Paramedics to get police-style body-cameras - Figures show that more than 15% of UK National Health Service workers have suffered physical violence from patients or their families in the past year.

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A town in Mexico overthrew their local government. Things couldn’t be going better.

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A student may have found a solution to one of the world’s most urgent environmental crises – breeding bacteria capable of “eating” plastic and potentially breaking it down into harmless by-products. The microbes degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) – one of the world’s most common plastics.

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U.S. still hasn't received soldiers’ remains from North Korea, says Pompeo: Despite President Donald Trump’s boast at a rally that he had secured the remains of U.S. troops killed during the Korean War, his secretary of state says North Korea is yet to send any.

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US ambassador to Estonia quits over Donald Trump's EU comments: James D. Melville, Washington's ambassador to Estonia, wrote that he hopes the US "will someday return to being right." Melville is the latest in a line of senior diplomats to step down over Trump's treatment of allies

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Venezuela: Inflation hits more than 40,000%, investors dump currency

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Protesters in cities around the world joined the thousands of people marching in U.S. cities against President Trump's immigration policies.

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Facebook still evasive over Cambridge Analytica and fake news - UK lawmakers

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There has been a surge in UK citizens acquiring the nationality of another EU country since the Brexit referendum

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DR Congo to allow oil drilling in two national parks listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites and home to mountain gorillas, bonobos and other rare species

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Africa’s last monarchy, eSwatini – formerly known as Swaziland – will celebrate gay pride in the nation's first LGBT event on Saturday, despite open criticism from the public and the risk of arrest. "This will be the first time this community has been able to come together in public."

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Scientists have found the 'building blocks' for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Sixty years ago the Thames Estuary was regarded as "biologically dead" and largely devoid of wildlife. But, in recent years seals have returned to the Thames as well as to the coastal and low-lying lands bordering the estuary. Last year, scientists recorded more than 3,500 harbour and grey seals.

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Donald Tusk, the European Council president, warns to prepare for “worst-case scenarios” as relations with the US rapidly deteriorate - Senior EU officials are anticipating a new American doctrine in which there are “no friends, only enemies”

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New Zealand: majority of callers to new sexual harm helpline are teenage girls - A nationwide sexual harm helpline in New Zealand has received more than 1,200 phone calls in its first month of operation; the majority of them teenage girls aged 13-19.

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Pentagon quietly changes mission statement it has held for over 20 years - The change occurred sometime this year and was altered to exclude the directive to “deter war”

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Christine Todd Whitman: Oil industry is 'peddling misinformation' about electric vehicles

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Mexico Asks U.N. to Intervene on Family Separation by U.S.

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French cement giant Lafarge charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorist organization for paying millions to jihadist groups to keep factory in Syria open during war...first time company anywhere in world charged with complicity in crimes against humanity.

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To Protect Children From Trump Border Policy, Canadian Youth Refugee Choir Cancels US Performance

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North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials

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Russian TV boasts about electing Trump ahead of summit with Putin.

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Virgin airlines says it will no longer help to deport immigrants

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UN migration agency rejects Trump's nominee to head the body.

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Post-election Crackdown: Erdogan Detains 324 Security Staff in 24 Hours

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Decades of American leadership at the United Nations migration agency was broken on Friday as voters rejected President Donald Trump's nominee for director general, electing Portuguese politician Antonio Vitorino instead

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Overworked Japan caps overtime at 100 hours a month

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Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: 'We will not back down'

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A great white shark has been spotted in a marine park in Spain’s Balearic Islands, in the first confirmed sighting of the predator in Spanish waters for more than four decades.

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UK: Current and former members of the Mormon Church are calling for an end to the practice of asking children as young as eight intimate and sexual questions during annual interviews by church officials.

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German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017 - fired a total of 75 times at people

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North Korea upgrades nuclear facility despite Trump-Kim summit, satellite images show

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Luxembourg Is Latest EU Country to Legalise Medical Cannabis

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Europe targets full separation from Russia's power grid

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Trump suggested to Macron that France should leave the EU: report

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Trump has repeatedly told staff he wants to quit the WTO

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U.S. ends 70 years of military presence in South Korean capital.

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Puerto Rico introduces bill to become U.S. state by 2021.

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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.

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Kim Jong Un orders execution of Senior Lieutenant General for giving extra food rations to colleagues and their families.

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'No one is beyond our reach': Canada joins 5-nation alliance to fight tax crime globally | CBC News

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North Korea 'executes officer who jumped gun on peace on peninsula'

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Trump claims Russia couldn’t have meddled in the election because Russia says it didn’t: "Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!"

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Canada Reassures Citizens There Will Be Enough Weed For Everyone on October 17th

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Donald Trump’s closest confidants were willing to exchange inside information about US government appointments with Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to Washington, a new set of leaked emails has revealed.

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11-yr-old from PoK crosses into India by mistake, sent back with sweets, new clothes

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Trump-Putin meeting set for July 16 in Helsinki, Finland

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China is testing drones that look and fly like real birds to monitor citizens

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Trump told G-7 leaders that ‘NATO is as bad as NAFTA’: report

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Moldovans denounce ‘dictatorship’ as court invalidates election results in which the opposition won

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