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What the Internet hates about the TPP trade deal: After years of warning that the secretive TPP would be devastating for Internet freedom, intellectual property experts have finally gotten to look at the final draft of the proposed treaty. And they say it’s as bad as they feared (dailydot.com)
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Interns protest at the UN to get paid, but Security breaks it up and tells reporters to delete their photographs (news.vice.com)
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Norway says Russian spies are ensnaring its politicians in sex traps - Norwegian authorities say that Russians are blackmailing govt workers, MPs into revealing state secrets by tricking them with duplicitous gifts like vodka and attractive women, a well-known strategy from the Cold War era. (qz.com)
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Russia's nuclear torpedo plan to bypass Nato missile shield revealed after broadcaster forgets to blur out secret document (mirror.co.uk)
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David Cameron complains about constituency cuts caused by his own policies in leaked letter. (independent.co.uk)
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Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and economic hub, on Monday imposed emergency water restrictions as supplies deteriorated due to a drought, the worst to ravage the country in three decades. (phys.org)
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Thousands of Afghan women joined a protest march in the streets of Kabul on Wednesday morning, in one of the biggest demonstrations of the past 15 years (tolonews.com)
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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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Crickhowell: Welsh town moves 'offshore' to avoid tax on local businesses, using the loopholes used by multinational giants to avoid paying UK tax (independent.co.uk)
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Britain loses top energy rating after green policy U-turns: UK downgraded from AAA to AAB in World Energy Council’s ‘trilemma index’, after Conservatives scrapped onshore wind subsidies and cut solar subsidies. (theguardian.com)
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Two relatives of the wife of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela have been arrested on United States federal drug charges in Haiti and are expected to appear in court in Manhattan on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the case said on Wednesday night. (nytimes.com)
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World’s most elusive shark found & tagged for 1st time - Lurking in murky tropical rivers, no live adults had ever been seen before. The speartooth sharks (Glyphis glyphis) tagged & released. Tags will beam back data to satellites in 2 months, revealing details about the endangered species. (newscientist.com)
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Not Appropriate SubredditNew Zealand female MPs thrown out of parliament for allegedly violating Parliamentary rules by disclosing sexual assaults. Women ruled out of order by Speaker for demanding PM John Key apologise for accusing opposition of ‘backing the rapists’. (theguardian.com)
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Carbon emissions fall in 11 of G20 members, in turning point | per capita carbon emissions over the five years to 2012 was down in Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Britain, the European Union, South Africa, Italy, France and Mexico. (reuters.com)
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