growth in solar, wind and batteries pushing clean energy above half of National Electricity Market generation while coal and gas hit record lows (Reuters)

The Guatemalan government chooses not to renew an oil-extraction lease in the Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve, instead closing the Xan oil wells and handing the land to security forces to curb illegal activities and better protect endangered wildlife such as jaguar-folk and macaw-people (Good News Network)

A new survey shows England, UK’s Knepp Estate rewilding project achieving a stunning 916% rise in breeding bird-people— growing from 55 individuals[of 22 species] to 559 individuals [of 51 species] since 2007— as restored wetlands and hands-off management transform the former farmland into one of Britain’s most biodiverse landscapes (Good News Network)

YouTube electric vehicle [EV] expert Richard Symons calculates that charging electric vehicles saves nearly 1 hour 45 minutes over 16,000 kilometers compared to refueling gasoline cars — factoring in passive home/work charging versus active gas pump and payment times — demonstrating superior time efficiency for daily EV use in urban routines (Tuổi Trẻ)

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully print metal parts aboard the Lihong-1 spacecraft, overcoming microgravity challenges in material transport and solidification (VnExpress)

A new clinical study shows that AISAP — an Israeli company specializing in AI [artificial intelligence]-assisted point-of-care diagnostics — has developed an AI system that can accurately detect major heart diseases from a single ultrasound image, promising much faster, more accessible cardiac screening outside traditional echocardiography labs (Tuổi Trẻ)

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology launch a generative AI weather model integrating satellite data to forecast thunderstorms and heavy rain up to four hours ahead, empowering emergency responses to climate-driven extreme events across Asia (Reuters)

AI-powered robotic sorters use advanced machine-vision models to identify billions of object types and pull up to 80 items per minute from mixed waste streams, allowing US waste management companies like AMP and Republic Services to recover high-value materials with far greater speed, precision, and purity than traditional recycling systems (Good News Network)

PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] launches an ad campaign around Cornell University [US] urging its dairy science students and local dairy operators to switch to vegan farming. Citing industry decline, the group promotes animal-people welfare and sustainable agriculture over traditional dairy (PETA)

Finnish perfume house Scentsophy wins Best Luxury Vegan & Sustainable Fragrance Brand in the Luxury Lifestyle Awards. Recognized for science-led, toxin-free formulas and ingredient transparency, the brand now targets global expansion following its European success (The European Business Review)

Canada’s Burcon NutraScience scales operations as vegan protein demand exceeds expectations. It offers pea, fava, sunflower, and other crop-based protein products (TipRanks)

Cat- and dog-people are rescued by members of Spain’s Civil Guard after severe flooding hits the City of Jerez [Spain] as Storm Kristin overflows the Guadalete River causing damage (AP)

A ten-year-old boy in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) saves his younger brother through a landmark bone marrow transplant at Children’s Hospital 1 [HCM CT], with the eight-year-old, who has severe idiopathic aplastic anemia, recovering and being discharged following weeks of intensive care (VietnamNet)

The city of Pico Rivera [California, US] plans to buy the notorious Manning Beef slaughterhouse that lies within its borders to prevent its reopening after systemic animal cruelty and chronic regulatory violations and cow-person escapes. Possible future uses of the site include affordable housing or a facility to produce “plant-based foods” (Daily Mail)

Thoughtful quote of the day: “Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” – John Dryden British Poet and Literary Critic (BrainyQuote)

And it was as if God said to me, “Davis, that’s it. It’s just love. It’s just love.” And it was a noun. It was an adjective. It was a verb. It was everything. American musician Davis Haines shares how he was run over by a truck, died during surgery, and experienced God as infinite, twinkling love. Davis was born an identical twin in Birmingham, Alabama, into a happy, creative family. A sensitive, contemplative child who wrote poems about dead plants and big ideas, he found his calling in the arts — acting, writing poetry, and music. After leaving college to move to Chicago with his twin brother, they started a band together.

Davis had been raised Christian but identified as an atheist for a time, yet he couldn’t shake his belief that love is something beyond human control. Two weeks after turning 21, on July 11, 2011, everything changed. I was riding my bike like I did every single day at that time. And it was just me sitting next to this very large truck — like a Mack truck, not quite an 18-wheeler, but a very big delivery truck, a mail truck actually. And I was between him and some parked cars. And I knew I was really close to him. I could feel that something was going to happen. The light turns green. We both pull forward, and as I’m trying to stay behind so that he can get ahead of me, he accidentally ends up merging into me, and I went under his back right tires.

I woke up on the street a few seconds or maybe a minute later, and I knew something was wrong. I looked down at my arm. There was a rock in my arm. All these people are standing over me, and it was like a movie. At this point, my lungs were collapsing. I had been run over in my pelvis, which broke in seven places. My femur was broken in half, my fibula, and I was bleeding out. And because of that, my organs started to fail. When the ambulance arrived, Davis was rushed to a level one trauma center two blocks away.

