NASA discovers another Earth like planet in the Milky Way galaxy - Planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.(nasa.gov)
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European Union opens antitrust case against 6 major US movie studios - Sky UK, Disney, NBC, Paramount, Sony, Fox, and Warner Bros named in Statement of Objections. (theverge.com)
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Turkish tanks on Thursday opened fire on targets controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria after a Turkish soldier was killed by shots from the Syrian side of the border(france24.com)
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Australia's climate change stance is "incomprehensible" and "profoundly un-conservative", said a leading UK MP. (bbc.com)
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China starts building its largest solar plant: spread over 2,550 hectares in the Gobi desert (business-standard.com)
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Iran falsified the number of executions in the country to hide the fact that in the last six months, it killed as many as 694 people, Amnesty has claimed in its latest report (ibtimes.co.in)
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What happened when Portugal legalized drugs 14 years ago? People sought help and the drug addiction rate fell by 50 percent. (abc.net.au)
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Scientists: we are 'condemning' forest elephants by ignoring evidence - As the ivory trade threatens to obliterate forest elephants, conservationists & govts fail to recognize them as a distinct species despite rising genetic & physical evidence. (theguardian.com)
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Dolphins are struggling to reproduce because of industrial chemical pollution in European waters that can linger in the animals' bodies for a lifetime (france24.com)
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Chile's salmon farmers are using record levels of antibiotics to treat a virulent and pervasive bacteria, driving away some U.S. retailers including Costco Wholesale Corp, which is turning to antibiotic-free Norwegian salmon (reuters.com)
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The Harper government's controversial Bill C-51 not in keeping with Canada’s international obligations: UN (theglobeandmail.com)
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Seventy years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Nazi death camps by Allied troops, Germany is establishing its first-ever professorship devoted to the study of the Holocaust. (thelocal.de)
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Shell Just Got the Green Light to Drill in the Arctic | The Obama administration gave Shell the go-ahead to drill in the Arctic, but put limits on how deep the company can drill until better spill response technology arrives. (news.vice.com)
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