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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.”
→ read full articleTime Is Running Out
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.”
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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 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.
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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 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 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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