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• Qatar will help Syrian rebels even if Trump ends U.S. role

  26-11-2016 23:04
  By William Maclean and Tom Finn DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar will continue to arm Syrian rebels even if Donald Trump ends U.S. backing for the multinational effort, Doha's foreign minister said in an interview, signalling its determination to pursue a policy the U.S. President-elect may abandon. While the rebels needed more military support, any move to supply "Manpad" anti-aircraft weapons to them would have to be decided collectively by the rebels' backers, the minister, a member of Qatar's royal fa
  
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• In intimate ally Venezuela, tears and cheers over Castro's death

  26-11-2016 18:18
  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling socialists mourned former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, while opposition hardliners exulted over the death of a man they call a dictator who helped wreck the economy and whose country has for years got an easy ride with subsidized oil. The two leftist Latin American governments became intimate allies under Castro and his younger disciple, the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, a relationship buttressed by generous oil shipments from the OPE
  
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• Croatian scientists 'find 30 new species in caves'

  26-11-2016 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists say they have discovered 30 new species of animal in subterranean caves, following a two-year search.
  
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• Photographer's Deepest Sky View Reveals a Stunning Triangulum Galaxy

  26-11-2016 14:40
  This purple-dotted images is of the northern galaxy M33 located nearly 3 million light-years away from Earth. M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a member of what's known as the Local Group of galaxies, which is made up of our own Milky Way and roughly 30 other galaxies. This galactic cousin is presently some 2.9 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum.
  
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• Incredible! Milky Way Shines Through a Midnight-Blue Sky (Photo)

  26-11-2016 14:30
  
  While scouting locations to watch the Perseids meteor shower earlier this year, an astrophotogrpaher was able to capture this stunning shot of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Barbara Matthews took this image the first week of August from Donner Summit, a mountaintop on the northern Sierra Nevada range. The summit is near Donner Pass, and both bear the name of the tragic story of California-bound emigrants who were forced to spend a winter on the east side of the mountains.
  
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• Tiny 'Black Magic' Satellite Packs Origami-Like Radar Dish

  26-11-2016 14:16
  
  NASA challenged engineers to pack an entire satellite dish into a cereal box with Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube), a technology-demonstration mission scheduled for launch in 2017 that will measure rain and snowfall on Earth from space. Chahat and his team worked with a CubeSat team on the design for RainCube, which is something like an umbrella stuffed into a jack-in-the-box, NASA said in the statement.
  
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• Catherine McKenna insists Ottawa will stick with plan on climate change despite Trump win

  26-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While U.S. president-elect Donald Trump says he's keeping "an open mind" on climate change, Canada is forging ahead with its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  
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• 2nd beluga whale dies in Vancouver Aquarium in less than two weeks

  26-11-2016 08:43 via cbc.ca
  
  After falling ill the day after her calf died Nov. 16, the last remaining beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium died Friday night.
  
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• 2nd beluga whale dies at Vancouver Aquarium in less than two weeks

  26-11-2016 08:43 via cbc.ca
  
  After falling ill the day after her calf died Nov. 16, the last remaining beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium died Friday night.
  
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• Strong earthquake in remote far-western China kills 1

  26-11-2016 04:04
  BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake in a remote area of China's extreme west has killed at least one villager after a home collapsed, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• Nature deficit disorder

  26-11-2016 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's become a buzzword, but what is NDD?
  
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