1. Wikipedia edits from inside Parliament removing scandals from MPs' pages, investigation finds. (independent.co.uk)
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Iran launches anti-Isis cartoon competition 'to expose true nature of Islamic State' (independent.co.uk)
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If your country were responsible for only 0.05 percent of the world's climate-changing emissions, you might not think it worth making a plan to curb that pollution - especially when you still need to get electricity to much of your population. But the Gambian government thinks otherwise (trust.org)
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Huge and growing debt – and not enough young working people to pay it down – is threatening to crush the global economy, a Goldman Sachs executive is warning. (newsmax.com)
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Thousands of Mexico City taxi drivers snarled traffic in the mega-capital on Monday in a protest demanding that the government ban US ride-sharing service Uber (france24.com)
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A Turkish MIT (Intelligence Agency) Operative fighting alongside ISIS captured in Mosul, Iraq by Peshmerga fighters. (anfenglish.com)
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Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique's elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the US based Wildlife Conservation Society said Tuesday. A Mozambique gov't-backed survey showed a dramatic 48% decline in elephant numbers from just over 20,000 to an estimated 10,300. (france24.com)
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Release of Orangutan “Person” from Zoo this Week Would be Unprecedented Worldwide - Court in Argentina decides whether to release Sandra, 29, from the Buenos Aires Zoo, after she receives “nonhuman person” status (outsideonline.com)
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says the NSA whistleblower “gave up his own life . . . to help the rest of us". (fortune.com)
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The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has reached nearly 800 with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas. (bbc.com)
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IMF Official Says China's Yuan No Longer Undervalued - Beijing should work toward having a floating exchange rate in two to three year - The United States and some other governments have complained for years that China suppresses the value of its currency (nytimes.com)
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Two oil companies announced Monday the temporary shuttering of their Canadian oil sands mines and the evacuation of hundreds of staff as a massive forest fire creeped close (news.yahoo.com)
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Syrian Air Force kills more than 140 ISIS members in air raid on base in IS capital of Raqqa (dailystar.com.lb)
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