Wednesday, December 14, 2016

What You Need To Know Today

Geert Wilders: Why voters are flocking to the Dutch Trump

By Nic Robertson, CNN

Minister Hank-Jan Prosman's Church in the village of Nieuwkoop sits on a tiny spit of land surrounded by water. Its tiled roof rises above the surrounding flat, canal-riven fields.
There has been a church here for close to 500 years. For the last five years, it's been Prosman's home.


Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed criminals


Controversial leader – who has endorsed extrajudicial executions of drug offenders – says he killed to show police officers ‘if I can do it, why can’t you?’


 and agencies

Rodrigo Duterte has announced he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of his home city of Davao in the Philippines, cruising the streets on a motorcycle and “looking for trouble”.



Massive 'rivers in the sky' will bring more deadly floods due to global warming

Atmospheric rivers can contain many times more water than the world's largest actual rivers and cause devastating floods that can wipe out species at a stroke

Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent

Giant ‘rivers in the sky’ – that can carry up to 15 times the amount of water in the Mississippi River – can virtually wipe out species when they dump vast amounts of rain over a short period, causing some of the world’s worst floods, according to new research.


Osaka kindergarten teaches prewar ideals, Imperial Rescript


BY 
REUTERS

At first glance, the Tsukamoto kindergarten looks like any other school in Japan, but its unique curriculum is reminiscent of the prewar era.




Google Publishes Eight Secret FBI Requests

December 14 2016, 4:16 a.m.


GOOGLE REVEALED IN October it had been freed from a gag order preventing it from talking about a secret FBI request for customer data made in 2015.







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