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• Brazil's Rousseff knew about bribery scheme, senator says - magazine

  19-03-2016 17:01
  By Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A senator accused of involvement in Brazil's biggest corruption scandal said President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula were both aware of it and tried to block prosecutors from investigating, Veja magazine said on Saturday. In an interview with Brazil's best-selling weekly news magazine, Senator Delcidio do Amaral said Rousseff's successful presidential campaigns in 2010 and 2014 were financed with money from the graft scheme. Amaral was the leade
  
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• Earth Hour 2016 – in pictures

  19-03-2016 16:39
  
  Major landmarks, businesses and households in cities around the world turned their lights off for one hour at 8.30pm on Saturday 19 March to raise awareness about climate change and show support for renewable energy Continue reading...
  
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• Congo orders telecoms shutdown during presidential vote

  19-03-2016 16:26
  By Aaron Ross BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Congo Republic's government has ordered the country's two largest telecommunications providers to block all communication during a presidential election on Sunday for security reasons, a government source said on Saturday. The decision will cause inconvenience and possible alarm in a country where many rely on cell phone communication and a prominent government critic said it would impede the work of election monitors. President Denis Sassou Nguesso is expec
  
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• Why women get more knee injuries than men

  19-03-2016 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that women who take the birth control pill, which lessen and stabilize estrogen levels, were less likely to suffer serious knee injuries. The findings are currently available in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.Female athletes are 1.5 to 2 times more likely than their male counterparts to injure their anterior cruciate ligament, or A
  
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• Pictures of the day: 19th March 2016

  19-03-2016 12:38
  
  Today: Fog blankets the Lake Distrct, Mabel the Labrador and an Easter chick
  
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• BHP plans to mine Australia's iron ore Pilbara region for 100 years

  19-03-2016 09:53
  The world's largest miner BHP Billiton expects to continue mining iron ore in western Australia's Pilbara for more than 100 years and will release a plan for its long-term future in the region on Monday, according to a company statement. BHP said it had lodged a strategic environmental assessment with the Australian and Western Australia state governments for long-term mining in the Pilbara region where it operates seven mines and will release the document on March 21. "The SEA provides greater
  
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• Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch claims attack on Algerian gas plant

  19-03-2016 09:46
  Al Qaeda's North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP as part of its "war on the Crusader interests everywhere". The attack caused no casualties or damage but forced the facility to be closed as a precaution, though state energy company Sonatrach said Algeria's gas production had not been affected. "This operation has destroyed your claims to have defeated 'terrorism' as you like to desc
  
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• Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attack on Algerian gas plant

  19-03-2016 09:09
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP. The attack caused no casualties or damage but forced the facility to be closed as a precaution. "This operation has destroyed your claims to have defeated 'terrorism' as you like to describe it. Even if your Western masters believed you were in control previously, how will you justify your position now?" the Islami
  
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• Looking for ethical investments? Here are a few that could be worth your energy

  19-03-2016 07:59
  
  Green schemes have their risks, but can hopefully generate bank-beating returns of 9% a year – and a couple of them have illustrious connectionsEthically minded individuals looking for potential returns of as much as 9.9% a year, and who are prepared to take some risks with their money, are being offered the chance to invest in a range of “green” schemes – one of which has been praised by David Cameron, no less.They include a £4.4m solar scheme just a few miles down
  
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• Liberate Tate's six-year campaign to end BP's art gallery sponsorship – in pictures

  19-03-2016 07:00
  
  Last week BP announced it was ending its Tate sponsorship after 26 years, citing a ‘challenging business environment’. We look back at protests staged by the art collective, from a mass exorcism to a live tattoo event Continue reading...
  
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• Scars of war and wildlife in the forest

  19-03-2016 06:30
  
  Highland Water, New Forest We come across beech trunks with extensive rich brown and vanilla etchings – the destructive work of poniesThe national red maple leaf symbols on the two large flags at the back of the Canadian war memorial are luminous in the afternoon sun as I arrive with my family visitors from Dublin. The emblems triggered a memory of two brothers, distant relatives of theirs who had served with the Canadian forces; only one returned. Had they trained here-abouts, and did the
  
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• Giant web probes spider sensation

  19-03-2016 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In an Oregon laboratory, a two-metre spider web made of aluminium and rope is beginning to unlock how orb weavers pinpoint struggling prey.
  
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