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May 17, 2016



VietPress USA (May 17th, 2016):


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Pakistan’s ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ gains momentum, hopes to achieve target of One Billion new saplings plantation by end of next year. (dawn.com)
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Israel Antiquities Authority announces the biggest archaeological find in 30 years -- A 1600-year-old Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins bearing the face of Constantine the Great. (popularmechanics.com)
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Barcelona’s plan to give streets back to residents. The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and the community. (theguardian.com)
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Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity (theguardian.com)
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Caribbean islands warned as Venezuela collapses (curacaochronicle.com)
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Australian Energy Boss Emails Climate-Change Skeptic Handbook.Prominent businessman and donor to the Australian Liberal Party, accidentally emailed hundreds of politicians and elites a 16-page handbook.The handbook explains how to argue that climate-change is not human-made. (telesurtv.net)
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Prominent Oceans Scientist Fails to Disclose Funding From Fishing Industry (truth-out.org)
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The new Brazilian president’s first pick for science minister was a creationist. He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister. And he is the first leader in decades to have no women in his Cabinet. (nationalpost.com)
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Revealed: Saudi Arabia owns $117 billion of U.S. debt (money.cnn.com)
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Muslim states block 11 LGBT groups from attending UN Aids meeting (theguardian.com)
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Google may face a fine of around €3 billion by the European Commission (EC) for manipulating search results to promote its own shopping comparison service, (mobileworldlive.com)
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Russia to revive missile trains as U.S. launches European missile defense system (upi.com)
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North Korea is last place Americans should travel to warns US State Department (ibtimes.co.uk)
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Violence against labor activists remains rampant in Colombia since U.S. trade deal took effect, U.S. watchdog says. (telesurtv.net)
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After almost 18 years of circling Earth, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit on Monday. (motherboard.vice.com)
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Denmark pushes ahead with hate preacher blacklist (politico.eu)
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Pirate Party set to be kingmaker in next Icelandic parliament—polls (arstechnica.co.uk)
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[Russia] Cossacks beat up anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny and others as police are slow to intervene (meduza.io)
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Obama to Lift U.S. Sanctions Against Myanmar (nytimes.com)
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Court condemns tobacco giant Philip Morris over secret bid to sue Australia over plain packaging laws (theguardian.com)
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Mexican President Proposes Legalizing Gay Marriage (abc7.com)
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Venezuela gives sweeping 'emergency' powers to security forces (france24.com)
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German court rules against comic Boehmermann over Erdogan poem (bbc.com)
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Three Russian editors resign amid threats to press freedom (theguardian.com)
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Pope criticizes West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya (yahoo.com)
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