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World News on Jan. 11, 2017

Wednesday, January 11, 2017
VietPress USA (Jan. 11th, 2017):


VietPress USA (Jan 11th, 2017):

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Philippines will offer free birth control to 6 million women. (wyff4.com)
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Former President Jimmy Carter says there were only 25 human cases of Guinea worm disease reported worldwide in 2016, considerable drop from 3.5 million cases in mid-1980s (bigstory.ap.org)
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5th Pakistani social activist has gone missing, days after 4 other campaigners disappeared in a way that has alarmed supporters of free speech. (reuters.com)
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Bill Decriminalizing Domestic Violence Passes First Reading in Russian Parliament (themoscowtimes.com)
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'Annoying' anti-cowbell campaigner denied Swiss passport - A Dutch woman has seen her request for Swiss citizenship refused for the second time by local residents who object to her media campaigning against cowbells and other Swiss traditions. (thelocal.ch)
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Moscow denies having compromising information about Trump: "[Kremlin] does not engage in collecting compromising material." (yahoo.com)
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A Swedish pharmacy made a billboard that starts coughing whenever a smoker is near (nordic.businessinsider.com)
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Sources told WSJEx-British spy behind Trump dossier has been identified (nypost.com)
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'Childless boom' among S European women (bbc.com)
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About 70 percent of the coral in the Sekiseishoko area, the largest coral reef in Japan, is dead, an Environment Ministry survey has found. (japantimes.co.jp)
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Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years (theconversation.com)
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Japan eyes new era with prince’s ascension on Jan. 1, 2019 (asahi.com)
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Hackers trigger yet another power outage in Ukraine. For the second year in a row, hack targets Ukraine during one of its coldest months. (arstechnica.com)
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Intelligence chiefs allege Russians have compromising personal information on Donald Trump: The claims allege the now-President-elect had been in contact with Russian intermediaries for five years (independent.co.uk)
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An asteroid just flew by Earth about 50% closer than the moon, and we barely saw it coming (businessinsider.com)
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Honda recalls another 772,000 vehicles with faulty airbags (engadget.com)
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Massive drop in German asylum seekers - Germany says 280,000 asylum seekers arrived there in 2016, a drop of more than 600,000 on the previous year.(bbc.com)
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Japan rescues 26 North Koreans from sinking ship (cnn.com)
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New species of gibbon discovered in China. Newly recognised species given the name ‘Skywalker hoolock gibbon’ by the team that proved it was distinct from other Chinese gibbons. (theguardian.com)
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Soaring childlessness among southern European women - report - Up to a quarter of women born in the 1970s may remain childless, compared to an average of 15% in northern Europe and 18% in western Europe. (bbc.co.uk)
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Rising inequality behind Brexit and Donald Trump victory is top global threat for the next decade, says WEF - Ahead of its annual meeting summit in Davos, the WEF said the gap between rich and poor needed to be tackled urgently (independent.co.uk)
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Seoul: North Korea has amassed 100 pounds of plutonium (upi.com)
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North Korea has enough weapons-grade plutonium to produce 10 nuclear bombs, Seoul's Defense Ministry said. The claim comes after Kim Jong-Un said the country was close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (dw.com)
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China to seal border with Pakistan to curb terror (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Culture etched on our DNA more than previously known, research suggests (cbsnews.com)
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