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February 26, 2016
VietPress USA (Feb. 26th, 2016):



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Arctic warming: Rapidly increasing temperatures are 'possibly catastrophic' for planet, climate scientist warns | Dr Peter Gleick said there is a growing body of 'pretty scary' evidence that higher temperatures are driving the creation of dangerous storms in parts of the northern hemisphere (independent.co.uk)
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ISIS suddenly trapped as Syrian Army pushes to recapture Aleppo supply route (almasdarnews.com)
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An 11,000-year-old pendant has been found, the earliest known piece of Mesolithic art in Britain, and it may have been worn by a shaman (thescarboroughnews.co.uk)
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UK770,000 names deleted from voter register in change to registration rules as critics claim Tories are ‘rigging the system’ (theguardian.com)
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Ontario makes college tuition free for low income families making 50k or less a year. Increases grants for those making 83k or less a year. (thestar.com)
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UBS charged with tax fraud and money laundering in Belgium (bbc.com)
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The US Said India's Solar Power Plan Discriminates Against American Companies — And the WTO Agrees (news.vice.com)
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Islamists match Odin’s soldiers with Soldiers of Allah (norwaytoday.info)
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Australia's biggest banks pump billions into fossil fuels despite climate pledges (theguardian.com)
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Coptic Christian teenagers sentenced to 5 years in egyptian prison for video mocking muslim prayer (nytimes.com)
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims, supporters of the influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have taken to the streets of Baghdad to protest corruption in the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Gianni Infantino elected Fifa president (theguardian.com)
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Report: thousands of refugees 'disappear' after registering in Germany (dw.com)
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Jimmy Savile dressed as a Womble to rape 10-year-old boy (metro.co.uk)
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Three brothers jailed over Rotherham child sexual abuse | UK news (theguardian.com)
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Social media helps fuel China's illegal craze for 'thumb monkeys' - Year of the monkey has sparked a trend for pygmy marmosets, the world’s smallest monkey, as pets. But conservationists warn the animals rarely survive in captivity. (theguardian.com)
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U.S. unfolds plan to supply Sub-Saharan Africa 14 million bed nets to eliminate malaria (today.ng)
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Trade Officials Promised Exxon That TTIP Will Erase Environmental 'Obstacles' Worldwide. EU trade officials soothed the oil giant as it fretted about new regulations popping up in Global South (commondreams.org)
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David Cameron boasts of 'brilliant' UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the day the European parliament voted for an arms embargo (theguardian.com)
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Royal Malaysian Air Force plane crash-lands in shallow waters, only fatality was a fisherman who drowned while trying to help (aviation-safety.net)
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The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia (reuters.com)
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A Belgian judge charged Swiss bank UBS on Friday with money laundering and "serious and organized tax evasion," saying it directly sought clients in the country to help them skip taxes (bigstory.ap.org)
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Saudi Arabia is reeling from falling oil prices. And it could get much worse. (washingtonpost.com)
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Brazil is building $250m-worth undersea cable linking directly Europe to avoid US espionage – Tech giants like Google, Facebook likely to support (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Europe's free travel will end unless Turkey halts migrant flow, officials say (reuters.com)
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