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World News on April 18th, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
VietPress USA (April 18th, 2017):
Up to 2.5 million votes could have been manipulated in Sunday's Turkish referendum that ended in a close "yes" vote for greater presidential powers, an Austrian member of the Council of Europe observer mission said (reuters.com)
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Parents in Germany face $26,500 fine if they don’t destroy controversial ‘My Friend Cayla’ dolls: '...researchers found that the dolls were recording users’ and sending this information out to a third party specializing in voice-recognition for police and military forces' (consumerist.com)
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Saudi King Salman informed Russia his kingdom wants the Syrian president out of office (newsweek.com)
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Launched in FloridaSatellite built by undergraduate students launches into orbit without a hitch from Alberta, Canada(beta.theglobeandmail.com)
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Trump issues trade warning to Canada: "It's another typical one-sided deal against the United States and it's not going to be happening for long," (reuters.com)
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Paul Manafort Now Advising Chinese Billionaire On Trump Infrastructure Contracts: Pacific Construction Group wants in on the president’s $1 trillion plan, the Financial Times reports. (huffingtonpost.com)
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Lib Dems gain 1,000 members in just one hour after snap election is announced | The Independent (independent.co.uk)
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Bangkok Is Banning Street Food - One of the world’s most delicious destinations could change dramatically under a new crackdown on street vendors (smithsonianmag.com)
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‘Armada’ Trump claimed was deployed to North Korea actually heading to Australia - 'We are sending an armada. Very powerful. We have submarines. Very powerful,' Mr Trump said last week (independent.co.uk)
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Burkina Faso police have staged a nationwide protest, calling it the first in a series of peaceful demonstrations against corruption and a lack of transparency among their leaders (abcnews.go.com)
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Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor hailed as an "important discovery" (france24.com)
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