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Court rules gunmaker Remington can be sued over Newtown massacre
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
The narrow 4-3 ruling raised the hopes of the families of the 20 schoolchildren and six school staff killed in the December 14, 2012 attack of punishing the mar...
When green 'fixes' actually increase the carbon footprint
Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)
That was the idea when Amazon announced plans to bring its headquarters to Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood a decade ago. It coincided with low-carbon in...
Hot or cold, rural residents more vulnerable to extreme temperatures
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
"These findings go against the general assumption that urban residents are at a higher risk due to the urban heat island effect, which raises temperatures in ci...
US slams rights record of China and Iran, goes easier on N. Korea
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
Iran also came in for harsh criticism while rival Saudi Arabia, cited for many identical domestic rights abuses as well as the murder of US-based journalist Jam...
Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease: UN
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
Deadly smog-inducing emissions, chemicals polluting drinking water, and the accelerating destruction of ecosystems crucial to the livelihoods of billions of peo...
Fukushima: current state of the clean-up
Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)
Eight years on, the disaster zone remains a huge building site with the immediate danger cleared but an immensely difficult clean-up job still looming. - What i...
US military asked to house 5,000 child migrants: Pentagon
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) "requested DoD support to identify space to house up to 5,000 unaccompanied alien children on DoD installation...
Yazidi children carry trauma of 'caliphate' captivity
Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)
The warm living room in northeastern Syria where the 15-year-old sits is a far cry from the cold trenches and dingy basements that protected him from shellfire ...
Pupils learn military discipline in Brazil school scheme
Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)
From now on, it's military discipline all the way, Sergeant Nunes told them. They will enter into classrooms single file -- hair short for the boys, a bun for t...
Saudi sisters appeal for safety as Hong Kong clock ticks down
Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)
The siblings are the latest example of Saudi women escaping the ultra-conservative kingdom only to find themselves stranded in foreign cities and making public ...
US House votes for background checks in almost all gun sales
Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)
While the effort managed to draw a handful of Republicans and was deemed a historic step by newly empowered Democrats and gun control advocates, it is unlikely ...
US pushes UN to demand aid be allowed into Venezuela
Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, said a vote was expected this week at the council, even though such a measure is likely to face a ...
Tornado fatalities continue to fall, despite population growth in Tornado Alley
Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)
Around 1916, that trend started to reverse. Ernest Agee, a professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at Purdue University, credits the decline in f...
At least seven miners dead in Peruvian landslide
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
The landslide struck at the illegal camp on Tuesday following heavy rains in the Andes. The remote location of the camp made it hard for police and firefighters...
Saudi sisters stopped in Hong Kong while fleeing kingdom
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
The pair, who have adopted the aliases Reem and Rawan, said in a statement from their lawyer they had renounced Islam and fear the death penalty if forced to re...
Nine countries at UN seek to override China to raise Myanmar
Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)
The meeting requested for next week would be to hear a report from UN envoy Christine Schraner Burgener who last month paid a 12-day visit to Myanmar to discuss...
Japan govt, Fukushima operator told to pay over nuclear disaster
Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)
The Yokohama district court ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to pay 419.6 million yen ($3.8 million) to 152 local residents, a court s...
US states sue Trump over border wall emergency
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
Trump announced the emergency Friday in order to bypass Congress, which approved only a quarter of the $5.6 billion he wanted for the wall in a spending bill. B...
Slashing roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)
Jochen Jaeger is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia. He recently oversaw a study that measured the eff...
Mexico president to convert penal colony into cultural center
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
The four Islas Marias islands lie 120-kilometers (75 miles) off the northwest coast of Mexican state Nayarit. The largest of those, Isla Maria Madre, has housed...
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