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Satellite likely to hit Earth in unpopulated area

PLUTIS.COM NOVIEMBRE 10, 2013 0

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says that one of its research satellites that ran out of fuel will most likely crash to Earth into the ocean or polar regions.

The agency said Sunday the crash is expected to occur between 1830 GMT Sunday and 0030 GMT on Monday (1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. EST).

It says ‘‘with a very high probability, a re-entry over Europe can be excluded.’’

Spokeswoman Jocelyne Landeau said the satellite, GOCE, will mostly disintegrate as it comes down and ‘‘we will have only a few pieces which could be 90 kilograms at the most.’’

ESA said Friday that humans are 250,000 times more likely to win the lottery than to get hit by the debris.

GOCE was launched in 2009 to map the Earth’s gravitational field.

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The European Union Has urged Morocco's Government to stop using violent repression against protesters following the hard-line crackdown on demonstrators at a second violent clash over the weekend that resulted in scores of civilian casualties. police charged the pro-reform demonstrators and beat them up with truncheons.

"We are concerned about the violence used during the demonstrations taking place in Morocco," Natasha Butler, a European Commission spokesperson, told a news briefing.

"We call for restraint in the use of force and respect of fundamental freedoms. Freedom of assembly is a democratic right. We call on Morocco to maintain its track record in allowing citizens to demonstrate peacefully."

The EU has urged Morocco's Government to move forward with genuin reforms and called on "all parties to engage in a peaceful dialogue with a view to finding solutions to the issues raised by the demonstrators."

Around two dozen people were hurt in Casablanca on Sunday when police broke up the protest called by the February 20 Movement, a youth-dominated group leading a wave of protests inspired by uprisings in other Arab nations.

The government spokes person said the demonstrations were banned and that police acted in response to what he described as provocative behavior by the protesters.

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