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  Beijing (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 China announced the relaxation of some of its hardline Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, after authorities had vowed to stick to a zero-tolerance virus approach despite mounting economic damage. The country is the last major economy welded to a strategy of stamping out virus flare-ups as they occur, through a combination of snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines. Top leaders had pledged to stick "unswervingly" to the policy, which has forced business closures, roiled international s ... read more |
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'Death every day': Fear and fortitude in Uganda's Ebola epicentreKassanda, Uganda (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten and fear hangs in the air while a government medical team prepares the body for the funeral - t ... more 
China's leaders recommit to 'unswerving' zero-Covid policyBeijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 China's leaders said they would not waver from their zero-Covid policy, state media reported Thursday, echoing a vow last week to "unswervingly" stick to the strategy. ... more  
Finland's foresters decry 'unfair' EU climate plansAskola, Finland (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 Standing next to a freshly-cut clearing the size of seven football fields, Finnish forest engineer Matti Jappila pointed to growth rings in an up to 300-year-old tree stump. ... more  
'Threat multiplier': How climate change affects healthParis (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 Deadlier than Covid, or even rivalling cancer? Researchers have been increasingly attempting to calculate the effect climate change will have on health if the world does not act quickly to reduce carbon emissions. ... more |
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Angry at Spain's flood response, 100,000 rally in Valencia
More than 122,000 people evacuated in Malaysia due to floods Floods displace 122,000 people in Malaysia Thailand flooding kills nine, displaces thousands Jihadists, allies breach Syria's second city in lightning assault Jihadists, allies enter Syria's second city in lightning assault Rallies mark one month since Spain's catastrophic floods Traumatised Spain marks one month since catastrophic floods Death toll from Uganda landslides rises to 20: Red Cross Floods kill 8, tens of thousands evacuate in Malaysia, Thailand |
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Macron ends France's Africa mission, ponders new strategyToulon, France (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France was ending its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa after over a decade, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners. ... more  
S.Africa slams 'out of reach' climate aid for poorer nationsSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 South Africa's president, whose coal-dependent country is among the world's top polluters, Tuesday criticised international funders for making it difficult for poorer nations to access aid to fight climate change. ... more  
CO2 pollution from fossil fuels to hit all-time high in 2022Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, scientists said Friday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. ... more  
Scorched Earth: Ukraine war takes heavy toll on climate tooSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 The Ukraine war has shown the heavy toll military conflict takes not just on people but also on the planet, say experts at the UN climate summit in Egypt. ... more |
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World leaders won't attend key biodiversity talks next month: UNParis (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 World leaders will not attend high-stakes UN biodiversity talks in Montreal next month, a top official said Thursday, despite fears their absence could scupper major breakthroughs at the meeting. ... more  
Taliban ban women from parks and funfairs in Afghan capitalKabul, Afghanistan (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital's public parks and funfairs, just months after ordering access to be segregated by gender. The new rule, introduced this week, fu ... more  
Iran army says awaiting orders to tackle Amini protestsTehran (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 Iran's army ground forces commander, Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, said Thursday his troops were awaiting orders from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene against protests over Mahsa Amini's death. ... more  
Bao Tong, Chinese ex-official turned dissident, dead at 90Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 Chinese dissident Bao Tong, a top Communist Party official imprisoned in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who became a vocal critic of Beijing, has died at 90 years old, his son said on Twitter. ... more |
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Turkish journalist on Erdogan's wishlist worries about future in SwedenStockholm (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 A Turkish journalist exiled in Stockholm is increasingly worried he will be used as a bartering chip after Turkey's president singled out his extradition as key to approving Sweden's NATO bid. ... more 
UN accuses Mali army and jihadists of massacresNiamey (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 Mali's army and jihadist groups have carried out massacres and hundreds of human rights violations, the UN said in a report that details previously undocumented abuses against civilians. ... more 
Kenya to send over 900 troops in DR Congo mission; Angolan court jails ex-army officers, bankers for fraudNairobi (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 Kenya's parliament has approved the deployment of more than 900 troops to the conflict-wracked east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a mission that will cost taxpayers $36.5 million for an initial six months. ... more 
Three injured as Eswatini army open fire on protestersMbabane, Eswatini (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 Eswatini armed forces on Thursday opened fire on a group of transport workers protesting the arrest of four colleagues, injuring three people, according to local sources. ... more 
Biden faces high expectations at UN climate talksSharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 11, 2022 US President Joe Biden flies into UN climate talks in Egypt on Friday armed with major domestic achievements against global warming but under pressure to do more for countries reeling from natural disasters. ... more |
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 Mumbai (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still.
