A group of western tourists who stripped naked at the peak of Mount Kinabalu last month will be prohibited from leaving Malaysia, as their act of "disrespecting the mountain" could have caused the devastating earthquake that killed at least 13 people. (digitaljournal.com)
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Swedish observers witness electon fraud in Turkey, thrown out of polling stations and threatened with weapons (sverigesradio.se)
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FIFA corruption scandal: Morocco, not South Africa, allegedly won 2010 World Cup vote (mirror.co.uk)
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'Execution' of lawyer kills hope that residents can defeat Mafia. The brutal killing on 29 May of Mario Piccolino, in his office in Formia, south of Rome, has dashed such hopes. Piccolino, 71, was a lawyer with mobsters and corrupt officials in his sights. (independent.co.uk)
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Poland warns David Cameron not to fool voters that they can “keep all the goodies and forget about the costs” in EU referendum (theguardian.com)
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Hamas has sent a message to Israel through Egypt saying that ISIS linked rebels from Salafi group are the ones trying to bring Conflict between Gaza and Israel. (sky105.com)
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Saudi Arabia's supreme court has upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry. (bbc.co.uk)
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"Saudi Arabia's supreme court has upheld a sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raef Badawi on charges of insulting Islam, his wife said on Sunday [7 June 2015]." (france24.com)
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Half a million refugees gather in Libya to attempt perilous crossing by boat to Europe (theguardian.com)
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Putin Sends Message to the West: "I would like to say - there's no need to be afraid of Russia.... The world has changed so much that people in their right mind cannot imagine such a large military conflict today." (npr.org)
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Turkey votes in crucial election: Turks are voting in a general election on Sunday which will determine whether the ruling party can change the constitution (bbc.com)
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Dazzling jewels from an Ethiopian grave reveal 2,000-year-old link to Rome: 2,000-year-old treasures from the Roman empire and the Aksumite kingdom, which ruled parts of north-east Africa for several centuries before 940AD, have been discovered by British archaeologists in northern Ethiopia. (theguardian.com)
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Paraguay will invest extra $125 million dollars in the Program for the Development of Science and Technology (en.institutomanquehue.org)
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