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 Venice (AFP) Dec 2, 2008 
Venice was under water again on Tuesday after suffering its worst flooding in 22 years, as a new tide soaked the Renaissance city up to about thigh level. On Monday the "acqua alta" (high water) reached 1.56 metres (five feet, two inches), the highest level since 1986, before beginning to recede. Lower parts of the tourist mecca, including the world-famous St Mark's Square, remained ... read more 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, argues that water has played a unique and fundamental role in shaping societies throughout human history. Speaking at a European Science Foundation and COST conference in Sicily in October ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2008International confidence in Chinese food exports has dived since the scandal erupted over contaminated milk in China, with dairy items the worst affected, state press reported on Tuesday. China exported just over 1,000 tonnes of dairy products in October, down 92 percent from a year earlier, the China Daily reported, quoting figures from the customs administration. In September ... more  
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 2, 2008UN officials meeting in the Malaysian capital Tuesday warned Asian countries not to cut funding for disaster preparations, despite the global economic downturn. Philippine senator Loren Legarda, the UN's newly-appointed "champion" for disaster risk reduction said countries in the region must spend to reduce risks in a natural disaster. "We are hoping (budgets) will not be affected because ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Dec 2, 2008A NATO warship prevented a swarm of more than a dozen pirate boats from hijacking five merchant shipping vessels in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, the alliance said in a statement. Alerted by a distress call, the Italian navy destroyer put itself between the ships and a group of pirate "fast boats", with all vessels using water hoses to repel the pirates. The Italian warship, Luigi Durand ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 2, 2008The UN atomic watchdog called Tuesday for renewed interest and increased investment in a technique that uses radiation to improve crop yields and resistance against a backdrop of the global food and energy crises. The International Atomic Energy Agency is hoping that, given the current food crisis, countries will revive their interest in mutation induction -- a technique that has been in use ... more |
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CesiumAstro buys Vidrovr to embed AI across satellite communicationsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 CesiumAstro has acquired Vidrovr in a move to integrate artificial intelligence directly into its space communications systems, payloads, and satellite platforms, extending AI-driven analytics and r ... more  
Behind Space Innovation The Growing Role of Outsourcing ServicesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2026 Explore the reasons outsourcing has become the norm in space innovation. Discover how it helps teams reduce turnaround times, lower costs and improve results within a short time. ... more 
After oil, US moves to secure access to Venezuelan mineralsCaracas (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 US mining companies are lining up to invest in Venezuela, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during a visit to Caracas on Wednesday as he pushed for greater access to critical minerals. ... more
  
Left, right and faithful unite to demand human control over AIWashington, United States (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 A coalition spanning US conservative figure Steve Bannon, progressives, labor unions and faith groups announced Wednesday a joint declaration of principles on artificial intelligence, framing the effort as a pushback against what they called Silicon Valley's reckless deployment of AI. ... more 
Europe should focus on industrial AI, SAP saysWalldorf, Germany (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Europe should focus on competing in industrial AI, a top executive at German software giant SAP said, as the continent plays catch-up in the race for the cutting-edge technology against the United States and China. ... more 
Questions over AI capability as tech guides Iran strikesParis, France (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 The latest bout of fighting between the United States, Israel and Iran has seen AI deployed as never before to sift intelligence and select targets, although the technology's use in war remains hotly debated. ... more
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Geneva (AFP) Dec 2, 2008Monsoon floods in the north of Sri Lanka have affected more than 370,000 people, with 71,000 being displaced, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The number of affected population has increased as some areas were previously inaccessible and new information is now being received," said Elisabeth Byrs of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Hardest hit is Jaffna, with ... more 
Rome (AFP) Dec 2, 2008Global warming causes freak weather that may have a "devastating impact" on food security in the Pacific region, the UN food agency warned on Tuesday. "Climate projections for the Pacific island countries are bleak and indicate reduced food security, especially for households," Alexander Mueller, assistant director-general at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said in a statement. ... more 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 03, 2008New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough have published research findings in the prestigious journal, Nature Geoscience, that show global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil. ... more 
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 3, 2008Oh dear. The BINGOs are at odds with the TUNGOs and the RINGOs over the NAMAs and the NAPAs. RFUK is concerned about what REDD is going to do to PAM. But at least the SIDS are keen on LULUCF. If you thought the science behind global warming was dauntingly complex and believed "low albedo" was something to do with sex drive -- it means poor reflection of sunlight -- then the UN ... more |
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Iran names Khamenei's son as new supreme leaderTehran (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed their slain leader's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats against him from the United States and Israel as they pummel the country. ... more 
Trump suggests US troops could be sent to secure Iran's uraniumAboard Air Force One (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 US President Donald Trump evoked Saturday the idea of sending ground troops into Iran to secure the country's stockpiles of enriched uranium, as part of efforts to dismantle Tehran's nuclear program. ... more 
Kremlin says nuclear weapons in Finland would threaten RussiaMoscow (AFP) Mar 6, 2026 Russia said on Friday it saw Finland's move to lift restrictions on hosting nuclear weapons as a potential threat and vowed to respond if Helsinki followed through with the plan. ... more
  
Elevation of Mojtaba Khamenei suggests ultraconservatives steering IranParis, France (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 With the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali as Iran's supreme leader, the country's ultraconservatives have defied the United States and Israel and signalled their intent to keep the war going, experts told AFP. ... more 
China says opposes any targeting of new Iran leaderBeijing (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 China said Monday that Iran's decision to name Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader following the killing of his father was a domestic matter, and it opposed any attempt to target him. ... more 
Four years after banning Russia, FIFA and IOC passive in the face of warLausanne (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 Four years after world sport rushed to ban Russia for invading Ukraine, the leading governing bodies are reacting guardedly to the US-led attack on Iran, raising accusations of double standards. ... more
  
Air strike hits Iraq base housing pro-Iran group: faction sourcesBaghdad (AFP) Mar 3, 2026 An air strike hit a military base in southern Iraq housing the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group on Tuesday, two sources from the armed faction said. ... more 
Over 2,200 IS detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria: Iraqi officialBaghdad (AFP) Feb 7, 2026 Iraq has so far received 2,225 Islamic State group detainees, whom the US military began transferring from Syria last month, an Iraqi official told AFP on Saturday. ... more 
Iraq starts investigations into IS detainees moved from SyriaBaghdad (AFP) Feb 2, 2026 Iraq's judiciary announced on Monday it has begun its investigations into more than 1,300 Islamic State group detainees who were transferred from Syria as part of a US operation. ... more
  
Kurdish rebels say ready to resist Iran, await uprisingPenjwen, Iraq (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 From their hideouts in the Iraqi mountains near Iran, leftist Kurdish rebels say they are ready to fight the Islamic republic, but hope for an uprising before they intervene, with or without US support. ... more
Strikes on Iranian opposition groups in Iraq's KurdistanErbil, Iraq (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 Several strikes hit Kurdish Iranian militants in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday, officials from the exiled groups told AFP. ... more
As Iran conflict spills over, Iraq's Kurds say 'this war is not mine'Soran, Iraq (AFP) Mar 7, 2026 On a deserted road not too far from the border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, Satar Barsirini looked up at the sky, now streaked with jets and drones. ... more |
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