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Japan will not have the home comforts it enjoyed at the FIBA Basketball World Cup last year when it runs onto the court to play at the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024. Japan will at least have plenty of insight into two of the opponents, World Cup winners Germany and Olympic hosts France. As far as familiar faces, Japan will face both France and Germany in Group B. France will be looking to rebound from their 18th place finish at the World Cup.
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2 years ago Read more at FIBA

The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, pollution, disrupted food sources, and other human threats. In a major new study, Flinders University has taken a stocktake of the number, distribution, and genetic characteristics of blue whale populations around the world. The study found the greatest differences among the eastern Pacific, Antarctic subspecies and pygmy Subspecies of the eastern
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

Finland tops the annual World Happiness Report every year. This year marks Finland’s seventh consecutive year doing so. But the report, released on Wednesday, had a note of alarm that was less about who was at the top of the rankings and more about who wasn’t.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

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2 years ago Read more at BBC.com

The courses for the 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships will return to the forests of Belgium where the European Championships were held last year in Italy. The Flemish Brabant region will host the 133km elite women’s event on Saturday, 5 October and the 179km elite men’s events on Sunday, 6 October.
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2 years ago Read more at Global Cycling Network

In this article, you can go directly to see the 5 Countries With the Lowest GDP Per Capita in the World. The forecast for 2024 and 2025 is below the historical average growth rate of 3.8% from 2000 to 2024. Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the countries with the lowest GDP per capita in the world.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Nearly 730,000 children are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, including upwards of 240,000 children in Darfur. The FAO’s Maurizio Martina said these are the worst levels of hunger ever recorded by the IPC during Sudan’s harvest season. They are driven by the conflict, as crops are destroyed in the fighting and farmers flee their land.
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2 years ago Read more at Voice of America - VOA News

Radia is building what it calls the WindRunner airplane. It will have a 261-foot wingspan and a cargo bay of 272,000 cubic feet. Industry insiders predict the plane will start commercial operations as soon as 2027.
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2 years ago Read more at First Alert 4

World Water Day 2024 urges us to explore the critical relationship between water and peace. Water has the power to create peace or spark conflict. Climate change intensifies the water cycle, leading to more extreme weather events.
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2 years ago Read more at IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub

The 7th World Conference on Targeting Phage Therapy 2024 is set to take place on June 20-21 at the Corinthia Palace Malta. Robert T. Schooley, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, USA Phage Therapeutics 2024: Essential Translational Research Components for Clinical Trials. Day One: will focus on Phages, Hosts & Microbiome, exploring current research on phageome, microbiome-phage
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert