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Mar52020 by adminNo Comments

Israel demolishes homes of 2 alleged Palestinian attackers

World

The Israeli military says its forces have demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of being behind a deadly blast in the West Bank last yearByThe Associated PressMarch 5, 2020, 10:07 AM2 min readJERUSALEM -- The Israeli military on Thursday said its forces demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of being behind a deadly blast in the West Bank last year. Israel says Walid Hanatsheh and Yazan Mughamis were part of a cell that carried out the attack in August, which killed 17-year-old Israeli Rina Shnerb and injured her father and brother as they hiked down to a spring in the occupied West Bank. Hanatsheh and Mughamis, along with other alleged members of the cell, are currently facing trial in an Israeli court. Bulldozers tore down one home in the West Bank city of Bir Zeit....

Apr202019 by adminNo Comments

Attackers kill doctor at hospital in Congo’s Ebola epicenter

Health

Attackers stormed a hospital at the epicenter of Congos Ebola outbreak and killed a dear colleague, the head of the World Health Organization said Friday as he condemned the latest violence against health workers trying to contain the virus. We are outraged, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said after the attack Friday in Butembo, a city in eastern Congo. The worlds response to the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has been hampered by a series of deadly attacks on health centers in Butembo and elsewhere that have disrupted medical care and vaccination efforts, leading to a rise in new Ebola cases in the sprawling African nation. The health worker killed was Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, an epidemiologist, a WHO statement said. A Congo health ministry staffer...

Sep232018 by adminNo Comments

'Bully' US helped attackers who killed 29, says Iran

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The president of Iran has labelled the US a "bully" after an attack on a military parade where at least 29 people were killed. Hassan Rouhani has accused America of looking to create insecurity in the Islamic Republic, claiming the perpetrators were helped by the US.Four gunmen opened fire on the crowd on Saturday, killing civilians and 12 members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.Speaking before leaving Tehran to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr Rouhani accused US-backed Gulf Arab states of providing financial and military support for anti-government ethnic Arab groups. ...

Feb272018 by adminNo Comments

Plants abandon defenses after attackers become immune, study shows

Science

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- While plants may deploy a combination of defenses agains their predators, they don't accumulate them ad infinitum. New research suggests plants abandon outdated defenses in favor of new ones.When scientists analyzed the genome of the Apocynaceae lineage, the group flowering plants commonly known as the dogbane family, they found a gene linked with the production of a toxic class of chemicals, called pyrrolizidine alkaloids, has become nonfunctional at least four different times in the family's evolutionary past.Researchers confirmed 75 percent of modern Apocynaceae species are descended from the same alkaloid-producing ancestor, and yet, most of the plants no longer generate the toxin.The latest research, published this week in the journal New Phytologist, suggests the Dan...