Population Bomb

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  NDTV Exclusive: Hunted Down, Massacred, Syria's Alawites Ask India For Help

  Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires screeching and dozens of armed men shouting, "Come out, you Alawite pigs, Nusayris!"

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  Singapore Scrambled Jets To Escort Air India Express Plane After Bomb Threat

  Singapore Armed Forces on Tuesday scrambled two fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane away from populated areas following a bomb threat before the aircraft landed safely at Singapore's Changi airport.

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  Watch: The Brave Six Who Stood Beneath An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

  To assess the impact of nuclear weapons on humans, the US undertook an exceptionally audacious experiment.

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  Study Says 'World Population Bomb' May Never Go Off

  The latest study presents an optimistic scenario, against last year's UN estimate, which said that the world population would hit 9.7 billion by the middle of the century.

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  All About Atmospheric Rivers And Bomb Cyclones That Are Causing California Deluge

  Much of the northern two-thirds of California, the most populous state in the nation, is under flood.

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  WHO Tells Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs In Case They Are Bombed

  The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday.

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  Elon Musk Forecasts Grim Future of Human Race

  Elon Musk's grim forecast of humanity suggests that a "population bomb" would lead to a worldwide collapse in humans in the coming decades and everybody would start to see the evident effects by 2050.

• China Workers Decline as Demographic Time Bomb Ticks

  China's working-age population continued to fall in 2014, the government said on Tuesday, as Beijing struggles to address a spiralling demographic challenge made worse by its one-child policy.

• Car Bombs in East Baghdad Kill 15 After Green Zone Blast

  Two car bombs in Baghdad's densely populated eastern district of Sadr city killed 15 people on Thursday, medical and police sources said, hours after a bombing on the edge of the capital's central Green Zone killed two others.

• Car bomb explodes in central Syrian city

  A car bomb exploded on Saturday in a neighborhood in Syria's central city of Homs largely populated by the Shiite offshoot sect that dominates the regime, while government troops pressed an offensive against fleeing rebels in nearby villages, state TV and activists said.

• Security beefed up in Lahore for Muharram processions

  In the wake of bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shia processions in different parts of Pakistan, over 25,000 policemen have been put on high alert in the capital city of the most populous province of Punjab for 'Ashura', the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram.

• Bomb explosions hit pro-Assad Damascus district

  Multiple bomb explosions on Wednesday hit a hilltop district in the Syrian capital Damascus populated by members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, witnesses said.

• Bomb attacks in Damascus, opposition says 15 dead

  Bomb explosions killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens on Tuesday in a Damascus district populated mostly by members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, opposition activists said.

• Defusing India's population time bomb

  Sunita Laxman Jadhav is a door-to-door saleswoman who sells waiting. She sweeps along muddy village lanes in her nurse's white sari, calling on newly married couples with an unblushing proposition: Wait two years before getting pregnant, and the government will thank you.Mothers and grandmothers brought babies for immunizations at a hospital in Sat...