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Japan marks 80 years since the Hiroshima atomic bombing
The Japanese city of Hiroshima held a silent prayer at 8:15 a.m. (2315 GMT) on Wednesday. That was the moment when US aircraft Enola ...
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US cancels mRNA vaccine contracts worth $500 million
The US government has decided to halt the funding of 22 projects focused on the development and manufacturing of mRNA-based vaccines that help ...
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Lebanon wants army plan to disarm Hezbollah by end of year
Lebanon's government has tasked the army with developing a plan in which only state institutions will have weapons by the end of the ...
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Can a global treaty solve the plastics crisis?
After a failed attempt to finalize a global plastics treaty last year in Busan, South Korea, 170 countries are meeting in Geneva from ...
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Denmark zoo asks people to donate pets to feed predators
A zoo in the northern Danish city of Aalborg is accepting donations in the form of pets to feed its predators. The zoo ...
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Wildfire rages in southwestern France, closing highway
A wildfire in the Corbieres hills in southwestern France, inland from the Mediterranean coast, has already closed a major highway and left nine people ...
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Rwanda says it will take migrant deportees from the US
The government of Rwanda said on Tuesday that it had agreed to receive migrant detainees from the US, as part of US President ...
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Japan: Passing on the pain of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan on Wednesday marks 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima during the last days of ...
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UN warns of food insecurity in northern Nigeria
The United Nations (UN) has described a looming hunger crisis in northern Nigeria as "unprecedented," with analysts estimating that at least 5 million children ...
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Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science'
Fraudulent scientific research is on the rise and it is jeopardizing medical research, experts have warned. A new study has found that networks ...
