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To Start off Nigeria
Teen girl sent by Boko Haram rips off suicide vest, refuses to bomb refugee camp - Girl was among thousands held captive for months by extremist group, local government official says.
Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, a young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.
Boko Haram's six-year-old Islamic insurgency has killed 20,000 people, made 2.5 million homeless and spread across Nigeria's borders.
The extremists have kidnapped thousands of people and the increasing number of suicide bombings by girls and children have raised fears they are turning some captives into weapons.
The latest atrocity blamed on Boko Haram extremists was committed against people who had been driven from their homes by the insurgents and had spent a year across the border in Cameroon.
The scene of the killings is 50 kilometres from the border with Cameroon and 85 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri, the biggest city in the northeast and birthplace of Boko Haram. Source
Chinese Fusion Reactor Sustains 90 Million Degree Plasma Blast for Over 100 Seconds.
According to the South China Morning Post, China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) was able to sustain 90 million Fahrenheit plasma (50 million Kelvin) for 102 seconds.
The Wendelstein X-7 Stellerator's first successful test was only a fraction of a second, though the team behind it hopes to be able to extend that out to a whopping 30 minutes, citing the Stellerator's much calmer operation.
Other reactors of its design have a hard time maintaining plasma of this temperature for 20 seconds before a reactor meltdown starts to be a concern, much less a minute and 42. Source
U.S. to restore commercial air travel to Cuba - The agreement is disclosed in a notice to Capitol Hill offices.
government will announce Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Cuba to restore commercial air travel between the two countries, according to a notice sent to Capitol Hill offices.
and Cuba, will facilitate authorized travel, enhanced traveler choices, and strengthen people-to-people links between the two countries," according to the notice sent by the Department of Transportation to congressional offices.
Airlines will apply to fly between the two countries, and DOT will select which airline will operate the service, according to the notice. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off Nigeria
Teen girl sent by Boko Haram rips off suicide vest, refuses to bomb refugee camp - Girl was among thousands held captive for months by extremist group, local government official says.
Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, a young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.
Boko Haram's six-year-old Islamic insurgency has killed 20,000 people, made 2.5 million homeless and spread across Nigeria's borders.
The extremists have kidnapped thousands of people and the increasing number of suicide bombings by girls and children have raised fears they are turning some captives into weapons.
The latest atrocity blamed on Boko Haram extremists was committed against people who had been driven from their homes by the insurgents and had spent a year across the border in Cameroon.
The scene of the killings is 50 kilometres from the border with Cameroon and 85 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri, the biggest city in the northeast and birthplace of Boko Haram. Source
Chinese Fusion Reactor Sustains 90 Million Degree Plasma Blast for Over 100 Seconds.
According to the South China Morning Post, China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) was able to sustain 90 million Fahrenheit plasma (50 million Kelvin) for 102 seconds.
The Wendelstein X-7 Stellerator's first successful test was only a fraction of a second, though the team behind it hopes to be able to extend that out to a whopping 30 minutes, citing the Stellerator's much calmer operation.
Other reactors of its design have a hard time maintaining plasma of this temperature for 20 seconds before a reactor meltdown starts to be a concern, much less a minute and 42. Source
U.S. to restore commercial air travel to Cuba - The agreement is disclosed in a notice to Capitol Hill offices.
government will announce Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Cuba to restore commercial air travel between the two countries, according to a notice sent to Capitol Hill offices.
and Cuba, will facilitate authorized travel, enhanced traveler choices, and strengthen people-to-people links between the two countries," according to the notice sent by the Department of Transportation to congressional offices.
Airlines will apply to fly between the two countries, and DOT will select which airline will operate the service, according to the notice. Source
Schengen zone: EU gives Greece deadline on borders.
The European Union has given Greece three months to fix its border controls, in a move that could allow other Schengen zone states to maintain internal border controls.
Article 26 of the Schengen Borders Code allows countries to keep temporary border controls in place for a maximum of two years, "in exceptional circumstances".
But a few nations, including Germany, Austria and Sweden have been allowed to put in place some controls at specific frontiers to deal with the refugee flows.
The European Commission has made clear the move will not isolate Greece from the Schengen area or be about suspending Schengen, but will allow other countries to deal with the consequences of the problems Greece is having controlling its borders.
The Schengen agreement on freedom of movement is in jeopardy - Hungary fenced off its borders with Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia; meanwhile Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and France also reimposed border controls. Source
Four billion people face severe water scarcity, new research finds - Water shortages affecting two-thirds of world’s population for a month every year and the crisis is far worse than previously thought.
At least two-thirds of the global population, over 4 billion people, live with severe water scarcity for at least one month every year, according to a major new analysis.
These water problems are set to worsen, according to the researchers, as population growth and increasing water use particularly through eating meat continues to rise.
It analysed data from 1996-2005 and found severe water scarcity defined as water use being more than twice the amount being replenished affected 4 billion people for at least one month a year.
Another unique aspect of the new research was that it included environmental water requirements, ie the water needed to ensure that life survives in the rivers and lakes.
Hoekstra said caps on water use should be put in place for all river basins, companies should be transparent about how much water is needed to make their products and look to reduce it while investors should incorporate water sustainability into their decision-making. Source
That's all for today, Thank you.
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