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Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan says Turkey starting troop deployment to Libya

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is beginning to send troops into Libya in support of the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, days before a summit in Berlin which will address the Libyan conflict. Speaking in…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Drones

Mysterious drone swarms flying at night are baffling US authorities

Technology 16 January 2020 By David Hambling Andy Dean Photography/Alamy Stock PhotoMysterious drone swarms have been seen flying in Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming at night since December, sometimes over locations believed to house nuclear missile silos. A federal task force has been formed to investigate the drones’ origin and purpose.…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Black Hole

Why are black holes just ‘wandering’ on the outskirts of their dwarf galaxies?

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of a dwarf galaxy with a massive black hole highlighted. (Image: © Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers have detected several supermassive black holes wandering through their dwarf host galaxies, providing new clues about how similar black holes evolved in the early universe. Using the…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

AR-15

Here’s How The Mini-14 Rifle Was Propelled To Near AR-15 Levels Of Fame

Key point: This may well give the rifle a new lease on life... One of the most enduring and popular semi-automatic rifles in America traces its lineage to the battlefields of World War II and Korea. The Mini-14 rifle, designed and developed by Sturm Ruger, is in widespread use as a…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Black Hole

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his 3rd day on the job

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his third day on the job.Wolf Cukier, then a junior in high school, was interning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland when he made the discovery.The planet, since named TOI 1338 b, is the first circumbinary planet to…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Brexit

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Updated It has been years in the making and Europe’s largest law firms are smacking their lips in anticipation but the long-held dream of a single European patent system may die next month – and everyone appears to be in denial. “It would be realistic to expect the UPC to…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Brown Coal

Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable

Germany could end electricity generation from coal in 2035, three years earlier than previously planned, under a pact sealed Thursday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of affected states. Merkel and premiers from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, North Rhine-…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

US envoy surprised that NKorea didn’t give ‘Christmas gift’

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The U.S. ambassador to South Korea said Thursday he was surprised and pleased that North Korea did not give the U.S. an unwelcome Christmas gift because of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, and that President Donald Trump is still con…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Putin

Russian economic officials cancel keynote speeches amid reshuffle

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s top economic officials have canceled keynote speeches they were due to make at the country’s first economic forum of 2020, an updated schedule showed on Thursday, a day after the government quit amid plans for a constitutional shak…

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Putin

Putin Pays Backhanded Tribute to Democracy

Yesterday’s government shake-up in Moscow and the institutional changes Vladimir Putin proposed with it are plainly a response to what Russian observers call “Problem-24.” As in 2024—when Putin’s current, fourth presidential term expires. In 2024, Putin will …

bubmagJanuary 16, 2020

Erdogan says Turkey starting troop deployment to Libya

Mysterious drone swarms flying at night are baffling US authorities

Why are black holes just ‘wandering’ on the outskirts of their dwarf galaxies?

Here’s How The Mini-14 Rifle Was Propelled To Near AR-15 Levels Of Fame

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his 3rd day on the job

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable

US envoy surprised that NKorea didn’t give ‘Christmas gift’

Russian economic officials cancel keynote speeches amid reshuffle

Putin Pays Backhanded Tribute to Democracy

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