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A heavy blizzard dumped wet snow on volunteers rushing to fill sandbags and build temporary dikes to hold off rising flood waters in North Dakota Wednesday as officials prepared to use explosives to break up ice jams on swelling rivers. President Barack Obama issued a federal disaster declaration for 34 counties and two Indian reservations and the entire state was under a major flood warning ... read more 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 25, 2009Australia has issued a new health alert to travellers, warning that Hong Kong's bad air could aggravate some medical conditions. The updated advice on the Department of Foreign Affairs website said "levels of air pollution in Hong Kong may aggravate bronchial, sinus or asthma conditions". "People with existing heart or respiratory illnesses should reduce physical exertion and outdoor act ... more |
Oil giants TotalEnergies, Equinor reduce low-carbon investments
CORRECTED: TotalEnergies reduces low-carbon investments as profit falls TotalEnergies reduces low-carbon investments as profit falls CORRECTED: TotalEnergies annual profit falls, reduces low-carbon energy investments CORRECTED Norway's Equinor scales back renewable energy aims as profit falls No new clothes: S. Korean climate activist targets hyperconsumption Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead' Trump-ordered water release wasted billions of gallons: experts Trump taps 'Sharpiegate' meteorologist to lead top science agency 
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London, UK (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Evolutionary theorist Alastair Clarke has published details of eight patterns he claims to be the basis of all the humour that has ever been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or personal taste. Clarke has stated before that humour is based on the surprise recognition of patterns but this is the first time he has identified the precise nature of the patterns involve ... more  
Norwich, UK (SPX) Mar 26, 2009The Internet could be used as an early warning system for potential ecological disasters, according to researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia. Ecosystem services such as water purification and food production are of fundamental importance for all planetary life. However, these are threatened by sudden changes in ecosystems cau ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2009The weather conditions that lead to Victoria's past two major bushfires may be linked to lower than normal sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean, according to researchers from CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship. The Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983 and the Black Saturday bushfires in February of this year were preceded by months of very dry conditi ... more 
Baghdad (AFP) March 25, 2009Turkish President Abdullah Gul has promised to double the amount of water allocated to Iraq from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Wednesday. The announcement followed two days of talks during Gul's visit to Baghdad, the first in 33 years by a Turkish head of state, on what is a key issue for drought-hit Iraq. "President Gul promised to double ... more |
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SPACE ISAC expands member benefits with access to new testbeds networkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has announced a major new benefit for its members: access to the Accelerating Space Capabilities 100 (ASC-100), an international networ ... more  
Australian innovation detects space phenomena with new technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more 
South Korea, Ireland watchdogs to question DeepSeek on user dataSeoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 Data watchdogs in South Korea and Ireland said Friday they would ask Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to clarify how it manages users' personal information, as governments from around the world turned a spotlight on the service. ... more
  
UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debateLondon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say. ... more 
Life as a chain of machines constructing machinesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 The question of what defines life continues to challenge the biological sciences, with its vast complexity and diversity making it difficult to distill into a single definition. A new study proposes ... more 
OpenAI announces new 'deep research' tool for ChatGPTTokyo (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field. ... more
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Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 Tuberculosis is increasingly becoming an illness linked to HIV, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday in Brazil. One out of every four TB deaths in the world is now related to human immunodeficiency virus, WHO officials said. Data from 2007 shows there were an estimated 1.37 million new cases of TB among HIV-infected people and 456,000 deaths. WHO said there has ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 25, 2009The Dalai Lama's chief negotiator said Wednesday that China lied to President Barack Obama on Tibet and said the spiritual leader would set the record straight when he visits the White House. Obama, meeting this month with China's top diplomat, nudged Beijing gently over its treatment of Tibet and voiced hope for a renewal of talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives which broke down in No ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 25, 2009A Chinese court has officially accepted the first lawsuit seeking compensation for last year's tainted milk scandal, state media said Wednesday, opening up the possibility of a flood of court actions. A district court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang decided on Wednesday that it would hear the suit filed against the Sanlu Group, the dairy firm at the centre of the poisoned milk controver ... more 
Dhaka (AFP) March 25, 2009Bangladeshis celebrating their national independence day Thursday believe that the men guilty of horrendous crimes during the 1971 liberation war may now finally be brought to justice. The alleged war criminals - who sided with what was then West Pakistan - committed brutal murder, rape and arson as they fought against East Pakistan's struggle to become the independent country of Banglades ... more |
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US Navy awards Lockheed Martin $383M for advanced strategic missile developmentLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $383 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to advance the next iteration of the Trident II Strategic Weapons System (SWS) D5 missile, reinforcing ... more 
Iran Guards unveil underground missile facility for naval warfareTehran (AFP) Feb 1, 2025 The naval arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground naval base. ... more 
North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' birthday tours to open: tour agencySeoul (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 A tour operator said Monday it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic. ... more
  
Eyeing Trump and Putin, EU, UK, NATO leaders talk defenceBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 EU leaders huddle Monday with Britain's prime minister and the head of NATO to discuss efforts to boost Europe's defences faced with an aggressive Russia - as Donald Trump demands America's allies spend much more. ... more 
Starmer to urge Europe to 'bear down' on Putin at landmark talksLondon (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 Prime Minister Keir Starmer will urge European leaders to "continue bearing down" on Russian President Vladimir Putin when the UK premier becomes the first to attend a European Council gathering since Brexit on Monday. ... more 
Japan, US ministers express 'firm intent' to reinforce defence allianceTokyo (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 New US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani agreed in a phone call Friday to continue efforts to strengthen the countries' alliance, Tokyo said. ... more
  
Iraqi archaeologists piece together ancient treasures ravaged by ISNimrud, Iraq (AFP) Jan 9, 2025 A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. ... more 
Declassified files show UK anger at Chirac over IraqLondon (AFP) Dec 31, 2024 Newly-declassified UK government documents published Tuesday reveal the frustrations of then-prime minister Tony Blair and his government with French leader Jaques Chirac for blocking UN-backed military action in Iraq in 2003. ... more 
Iraq's prohibition zeal threatens Baghdad's boozy subcultureBaghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2024 The smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol sales in Iraq. ... more
  
Turkey FM calls for regional cooperation to fight PKKBaghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for combined regional efforts to combat outlawed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and neighbouring Syria during a visit to Baghdad on Sunday. ... more 
Turkey says will fight terror after death of Iraqi border guardsIstanbul (AFP) Jan 25, 2025 Turkey vowed on Saturday to work closely with Iraq to secure their common frontier after two Iraqi border guards were killed in a shooting blamed on outlawed PKK militants. ... more
Four killed in Iraq strike blamed on Turkey: sourcesSulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 Four people were killed on Monday in an air strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish sources said. ... more |
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