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World News on Nov. 18th, 2016

Friday, November 18, 2016

 VietPress USA (Nov. 18th, 2016):


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Slovenia adds water to constitution as fundamental right for all (theguardian.com)
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Scotland considers legally enshrining the 'right to food': '...it would mean the Government and other public bodies would have a duty to ensure everyone has secure access to adequate and affordable food.'(independent.co.uk)
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Scientists have identified an antibody that neutralises 98% of HIV strains - "When the researchers exposed N6 to 181 different strains of HIV, it managed to destroy 98 percent of them, including 16 of 20 strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class." (sciencealert.com)
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Scientists have developed a synthetic way to absorb CO2 that's way faster than plants - ""ECRs are supercharged enzymes that are capable of fixing CO2 at the rate of nearly 20 times faster than the most widely prevalent CO2-fixing enzyme in nature..." (sciencealert.com)
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ISIS teenage 'Cub of the Caliphate' kills his entire family after his suicide belt accidentally goes off at home in Mosul (dailymail.co.uk)
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Digital rights group allegesBritain just passed the "most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy" (zdnet.com)
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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)
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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)
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SpaceX Wants to Launch 4,425 Satellites Into Orbit. Allowing internet access to the entire planet. (popularmechanics.com)
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Japan's Abe: Trump is a leader I can have confidence in (cnn.com)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Singapore to hang Nigerian national at dawn tomorrow for trafficking of Marijuana (theonlinecitizen.com)
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Fracking can cause earthquakes that last for months, study finds (independent.co.uk)
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Turkey's ruling AKP proposes rapists be released from prison if they marry victims (turkishminute.com)
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Brexit blamed for £100 billion budget black hole (independent.co.uk)
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Disturbing details emerge in deaths of 3 American soldiers in Jordan (cbsnews.com)
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Two Chinese astronauts safely back on earth after nation’s longest manned space mission | Month-long stay in space lab a step closer to China’s goal of fully functioning space station (scmp.com)
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In a landmark ruling, a British teen has won the right to be cryogenically frozen after death. (mirror.co.uk)
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China eyes regional trade deal void left by Trump’s win | China will step into the political vacuum created by Donald Trump’s US presidential election win to forge stronger ties with ­Latin America and advance ­Beijing-led free-trade deals at the Apec summit in Lima, Peru, this week, analysts said. (scmp.com)
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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)
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Behind Soft PaywallThe North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends (washingtonpost.com)
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Fuel truck explosion kills 73 in Mozambique (bbc.com)
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Funding for the Royal Family will double as Buckingham Palace needs £369 million renovation. (bbc.co.uk)
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