World News on Nov. 18, 2018

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Outrage over lions bred to be killed by deep-pocketed trophy hunters

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Behind Soft Paywall

China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real

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'Moral panic' targets Indonesia's LGBT community

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How China controls Hollywood scripts

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Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto

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The incredible U.S.-to-China 98% soybean nosedive

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'Out! Out!' Tijuana Protesters Call for Migrant Caravan to Leave

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Microsoft admits Cortana is an epic failure by shamelessly selling Amazon Echo Dot

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Man nicknamed "the Indiana Jones of the art world" has done it again - this time tracking down precious sixth-Century mosaic stolen from Cyprus. Finding 1,600-year-old piece in flat in Monaco felt very special, Dutchman Arthur Brand said. He handed work over to Cypriot embassy in The Hague.

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Trump

Trump says US should rake like Finland to avoid fires

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Australia PM's 'lewd' reply angers Anderson: Actress Pamela Anderson has criticised Australia's prime minister for making "smutty" remarks about her, after earlier asking him to help Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

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BBC bosses have become embroiled in a bizarre internal row over the censoring of women’s bodies after blurring an interviewee’s cleavage to avoid causing offence to viewers. BBC documentary was edited because of concerns over watershed rules in Africa, say bosses.

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Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles: Scientists have found the first evidence of plastic contamination in freshwater fish in the Amazon, highlighting the extent to which bags, bottles and other waste dumped in rivers is affecting the world’s wildlife.

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Ukraine: Police Watch Alt-Right Groups Attack LGBT Protesters - The army of activists met with violent alt-right demonstrators who attacked the group with smoke bombs and pepper spray.

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Saudis Deny Reported CIA Conclusion That Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Assassination

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China moves closer to allowing foreigners to control insurance ventures: China will accept applications early next year from foreign insurers seeking to take control of their local joint ventures and is even weighing giving them full ownership earlier than flagged.

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Trump

The people of Finland have trolled US President Donald Trump on social media after he suggested California should follow the Scandinavian country's lead and do more "raking" to prevent wildfires.

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Tonga has signed up to China's Belt and Road initiative and received a reprieve from Beijing on the timing of debt payments shortly before an onerous schedule to repay loans was due to start.

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The Royal Family faces a tax "nightmare" as US officials examine whether Meghan and Harry owe them a slice of their multi-million-pound fortune.

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South African Government Plan On Banning Private Medical Schemes

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Trump

Trump has privately called the Khashoggi assassination "really bad," but immediately adds that other countries do "a lot of bad things" -- and tells associates he thinks it's ridiculous that people are making so much of the Saudi murder of one man, given the brutal practices of countries like China.

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Painting handed in to Dutch embassy in Romania could be stolen Picasso

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Damien Hirst delivers controversy with giant uterus sculptures at Qatar hospital: Showpiece outside women’s healthcare centre culminates with 14-metre newborn which has previously raised eyebrows

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BBC in row over blurring cleavage of interviewee in Kenya

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Brace for corporate defaults as Chinese firms with dollar debts are ‘under increasing pressure’

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Nearly half of dementia patients in Japan put in restraints

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Hot air balloon loaded with fireworks explodes in Myanmar

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China tightens ban further on waste imports

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With Alan Garcia, Peru has now 5 living ex-presidents either in jail, in trial or escaping from justice (that's every single president since 1985, except Paniagua who was in office only for less than a year)

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Japan's exports recover but reports trade deficit in October

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Impact Crater Found Under The Ice Sheets of Greenland. May Be The Long Hoped For Smoking Gun That Caused The Younger Dryas

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Lesbian Chinese erotic writer Tianyi jailed for more than 10 years over gay sex scenes in novel

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Russia

VP Pence Stares Down Putin - Bolton Horns In

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Austerity and rampant drug dealing have created a “lost generation” of children living in fear of violence across the UK, police and former gang members have said.

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u/EnoughPM2020

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Tijuana protesters chant 'Out!' at migrants camped in city

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Israel/Palestine

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to call fresh elections amid growing pressure

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17-year-old Sophia Floersch survives horrific airborne crash at Macau Grand Prix

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