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Civilians trickle towards Iraq forces in new Mosul assault
Feb 21, 2017 (AFP)
On the edge of the village of Al-Buseif, captured overnight from the Islamic State group by Iraqi forces advancing on western Mosul, a federal policeman signall...
British Museum training Iraqi experts to save Mosul heritage
Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)
As Iraqi forces fight to take back Mosul from the Islamic State group, archaeologists trained by the British Museum are preparing for another battle -- trying t...
DR Congo snubs calls for inquiry of massacre video
Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday flatly rejected international calls to investigate a video purporting to show a massacre of unarmed men and women by ...
Bringing satellites to users can improve public health and safety
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
The drumbeat calling scientists to share their work with the public is as loud as ever, and Tracey Holloway is happy to answer. It's just that education isn't e...
'Scorpion' robot mission inside Fukushima reactor aborted
Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)
A "scorpion" robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced meltdown had its mission aborted after the probe...
Free hairdos to boost confidence of displaced Iraqi women
Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)
Twice a month, beautician Chnoor Khezri takes her equipment to a camp near Mosul and gives displaced Iraqi women who have lost everything a proper pampering and...
Myanmar jade mine landslide kills 9: official
Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)
A landslide in northern Myanmar's jade mining region has killed 9 people, a local official said Saturday, the latest fatal incident to strike the shadowy billio...
Justice for victims of Nepal's civil war slips away
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
Shanti Dhakal's husband disappeared without a trace nearly two decades ago at the height of Nepal's brutal Maoist insurgency, presumed murdered by police for ha...
Facebook adds tool for helping in times of crisis
Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)
Facebook on Wednesday updated its Safety Check feature with a way for people to lend, or get, helping hands after disasters. A new "Community Help" feature prov...
Afghans dig with 'any tools possible' for avalanche survivors
Feb 07, 2017 (AFP)
Afghan villagers were digging with shovels and whatever else they could find in a desperate race Tuesday to save survivors days after avalanches buried whole vi...
Radiation level in Fukushima plant at record high
Feb 03, 2017 (AFP)
Radiation levels inside a stricken reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high capable of shutting down robots, in the latest challenge to...
Six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out life on Earth
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
If you ask yourself what the biggest threat to human existence is you'd probably think of nuclear war, global warming or a large-scale pandemic disease. But ass...
Climate change drove population decline in New World before Europeans arrived
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
What caused the rapid disappearance of a vibrant Native American agrarian culture that lived in urban settlements from the Ohio River Valley to the Mississippi ...
Hollande urges Trump to 'respect' principle of accepting refugees
Jan 28, 2017 (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday warned his new US counterpart Donald Trump against adopting a protectionist stance and called on him to respect t...
Rich? Scared about the Trumpocalypse? Try New Zealand
Jan 28, 2017 (AFP)
The elevation of an unpredictable billionaire to the helm of nuclear-armed America has given fresh impetus to the idea of remote New Zealand as a bulwark for ci...
Leidos receives CBRNE simulation task order
Jan 27, 2017 (UPI)
Leidos has received a task order to provide modeling and simulation support for the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Under the contract, which contains two...
Anguish and miracles: avalanche dramas captivate Italy
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
In the anxious days since an avalanche engulfed the Hotel Rigopiano in Italy on January 18, wrenching scenes and heart-stirring strokes of luck have riveted the...
Haitians face deportation as 2010 quake reprieve expires
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
Bernedy Prosper is afraid his 23-year-old son Harold will die if he is deported from the United States back to Haiti. Prosper, 52, had hoped Harold could benefi...
Italy avalanche toll at 15 as helicopter crash adds to pain
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
The death toll from an avalanche that swamped an Italian mountain hotel rose to 15 Tuesday, with 14 still missing, as a nearby helicopter crash left six people ...
Archaeologists shed new light on collapse of Mayan civilization
Jan 23, 2017 (UPI)
Archaeologists have created the most precise timeline of Mayan civilization, offering new insights into the ancient people's downfall. As part of a new survey o...
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