WORLD STORIES - 11/26/2018

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Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions..

theguardian.com
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Anti-Abortion Laws are Killing, Torturing Women: The U.N. has declared that access to legal and safe abortion is intimately linked to "the right to be free from torture," a right denied by many states..

telesurenglish.net
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Amazon 'dumbfounded' police in Spain by asking them to intervene in a mass warehouse strike and patrol worker productivity.

nordic.businessinsider.com
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Ocasio-Cortez on border tensions: Applying for refugee status isn't a crime.

thehill.com
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Children 'Screaming and Coughing in the Mayhem' as Trump Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico.

commondreams.org
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Trump’s Christian Apologists Are Unchristian.

slate.com
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An ability to perceive and empathize with others' pain is rooted in cognitive neural processes instead of sensory ones, according to a new study. Suggesting that empathy is a deliberative process that requires taking another person's perspective rather than being an instinctive, automatic process.

dailycamera.com
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Scientists have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide – the main cause of global warming – into plastics, fabrics, resins and other products. The discovery, based on the chemistry of artificial photosynthesis, is detailed in the journal Energy & Environmental Science..

news.rutgers.edu
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Children mirror the weight gain and losses of their mothers but not their fathers, a study has found. Scientists looked at activity levels of 4,400 children and their parents over 11 years to discover if there was a link in their weights..

telegraph.co.uk
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DATE: 11/26/2018