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Sanna Marin says Helsinki does not want its membership bid to result in a scaled-up military footprint. Finland is opposed to NATO deploying nuclear weapons or setting up military bases on its territory even if it succeeds in its bid to become a NATO member, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said. Marin told the Italian […]
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Continue ReadingIf all goes well, California’s newest state park will be open and accessible to visitors within a year. The 2,500-acre Dos Rios Ranch is at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, about ten miles southwest of Modesto in California’s Central Valley. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos First, archeologists will do a […]
Continue ReadingIf confirmed, it would suggest a counteroffensive by Ukrainian soldiers is having increasing success in expelling Russian forces from the northeast. Ukraine says troops defending the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv have pushed Russian forces back and advanced as far as the border with Russia. Fighting was reported near Kharkiv on Monday in what interior ministry […]
Continue ReadingBrussels has cut its growth forecasts further and lifted its inflation outlook as the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exacts its toll on the EU economy. Both the EU and euro area are set to expand by 2.7 per cent this year, well shy of the previous expectation of 4 per cent, […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever dreamed of moving to the moon and planting a garden, you just might be in luck. A new study has successfully grown plants in lunar soil for the first time. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos University of Florida scientists managed to germinate thale cress in soil samples collected by Apollo 11, […]
Continue ReadingThe breakthrough experiment sees seeds germinate in lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions decades ago. Scientists have for the first time grown seeds in lunar soil collected by US space agency NASA’s long-ago moonwalkers, an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human outposts on other worlds. Researchers in the […]
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Continue ReadingSpurred on by the western megadrought, the California Coastal Commission is expected to vote this week on a controversial $ 1.4 billion desalination plant near Huntington State Beach. Proponents say it could help the drinking water shortage. Skeptics claim marine life will pay the price. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos Poseidon Water paints a […]
Continue ReadingThe government authorizes military and police to arrest people without warrants a day after the deadly violence and the PM’s resignation. Sri Lanka has granted its military and police emergency powers to arrest people without warrants after a day of violence that killed seven people and injured more than 200 and resulted in the resignation […]
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