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Staten Island, NY -
The nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the City of New York recently announced the permanent protection of a privately owned property in the Great Kills neighborhood of Staten Island.
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Vadodara -
Pakistan government has agreed to release 529 Indian fishermen from Pakistani jails through Wagah border on March 21, the president of Indian Fisheremen Association Veljibhai Masani told the agency on phone in Vadodara on Friday night.
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London -
Britain's first household battery recycling plant was due to open on Thursday in the English Midlands, operating company G&P Batteries said.
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Paris -
The Cassini orbiter has made yet another remarkable discovery: Saturn's moon Enceladus has an atmosphere.
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Channel Islands, CA -
The Channel Islands off the California coast are home to 145 species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. On Santa Cruz island, non-native feral pigs may be pushing the island's unique and endangered foxes to the brink of extinction. Now the island's managers are pushing back.
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Banglore -
India plans to launch a communications satellite exclusively for health care so patients and doctors in remote rural areas can consult specialists in cities, the head of the country's space agency said on Thursday.
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Jerusalem -
Palestinian militant groups agreed yesterday to extend a truce with Israel after days of talks in Egypt.
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Udaipur -
In a pioneering effort to take literacy to a higher technology medium, a school in Rajasthan has replaced pen and paper with computers.
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New Delhi -
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said on Thursday that India would have to meet its growing energy needs through nuclear energy with or without the help of the international community.
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Dhaka -
Bangladesh and India agreed to workin close cooperation to curb "all types of border crimes" and takeeffective measures to defuse border tensions.
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