VietPress USA (Jan. 19th, 2016): World News on Jan. 19th, 2016:
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UK Terrorism Act incompatible with human rights, court rules in David Miranda case - His judgment came in the case of the detention of a man detained at Heathrow airport for carrying files related to information obtained by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. (theguardian.com)
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Facebook Begins Merkel led banning on hate speech and xenophobic comments for European users (reuters.com)
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Bavarian conservatives want national burqa ban: The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), ruling party in Bavaria, want to pass a new law making it illegal for anyone to wear a burqa in Germany. (thelocal.de)
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Overfishing causing global catches to fall 3 times faster than estimated - Landmark new study that includes small-scale, subsistence & illegal fishing shows a strong decline in catches as more fisheries are exhausted (theguardian.com)
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Take back migrants or lose aid cash, Berlin tells North Africa: Germany’s Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, has threatened to withdraw aid from north African countries if they don’t cooperate on taking back rejected asylum seekers. (thelocal.de)
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Iran’s petroleum production forecasted to increase to 3.7 million barrels per day by the end of 2017. (eia.gov)
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Largest ever longitudinal twin study of adolescent cannabis use finds no relationship between heavy use and IQ decline. (news.meta.com)
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Nine executives at Israeli travel agencies have been arrested on suspicion of fixing the price of high-school students' trips to former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz.(bbc.com)
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UK doctors say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing "remarkable" improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer. About 20 patients have received bone marrow transplants using their own stem cells. Some patients who were paralysed have been able to walk again. (bbc.com)
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