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Friday, April 21, 2017
VietPress USA (April 21st, 2017):
Angela Merkel reportedly had to explain the 'fundamentals' of EU trade to Trump 11 times (businessinsider.com)
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The FBI gathered intelligence in the summer of 2016 confirming Russian operatives tried to influence Trump's team — not just the election itself (axios.com)
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March for Science: Rallies worldwide to protest against political interference - Thousands of scientists are protesting in hundreds of cities around the world against what they see as a global political assault on facts. (bbc.co.uk)
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A jailed critic of Philippine Duterte praised police who alleged in a Reuters report that officers received cash for executing drug suspects, and said an international criminal case should be filed against the president for crimes against humanity (reuters.com)
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North Korea: 'US has now gone seriously mad' -- US strike group to arrive off Korean peninsula in days amid concerns the North is ramping up for a sixth nuclear test. (aljazeera.com)
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Nato intercepting highest number of Russian military planes since the Cold War as 780 incidents recorded in 2016 (independent.co.uk)
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Isis leader behind Turkey nightclub attack is killed by US forces in secretive raid (theguardian.com)
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French social media flooded fake news stories from sources 'exposed to Russian influence' ahead of presidential election (independent.co.uk)
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Britain First leader is slammed for posting 'video of Muslims in London rejoicing at the Paris attacks' which was actually a Pakistani cricket celebration from 2009 (dailymail.co.uk)
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Investigators ‘confident’ they have found ‘most likely’ location of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 (independent.co.uk)
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As US prioritises Julian Assange arrest, UK hints Sweden comes first: Sweden’s existing warrant to extradite Assange over a sexual assault allegation would be the first consideration for the British gov't if he were to leave the Ecuadorean embassy (theguardian.com)
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Russian man gets longest-ever US hacking sentence, 27 years in prison: Roman Seleznev bankrupted businesses, did $170 million in damage. (arstechnica.com)
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Afghanistan: 140 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack on army base in Mazar-I-Sharif (livemint.com)
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A member of Russian Parliament is outraged after his son was handed down a sentence of 27 years in prison for computer hacking crimes in the US. (bbc.com)
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Rare parchment copy of US Declaration of Independence found in England - Two Harvard researchers have found only the second known parchment copy of America’s formative text in a West Sussex archive (theguardian.com)
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Pollution from Europe helped cause a drought in India that was one of the country’s worst ever natural disasters, affecting more than 130 million people, according to new research. (independent.co.uk)
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Tory ministers laugh at Jeremy Corbyn when he questions rising poverty in the UK (independent.co.uk)
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China’s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 docks as planned with orbiting space lab | Unmanned cargo spacecraft completes first stage of historic mission with successful satellite-guided coupling to orbiting laboratory (scmp.com)
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