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WORLD'S NEWS ON AUGUST 27, 2015

Thursday, August 27, 2015

1-  German Justice Minister criticizes Facebook's double standards: German users are struggling to understand why Facebook is quick to ban nudity, but often fails to ban posts that constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred. (dw.com)
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Up to 50 refugees found dead in truck in Austria: Newspaper reports initial indications were that they suffocated. (reuters.com)
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India just turned off mobile internet for 63 million citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad (thenextweb.com)
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Denmark cuts benefits for asylum seekers - Danish lawmakers on Wednesday approved cutting welfare benefits for new asylum seekers in a bid to curtail arrivals. (news24.com)
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Delta governor(Nigeria) scored more votes than number of voters, INEC confirms (premiumtimesng.com)
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TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released (independent.co.uk)
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Diamonds Worth Millions Vanish from 'Russia's Fort Knox': Rough diamonds worth millions of dollars have reportedly disappeared from Russia's supposedly impenetrable repository created by the Bolsheviks to store the tsar's jewels. (nbcnews.com)
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Germany hands over citizens’ metadata in return for NSA’s top spy software (arstechnica.co.uk)
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According to the 23-year record of satellite data from NASA and its partners, the sea level is rising a few millimeters a year -- a fraction of an inch. If you live on the U.S. East Coast, though, your sea level is rising two or three times faster than average. (jpl.nasa.gov)
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Ethiopia has launched the first space program in East Africa (sciencealert.com)
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Confirmed:Long-Lost Nazi loot train found in Poland (popularmechanics.com)
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Fake Goldman Sachs bank found in China (rt.com)
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First female prime minister for Greece announced (theguardian.com)
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Muslims not doing 'enough' to fight Islamic State: Jordan's Queen Rania (zeenews.india.com)
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Mystery as rare saiga antelopes drop dead in their thousands. The world population of saiga antelope has halved in less than two weeks after 140,000 animals perished on the Kazakhstan steppes without any obvious cause. (express.co.uk)
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British-born Isis hacker killed: US drone strike in Syria kills Junaid Hussain (independent.co.uk)
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North Korea's shiny new airport falls short of expectations (gu.com)
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Knut the polar bear's cause of death revealed - They analysed samples of Knut’s cerebrospinal fluid and found high levels of an antibody known to attack a glutamate receptor in the brain. In humans, this is a sign of a disease called autoimmune encephalitis, the first ever reported in a non-human. (newscientist.com)
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Switzerland has completed the construction of the 57 km long Gotthard Base Tunnel, connecting Milan to Zurich (uk.businessinsider.com)
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Israel: Professor Uri Shanas launches crowdfunding campaign to buy 1.4% of earth for conservation (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Nearly a billion monarch butterflies have vanished. Now their haven in Mexico is also disappearing: More than 52 acres of a haven where the butterflies hibernate over winter has been degraded, mostly by deforestation from illegal logging, with drought helping the decline. (washingtonpost.com)
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Drunk Gunman Fires 30 Shots and Kills Four at Traveler Camp in North of France (news.vice.com)
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China warehouse explosion in Tianjin leads prosecutors to detain government officials, company executives (cbsnews.com)
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China has likely sold somewhere on the order of $100 billion in US Treasurys in the past two weeks alone (zerohedge.com)
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'Great Escape' airman Paul Royle dies in Perth hospital, aged 101 (abc.net.au)
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