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Pope to comfort victims of Japan's 2011 'triple disaster'
Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)
After an emotional day comforting survivors of atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima -- where the pontiff attacked the "crime" of using nuclear power as a weap...
European court condemns Russia over asylum seekers' plight
Nov 21, 2019 (AFP)
The case involved four men -- an Iraqi, a Palestinian, a Syrian and a Somali -- who were forced to sleep on a mattress in the boarding area of Sheremetyevo Airp...
NASA data helps assess landslide risk in Rohingya refugee camps
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
More than 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since August 2017. Many of them have sought shelter in camps located in the hilly countryside, where...
Japan: safe to dump water from Fukushima nuclear disaster
Nov 19, 2019 (UPI)
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said water used to cool the fuel rods and groundwater from near the damaged plant was collected and stored at the plant...
Russia repatriates around 30 toddlers from Iraq
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The Russian foreign ministry said the 32 toddlers had been held in Iraqi jails. The mothers are either serving out sentences or awaiting trial for membership of...
What felled the great Assyrian Empire? A Yale professor weighs in
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
Despite a plethora of cuneiform textual documentation and archaeological excavations and field surveys, archaeologists and historians have been unable to explai...
Climate change poses 'lifelong' child health risk
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
Children across the world were already suffering the ill effects of air pollution and extreme weather events, said The Lancet Countdown in its annual report on ...
ESIP develops earth science data operational readiness levels to empower disaster responders
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
"Trusted data is crucial to advance the global use of Earth observation data," said Gilberto Camara, CEO Secretariat Director. "GEO welcome the initiative of ES...
How space helps seriously ill patients in air ambulances
Nov 08, 2019 (ESA)
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex - which treats some 2,500 of the most seriously injured and ill patients each year in the south east of England - is to equip a...
Learning requires a little bit of failure, research shows
Nov 06, 2019 (UPI)
The latest research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, suggests students who are getting all the questions right aren't learning anythin...
Apple offers $2.5 bn to address California housing crisis
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
The move by Apple follows similar initiatives from Silicon Valley peers Google and Facebook, which each have pledged $1 billion for housing programs. "Before th...
Abandoned block turns into control tower of Baghdad protests
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
The 18-storey building traces Iraq's tumultuous recent history, but most of those occupying it now after a month of anti-government rallies are too young to kno...
Wild dog control efforts are killing dingoes in Australia
Nov 01, 2019 (UPI)
The survey's findings, published this week in the journal Conservation Genetics, contradict the assumption that there are no more pure dingoes in New South Wale...
Rescuers hunt for missing as landslides, floods kill 10 in Japan
Oct 26, 2019 (AFP)
Aerial footage showed emergency workers removing wreckage from two houses that were swept away in Chiba, southeast of Tokyo, just two weeks after a deadly typho...
Belgium, transit route for migrant smugglers
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
The refrigerated truck arrived in Britain on a ferry from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and prosecutors in Belgium have opened an investigation in parallel with...
World first study now separates living from the dead
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
Using a new technique to monitor vital signs remotely, engineers from the University of South Australia and Middle Technical University in Baghdad have designed...
NASA map reveals a new landslide risk factor
Oct 22, 2019 (JPL)
Soil liquefaction, which causes this kind of landslide, occurs when the shaking from a large earthquake rips through moist, loose soil, overpowering the frictio...
American CEO faces French lawmakers over chemical plant blaze
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
Eric Schnur, the chief executive of Lubrizol, will appear before Senate and National Assembly commissions as the company begins the delicate task of removing ar...
Facebook devotes $1 bn to affordable housing in US
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The leading social network has partnered with Governor Gavin Newsom and others on projects intended to result in as many as 20,000 new housing units for teacher...
Japan plans to postpone imperial parade over typhoon: media
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The parade was scheduled for October 22 as part of a series of events marking the official proclamation of Emperor Naruhito's enthronement. The religious rites ...
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