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August 30, 2016

VietPress USA (August 30th, 2016):

Costa Rica celebrates 113 days of 100-percent renewable energy (and counting) (inhabitat.com)
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Cameron 'gave pay rise of 24% to some special advisers' before resignation | Former PM bumped up salaries of some advisors by £18,000 at a time when public pay sector pay rises were capped at 1% (theguardian.com)
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Insurers worth $1.2tn tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020 | Climate change is the “mother of all risks” says Aviva CEO, and hundreds of billions in annual government assistance to oil, gas and coal is “simply unsustainable” (climatechangenews.com)
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Europe hits Apple with $14.6 billion tax bill (money.cnn.com)
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French PM suggests naked breasts represent France better than a headscarf (theguardian.com)
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Apple 'should repay Ireland 13bn euros' European Commission rules (bbc.co.uk)
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Dogs can understand human speech, scientists discover: Brain scans discover evidence that dogs process language in a similar way to humans and are only truly happy if a praising tone of voice is matched by the actual words spoken (independent.co.uk)
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The new TTIP? Meet TISA, the 'secret privatisation pact that poses a threat to democracy': Government insists 'public services are under no threat whatsoever from this deal'(independent.co.uk)
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ISIS Says No. 2 Leader Mohammad al-Adnani Is Dead (cnbc.com)
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Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years' | the global temperature typically rose by between 4-7C over a period of 5,000 years as the world moved out of ice ages. The temperature rise clocked up over the past century is around 10 times faster than this previous rate of warming. (theguardian.com)
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Rioting in the streets of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia after a 14 year old aboriginal boy is killed by a 55 year old man for stealing his motorbike (au.news.yahoo.com)
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France wants EU-US trade talks stopped (euobserver.com)
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U.S. warns EU for acting as a "supra national authority," and hitting Apple with massive tax bill (money.cnn.com)
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Apple: You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but you can't have both (businessinsider.com)
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Human Rights Watch: Palestinians abuse media, activists (businessinsider.com)
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NZ Judge: Kim Dotcom can livestream legal fight against the US (yahoo.com)
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Explosion at Chinese embassy in Kyrgystan leaves several dead: Source (channelnewsasia.com)
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French PM suggests naked breasts represent France better than a headscarf (theguardian.com)
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Victoria becomes the first Australian state to ban all fracking and unconventional gas exploration (abc.net.au)
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Venezuelan Regime Kidnaps Opposition Leader (cato.org)
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Zika-infected mosquitoes lay Zika-infected eggs - This is the first experimental proof that mosquitoes can transmit Zika to their own offspring (theverge.com)
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A decade on, vaccine has halved cervical cancer rate. (bbc.com)
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Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to €13 billion according to EU, and must recover it. (europa.eu)
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'If we die, we want to look pretty": Defiant Kurdish soldier girls refuse to go without makeup while gunning down ISIS fighters in Iraq... with a helping hand from the British(dailymail.co.uk)
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Vietnam says all will lose in any South China Sea war (yahoo.com)
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