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July 01, 2016

VietPress USA (July 1st, 2016):

A 117-year-old woman in Mexico City finally received her birth certificate, and died a few hours later. Trinidad Alvarez Lira had waited years for proof that she had been born in 1898. (theguardian.com)
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Austria's highest court annuls presidential election narrowly lost by right-wing candidate. (bbc.com)
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China kills millions of innocent meditators for their organs, report finds (independent.co.uk)
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100+ Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs (uk.reuters.com)
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Switzerland denies Muslim girls citizenship after they refuse to swim with boys at school: The 12- and 14-year-old will no longer be considered for naturalised citizenship because they have not complied with the school curriculum, authorities in Basel said (independent.co.uk)
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Brazil: Huge spike in number of police killings in Rio ahead of Olympics (amnesty.org.uk)
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IMF chief backs Athens as permanent Olympic host (ekathimerini.com)
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British Man Who Must Give Police 24 Hours' Notice of Sex Threatens Hunger Strike: The man is the subject of a sexual risk order despite having never been convicted of a crime.(newsweek.com)
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Stephen Hawking says pollution and 'stupidity' still biggest threats to mankind: “we have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid” in our treatment of the environment over the past decade (independent.co.uk)
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Facebook wins privacy case, can track any Belgian it wants: Doesn't matter if Internet users are logged into Facebook or not (arstechnica.com)
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Iran celebrates “American Human Rights Week,” mocks U.S.’ rights record (foreigndesknews.com)
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Taiwanese warship accidentally fires missile towards China (theguardian.com)
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Abbas’ PLO Faction Calls Killer of 13-Year-Old American-Israeli Girl a ‘Martyr’ (cnsnews.com)
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Boris Johnson says he will not run for Tory party leadership (theguardian.com)
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U.N. panel moves to curb bias against L.G.B.T. people despite fierce resistance from Muslim and African countries. (nytimes.com)
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Spain arrests three Pakistanis accused of promoting militancy (dawn.com)
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Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addicts | Duterte, 71, won power in a landslide after a campaign dominated by threats to kill tens of thousands in a war on crime (theguardian.com)
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India gets $1 billion loan from World Bank for solar mission (thehindu.com)
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About a third of living Nobel laureates – 108 at last count – have signed an open letter which attacks Greenpeace for campaigning against genetically modified crops.(theguardian.com)
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Austria’s constitutional court has annulled the result of the country’s presidential elections after an investigation had revealed irregularities in the count of the vote in several constituencies. (bbc.co.uk)
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Mass fish kill in Vietnam solved as Taiwan steelmaker accepts responsibility for pollution (abc.net.au)
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Expensive and high-maintenance, baby elephants have become the ultimate status symbol for Sri Lanka's wealthy elite -- a trend that has horrified conservationists and prompted a government crackdown. Elephants are venerated in mainly Buddhist Sri Lanka and capturing them is illegal. (france24.com)
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France Cracks Down on Factory Farms - A viral video campaign has moved the govt to act. In footage shared widely online, animals writhe in pain as they bleed to death or are dismembered, in violation of rules requiring they be rendered unconscious before slaughter. (bloomberg.com)
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Palestinian terrorist stabs israeli teen girl to death in her bedroom (jpost.com)
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Cannabis compounds could treat Alzheimer's by removing plaque-forming proteins from brain cells, research suggests (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
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