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Severe windstorms left hundreds of thousands of homes without power across parts of France on Tuesday and forced authorities to shut down Paris' two main airports while Britain went on flood alert. Hurricane-force gusts of up to 140 kilometres (87 miles) per hour battered France's west coast late Monday as the second major storm in two weeks barrelled in from the Atlantic. Bracing for ... read more 
Manama (AFP) Feb 11, 2009The US Navy said it arrested seven suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday after Marshall Islands-flagged ship Polaris sent a distress call to say outlaws had attempted a forcible boarding. Polaris crew members removed the pirates' ladder before they could clamber aboard, the Fifth Fleet said in a statement. A team from the guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf then intercepted ... more |
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Moffet Field CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2009Moffet Field CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2009 Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the apparently sudden appearance in the fossil record of a great variety of multicellular creatures - a rapid blossoming known as the Cambrian explosion. Since then, the origin of animals was found to extend back earlier, through a period known as the Ediacarian. Now, evidence found by researchers at MIT, UC Riverside ... more 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 12, 2009Civil engineers using a specialized laboratory at Purdue University have demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple, inexpensive method to strengthen buildings that have a flaw making them dangerously vulnerable to earthquakes. The flaw is widespread in China, Latin America, Turkey and other countries. The buildings have too many "partial-height" walls between structural columns and could ... more  
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 11, 2009A Chinese electric power giant and a Saudi power company on Wednesday announced an alliance to work together on power and desalinisation projects around the world. Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group (SECPG) and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power International said in a press conference that they already have two projects to cooperate on, one in Saudi Arabia and the other in a nearby Gulf ... more 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Rescue workers on Wednesday dug through the wreckage left by a powerful tornado that killed at least eight people as it tore through a small town in Oklahoma. Several survivors were found trapped in homes flattened by the out-of-season twister which was almost half a mile (a kilometer) across, local media reported. "There's nothing left ... twisted metal, cars turned upside down, cars ... 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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Manama (AFP) Feb 11, 2009 The US Navy said it arrested seven suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday after a Marshall Islands-flagged ship sent a distress call to say outlaws had tried to force their way on board. Crew members of the Polaris removed the pirates' ladder before they could clamber aboard, the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement. A team from the guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf then in ... more 
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 12, 2009A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island near the Philippines early Thursday, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries. Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency issued a tsunami warning immediately after the quake struck at 1:34 am (1734 GMT Wednesday), but cancelled it about one hour later. The epicentre ... more 
Athens (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Greece has spent 600 million euros (776 million dollars) to replace homes and livestock lost in devastating forest fires nearly two years ago that killed 77 people, officials said on Wednesday. But authorities overseeing the reconstruction effort admitted that only around 11 percent of homes had been rebuilt thus far. "Nobody can expect homes to be torn down and be rebuilt in areas that ... more 
Melbourne (AFP) Feb 12, 2009Milder weather conditions brought some relief to Australian firefighters Thursday as they battled wildfires that have killed at least 181 people, officials said. Fears that two major fires in Gippsland east of the Victoria state capital Melbourne could meet up and turn into one huge conflagration had eased, they said, although some 21 blazes were still burning. "Because it's cool, (there ... 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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