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By 285 votes to 281, MEPs decide to call on EU member states to "drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden" (europarl.europa.eu)
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China to start work on super, super-collider by 2020. The facility is expected to generate millions of Higgs boson particles, far more than the capacity of Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), helping scientists to answer some fundamental questions about how the universe works. (france24.com)
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Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year. (bbc.com)
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Denmark wants foreign fighters jailed for life: The Justice Ministry on Thursday announced plans to punish Danish foreign fighters as traitors, allowing for life imprisonment. (thelocal.dk)
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Refugees refusing to leave bus in 'too cold' Sweden to be removed Fourteen people have stayed on the bus since it reached Limedsforsen three days ago, saying the village is too cold and isolated (theguardian.com)
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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the European Union's Sakharov prize for human rights and freedom of thought (reuters.com)
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22 Shipwrecks Found in Single Location in Greece - "Surpassing all expectations, over only 13 days we added 12% to total of known ancient shipwrecks in Greek territorial waters." They span from the Archaic Period to the Classical & Hellenistic through Late Medieval Period. (news.discovery.com)
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Japan urged to ban manga child abuse images: UN’s child protection envoy says extreme child pornographic content in comics should be banned but artists call it an attack on freedom of expression (theguardian.com)
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EU Toughens Against TTIP as Top German Lawmaker Blasts Anti-Democratic Deal: the president of the German Bundestag, or parliament, has threatened to vote against the so-called "trade" agreement due to its lack of transparency and democratic legitimacy (commondreams.org)
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U.S Starts Ground Operations Against ISIS, Stepping Up Their Involvement in the War in Iraq/Syria. (news.com.au)
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