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At least 140 dead after oil tanker overturns and catches fire near Pakistani city Ahmedpur East, crowd had gathered to collect fuel when fire erupted, smoking at scene may have been fire cause according to rescue services

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China expands ambitious Silk Road project with Arctic strategy, new route could cut distance to Europe by a third
Total world population expected to be slightly less than 10 billion in 2050, Nigeria has fastest growth and becomes third most populous country, India to overtake China in seven years
Bavarian boys, 13 and 14 years old, suspected for firing plastic bullets from toy gun toward Thai king Rama X during the latter's vacation in Germany, king was hit while biking and was not injured
Canadian sniper breaks world record by killing IS terrorist from 3,540 meters using McMillan TAC-50 rifle
Trump launches intensive mediation efforts in Middle East by sending son-in-law Jared Kushner to hold peace talks between Israel and Palestine
US student Otto Warmbier dies after North Korea imprisonment, was returned in coma, previously sentenced to forced labor after stealing poster
Microsoft and Accenture launch blockchain-based proof of identity for refugees using both biometrical and personal information
Lockheed Martin working in India with local industrial giant Tata to manufacture F-16 jets, expects large order from government of India
UN issues warning that Israeli army exacerbates the Syrian war by steady and increasingly large support to Syrian rebels
Russia vows to track and treat US planes as targets in Syria following the downing of Syrian ditto, suspends hotline between the two powers

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Miscellaneous

Neapolitan mastiff Martha crowned World's ugliest dog, the contest in Petaluma, California celebrates the kind of dogs that never win beauty pageants
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, elects pitbull Brynneth Pawltro as mayor, fourth dog to be elected mayor in town, USD 1 charged per vote with unlimited voting where money usually goes toward town improvements
CIA contractors steal potato chips and chocolate bars worth USD 3,300 by breaking connection to payment system on vending machines
Exeter boys protest school uniform's ban on shorts by wearing skirts as UK experiences record heatwave
Unique sword from late middle ages found in excavation of Polish peat bog, completely intact except hilt which has decomposed
Powerful miniature crossbow adapted for firing of toothpicks new popular toy in China, concerns about damage causes bans in several cities
Rod Dreher: Genuinely unmodern Venice fantastic city that no one would plan, similar to Orthodox Christianity with rich Byzantine beauty
Sota Fujii wins 28th straight shogi match, now tied for the all time record, already holds the record for youngest professional player, says mainly he's just been lucky
Aggressive orcas harass, rob and pursue fishing boats in Bering Sea, compared to motorcycle gangs by fishers, reports indicate related financial losses amount to USD 500 per day
Josh Herring: Greek and Nordic mythology milestones of essential knowledge but inferiority to Christianity evident in views of tragedy, while Greeks placed it in mythical past and Northerners in the far future, Christianity makes it both present and hopeful

Media

Amazon plans charging 2.8 million USD for 30 second ads during NFL games, invests in sports to attract customers to website and Prime service
Wall Street Journal fires chief foreign correspondent Jay Solomon for having business deal with one of his sources, Iranian business man Farhad Azima
Afghanistan TV channel ZAN focuses on women's rights, 54 of 70 employees are female, since 2001 country has gone from one state owned channel to 76 different alternatives
Media channels with higher ratio of original content get more traffic according to study of dataset with 2.5 million French articles from 2013
BBC regrets headline "Three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem" describing terror attack where Israeli policewoman was killed and at least four were injured
Saudi Arabia bans hotels and tourist facilities from airing Al Jazeera news channels, violators could be punished with fine of up to USD 26,000
CNN breaks off production relationship with Reza Aslan after he posts profane tweet criticizing Trump's promotion of travel ban following London terror attack
Wall Street Journal loses 44% of readers coming via Google after adding paywall for them too, quadruples share converting from free to paying readers
Facebook to create "hostile environment" for terrorists spreading propaganda, wants to provide service where users feel safe, measures proposed in statement after London attack
SoundCloud bans Richard Spencer's podcast alt-right Radio, content found to violate terms of service after examination initiated by Twitter user

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Politics

Tom Bailey: Disruption of play with Trump as Caesar shows US right-wing has adopted mentality of left, same tactic as when leftists stop speakers on university campuses
Previously world-leading HIV program collapses as Venezuela government lack funds for medicine, caused by politics of Hugo Chavez according to Stephanie Nolen
Indian opposition names political veteran and dalit Meira Kumar as presidential candidate, challenges ruling BJP candidate Ram Nath Kovind who is also dalit
Serbian president appoints Ana Brnabić to form government, becomes world's fifth openly gay head of government if approved
Gad Saad interviews Swedish MP Hanif Bali, talks about immigration and the consequences of political correctness
Emmanuel Macron's party La République en marche wins alongside its allies majority of seats in France's National Assembly, estimated voter turnout of 42% a record low
Jacob Shapiro: Secession referenda in Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan share similar situations and historic relations to the state they belong to, primary difference is the latter's will to die for their independence
Title character Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play portrayed by man similar-looking to Trump in version performed in Central Park, New York – wife Calpurnia resembles Melania and speaks with Slavic accent
Italy's four major parties agree on new 5% vote threshold for parliament representation, minor parties oppose the law expected to be passed early July
UK Prime Minister Theresa May open to tax social media, intended to increase computer security and make Internet safer for children and young people

