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Yahoo Daily News | 2015-07-17

Typhoon Nangka kills at least two, wreaks havoc as crosses Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Nangka barreled across the western end of Japan's largest main island on Friday, snarling transport, leaving at least two men dead...

Dawn | 2015-07-17

Obama becomes first US president to visit prison

EL RENO: Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison on Thursday, amid a push to reform America’s expensive and overcrowded...

Dawn | 2015-07-17

Deal reached on development financing

ADDIS ABABA: Rich nations and developing countries on Thursday reached a deal on financing the next 15 years of global sustainable development, in what was...

Dawn | 2015-07-17

Europe moves to restore funding to Greece

ATHENS: Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy on Thursday, hours after a fractious Greek parliament approved a tough bailout programme in...

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CounterPunch | 2015-07-17

Recovering from the Civil War: Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s “Balm”

Though her novels have mostly focused on the lives of black people, Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s unique...

The Guardian | 2015-07-17

Pluto will always beat prisons when it comes to tax money

The two headlines were next to each other. “Prisons worst for 10 years”, and “Snow on Pluto”. The juxtaposition may seem unfair, but how to react? Presumably to the first with anger, and the second with excitement. Compared with the remorseless grime of humans, astronomy offered an escape, a cause for joy, a vision of futurity. Stephen Hawking congratulated the Pluto team. “We explore because we are human beings,” he said, “and we want to know.” ...

The Guardian | 2015-07-17

Let’s make Britain wild again and find ourselves in nature

When the robin was voted the UK’s national bird last month, we chose to celebrate half of a broken relationship. The robin evolved to make use of wild boar, preying on the worms and insects exposed by their grubbing. It is to the boar what the oxpecker is to the Cape buffalo. But boar are mostly absent from the UK, so the robin’s survival depends on finding the next best thing: human gardeners. You and I are just fake pigs. ...

CounterPunch | 2015-07-16

Obama’s War in South Sudan

The genocidal war being waged in South Sudan today is “Obama’s War”. Why? Because the Obama regime...