Day 3 of Yemen peace talks winds up without progress
Kuwait City (AFP) April 23, 2016 -
A third day of UN-brokered peace negotiations in Kuwait between the Yemeni government and rebels wound up Saturday without progress, sources close to the talks said.
The sources told AFP the two sides remained far apart, especially on the need to firm up a fragile ceasefire that went into effect on April 11.
UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement late Saturday the talks ha ...
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Baghdad area bombings kill at least eight: officials
Baghdad (AFP) April 23, 2016 -
Bombings targeting security forces in the Baghdad area killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 on Saturday, security and medical officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint on the northeastern edge of the city, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 24.
Another car bomb exploded near an army patrol in the Dura area of ...
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US to buy 32 tonnes of heavy water from Iran: official
New York NY (AFP) Apr 23, 2016 -
The United States will buy 32 tonnes of heavy water from Iran to help it scale back its nuclear program, the State Department said Friday.
"This transaction provides US industry with a critical product, while also enabling Iran to sell some of its excess heavy water," spokesman John Kirby said.
Iran has agreed to scale back its nuclear program and place it under international inspection ...
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800 Al-Qaeda fighters dead as Yemen government forces make gains
Marib, Yemen (AFP) April 25, 2016 -
Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of Al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital held by the group for the past year, the coalition said Monday.
Pro-government forces recaptured an oil terminal as well as the city of Mukalla, which was considered a jihadist stronghold, military sources said.
"The operation resulted... in the d ...
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China to become aerospace power by 2030
Beijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2016 -
China aims to become a global aerospace power by 2030, said Xu Dazhe, director of the China National Space Administration, on Friday.
Xu said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that China is a major country pursuing aerospace development and aims to become a true aerospace power in 15 years, thanks in part to the 13th Five-year plan to drive aerospace growth ...
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Riviera beaches spared as Italy oil slick dissolves
Rome (AFP) April 24, 2016 -
Oil slicks off the Italian Riviera have largely dissolved and no longer pose a threat to the region's beaches, the official overseeing the clean-up operation said Sunday.
"The situation in the waters between Genoa and the French border has significantly improved," said Giovanni Pettorino, Genoa's Commander of Port.
"Thanks to the weather conditions (heavy rain) the slicks that we were ab ...
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Did our limbs may have evolved from sharks' gills
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Apr 25, 2016 -
Latest analysis shows that human limbs share a genetic programme with the gills of cartilaginous fishes such as sharks and skates, providing evidence to support a century-old theory on the origin of limbs that had been widely discounted.
An idea first proposed 138 years ago that limbs evolved from gills, which has been widely discredited due to lack of supporting fossil evidence, may prove ...
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