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10 newborns killed after fire engulfs hospital ward in northern India, injuring 16 others, authorities say Blogging Sole

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A fire ripped through a neonatal intensive care unit at a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborns and injuring 16 others, authorities said. The fire occurred Friday evening at a hospital in the town of Jhansi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Authorities said the fire spread quickly through the ward, where 55 … Read more

Famous Photographer’s New Book Focuses on the Forces Driving the Global Food Chain Blogging Sole

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Famous Photographer’s New Book Focuses on the Forces Driving the Global Food Chain Blogging Sole

Famous photographer’s new book focuses on the forces behind the global food chain – CBS News Watch CBS News Award-winning photographer George Steinmetz has released his sixth book, “Feed the Planet.” The book focuses on the people and places that fuel the global food chain and highlights how these resources are increasingly under strain. Be … Read more

Tropical Storm Sara hits Central America with torrential rain as forecasters warn of potentially deadly flash floods Blogging Sole

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Tropical Storm Sara The hurricane slammed into the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras on Friday morning, dumping torrential rain on parts of Central America and southern Mexico after making landfall overnight. Sara made landfall about 105 miles west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios, on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in … Read more

UK sends jets to track Russian spy plane near British airspace Blogging Sole

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British planes were dispatched to monitor a Russian reconnaissance plane flying near British airspace, the defense minister said in London on Friday, just days later. NATO planes have been mobilized when Russian planes were spotted over the Baltic Sea and off the Norwegian coast. Two Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland tracked the Russian Bear-F … Read more

Mysterious dark side of the Moon once hosted erupting volcanoes, confirms lunar soil recovered by Chinese spacecraft Blogging Sole

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Volcanoes erupted on the mysterious far side of the Moon billions of years ago, just like on the side we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil reported by The Chinese Chang’e-6the first spacecraft to return with a transport of rocks and dirt from the little-explored dark side. Two separate teams discovered fragments … Read more

Severe turbulence forces Miami-bound Norwegian Airlines flight to return to Europe Blogging Sole

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Extreme turbulence Thursday over Greenland forced a Norwegian Airlines flight from Stockholm to Miami to turn around and return to Europe. Dramatic video from Norwegian Airlines Flight 957 shows the severe turbulence that left some of the 254 passengers screaming and the cabin littered with debris. No serious injuries were reported during the flight. The … Read more

Elon Musk recently met with Iran’s ambassador to the UN Blogging Sole

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Elon Musk recently met with Iran’s Ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. The meeting took place at the ambassador’s residence in New York. There is no indication that President-elect Donald Trump’s national security transition team was aware of the meeting. Nor is it clear that his … Read more

Amnesty International says weapons from US allies are fueling Sudan’s civil war Blogging Sole

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Johannesburg — It is often called the forgotten conflict, but the civil war tearing apart Sudan for 19 months is fueling the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. In just over a year and a half, 13 million people have been displaced from their homes. At least one overcrowded camp of displaced civilians is already facing starvation, … Read more