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According to a UN estimate, by 2025 more than half of the world's nations may be seriously short of fresh water. By the middle of this century, this figure may rise to three-quarters Even today, one of six people, or more than a billion people worldwide, are short of fresh water to some extent. This sad forecast rests on several factors. First of all, the world population is rapidly ... read more 
Warsaw (AFP) Dec 11, 2008Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on the world community to bring China into the democratic mainstream, in a speech to Polish deputies Thursday. "The free world has moral responsibility to bring China into the mainstream of world democracy. That is very essential, very important," the Dalai Lama told members of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee. "My faith is ... more |
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Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Research at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) has led to better understanding of clouds, the unknown quantity in current climate models. Delft researcher Thijs Heus has tackled this issue with a combination of detailed computer simulations and airplane measurements. He charted data including cloud speed, temperature and the 'life span' of clouds to arrive at new ... more  
Chicago (AFP) Dec 11, 2008President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday chose former Senate leader Tom Daschle to oversee his drive to enact universal health care, arguing that today's economic crisis made action imperative. In another decisive break with eight years of Republican rule, reports said Obama had chosen Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, a strong advocate of alternative and renewable energy, to be his ... more  
Oslo (AFP) Dec 11, 2008Norway on Thursday authorised its whalers to harpoon 885 minke whales in 2009, a quota sharply down from previous years in what animal rights activists saw as a sign of consumers' growing disinterest for whale meat. For the period 2006-2008, the quota was 1,052 minke whales per year but whalers fell short each year, killing around half the allowed number, according to environmental group ... more  
Boston (UPI) Dec 10, 2008 Boston animal surgeons said a cat is expected to make a full recovery after emergency surgery to reattach part of its face. The veterinarians said the Winthrop, Mass., owner of 4-year-old cat Edgar brought the feline to the animal hospital after finding him with half of his facial skin hanging off, dbTechno reported Wednesday. The owner said Edgar had been missing for three days ... 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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Dakar (AFP) Dec 11, 2008Gays had no business taking part in a major conference on AIDS in Africa that took place in Dakar last week, the head of a Senegalese Islamic non-governmental organisation said Thursday. Their presence at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), which ended Sunday, was "inappropriate," said Imam Massamba Diop, executive president of ... more 
Poznan, Poland (SPX) Dec 12, 2008With growing concern that governments will fail to reach consensus on the role of forests in the next global climate pact, an alliance of international forestry and environmental organizations have called on negotiators to include forests in mechanisms to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. "Forests are crucial to fighting and adapting to climate change," said Frances ... more 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 12, 2008European Union leaders closed in Friday on agreements for a 200 billion euro plan to combat the recession and a climate change package on the second and final day of a crunch summit in Brussels. On the first day of the gathering, clouded in the build-up by divisions over the response to the economic crisis and climate change, good news came as Ireland agreed in principle to ask citizens to ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Dec 11, 2008Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and droughts hit 18 million people in Latin America this year causing around 1,000 deaths and seven billion dollars' worth of damages, the UN said Thursday. The high number of floods across the region accounted for around 80 percent of all damages, while landslides caused between 60-70 percent of the deaths, said Douglas Reiner, regional disaster ... 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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