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World News on Nov. 2nd, 2016

Wednesday, November 02, 2016
VietPress USA (Nov. 2nd, 2016):

Women and girls who survived Boko Haram violence were raped by government officials at camps in northern Nigeria where they sought safety, according to a new rights group report. (cnn.com)
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South Korean Coast Guard vessels have, for the first time, fired machine guns against Chinese boats illegally fishing in Korean waters. (scmp.com)
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Philippines' Duterte: We'll turn to Russia if US won't sell us guns. "They're blackmailing me that they won't sell weapons? We have lots of explosives here," (cnn.com)
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China exceeds emission target - China successfully reduced its carbon intensity by 20 percent during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2010-15), surpassing its original 17 percent target, said a senior environmental official on Tuesday. (globaltimes.cn)
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Man in need of a bathroom accidentally discovers oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia (49,000 years). (abc.net.au)
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Global markets in 'early stages of panic' after poll puts Donald Trump ahead (independent.co.uk)
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Moscow Amnesty International Office Seized - "The electricity in the entryway had been turned off and new locks had been installed in the office's door... A notice on the door stated that the office was now city property. Amnesty received no advance warning about the closure. " (themoscowtimes.com)
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EU declares Israel boycott protected as free speech (timesofisrael.com)
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Remember the Panama Papers? Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to face corruption probe over leaked documents (latimes.com)
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Hong Kong one of Asia'€™s worst countries for slavery; 29,500 people out of 7 million population trapped in "modern slavery" in one of world's 10 richest cities (scmp.com)
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Alzheimer's treatment within reach after successful drug trial (theguardian.com)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Wants Microsoft Out of the Country (news.softpedia.com)
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In Uganda, gay men say police use torturous method to 'prove' homosexuality (reuters.com)
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Official Announces HIV Epidemic In Russia's Fourth-Largest City (rferl.org)
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Third person arrested in New Zealand for not paying back student loan: Approximately 90 per cent of the NZ $1.07bn that has been borrowed is owed by people living overseas (independent.co.uk)
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Montreal police tracked journalist's iPhone: “I was living in the fiction that police officers wouldn’t dare do that, and in the fiction that judges were protecting journalists -- and hence the public -- against this type of police intrusion,” Lagace said. “Clearly, I was naive.” (cbsnews.com)
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China is building a magnetic levitation train that can go an insane 373 mph (theverge.com)
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Active shooter reported at Sasebo Naval Base in Nagasaki, Japan (washingtontimes.com)
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ISIS releases new Al Baghdadi message calling for attacks on Saudi Arabia and Turkey (foreigndesknews.com)
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Saudi court sentences member of the royal family to be flogged in prison for unspecified offence: The incident follows a month after the kingdom executed another member of the ruling Al Saud family after he was convicted of killing a man in a brawl (independent.co.uk)
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Reporters Without Borders labels Erdogan as 'enemy of press freedom': The Turkish regime has arrested at least 200 journalists and closed over 120 media outlets since the coup attempt, Reporters Without Borders said (dw.com)
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Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Vows to Keep Hitting Yemen, “No Matter What” (theintercept.com)
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Elephant poaching costing African nations millions in lost tourism revenue. Report estimates continent is losing out on £25m/$31m in tourism spending each year due to the illegal wildlife trade that is killing elephants for their ivory. (theguardian.com)
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Philippines' Duterte rails at U.S. 'monkeys' for halting gun sale (reuters.com)
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Uncovered: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Back-Door Access to U.N. Climate Talks (alternet.org)
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