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Markets plunge on pandemic fears

Hong Kong (CNN)Multiple outbreaks of the novel coronavirus outside of mainland China have continued to worsen, as experts warn we may be approaching pandemic levels. A World Health Organization team landed in Italy late Monday to "support Italian authorities in understanding the situation," the WHO said. The team's focus will…
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February 25, 2020
Japan to place body scanners, sniffer dogs at Tokyo train stations and conduct inspections during Olympics Super Komachi

Japan to place body scanners, sniffer dogs at Tokyo train stations and conduct inspections during Olympics

A number of train stations in Tokyo will conduct anti-terrorism inspections during the Olympics and Paralympics using sniffer dogs and body scanners, sources said Monday.The transport ministry will revise a related law to allow railway firms to prohibit passengers from entering a train if they refuse baggage inspections, they said.…
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February 25, 2020
Trump’s Ham-fisted Mideast “Plan” gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement Palestine

Trump’s Ham-fisted Mideast “Plan” gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A couple of weeks ago, a spokesperson of the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing of the resistance faction Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), called on Palestinians…
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February 25, 2020
Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ stocks up on more food seeds in preparation for a global catastrophe: report Seed Vault

Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ stocks up on more food seeds in preparation for a global catastrophe: report

An Arctic “doomsday vault” is set Tuesday to receive 60,000 samples of seeds from around the world as the biggest global crop reserve stocks up for a global catastrophe. The seeds are to be deposited in the vault inside a mountain near Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago,…
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February 25, 2020
Mallinckrodt proposes US$1.6 billion opioid deal, Chapter 11 for generics unit: WSJ Oxycodone

Mallinckrodt proposes US$1.6 billion opioid deal, Chapter 11 for generics unit: WSJ

Business Drugmaker Mallinckrodt Plc is considering a Chapter 11 filing covering its U.S. generics business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter. (https://on.wsj.com/3c3rwqH) FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkillers Hydrocodine Bitartrate and Acetaminopohen, 5mg/325mg pills, made by Mallinckrodt sit on a shelf at a…
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February 25, 2020
Lucasfilm finally pulls back the curtain on the secretive Project Luminous Star Wars

Lucasfilm finally pulls back the curtain on the secretive Project Luminous

At the 2019 Star Wars Celebration last April, Lucasfilm and Disney Publishing announced an ambitious-sounding plan: to tell one cohesive story over a series of books, comics, and, if later rumors were to be believed, maybe more. Authors Cavan Scott (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space, IDW’s Star Wars Adventures),…
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February 25, 2020
Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figure’ at NASA during 1960s space race, dies at 101 Computers in School

Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figure’ at NASA during 1960s space race, dies at 101

Mrs. Johnson, who died Monday at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA’s successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon. In 26 signed reports for the space agency, and in many more papers that bore others’ signatures on her work, she codified mathematical…
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February 25, 2020
‘Maradona is divine’ – Insigne won’t compare Messi to former Napoli star Maradona

‘Maradona is divine’ – Insigne won’t compare Messi to former Napoli star

The Argentine icon has talked up the qualities of his fellow countryman but admits his heart lies with Italian hopefuls in the Champions LeagueLorenzo Insigne had no interest in comparing Lionel Messi to Diego Maradona ahead of Napoli's clash with Barcelona, saying the latter was "divine for Neapolitans".Messi and Barcelona…
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February 25, 2020