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Dec252020 by adminNo Comments

222 killed in Ethiopia village massacre as ethnic tensions flare – Red Cross

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Some 222 people have been killed following an attack in Ethiopia, a Red Cross volunteer has said.Homes were torched in the massacre that took place on Wednesday in Bekoji, a village in the western region of Bulen that borders Sudan, amid rising ethnic tensions. The death toll was originally estimated to be more than 100 by the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. Image: Ethiopia has been grappling with outbreaks of deadly violence since 2018 But Melese Mesfin, who volunteers for the Red Cross, said on Friday that the organisation had buried the bodies of 207 victims and 15 attackers.A Bulen county spokesman confirmed 207 people were killed and that 40,000 more had fled their homes due to the fighting. ...

Jan182020 by adminNo Comments

COBRA: Could a solar flare wipe out power on Earth?

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New disaster series COBRA opened with a mayday call and a pilot in distress as a plane lost control over the UK.The resulting crash is just one of the devastating effects of a space weather phenomenon - a severe geomagnetic storm caused by a huge solar flare, which wipes out power and shuts communications down across the country.The Sky One TV show follows prime minister Robert Sutherland, played by Robert Carlyle, as he tries to deal with the fallout.But could this kind of emergency happen for real? Sky News has spoken to scientists to find out. Image: A geomagnetic storm caused by a solar flare wipes out power in new series COBRA. Pic: Sky UK What is a solar flare?A solar flare is an intense burst of r...

May42019 by adminNo Comments

Hostilities flare up as rockets hit Israel from Gaza

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Militants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 200 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.Three Israelis were wounded by the rockets, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians. including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.Four Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.The flare-up followed a truce in the run-up to Israeli elections in April.It marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.Life in the Gaza StripPalestinian territorie...

Nov102018 by adminNo Comments

Giant solar flare detonated mines during Vietnam War

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Magnetic radiation from giant solar storms caused the sudden and nearly instantaneous detonation of dozens of sea mines in Vietnam in the 1970s, research has confirmed. At the time of the mysterious explosions, the US Navy attributed to the event to "magnetic perturbations of solar storms" - an attribution which scientists from the University of Colorado have confirmed.In their paper, published in the journal Space Weather, the team established that the mine detonations - alongside widespread electric and communication-grid disturbances seen in North America, were due to an enormous solar flare which burst towards Earth. Image: Dozens of mines exploded mysteriously near the end of the Vietnam War. File photo of a napalm bomb ...