World News on Feb. 2nd, 2016:
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BP is to cut another 7,000 jobs after reporting an annual loss of $6.5bn (£4.5bn), the worst in its history (theguardian.com)
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ISIS-run 'Voice of the Caliphate' radio station silenced by air strikes in Afghanistan (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Canada Admits There’s No Chance It’ll Reach Its Climate Change Targets — Not Even Close (news.vice.com)
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Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm - Spread says it will open the fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process (theguardian.com)
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Driver ‘deliberately’ runs over 17 kangaroos on 100m-stretch of road outside Brisbane in Australia (independent.co.uk)
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Maori leaders in New Zealand's Far North have voted to block Prime Minister John Key from visiting the site where the country's founding document was signed, with one saying "I don't understand why we'd want to welcome a Prime Minister when he has already signed away our sovereignty" (with the TPPA) (newshub.co.nz)
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Six arrested in France for planning to join Syria jihadists. Some of them were also believed to have been planning attacks in France, notably against swingers' clubs, sources said.(english.rfi.fr)
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United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas called on Governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without reaffirming their human rights treaty obligations and their recent pledges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. (ohchr.org)
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The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group dismissed calls to carpet-bomb the jihadists. "Indiscriminate bombing where we don't care if we are killing innocents or combatants is just inconsistent with our values." (news.yahoo.com)
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Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. must pay $10 million in fines and penalties for telling U.S. officials the timber for its wood flooring came from Germany rather than the actual source -- the habitats of endangered Siberian tigers in southeast Asia (bloomberg.com)
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Budget smartphones from Lenovo, Huawei, and other largely Chinese brands contain an accidental backdoor that grants intruders root access. (theregister.co.uk)
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Russia is now China's biggest oil partner — and it's a huge problem for Saudi Arabia (businessinsider.com)
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British Columbia unveils historic agreement to protect a massive swath of rainforest along its coastline. (reuters.com)
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Canada moving ahead with plans to ditch first-past-the-post electoral system. "FPTP suited for fledgling democracies, mature democracies can do better," says minister in charge of reform. (cbc.ca)
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