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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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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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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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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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Victoria becomes the first Australian state to ban all fracking and unconventional gas exploration (abc.net.au)
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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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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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