Soil damage fuels climate change
LONDON, Apr 29 (BBC): Climate change can't be halted if we carry on degrading the soil, a report will say.There's three times more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere - but that carbon's being released by deforestation and poor farming.This is fuelling climate change - and compromising our...
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Ghani holds council to set agenda for Taliban talks
KABUL, Apr 29 (AP): Afghanistan's president opened a grand council on Monday of more than 3,200 prominent Afghans seeking to agree on a common approach to peace talks with the Taliban, but the gathering may further aggravate divisions within the US-backed government.President Ashraf Ghani hopes to showcase unity at the...
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US military spending up for first time in seven years
STOCKHOLM, Apr 29 (AFP): US military spending has risen for the first time in seven years, reflecting Trump administration policy, according to a new report released on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.Worldwide military spending also rose by 2.6 per cent to $1.8 trillion overall last year, SIPRI...
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Najib's graft trial enters third week
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 29 (AP): Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak has failed in his bid to have seven corruption charges against him dismissed as his trial entered the third week on Monday.At the start of his trial April 03, Najib challenged the criminal breach of trust, abuse of power...
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News in Brief -(30-04-2019)
Universe expanding faster and it is youngerWASHINGTON, Apr 29: The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that's sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think...
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