Recent studies indicate: Saturn’s major storms are caused by moisture

Large storms that occur in Saturn every two or three decades are caused by atmospheric moisture, according to the "Nature Geosciencie" journal.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a theoretical model in which moisture prevents the formation of storms for years on the planet, until the accumulated energy unleashed in a storm.

For over 140 years astronomers have observed six major storms in equator and middle latitudes of Saturn, a phenomenon that from Earth appears as a huge white spot on the planet's surface.

More than five thousand Europeans have joined the Islamic State

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The European Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourova, estimates that between 5,000 and 6,000 Europeans have gone to Syria to join jihadist groups, and even admits that these figures could be "highly underestimated".

Of these, 1,450 have left France, Jourova explains in an interview published by the French newspaper "Le Figaro", which justifies the relevance for the European Union to establish judicial cooperation agreements with third countries.

Although there are bilateral agreements between EU countries and others such as Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt.

Jihadists took down crucifixes and destroyed churches in Iraq

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The radical jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) destroyed five historic churches in northern Iraq and removed crucifixes from the cupolas, the priest Bashar Kalia said.

The extremists destroyed the tombs, the statues, drawings, engravings of Virgin Mary in the ancient monastery and the religious monument of Markurkas, in the district of Al Arabi, in Mosul.

They also raised terrorist group Black flags atop the church.

Peru seeks to protect Mashco-Piro tribe from displacement

The Peruvian government seeks to protect Mashco-piro an Amazonian tribe which has been living in isolation for years and recently began to leave its territory, probably driven by mining and illegal logging.

It is an ethnic group of hunters and gatherers who speak an unknown language. Consisting of about 800 members, for years the tribe has lived on a reservation of Madre de Dios (on the border with Brazil), the region with the largest illegal gold production in the country, but now it is moving.

Consumption, drug trafficking and violence are rising in Central America: UN

Central America is not a major drug transit route, but a victim of violence and corruption that it generates. It also sees increased production and consumption of prohibited substances, according to a report published today by the UN.

"Security problems related to drug business, including high levels of violence, money laundering, corruption and other illegal activities, are issues which pressing the countries of Central America and Caribbean," says the INCB a autonomous body within the UN system.

Russia will help Syria in case of attack: Putin

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St. Petersburg, Russia (SEP/06/2013) - the President of Russia, Vladímir Putin, said today that his country will help Syria in the event of a foreign military attack.

"Are we going to help Syria? Yes, Putin said in response to a question about what will do Moscow in case of foreign military intervention in Syria, in the final of the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg press conference.

Putin added: "we are already helping. We supply weapons and cooperate in the economic field."

The fossil of alleged flying fish has been discovered in the North of Peru

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LIMA, PERU (01/SEP/2013)-the fossil remains of a so-called flying fish, which would have lived more than 100 million years ago in the North of Peru, was discovered by a team of experts from the Museum of natural sciences of Chiclayo, a local newspaper reported today.

Carlos Zárate paleontologist and geologist Antonio Peláez found in an area of quarries in the District of Zana, province of Chiclayo, a backbone of 5.9 cm with six dorsal vertebrae and ribs, attached to a flap that caught the attention of explorers, according to the newspaper "The Republic".

US in a month will deliver weapons to Syrian rebels

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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES (26/JUN/2013.) - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have begun to move weapons to Jordan as part of the U.S. plan to strengthen the forces fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, said today The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The journal, quoting diplomatic sources and the U.S. intelligence, said the CIA conducted training work in the secret facilities located in Jordan to prepare moderate Syrian rebels, who are fighting with General Salim Idris, the main rebel commander backed by Washington.

Two men accused of radioactive weapon design

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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES (19/JUN/2013.) - The U.S. federal authorities today accused two men from New York of conspiring to build a weapon of directed energy beams supposedly able to kill "enemies of Israel" with the same power as the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima.

One of the men, who belonged to the white supremacist organization Ku Klux Klan (KKK), said he could build a weapon that would cause a "Hiroshima with a simple switch," with which all that is breathing would be dead by morning" , according to the charging document.