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World News on Oct. 26th, 2016
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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Great Barrier Reef life under threat as coral continues to die six months after mass bleaching (independent.co.uk)
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Iran's top Quran reciter to face court over child rapes, "threatened to leak the names of 100 of Iran’s high profile officials also implicated in raping and molesting children"(english.alarabiya.net)
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NATO calls for more troops for largest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War (haaretz.com)
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A $100m initiative to listen for signals from alien life is targeting a star with an unusual dimming pattern. The Breakthrough Initiative, backed by Prof Stephen Hawking and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, will train a US radio telescope on a target called Tabby's Star. (bbc.com)
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EU drops law to limit cancer-linked chemical in food after industry complaint. Campaigners say leaked documents show ‘undue influence’ by the food industry after plans to limit acrylamide - found in starchy foods such as crisps, cereals and baby foods - are weakened. (theguardian.com)
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Cold War 2.0 update with 40 million Russian people involved in 4 days of civil defense drills. (nextbigfuture.com)
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Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone - Using a head-up display and a cap that reads brain activity, for the first time three people with spinal injury have controlled a robot and seen what it sees (newscientist.com)
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Russia is sharply upgrading the firepower of its Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad by adding warships armed with long-range cruise missiles to counter NATO's build-up in the region(reuters.com)
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden warned a group of European reporters Wednesday that in the era of mass surveillance, journalists are increasingly a threatened class. (commondreams.org)
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