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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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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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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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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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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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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