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African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to fight insurgents in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 rebels have kille ...

The unidentified ailment has sickened 1,300 people and led to more than 50 deaths. Regardless of the cause, experts say ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary in Nature Reviews ...

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The line from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 couldn’t be more relevant than now. But I remember just a few years ago how smugly we would discuss 1984 in literature classes in grad school.

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and German East Africa (now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) while Britain controlled the surrounding territories, including modern-day Botswana and Zambia. Germany was looking for a direct trade ...

This story originally listed the work done by students and UWEC staff as a "geology project," when it should have been described as a "geography project." Now, more than ever, the world needs ...