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August 23, 2016


VietPress USA ( August 23rd, 2016):

Stomachs of dead sperm whales found in Germany filled with plastics, car parts (newsinfo.inquirer.net)
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Unknown Gunmen Kill ISIS Commander Responsible for Recruitment of Children (ifpnews.com)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un became so enraged by spate of recent defections that he sent assassins to South Korea & elsewhere to silence the renegades, according to government officials. Kim also ordered hit teams to target South Koreans for assassination or abduction as a tit-for-tat measure. (asahi.com)
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Ethopian Feyisa LilesaOlympian may face death if he returns home after the Olympics (newser.com)
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German citizenship is ranked the most valuable in the world (qz.com)
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A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves (thestar.com)
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WikiLeaks outs gay people in Saudi Arabia in ‘reckless’ mass data dump (pinknews.co.uk)
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Fisherman found a giant 34kg pearl worth $100million and kept it under his bed for 10 years as a good luck charm - Puerto Princesa, Philippines (dailymail.co.uk)
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) breaks silence; announces press conference to address reports of rumored discovery of habitable exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri(universetoday.com)
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Germany's opposition Green party unveils a 10-point plan to end electricity generation from coal within 20 years, a key plank of its campaign heading into next year's general elections (phys.org)
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Elderly Muslim leader 'murdered by two ISIS fanatics because they viewed his healing as black magic' (mirror.co.uk)
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Celtic fans warned not to fly Palestinian flags at match in Israel | Football (theguardian.com)
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Ultra-Orthodox rabbis ban women from going to university in case they get ‘dangerous’ secular knowledge (independent.co.uk)
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NSA-linked Cisco exploit poses bigger threat than previously thought (arstechnica.com)
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'Borders are the worst invention ever!' EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker widens rift with European leaders as he calls for open borders (dailymail.co.uk)
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Syria Kurds win battle with government, Turkey mobilizes against them (reuters.com)
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Not Arab, and Proud of It: Tunisia's long-suppressed Amazigh minority is finding its voice for the first time in years. (foreignpolicy.com)
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Speedo USA Drops Sponsorship of Ryan Lochte Amid Scandal, donates Lochte's $50k fee to children in Brazil (abcnews.go.com)
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FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others (cnn.com)
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Found you! NASA re-establishes contact with missing spacecraft (edition.cnn.com)
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Mystery of 'eclipse wind' solved after 300 years: Edmund Halley – of Halley's Comet fame – noted the 'Chill and Damp which attended the Darkness' of an eclipse in 1715, causing 'some sense of Horror' among the spectators. (phys.org)
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Rio Paralympics 2016: Russia banned after losing appeal (m.bbc.com)
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Under new Philippine president, nearly 1,800 have died in extrajudicial killings (npr.org)
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Germany considers return of conscription for civil defence (bbc.co.uk)
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Jihadist pleads guilty to destroying ancient Timbuktu artifacts -- In a historic first, the International Criminal Court has classified destroying cultural artifacts as a war crime.(cnn.com)
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