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New regulations to reduce marine pollution in Antarctic enter into force – UN

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Top UN envoy urges restraint after two Palestinians killed in Israeli operation

A senior United Nations envoy today called on Israeli authorities to exercise maximum restraint after two Palestinians were killed during a military operation in a West Bank refugee camp.

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Somalia: UN official warns famine could spread without adequate relief funding

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Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinato...

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A simple slice of energy storage: Rice University lab uses lasers to write supercapacitors on sheets of graphite oxide

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Burning patterns into graphite oxide with a laser turns the thin sheets into fully functional supercap...

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