Airport Security in the Philippines Have Been Putting Bullets in Luggage to Extort Passengers (time.com)
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Lawyers without Borders findings about the Raif Badawi trial: An unfair trial, an incompetent court, a crime which is not one and a punishment that constitutes torture: Saudi Arabia has violated its own laws in addition to its international obligations. (stopru.org)
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"More than 10,000 crocodiles are starving to death on a farm in Honduras after the wealthy family owning them had their assets frozen because of US accusations they laundered money for drug traffickers." (france24.com)
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The Russian airline whose Airbus plane crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board has a chequered history including another fatal accident and has not paid its staff for two months(msn.com)
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2,000-year-old Maccabean-era fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search | One of the 'great archaeological riddles in the history of Jerusalem' is solved (timesofisrael.com)
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Add Porsche To The List Of Cars Involved In VW’s Massive Emissions Cheating Scandal (thinkprogress.org)
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A new report by rights group AI claims that the oil giant Shell has not cleaned up oil spills in the Niger Delta, despite promises to do so. Shell operates around 50 oil fields and 5,000 km of pipelines there. According to the company's own figures, it is responsible for 1,693 oil spills since 2007. (dw.com)
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Amnesty International says oil giant Shell's claims of cleaning up spills that have destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians are "false" (bigstory.ap.org)
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Syria conflict: Russia softens support for Assad, saying it is not crucial for him to remain in power. (bbc.co.uk)
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The Department of Defense (DoD) spent nearly $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost no more than $500,000 according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). (pogo.org)
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Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation (reuters.com)
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Tomb Tells Tale of Family Executed by China's 1st Female Emperor - 1,300-yr-old tomb, discovered in cave, holds bones of a man who helped the only female emperor rise to power. The epitaphs describe how she then executed him & his entire family. (livescience.com)
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Researchers followed the food habits of 42,000 Swedish men over 12 years and found that men who drank at least two sweetened beverages a day had a 23% higher risk of going into heart failure (edition.cnn.com)
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