Japan launches new spy satellite (VIDEO)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries joint project went into space at 10:21 a.m. local time from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyodo news agency reports. The JSE series of satellites, also known as Information Gathering Satellites (IGS), is operated by Japan’s Cabinet Satellite...

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Spanish hospital uses stem cells to fix heart attack damage

“Seven patients have already been operated on and they have progressed very well despite having suffered serious damage to their heart tissue,” the statement, published by Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital, said. The hospital plans to treat 55 patients in the framework of the ongoing clinical trial which envisages a medical breakthrough...

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UN peacekeepers film suspected Israeli shell hitting their position in Lebanon (VIDEO)

A video clip from the battlefield line in Lebanon, distributed in the Spanish media, suggests that an Israeli shell could be responsible for the death of Spanish UN peacekeeper Cpl. Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, who was killed on Wednesday. READ MORE: Israel blames Hezbollah for Spanish peacekeeper’s death on Lebanese border The cell phone...

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​BBC documentary 'Bitter Lake' is 'too dangerous' for TV

Gliding effortlessly alongside that is the rise of radical Islam, Afghanistan, and the petrodollar energy markets that now overshadow international relations. Against a sumptuous backdrop of dream-like archive footage and haunting music, we revisit the 1973 OPEC oil crisis, where prices quadrupled. We don't find ‘bolshy Arabs’ throwing their...

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‘Like Chernobyl’: Millions of unique texts lost in Moscow library fire (PHOTOS)

The blaze – which erupted at around 10 p.m. Moscow time on Friday (7 p.m. GMT), on the third floor of the Academic Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow – was fully extinguished at 11:23 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Emergencies Ministry. Firefighters will continue to pour water over some 2,000 square...

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​Kurds retake Kobani as ISIS admits retreat

In a recently released ISIS video, two militant fighters say that continued aerial bombardment by fighter jets from the US and some of its Arab allies forced them to retreat, although ferocious and heroic resistance from Kurdish forces defending the town was another key reason why they were forced into retreat.“The warplanes were bombarding...

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NASA’s advanced soil moisture mapper launched into orbit (VIDEO)

The Delta II lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast, boosting SMAP into the Earth’s orbit at 9:22 a.m. EST (14:22 GMT) on Saturday. “SMAP spacecraft is in excellent health,” SMAP project manager Kent Kellogg said during a post-launch press conference.“We’re in contact with SMAP and everything looks good...

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Efforts to curb police brutality 'met with more force’ – pepper-sprayed teacher

Hagopian – an activist promoting black causes in the Seattle area – was pepper-sprayed by a police officer after speaking at a Black Lives Matter rally on Martin Luther King Day. He was walking away from the gathering, on a sidewalk, when he was suddenly pepper-sprayed in the face. He has decided to sue city authorities and the police for...

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Thousands march in London to protest housing crisis

Groups of protesters gathered to listen to speeches at Elephant and Castle and Shoreditch before marching towards City Hall. Demonstrators carried banners reading “People before profit” and “Build council homes. Take the wealth of the 1%.” As rents, evictions, and homelessness continue to rise, campaigners are demanding that London Mayor...

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Alaska community officer accused of Tasering 2 young kids because they asked him to

The mother of one of the boys, Terry Ward, said the incident occurred last December when a group of about eight or 10 children were getting ready to play a game of kickball outside the Boys and Girls Club in Kake, Alaska, local media reported.The club is situated next to the VPSO office. When one of the officers walked by the boys, Ward’s...

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ISIS beheads Japanese hostage Goto - reports

Earlier on Saturday, Yasuhide Nakayama – the head of Tokyo’s emergency response team in the Jordanian capital of Amman – told journalists that there had been no progress in attempts to negotiate the release of Goto and Maaz al-Kassasbeh, a first lieutenant in the Jordanian Air Force.DETAILS TO FOLL...

