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  Shanghai (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Midday queues snake out to the street in an upmarket Shanghai neighbourhood, but it's not lunch at the city's hottest restaurant that people are lining up for - it's cosmetic "micro-procedures", which are surging in popularity in China. The "lunchtime facelift" and other "medical aesthetics" procedures are booming as a new generation of Chinese consumers grapple with the pressure to look good on social media as well as in person. Kayla Zhang has never actually gone under the knife for cosmetic ... read more |
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Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near youLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Driverless plows and autonomous tools to weed vegetable plots are the latest innovations ready to help farmers juggling labor shortages, climate change and environmental protection, while trying to feed a growing world population. ... more  
Most countries may see annual heat extremes every second year: studyParis (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Almost every country on Earth could experience extremely hot years every other year by 2030, according to new research Thursday highlighting the outsized contribution of emissions from the world's major polluters. ... more  
Calling Omicron 'mild' a mistake, warns WHOGeneva (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday. ... more  
Spain volcano island residents return home to battle ashLos Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 For weeks they dreamt of returning to the homes they fled when a volcano erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma. ... more |
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Too much water: Gold rush, climate change submerge Bolivian village
'Miracle' as man survives seven hours under Norway avalanche Ecuador battles spreading oil slick, residents without water Japan begins its first dismantling of a commercial nuclear reactor At least 33 dead as tornadoes ravage central US At least 27 dead as tornadoes ravage central US Major storm in central US leaves at least 18 dead Major storm in central US leaves at least 14 dead: officials Dozens evacuated in Italy's flood-hit Tuscany Florence cathedral closed as Italy's Tuscany on flood alert |
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Cambodian prime minister visits coup-hit MyanmarYangon (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 Cambodia's strongman ruler Hun Sen arrived in Myanmar Friday for talks with the junta - the first foreign leader to visit since the generals seized power almost a year ago. ... more  
Zimbabwe game park to receive $15 mn from new wildlife fundHarare (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 One of Zimbabwe's biggest wildlife reserves is to receive US$1 million annually from a brand-new fund to help sustain its operations and fight poaching, German conservationists said on Wednesday. ... more 
Japan seeks restrictions on US troops after virus surgeTokyo (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi urged his US counterpart Thursday to consider restricting American troop movement in the country after a surge in Covid cases on bases and surrounding communities. ... more  
Chinese national pleads guilty to economic espionageWashington (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to steal a trade secret from American agribusiness giant Monsanto, the Justice Department said. ... more  
Iran rescues 11 Indian sailors after vessel sinks: mediaTehran (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Iranian coastguards rescued 11 Indian sailors whose vessel, en route to Oman, sank due to bad weather conditions, state media reported on Wednesday. ... more |
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How China is keeping to its strict 'zero Covid' strategyBeijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 The distressing case of a pregnant Chinese woman miscarrying after a strict lockdown delayed her access to medical treatment has reignited debate over the limits of China's zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19. ... more 
Cyprus limits social gatherings under Covid tsunamiNicosia (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Cypriot authorities on Wednesday announced stricter controls on social gatherings to tackle the world's worst Covid-19 infection rate per capita. ... more  
18 militiamen killed in DR Congo fighting: armyBukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 DR Congo's armed forces said Wednesday they had killed 18 militiamen and lost two soldiers in an ambush in a troubled region in the country's eastern highlands. ... more 
China voices opposition to Eritrea sanctions as FM visitsNairobi (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 China voiced its opposition to unilateral sanctions on Eritrea during a visit Wednesday by its foreign minister to the Horn of Africa nation. ... more 
Protesters storm mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest cityAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 Protesters stormed the mayor's office in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Wednesday as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control. ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 5, 2022 
Iranian coastguards rescued 11 Indian sailors whose vessel, en route to Oman, sank due to bad weather conditions, state media reported on Wednesday.
"The boat - that was heading to the port of Sohar in Oman yesterday - came toward Iranian waters due to storms, bad weather conditions and technical problems," acting governor of Jask County (south), Ali Mehrani, was quoted as saying by state br ... more |
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 Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
A jacket equipped with sensors that let wearers feel hugs or even punches in virtual reality was among the innovations giving the metaverse a more realistic edge at the Consumer Electronics Show.
"What is the metaverse if you can't feel it?" asked Jose Fuertes, founder of the Spain-based startup Owo, which made the jacket. "It's just avatars."
