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7.0-magnitude quake hits off Papua New Guinea: USGSSydney (AFP) April 17, 2012 A 7.0-magnitude quake struck off the northeast of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning issued. The quake hit at 5:13 pm (0713 GMT) 141 kilometres (88 miles) north of the country's second largest city of Lae and 443 kilometres from the capital Port Moresby at a depth of 201 kilometres, it said. "A destructive tsunami was not generated based on earthquake and historical tsunami data," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement. ... read more |
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  India proposes norms for Indian Ocean anti-piracy patrols With the Indian Ocean region infested by Somali pirates, India is spearheading an effort to create a naval standard operating procedure (SOP) for the 32 littoral nations of the region to jointly fig ... more | .. |
  Spain's king, wildlife patron, slammed for hunting Spain's King Juan Carlos, patron of a wildlife charity, faced fire Monday for making an expensive hunting trip to Botswana while his country struggles with a recession. ... more | .. |
  DR Congo must arrest war crimes suspect: rights group Congolese President Joseph Kabila's suggestion that he might arrest war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda was a positive sign, but the arrest should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 ECOWAS council asks regional leaders to okay Mali force The West African bloc ECOWAS has asked regional leaders to approve troops deployment to end the rebellion by separatist groups in northern Mali, it said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Sudanese warplanes bomb UN camp in South Sudan Sudanese warplanes bombed a UN peacekeepers' base, damaging it but causing no casualties in the first such attack since a recent escalation of fighting with South Sudan, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Robotic cats, a kitten mummy and a major UK vet gathering April 11th sees over 300 world-class veterinary speakers converging for the WSAVA/FECAVA/BSAVA* World Congress 2012 in Birmingham UK. The current issue of the new-look JFMS, timed to coincide with t ... more | .. |
  4 deny attack plot over Danish cartoons Danes reacted with anxiety and dismay to this week's opening of a trial of four men charged with plotting to attack a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. ... more |
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  South Africa issues shark warning around washed-up whale South African coastal authorities on Friday warned beachgoers around the tourist town of Knysna that sharks were moving into the area, feeding on the remains of a whale that ran ashore two days ago. ... more | .. |
  Electoral officials' arrest inflames Iraq tension The arrest of Iraqi electoral commission officials has inflamed political tensions here, drawing accusations on Friday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki aims to destroy the democratic process. ... more | .. |
 G.Bissau army says coup bid over secret deal with Angola The Guinea-Bissau army said Friday it launched a coup bid in the notoriously unstable west African state because of an alleged secret military deal signed by the government with Angola. ... more | .. |
Coup attempt in G.Bissau, attack on PM residence Guinea-Bissau troops staged a coup attempt late Thursday, attacking the prime minister's residence, arresting politicians and taking over the ruling party headquarters amid a media blackout. ... more |
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  Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population. An international te ... more | .. |
 Nigeria Islamists 'get looted Libyan arms' Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants appear to be gaining strength and firepower from an alliance with al-Qaida in North Africa amid reports dozen of them are in Mali with Tuareg rebels while weapons looted in Libya have turned up in Nigeria. ... more | .. |
  Canada's aid overhaul ignores the needy: critics Canada is radically changing how it doles out foreign aid, funding partnerships with chosen mining giants and development groups while ignoring those most in need, critics say. ... more | .. |
 Foreign 'pressure' will not force Ntaganda arrest: DR Congo Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila said Wednesday he would not order the arrest of war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda "under pressure" from the international community. ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection | .. |
 East Africa is world's new energy frontier Not long ago the ramshackle former Portuguese colony of Mozambique on the east coast of Africa was written off as a basket case. ... more | .. |
 South Sudan's Kiir rejects calls to withdraw troops South Sudan's President Salva Kiir rejected calls Thursday to pull out from contested border regions, but said he did not want war with Khartoum, whose warplanes bombed a Southern town for the first time. ... more | .. |
Yemen slides into chaos amid new clashes Strife-battered Yemen is sliding deeper into chaos amid a power struggle that's ripping the army apart while U.S. Special Forces and the CIA step up their largely secret war against al-Qaida as it battles government forces for control of the south. ... more | .. |
 Indonesian quake reawakens 2004 fears in Asia In nations around the Indian Ocean, thousands scrambled for higher ground Wednesday after powerful quakes triggered fears of a disaster in a region all too familiar with the power of a tsunami. ... more |
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Airstrikes, artillery shelling on Sudan-S.Sudan border Sudan on Tuesday carried out new airstrikes inside South Sudan, as rival armies exchanged artillery fire in the latest round of fierce fighting in contested border regions. ... more | .. |
 Forced recruitment on South Sudan's border with rival Sudan Staring into the distance of South Sudan's volatile and sun-blasted borderlands with foe Sudan, Nyrop Nyol recounts the day soldiers came to her home and took her son away at gunpoint. ... more | .. |
Sudan oil war heats up, north mobilizes The oil conflict between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan is flaring dangerously after the infant state accused the Khartoum regime of building an illegal pipeline into its oilfield and the north declared a general mobilization. ... more | .. |
  UN calls for funds for drought-hit Sahel Children's aid organisation UNICEF on Tuesday led a cross-agency appeal for funds for the Sahel region where 15 million are suffering from malnutrition, it said. ... more |
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W. Africa must define scope of Mali intervention Mali's regional neighbours are wary of sending a military mission to the chaotic nation without a clear mandate, after Islamist extremists and Tuareg rebels seized the country's vast north, security sources say. ... more | .. |
 Iraq Kurd leader accuses PM Maliki of 'dictatorship' Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, Kurdish leader Massud Barzani charged in an interview published on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Anonymous leaks emails hacked from Tunisia's leaders Activists claiming affiliation with the hacking group Anonymous published about 2,700 emails Sunday purportedly between Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and other members of his government. ... more | .. |
DR Congo army hunts ex-rebel deserter Troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo closed in on a former rebel colonel Sunday and were trying to disarm him, a military official said. ... more |
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  Egypt army 'neutral' towards candidates for president Egypt's ruling military is not fielding a candidate in next month's presidential election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 African turmoil boosts Sahel famine threat The political upheavals that have swept Africa in recent months, especially Libya's civil war, have accelerated a food crisis in the Sahel, a drought-plagued, semi-desert region that spans the continent. ... more | .. |
 DR Congo leader visits region of army defectors President Joseph Kabila arrived Monday in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the current home of an ex-warlord wanted by the world court and where hundreds of former rebels have defected from the army. ... more | .. |
 Volcanic plumbing exposed Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. International teams of researchers, led by the University of Leeds, ... more |
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