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Opinion

Giulio Meotti: IS terrorists loses fight over Caliphate but wins cultural war, ground lost in Mosul but gained in Manchester
Martin Eriksson in Tom Woods Show: Libertarians seeking to change society as a whole should start by becoming entrepreneurs and get involved in local community rather than in politics, only then can we become a force for positive change in society
JM Smith: Fastest way to lose the culture war is to deny ones own cultural monuments and not admit that the other side are barbarians
Nick Land: Modernity is slaying itself through feminism's and urbanization's effect on fertility, having children seen as conservative eccentricity
Ron Paul: Cold War nostalgia on the rise, Trump's rollback of Obama's successful Cuba politics and aggressive stance on Russia telling signs
Ryan Walters: The Left's Soviet-like crusade on the Confederacy and its culture caused by hate of decentralization, property rights and other Jeffersonian principles
Paul Craig Roberts: American downing of Syrian fighter jet shows that US is protecting IS terrorists, Putin should learn that deals with Washington are worthless
Linh Dinh: US politics and Mexican theater wrestling strikingly similar — both are rigged events where people are fooled to take rabid stance for different marionettes
Benjamin Welton: Not first time US is at war with Islam, the religion's view on infidels has caused many attacks on US commercial interests which has led to counterattacks, has often been used for geopolitical purposes as an animating force of opposition to the West
David Hines: Right cannot win as long as leftists are better at practical organization, pro-life activists and gun lobby important pioneers in competing for real power

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Europe

Turkey cuts teaching evolution from high school curriculum, calls it a controversial topic which students need firm ground before approaching, new curriculum to emphasize national values and highlight contributions made by Turkish and Muslim scholars
One arrested during police raid against paramilitary training camp in German Thüringen, said to be connected to Europäische Aktion, which sees states formed after WW2 as illegitimate (German)
Germany changes constitution to end government funding of anti-democratic political parties, Justice Minister Maas calls devoting tax money to the NPD "a direct state investment in radical right-wing incitement"
Green energy considerations behind Grenfell Towers getting flammable cladding, goal was to lower building's energy consumption
Gorazd Velkovski: Erdoğan's expansionist plans suspended in Balkans, calls for calm and refuses to support Albania as his enemy Gülen has increased influence in country, strategy brings Turkey closer to Russia
EU officials acknowledge that latest migrant wave did not consist of refugees but rather economic migrants without right to reside in Europe, clear efforts at several EU levels for closing borders
Three arrested on suspicion of Jihad activity in Madrid ahead of World Pride 2017, one of which thought to be very dangerous with ties to IS terrorists
Four British orienteers arrested in Finland after illegally crossing the Russian border to drink beer, are expected to be fined
German police raid 36 homes because of hateful Facebook posts, most cases political commentaries
52% of voters in Moutier, Switzerland support leaving Protestant canton Bern and joining Catholic region Jura, may lead way for redrawing of more borders within country

North America

TSA employee fired after stealing cash from luggage and being caught on tape
Alabama high-school teacher sparks outrage with summer reading list including titles such as "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder" and "Trickle Up Poverty", school retracts list
Chattanooga, TN most Bible-minded city in US, followed by other Southern cities; Albany, Boston and Manchester, NH have lowest appreciation of Bible, according to study with 76 000 participants
Oregon governor repeals law on harvesting roadkill meat, was previously only allowed for licensed furtrappers and for limited number of species
Young men create new boom for plastic surgery in US, most common reasons for surgery said to be increasing self-esteem, pleasing a partner and looking less tired and stressed
Grizzly bears no longer endangered in US, population in continental US now 700, before 1850 it was about 50,000
Former US diplomatic officer charged with giving top-secret documents to China, claims he met representative for Chinese think-tank during trips to Shanghai
New Jersey only US state to ban for-profit sales of home-baked goods after Wisconsin legalizes
Students at Linfield College have free speech event canceled and are accused of "white nationalism" because of doodle of cartoon frog
Policeman stabbed in airport in Flint, Michigan, assailant shouted "Allahu Akbar" before the attack

