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Germany to start using the dublin regulation again - syrians will be sent back to the country they initially arrived in (en.europeonline-magazine.eu)
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Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been voted the most influential academic book ever written, hailed as “the supreme demonstration of why academic books matter” and “a book which has changed the way we think about everything”. (theguardian.com)
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Indonesia is planning to build a prison island guarded by meat-hungry crocodiles for drug convicts. The reason for using the deadly reptiles as prison guards is that crocodiles cannot be bribed unlike human guards. (digitaljournal.com)
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China recently conducted a flight test of a new missile capable of knocking out U.S. satellites as part of Beijing’s growing space warfare arsenal (freebeacon.com)
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Scientists confirm their fears about West Antarctica — that it’s inherently unstable "The result of this study is an if–then statement, saying that if the Amundsen Sea Sector is destabilized, then the entire marine part of West Antarctica will be discharged into the ocean.” (washingtonpost.com)
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Former Calgary judge investigated for comments made to alleged sex assault victim - Camp asked the complainant during trial, such as: “Why didn’t you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn’t penetrate you?” and “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” (calgaryherald.com)
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Nothing can compete with renewable energy, says top climate scientist | "This is not sheer optimism – it is based on analysis of how incumbent systems implode.”(theguardian.com)
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A Moroccan actor who starred in a controversial film about sex workers says she has fled the North African nation for France after being savagely beaten. (theguardian.com)
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Crimes against the environment – such as illegal deforestation, wildlife trafficking and toxic waste dumping – now bring in as much as $213 billion a year, but Interpol officials say the problem is not getting enough attention. (france24.com)
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U.N. official’s claim that 13% of Japanese girls engage in ‘compensated dating’ angers government (japantimes.co.jp)
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Montreal To Dump 2 Billion Gallons of Untreated Canadian Sewage Into 140-Mile St. Lawrence River, a scenic waterway that is the breeding ground for beluga whales, which have faced a steep decline due to pollution (nytimes.com)
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Ethnic British Minorities more likely to go to university than their White British peers (ifs.org.uk)
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Chevron Australia's US parent company paid income tax of only $248 last year despite earning an estimated $1.73 billion profit on interest charges to its Gorgon LNG development, documents filed with the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance show. (afr.com)
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There's a Long-Lost ‘Paleo-River’ Beneath the Sahara Desert Nobody Knew Existed - As if the Sahara wasn’t mystical enough, now it has hidden river systems. (motherboard.vice.com)
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Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia; scientists warn of health damage (reuters.com)
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An entire town in the UK has moved 'offshore' to avoid tax on local business (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
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