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Mexico's coronavirus death toll tops 50,000: Live updates August 7, 2020
Mexico has the world's third-highest number of fatalities from COVID-19, behind the United States and Brazil.
Is China a threat or a partner to the West? August 7, 2020
Mehdi Hasan challenges a retired US brigadier general and a former UK diplomat on the West's relationship with China.
Protests as Lebanon arrests 16 over Beirut blast: Live updates August 7, 2020
Demonstrators call for gov't resignation as authorities make arrests as part of the inquiry into the deadly explosion.
Lebanon is on track to become a failed state August 7, 2020
On August 4, a failing state, through negligence and corruption, destroyed its own capital and killed its own citizens.

New science behind algae-based flip-flops August 6, 2020
Sustainable flip-flops: A team of researchers has formulated polyurethane foams made from algae oil to meet commercial specifications for midsole shoes and the foot-bed of flip-flops.
Study finds high levels of toxic pollutants in stranded dolphins and whales August 6, 2020
Researchers examined toxins in tissue concentrations and pathology data from 83 stranded dolphins and whales from 2012 to 2018. They looked at 11 different animal species to test for 17 different substances. The study is the first to report on concentrations in blubber tissues of stranded cetaceans of atrazine, DEP, NPE and triclosan. It also […]
Mix of contaminants in Fukushima wastewater, risks of ocean dumping August 6, 2020
Nearly 10 years after the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power, radiation levels have fallen to safe levels in all but the waters closest to the shuttered power plant. A new article looks at the many radioactive elements contained in the tanks and suggests that more needs to be done to […]
DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to humans living today August 6, 2020
A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor.
New insight into the evolution of complex life on Earth August 6, 2020
A novel connection between primordial organisms and complex life has been discovered, as new evidence sheds light on the evolutionary origins of the cell division process that is fundamental to complex life on Earth.

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Egypt To Withdraw From Renaissance Dam Agreement With Ethiopia

Egypt To Withdraw From Renaissance Dam Agreement With Ethiopia

By Cowry News on August 5, 2020

Egypt has threatened to withdraw from latest Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) talks with Ethiopia, saying that the latest proposal violates agreements from the last round of negotiations. Ethiopia has been…

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