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Seychelles giant tortoise numbers hit record 180,000 in conservation triumph
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Adidas sues Australian label White Fox over four stripes design
The German sportswear brand wants the Sydney-based label to stop selling the clothes and pay damages.
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Israel opens first-ever pavilion at Morocco defence show
Israel opened its first national pavilion at Morocco's Marrakech Air Show, joined by Israel's top military contractors.
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Colombian embassy to open in Jerusalem, Israeli FM says
Colombian President Abelardo De la Espriella had promised closer ties with Israel on the campaign trail.
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Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens
Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early January The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan federal court papers unsealed on Thursday. The superseding indictment was unsealed shortly before Flores appeared at court in her ongoing push for pre-trial release – which was denied by Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Maduro and Flores have jailed in New York City since early January. Continue reading...
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Two Latvian men arrested inside UK military base after breach
Police say nothing so far suggests the incident at RAF Molesworth linked to events surrounding RAF Fairford last month.
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Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away
Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a mysterious flash of energy was released into the universe. Astronomers have now detected that flash, a burst of radio waves which travelled for more than 10bn years before reaching Earth – what they believe to be the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. Continue reading...