VietPress USA (July 30th, 2016):
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England's plastic bag usage drops 85% since 5p charge introduced: Number of single-use bags handed out dropped to 500m in first six months since charge, compared with 7bn the previous year (theguardian.com)
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Australia is shifting its longitude and latitude by 1.5m to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems and make sure self-driving cars, drones and tractors know where they're going. (cnet.com)
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Lower Saxony's I.M.Germany goes after the ideological epicenter of Islamic extremism: “We will not put up with Salafist associations and their backers flouting our rules and bringing our rule of law into question and convincing young people that they want to join the so-called IS.” - Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (neweurope.eu)
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Major Chinese state paper calls for a military strike on Australian ships that enter the South China Sea (businessinsider.com.au)
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Russian biological warfare troops rushed to Arctic after outbreak of lethal anthrax hospitalises 40 (thesun.co.uk)
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Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here - One of the driest countries on earth now makes more freshwater than it needs (scientificamerican.com)
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London Burger Chain Owners Tricked Workers Into Meeting Where Immigration Agents Arrested Them - "They said, ‘nobody move, we’re immigration, stay where you are.'"(thinkprogress.org)
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More than half of Britons would be willing to launch nuclear weapons if they were Prime Minister - with two thirds of those asked supporting Theresa May's claim that she would do so, according to a recent survey. (independent.co.uk)
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Homeowners on a street in Germany have been told they must foot the bill for their road's construction - even though it's been there for nearly 80 years. (bbc.com)
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U.S. Government Finally Pays Family of Italian Aid Worker Killed in Drone Strike, but Refuses to Admit Wrongdoing (theintercept.com)
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Erdogan tells US intelligence chief: 'Know your place!' He was referring to comments made by US Director of National Intelligence who had warned that many of Washington's key allies within the Turkish government have either been purged or jailed. (dw.com)
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Israel to U.S.: Criticism of settlement construction is'factually baseless' - Israel News (haaretz.com)
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