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World News on May 22nd, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016
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Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men in a bid to bypass state 'morality' police who rigorously enforce penalties for not wearing a hijab. (independent.co.uk)
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Japanese pop star Mayu Tomita, age 20, is in critical condition after being stabbed by a 27-year-old male, Tomohiro Iwazaki, nearly two dozen times after 'not giving a clear answer' about a gift he had given her earlier. He had ambushed her while she was waiting to come onstage and perform. (bbc.com)
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Oil company records from 1960s reveal patents to reduce CO2 emissions in cars: ExxonMobil and others pursued research into technologies, yet blocked government efforts to fight climate change for more than 50 years, findings show (theguardian.com)
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Schoolchildren in Russia will soon be taught a variety of military skills such as maintaining firearms as part of a new drive by the country's defence ministry. (bbc.com)
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Poland last week dismissed 32 of 39 scientific experts on the State Council for Nature Conservation after they criticized the logging plan of Bialowieza Forest (seattletimes.com)
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Vladimir Putin and the Russian state are being sued by families of those who died on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down over Ukraine. (news.sky.com)
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Anti-corporate activists, organic farmers, Indigenous peoples, environmental groups and others took to the streets across 6 continents and over 400 cities on Saturday in a global grassroots march against Monsanto (commondreams.org)
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Islamic State threatens attacks in India. Islamic State mocked Muslims living in harmony with Hindus who worship cows, trees and the sun, and urged them to travel to IS-held territories in the Caliphate. (reuters.com)
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Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour 'probably killed' in US air strike on Afghanistan, US officials say (bbc.com)
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Vegetarianism on the rise in Germany, but schools draw the line at veganism - Tofu schnitzel, tofu bratwurst, tofu kebab. It all exists in Germany. Popular as vegetarian options may be, a German court has ruled that veganism is too risky as a school meal option. (dw.com)
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The world's largest cruise ship and its supersized pollution problem: each of the Harmony’s three four-storey high 16-cylinder Wärtsilä engines will, at full power, burn 1,377 US gallons of fuel an hour, or about 96,000 gallons a day of some of the most polluting diesel fuel in the world (theguardian.com)
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UK trains soldiers for majority of regimes on its own human rights abuse watchlist | Sixteen nations on the Foreign Office watchlist for use of torture and sexual violence benefit from military and security support (independent.co.uk)
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Microplastics in the sea a growing threat to human health, United Nations warns: More than a quarter of fish in markets in Indonesia and California contain plastic particles (independent.co.uk)
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Pakistan seeks ‘clarification’ of US strike on Afghan Taliban leader on its soil. (indianexpress.com)
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Outrage in Japan as U.S. Marine veteran arrested in connection with death of woman on Okinawa (washingtonpost.com)
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