Latin America

Next year's Rio de Janeiro carnival threatened by budget cuts, new Evangelical mayor wants to use funds for school meals but is accused of acting from conservative values
Three men awarded right to marry each other in Colombia, government said to be extremely liberal in matters of sexuality
Venezuela narrowly avoids OAS resolution which would have forbidden plan to abolish constitution, critical support received from Caribbean island nations dependent on country's oil industry
Maduro asks Supreme Court to prepare prosecution of Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz, despite being outside of court's authority, points to deeper split among rulers
2,186 murder investigations in Mexico during May, highest monthly number since 1997, large part related to illegal drug industry, expected to hurt incumbent president i next year's election
Maduro slams Twitter as fascist for suspending thousands of his supporters' accounts and calls for tweeting pictures of company's Venezuela head, president's salsa music show among blocked accounts
Venezuela's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega says her family has received phone threats and been followed by intelligence agents after she criticized Maduro, regime has previously questioned her mental sanity
Peru asks Ecuador to stop building wall along border between countries, says it can cause flooding and hurt cross-border integration
Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83 after brain tumor surgery
Venezuela opposition accuses Goldman Sachs of aiding regime after report shows bank has bought USD 2.8 billion in bonds from state companies

Asia

At least 140 dead after oil tanker overturns and catches fire near Pakistani city Ahmedpur East, crowd had gathered to collect fuel when fire erupted, smoking at scene may have been fire cause according to rescue services
At least 120 missing after landslide in Sichuan, China buries 40 homes
At least 40 dead in Pakistan after bomb attacks in cities Quetta and Parachinar, splinter group of Pakistani Taliban and IS terrorists claim responsibility for first attack
India most reliable military and infrastructure partner for Afghanistan, according to Pentagon report, countries united in enmity toward common neighbor Pakistan
Controversial dog meat festival in Yulin, China takes place despite discontented local authorities and rumors of prohibition
Relocation of classic Tokyo fish market Tsukiji may happen as early as May 2018 according to governor Yuriko Koike who also wars about possible delays due to poisoned water at new marketplace must be dealt with first
Spandrell: Liberal republic expected after crisis in Singapore's Lee dynasty, sons of Lee Kuan Yew weaklings controlled by wives who hate each other, daughter hopeless social justice warrior, grandson Li Hongyi only hope but has expressed disinterest in ruling
Ishikawa Governor Masanori Tanimoto retracts earlier comment that Japan should cut off supplies to North Korea in order to starve country's population to death, says human lives should be respected but effective countermeasures must be put in place to stop North Korean aggressions
Members of Singapore ruling dynasty circumvent state controlled press and use social media to advance views and debate each other, feel limited by rules implemented by themselves
Protests for an independent Gorkhaland resumed in Darjeeling, involved violent clashes between police and protesters

Middle East

Israel attacks tanks in Syria with air strike after mortar fire strikes Golan Heights
Saudi security forces arrest five members of terror cell planning attack on Grand Mosque area in Mecca according to interior ministry, suicide bomber blows himself up after being discovered and injures eleven
Turkey nationalizes Christian churches and places in Midyat, violation of Lausanne treaty article that protects religious buildings, according to Christian communities that have filed court case
Qatar receives list of 13 Saudi conditions for resuming diplomatic relations, includes shutting down al-Jazeera, cutting ties with Iran and handing over wanted terrorists
Kamran Bokhari: Naming of Mohammed bin Salman as new Saudi crown prince expected but unfortunate, new and younger heir lacks experience to deal with increasingly dangerous situation
Jewish temple in Jerusalem vandalized, mentally ill ultra-orthodox jew spray-painted swastikas on walls, tried to set Torah books on fire
Israeli airline El Al not allowed to ask female passengers to switch seats to accommodate ultra-orthodox male passengers who do not wish to sit next to women, according to court decision
Leading politicians in Iran threaten to depose Donald Trump if conflict between countries continues
IS terrorists destroy 800-year-old al-Nuri mosque in Mosul with its iconic leaning minaret, US rejects terror group's claim that air strike caused destruction
Saudi Arabia deports 15,000 camels and 10,000 sheep to Qatar as diplomatic spat deepens, common for Qataris to let livestock graze in Saudi Arabia due to Qatar’s small amount of pastoral land

