The United States takes offense at comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new communications director accusing President Barack Obama of anti-Semitism and suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry had the mental abilities of a 12-year-old, the State Department said (reuters.com)
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Maldives impeaches its Vice President by 61-0 vote for plotting to kill its President (abcnews.go.com)
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NASA just announced key findings that explain how extreme climate change transformed Mars into a lifeless desert (businessinsider.com)
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Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, took office on 4 November — and as one of his first acts, created the post of Minister of Science. Canadian election brings hope for science Kirsty Duncan, a medical geographer at the University of Toronto, will be the first to hold the job. (nature.com)
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Iranian actress who posted photos online not wearing a hijab forced to flee country (nytlive.nytimes.com)
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Child born out of rape has inheritance rights on assaulter's property rules Indian High Court (firstpost.com)
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Kim Dotcom is building his own fully encrypted internet -- a non-IP based internet called MegaNet. (stuff.co.nz)
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Climate change missing from full Trans-Pacific Partnership text, confirming the "worst nightmares" of environmental groups (smh.com.au)
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Protonmail (encrypted email service provider) under sophisticated DDOS attack, official statement suggests state-sponsored actors. (theregister.co.uk)
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'Designer cells' reverse one-year-old's cancer - The first person in the world to receive a pioneering genetic therapy has had her cancer reversed, say Great Ormond Street doctors.(bbc.co.uk)
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A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been identified by a team of scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
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Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets today in over 670 cities across the world wearing Guy Fawkes masks, as part of the anti-establishment Million Mask March.(independent.co.uk)
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China opens drone schools as demand for pilots soars: It is estimated the country's maintenance, mapping, filming and agricultural industries will need more than 10,000 drone pilots this year (en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com)
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China releases nearly a billion more tons of carbon dioxide annually than previously thought (news.nationalpost.com)
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China overtakes Canada as largest trade-partner of US | Business Standard News (business-standard.com)
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US knew Afghan hospital was safe from Taliban – but bombed it anyway, say MSF | Accounts from the organisation claim there was no military justification for the US air strike on 3 October that killed 30 medical staff and patients (independent.co.uk)
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ColombiaMan Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer - This is the first known report of a person becoming sick from cancer cells that developed in a parasite. (livescience.com)
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Ex-JPMorgan broker pleads guilty to stealing $20 million to gamble and trade with (uk.businessinsider.com)
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Unions, lawmakers promise closer scrutiny of Pacific trade pact - "It's worse than we thought,” Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (reuters.com)
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