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Tuesday, November 08, 2016
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More than 1,000 Hong Kong lawyers dressed in black marched through the heart of the city in silence on Tuesday to condemn a move by China that effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from taking their seats in the legislature (news.sitibe.com)
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NASA has completed the $8.7 billion James Webb space telescope - Hubble's successor is ready for testing ahead of the October, 2018 launch - It's equipped with a 21-foot, gold-coated mirror array that can collect seven times more light than Hubble and scan the infrared spectrum to see through dust. (engadget.com)
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Massive Lake Found Under Bolivian Volcano - "The subterranean lake apparently contains a volume of water that's somewhere between Lake Huron (850 cubic miles) and Lake Superior (2,903 cubic miles)" (seeker.com)
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Iranian media says authorities have blinded a man to punish him for throwing chemicals in the face of a four-year-old girl in a 2009 assault that destroyed her vision. (bigstory.ap.org)
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Sweden now allowing US Homeland Security officers at Stockholm airport, permanently and with access to own weapons (theindicter.com)
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Ebola virus potential exposure at national lab in Winnipeg, Canada, federal officials announce (cbc.ca)
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British VIP Paedophile Investigation "riddled with police errors", official report finds. (theguardian.com)
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Russia to launch attack on Aleppo 'within 24 hours' according to military sources as Putin's plan for Syria coincides with US Election (dailystar.co.uk)
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'They would torture them inside and slit their throats outside': Eyewitnesses reveal full scale of Isis depravity as they flee Mosul (independent.co.uk)
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Toys R Us yesterday opened its UK stores for a “quiet hour” designed to accommodate the needs of children with autism. Measures included dimmed fluorescent lighting and a ban on music and in-store announcements. (inews.co.uk)
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European Parliament considers plan to let individual Brits opt-in to keep their EU citizenship - The proposal, which has been put before a parliamentary committee as an amendment, would grant the citizens of former member states the voluntary right to retain “associate citizenship”. (independent.co.uk)
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European Parliament considers plan to let individual Brits opt-in to keep their EU citizenship (independent.co.uk)
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