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World News on May 28th, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016
VietPress USA (May 28th, 2016):
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Super-rich Swiss village opts for £200,000 fine instead of accepting 10 refugees (independent.co.uk)
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Iranian students get 99 lashes for attending mixed graduation party: Around 35 men and women were sentenced to 99 lashes each after being found 'dancing and jubilating' by the country's notorious “Morality Police” (independent.co.uk)
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Child rapist ISIS fighter who laughed about buying sex slaves is captured by Kurdish Peshmerga (mirror.co.uk)
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El Salvador - where women are jailed for 40 years for the 'crime' of having a miscarriage - Woman just released after spending only 5 years in jail for miscarrying. (independent.co.uk)
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The UK is selling record quantities of arms – including missiles, bombs and grenades – to countries listed by the Foreign Office as having dubious human rights records. Several have been accused of war crimes or suppressing popular protest. (theguardian.com)
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China is encouraging its citizens to eat less meat — and that could be a big win for the climate (washingtonpost.com)
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A 9-year-old US-UK citizen has launched a legal action against the British government for refusing to request her father’s return after he was kidnapped by Ethiopian security forces and renditioned to Ethiopia to face a death sentence for being an opponent of that country’s government (telesurtv.net)
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Some 20 people living in the "Jungle" refugee camp in the northern French port of Calais were injured in a brawl between around 200 Afghans and Sudanese on Thursday (france24.com)
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The Chinese government is now teaching classes in Australian schools despite legitimate concerns over the spread of propaganda and the use of the program as a front for espionage. (m.smh.com.au)
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Lufthansa suspends flights to Venezuela amid the country's ongoing economic crisis (businessinsider.com)
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Mossack Fonseca to close offices in Jersey, Gibraltar and Isle of Man: The law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers is closing its offices in the British-dependent territories ‘with great regret’ (theguardian.com)
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Pakistan has banned advertisements for contraceptive products on Tv and radio over concern that they expose inquisitive children to the subject of sex, local media reported on Saturday (in.reuters.com)
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The largest dam in the world is set to begin construction within months and could be generating electricity in under five years. But 35,000 people may have to be relocated and it could be built without any environmental or social impact surveys, say critics. (theguardian.com)
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