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Why civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria are increasing
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
The Pentagon vehemently denies this, and insists its targeting procedures and protocols to avoid civilian casualties have not changed. Here is a look at what is...
UN braces for up to 200,000 Iraqis to flee Mosul
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces launched the operation to retake Mosul in October, advancing on the city and recapturing its eastern side before setting their sights on the smalle...
Airbus Foundation and Airbus BizLab seek innovative concepts for humanitarian challenges
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The projects will be hosted by the Airbus BizLab business accelerator, which performs an important "facilitator" role for start-ups by providing a six month acc...
Countries most affected by weather disasters do not spend more on weather services
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
Identifying countries for which this is true and improving the design and delivery of weather and climate services in these locations could lead to better decis...
Brazil president backtracks on troop deployment after riots
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
Critics interpreted the troop deployment as a sign of desperation by a president fighting for his political life after a corruption scandal reached his doorstep...
Witnesses to trauma can develop irrational fears
May 25, 2017 (UPI)
But such learning experience can also fuel irrational or debilitating fears. New research suggests the brain's endogenous opioid system can help people learn th...
Massive slide buries stretch of iconic California highway
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
The slide on one of America's most picturesque highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabited area known as Mud Creek. The road in ...
Trump budget calls for deep cuts to social safety net
May 23, 2017 (AFP)
The plan claims it would help balance the budget within 10 years -- in large part by rolling back benefits that have helped tens of millions of lower-income Ame...
58,000 Haitians facing deportation get US extension
May 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Haitians were facing orders to return home from July 23 if the department did not renew their so-called Temporary Protected Status, granted after a magnitud...
NASA Lab's Life-Saving Work
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
Employees at NASA's Search and Rescue office spend their days advancing systems critical to locating and saving people in distress, whether from an aviation, ma...
DR Congo, China most affected by displacements in 2016: report
May 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Democratic Republic of Congo had a spike of 922,000 new displacements caused by conflict last year, more than Syria with 824,000 and Iraq with 659,000, said...
Hong Kong 'Snowden refugees' face deportation: lawyer
May 15, 2017 (AFP)
The impoverished Philippine and Sri Lankan refugees helped the former National Security Agency contractor evade authorities in 2013 by hiding him in their cramp...
Healthcare bill inspires road rage: Tenn. woman tries to run Congressman off road
May 14, 2017 (UPI)
On Saturday, Wendi Wright, a 35-year-old woman from Obion County, followed a car carrying Congressman David Kustoff, R-Tenn., and his aide. When Kustoff's ride ...
New fiber-based sensor could quickly detect structural problems in bridges and dams
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
"With fiber-based sensors, it is possible to precisely detect erosion or cracking before a dam fails, for example," said Alejandro Dominguez-Lopez from the Univ...
Affluent countries contribute less to wildlife conservation than the rest of the world
May 08, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) have assessed how much, or little, individual countries contribute to protecting the wor...
Marine Le Pen: far-right firebrand who has shaken up French politics
May 07, 2017 (AFP)
The 48-year-old anti-EU and anti-immigration "candidate of the people" scored between 33.9 and 35 percent of the vote, projections showed -- double her father J...
20 sentenced to prison for deadly 2015 China landslide
May 06, 2017 (AFP)
The disaster occurred in Shenzhen, a southern boom town bordering Hong Kong, at the end of 2015 when soil illegally piled some 160 metres (500 feet) high at an ...
US opioid crisis at epidemic proportions
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
West Virginia, a mountainous state of less than two million people, is among the hardest hit, given the economic hardship in an area once dominated by coal mini...
EU urges China to curb dinghy sales in migrant trafficking fight
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
About 1.4 million refugees and migrants have made their way to Europe since 2015, many fleeing Syria's bloody civil war, in the biggest wave of migration the co...
When bridges collapse; Are we underestimating the risks
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Case in point is a bridge along California's iconic Big Sur coast, which collapsed in March, isolating communities and costing local businesses millions of doll...
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