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  New Delhi (AFP) April 19, 2023 India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country by the end of June, UN estimates showed Wednesday, posing huge challenges to a nation with creaking infrastructure and insufficient jobs for millions of young people. The seismic shift will see India's population hit 1.4286 billion - almost three million more than China's 1.4257 billion - at mid-year, the United Nations Population Fund's State of World Population report forecast. China has generally been regarded as the world' ... read more |
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Nearly 1 in 4 South Sudanese affected by recurring floods: reportJuba, South Sudan (AFP) April 18, 2023 Nearly a quarter of South Sudan's population has been affected by years of unprecedented flooding, according to a report Tuesday by the UN Development Programme and the government's relief and rehabilitation commission. ... more  
'Big sponge': new CO2 tech taps oceans to tackle global warmingSan Pedro, United States (AFP) April 17, 2023 Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. ... more  
Focus on reproductive rights rather than population numbers, UN urgesGeneva (AFP) April 19, 2023 Rather than fixating on the impact of the world's soaring population, the world should look at women's reproductive rights to shore up "demographic resilience," the UN said Wednesday. ... more  
Fungi makes meal of hard-to-recycle plastic: new studySydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 18, 2023 Polypropylene has long been recycling's head scratching riddle. A common plastic used for a wide variety of products from packaging and toys to furnishing and fashion, it accounts for roughly 28 per ... more |
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China and Brazil to expand cooperation in space developmentBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 18, 2023 On April 14, under the witness of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Lula, Zhang Kejian, director of China National Space Administration, signed the "People's Republic of China Sup ... more  
UK alarm over Chinese businessman and 'secret police station'London April 19, 2023 The UK government said Wednesday it took reports of secret Chinese police stations overseas "extremely seriously", after newspaper claims about a London-based businessman with links to Conservative politicians. ... more 
'Stamp of approval': Twitter's Musk amplifies misinformationWashington (AFP) April 19, 2023 Elon Musk promised to make Twitter the "most accurate source of information about the world," but he has repeatedly used his own account to amplify false claims from some of the most notorious disinformers on the internet, according to an AFP analysis of his online activity. ... more  
UK aviation warns green shift to slow demand growthLondon (AFP) April 17, 2023 The financial cost of UK aviation cutting carbon emissions will push up ticket prices, slowing passenger demand growth, an industry body said on Monday. ... more |
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Two dead after landslide at Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossingLandi Kotal, Pakistan (AFP) April 18, 2023 At least two people were killed and eight injured in a massive pre-dawn landslide that buried dozens of trucks waiting to cross from Pakistan to Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Thailand's Panda on loan from China dies aged 21; Ailing Pakistan elephant collapses Bangkok (AFP) April 19, 2023 A giant panda on loan from China to Thailand who captivated animal lovers through a 24-hour live broadcast of her antics died on Wednesday aged 21, said the zoo where she was housed. ... more  
Water rationed in Catalonia as drought bites deeperL' Espluga De Francoli, Spain (AFP) April 19, 2023 For months, residents of L'Espluga de Francoli have been saving water in bottles and foregoing showers to cope with long hours of daily water rationing as northeastern Spain suffers one of its worst droughts in decades. ... more 
Finding a better metric to measure human ecological footprintsLogan UT (SPX) Apr 18, 2023 This planet of 8 billion people is bumping up against its ecological limits, and researchers are trying to quantify the effect of human activity on these finite resources. Some keep tallies of how m ... more |
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Beijing hospital fire death toll rises to 29Beijing (AFP) April 19, 2023 Chinese authorities said on Wednesday they had detained a dozen people over a hospital fire in Beijing that left at least 29 dead and forced desperate survivors to jump out of windows to escape. ... more  
Top Mexican court limits army's public security roleMexico City (AFP) April 18, 2023 Mexico's top court on Tuesday limited the army's participation in public security tasks, blocking a contentious move by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to put a civilian force under military control. ... more  
Iraqi gambling dens raided, nearly 200 arrested: ministryBaghdad (AFP) April 18, 2023 Iraqi police arrested overnight almost 200 people in raids on illegal casinos where alcohol was served in defiance of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said Tuesday. ... more  
Where did the first sugars come from?La Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-which were necessary for life to evolve-arose on the early Earth. In a paper that appeared on Apr ... more |
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L3Harris to build geostationary weather satellite sensors for JapanMelbourne FL (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) received a contract to provide next-generation geostationary imaging and sounding instruments for the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) that will monitor and predic ... more 
China's latest EO satellite offers high-precision rainfall monitoringBeijing (XNA) Apr 18, 2023 How much rainfall will typhoons bring this year? Chinese scientists will be able to answer such questions more accurately in future thanks to the launch on Sunday of the Fengyun 3G (FY 3G), a satell ... more  
Bangladeshis pray for rain as temperatures soarDhaka (AFP) April 17, 2023 Hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims gathered on an open field in Dhaka on Monday to pray for rain after the metropolis of 20 million people recorded its hottest day in almost 60 years. ... more  
Epic snow from all those atmospheric rivers in the West is starting to meltSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2023 To get a sense of the enormous amount of water atmospheric rivers dumped on the Western U.S. this year and the magnitude of the flood risk ahead, take a look at California's Central Valley, where ab ... more |
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