Two Israeli teens helping an archaeological team during their summer break made a find that’s the envy of their professional counterparts: a clay pot containing 425 meticulously preserved 24-carat gold coins that date back to the 9th century. “It was amazing,” said Oz Cohen, one of the teens who volunteered at the excavation site in …
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A Mexican designer has started cranking out “anti-Covid-19” masks for cats. Along with serving as a shield to help deter the spread of the illness from cat to cat, Nestor Ortega says his creations are “an accessory [that] serves to remind us that we are going through a very difficult situation and that we have …
A delayed governmental response to a Japanese oil tanker running aground late last month off the island of Mauritius has helped created a spill that’s becoming “an ecological catastrophe of massive proportions,” a Greenpeace representative tells Zenger News. Sunil Dowarkasing, a native of the east African island nation, says the unresponsiveness of the oil tanker’s …
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A humpback whale trapped in abandoned fishing nets off the shore of northwest Ecuador has been rescued. The operation, at Camarones Beach near the port city of Esmeraldes, began unfolding on Wednesday when a 26-foot-long whale got its pectoral flipper and tail entangled in some abandoned fishing nets. Efforts to free the whale involved the …
More than 1.25 million acres of wildfire in Northern and Central California have ignited a man versus nature fiasco as local firefighters are spread thin and left without adequate resources. Cal Fire, the California agency responsible for fighting wildfires, said 650 wildfires of all sizes have caused the extensive damage the state since Aug. 15, …
After Italy shut down in March as the Covid-19 pandemic spiraled out of control, only a handful of the middle school students Liliana Starace works with managed to attend online classes. And some of those who did refused to turn on their cameras, the teaching assistant said, because they were ashamed of showing the conditions …
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MAHAD, India – A 4-year-old boy was rescued unharmed from the rubble 22 hours after an apartment building collapsed, killing at least 16 people in this western Indian town. The five-story Tarique Garden building housed about 40 residents. So far, 78 people have been rescued. Officials said the top three floors of the 10-year-old building …
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The Covid-19 pandemic in Venezuela has stranded 800 U.S. citizens who have become political pawns between the Nicolas Maduro regime and the American government. James Story, charge d’affaires of the U.S .State Department for Venezuela, who dispatches from Bogotá, Colombia, denounced the Venezuelan regime for refusing to allow American citizens to return to the United …
James Carville is a big name in political consulting. When working on Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, he told campaign workers what politicians had always known about what makes a winner: “The economy, stupid.” Economics is a lynchpin in presidential elections. “If your personal checkbook is doing well and the national checkbook is doing well, you …
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Mexican criminal organizations are using sophisticated technical gadgets to seize control of territories run by 37 drug cartels operating in the country. The Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel, one of the most violent and dangerous, has started using drones loaded with explosives to attack its rivals in southwestern Mexico. The drones are packed with C4, an …
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