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A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to be "un-Islamic." (reuters.com)
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Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers were given the green light to sue energy giant Shell in a British court on Wednesday for a series of destructive oil spills in the Niger delta over the past decade. (telesurtv.net)
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North Korea launches short-range missiles into Sea of Japan hours after UN Sanctions (independent.co.uk)
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African elephants 'killed faster than they are being born': The new data, released on UN world wildlife day on Thursday, shows about 60% of elephant deaths are at the hands of poachers, meaning the overall population is most likely to be falling. (theguardian.com)
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Average temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere have breached the 2 degrees Celsius above “normal” mark for the first time in recorded history (slate.com)
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A senior Pakistani official has admitted publicly for the first time that the Afghan Taliban's leadership is living in Pakistan. (rferl.org)
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In Sydney, Australia, the penalties for cyclists who don't wear helmets or run red lights have gone up by 600%. (businessinsider.com.au)
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Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous leader and Goldman Prize winner, assassinated in her home (telesurtv.net)
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Argentine Nobel Prize winner to Obama: Don't visit March 24, because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing(bigstory.ap.org)
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Turkey blackmailed EU: either €3bn per year & EU accession or we send buses full with refugees to Europe (keeptalkinggreece.com)
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French bill carries 5-year jail sentence for company refusals to decrypt data for police (dailydot.com)
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Honduran Indian leader Berta Caceres, who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in fighting a dam project, was murdered Thursday. Caceres, a Lenca Indian activist, had previously complained of receiving death threats from police, soldiers and local landowners because of her work (bigstory.ap.org)
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“Problematic” fossil turns out to be oldest known example of life on land - This 440 million-yr-old fungus helped life take root outside the oceans. (arstechnica.com)
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