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Google creates synthetic skin for cancer detecting project (VIDEO)

Google X laboratories, located in Mountain View, California, has been working on a wristband that can detect cancer cells and warn of impending heart attacks and other diseases transmitted through a person’s blood. The Atlantic visited the semi-secretive research center, which employs more than 100 doctors and scientists, and asked its head...

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​Bottlegate? Netanyahu denies wife pocketed state money in cash-for-bottles scheme

In a Facebook post, Netanyahu railed against the “false accusations against me and my wife that seek to topple the Likud and bring the left to power.” Netanyahu criticized local media who jumped at the opportunity to ridicule Sara, just a month-and-a-half ahead of scheduled snap elections which will pit Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party against...

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Chevron to stop shale gas drilling in Poland due to bleak prospects

“The opportunities here no longer compete favorably with other opportunities in Chevron's global portfolio," the company said in a statement.Not only Chevron's Polish unit has changed mind about the perspectives of shale drilling, Reuters points out.Privately owned majors such as Exxon Mobil and Total did the same even earlier, as well as...

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New British army elite unit to hone social media and psychological warfare

The brigade will number 2,000 and will be made up of regular troops from all three services, as well as reservists and civilians, British media report.It will attempt to draw the best talent from the regulars and reserves and will also allow civilians with specialist skills to operate alongside their military counterparts.Senior officers...

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'Busy' Greek prime minister to meet Angela Merkel 'in due time'

“Tsipras has a very busy schedule at the moment with the upcoming meetings with head of the Italian government Matteo Renzi, the President of France, Francois Hollande and the Greek parliament,” the Minister of State for Greece, Nikos Pappas, told the television channel Mega.Chancellor Merkel says she has rejected the prospect of giving...

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2,000yo Siberian brain surgery techniques recreated by Russian scientists

Experts at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography united with prominent Russian neurosurgeons for a series of tests that revealed the exceptional skillfulness of ancient doctors, equipped only with primitive tools, The Siberian Times reported on Thursday.READ MORE: Revolutionary ‘Da Vinci’ robot performs breakthrough micro-surgical...

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Big Oil wants North Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws (VIDEO)

Radioactive waste from the energy industry is currently sent outside North Dakota, due to rules that bar state landfills from accepting more than a minor amount of radiation.The state’s hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, boom in the Bakken shale region is believed to have produced between 27 and 70 tons of radioactive waste per day in 2014,...

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​Spaniards hold mass rally for leftist Podemos ahead of elections

Tens of thousands of Spaniards have taken to the streets of central Madrid in support of Podemos, a leftist political party campaigning on an anti-austerity platform. The party’s popularity has soared in the wake of the Syriza victory in Greece. Podemos, which means “We can,” is currently leading in opinion polls, ahead of both of Spain’s...

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Things you need you know about the Super Bowl that have nothing to do with football

While the main attractions remain the football game, the halftime show, and the millions of dollars spent on creative commercials, not everything about the event is as fun to digest as a plate of fried food and ice-cold beer.With some 60,000 people packing into the University of Phoenix Stadium and tens of thousands of others visiting the...

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Ukraine peace talks participants arrive in Minsk amid worsening crisis

Their meeting is expected to take place behind closed doors.Ukraine is being represented by ex-president Leonid Kuchma. Others are Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Heidi Tagliavini, and Russian ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov.All of the three have their signatures under the September Minsk peace agreements,...

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Clotted in controversy: Iran’s premiere of Prophet Mohammed biopic reportedly cancelled

It was due to have been unveiled at the opening ceremony of the Tehran’s Fajr international film festival, which coincides with the 36th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. However the film was canceled on the eve of the screening, Iranian Film Daily wrote on Twitter.What is going on with Majid Majidi's big-budget MUHAMMAD film?...

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​NATO to deploy extra troops in 6 E. European member states

The additional NATO troops would be posted to the three Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, NATO's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. Each unit would consist of 40 to 50 troops comprised in roughly equal parts of soldiers from the host nation and those from other NATO members Reuters reported, citing an alliance diplomat.READ...

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