Washington The US announced Thursday that it has sold petroleum from its largest-ever seizure of Iranian fuel for more than $ 40 million and will direct most of the proceeds to a fund for the victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
Scientists have taken the first ever picture of a glow-in-the-dark shark
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Scientists have taken the first ever photos of a glow-in-the-dark shark producing its own light. The kitefin shark, Dalatias licha, is the world's largest known bioluminescent vertebrate, growing to nearly six feet ...
New satellite images reveal North Korea took recent steps to conceal nuclear weapons site
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Washington New satellite imagery obtained by CNN reveals North Korea has recently taken steps to conceal a facility US intelligence agencies believe is being used to store nuclear weapons, a move that could add to th...
Police in Germany and Belgium make Europe’s biggest ever cocaine bust, worth billions of euros
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Authorities in Germany and Belgium seized more than 23,000 kilograms (50,700 pounds) of cocaine, worth billions of dollars, in an international operation that resulted in one arrest, officials said Wednesday, callin...
More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands than ever before. This is what happens to them
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Elementary school children don't typically venture far from home on their own, but 11-year-old Abou managed to cross a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to Europe, in the hands of strangers. Abou, from West...
Atlanta creates the nation’s largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity
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When a dormant pecan farm in the neighborhoods of south Atlanta closed, the land was soon rezoned and earmarked to become townhouses. But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in for...
Why Mary Lincoln is as controversial as ever
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Catherine Clinton is the author of "Mrs. Lincoln: A Life" and "Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom." She holds the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas in San Antonio and is professor emerita a...
Couples everywhere: Here’s why you (or they) can’t ever find anything. It’s not your fault
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"Where are the stamps?" I asked my wife. "I can't believe you are asking me. They are right where they always are," she yelled from across the room. This does nothing to help me in my quest. The stamps are nowhere t...
Explosives are missing from the nation’s largest Marine Corps base and an investigation is underway
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Explosives are missing from the nation's largest US Marine Corps base, according to military officials who said Tuesday an investigation is underway. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in San Be...
Two former Iranian national team footballers die from Covid-19 within a week of each other after appearing on a TV special aired online
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Iran is mourning the death of two former national team football players who died from Covid-19 within a week of each other in Tehran. Mehrdad Minavand, 45, and Ali Ansarian, 43, played professionally in Iran's Pro L...
Asians in Hollywood more visible than ever
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Overwhelmed by Covid deaths, America’s largest cemetery refrigerates bodies — and funerals take up to a month
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Spanning 1,400 acres and eight venues, Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary is the biggest cemetery in North America. But the number of Covid-19-related deaths since the holidays have so challenged its capacity tha...