VietPress USA (July 9th, 2016):
Brexit: Government rejects petition signed by 4.1 million calling for second EU referendum (independent.co.uk)
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Tobacco giant Philip Morris has lost an international dispute surrounding the sale of cigarettes in Uruguay and must continue to cover its packages sold in the South American country with graphic warning labels and restrict its branding practices, President Tabare Vazquez announced Friday (bigstory.ap.org)
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Report: Police investigating Benjamin Netanyahu on money laundering allegations - Israel News (jpost.com)
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In aging Japan, the 18-year-old voter gets welcomed to the voting booth: In the biggest expansion of the vote since 1946, teens are being courted ahead of Sunday's vote for the legislature's upper house. A key issue: the pacifist Constitution. (csmonitor.com)
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Chilcot report: Tony Blair could be sued for 'every penny' by families of soldiers killed in Iraq War . Mr Blair had overstated the case for military action in March 2003 as there was “no imminent threat” posed by Saddam Hussein and it was not the “last resort" (independent.co.uk)
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Borneo's orangutan is on the verge of extinction, a top conservationist body said on Friday (Jul 8), also warning that the world's biggest fish, the whale shark, and a hammerhead shark species were endangered. (channelnewsasia.com)
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Body builder Sajad Gharibi known as 'Iranian Hulk' signs up to fight Isis in Syria (independent.co.uk)
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Hate crimes surge by 42% in England and Wales since Brexit result . Following the UK narrowly voting for Brexit, there have been numerous reports of ethnic minorities and immigrant families being targeted for racial abuse. (independent.co.uk)
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UK's former Attorney General Lord Morris calls Tony Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq 'unlawful': He didn't want me around, never had a single face-to-face meeting (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
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Refugee who fled Boko Haram for Italy killed by 'ultra' football fan: Emmanuel Namdi was attacked after defending his wife from racist abuse (theguardian.com)
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For the first time ever, astronomers have found strong evidence of water clouds on a body outside the solar system. New observations of a frigid object called WISE 0855, which lies 7.2 light-years from Earth, suggest that the "failed star" has clouds of water, or water ice, in its atmosphere (scientificamerican.com)
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Paleolithic Child’s Skull Imprinted With Image of His Brain—Skull from Calabria used to recreate brain of 12-yr-old boy from 17,000 yrs ago. Scientists will compare his brain structures to today's children, especially areas responsible for language, social interaction, & spatial coordination. (thelocal.it)
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ISIS Has Been Running Over Syrian Mummies with Bulldozers - It’s the latest campaign to destroy historical artifacts from the terror group. (motherboard.vice.com)
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Kinder chocolate 'contain dangerous levels of likely carcinogens'. The European Food Safety authority calls the chemical found in the chocolate as 'likely carcinogenic and mutagenic'(independent.co.uk)
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Putin signs sweeping surveillance measures into law; Snowden declares a ‘dark day for Russia’ (washingtontimes.com)
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UK Tor operator hit with bizarre EU arrest warrant from Polish prosecutor [for criticising a former mayor] (arstechnica.co.uk)
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Indonesia: 18 die from fatigue, accidents during day-long ‘horror’ traffic jam (asiancorrespondent.com)
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Edward Snowden says it's a 'dark day' in Russia after Vladimir Putin introduces draconian new surveillance laws: The new anti-terror legislation forces telephone carriers and internet providers to store the private communications of their customers – and turn them over to the government on request. (independent.co.uk)
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