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WORLD'S NEWS ON AUGUST 21, 2015

Friday, August 21, 2015


A group of US Marines foiled a potential terror attack on a French train (uk.businessinsider.com)
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North Korea Official: Kim Jong Un Approves ‘Final Attack Operation’ On South Korea (washington.cbslocal.com)
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Zurich cops 'won't report' on criminals' ethnicity - Zurich communal authorities have instructed city police to stop releasing the nationality of criminals to the media to avoid stigmatization. (thelocal.ch)
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Magnetic Wormhole Created in Lab - "This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible," said study co-author Jordi Prat-Camps, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. (scientificamerican.com)
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Russia Wants Composer Rachmaninoff’s Remains Back - A Russian minister sparks an international debate by announcing his intention to reclaim Rachmaninoff’s remains from a cemetery in New York state. He received American citizenship shortly before death. His music was banned in Soviet Russia. (smithsonianmag.com)
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Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page (independent.co.uk)
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Pakistani Terrorist Gets a Film Banned Because It Makes Him Look Bad (time.com)
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White House: ISIS No. 2 killed by US strike (foxnews.com)
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Nasa has confirmed – after rumours swept the internet about an imminent asteroid strike expected between 15 and 28 September – that the two-week period in question will be entirely free of Earth-destroying space attacks. (theguardian.com)
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N. Korea deploys towed artillery to DMZ for apparent attack on S. Korean loudspeakers-Yonhap News Agency (english.yonhapnews.co.kr)
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Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit (news.yahoo.com)
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AustraliaVictoria to fast-track the construction of 50 new wind turbines worth $200m - Premier Daniel Andrews has moved in an opposite direction to Tony Abbott over renewable energy with a plan he says will create 1,000 jobs for regional Victoria (theguardian.com)
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Park orders military to sternly deal with any N. Korean provocations (english.yonhapnews.co.kr)
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North Korea says preparation for military action is complete (english.yonhapnews.co.kr)
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Refugee center in Germany set ablaze following rioting over torn Koran (jpost.com)
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Kim Jong Un orders North Korea military to prepare for war (from Friday at 5 PM) (beta.grasswire.com)
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Dow plunges 531 points (money.cnn.com)
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China stocks crash 11% in a week (money.cnn.com)
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China plunders Zimbabwe wildlife (theindependent.co.zw)
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North Korea Moves Rocket Launchers as South on War Alert. “The situation is at an irreversible brink of war,” (bloom.bg)
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Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes | Science | The Guardian (theguardian.com)
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Indonesia sinks 34 of its neighbors' boats to celebrate Independence Day & Vietnam isn't happy - They came from countries like the Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia. Indonesia says the mass sinking was a show of strength in territorial integrity. Vietnam, for one, is “deeply concerned”. (mashable.com)
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North Korea at UN threatens 'strong military counteraction' (straitstimes.com)
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US Halts Military Exercise With South Korea (abcnews.go.com)
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North Korea Prepares For War As Missiles Moved (news.sky.com)
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