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Bones from shipwreck may shed light on ancient Greeks' travel habits
ATHENS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Skeletal remains from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera are expected to reveal more about the sinking and could shed light on ancient travel habits, a culture ministry official said on Tuesday.
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Indonesia rejects U.S. research estimate of 100,000 'haze' deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Harvard and Columbia university research showing smoke from land fires in Southeast Asia led to more than 100,000 premature deaths last year "makes no sense at all," an official at Indonesia's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Tropical storm Lisa forms west of Cape Verde Islands
(Reuters) - Tropical depression 13 has strengthened into tropical storm Lisa over the eastern tropical Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday.
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Seniors still lagging in use of internet health resources
(Reuters Health) – Many older Americans aren’t taking advantage of e-health resources, a new study suggests.
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Ivory trade debate resurfaces as southern Africa's elephants thrive
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a frequent sight in the reserve.
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JPMorgan hires and takes stake in InvestCloud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said it had hired and would take a stake in InvestCloud, which provides software that makes online transactions easier for customers with banking and investment accounts.
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Accenture breaks blockchain taboo with editing system
LONDON (Reuters) - Accenture is challenging a defining feature of blockchain, its immutability, by patenting a system that will allow data processed and stored using the technology to be edited.
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U.N. chief Ban regrets peacekeeper abuse, Haiti cholera
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday expressed regret for sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers and an outbreak of cholera in Haiti during his final address to the annual gathering of world leaders in New York.
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Britain's Prince William talks of tough moments in air ambulance work
LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William has spoken of "very sad, dark moments" he has faced as an air ambulance pilot in an online video and photo report looking at the emergency team he works with.
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South Africa's Tutu responding well to treatment: family
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African anti-apartheid activist and veteran cleric, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was responding well to a new course of antibiotics, his daughter said on Tuesday, following social media reports her father had died.
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