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Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain
Daily Express Malaysia
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July 19, 2025
Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain Published on: Saturday, July 19, 2025 Published on: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 By: Audrey J Ansibin Text Size: Dark Mode: Off Pic (left): Logesh Kumar Selvakumar....
Scientists send enormous satellite into space to scan over a trillion organisms around the globe: 'We can actually look inside'
Yahoo News
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The European Space Agency has deployed a one-of-a-kind satellite with the ability to scan more than a trillion complex organisms in the world's rainforests. The successful April launch was spotlighted in June in the Environmental Defense Fund's...
Sentinel-5A is expected to improve Europe’s global view on air quality
Open Access Government
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July 18, 2025
This new satellite will become one of the most crucial components of the Copernicus Earth Observation programme, solidifying its position as the world’s most advanced system for monitoring air quality and emissions. Sentinel-5A will join the...
Earth 'does contain alien life' and it could mean another planet can host humans
Daily Star
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July 18, 2025
Experts are using alienlike creatures in the ocean as a template for what other life may exist in space. A NASA-funded team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now investigating whether one of Jupiter’s moons has...
Airbus CO3D optical constellation satellites heading to launch site
GIM International
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June 30, 2025
The four latest-generation optical satellites developed by Airbus in collaboration with the French Space Agency CNES are now in transit to their launch site in French Guiana. Having departed from Toulouse, the satellites are heading to the...
New generation optical constellation CO3D satellites en route for launch pad
AvioNews
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June 26, 2025
The four latest generation optical satellites, developed and built by Airbus in partnership with the French Space Agency CNES are on their way to their launch pad in French Guiana. They left Toulouse, France, for the European Space port in Kourou,...
GKN secures supply contract for Ariane 6 engine parts
Aerospace Testing International
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July 9, 2025
GKN Aerospace and ArianeGroup have signed a contract for the operational phase of Ariane 6. The agreement confirms GKN Aerospace’s continued deliveries to the Ariane 6 program throughout the launcher’s operational life, following its successful...
Evacuations in Syria's Latakia countryside as wildfires advance on homes
The National News
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Syrian firefighters were evacuating people from their homes in the Latakia countryside on Tuesday as wildfires advanced "dangerously close" to populated areas. The forest fires have been burning since last Wednesday across coastal regions that are...
New malaria drug to treat babies and young children receives approval
The National News
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Pharmaceutical company Novartis said it has received approval for what it claims is the world's first drug to treat malaria in babies and young children. The drug, known as Coartem Baby, has been approved by Swissmedic, Switzerland's regulatory...
France revives Devil's Island legacy with supermax Islamist jail
The New Arab
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May 21, 2025
French Guiana residents decry plans for a supermax prison to house drug traffickers and Islamists [Getty] France's plan to build a high-security prison in its South American territory of French Guiana, specifically to house drug traffickers and...
The bride sheds crocodile tears literally!
Mid Day Mumbai
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July 6, 2025
A Mexican mayor ties the knot with a crocodile bride as a local custom The bride’s snout tied shut for safety purposes. PICS/GETTY IMAGES The mayor of San Pedro Huamelula in Mexico caught the Internet’s attention after marrying a female crocodile...
Portuguese Innovation Powers Europe’s Climate Satellites
The Portugal News
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The mission, called CO2M (Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring), is being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with the European Commission under the Copernicus Earth observation program. The mission will see...
Behind the scenes on launch day for ESA's Biomass mission | Podcast
Euronews
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In the early morning of April 29, people in Kourou, French Guiana, were woken up by the roar of the Vega-C rocket as it carried Biomass, the latest satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA), successfully into space. The Biomass mission not...
NASA budget cuts threaten Europe's already troubled flagship Mars rover
Space.com
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June 30, 2025
Cuts to NASA's budget proposed by President Donald Trump would likely cause further delays to Europe's ExoMars rover mission, due to the fact that some critical technologies currently unavailable in Europe were to be provided by the American space...
Drug lords will be sent to 'super-max' jungle prison in the Amazon as France looks to turnaround the 'Mexicanization' of its streets by violent gangs
Daily Mail
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May 24, 2025
France is set to build a £337million American-style 'super-max' prison in the heart of the Amazon rainforest that will house drug lords and Islamist terrorists. The massive 40,700 square meter complex will be build in Saint Laurent du Maroni, in...
France to build supermax prison to isolate drug lords and Is...
Modern Ghana
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France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and radicalised Islamists near a former penal colony in its overseas department of French Guiana, sparking outcry among residents and local officials. The wing will form...
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Is France repeating its colonial past by building a prison in the Amazon? The controversy, explained
Firstpost
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May 20, 2025
A newly announced plan by the French government to build a high-security prison in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in French Guiana has been subject to criticism, putting a spotlight on deep-rooted colonial-era grievances. French Justice...
France Wants to Build a High-Security Prison in South America. Trump Should Stop It.
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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May 22, 2025
In an epic case of, “Tag, you’re it!,” the French government is building a “high-security prison” in the middle of the Amazon jungle in French Guiana. This prison will house the most dangerous criminal elements within France, including drug...
France to Construct Prison in Amazon Jungle to Combat Drug-Trafficking
Greek Reporter
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May 19, 2025
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest. Credits: Lubasi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons France will construct a new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, within its overseas territory of French Guiana. The aim is to isolate top drug...
France to build high-security prison for traffickers and extremists in Amazon Jungle
Khaama Press
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May 20, 2025
France plans to build a high-security prison in the Amazon to detain drug traffickers and extremists, opening by 2028. French media reports that the country plans to build a high-security prison in the French Guiana region, deep in the Amazon...