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  Last update: 03:38 17.10.2019

  03:38 17.10.2019

  Opinion

  ‘Mud of Neoliberalism’: Chicago Teachers Strike Against Social Ills, Not Just Low Pay

  After months of failed negotiations with Chicago officials, more than 30,000 teachers and school support staff will strike Thursday morning in an attempt to put an end to the oppression routinely felt by black and brown communities, Kofi Ademola, an activist and organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear.

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  Last update: 03:00 17.10.2019

  03:00 17.10.2019

  US

  US Army Embarks on 16-Year Modernization Program to Match ‘Pacing Threat’ Russia, China

  The Army’s latest modernization strategy report revealed they will prioritize countering military developments in China and Russia, the US’ “pacing threat,” as the branch begins a four-stage plan to become a multi-domain force by 2035.

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  Last update: 02:49 17.10.2019

  02:49 17.10.2019

  Tech

  Virgin Galactic to Go Public Soon, Plans to Launch Space Tourism Internationally

  Space tourism company Virgin Galactic is a subsidiary of the Virgin Group involved in developing commercial spacecraft and offering commercial trips to space as well as missions for scientific research. The trips will begin in New Mexico, but Virgin's founder Richard Branson has said he wishes to see the company rapidly expand internationally.

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  Last update: 02:48 17.10.2019

  02:48 17.10.2019

  US

  ‘Vaping’ Rep. Says Safety Concerns over E-cigarettes Are ‘Massively Overblown’

  A California Republican congressman who once was caught vaping during a House committee hearing says safety concerns over puffing e-cigarettes are “massively overblown”.

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  Last update: 01:59 17.10.2019

  01:59 17.10.2019

  Opinion

  ‘Very High Consequences’: Nuclear Safety Spotlighted as Typhoon Sweeps Fukushima Waste Into Pacific

  The powerful Typhoon Hagibis crashed its way through eastern Honshu in recent days, unleashing a tropical fury not seen in decades. The center of the storm passed near Fukushima Daiichi, where an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused a catastrophic nuclear meltdown at several reactors, prompting mass evacuations around the site.

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  Last update: 01:49 17.10.2019

  01:49 17.10.2019

  Environment

  High Pollution Levels Could Damage Memory, Age Brain by 10 Years - Study

  A new study published this month by researchers at the University of Warwick found that air pollution has detrimental effects on human memory and can even cause the human brain to age a whole decade.

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  Last update: 22:26 16.10.2019

  22:26 16.10.2019

  Asia & Pacific

  Major Japanese Newspaper Urges Russia to ‘Admit’ Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 Was a ‘Mistake’

  The USSR joined the Western Allies’ war against Japan in the late summer of 1945, smashing the million-man strong Kwangtung Army in just two weeks in an operation which Western historiographers have come to refer to as ‘August Storm’.

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  Last update: 08:04 16.10.2019

  08:04 16.10.2019

  Middle East

  Live Updates: Turkey's Offensive in Northern Syria Enters Its Second Week

  Turkey announced earlier that it would conduct a military operation in northern Syria to clear the area of Kurdish fighters and establish a safe zone; the formerly US-backed defenders of the region are viewed as terrorists by Ankara.