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 
There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms go about their daily lives in the water columns, and now researchers have discovered that some of them produce oxygen in an unexpected way.
Oxygen is vital for life on Earth, and is mainly produced by plants, algae and cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. A few microbes ar ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Understanding the surges and retreats of Alaska's Malaspina Glacier is key if climate change models are to be applied to the glacier with confidence. Work by graduate student Victor Devaux-Chupin at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is providing some answers.
The Malaspina consists of three lobes, each fed by its own glacier. The Agassiz glacier becomes the Malaspina ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to steal a trade secret from American agribusiness giant Monsanto, the Justice Department said.
Xiang Haitao, 44, was employed as an imaging scientist by Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017, the department said in a statement.
Xiang pleaded guilty in Missouri, where Monsanto is based, to one c ... more |
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 Los Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
For weeks they dreamt of returning to the homes they fled when a volcano erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma.
Now that they are finally trickling back to them, their joy is tempered by finding everything covered in a sea of ash.
"It's another world," said Felix Rodriguez, a 61-year-old bricklayer, as he swept ash from the roof of his house to the terrace below.
He was one of ar ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
Three Eritrean refugees, including two children, were killed by an air strike that hit a refugee camp in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where the government has been waging a year-long war against rebels, the United Nations said Thursday.
"I am deeply saddened to learn that three Eritrean refugees, two of them children, were killed yesterday, in an airstrike that hit the Mai Aini refugee camp in ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2022 
Among our closest living relatives - the great apes - we humans are unique: We have larger brains, reproduce more quickly and have longer life spans. These traits are obviously valuable, but the extra energy required to sustain them is quite significant. So how did we manage to afford them?
A group of anthropologists from UC Santa Barbara, the University of Utah and Duke University have te ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Jan 01, 2022 
While the entire world focuses on achieving carbon neutrality - zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - a new research shows climate change in some regions is inevitable even if the already increased CO2 level is reduced. As CO2 decreases, the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) shifts southwards, which can trigger persistent El Nino conditions. El Nino refers to a phenomenon in which the sea su ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2021 
China launched the Tianhui 4 satellite into space on Wednesday evening from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The State-owned space contractor said the satellite was deployed by a Long March 2D carrier rocket that blasted off at 7:13 pm and has entered orbit.
Tianhui 4, built by the compa ... more |
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 Hanover NH (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Evidence arguing for a "whiff of oxygen" before the Earth's Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago are chemical signatures that were probably introduced at a much later time, according to research published in Science Advances.
The result rewinds previous research findings that atmospheric oxygen existed prior to the so-called Great Oxygenation Event-known to researchers as "GOE"- a ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) Jan 6, 2022 
A Lebanese mountain town home to 70,000 Syrian refugees declared a "fuel emergency" Thursday, warning that soaring heating fuel prices would spell tragedy as winter starts to bite.
The town of Arsal, also home to 40,000 Lebanese, lies at an altitude of 1,400 metres (4,900 feet) and is regularly among the communities worst affected by harsh winters.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 04, 2022 
Up until she served in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Rachel Bielajew was open to a career reboot. Having studied nuclear engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduate school had been on her mind. But seeing the drastic impacts of climate change play out in real-time in Malawi - the lives of the country's subsistence farmers swing wildly, depending on the rains ... more |
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 Harare (AFP) Jan 4, 2022  A woman and her three-month-old baby in southeastern Zimbabwe have been trampled to death by an elephant, the national parks authority said on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old woman from rural Chipinge district had taken her baby to visit relatives in a neighbouring community on New Year's Day and was returning home when they encountered a herd of elephants.
"An elephant then suddenly attacked a ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
Midday queues snake out to the street in an upmarket Shanghai neighbourhood, but it's not lunch at the city's hottest restaurant that people are lining up for - it's cosmetic "micro-procedures", which are surging in popularity in China.
The "lunchtime facelift" and other "medical aesthetics" procedures are booming as a new generation of Chinese consumers grapple with the pressure to look g ... more |
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 Golgubip, Papua New Guinea (AFP) Dec 22, 2021 
In Papua New Guinea's isolated Star Mountains, Indigenous people say the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. But both have a price on their heads.
These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear the forests they live in, one of Earth's last great wilderness areas, could soon fall to axe and bulldozer.
"Old peopl ... more |
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