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World Leaders Respond to Riot at US Capitol
World leaders responded with shock and sadness to the rioters storming the U.S. Capitol
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Researchers Hope Sensor-Based System Can Help Farms Detect Ammonia and Combat Air Pollution
While it’s crucial to the global economy, the agriculture sector can affect the environment too.
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An Offshore Wind Farm With the Ability to ‘Power One Million Households' Is Fully Up and Running
The facility is located in waters off the coast of Zeeland, in the Netherlands.
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Culled Mink Resurface After Burial in Denmark
Some of the thousands of mink culled in Denmark to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the coronavirus to humans, have risen from their shallow graves because gases have built up in the decaying bodies
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No-Lockdown Sweden Toughens Up Restrictions as Coronavirus Cases Rise
Sweden appears to be changing tack and implementing stricter measures as a second wave of infections takes hold and hospitalizations rise.
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Dr. Fauci Says It Appears COVID Strain From Danish Mink Farms Won't Be a Problem for Vaccines
It is hoped a vaccine could help bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over 1.29 million lives worldwide.
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Denmark Vows to Kill Millions of Minks Even After WHO Downplays COVID Mutation Risk
Denmark on Friday defended its decision to kill up to 17 million minks to prevent human contagion with the mutated coronavirus even after the World Health Organization played down fears of the mutated variation, NBC News reported. “We would rather go a step too far than take a step too little to combat Covid-19,” Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said in a...
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Denmark to Kill 15M Animals to Stop COVID Mutation Spreading Back to Humans
Denmark’s prime minister said Wednesday that the government wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. Mette Frederiksen said a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the…
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Peter Madsen, Danish Inventor Who Killed Journalist Kim Wall, Recaptured After Prison Break
Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who was convicted of torturing and murdering journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine, escaped a Copenhagen jail where he is serving a life sentence, on Tuesday. Madsen used a female prison psychologist as a hostage during his escape, police told reporters at a press conference, adding that he forced his way out of the prison using...
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American IS Suspect Repatriated From Turkish-Greek Border
An American citizen suspected of being an Islamic State group member was deported to the U.S. on Friday after spending five days in no man’s land between Turkey and Greece, the Turkish interior minister said. Suleyman Soylu said the suspect — identified by local media as 39-year-old Muhammad Darwis B. — had been put on a plane to the U.S....
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Drone Shows Crew Move an Entire Lighthouse
Drone footage shows crews relocating the entire Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse on a system of rails that moved the edifice as if it were on “rollerblades.” The Danish landmark was moved a total of 229 feet to protect it from erosion and rising sea levels.
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Drone Shows Crew Move an Entire Lighthouse
Drone footage shows crews relocating the entire Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse on a system of rails that moved the edifice as if it were on “rollerblades.” The Danish landmark was moved a total of 229 feet to protect it from erosion and rising sea levels.
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Ethiopian PM Wins Nobel for Efforts to End Eritrea Conflict
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s long-running border conflict with Eritrea. The Norwegian Nobel Institute on Friday also praised the “important reforms” that Abiy, Ethiopia’s leader since April 2018, has launched at home.
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Princeton Professor, 2 Others Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Discoveries in Cosmology
A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved from the Big Bang and the blockbuster discovery of the first known planet outside our solar system. Canadian-born James Peebles, 84, of Princeton University, was credited for “theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and Switzerland’s...
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Harvard Doctor Among Winners of Nobel Medicine Prize
Two Americans and a British scientist won a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering details of how the body’s cells sense and react to low oxygen levels, providing a foothold for developing new treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases. Drs. William G. Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University, Gregg L. Semenza of Johns Hopkins University and Peter J. Ratcliffe at...
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Postcard Arrives 60 Years After Being Sent
A Maryland couple received a postcard sent to their address almost 60 years ago. Aimee Cho reports.
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Journalist: Customs Agent Insisted on ‘Propaganda' Admission
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is investigating an allegation that a Customs agent insisted a journalist admit he writes “propaganda” before returning his passport.
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President's Windmill Hatred Is a Worry for Booming Industry
The winds are blowing fair for America’s wind power industry, making it one of the fastest-growing U.S. energy sources. Land-based turbines are rising by the thousands across America, from the remote Texas plains to farm towns of Iowa. And the U.S. wind boom now is expanding offshore, with big corporations planning $70 billion in investment for the country’s first utility-scale...
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Supercars Taken From African Leader's Son Auctioned for $27M
Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a Swiss money-laundering probe. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonhams included a white-and-cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno roadster that cost the buyer 8.28 million Swiss francs ($8.4 million), comprising...
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Fishermen Demand a Say in Decisions on Offshore Wind Energy
Fishermen insisted Monday to a congressional subcommittee looking at offshore wind energy that they be consulted when crucial decisions are being made on the development of such projects, including where they are located and the level of access to the waters near them. Fishermen should have been brought into the planning process from the start, Peter Hughes, of Atlantic Cape...