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  Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2022 People in China reacted with joy and rushed to book flights overseas Tuesday after Beijing said it would scrap mandatory Covid quarantine for overseas arrivals, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation. In a snap move late Monday, China said from January 8 inbound travellers would no longer be required to quarantine on arrival in a further unwinding of hardline coronavirus controls that had torpedoed its economy and sparked nationwide protests. Cases have surged nationwide as key pill ... read more |
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Blizzards leave nearly 50 dead across US; and 17 dead in JapanBuffalo (AFP) Dec 27, 2022 Emergency crews in New York were scrambling Monday to rescue marooned residents from what authorities called the "blizzard of the century," a relentless storm that has left nearly 50 people dead across the United States and caused Christmas travel chaos. ... more  
Philippines floods force tens of thousands to flee homesManila (AFP) Dec 26, 2022 Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday. ... more 
Xi urges steps to 'protect' lives as China battles Covid waveBeijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials on Monday to take steps to protect lives in his first public remarks on Covid-19 since Beijing dramatically loosened hardline containment measures this month. ... more  
Malaysia campsite landslide search ends with 31 deadKuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 Rescuers have called off the search for bodies after a massive, predawn landslide blanketed a campsite north of Malaysia's capital killing 31 people, officials said on Saturday. ... more |
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Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Male panda at Dutch zoo turns out to be female; Mystery of glass frog transparencyThe Hague (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 A two-year-old giant panda at a Dutch zoo has caused a stir by turning out to be a female and not a male as initially thought. ... more 
Fly away home: rare Eastern Sarus cranes released in ThailandBuriram, Thailand (AFP) Dec 27, 2022 As the sun came up, 13 Thai Eastern Sarus cranes were released over a rippling reservoir in northeast Thailand, the latest effort to revive the almost-extinct species in the kingdom. ... more  
Canadian polar bears disappearing fast: studyOttawa (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Polar bears are disappearing fast from the Western part of Hudson Bay, on the southern tip of the Canadian Arctic, according to a new government survey. ... more 
China to stop publishing daily Covid figures-NHCBeijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2022 China will no longer publish daily figures for Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice that began in early 2020. ... more |
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Eighteen trapped in Xinjiang gold mine collapseBeijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2022 Rescuers were working Sunday to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported. ... more  
Togo president sacks army minister and army chiefLome (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has sacked the country's armed forces minister and appointed a new chief of staff as part of a major military reshuffle announced on state television. ... more 
Ivory Coast team in Mali for talks on detained soldiersBamako (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers, Malian officials said. ... more 
Ethiopia's warring parties agree to ceasefire monitorNairobi (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Ethiopia's government and Tigray's rebel forces have agreed to create a joint monitoring body to ensure a peace deal to end the country's brutal war is respected by all sides. ... more |
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Two rangers killed in attack in famed DR Congo reserveGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 Two rangers have been killed and another wounded by suspected militiamen in the world famous Virunga National Park in DR Congo's volatile east, authorities said on Saturday. ... more  
Falsehoods plague elections as voters tackle Trumpian tacticsWashington (AFP) Dec 27, 2022 From the United States to Brazil and Israel, a barrage of election-related misinformation hammered voters around the world in 2022, but many pushed back against the conspiracy-laden Trumpian tactic of sowing distrust in the democratic process. ... more  
Three Peru police generals, others arrested in alleged graft plotLima (AFP) Dec 26, 2022 Authorities in Peru arrested three police generals and three other people on Monday for alleged involvement in the corruption case against ousted president Pedro Castillo, the interior ministry said. ... more 
Fiji govt accused of stoking fear to stay in power as troops deployedSuva, Fiji (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Fiji's opposition on Friday accused the government of sowing "fear and chaos" in a bid to stay in power, as the military deployed to the streets of the capital Suva. ... more 
'Give me my youth back': students return to forefront of China protestsBeijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 Students played a major role in recent nationwide rallies that sprouted up across China, upholding a long tradition of campus protest in the country and challenging the cliche that their generation is more apolitical than the last. ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 24, 2022 
Rescuers have called off the search for bodies after a massive, predawn landslide blanketed a campsite north of Malaysia's capital killing 31 people, officials said on Saturday.
