Right-wing Israelis stage BBQ outside prison to taunt Palestinian hunger strikers
Activists from an Israeli right-wing movement, Ichud Leumi, have organized a free barbecue outside a military prison in the West Bank where Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike.
rt.com
BP oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, scientists find in first-ever financial evaluation of spill’s impact
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
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European Court of Human Rights cannot challenge Turkish referendum results – Erdogan
Challenging the results of Turkey’s referendum that extended the president’s powers is well beyond the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that the issue is “over.”
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Deadly Paris Attack Halts Campaigning Before French Election
The murder of a policeman on the Champs-Elysees has forced an early end to campaigning for the leading candidates in France’s presidential election as they head into Sunday’s first-round of voting with the race wide open.
bloomberg.com
Naked mole rats can survive without oxygen using plant sugar tactic
They feel no pain, don’t get cancer and look like baggy-skinned sausages with teeth: the naked mole rat is already famously weird. Now scientists have discovered what could be the subterranean rodents’ strangest trait yet: they can survive without oxygen by switching to a metabolic strategy normally used by plants.
theguardian.com
Russia bans Jehovah's Witnesses and labels group as extremists
Russia’s supreme court has banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses from operating in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group.
theguardian.com
Stroke and dementia risk linked to artificial sweeteners, study suggests
Consuming a can a day of low- or no-sugar soft drink is associated with a much higher risk of having a stroke or developing dementia, researchers claim.
theguardian.com
Thai police arrest man smuggling semen into Laos
Thai police have arrested a man attempting to smuggle six vials of human semen into Laos.
bbc.com
Cameroon ends internet shutdown on orders of President Paul Biya
Internet services in Cameroon's English-speaking regions have been turned back on three months after they were cut off following protests.
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