Headlines
  • Israel claims that as of Saturday, its fighters are carrying out a series of targeted attacks on Israeli forces stationed inside Lebanese territory.
  • On Saturday, the Israeli military demolished portions of a Catholic convent in a border village while Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and injured others.
  • The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is "likely" to resume, according to Iran's deputy chief of military headquarters, Mohammad Jafar Asadi, as "evidence shows the US is not committed to any agreements or treaties."
  • The US decision to remove 5,000 troops from Germany was "foreseeable," according to Germany's defense minister Boris Pistorius, while the NATO military alliance claims to be asking Washington for clarification.
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani discussed the ongoing talks to end the war in Iran on Saturday.

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November 11, 2019

Mammoth Tusks: Big Profits, Lost History

Paleontologists are struggling to salvage precious prehistoric bones discarded by mammoth-ivory hunters in Russia’s remote Yakutia region. When hunters extract valuable tusks from the skeletons of the ancient buried animals, they also destroy evidence of past life on Earth. Scientists can’t stop this illegal work, but they bargain and scavenge to preserve natural history

November 10, 2019

Ethical AI Learns Human Rights Framework

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South Sudan Promoting Adult Literacy to...

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After Finding Birth Parents, She Feels...

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In Post-Cold War Berlin, Arts Scene...

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Authorities in Somaliland have stepped up efforts to curb illegal trafficking of cheetah cubs, which are sought as exotic pets in Persian Gulf countries. Activists warn that cheetahs are in peril in the Horn of Africa

Mix & Match

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Tibetan Man Detained in March, No...

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Botswana’s Historians, Archaeologists Cautious on Study...

A study in the journal Nature tracing the origins of modern human life to Botswana has drawn mixed views from experts in the Southern African nation. Some archaeologists question the study’s findings

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