The metropolis of Mumbai, one of India's biggest, grew by some eight million people in the past 30 years - the rough equivalent of the whole of New York City - to a population of 20 million, and is forecast to ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Nov 11, 2022 
The space transportation and logistics company D-Orbit has announced the signing of a framework contract with NPC SPACEMIND, an Italian space company specializing in smaller satellite hardware, complete platforms, and end-to-end mission services.
The contract covers the launch and deployment of FUTURA-SM1 and FUTURA-SM3, a 3U and a 6U CubeSats respectively, which will be integrated into NP ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 11, 2022 
Protecting and restoring the degraded arid lakes are globally urgent issues. Lop Nur, known as the "Sea of Death", is located in the Tarim River basin, the largest inland basin in China, and is one of the four unmanned areas in China.
On November 3, 2022, Scientific Reports published a research paper entitled "Active water management brings reliability restore to degraded lakes in dry regi ... more |
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 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 
Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published [DATE] in Nature indicate that existing models have underestimated how much ice will be lost during the 21st century. Hence, its contribution to sea-level rise will be significantly higher.
By 2100, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream will ... more |
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 Platy, Greece (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
Eyes glued to his mobile phone, farmer Sotiris Mournos pores over the latest microclimate and humidity data about his fields on the plain of Imathia in northern Greece.
The high-tech farming techniques he uses are making slow progress in Greece's tradition-bound and struggling agricultural sector, but growers like him see them as key to their future.
Mournos, 25, employs a Greek smart-f ... more |
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 Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 
Dawn is just breaking over the Central African Republic's capital Bangui as Pacome Koyeke glides his dug-out canoe over the silent misty waters of the Ubangui river.
The tributary of the mighty Congo often floods during the rainy season, but this year the water levels have been catastrophic for the nation at the heart of the African continent.
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 Toulon, France (AFP) Nov 9, 2022 
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France was ending its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa after over a decade, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.
The declaration came in a wide-ranging speech reviewing France's strategy where the president also underlined the importance of its nuclear deterrent, as well as relations with Germany ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021  Archaeologists in Italy have discovered more than 20 bronze statues dating back over 2,000 years, which could help rewrite a part of history, Italy's cultural ministry confirmed Tuesday.
The 24 Etruscan figures were discovered inside an ancient Tuscan Thermal spring in San Casciano die Bagni, about 100 miles north of Rome, the ministry said in a statement.
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 10, 2022  The Ukraine war has shown the heavy toll military conflict takes not just on people but also on the planet, say experts at the UN climate summit in Egypt.
From the emissions caused by diesel-powered tanks, fighter jets and missile blasts to urban and forest fires and massive waves of refugees, the conflict has also spewed out huge amounts of greenhouse gases.
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 London (SPX) Nov 08, 2022 
Airbus HAPS Connectivity Business (Airbus HAPS) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Space Compass Corporation of Japan (Space Compass) for a cooperation agreement to service the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and earth observation services from the Stratosphere with Airbus' record breaking Zephyr platform.
Samer Halawi, Chief Executive of Airbus HAPS, commented on the agreem ... more |
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 Bloomington IN (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 
The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth's oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientists at IUPUI, along with colleagues in the United Kingdom.
Evidence for this new view of a remarkably volatile period in Earth's pre-history is reported in the Geological Society of America Bulle ... more |
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2022 
The UN's chief called Tuesday for an end to a "toxic cover-up" by companies as a sweeping report said they cannot claim to be net zero if they invest in new fossil fuels, cause deforestation or offset emissions instead of reducing them.
Antonio Guterres said businesses as well as cities and regions should update their voluntary net zero pledges within a year to comply with the recommendation ... more |
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 Notre Dame, IN (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 
Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo have developed a machine-learning assisted superfast new way to create high-performance, energy-saving thermoelectric devices.
The novel process uses intense pulsed light to sinter thermoelectric material in less than a second (con ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 
World leaders will not attend high-stakes UN biodiversity talks in Montreal next month, a top official said Thursday, despite fears their absence could scupper major breakthroughs at the meeting.
Hopes are high that a new global biodiversity framework will be agreed at the talks, dubbed COP15, despite a long list of targets that have yet to be agreed.
The landmark framework outlines an ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2022 
Chinese dissident Bao Tong, a top Communist Party official imprisoned in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who became a vocal critic of Beijing, has died at 90 years old, his son said on Twitter.
Bao had spent much of the past three decades under home surveillance or in prison following the Chinese military's violent crackdown on the student movement, which called for democratic ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Nov 10, 2022 
Almost one fourth of Sweden's last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years. These findings add to the growing body of evidence for widespread cryptic forest degradation across the global north.
A small fraction of Sweden's forests consists of older forests which have n ... more |
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