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THE WORLD'S NEWS ON AUGUST 19, 2015

Wednesday, August 19, 2015


Vaping is 95% safer than smoking and could lead to the demise of the traditional cigarette, Public Health England (PHE) has said in the first official recognition that e-cigarettes are less damaging to health than smoking tobacco. (theguardian.com)
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TIANJIN, China – The son of a former police chief is one of two silent owners of the warehouse in Tianjin where explosions killed at least 114 people, and used his connections to help obtain licenses despite the hazmat facility violating safety rules, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. (globalnews.ca)
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"Russians are experiencing the first sustained decline in living standards in the 15 years since President Vladimir V. Putin came to power." (nytimes.com)
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Ashley Madison leak confirmed to be real and worse than originally thought. (arstechnica.co.uk)
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After Kicking Out the DEA, the UN Says Bolivia Has Successfully Lowered Its Coca Cultivation in Each of the Last Four Years. (news.vice.com)
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Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities (guardian.co.uk)
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Alberta man fined for "Fuck Harper" sign (cbc.ca)
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In Auckland, New ZealandTPP protest draws thousands (nzherald.co.nz)
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Mexico’s government on Wednesday slammed US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposals to deport undocumented immigrants en masse and make Mexicans pay for a wall separating the two countries as absurd, racist and ignorant. (theguardian.com)
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Journalist from The Beijing Daily sneaked into the Tianjin site and provided an account of what he saw (chinadigitaltimes.net)
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Migrants crisis: Slovakia 'will only accept Christians' (bbc.com)
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UK graduates are wasting degrees in lower-skilled jobs: Over-qualification has reached saturation point, meaning money invested in education is being wasted and young people are crippled by debt, report warns (theguardian.com)
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English children among the unhappiest in the world at school due to bullying (theguardian.com)
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Paris shooting survivor suing French media for giving away his location while he hid from shooters (bbc.co.uk)
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Indictment: Palestinian Authority money used by terror cell to kill Israeli civilian. The money was provided as a monthly stipend to the cell's leader after his release from Israeli jail in a prisoner exchange (ynetnews.com)
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Germany expects refugee numbers to quadruple to record 800,000 (reuters.com)
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Nazi gold train 'found in Poland' (bbc.com)
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MPs and peers state that drug use is a "human right" and call for drug policy reform and human rights legislation that could be used to decriminalise possession, purchase and growing of drugs. (independent.co.uk)
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Turkey Pays Former CIA Director and Lobbyists to Misrepresent Attacks on Kurds and ISIS (huffingtonpost.com)
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Thai Police release sketch of Bangkok bombing suspect, offer 1 million baht reward for info (bangkok.coconuts.co)
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Russia jails Estonia border guard Kohver for 15 years (bbc.com)
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47% of Taiwan's poulation lacks alcohol-metabolizing gene (wantchinatimes.com)
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EU Slams Russian "Abduction" of Estonian Officer (themoscowtimes.com)
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Abbas not welcome in Tehran, Iranian official says-Islamic Republic seeking to re-warm ties with Hamas, says parliament adviser, who adds, ‘We reject the existence of any Israeli on this Earth (timesofisrael.com)
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Australia has denied environmental approval to just 18 projects since 2000 - “Fundamentally, the laws aren’t set up to protect the environment, they are set up to facilitate development.” (theguardian.com)
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