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Friend or foe? Texas open-carry gun law under scrutiny
Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)
When shots rang out in Dallas last week, police zeroed in -- wrongly -- on men in camouflage gear carrying powerful military-grade rifles. People can carry such...
A new way to detect hidden damage in bridges, roads
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Aging, deterioration and extreme events like earthquakes and hurricanes can take a toll on roads, bridges and other structures. With damage and defects often in...
Nepal selling rice donated for quake victims
Jul 06, 2016 (AFP)
Nepal is selling thousands of tonnes of rice donated by China and Bangladesh to help earthquake victims, an official said Wednesday, despite aid agencies warnin...
Pacific Ocean radiation back near normal after Fukushima: study
Jul 04, 2016 (AFP)
Radiation levels across the Pacific Ocean are rapidly returning to normal five years after a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant spewed gases and liquids in...
Tears, smoke and loss at site of deadly Baghdad blast
Jul 03, 2016 (AFP)
A weeping Zainab Mustafa brought a photo of her husband to the still-smouldering site of a bloody bombing in Baghdad Sunday, seeking word of him and their two m...
Police raids as tensions mount in Italy's Chinatown
Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)
Italian police said Friday they had raided nine premises in the country's biggest Chinatown as part of an investigation into a criminal gang suspected of being ...
Radioactive cesium fallout on Tokyo from Fukushima concentrated in glass microparticles
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
New research shows that most of the radioactive fallout which landed on downtown Tokyo a few days after the Fukushima accident was concentrated and deposited in...
US House plans vote on gun control next week
Jun 30, 2016 (AFP)
The US House of Representatives will vote next week on a measure aimed at blocking terror suspects from purchasing guns, House Speaker Paul Ryan told lawmakers ...
More than 130 in hospital after China chemical plant leak
Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)
More than 130 people were taken to hospital after chemicals leaked from a plant in eastern China, state media reported Tuesday, the country's latest accident in...
Iraq screening 20,000 to stop IS infiltrators: army
Jun 25, 2016 (AFP)
Iraq is screening 20,000 people leaving the Fallujah area to stop jihadists of the Islamic State group escaping among civilians displaced by fighting, the army ...
Study explains why an increase in probability feels riskier
Jun 23, 2016 (UPI)
A new study suggests upward swings in probability make predictions feel more likely to human interpreters. For example, a person is more apt to take an umbrella...
US Democrats end marathon gun control sit-in
Jun 23, 2016 (AFP)
Democratic lawmakers pushing for tougher US gun control laws after the Orlando nightclub massacre ended a stunning 24-hour sit-in at Congress on Thursday. But t...
4,500 migrants rescued in wave of Med crossings
Jun 23, 2016 (AFP)
About 4,500 migrants were rescued from rubber dinghies in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said, averting another potential high seas disas...
US House Democrats stage sit-in to demand action on guns
Jun 22, 2016 (AFP)
US Democrats staged a rare sit-in Wednesday in the House of Representatives, demanding that the Republican-led body vote on gun-control legislation following th...
French soldiers in C. Africa face physical abuse probe
Jun 20, 2016 (AFP)
Paris prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that French troops beat up, or stood by while others beat up two people in the Centra...
Eight buried in Tibet landslide: Xinhua
Jun 18, 2016 (AFP)
Eight people have been buried in a landslide following heavy rain in eastern Tibet, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying Saturday. Nine people were shelter...
UN: Countries slow to deliver promised peacekeeping contributions
Jun 17, 2016 (AFP)
Of the 46 countries that pledged to provide resources to maintain United Nations peace operations, 14 have failed completely or only partially kept their promis...
Iraq's Fallujah faces 'disaster', NGO warns
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
Under fire and nearing starvation, thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped in the jihadist bastion of Fallujah face a "humanitarian disaster", a prominent Norwegia...
Hundreds left homeless after Sri Lanka depot blast
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
Hundreds of Sri Lankans have been left homeless after explosions at an ammunition depot on the edge of Colombo flattened houses and killed a soldier, an officia...
Sri Lanka races to defuse bombs after depot blast
Jun 06, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lankan police were Monday racing to defuse unexploded bombs that fell on villages near the capital overnight and destroyed hundreds of homes, after a huge a...
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