According to police, 92 people, including dozens of children, were sleeping at the unlicensed campsite at an organic farm in Batang Kali, Selangor state on December 16 when tonnes of soil and mud thundered down a hil ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
NASA's Near Space Network enables spacecraft exploring the solar system and Earth to send back essential science data for researchers and scientists to investigate and make profound discoveries.
Now, the network has integrated four new global antennas to further support science and exploration missions. In December 2022, antennas in Fairbanks, Alaska; Wallops Island, Virginia; Punta Arenas ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
The Earth's deep-sea trenches are some of the least explored places on Earth - as they are very difficult to access, are pitch black and the pressure is extremely high. Collecting samples and making reliable measurements of the processes that regulate the turnover of organic material in the deep is therefore difficult.
In recent years, however, researchers from the Danish Center for Hadal ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
Researchers have discovered a process that can contribute to the melting of ice shelves in the Antarctic. An international team of scientists found that adjacent ice shelves play a role in causing instability in others downstream.
The study, led by the University of East Anglia in the UK, also identified that a small ocean gyre - a system of circulating ocean currents - next to the Thwaite ... more |
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 Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
High fertiliser prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests.
The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tonnes of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of food price rises than feared, researchers say.
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 Manila (AFP) Dec 26, 2022 
Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday.
Eleven people were killed and 19 others were missing after a week's worth of heavy seasonal rain in the southern and eastern regions of the country, they said, updating earlier official figures.
The flooding hit the south on Sunday, with the disaste ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 
An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers, Malian officials said.
The West African bloc ECOWAS has given Mali until year's end to release the troops, whom the ruling junta has branded "mercenaries".
The dispute erupted on July 10, when 49 Ivorian soldiers were arrested upon arrival at Mali's air ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 21, 2021  Archeologists have discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the area around Nazca, Peru. The discovery adds significantly to the UNESCO world heritage site's 190 previously discovered markings.
The geoglyphs portray humans, birds, cats, snakes, alpacas and whales, and are believed to have been created between 100 B.C. and 300 A.D. The images average between 6 and 19 feet in length, while previou ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
University biology textbooks in the United States have less content about climate change than they did a decade ago, according to research published on Wednesday.
The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, also found that climate change has been consistently pushed further towards the back of textbooks over the last five decades.
The authors of the study argued that understanding cli ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
A new study involving UCL has uncovered how magnetic waves are transmitted past a standing shock wave, known as the bow shock, that forms ahead of Earth as a result of the solar wind hitting our magnetic bubble (magnetosphere).
Shock waves occur in air when a plane travels faster than the speed of sound and also occur in plasma (a fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible Uni ... more |
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 Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
An international team of researchers has uncovered an extremely rare piece of evidence that dinosaurs ate mammals. The foot of a small mammal about the size of a mouse was found preserved inside the gut contents of a Microraptor zhaoianus, a small feathered dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. There is a lone ear ... more |
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 Kramatorsk, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 
It has become a daily struggle for Ukrainian technicians: mending pipes damaged by Russian airstrikes in a desperate bid to keep the energy grid working in freezing temperatures, even as attacks continue.
"We repair. And if they destroy, we will repair it again. That's the job," Oleksandr, who declined to give his full time, told AFP while completing a welding task for a municipal company in ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
To meet the growing energy needs of the internet of things (IoT) and wireless communication systems, University of Central Florida researchers have developed a technology for converting radio frequency signals into direct current electricity.
The technology can reduce the electronic industry's reliance on batteries and broaden the expansion of the internet of things and its energy needs. ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 
South Africa plans to carry out lie detector tests on staff working at its game reserves in a bid to fight rampant wildlife poaching, a national parks management agency said Thursday.
Poachers, sometimes operating in cahoots with crooked park employees, have decimated the country's population of endangered rhinos in recent years.
To tackle the problem, South African National Parks autho ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday urged the release of citizens held in China, as she prepared to embark on a landmark visit to Beijing.
Wong is set to be the first top Australian diplomat to visit China in four years, a trip aimed at thawing troubled relations.
She will depart Australia on Tuesday for a meeting with Chinese state councilor and minister of foreign affairs ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 
German activists chopped the top off a Christmas tree next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday, their latest protest pushing for greater action to combat the climate crisis.
Two women from campaign group "Last Generation" used a mechanical platform to ascend to the top of the 15-metre (49-foot) tree and sawed off a two-metre section.
A banner attached to the platform read: "T ... more |
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