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Evaluating forecasts of extreme events
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent article, statisticians Dr. Sebastian Lerch and Prof. Tilmann Gneiting (both affiliated with HITS and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), togethe...
At least 97 migrants missing as boat sinks off Libya
Apr 13, 2017 (AFP)
Survivors said the missing include 15 women and five children, General Ayoub Qassem told AFP. He said the Libyan coastguard had rescued a further 23 migrants of...
US says ending UN mission in Haiti is a 'strong example'
Apr 12, 2017 (AFP)
US Ambassador Nikki Haley made the remarks ahead of a vote Thursday at the UN Security Council on ending the 13-year mission by October 15 and replacing it with...
Glowing bacteria detect buried landmines
Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)
The major technical challenge in clearing minefields is detecting the mines. The technologies used today are not much different from those used in World War II,...
Victims of military torture fear Mexico security bill
Apr 11, 2017 (AFP)
One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned with acid and choking on earth as so...
General Dynamics marks milestone for U.S. border systems
Apr 11, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognized full operating capability for the border surveillance system upgrades delivered by General Dynamics. General...
Lebanon army order evicts 3,000 Syria refugees from camps
Apr 11, 2017 (AFP)
Around 3,000 Syrian refugees have left their tents in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after oral eviction orders issued last month by the army, Human Rights Watch told A...
Near Mosul, soldiers and displaced meet at the spa
Apr 10, 2017 (AFP)
Hammam al-Alil's sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the civilians fleeing it meet for a rare moment of...
China probes chief of top insurance regulator
Apr 09, 2017 (AFP)
China has opened an investigation into the head of its top insurance regulatory body, the anti-corruption watchdog said Sunday in an announcement that could sig...
Colombia orders protection for musdlide town
Apr 09, 2017 (AFP)
Colombia's government on Sunday ordered measures to protect the stricken town of Mocoa from deforestation thought to have contributed to a deadly mudslide. The ...
Over 6,000 flee 'terrifying' violence in S.Sudan town: UN
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
More than 6,000 people have fled fighting in southern South Sudan, with refugees recounting the slaughter of civilians by armed forces, the United Nations refug...
After US strikes, Syria attack victims dream of Assad ouster
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
Emerging dazed but well after three days of treatment in Turkey following the suspected chemical attack in Syria, Ahmad Raheel says he is happy with US air stri...
World's oldest dental fillings found in Italy
Apr 07, 2017 (UPI)
Each of the two teeth feature large cavities. Marking on the walls of the holes suggest the cavities were hollowed out and enlarged by stone tools. While analyz...
Pride and pain as Mosul doctors treat their own
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
Every time a patient is stretchered into the Athbah field hospital south of Mosul, doctor Sultan prays it isn't his sister or brother. Most of the medical staff...
Trump's visceral response prompts Syria strikes
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
Donald Trump's missile barrage on Syria -- the first major military gambit of his presidency -- revealed a leader fueled by instinct and emotion, and one willin...
Mosul zoo lion and bear flown out of Iraq
Apr 07, 2017 (UPI)
A group of veterinarians from the Four Paws International charity took the animals out of war-battered Mosul and after many administrative delays finally manage...
As the richer get richer, carbon emissions rise, new research shows
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
According to analysis by Boston College researchers, states in which wealth is more concentrated at the top burned more carbon between 1997 and 2012. Scientists...
New Armenian temple is beacon of hope for Yazidis
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
A gleaming white structure topped with seven domes, set to be the world's biggest Yazidi temple, is being built in a tiny village in Armenia. Long persecuted, m...
Mosul humanitarian crisis deepens as displacement peaks
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
The fighting in west Mosul has forced up to 15,000 people to flee their homes every day recently, straining humanitarian resources and leaving many in very diff...
Colombia opens probe into deadly landslide
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
As survivors braved the increasingly sickening smell of decomposing flesh to find their loved ones, Colombian authorities on Thursday investigated who is to bla...
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