::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Ravaged by an endless civil war (with multiple factions vying for power), Libyans say their lives were much better off before their dictator Moamer Kadhafi got assassinated.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/war-weary-libyans-miss-life-under-kadhafi-055129690.html
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[Video] - Elephant rushes into river to save human it thinks is drowning
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Baby girl born without arms self-learns to use her legs to feed herself
http://news.asiaone.com/news/world/armless-baby-teaches-herself-eat-using-feet
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Singaporean-Australian (her parents are from Sg, she grew up in Au) Natalie Ong impresses everyone with her singing :
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Da Vinci Code set the bar so high, that both Angels & Demons and Inferno unavoidably fall short. The Accountant kicks Inferno's ass.
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Instead of retrenching hundreds of lowly employees whose families depend on, they could instead cut the pay and bonuses of the CEO and top management. But guess which choice the CEO and top management decided on?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sph-employees-union-told-of-job-cuts-only-30-122818453.html
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[Malaysia] - Have you ever wondered, why are hot dogs called hot dogs? Etymology
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hotdogs-set-name-change-muslim-malaysia-001006357.html
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"The mean reported GPA for Harvard University's class of 2015 is 3.64, just below an A grade" - The Harvard Crimson
"The average CAP at NUS is about 3.4, which is a B grade" - NUS Provost Blog
This raises a serious issue for NUS students - with the heavy grade inflation from all the world's top universities, we have seen many companies impose a minimum expected academic grade of a Second Upper Honours or Magna Cum Laude equivalent for job applicants.
Yet, given how our average grade in NUS is a full 2 grades lower than those of top universities, how are we expected to compete fairly with these applicants?
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Even after ISIS is defeated, there seems no end in sight to the fighting, with dozens of rival factions struggling for power and territory.
The battle for Mosul is expected to be difficult, involving street-to-street fighting with the 3,000-4,500 IS jihadists the coalition has estimated are in the area.
ISIS is faced with an array of forces: the US-led coalition, Iraqi soldiers, police and mainly Shiite Muslim Hashed al-Shaabi forces, and Kurdish peshmerga fighters. This coalition of myriad rival Iraqi forces will have to fight through ISIS defences to reach the city.
The operation will be supported by the US-led coalition, while Iranian forces will work with some Shiite militia groups, and Turkey also has troops at a base near Mosul which it has declined to remove despite Baghdad's demands that it do so.
The issue of the role of the Hashed al-Shaabi militia forces is a contentious one, and Sunni politicians oppose their entry into Sunni Arab Mosul.
There is also the contentious issue of post-Mosul territorial control, with Iraqi Kurdistan wanting to maintain control of areas that are claimed by both it and the federal government in Baghdad.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/retaking-iraqs-mosul-complex-offensive-015048762.html
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Animals burping and farting are a leading cause of global warming. So there.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/factbox-food-eat-makes-climate-change-worse-113857114--sector.html
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So instead of thanking the whistle-blower and punishing the real culprits, they're now looking to prosecute the whistle-blower and let the real culprits go scot-free. Well done, Malaysia.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/10-motivators-suspended-forcing-schoolgirls-snake-pit-224300546.html
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[Malaysia] - Police have finally caught the car-thief who stole several of their police cars, and guess what? The thief turned out to be a policeman himself. Boleh!
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/malaysian-cop-who-stole-police-cars-nabbed
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[Indonesia] - Man goes deaf as a result of eating a bowl of instant noodles containing 100 chilli padi (aka bird's eye chilli).
http://www.soshiok.com/content/man-goes-deaf-briefly-after-eating-death-noodles
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UFO Conspiracy Expert Assassinated By Government Agents
http://nypost.com/2016/10/17/ufo-expert-found-dead-vomiting-black-liquid/
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Argentina] - Brutal rape and murder of 16-year-old schoolgirl sparks angry protests in Argentina
"Prosecutors say the two men forcibly drugged her with cocaine, repeatedly raped and then impaled her through her anus, causing pain so excruciating that she went into cardiac arrest.
Last year in June, protests broke out nationwide over a trio of gruesome murders in Argentina : a kindergarten teacher whose estranged husband slit her throat in front of her class; a 14-year-old girl whose boyfriend allegedly beat her to death because she got pregnant; and a woman whose former boyfriend stabbed her to death in broad daylight at a Buenos Aires cafe."
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PAPsmear-er posted : "Bullshit lah. Who knows whether its the real prince under the black head cloth. Could be someone they paid millions to take the beheading for the prince. "
Alternatively, it could be that a more powerful member of the royal family wants this particular prince dead.
Additionally, bear in mind that Saudi Arabia currently has over a thousand princes in the extended Royal family. This particular prince that was allegedly executed (that he shot someone else to death in a fight is undisputed) is but a distant relative to the King.
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The news nowadays are quite negative.
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Indonesia's racial-religious problems rears its head in politics
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/pribumi-issue-rears-head-as-jakarta-election-looms
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It's all about the money, eh SPH?
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In the latest of a string of violent physical assaults that Hollywood bad boy Russell Crowe is infamous for, he physically assaulted Azealia Banks (a female black rapper) in addition to calling her a "nigger" and spitting on her face. She is now demanding a public apology from him. Russell Crowe has since admitted to all of this, but says he was provoked by her unbecoming behavior towards his other guests.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/azealia-banks-want-apology-russell-crowe-170000009.html
http://www.revelist.com/celebrity/russell-crowe-assault-azealia-banks/5289
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[YouTube] - Final Presidential Debate : Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton
