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Saturday, April 08, 2017
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European Parliament calls for strict rules for palm oil entering the EU market to tackle deforestation and unsustainable palm oil production (neweurope.eu)
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Isis kills dozens of civilians caught attempting to flee Mosul and hangs bodies up on electricity poles (independent.co.uk)
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, called for a cap on executive pay and fiscal transparency at the companies in which it invests, further buffing its reputation as an ethical investor. (france24.com)
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U.S. military is investigating whether Russia bombed a hospital in Syria in order to destroy evidence of this week’s chemical attack attributed to Assad’s forces (salon.com)
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Stockholm attack driver 'deliberately targeted young children' as he drove hijacked lorry into crowd, witnesses claimed(telegraph.co.uk)
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Hacker Group Releases Password To NSA’s “Top Secret Arsenal” In Protest Of Trump Betrayal (southfront.org)
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Influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, also calling on Washington and Moscow to stop intervening in the conflict. (france24.com)
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At Least 15 Killed in Suspected U.S.-led Airstrike Near Raqqa, Syrian Observatory Says. Children Among The Casualties(haaretz.com)
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Jared Kushner hid dozens of meetings with Russians from his application for top-secret security clearance: His lawyer argues Kushner simply forgot (salon.com)
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14,000-year-old village unearthed on B.C. island by UVic student. Oldest Settlement in North America. (vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca)
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Donald Trump’s Syria air strikes will not reduce Assad’s military capability, experts say (independent.co.uk)
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Protesters hurling rocks clashed with police firing tear gas Saturday in Venezuela's fourth demonstration in a week against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. (sg.news.yahoo.com)
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North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield were "an unforgivable act of aggression" that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was "the right choice a million times over" (reuters.com)
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Basque militants ETA surrender arms to French police effectively ending an armed separatist campaign after almost half a century (reuters.com)
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Air strikes killed at least 18 people including five children in a town in Syrian rebel-controlled Idlib province on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the civil defense rescue service reported. The death toll from the air strikes in Urum al-Joz was expected to rise (reuters.com)
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