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France jails 'Big Bang' scientist for Qaeda terror plotParis (AFP) May 5, 2012 A Paris court sentenced a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist to four years in jail on Friday after he was convicted of plotting with Al-Qaeda's north African branch to carry out terror attacks. Police arrested Adlene Hicheur, a researcher studying the Big Bang at the birth of the universe at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in October 2009 after intercepting emails to an alleged contact in Al-Qaeda. Hicheur, 35, who has been behind bars since his arrest, admitted at the sta ... read more |
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  Iraq Kurd leader warns against culture of violence The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Friday he fears a return to a culture of violence, the latest in a series of remarks critical of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in recent weeks. ... more | .. |
  Embargoes fail to stem global weapon sales: report Countries under arms embargoes have imported more than $2.2 billion worth of weapons over the past decade, the Oxfam aid agency said Thursday in a report calling for tighter global rules. ... more | .. |
  Bigger gorillas better at attracting mates and raising young Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be ... 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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  Drought hits Angola's already struggling farms A drought is threatening Angola's already modest food production, in a setback for efforts to revive once-vibrant farmlands abandoned during decades of war. ... more | .. |
  Curfew after clashes near Egypt defence ministry Egypt's ruling military announced an overnight curfew around the defence ministry Friday after fierce clashes between troops and anti-military protesters left 59 hurt ahead of landmark presidential polls. ... more | .. |
  W. Africa bloc threatens coup leaders in Mali, G. Bissau West African presidents on Thursday threatened tougher action against coup leaders in Mali and Guinea-Bissau who have resisted efforts to fully restore civilian rule. ... more | .. |
  Clinton presses Sudan on violence US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday pressed Sudan for a definitive end to bombings against South Sudan, after Khartoum said it would comply with a UN call to end the violence. ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
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 Sudans on brink of all-out war over oil Sudan and the infant state of South Sudan, which became independent a scant 10 months ago after a decades-long civil conflict with the north, are once more on the brink of all-out war over the oil-rich borderlands both need to survive. ... more | .. |
 Rangers kill lioness roaming Nairobi district Kenya rangers on Thursday killed a lioness that strayed from a park in the capital Nairobi and had been roaming with four of her cubs in a nearby district for the past four months, a statement said. ... more | .. |
 Boko Haram targets media in Nigeria Militant Nigerian Islamic group Boko Haram is threatening the nation's media. ... more | .. |
 Egypt military says may transfer power on May 24 Egypt's military chief of staff said on Wednesday the army may transfer power to an elected president on May 24 if the vote is decided in the first round, state television reported. ... more |
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 UN gives Sudan, South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions. ... more | .. |
 S. African official mulls support for shale gas exploration Controversial exploration of South Africa's Karoo region for shale gas might be worth the trouble if the work is subjected to strict controls, a national environment official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Israel's links with Egypt steadily worsen Israel's relations with Egypt are steadily deteriorating following the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak and the countries' historic 1979 peace treaty is growing increasingly tenuous. ... more | .. |
 Israel fences itself in with barriers Israel is building a concrete security wall to protect its northernmost border town of Metulla from attacks by Hezbollah, adding to the accelerating fortification of its frontiers with Egypt, Syria and the Palestinians. ... 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 | .. |
 Zimbabwe PM calls for reforms before election Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called for peace and demanded political reforms before any election to replace a coalition government with his long time rival President Robert Mugabe. ... more | .. |
  Report claims Sarkozy, Kadhafi in 'secret' nuclear deal A French magazine is claiming that President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya's ex-strongman Moamer Kadhafi reached a "secret deal" to trade nuclear cooperation for the release of foreign medics. ... more | .. |
  Libya honours chemical weapons plan deadline: OPCW Libya has honoured a deadline to hand in a detailed plan on the destruction of its aging stockpile of mustard gas, left from the Kadhafi regime, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Monday. ... more | .. |
 DR Congo army pursuing rebels after clashes The Congolese army said Monday that it has launched an operation to reclaim territory lost after weekend clashes with rebels loyal to a wanted indicted war criminal. ... more |
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China to loan South Sudan $8 billion, Juba says China has agreed to loan oil-rich South Sudan eight billion dollars for infrastructure development, Juba government spokesman Barnaba Mariel Benjamin said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 New Sudan air raids alleged as hungry flee A surging number of hungry refugees are fleeing fighting in Sudan where some are reduced to foraging in the wild, the UN said Monday, amid new allegations of Sudanese air strikes. ... more | .. |
 Lebanon stops arms headed to Syria rebels: security official The Lebanese navy intercepted three containers of weapons destined for Syrian rebel forces on board a ship originating from Libya, a security official told AFP on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Top Iraq politicians demand greater democracy Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. ... more |
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Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 West African summit on Guinea-Bissau set for Thursday Six west African heads of state will discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau at a meeting in Dakar next week, the Senegalese government said late Friday. ... more | .. |
Civilians suffer as Sudan-S.Sudan troops face off on border On South Sudan's tense front line with Sudan, Southern troops lie in the shade of trees alongside the tanks hidden there from the spying eyes of Sudanese warplanes overhead. ... more | .. |
 Algeria's Islamists brace for May polling Algeria is deploying 60,000 security troops across the restive country amid campaigning for May parliamentary elections in which Islamists are running for the first time in two decades. ... more | .. |
  CFR: Universal healthcare requires mandate The United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world but when it comes to healthcare coverage, it is only on par with developing nations like Ghana and Brazil, a Council on Foreign Relations report states. ... more |
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 Sierra Leone's gruesome 10-year civil war The civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2001, unleashed by rebels from the notorious Revolutionary United Front (RUF), was one of the most atrocious in Africa's recent history, leaving 120,000 dead and thousands of civilians mutilated. ... more | .. |
Egypt's gas cut may spur energy conflicts Egypt's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Israel threatens the countries' historic 1979 peace treaty and could crank up simmering tensions over disputed offshore gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. ... more | .. |
S. Sudan leader to cut short China visit South Sudan's president will cut short his visit to China amid violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing unveiled plans to send a peace envoy. ... more | .. |
 Iraq cuts anti-Qaeda militia pay Most of Iraq's remaining 40,000 anti-Qaeda militiamen have seen their pay cut by 20 percent this year following a decision by parliament, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP on Tuesday. ... more |
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