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Rohingya Refugees Agree Move to Bangladesh Island: Official
Yahoo! News | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
20 Oct 2019 – Thousands of Rohingya living in Bangladesh refugee camps have agreed to move to an island in the Bay of Bengal, officials said today, despite fears the site is prone to flooding. Dhaka has long wanted to move 100,000 refugees to the muddy silt islet, saying it would take pressure off the overcrowded border camps where almost a million Rohingya live.
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Inside America’s Most Toxic Nuclear Waste Dump, Where 56 Million Gallons of Buried Radioactive Sludge Are Leaking into the Earth
James Pasley | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
• Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with.
• The reservation produced the plutonium for Fat Man, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in Japan, as well as for the United States’ atomic weapon stockpile during the Cold War. {Read on…}
No ‘Made In Israel’ Label for Settlement Wines: Canada Court
AFP | Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
29 Jul 2019 – A Canadian court today ruled that it was “false, misleading and deceptive” to label wines made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as a “Product of Israel.”
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Trump Adds $4.1 Trillion to National Debt. Here’s Where the Money Went
Sibile Marcellus | Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
26 Jul 2019 – Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House yesterday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt. It seems that Trump is steadily walking toward a collapse of the US federal debt, which could trigger the fall of the US Empire–by 2020 according to peace/conflict researcher, sociologist Johan Galtung.
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Prof. Peter Asaro | Campaign to Stop Killer Robots - Yahoo! News,
20 Jun 2018
The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapons
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Rachel England – Yahoo! News,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – The US National Security Agency is in the global bad books again for trying to manipulate international encryption standards. A computer science professor at the University of Haifa, said, “I don’t trust the designers. There are quite a lot of people in NSA who think their job is to subvert standards. My job is to secure standards.”
→ read full articleIsrael Closes Palestinian Map Bureau, Arrests Head
AFP – Yahoo! News,
20 Mar 2017
Israeli police on Tuesday [14 Mar 2017] closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services. The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Warns Japan against Resuming Whaling
AFP – Yahoo! News,
30 Nov 2015
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd warned Japan on Sunday [29 Nov 2015] against resuming “research” whaling in the Antarctic. After a decade of harassment by Sea Shepherd, Japan was forced to abandon its 2014-15 hunt after the International Court of Justice said it was a commercial activity masquerading as research.
→ read full articleIsrael Blocks Visit of UN Human Rights Envoy
AFP, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Israel has blocked a visit to the Palestinian territories by a UN rights envoy, an official said Monday [15 Jun 2015], just ahead of the publication of a United Nations report on last year’s Gaza war.
→ read full articleWind Energy vs. Fossil Fuels: Hurdles and Hopes for a Renewable Future
Michael Walsh, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015 – The colossal oil spill in Southern California last month spurred many to wonder why we have not abandoned fossil fuels for wind and other sources of renewable energy. The fossil fuel industry receives billions in taxpayer subsidies as the wind industry fights to take flight.
→ read full article(Português) Mulher Homofóbica É Deserdada Pelo Próprio Pai em Carta Emocionante
Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
Após descobrir que a filha havia deserdado o próprio neto, pai de família reagiu de forma impressionante. “Tenho um neto fabuloso (como os gays dizem) para criar agora, e não tenho tempo para uma filha sem coração. Se você encontrar esse coração, ligue para nós. – Papai”.
→ read full articleChina Overtakes US to Become Largest Trading Country in World
ANI – Yahoo! News,
18 Feb 2013
China is now the largest trading country in the world in terms of imports and exports, after overtaking the US in 2012. The Asian country overtook the US to become the world’s biggest trading nation, bringing an end to the US’ post-war dominance of global commerce.
→ read full articleFacebook’s Privacy Vote: What the Email Actually Means
Rob Waugh, Yahoo! News – Reader Supported News,
10 Dec 2012
Facebook has sent all its users an email this week about a vote on its proposed changes to Data Use Policy – the site’s term for its privacy policy. The dry, quietly worded email is more significant than it sounds.
→ read full articleExtraordinary World Phenomena – Photo Gallery
Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The outlandish landscapes might look like something from another planet but they are in fact completely natural eccentricities. And while these mind-blowing quirks of Mother Nature might continue to puzzle scientists, they also continue to draw in tourists fascinated by the surreal spectacles.
→ read full articleCracking Your PIN Code: Easy as 1-2-3-4
Lisa Scherzer, Yahoo! Finance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Not long, according to data scientist, Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.
→ read full articleLEAKED VIDEO SHOWS CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN IRAQ, SIGNIFIES GROWING POWER OF INDEPENDENT WEB JOURNALISM
Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
When a nonprofit group this week released video footage, leaked via a source in the Pentagon, showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad, the clip unleashed a viral online sensation and ignited an intense debate about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq. But the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published.
→ read full articleUN’S BAN KI-MOON CALLS ARAL SEA ‘SHOCKING DISASTER’
Jim Heintz, AP-Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent. NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) OS 10 LUGARES QUE VOCÊ NÃO VAI QUERER VISITAR DE JEITO NENHUM
Redação Yahoo! Brasil - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
O site listverse, que se propõe a reunir as listas mais interessantes dos mais diversos assuntos que você possa imaginar, elegeu os 10 piores lugares do mundo para serem visitados. E deu Brasil na cabeça! A Ilha de Queimada Grande, que fica a 35km de Itanhaém, litoral sul de São Paulo, foi apontada como o […]
→ read full articleTRIBE MARKS MASSACRE WITH BURIAL GROUND GATHERING
Jessie L. Bonner - AP, Yahoo! News,
10 Feb 2010
PRESTON, Idaho – Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history’s bloodiest -but little remembered- massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise attack 147 years ago, […]
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