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Agonising rescue ahead for Thai cave boys as nation rejoices
Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)
The 12 young boys and their football coach were discovered rake thin and hungry on a mound of mud surrounded by water late Monday, ending an agonising search th...
Artificial intelligence accurately predicts distribution of radioactive fallout
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
A means of overcoming this difficulty has been presented in a new study reported in the journal Scientific Reports by a research team at The University of Tokyo...
Thai rescuers establish base deep inside cave where boys trapped
Jul 01, 2018 (AFP)
Monsoon rains have complicated the frantic search for the children, aged 11 to 16, and the coach who have not been heard from since they ventured into the Tham ...
Facial recognition was key in identifying US shooting suspect
Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)
Police said suspect Jarrod Ramos, who had a prior arrest record, had refused to cooperate with authorities after he was taken into custody and that his fingerpr...
Libya navy bemoans lack of EU support over migrants
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
"We don't get any support, either from inside the country or from overseas," said Ayoub Kacem, spokesman for the navy which oversees Libya's coastguard, adding ...
Nearly 1,000 migrants rescued off Libya coast: navy
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
Three separate operations took place on Sunday with the coastguard bringing ashore in Libya a total of 948 migrants, navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem said. The migran...
NATO says ready to help Italy in Libya
Jun 24, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, Stoltenberg said: "NATO is ready to help Libya construct its security institutions". NATO experts were already "in cont...
Split families in limbo amid Trump immigration chaos
Jun 23, 2018 (AFP)
While the US leader bowed to global outrage over the splitting of families, conflicting messages were contributing to a sense of chaos in the handling of the cr...
Pentagon to prepare 20,000 beds for migrant children
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
The decision follows a request from the US Department of Health and Human Services "to determine its capabilities to provide up to 20,000 temporary beds for una...
US military to help prosecute migrant cases
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
Under a "zero tolerance" policy, the United States has been arresting every illegal border-crosser but the measure has failed to stop the flow of migrants from ...
Economic optimization risks tipping of Earth system elements
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
The scientists use mathematical experiments to compare economic optimization to the governance concepts of sustainability and the more recent approach of a safe...
Four US states refuse to deploy National Guard to border amid outcry
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
The Democratic governors of Colorado and New York and the Republican governors of Maryland and Massachusetts all said they would not send members of their state...
Macron backs Merkel in German row over migrants
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
"Countries are committed to the paths taken by their heads of state or government," he told reporters. "Germany also has a head of government," he said of Merke...
Landslides kill 12 as monsoon batters Rohingya refugees
Jun 12, 2018 (AFP)
Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe over the coming months as heavy rains lash an area home to the world's largest re...
Science of squeezed oranges may help detection of failing bridges
Jun 12, 2018 (UPI)
In a new study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of Central Florida characterize...
First public forecasts from ViEWS, a political violence early-warning system
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
The ViEWS project (2017-2021) is an ERC Advanced Grant project, led by Havard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjold Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala Univer...
Puerto Rico morgue overflowing with unclaimed bodies
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
The bodies of 307 people are now being kept in the morgue and in four refrigerated containers in a nearby lot, the authorities said. "The situation in light of ...
$3bn pledged for girls education at G7, delighting Malala
Jun 10, 2018 (AFP)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who hosted his fellow leaders at a Quebec resort, called it "the single largest investment in education for women and gi...
Merkel open to EU migration reform, Spain takes in stranded migrant ship
Jun 10, 2018 (AFP)
"I'm not saying that none of the things he wants will happen," Merkel said in an interview with ARD public television. But the 40-year-old French leader has pla...
Peace needs at least 15 years: Colombian president
Jun 01, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking before the UN Labour Organization's annual assembly, Santos stressed that "peace is much more than just silencing the weapons." "Building peace is like...
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