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China will begin recruiting civilian astronauts for its military-backed space program and plans to increase the number of crewed missions to around two a year, a top official with the country’s space program said.

A new earthquake of 3,8 on the Richter scale was registered near Asenovgrad about 1 o'clock last night.

The earthquake has an epicenter of about 3 km. from Asenovgrad. We recall that an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 to 2 km from Asenovgrad was registered yesterday. It was felt strongly both in Plovdiv and on the high floors in Sofia.

A moderate tremor measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled the Sporades island cluster in the northwestern Aegean and parts of the eastern mainland in the early hours of Tuesday.

Robots equipped with artificial intelligence technologies could become the “Kalashnikovs” of the future after entering the black market, a report by the technology think tank ThinkTech has suggested, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Feb. 13. 

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) and the Global Environment Fund (GEF) is set to start supporting entrepreneurs working on innovation in clean technology, the council’s head has stated.

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale was registered in the territory of Croatia on Saturday and was felt in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the European Seismological Center reported.

An earthquake of magnitude 2.6 on the Richter scale was registered this morning in the Republic of Macedonia. The epicenter of the earthquake is 6 km. east of the Macedonian capital Skopje, the Seismological Institute reports.

A rare celestial event will grace the skies during the coming week when a blue moon and lunar eclipse combine with the moon being at its closest point to Earth, resulting in what is being called a "super blue blood moon", according to the Guardian.

In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida, I was subjected to a trauma that was meant to erase my existence as a newly out bisexual. My parents were Southern Baptist missionaries who believed that the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy could "cure" my sexuality.

Eight years of austerity has had a major impact on the efficacy of public hospitals, leaving several lacking key equipment or barely coping with old machines that frequently malfunction, Kathimerini understands.