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What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidics
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
In addition, the material is capable of "microdroplet manipulation," or the transfer of miniature volumes of liquid. Droplet-based microfluidics is a tool used ...
One killed as landslide engulfs houses in Japan
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
"A man's body has been recovered" at the site of the landslide in a mountainous area of Nakatsu city, a municipal official said. Local officials said the body h...
Bank of America takes a stance on assault weapons
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
"We want to contribute in any way we can to reduce these mass shootings," the bank's vice chair Anne Finucane told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday, referring to...
7 Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years over Rohingya killings: army
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
The bloody incident in Inn Din village on 2 September is the only atrocity to which the military has admitted during its violent crackdown in northern Rakhine s...
Arizona deploys first 225 National Guard members to Mexico border
Apr 09, 2018 (AFP)
"The Arizona National Guard will deploy 225 members of the Guard today to support border security measures," the state militia said in a statement. Governor Dou...
After 'Trump Effect,' illegal Mexico border crossings rebound
Apr 05, 2018 (AFP)
Data on border apprehension for March released late Wednesday indicates undocumented immigrants are pouring into the country at the highest level in four years....
BlackRock to exclude Walmart from some new funds over guns
Apr 05, 2018 (AFP)
BlackRock said a number of new funds will screen for major gun retailers as well as gun manufacturers. The company also plans to review several existing equity ...
Trump to send thousands of troops to border as Mexico spat heats up
Apr 05, 2018 (AFP)
The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would "probably" keep many personnel on the bor...
Trump vows to deploy military to Mexican border
Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)
The US leader has spent three days attacking the Mexican government for failing to block the estimated 1,500 people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador fro...
Boat carrying Rohingya stops on Thai island: official
Apr 01, 2018 (AFP)
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter in southern Bangladesh since Myanmar launched a brutal crackdown on insurgents in August that the US and UN ...
Army to withdraw from street patrols in Guatemala
Mar 31, 2018 (AFP)
"This Saturday is the last day that the army will support the police. From Sunday, soldiers have to return to their brigades," an interior ministry source who r...
In Fukushima ghost town, a factory on the road to rebirth
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
Tsunami waves inundated Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, ripping buildings from their foundations and triggering a...
Where Chinese space station Tiangong falls to Earth still a mystery
Mar 30, 2018 (UPI)
In the words of the European Space Station: "This is highly variable." What is clear, is that it's very hard to track pieces of space junk like Tiangong. "There...
Haiti installs leaders of reborn army
Mar 28, 2018 (AFP)
Human rights activists have criticized the choice of the general and five colonels who will lead the army, as they are members of the old guard. One of the colo...
US says others should pay bigger share of UN peacekeeping bill
Mar 28, 2018 (AFP)
The largest financial contributor to UN peacekeeping, the United States last year negotiated a $600 million cut to that budget, but Haley made clear the adminis...
Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland's conversion to Christianity
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists and medieval historians, led by the University of Cambridge, has used information contained within ice cores and tree rings to accurately d...
Former Supreme Court justice backs repealing Second Amendment
Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)
John Paul Stevens made the call in an op-ed in The New York Times three days after the "March for Our Lives," nationwide protests that were the largest in suppo...
Land decay to displace tens of millions, global survey warns
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
Already, land decay caused by unsustainable farming, mining, pollution, and city expansion is undermining the well-being of some 3.2 billion people -- 40 percen...
UN chief hits out at Myanmar army chief over Rohingya comments
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
Guterres said he was "shocked" at reports of General U Min Aung Hlaing's remarks at a military gathering and urged Myanmar's leaders to "take a unified stance a...
In 'city of shanasheel', Iraqi heritage crumbles from neglect
Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)
Today, the Iraqi retiree can only watch as the hallmarks of his hometown -- "the city of shanasheel" -- crumble out of neglect. Authorities in Basra, the capita...
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