1. Pope Francis said Monday that "many powerful people don't want peace because they live off war". "Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms. It's the industry of death". (ansa.it)
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Australian government lobbying against UNESCO listing Great Barrier Reef as "In danger." (smh.com.au)
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Unveiled in Milan, the world's first bio-digital Urban Algae Canopy can produce a forest's worth of oxygen a day - the equivalent of 400,000 square feet of natural woodland (weburbanist.com)
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Edward Snowden warns data retention laws are 'dangerous'. The former NSA contractor who lifted the lid on mass surveillance in the US has a message for Australians living with new data retention laws: "You are being watched." (cnet.com)
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Brazil plans to ‘nationalise’ rainforest in pioneering plan to protect Amazon. Proposal to put all natural resources in the forest under state control faces legal wrangles - but if passed could enshrine environmental protection (independent.co.uk)
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Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Koran (reuters.com)
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Scientists say they have exposed a scandal at the heart of Ancient Egypt's animal mummy industry - A scanning project at Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester has revealed that about a third of the bundles of cloth are empty inside. (bbc.com)
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The Harper government is signalling its intention to use hate crime laws against Canadian advocacy groups that encourage boycotts of Israel (cbc.ca)
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‘Utter nonsense': CIA and White House blast Seymour Hersh’s explosive Osama bin Laden raid story (washingtonpost.com)
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AustraliaA drug rehabilitation centre with links to the Church of Scientology has been fined and ordered to remove unsubstantiated claims made online about “curing” patients.(heraldsun.com.au)
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Philippines' most wanted Islamist bomber 'slain by his own bodyguards for $1m bounty on his head' (mirror.co.uk)
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