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Wealth of richest 1% 'equal to other 99%' The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam
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| Jan.28 |
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Zika virus: Up to four million Zika cases predicted  | Three to four million people could be infected with Zika in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization predicts | |
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 Julian Assange 'will surrender' if UN rules against him| Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will turn himself over to UK police on Friday if a UN panel rules he has not been unlawfully detained | |
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Julian Assange is being 'arbitrarily held', UN panel to say| A UN panel will conclude Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being 'arbitrarily detained' in the UK, the Swedish foreign ministry has said | |
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| Feb.11 |
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Gravitational waves from black holes detected | Scientists observed the warping of space-time generated by the collision of two black holes more than a billion light-years from Earth | |
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Polluted air causes 5.5m deaths a year More than 5.5 million people worldwide are dying prematurely every year as a result of air pollution, according to new research
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Amnesty highlights 'disturbing rise' in global executions Amnesty International: A surge of the executions recorded worldwide saw more people put to death last year than at any point since 1989
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| Apr.20 |
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Zika virus: 2.2 billion people in 'at risk' areas More than two billion people live in parts of the world where the Zika virus can spread, detailed maps published in the journal eLife show
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| May.15 |
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 Billion people face global flooding risk by 2060, charity warns A British aid charity is warning that by 2060 a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change
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| May.18 |
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Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds'| Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says | |
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Zika outbreak fuelled by mosquito control failure, says WHO boss The spread of Zika is the price being paid for a massive policy failure on mosquito control, says World Health Organization leader Margaret Chan
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| May.25 |
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Oil hits $50 a barrel for first time this year The price of oil has gone above $50 a barrel for the first time in 2016 as supply disruptions and increased global demand continue to fuel a recovery
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Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike  Map of Fort Leavenworth Kansas Kansas The soldier jailed for passing data to WikiLeaks, has ended a hunger strike because the army has agreed to provide her with gender transition surgery
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World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years' The Living Planet assessment suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020
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