| China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:15 PM PDT  By Natalie Thomas BEIJING (Reuters) - Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine. "I'll get so much out of this," Liu Guanghui, a PhD student, who entered the bunker on Sunday, said. "It's truly a different life experience." President Xi Jinping wants China to become a global power in space exploration, with plans to send the first probe to the dark side of the moon by 2018 and to put astronauts on the moon by 2036.
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| First Tesla Model 3 Rolls Off Assembly Line Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:41 PM PDT  Production of Tesla's first car aimed at a broad market, the Model 3, is under way. CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter Saturday that the first production Model 3 was "built and going through final che...
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| 2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:05 PM PDT ![2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots]( "2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots") SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Police say two men are dead after a gunfight in which an off-duty Maryland state trooper intervened and fired shots.
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| Tillerson urges Moscow to take 'first step' to ease Ukraine conflict Posted: 09 Jul 2017 12:06 PM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Russia Sunday to take the "first step" to ease the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and the West believe is being fuelled by Moscow. Tillerson said sanctions will remain in place against Russia "until Moscow reverses their actions". "It is necessary for Russia to take the first step to de-escalate the situation in the east part of Ukraine," Tillerson said as he made his first visit as Washington's top diplomat to Kiev.
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| Mars Is Even Less Hospitable Than We Thought Posted: 08 Jul 2017 05:58 PM PDT  New research shows the unique cocktail of Martian surface chemicals is extremely deadly to bacteria.
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| 35 migrants feared drowned off Libya: coastguard Posted: 08 Jul 2017 05:23 PM PDT  Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa al-Zarrouk, a coastguard official in Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east of Tripoli. Navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem said the boat sank six nautical miles northwest of Garabulli, and 10 fishing boats took part in the rescue.
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| All You Need To Know About US B-1 Lancer Bombers Posted: 08 Jul 2017 04:49 PM PDT  This the second time in three days a B1 bomber has been used by the Air Force, with two of them flying over the disputed South China Sea on Thursday.
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| Granted house arrest, Venezuela opposition leader vows to fight on Posted: 08 Jul 2017 04:14 PM PDT  By Brian Ellsworth and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's best-known jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez celebrated a surprise return to his family after being granted house arrest on Saturday with a promise to fight on following three years' imprisonment for leading anti-government protests. Hours after his pre-dawn transfer from the Ramo Verde military jail, Lopez appeared over a wall of his Caracas house, waving the Venezuelan flag and punching the air before a crowd of supporters who cheered and cried upon seeing him.
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| Virginia town girds for march by KKK members, some carrying arms Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:15 PM PDT  Supporters of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday to protest the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who oversaw Confederate forces in the US Civil War. The afternoon rally in this quiet university town has been authorized by officials in Virginia and stirred heated debate in America, where critics say the far right has been energized by Donald Trump's election to the presidency.
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| Russian official mysteriously deletes tweet picturing Ivanka standing in for her father at G20 Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:42 PM PDT  A Russian official appears to have deleted an image that showed Ivanka Trump sitting in for her father at a G20 meeting of world leaders - a photograph that led people to accuse the US President of behaving like a dictator. Svetlana Lukash, whose Twitter bio describes her as a "G20 sherpa" tweeted a series of images from the meetings in Hamburg. One of them read: "2nd day of #G20 Hamburg summit starts with Africa, Migration & Health.
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| We Tested 12 Protein Bars, And This Is The Best! Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:09 PM PDT  Discover which of your favorite protein bars should be barred from your diet. "I love protein bars," my friend Sarah said the other day. Some bars have as much sugar and fat as a candy bar, and others contain more calories than you should eat between meals.
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