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Scientists to use robots to predict India’s monsoon

  New Delhi / AFP Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to millions of farmers, they said on Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with scientific equipment over the bay to measure the atmosphere as part of the multi-million ...

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Mitsubishi Heavy to keep car stake

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the biggest shareholder in Mitsubishi Motors Corp., will hold onto its stake in the automaker that Carlos Ghosn is seeking to turn around following a fuel-economy test scandal. The maker of power plant equipment, aircraft and ships will refrain from selling its holdings in Mitsubishi Motors even as it plans to raise ...

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Orlando in mourning as possible motives emerge for club gunman

  ORLANDO / AP As thousands in Orlando turned out to mourn 49 people killed inside a nightclub, federal investigators examined possible motives for the gunman who committed the worst mass shooting in modern US history. The White House and the FBI said 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American born Muslim, appears to be a “homegrown extremist” who had touted support ...

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