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China completes historic Mars spacecraft landing
Dawn 15 May 2021
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, ... China is pursuing an ambitious space programme ... .
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Where did COVID-19 come from? Top infectious disease experts call for a ‘proper investigation’
WPTV 15 May 2021
Almost 18 months after SARS-CoV-2, commonly called the coronavirus, was identified, the origin of the virus remains shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories. An open letter published recently in the journal Science by 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists is the latest in growing calls for answers ... .
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Israel Gaza violence: US envoy arrives for de-escalation talks
BBC News 15 May 2021
A US envoy has arrived in Tel Aviv for de-escalation talks as tensions between Israel and Palestine continue. Hady Amr will take part in talks with Israeli, Palestinian and UN officials in the hope of agreeing on a ceasefire. Early on Saturday, Israel conducted air strikes in Gaza and Palestinian militants responded by firing rockets into Israel ... .
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Colonial Pipeline hackers may have been hacked themselves
CNBC 15 May 2021photo: Creative Commons / Tyler Merbler https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol_09.jpg
Updated terror advisory warns of ‘complex and volatile’ threats from domestic and ‘grievance-based’ groups
The Independent 15 May 2021photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
Phys Dot Org 14 May 2021
Climate change is known to negatively affect agriculture and livestock, but there has been little scientific knowledge on which regions of the planet would be touched or what the biggest risks may be. New research led by Aalto University assesses just how global food production will be affected if greenhouse gas emissions are left uncut ... DOI ... ....
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Putin says Ukraine is becoming an ‘anti-Russia’, pledges response
Metro USA 14 May 2021
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that neighbouring Ukraine was becoming ‘anti-Russia’ and that Moscow would be ready to react to what he said were threats to its own security ... “For the first time in many years the number of oligarchs has not increased, but decreased ... .
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Research shows 46 million Americans would use crypto for retail purchases
Cryptoslate 15 May 2021
BitPay has released a that shows crypto is gaining traction among U.S. consumers as a means of making retail payments. However, the report also detailed why full-scale mass adoption of crypto for payments is still years away from becoming a reality. Interest in cryptocurrency as a payment method on the rise ... were made by extrapolating the results ... ....
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US calls reports of migrant children in buses 'unacceptable'
Yahoo Daily News 15 May 2021
Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are “completely unacceptable” if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday. Dr ... It is unclear how many children were kept on buses overnight. “This is completely unacceptable," Becerra said ... ___ ... News18.
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Escort who snorted cocaine with Matt Gaetz had ‘no show’ government job: report
Raw Story 15 May 2021
New salacious details in the Matt Gaetz scandal were revealed in a bombshell new report by The Daily Beast. "When Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando, his date that night was someone he knew well. a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a cocaine-fueled party after the event, according to two witnesses ... On Oct.
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Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza as conflict enters fifth day
BBC News 14 May 2021
The Israeli military has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities. Israel's army said air and ground forces were involved in attacks on Friday but had not entered Gaza ... He said Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, would pay a heavy price ... Related Topics. .
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Ex-Green Beret sentenced for conspiring with Russian agents
Daily Breeze 15 May 2021
By Christina Carrega . CNN. A former Army Green Beret was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for conspiring with Russian agents to provide them with US defense intelligence, the Justice Department announced Friday ... .
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Ceasefire offer must take account of holy Jerusalem al-Quds as well, Hamas says
Press TV 14 May 2021
Palestinian Arabic-language Al-Quds TV, citing a report by Israel’s Channel 12 television channel, said Israel had rejected Russia's offer of a ceasefire under Egyptian supervision after Hamas insisted on the inclusion of the sacred city in the initiative ... He said Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations were leading the truce efforts ... www.presstv.ir ... .
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The Russian Bounty Story Is a Deadly Example of Fake News
Antiwar 15 May 2021
A New York Times report about Russia paying Taliban militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan turned many heads in the summer of 2020 when it was first published. It solidified many Democrats’ views that Russia is a dangerous enemy that is consistently acting to not only undermine the U.S., but actually murder its citizens ... Maj ... RS ... DS ... RS ... DS ... .
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‘A very real problem’: How resurgent nuclear reactions at Chernobyl might be dealt with to avert disaster
The Independent 14 May 2021
Experts from the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kiev reported a 40 per cent spike in neutron emissions from 2016 levels in a chamber rendered inaccessible by the catastrophe ... .
