VietPress USA ( March 21st, 2017):
UKSubway advertises for ‘Apprentice Sandwich Artists’ to be paid just £3.50 per hour: Union slams fast food chain for 'exploiting' young workers(independent.co.uk)
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Lawyer for Sergei Magnitsky's family Nikolai Gorokhov has been "thrown from the 4th floor of his apartment building" in Moscow. (lawandorderinrussia.org)
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Apple sold $4.2 billion of product in New Zealand, paid $0 local taxes. “Their tax department is even more innovative than their product designers.” (arstechnica.com)
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A German bank that loaned $300m to Donald Trump played a prominent role in a money laundering scandal run by Russian criminals with ties to the Kremlin. Deutsche Bank and other western financial institutions processed at least $20bn in money of “criminal origin” from Russia (theguardian.com)
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Top NSA official says telephone surveillance should have been disclosed: 'U.S. government should have publicized the existence of a program that vacuumed up in bulk Americans' telephone call data before its existence was leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA's deputy director said.' (reuters.com)
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Last of Beijing coal power stations closes as Chinese leaders promise blue skies for all (smh.com.au)
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Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture (news.vice.com)
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US military says a North Korean missile 'appears to have exploded within seconds of launch' (cnbc.com)
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FBI and NSA Chiefs Forced to Fact-Check Boss as Trump Live-Tweets Hearing: 'Either the White House is spreading falsehoods about this hearing on its Twitter account or the FBI director just perjured himself on TV,' remarks one journalist (commondreams.org)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip an April 5-6 meeting of NATO foreign ministers for a U.S. visit by the Chinese president and will travel to Russia later in the month, U.S. officials said on Monday, a step allies may see as putting Moscow's concerns ahead of theirs (reuters.com)
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Saudi Arabia ‘expects Donald Trump to scrap 9/11 victims law’ as first cases brought against kingdom (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
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Rapid and unusual warming of the waters off northern Peru has unleashed the deadliest rainfall the South American country has seen in decades. About half the country has been placed under a state of emergency. "We are confronting a serious climatic problem," said President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. (businessinsider.com)
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