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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
VietPress USA (Oct. 25t, 2016):
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Dutch unveil giant vacuum to clean outside air. The system is said to be able to suck in air from a 300-metre radius, and from up to 7 kilometres upwards. It can treat some 800,000 cubic metres of air an hour, filtering out 100 percent of fine particles and 95 percent percent of ultra-fine particles (france24.com)
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UncorroboratedSaddam Hussein's cousin arrested for participating in a terrorist attack that left 90 dead. He was found in an empty water storage tank (en.abna24.com)
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2,500-Yr-Old Cannabis Plants Found in China - The lack of hemp clothing & rope in the burial & the large size of the plants’ seeds, suggest they were grown for their psychoactive properties. (livescience.com)
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Catholics are forbidden from keeping the ashes of cremated loved ones at home, scattering them, dividing them between family members or turning them into mementoes, the Vatican has ruled. (amp.theguardian.com)
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Brains of paedophiles who abuse children are different to those who do not, scientists discover: “... not all individuals with a diagnosis of paedophilia commit child sexual offences, just as many persons who sexually offend against children are not paedophilic." (independent.co.uk)
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Docs from a hacked email account reportedly belonging to Vladislav Surkov, an aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, are similar to instructions seized by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) agents from organizers of a separatist movement in Zakarpattya, head of the SBU’s personnel department (kyivpost.com)
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U.S. State Dept. "troubled" by 18-year sentence handed down to U.S. citizen in Iran (foreigndesknews.com)
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Iceland's women leave work at 2.38pm to protest gender pay gap: According to unions and women's organisations, in every eight hour day women are essentially working without pay from 2.38pm (independent.co.uk)
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WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold weedkiller documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws (reuters.com)
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Detainees 'beaten, sexually abused and threatened with rape' after Turkey coup, Human Rights Watch claims (independent.co.uk)
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A leak at a small nuclear reactor in Norway has been contained, with no injuries sustained and no expected environmental damage outside the facility, the reactor's operator and the country's Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) said on Tuesday. (in.reuters.com)
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French businesswoman Jacqueline Veyrac kidnapped in Nice. President of Cannes’s five-star Grand Hotel, who is 76, was seized from her car near her home by an organised gang, police say (theguardian.com)
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Egyptian women's rights organisation New Women Foundation (NWF) has called on the education ministry to ensure that schoolgirls are not forced to wear the Islamic headscarf as part of the dress code in schools all over the country, said the campaign coordinator Lamya Lotfey. (english.ahram.org.eg)
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NATO seeks troops to deter Russia on eastern flank | NATO will press allies on Wednesday to contribute to its biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War as the alliance prepares for a protracted quarrel with Moscow (reuters.com)
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