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Friday, December 02, 2016
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Trump likely just infuriated Beijing with the US’s first call to Taiwan since 1979 (businessinsider.com)
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Two-thirds of Australians think reef crisis is 'national emergency' – poll: Overwhelming majority of people agree the government should legislate to stop chemicals polluting the Great Barrier Reef (theguardian.com)
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France moves to ban misleading anti-abortion websites. Supporters say the law would stop the spread of ‘misinformation,’ but opponents say it violates free speech.(theverge.com)
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South SudanThe World’s Youngest Country Is ‘on the Brink’ of Genocide, Says a UNHCR Report. "The stage is being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda." (time.com)
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Gambians have just voted out dictator president Yahya Jammeh after being in power for 22 years, he is about to concede defeat (bbc.com)
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Israel becoming 'safe haven for paedophiles' with laws that allow any Jews to legally return, activists claim (independent.co.uk)
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Iceland's Pirate party invited to form government. Anti-establishment group receives mandate for power-sharing pact after talks to build five-party coalition fail. (theguardian.com)
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The Australian government’s official “response plan” to the worst ever bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef commits it to no new action, pledges no new money and does not make any attempt to address climate change, according to a draft seen by the Guardian. (theguardian.com)
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The Irish Government has passed a bill to make cannabis available in Ireland for medicinal use. (rte.ie)
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Denmark deports woman for begging for the first time: Court sentences woman to 40 days in prison before she is expelled from the country (independent.co.uk)
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A new German Moon mission could finally prove the first landings weren't a hoax - "German scientists want to send two mobile probes to the Moon, which they say will be able to inspect the lunar rover left behind by the Apollo 17 mission in 1972" (sciencealert.com)
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gets Trump invite to White House during 'animated' call: aide (reuters.com)
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Four of world's biggest cities to ban diesel cars from their centres - Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City will ban the most polluting cars and vans by 2025 to tackle air pollution. (theguardian.com)
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A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail because of the contents of his internet history (privateinternetaccess.com)
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Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a 90GB-sized trove of data relating to the ongoing German parliamentary inquiry into the relationship between the county's foreign intelligence agency – the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) – and the National Security Agency (NSA). (ibtimes.co.uk)
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