American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the companies’ concerns about legal liability.
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NASA has decided to bet on 3D printing. However it doesn’t plan to design huge pieces for its spacecrafts, but to create food in order to combat hunger in space and on Earth.
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Monsanto is a billion multinational Pesticide-’n-Frankenfood corporation that has moved on from selling Agent Orange to its new business of patenting actual seed genomes and then suing farmers who try to grow crops without paying the Monsanto corporation. Who could be opposed to such a thing. Only the elites, clearly.
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Japan is expanding it’s plutonium producing capabilities and there is talk of nuclear weapons. This should come as no surprise as public records recently revealed that Japan has covertly amassed enough plutonium for at least 90 nuclear warheads
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The global spread of the English language has long been a sore point in Paris politics. Now a new battleground has appeared in the linguistic war as the Socialist government wants to allow English to be used as a teaching language in French universities, sparking a rift in academia.
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If two-million-strong Slovenia’s plans fail to convince, it faces becoming the sixth member of the 17-nation eurozone to need assistance after Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus.
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More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest “offsets” in the state’s new emissions-trading scheme.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War II, to formalise the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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The tracking device can be worn around patients’ necks, clipped to belts and attached to house keys and features a button which would allow its wearer to speak to a 24-hour call centre
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Deputy PM says Theresa May’s rewritten plans to monitor web and social media use are still unworkable and disproportionate
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