VietPress USA (March 8th, 2016):
Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver “preventive nuclear strikes” could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country (theguardian.com)
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Cannabis legalisation in the UK 'would raise £1bn a year in taxes' - Study calls for UK to follow lead of some US states & allow the sale of cannabis to over-18s in licensed retail stores(independent.co.uk)
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International Women's Day: Russia topped ranking of countries with the highest percentage of women in senior business roles (reuters.com)
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The world's second largest tract of rainforest, twice the size of Texas, is at risk of being cut down as Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lift the moratorium on industrial logging in place since 2002. (digitaljournal.com)
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1 dead/13 wounded3 Israelis hurt in separate terror attacks in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva (jpost.com)
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Almost half of Israeli Jews want ethnic cleansing, 'wake-up call' survey finds - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the findings a 'wake-up call for Israeli society' (independent.co.uk)
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An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday. (news.trust.org)
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The United States wants to regularly rotate long-range heavy bombers through Australia, as concerns grow over China's military expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.(abc.net.au)
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One of China’s most respected current affairs magazines has lashed out at Communist party censorship of its work, just weeks after the president, Xi Jinping, demanded absolute loyalty from his country’s media. (theguardian.com)
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Venezuela: 28 miners apparently kidnapped, murdered and disappeared by government-related forces (star-telegram.com)
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Thousands of refugees see border effectively closed: EU leaders said Monday said they had reached the outlines of a possible deal with Ankara to return thousands of migrants to Turkey, and also said that “irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route have now come to an end.” (washingtonpost.com)
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Turkey’s main opposition files criminal complaint against president, gov’t for aiding terror (hurriyetdailynews.com)
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The Egyptian government has barred journalists from reporting on events in the troubled Sinai peninsula. (aljazeera.com)
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Almost 16 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and that number could climb to almost 50 million (bernama.com)
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