Africa

Botswana ex-president Sir Ketumile Masire dead at age 91
Zimbabwe riot police evict white farmer to give farm to black bishop, more than 15,000 local villagers protest eviction and vow to protest future ones due to wanting the land for themselves, two reporting journalists detained
Famine in South Sudan over says UN, was first official famine in world since 2011
Around half the food aid sent to Nigeria refugees not delivered, according to government blaming theft — millions of people in the north risk starvation
Nigerian vice president threatens growing secessionist movement of Biafra with full force of the law, president Buhari treated in London for unknown illness
Zambia's president Edgar Lungu receives USD 1.2 billion rescue package from IMF despite increasing totalitarianism — has suspended oppositional MPs and arrested opposition leader
Former president Thabo Mbeki tells South Africans to refrain from criticizing Mugabe, compares such statements with colonialism, references right of each nation to choose own leader
Uganda runs out of passports following surge in labor export to Middle East, only issued in emergency cases
South African mining industry threatened by proposed higher black ownership requirements and increased taxation, the producers' Chamber of Mines prepared to fight the plan in court already next week
At least two dead after terrorist attack against luxury resort outside Malian Bamako, one of the dead French national while the other unknown, situation under control according to security ministry spokesperson

Economy

US halts imports of fresh beef from Brazil after failed tests for food safety, largest importer China not expected to follow suite since mostly frozen meat is imported
McDonald's announces electronic kiosks to replace human cashiers in 2,500 US restaurants, expected savings makes stock hit all time high
Price of Ethereum on GDAX exchange sees flash crash, price down to 10 cent from 318 dollars, suspicions of market manipulation by single actor rejected by GDAX
Subsidies of electric cars ineffective way of decreasing emission of greenhouse gases, up to 29 times more expensive than market price of carbon dioxide, better both economically and environmentally to decrease or abolish subsidies according to study by Canadian think tank MEI
Chinese bike sharing company Wukong Bike forced to close operations since 90% av a total of 1,200 bikes disappear in five months
George Soros believes economic downturn will stop Brexit from happening, banks have underestimated inflation, Theresa May should take new line to remain in power
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns under pressure from investors, company is accused of having toxic internal culture and now has four C-level vacancies
Canada launches two dollar coins which glow in the dark and depict canoeists enjoying northern lights, commemorates 150th anniversary of country's founding
Switzerland, Iceland and Norway Europe's most expensive countries, price levels 61, 47 and 40% over EU average respectively according to Eurostat comparison (German)
Takata rumored to plan filing for bankruptcy, has USD 9 billion in liabilities due to recall of 100 million defect airbags, would be the biggest bankruptcy in Japanese manufacturing industry since WWII

Technology

Google stops scanning email for targeting ads, keeps using numerous other sources
Research on moth eyes could improve anti-reflective properties of computer screens by factor ten, according to researchers in Florida and Taiwan
Oil companies collect increasing amounts of data about drilling, weather and earthquakes through sensors, parallel computational capacity of graphics processors used more often to process data and enable "deep learning" and simulations
Airbus shows concept helicopter with wings and side rotors but without tail rotor, can fly over 400 kilometers per hour at high fuel efficiency
ProtonMail launches free VPN service with optional Tor integration
European parliament proposes demand for encryption of electronic communication and ban on government backdoors, says Europeans need better protection and integrity on the internet
Chinese company CHJ Automotive to launch electric car to compete with Tesla, vehicle measures 2.5 times 1 meter and has exchangeable battery
Atari is working on Ataribox, company's first game console since 1993
US authorities repeatedly tried to bribe messaging app Telegram's developers, says founder Pavel Durov, who suspects back door in partly publicly financed encryption in Signal, Facebook and WhatsApp
Intel warns companies to emulate the proprietary X86, Microsoft and Qualcomm have just demonstrated Windows 10 running ARM processor and emulating win32 applications

Science

Sci-Hub sentenced to pay USD 15 million in damages to Elsevier by New York federal court, Association of American Publishers happy that court did not mistake illegal activity for public good
Male mice exposed to paracetamol in womb less aggressive and sexually active and have lower testosterone levels, according to Danish study, parallel to humans not unlikely
Birds who are good at flying have more elliptic eggs, according to Princeton research which contradicts previous notion that egg shape was adapted to nests
European Space Agency approves mission to study gravitational waves in space after decades of delays and development, launch expected in 2034
Older men more likely to have sons with higher IQ, focus on special interests and more reserved personality, according to British study of 8,000 twins
Trials on mice indicates olive oil protects the brain against Alzheimer's disease, study of mice's brain tissue showed that mice that received olive oil had lower levels of amyloid plaque and had better communication between neurons
Test results of Finnish conscripts born between 1962 and 1976 show positive trends in characteristics associated with high income, similar to Flynn effect for IQ according to article in PNAS
Vaccine targeting endogenous PCSK9 enzyme tested on 72 human volunteers to evaluate cholesterol-lowering effect and safety, trials on mice lowered LDL cholesterol by 50% over a year
Ethanol synthesis from carbon dioxide using copper catalyst novel environmentally friendly method developed at Stanford
Quality time with present father inversely correlated to girls' propensity for risky sexual activity, according to empirical study of separated biological sisters controlling for genetics

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