The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Phoenix police fire tear gas at anti-Trump protesters

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Thousands in Phoenix decry president as he holds the first event since deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.

#TrumpRally#Phoenix#PoliceState#Politics

 

Brazil scraps Amazon reserve to allow mining

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The government of Brazil has abolished a vast national reserve bigger than the size of Denmark to open the area to commercial mineral exploration, drawing sharp criticism from environmentalists and political opponents.

#Brazil#Amazon#Nature#Greed

 

SUPPORTERS, GOVERNMENT AWAIT VERDICT AGAINST THAI EX-PM

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The case is the latest chapter in a decade-long struggle by the nation’s elite minority to crush the powerful political machine founded by Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in another coup in 2006. Thaksin’s ouster triggered years of upheaval and division that has pitted a poor, rural majority in the north that supports the Shinawatras against royalists, the military, and their urban backers.

#Thailand #Politics #Coup #Economics

NASA wants to spend $3B drilling into a volcano to save the United States

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Unfortunately, it would eat up an estimated $3.46 billion for an organization whose budget just keeps getting slashed. Still, though, it’s a plan.

And if all else fails, it seems like a solid script for a cheesy summer action flick.

#Yellowstone #Science #SuperVolcano#NASA

 


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