Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, after Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. -Bard
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Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of ...
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Research methods that find serial criminals could help save tigers | Matthew Struebig, Freya St. John
Tiger on a trap camera. Credit: Matt Struebig Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A geographic profiling tool used to catch serial criminals could help reduce the casualties of human-tiger conflict, ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...
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How Russian Trolls Neutralize Certain News | Xymena Kurowska & Anatoly Reshetnikov
Image credit: NYMag.com Aug. 8, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Russian "troll factories" have been making headlines for some time. First, as the Kremlin's digital guardians in the Russian blogosphere. ...
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Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen | Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 10, 2018 A recent European Council summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. ...
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone
Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global ...
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Dorothea Lange documents children caged by the U.S. government (in 1942) | Mickey Z.
Photo: Dorothea Lange, 1942 (public domain) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 25, 2018 More than just a “good war,” former NBC newsman and renowned The Greatest Generation author Tom Brokaw deemed ...
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The Pawns of War | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 25, 2018 She would always have the brightest smile as she stood at the intersection of Avenue T and Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn, New York, ...
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The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 24, 2018 On Jan. 15, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day. His famous speech, "I Have a Dream" was repeated numerous ...
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Shadow Armies: The Unseen, But Real US War in Africa | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2018 There is a real -- but largely concealed -- war that is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an ...
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Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought | Robin Allaby
Credit: University of Warwick Oct. 23, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to 30,000 years ago -- around ten millennia before experts ...
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