The last thing I remember is being in the emergency room and my twin brother running in, tears streaming down his face, crying harder than I’d ever seen him cry in my life. And he said, “I love you, Davis.” And I said, “I love you, too.” Because of the extent of the damage, they said they couldn’t find the source of the bleeding. I’d been given so much blood — I ultimately was given 13 units of blood, which is more than in the human body. So an entire human’s worth of blood transfusion. And they couldn’t find the source of the bleeding. So the doctor said, “We are going to put him under, and we are going to make a cut, and we are going to pray basically that we can find where the bleeding is.” Even they said, “There’s a 1% chance that we are going to find the source of this bleeding.”

As doctors put Davis under and he continued bleeding out, he died. What happened next changed everything he thought he knew about reality. My experience of dying was incredible. I knew immediately that I was back home. It was a place that I couldn’t remember on Earth, but that I knew instantly once I was there that it was home — that it was the place that we all come from. I described it when I came back as space. I was in space. I was one with everything. Every single cell in my body was part of everything. I can literally feel it right now. It was like a tingling to an unbelievable degree. Sometimes I describe it like sinking into a warm tub after a long, cold day in the snow — the way that your body just goes wild. It was like that, but there is no body. And it’s 10,000 times stronger than that. It felt like everything was twinkling, everything was alive, and it was just pure bliss, pure peace, pure love. I felt like I was being held, like I was home with my whole family. And my whole family was literally everything that’s ever existed. Everything was everything. And it was all part of this vast, incredible, infinite space of pure love. It gives me chills just recalling it. It was unbelievable.

And the thing that struck me when I was there was just a complete and utter lack of fear. I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore. I didn’t have a body. I wasn’t afraid of money, of stuff, money-related anything. I wasn’t afraid of rent or tax — none of that stuff. I wasn’t afraid of having a body, having gravity, having any of that. No shame, no regret, none of that stuff that keeps us up at night that we’re like, “God, why did I say that?” None of that stuff was there. I mean, literally no fear of anything at all. It was completely absent of fear. It was truly just pure love — like a twinkling infinite love. It was all-encompassing.

And I knew that I was with God. And it was as if God was with me, looking at me, feeling me, being me, experiencing me, holding me, reminding me that I too am love — that that love has always been with me. And it was as if God said to me, “Davis, that’s it. It’s just love. It’s just love.” And it was a noun. It was an adjective. It was a verb. It was everything. It’s the best word I can use in the English language, but there are no words to describe this particular feeling.

Against all odds, the doctors found the bleeding and stopped it. Davis came back. After five days in a coma, Davis woke up and immediately began trying to share what had happened to him.

When I woke up, I started talking. I couldn’t wait to tell everybody about what I experienced. I wanted to tell everybody that it’s just love. That’s all we have to do. It’s just love. We just have to figure out how to love. That’s it. And all the stuff that happens on Earth is like opportunities to figure out how to love. The hardest stuff is actually the best stuff because then we can learn how to love even better. And it grows, and it grows, and it grows. And I just wanted to tell everybody that we’re going to be okay. All that fear — it’s actually in the way of a relationship we have with who we really are, with God, with the Universe, with each other, and with everybody.

Davis spent a month in the hospital, three months in a wheelchair, and nine months on a cane learning to walk again. His recovery became a spiritual journey of rediscovering love through art and presence. I ended up back in Chicago, eventually rejoining my band. We toured the country. Our whole mission was to spread love. That was what we decided we were going to try to do.

Basically, the way I saw it was: if God is love, then art is prayer. And when I think about the most simple prayer that we could ever say, it’s “Thank you.” I started saying thank you to God for everything. And I’m not just talking about gratitude in the good stuff. To me, saying like, “Thank you for my mom having an alcoholism experience while I’m in recovery,” living in a home with an alcoholic was such a huge challenge. It was also such a gift because I learned so much through that. I thank God for being run over by a truck because it changed my life. It set me on this path.

Anything I write about my experience is literally just me saying, “Thank You, God. Thank You for this.” When we work in the realm of creation, we’re co-creating with the Universe — the great Creator, the original artist. We are working on that creation together, making it more beautiful, more livable, less fearful, and more full of love. Today, Davis works with babies and people with disabilities, sings in choirs, and is studying to become a board-certified music therapist.

I’m so grateful for my message, and I hope that you find it to be helpful. If you’re an artist, keep making and make it for God. Make your art for love. Build bridges. Unite. Because there’s a lot of fear out there. There’s a lot of stuff that we experience that pushes us away from each other — that divides us. And if it divides us, then it’s fear. And if it unites us, then it’s love. And we are here to love. Our job as artists is to help love people through their experiences so that we can come together and experience that love right here on Earth while we’re here. (The Other Side NDE)