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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a media-savvy man, and he has just pressed the button he knew would make headlines: Saudi women will be able to drive for the first time in the history of the kingdom. And the act begat the headlines and the headlines b ...[Read more]
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The Leuser ecosystem spans 2.6m hectares into the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra. Itâs the only place in the world where tigers, orangutans, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild. But itâs under threat from agricultural indust ...[Read more]
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A new video claims that scientists in China have created a working prototype of the 'impossible' fuel-free engine.
The radical EmDrive has been hypothesised for years by Nasa, but the space agency has been unable to create a working version.
If the physic ...[Read more]
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The Kurdish region in Iraq held a "referendum" about splitting off from Iraq to form an independent state. The referendum was highly irregular and the outcome was assured. That such a referendum was held now had more to do with the beleaguered situation o ...[Read more]
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Israeli strategists have long wished to break up surrounding countries into smaller units so that Israel could more easily dominate the region. The Forward describes how Israel, beginning with Ben Gurion, has helped the Kurdish separatist movement... ...[Read more]
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Last friday, most major media outlets touted a major story about Russian attempts to hack into U.S. voting systems, based exclusively on claims made by the Department of Homeland Security. “Russians attempted to hack elections systems in 21 states in th ...[Read more]
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China, whose health system has improved steadily in recent years, said that equal health access is a "precondition for the survival of humanity."
The Chinese government published a document on Friday analyzing public health development, stressing that hea ...[Read more]
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Air Force documents submitted to Congress in 2015 note that the U.S. “negotiated an agreement with the government of Niger to allow for the construction of a new runway and all associated pavements, facilities, and infrastructure adjacent to the Niger A ...[Read more]
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The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but h ...[Read more]
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But populist challenger Randall Woodfin, a 36-year-old former board of education president endorsed by the Bernie Sanders-backed campaign group Our Revolution, topped Bell in the first round of voting in August. On Tuesday night, Woodfin finished the job ...[Read more]
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"RT has been Google's premium partner since 2010 and accredited to an official status of the most watched TV news network on YouTube. The fact that RT is no longer included in the Google Preferred advertising list in the US in itself does not affect RT di ...[Read more]
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