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Friday, October 14, 2016
VietPress USA (Oct. 14th, 2016):
Paedophiles to face chemical castration and possibly execution under Indonesia's brutal new laws: The new laws follow outcry over the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school in April (independent.co.uk)
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"There are a dizzying two trillion galaxies in the universe, up to 20 times more than previously thought, astronomers reported on Thursday. The surprising finding, based on 3D modeling of images collected over 20 years by the Hubble Space Telescope, was published in the Astronomical Journal." (theguardian.com)
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"Extremely rare" fossils from a swordfish-like creature which lived 100 million years ago have been discovered in the Australian outback. (bbc.com)
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primarily eastern European criminalsCrimes by foreigners in Denmark have doubled - A new analysis from the Danish National Police shows that while many categories of crime are either falling or stagnated, the number of crimes committed by non-citizens more than doubled between 2009 and 2015. (thelocal.dk)
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Amid escalating U.S.-Russia tensions, the Russian military said it will cooperate with China on efforts to fend off a threat posed by the U.S. missile defense program (bigstory.ap.org)
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Hundreds of children who were sexually and physically abused over several decades at the Domspatzen, a world-famous Catholic choir in Bavaria, will be financially compensated (dw.com)
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Facebook and Google are building an 8,000 mile fiber optic cable from LA to Hong Kong - with an estimated capacity of 120 terabits-per-second (yahoo.com)
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Iranian girls 'given eight lashings each because their parents could not pay school fees' (independent.co.uk)
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Creationism Invades Europe: An antiscience movement once limited mostly to the U.S. is gaining ground on the eastern side of the Atlantic (scientificamerican.com)
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President Francois Hollande told the authors of a book just published that France has "a problem with Islam" and there are too many immigrants arriving in the country who "shouldn't be here". (aljazeera.com)
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