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For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoOn Dec. 22, 1874, the HMS Dido arrived in Fiji from Sydney, carrying about 200 people and an...
US, Japan take a swipe at China and deepen defence ties
AFP News via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoThe United States and Japan issued scathing verbal attacks on China and Russia on Sunday after...
Why the Golan Heights is a Middle East flashpoint
Sky News via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoWhat separates the two sides on the Golan? United Nations peacekeepers have been in the Golan Heights since 1974 supervising a ceasefire between Israel...
Canada's 'shoestring' navy needs drastic changes to buy the new submarine fleet it wants
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoSea and the Eastern Mediterranean. But tripling Canada's submarine fleet will require more than...
Israel vows to hit Hezbollah after rocket kills 12 on football field
Reuters via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoMAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (Reuters) -Thousands of mourners attended funeral ceremonies on Sunday...
Endangered gazelles find Libyan 'safe haven'
AFP News via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoCocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles -- an endangered species native to North Africa -- have been...
The US says it has successfully practiced using a low-cost bomb to sink a major surface ship. China...
CNN via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoA very specialized part of the world’s largest naval drills off the northern Hawaiian island of...
All lanes of Interstate 15 to Las Vegas that were closed due to big rig accident have reopened, CHP...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoCHP reroutes northbound vehicles to share southbound lanes after hundreds are stranded by cleanup of...
Deputy who killed Sonya Massey was removed from the Army, had DUIs and needed ‘high stress decision’...
CNN via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoBefore he killed a mother in her home, former sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson had a history of problems in the Army and another sheriff’s agency, records show.
Surprising element found in traces of Tycho Brahe’s alchemy lab confounds scientists
CNN via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoRenaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A...