VietPress USA (Feb. 17, 2016): World News on Feb. 17th, 2016:
While the rest of the world is focused on hunting down mosquitoes with Zika, a group of doctors and researchers in Argentina has published a report making the provocative argument that a pesticide, rather than the virus, is to blame for the alarming number of birth defects being reported in Brazil. (washingtonpost.com)
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Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person. (bigstory.ap.org)
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Paedophile who led child sex grooming ring using human rights laws to try to block deportation (manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
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Tiny La Plata dolphin threatened by extinction dies after being pulled from water by tourists for photos (bubblear.com)
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New LSE report recommends 'War on Drugs' is replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals.“The question now is not, whether to end the ‘war on drugs’, but what to replace its failed policies with,” (lse.ac.uk)
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New Zealand's record inbound migration has undermined the country's squeaky-clean reputation because of an inflow of people from countries where corrupt practices are the norm, according to the Serious Fraud Office. (nzherald.co.nz)
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800 Bataclan survivors get to "finish the concert" last night in Paris with Eagles of Death Metal (france24.com)
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Obama to travel to Cuba President Barack Obama is planning to travel to Cuba within the next month, becoming the first U.S. president to do so since Calvin Coolidge. (politico.com)
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Italy names Turkish president's son in money laundering investigation allegedly connected to political corruption | Europe | News (independent.co.uk)
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According to NASA data this January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping (climatecentral.org)
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Polish magazine causes outrage with cover showing white woman being sexually attacked by 'migrants' (independent.co.uk)
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Child abuse survivors raise $90,000 to see Australia's most senior Catholic official, George Pell, give evidence in Rome after he avoids flying to Australia and testifying in person to a child sexual abuse Royal Commission. (theguardian.com)
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