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WORLD NEWS ON DEC. 21ST, 2015

Monday, December 21, 2015
VietPress USA (Dec. 21st, 2015): World News on Dec. 21st, 2015.


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Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation. (bbc.com)
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A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses. The bus was travelling from the capital Nairobi to the town of Mandera. (bbc.com)
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African lions will be added to the endangered species list, activists say (washingtonpost.com)
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UK lawmakers sayMinority killings by IS 'should be recognised as genocide (bbc.co.uk)
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Venezuela frees Pepsi workers it arrested for not making enough Pepsi (theguardian.com)
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Australian woman, known for her generosity, leaves an amazing legacy by donating her $4.3m fortune to the homeless in her will. (smh.com.au)
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‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away (theguardian.com)
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Up to 1000Nigerian Army killed thousands of Shia Muslims & burried them in mass graves (ahtribune.com)
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Wall of Trees Being Planted Across Africa to Halt the Sahara Desert Spreading Farther South (abcnews.go.com)
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Chinese censors ban North Korean music group over anti American lyrics (theguardian.com)
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Obama signs budget with $3.1 bn aid package to Israel (ynetnews.com)
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Juniper Warns Of Spying Code In Firewalls: "Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday [17 December 2015] it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering." (infoworld.com)
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British Columbia's energy regulator has confirmed that a 4.6 magnitude earthquake in northeast British Columbia in August was caused by fracking and is likely to be the largest fracking induced seismic event ever recorded. (digitaljournal.com)
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Slovenians reject same-sex marriages in a referendum (reuters.com)
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Venezuela passes national anti-GMO and anti-patent seed law (gmwatch.org)
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China names and shames five badly behaving tourists (nypost.com)
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‘Check travellers’ IDs or be fined’, Sweden warns - Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson has warned public transport companies that failing to check traveller identities before they enter Sweden could result in fines of up to 50,000 kronor. (thelocal.se)
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Landslide of construction debris and earth destroys 33 buildings in China, 59 people missing (nytimes.com)
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Russia says black box from warplane downed by Turkey unreadable (reuters.com)
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China Tells U.S. to Stop Flexing Military Muscle in Asia (bloomberg.com)
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Pakistani Taliban calls Isis 'un-Islamic' - snubs Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is merely a local gang leader and not 'caliph' (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Brazil mine spill predicted to extinguish already endangered species within local ecosystems, many haven't been yet studied or even discovered (latimes.com)
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Joint Operations calls citizens to evacuate Ramadi within 72 hours - Iraqi News (iraqinews.com)
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An American woman was shot dead in her Kabul apartment building on Sunday night (time.com)
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Yet more Icelandic bankers sentenced to prison - the alternative to bank bailout. (icelandmonitor.mbl.is)
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