Home » World News
World News on Jan 20th, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
VietPress USA (Jan 20th, 2017):
Lots of corpse flowers bloomed in 2016 and nobody knows why: The corpse flower takes ten years to build up enough energy to bloom, but mysteriously, dozens of them bloomed within weeks of each other in 2016 (bbc.com)
submitted by maxwellhill
33.3k
UK Bristol police taser their own black race relations adviser after mistaking him for wanted man (independent.co.uk)
submitted by ManiaforBeatles
2110
Companies responsible for Brazil's worst enviromental disaster in history to sign deal and not pay damages (xapuri.info)
submitted by ShamanontheMoon
413
France's minister for women's rights said it was a "shocking" decision to appoint filmmaker Roman Polanski as head of the jury for the country's equivalent of the Oscars. (bbc.com)
submitted by legendokiller
686
91
841
Turkish MP handcuffs herself in parliament protesting Erdogan getting more executive powers: Proposed bill which would abolish the position of prime minister and possibly let Erdogan stay in office until 2029 due to pass third vote in Turkey’s parliament (independent.co.uk)
submitted by maxwellhill
85
NZ investigation reveals that 1 million cubic metres of waste water and raw sewage - the equivalent of 400 Olympic swimming pools - is pouring into Auckland Harbour each year (nzherald.co.nz)
submitted by JohnnyMrNinja
281
An Indian environmentalist shot to death in Mexico had fled his community almost 10 years ago and was killed when he returned to visit a sick relative. Raramuri Indian leader Isidro Baldenegro was the second winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize to be slain in two years (abcnews.go.com)
submitted by DoremusJessup
•
India's Prime Minister Modi most followed world leader on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google+ (sputniknews.com)
submitted by luxcop
•
South Korea: Culture Minister arrested for keeping blacklist of Park Geun-hye's critics (asiancorrespondent.com)
submitted by middleeastnewsman
92
Iran Threatens Trump Ahead of Inauguration: If He Nixes Nuclear Deal, We'll Surprise Him the Same Way He Likes to Surprise Others (algemeiner.com)
submitted by orthodoor
53
Spanish firefighters are trying to build 'fake graveyards' to stop urban sprawl - Phoney graveyards could be created just to stop developers building (independent.co.uk)
submitted by ManiaforBeatles
641
Hạnh Dương
www.Vietpressusa.us