The Washington Post By Katie Park, Kevin Schaul and Gene Thorp After Flight 17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17, the Federal Aviation Administration expanded an existing regulation that prohibited certain flights from operating in the region. The FAA regularly issues airspace restrictions and prohibitions for U.S. aircraft traveling through potentially hostile
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By New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa, associate professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biochemical engineering, is a winner of several awards. Rutgers researchers have developed a technology that could overcome a major cost barrier to make clean-burning hydrogen fuel – a fuel that could replace expensive and environmentally harmful fossil fuels. The new technology
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University of Mississippi A University of Mississippi civil engineering doctoral student’s research into the early detection of dam and levee problems has launched him onto the national and global stage. Leti Wodajo of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been conducting research in applications of geophysics and geotechnical engineering since becoming a master’s student at Ole Miss.
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The Africa Report By Elissa Jobson (Addis Ababa) A programme to improve production in simple ways has doubled yields of this gluten-free staple crop for two million farmers. Tef is a national obsession in Ethiopia. The tiny grain the size of poppy seeds has been consumed in this East African country for centuries. Because
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NY Daily News By JAN RANSOM MONASTER, THOMAS Starbucks Chief coffee beans He’s got a couple of beans up his sleeve. The Rev. Nicholas Richards, founder of the Abyssinian Fund, a nonprofit that supports coffee farmers in Ethiopia, is in the middle of hashing out a distribution deal to launch an Aby Fund-branded coffee in
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Thomson Reuters By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament approved a 178.6 billion-birr ($9.2 billion) budget for 2014-2015 on Monday, a 15 percent rise from the previous year that will boost spending on education, health and road building. Strong state intervention has boosted the economy over the past decade and economic growth is
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Thomson Reuters By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament approved a 178.6 billion-birr ($9.2 billion) budget for 2014-2015 on Monday, a 15 percent rise from the previous year that will boost spending on education, health and road building. Strong state intervention has boosted the economy over the past decade and economic growth is
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: E.G. Woldegebriel Ethiopian farmers collect wheat in their field in Abay, north of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Oct. 21, 2009. REUTERS/Barry Malone EJERE WOREDA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years after the famine that killed more than a million people in Ethiopia and shocked the world into belated action, the country’s
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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