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World News on June 16th, 2016
Thursday, June 16, 2016
VietPress USA (June 16th, 2016):
UK focusDecriminalisation Call As 'War On Drugs' Fails. Top public health experts say illicit drug use should be treated as a health issue rather than punishing those who need treatment.(news.sky.com)
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Germany to end unofficial tolerance of polygamy: 'No one who comes to us has the right to put their cultural roots, or their religious beliefs, above our laws,' says justice minister(independent.co.uk)
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Once Islamic State is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shi'ite Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds, a top Kurdish official said on Thursday. (reuters.com)
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UKMP Jo Cox injured following reports of shooting and stabbing in Birstall, West Yorkshire (bbc.com)
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Catholic orders take their lead from the pope and divest from fossil fuels: Four Australian Catholic orders are jointly and publicly divesting from coal, oil and gas: ‘We believe the Gospel asks no less of us’ (theguardian.com)
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Undercover police officer 'recorded Muslim extremists calling for gay people to be thrown from a building during secret ISIS support meetings in back garden' (dailymail.co.uk)
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Killing of non-Muslims and minority groups forbidden in Islam.Bangladeshi clerics have issued a fatwa against the killings of minorities and secular campaigners in the mainly Muslim country, where police have arrested over 10,000 people in a crackdown on militancy. (en.abna24.com)
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LEGO donates 600 million DKK (90.7 million USD) to new children's hospital in Copenhagen (cphpost.dk)
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Physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were set in motion by the collision of two black holes far across the universe more than a billion years ago. The event marks only the second time that scientists have spotted gravitational waves (theguardian.com)
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Lam Wing-kee, bookseller who went missing for nearly eight months and only returned to Hong Kong from the mainland this week, described on Thursday his harrowing detention at a border crossing and sustained efforts by authorities there to extract information from him. (scmp.com)
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A Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality (bbc.com)
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Prince William Becomes First Royal to Pose for LGBT Magazine - Speaking out on homophobic bullying (people.com)
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Kurdish forces kill ISIS religious police chief, 27 other militants in Syria's Manbij (en.abna24.com)
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$28 bln invested in cluster weapon producers in 4 years - Report finds 158 financial institutions involved in funding production of weapons, despite int’l law banning cluster bombs(aa.com.tr)
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