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تدخل المنافسة الفضائية بين روسيا والولايات المتحدة مرحلة جديدة، مع إعلان موسكو خططاً لإنشاء محطة للطاقة النووية على سطح القمر بحلول 2036، بهدف توفير الكهرباء لمحطات الأبحاث المستقبلية، وتعزيز الوجود الروسي خارج الأرض، وسط سباق دولي متصاعد لبناء قواعد دائمة على القمر.
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The UN migration chief warns that climate change is threatening livelihoods and displacing people across South Asia, emphasizing that technology and government actions could mitigate the impact.
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Sweden said Thursday it would allow 72 wolves to be culled next year to combat inbreeding, after last year's planned cull of 48 animals was blocked by a court. Critics of the hunt, including the European Commission and conservationists, have argued that the policy is driven more by politics than science and endangers population numbers. There are an estimated 355 wolves in Sweden. The government has pushed for their population to be reduced for more than 15 years, to the dismay of conservationists.
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The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the closest evolutionary cousins of our species, exhibiting a wound apparently from a fatal spear attack as well as signs of an earlier nonfatal injury that may have elicited kindly care.
