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  Cape Cod MA (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 Each summer, the South Asian monsoon transforms parts of India from semi-arid into lush green lands able to support farming. The annual infusion of rainfall and resulting runoff into the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and other rivers in the region also has a very different, but no less dramatic, impact on the Bay of Bengal in the northeast Indian Ocean. Understanding how the ocean interacts with the atmosphere is particularly important in this region, where about 2.5 billion people depend on the monsoon fo ... read more |
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Elephants kill 10 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: UNGeneva (AFP) March 6, 2018 Elephants searching for food have trampled 10 Rohingya refugees to death in multiple incidents, the UN said Tuesday, announcing a new plan to foster "safe coexistence" between animals and sprawling refugee settlements. ... more  
Culturing cheaper stem cellsKyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can infinitely self-renew and develop into all major cell types in the body, making them important for organ repair and replacement. But culturing them in large ... more 
India's endangered lion population increases to 600Ahmedabad, India (AFP) March 6, 2018 The endangered Asiatic lion, which only lives in one forest in India, has fought back from the verge of extinction, with its population increasing to more than 600, a minister said Tuesday hailing a major conservation campaign. ... more  
Avaada Power inks pact to develop 500MW solar capacities in Andhra PradeshMumbai, India (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Avaada Power Pvt. Ltd, India's leading clean energy company, close on the heels of its recent announcement, has partnered with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to develop 500 MW utility-scale solar ... more |
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China rules out arson in Tibetan temple fireBeijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze. ... more  
Seychelles designates huge new marine reserveNairobi (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 A vast new marine protected area has been created in the Indian Ocean around the Seychelle islands, the government announced Thursday. ... more  
Iran, India shake hands on energyWashington (UPI) Feb 19, 2018 After signing a handful of agreements in India, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country was ready to meet the country's energy needs. ... more 
India's top court steps in to help thirsty tech hubNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 India's water-starved tech hub Bangalore received a much-needed boost on Friday when the country's top court altered a river-sharing arrangement in its favour, ruling on a bitter dispute that dates back more than a century. ... more  
China slams India PM trip to disputed regionBeijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2018 Beijing will lodge a "stern" protest with New Delhi over a trip by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a disputed area, an official said Thursday, months after the nuclear-armed neighbours ended a tense border standoff. ... more |
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Dutch shipping bosses in court over 'toxic' ship dumpingThe Hague (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 Six Dutch shipping company bosses will appear before a Rotterdam court Wednesday accused of deliberately dumping old ships on the beaches of India and Turkey. ... more  |
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Russia, India may sign contract on S-400 air defense systems supplies soonNew Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 Negotiations between Russia and India on the supplies of S-400 air defense systems are "at the final stage," the contract may be signed any day now, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev told ... more 
Chinese company hitches space ride on UK satelliteBeijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2018 A United Kingdom satellite company has secured a 25-million-pound ($35 million) contract to lend a high-resolution Earth observation spacecraft to a Chinese partner for seven years. Beijing-ba ... more 
Mercedes apologises to China after quoting Dalai LamaBeijing (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 German automaker Mercedes-Benz has apologised for "hurting the feelings" of people in China after its Instagram account quoted Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seen as a separatist by Beijing. ... more  
India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 08, 2018 India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is prepping for its second mission to the moon, which is scheduled for blast off around April 2018. The objective for the v ... more  
Australia won't fund mega Adani mine rail linkSydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
The U.S. military sent F-35B Lightning II aircraft this week to the East China Sea for the fighter's first operational deployment with a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
A detachment of the aircraft deployed with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit landed Monday on the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, according to the U.S. Marines. The expeditionary unit will patrol the Indo-Pacific regio ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2018 
Top Japanese carmakers said on Monday they were teaming up to nearly double the amount of hydrogen stations in Japan, as the car-mad country seeks to head off competition from China and Germany.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda formed a joint venture with major gas and energy companies, including French industrial gases company Air Liquide, to build 80 new hydrogen stations in the next four years, t ... more |
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 San Juan (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island.
Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. Officials said the line should be fully ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A KAIST team identified the basic principle of electric wind in plasma. This finding will contribute to developing technology in various applications of plasma, including fluid control technology.
Professor Wonho Choe from the Department of Physics and his team identified the main principle of neutral gas flow in plasma, known as 'electric wind', in collaboration with Professor Se Youn Moo ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Framatome, Bureau Veritas and Doosan Babcock signed an Agreement creating EQUALLE, an alliance targeted at supporting the challenge of nuclear Equipment Qualification for the benefit of new build projects and in-service reactors in the United Kingdom. The qualification of nuclear safety equipment ensures its operability in normal and accidental conditions in compliance with the safety case.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near-instant visual art.
The technique combines spectroscopy, which extracts information from interactions between light and matter, with high-resolution microscopy.
As described in Physical Review Letters, the JILA method makes spatial ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
President Donald Trump's team played down talk of a trade war Wednesday as it fought to limit a financial market sell-off, promising a quick decision on contentious tariffs that prompted a popular economic advisor to the president to quit.
Administration big guns Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rushed to the cameras to calm market jitters over proposed ste ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2018 
The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized the claims by US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Gen. Joseph Votel on Moscow's influence in Central Asia on Saturday and noted that Russia maintains a mutually beneficial cooperation with the regional states, while Washington only pursues its own interests.
On Tuesday, Votel addressed the US lower house Committee on Armed Services and said th ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature Communications. Today, two thirds of the world's population is dependent on agriculture sustained by rains of the East Asian summer monsoon, and future climate change in this region can therefore have ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 
South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday.
Activist group the Centre for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK), citing multiple leaks, said top military leaders had studied plans to crack down on demonstrators calli ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 9, 2018  Public pressure, heated debate and a nail-biting vote: Don't expect any of that when Chinese legislators cast historic ballots on lifting presidential term limits on Sunday.
The rubber-stamp National People's Congress has never voted against anything the Communist Party has imposed on the legislature in its half-century of existence.
President Xi Jinping is thus all but certain to secure ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) March 7, 2018  Eighteen employees of a gorilla sanctuary in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been abducted by a militia group, sources said on Wednesday.
An official with an NGO said the abduction took place on Monday in the area of Nzovu, which lies in the huge Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and an armed group called the Mai-Mai Raia Mutomboki was responsible.
The victims comprise nine administr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, intelligence systems, UAVs and precision ammunition.
"Yes, the document has been signed by the president," Rogozin said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked a relevant ques ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018  BAE Systems Australia said last week that they have accepted 42 new graduates its national defense and security business, continuing to grow its presence there.
BAE Systems announced a ream of initiatives in 2017 to grow it's business in Australia, positioning itself to take a lead in development of the Royal Australian Navy and consolidating its business there with the development of a ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
In the spring of 2016, after two decades at NASA - and a total of 520 days aboard the International Space Station - former astronaut Scott Kelly retired, leaving him a lot more free time. Free time he's now using to promote appreciation for science.
Kelly recently teamed up with the chemical and manufacturing company 3M to launch the State of Science Index, a study of people's attitud ... more |
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