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An international team of scientists has discovered a planet the size of Earth in the Milky Way galaxy, and it is not linked in terms of gravity to a specific star, according to a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
So far, more than 4 thousand planets have been discovered outside our solar system, the vast majority of them orbiting a specific star.
Although the theories of the emergence and development of planets predict the existence of freely moving bodies in space,…

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Family members of 21-year-old Brahim Aouissaoui, who is alleged to have killed three people in a terror attack on the Notre Dame church in the southern French city of Nice, are now under investigation themselves.
Key points:

• The alleged attacker Brahim Aouissaoui’s family says he is a “friendly person”
• France has deployed thousands more security forces personnel to protect places of worship
• The display of cartoons of Mohammed in France has sparked anger in Muslim-majority countries

Meanwhile, French…

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A powerful earthquake has rocked Turkey as it destroyed buildings and triggered a tsunami that swept through coastal towns.The quake registered a 7.0 of the Richter scale and had its epicentre 18km north of the island of Greek island Samos off the coast of Turkey.
The US Geological survey said the enormous tremor was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul.
At least 20 buildings in Izmir, a Turkish city with population of 4.4 million, are said to have collapsed, Mayor Tunc Soyer told CNN Turk.
Rescue…

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