Home » World News
World News on Nov. 17th, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
VietPress USA (Nov. 17th, 2016):
2
3
4
5
9
10
11
13
14
15
16
20
21
22
23
24
25
14 comments
share
Hạnh Dương
www.Vietpressusa.us
5014
Russia Wants To Send People Back To The Moon In 2031 - ... "building a new space station in lunar orbit in the next decade ... and possibly a base on the lunar surface. Russia is in the process of developing a new heavy-lift rocket, and a manned spacecraft called Federatio" (iflscience.com)
submitted by Short_Term_Account
1564
Digital rights group allegesBritain just passed the "most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy" (zdnet.com)
submitted by what3v3r
2352
Bull set on fire at Spanish Toro Jubilo festival - The bull, called Mancheguito, suffered an “excruciating 13 minutes of torture”. Organizers only allowed access to those with invitations, so even journalists were banned. "But we still managed to record the shocking scenes." (euronews.com)
submitted by anutensil
2346
France To Shut Down All Its Coal Power Plants By 2023 - "France is already a world leader when it comes to a low-carbon energy mix. Investing heavily in nuclear power a few decades back, the country now gets more than 75 percent of its electricity from the wonders of nuclear fission." (iflscience.com)
submitted by Short_Term_Account
1293
New Zealand quake - preacher under fire over homosexuals claim: An online petition calling for the church to be classed as a hate group and lose its tax-free status has been signed by 100,000 people. (bbc.com)
submitted by maxwellhill
998
Australia dubbed 'fossil of the day' after lobbying for coal mine at climate talks - Energy minister Josh Frydenberg raises concern with American counterpart over US activists seeking to stop Adani’s giant Carmichael coalmine (theguardian.com)
submitted by anutensil
236
Singapore to hang Nigerian national at dawn tomorrow for trafficking of Marijuana (theonlinecitizen.com)
submitted by Mikeferdy
2594
More than 400 people are killed by smog as lethal blanket of pollution smothers Iranian capital(dailymail.co.uk)
submitted by Beejsterb
281
According to leaked auditUkip 'misspent almost £400,000 of EU money on Brexit campaign and general election'(independent.co.uk)
submitted by ManiaforBeatles
729
A French corporation is being sued for war crimes and financing terrorism due to allegedly collaborating with Daesh. The Lafarge construction group is accused of working with Daesh terrorists for 3 years in order to keep their factory running. (asso-sherpa.org)
submitted by sufficing
448
Dozens of protesters demanding a military coup have forced their way into Brazil's lower chamber of Congress in the capital, Brasilia. Denouncing government corruption, they called for a return to military rule - which Brazil saw from 1964 to 1985. (bbc.com)
submitted by EightRoundsRapid
1666
Kosovo arrests 19 ISIS terrorists planning attack on Israeli soccer team - Breaking News (jpost.com)
submitted by Reuef
105
Paris climate deal ratified by UK: Theresa May signs up to landmark agreement | The Prime Minister 'can be proud that she is upholding Mrs Thatcher's tradition of basing climate policies on scientific evidence'(independent.co.uk)
submitted by maxwellhill
1336
Scientists have discovered a new way to edit DNA that could fix “broken genes” in the brain, cure previously incurable diseases and potentially even extend the human lifespan. (independent.co.uk)
submitted by maxwellhill
•
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $264.4 million in fines to federal authorities to settle charges that it hired the "unqualified" children of China's ruling elite in order to gain access to banking deals in that country. (money.cnn.com)
submitted by interestedin86
3723
A petition calling for fossil fuel lobbyists to be excluded from the UN climate change negotiations has been forced into the hands of the US delegation in Morocco, where almost 200 nations are meeting to work out ways to implement the 2015 Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. (theguardian.com)
submitted by madam1
•
Germany's Justice Minister says Facebook should be treated like a media company rather than a technology platform, suggesting he favors moves to make social media groups criminally liable for failing to remove hate speech (reuters.com)
submitted by bitoffreshair
185
Hạnh Dương
www.Vietpressusa.us