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World News on Jan 20th, 2017

By: vietpressusa January 20, 2017

VietPress USA (Jan 20th, 2017):

Lots of corpse flowers bloomed in 2016 and nobody knows why: The corpse flower takes ten years to build up enough energy to bloom, but mysteriously, dozens of them bloomed within weeks of each other in 2016 (bbc.com)
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Germany deploys troops near Russia border as part of NATO's anti-Russia force (presstv.ir)
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UK Bristol police taser their own black race relations adviser after mistaking him for wanted man (independent.co.uk)
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Companies responsible for Brazil's worst enviromental disaster in history to sign deal and not pay damages (xapuri.info)
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France's minister for women's rights said it was a "shocking" decision to appoint filmmaker Roman Polanski as head of the jury for the country's equivalent of the Oscars. (bbc.com)
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Trump trade strategy starts with quitting TPP: White House (straitstimes.com)
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Six found alive in hotel after Italy avalanche - BBC News (bbc.co.uk)
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Award-Winning Mexico Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered (telesurtv.net)
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Thousands protest Trump as 'sister marches' begin in Australia and New Zealand (reuters.com)
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Gambia's Yahya Jammeh 'agrees to step down' (aljazeera.com)
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Finland and Scotland pioneer Universal Basic Income (euronews.com)
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Austria arrest 'foils terror attack' in Vienna (bbc.com)
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Turkish MP handcuffs herself in parliament protesting Erdogan getting more executive powers: Proposed bill which would abolish the position of prime minister and possibly let Erdogan stay in office until 2029 due to pass third vote in Turkey’s parliament (independent.co.uk)
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NZ investigation reveals that 1 million cubic metres of waste water and raw sewage - the equivalent of 400 Olympic swimming pools - is pouring into Auckland Harbour each year (nzherald.co.nz)
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President Donald Trump inauguration thread (self.worldnews)
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At least 14 die in Italy school bus crash (bbc.co.uk)
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An Indian environmentalist shot to death in Mexico had fled his community almost 10 years ago and was killed when he returned to visit a sick relative. Raramuri Indian leader Isidro Baldenegro was the second winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize to be slain in two years (abcnews.go.com)
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Curiosity just found the first evidence of ancient mud cracks on Mars (sciencealert.com)
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Ötzi the Iceman Was Making Prosciutto Over 5000 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)
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India's Prime Minister Modi most followed world leader on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google+ (sputniknews.com)
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Merkel will meet with Fillon, but refuses to meet with Le Pen (frenchelection.online)
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South Korea: Culture Minister arrested for keeping blacklist of Park Geun-hye's critics (asiancorrespondent.com)
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Iran Threatens Trump Ahead of Inauguration: If He Nixes Nuclear Deal, We'll Surprise Him the Same Way He Likes to Surprise Others (algemeiner.com)
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Spanish firefighters are trying to build 'fake graveyards' to stop urban sprawl - Phoney graveyards could be created just to stop developers building (independent.co.uk)
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Isis destroys tetrapylon monument in Palmyra (theguardian.com)
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