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NASA Search and Rescue partners with Australian Space Research Center
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
The Search and Rescue office - based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - will provide SmartSat CRC with NASA expertise to advance dis...
Race to find ship survivors as Typhoon Haishen nears Japan
Sep 04, 2020 (AFP)
Just one survivor has so far been rescued of the 43 crew on board, with a second person found dead. Typhoon Haishen is forecast to tear through the area from la...
Plants might be able to help forensic scientists find dead bodies
Sep 04, 2020 (UPI)
Often, trees and other types of vegetation obscure the search for missing bodies. But in a new paper, published this week in the journal Trends in Plant Science...
Desperate search for crew of ship sunk in typhoon off Japan
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
The Gulf Livestock 1, which was carrying a cargo of nearly 6,000 cows, issued a distress call in the early hours of Wednesday from a position 185 kilometres (11...
Cargo ship with 43 crew and 6,000 cows sank off Japan in typhoon: survivor
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
The Gulf Livestock 1 issued a distress call in the early hours of Wednesday from a position 185 kilometres (115 miles) west of Japan's Amami Oshima island. Late...
Death toll in China restaurant collapse climbs to 29
Aug 30, 2020 (AFP)
The two-storey building in Xiangfen county, Shanxi province, came down on Saturday morning during an 80th birthday party, according to official news agency Xinh...
European equities slip on hurricane fears
Aug 27, 2020 (AFP)
Dealers were also awaiting a key speech by Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell for any lead it may give on the future direction of US monetary policy. London's ...
More climbers successfully summit Mount Everest, death rate stays the same
Aug 26, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, scientists analyzed the success and death rates of climbers who received a permit to climb Everest between 2006 and 2019. The same researchers pr...
Pentagon's AI to be applied to natural disasters, humanitarian assistance
Aug 21, 2020 (UPI)
That plan was announced a virtual meeting involving the Defense Department, Microsoft, the Department of Energy and a White House official Thursday. Five consor...
Why do 'non-lethal' weapons maim and kill protesters?
Aug 20, 2020 (AFP)
As street protests worldwide have multiplied, rights groups have sounded the alarm about tear gas, rubber bullets, stun guns and other anti-riot weapons causing...
IG report: Use of U.S. troops at U.S.-Mexico border compliant with law
Aug 19, 2020 (UPI)
The 76-page report surveying deployment from October 2018 to December 2019, in which U.S. troops provided aerial support, maintained mobile surveillance sites a...
Guatemalan military protects indigenous village after attack
Aug 17, 2020 (AFP)
Several heavily armed people attacked the village of Balbatzul inhabited by the ethnically Mayan Q'eqchi's tribe early on Sunday, the police and public prosecut...
UK deploys extra navy, air assets to stop Channel migrants
Aug 16, 2020 (AFP)
The deployment of "specialist personnel from the Royal Navy" and a third air force plane to conduct surveillance followed a request for support from the interio...
Nepal landslide toll rises to 19 as hope fades for missing
Aug 16, 2020 (AFP)
Dozens of villagers in the remote hillside region of Sindhupalchowk district were buried under mud and stone after heavy rains caused a landslide early Friday. ...
Diplomatic flurry in blast-hit Lebanon as aid effort expands
Aug 14, 2020 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, which backs Lebanon's powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, met officials in the capital ahead of a speech by Hezbo...
Yemen's heritage battered first by bombs, then floods
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
The deluge risks finishing off the destruction of its distinctive buildings with their ochre brick facades and white latticework windows, experts say. The found...
US braces for evictions crisis as aid talks stall in Washington
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
The jobs catastrophe sparked by the global health emergency and the tepid rebound in the world's largest economy have left Americans struggling to pay rent and ...
China promotes its 'heroic' battle against virus in new exhibition
Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)
Since the discovery of the deadly contagion in Wuhan at the end of last year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to model itself as the vanguard in th...
Greek town of Preveza bets on slow tourism to overcome virus
Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)
His early warnings prompt just a dozen tourists on the deck of Yovanos' small boat to scramble for their smartphones, hoping to secure a snap of the aquatic mam...
New York seeks to dissolve NRA over financial mismanagement
Aug 06, 2020 (AFP)
State Attorney General Letitia James said LaPierre and three other top NRA officials used the dues and donations of members for years as their "personal piggy b...
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