VietPress USA (March 13th, 2017):
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Renewable energy now Australia’s cheapest power option - "Based on the economics at this point the race has been run and won with (renewable energy plus) storage well ahead of CCS and it looks like we’ll stay that way all the way through to 2030" (econews.com.au)
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President of Brazil has reportedly moved out of his official residence because of “ghosts” (independent.co.uk)
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Quebec grocery stores first in Canada to send unused produce to food banks - "“The money will structure the whole chain in order for the food to be distributed better than it was in the past.”" (globalnews.ca)
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Denmark, Germany and Netherlands plan to build artifical island for 7,000 wind turbines in the North Sea (thenextweb.com)
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Solar industry facing devastating 800% tax increase - "Some 44,000 solar “microgenerators” who are currently exempt from business rates could be faced with a bill of hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds" (independent.co.uk)
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Greece calls for return of 'Elgin Marbles' to help fight rise of fascism in Europe: About half the sculptures from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple – stunning works of art created by the world’s first democracy after fighting off a Persian invasion – are in the British Museum (independent.co.uk)
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Erdoğan likens Europeans to dogs: A dog does not bite another dog; tells Dutch citizens of Turkish descent: You know what you will do in the elections, do you not?(turkishminute.com)
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Measles kills 17 unvaccinated children in Romania since September due to poverty and anti-vaccination movement (rte.ie)
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Russian blogger goes on trial for playing ‘Pokemon Go’ in a church, faces a possible sentence of 7 ½ years in prison if convicted (thehindu.com)
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Pope Francis may be ‘backsliding’ on paedophile priest crackdown, senior Catholic official warns (independent.co.uk)
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Syria's children "hit rock bottom" in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, Unicef has said. At least 652 children died 255 of them in or near a school last year, a 20% jump from the number killed during 2015. (bbc.com)
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Turkey's Erdogan calls on international organizations to impose sanctions on the Netherlands (reuters.com)
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Thousands of hectares of forests in indonesia's Mount Leuser National Park in North Sumatra and Aceh are reported to have been illegally encroached upon and converted into widespread plantations of oil palms, rubber trees, cacao trees and coffee plants (thejakartapost.com)
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