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IQUIQUE, CHILE–A group of 19 Venezuelan immigrants trying to sneak into Chile – including a 2-month-old boy – were discovered hidden in the back of a truck by Chilean authorities. The find occurred on the morning of Aug. 26 on Route 1 at the Chuchumata tollbooth here, near the border with Peru. The travelers were walking south when they asked a passing truck driver to take them south, authorities said. The driver agreed and was passing through the Chuchumata tollbooth when the passengers were discovered by police. Colonel Andres Arenas of the Carabineros said of the 19 in the group,…

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They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. That appears to be the case with a Moroccan artist who has become an online hit by recreating some of the world’s most famous paintings and images by incorporating traditional Moroccan clothing such as caftans and the djellaba into such works. The project has given 18-year old Zineb Bouchra a breakthrough as online mimic artist; her Instagram account has gone from next to none to about 13,700 followers in recent weeks. “I’m trying to introduce Moroccan culture to the world, and also introduce art culture to the Moroccan community,”…

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A famed lake in Romania that once was a spa resort and is still home to a variety of wildlife has almost completely dried up. Though efforts to replenish Lake Nuntasi by channeling in water from two nearby bodies of water are underway, the parched tract will still need some significant rainfall to return to a more typical level. The dried-up lake is on the Danube Delta in southeast Romania. Its vanishing waterline has left businesses and hotels that once dotted the shoreline empty and derelict. Most of the lake bed itself is dried up and devoid of life, after…

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Anirudh Sharma, an alumnus of relatively new private university Lovely Professional University, was 19 years old when he began working on a satellite project. The year was 2017, and he and a small team of friends had been brainstorming about space traffic management—especially space debris, which plagues satellites. “The present observation of space traffic is limited to ground monitoring through radars,” said Sharma. “The global rush to launch micro-satellites over the last five years necessitated the need for a mechanism for space-based monitoring of space traffic.” Sharma and his college mate Rahul Rawat started Digantara Research and Technology. Sharma and…

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A Scottish-built rocket hurtled 17 miles into the sky from an Icelandic launch site, a test flight for Skyrora’s eventual plans to send larger rockets with satellite payloads into outer space. The 13-foot- (4-meter-) tall sub-orbital Skylark Micro was launched Aug. 16 from Iceland’s northeast peninsula of Langanes. The two stages of the rocket, developed by Edinburgh-based Skyrora, reached altitudes of 4 and 17 miles (6 and 30 kilometers), respectively, before both parachuted back to the Norwegian Sea. The launch was hosted and assisted by Space Iceland, which was established early this year as the centerpiece of the Nordic country’s…

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India is gearing up for large-scale human trials of a vaccine as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to claim lives across the globe. Russia claimed this month that it has made strides, and pharmaceutical makers in the United States and Europe are also working feverishly to find a cure. Governments and private foundations are devoting huge sums to financing research and prepare for the distribution of medications that pass trials. A vaccine being tested in India was produced by a partnership of the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University. The Serum Institute of India has begun phase 2 and 3 clinical…

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More than a dozen Belarusian police officers and special forces officers from the capital city of Minsk and elsewhere have thrown their badges and uniforms into trash bins and set them afire to protest President Alexander Lukashenko’s heavy-handed reaction to the protests and civil unrest sparked by his re-election. The incidents, although dwarfed by the vast demonstrations in Belarusian cities, could spell trouble for Lukashenko, who, until now, has had the Eastern European state’s security apparatus firmly in control. Among those participating in the uniform destruction is former police captain Egor Yemelyanov, 36, who lives in the northern city of…

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It was a early on a hot Sunday morning in Warsaw and Veronica Laputska was up and ready. The young Belarusian living in Poland was preparing to vote against Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet republic with an iron fist for 26 years. From early morning, voters waited in long lines at polling stations and Belarusian embassies across the world. When Laputska reached her polling precinct about 120 miles from Warsaw—which she’d chosen to avoid crowds—she saw an endless throng already been waiting. “They were allowing from 6 to 15 people an hour in all the diplomatic sites…

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The looming indictment of Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was improperly known outside law enforcement and top Obama administration officials in 2017, according to a recently published account. The claim comes from a witness in a controversial federal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. Steven Schrage, the person behind the claim, is a longtime Republican foreign affairs and trade official who interviewed a key figure in the so-called Russiagate scandal in January 2017. Schrage is a witness in the investigation being run by John H. Durham, the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut, into the origins of the…

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