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Bangladesh development threatens fragile Sundarbans mangroves
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» DHAKA - Bangladesh's rapid development on the doorstep of the ecologically fragile Sundarbans mangrove forest means "environmental disasters" like this month's oil spill in the massive delta are increasingly likely, experts warn.
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India tables 'biggest tax reform' since independence
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» NEW DELHI - India's government introduced legislation Friday billed as the biggest tax reform since independence, with analysts hailing it as a "game changer" that would cut the cost of doing business and boost economic growth.
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China court raps clinic over 'gay conversion' therapy
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» BEIJING - A Beijing court Friday ordered a psychological clinic to pay compensation to a homosexual man for administering electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual, an unprecedented ruling on so-called conversion therapy.
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Scientists make strides in tsunami warning since 2004
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» MIAMI - The 2004 tsunami led to greater global cooperation and improved techniques for detecting waves that could reach faraway shores, even though scientists still cannot predict when an earthquake will strike.
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EU needs years-long Russia strategy, new leader warns
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» The European Union must thrash out a strategy for Russia that lasts for many years, and looks past sanctions that have hammered Moscow's economy, the bloc's new leader Donald Tusk warned Thursday.
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Apple suppliers accused of poor treatment of workers
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» LONDON - Workers in Chinese factories making Apple products are poorly treated, with exhausted employees falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts, British broadcaster the BBC found in an investigation broadcast.
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British VIP abuse ring inquiry probes boys' murders
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» LONDON - An inquiry into an alleged powerful ring of child abusers in the British establishment of the 1970s and 1980s is investigating the murders of three young boys, police said on Thursday.
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Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» KUUJJUARAPIK (CANADA) - Word spread quickly: a polar bear, then two, were spotted near this remote Inuit village on the shores of Hudson Bay, about 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north of Montreal.
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Eight children found dead at Australian property
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» Eight children ranging from babies to teenagers were found dead at a home in the Australian city of Cairns Friday, police said, reportedly in a gruesome mass stabbing just days after a deadly siege in Sydney.
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Death threats to Sydney siege gunman's lawyers, magistrate
AFP, Published on 19/12/2014
» Lawyers who defended the Sydney siege gunman on a string of charges and the magistrate who bailed him have received deaths threats, officials said Friday, amid growing anger that he was on the streets.
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