how. to keep news is our own choices in energy conservation. recycling. transport can help. find out what you can do today at regionals aligned. this is. c.n.n. as well and president nicolas maduro has ordered the closure of his country's border with brazil meanwhile traffic has been jammed on venezuelan roads leading to the border with colombia soldiers have stopped vehicles to prevent aid from entering venezuela says the supplies are a pretext for u.s. military intervention he's also threatening to close the border with colombia. a space x. falcon nine rocket carrying israel's first lunar lander has blasted off from cape

canaveral florida if successful the unmanned lander will arrive on the near side of the moon in mid april israel would be only the fourth nation to achieve a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface. forensic scientists in syria say they found the largest mass grave yet containing the bodies of people killed by so-called islamic state militants the grave located just outside the former iowa stronghold of raka holds an estimated three and a half thousand people. german researchers at the university of heidelberg hospital say they have developed a new blood test that can detect whether a woman has breast cancer the procedure called liquid biopsy is as reliable as a memory gram but costs less and comes without exposure to radiation it's set to be marketed later this year.

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