Day to Day Headaches : Alaska Whales Fail To Arrive (August 13, 2016)

Today's World News

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'Women in mini skirts don't become suicide bombers' : Women can become radicalised to become terrorists if they put on Islamic dress, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, has claimed in his most recent intervention in a national debate on cultural identity.

Speaking at a press conference last week, President Atambayev also attacked those in his country, where 80% of the population is Muslim, who are critical of women who wear more revealing outfits. Know more

1 in 4 people in Puerto Rico will have Zika by year's end : The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has reported 1,914 new Zika cases over the past week.

Health Secretary Ana Rius said Friday there are 10,690 cases altogether, including 1,035 involving pregnant women. Zika has been tied to severe birth defects. Know more

Twitter refuses to explain censorship of verified journalist accounts in post-coup Turkey : Twitter has made a name for itself as a champion of free speech around the world. Following the recent coup attempt in Turkey, however, something has changed in the way it approaches censorship, and the company refuses to talk about it.  Know more

Zika found to remain in sperm for record six months : The Zika virus has been found in the sperm of an Italian man six months after his first symptoms, twice as long as in previously reported cases.

Doctors at the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome said it pointed to the possibility that the virus was reproducing itself in the male genital tract. Know more

Polio is back in Nigeria because Boko Haram kept kids from being vaccinated : Polio is back in Nigeria, just when the World Health Organization thought the virus might be gone completely. Two kids have been paralyzed by the virus for the first time in two years, the WHO announced today. Both live in northeastern Nigeria, where it has been hard to vaccinate kids because the area is controlled by terrorist group Boko Haram. The government is now preparing an emergency immunization program as researchers fear a possible outbreak. Know more

'Dead-baby-swap gang' arrested in Peshawar : Pakistani police have arrested several hospital workers over a scheme that sold newborn babies in Peshawar.

The gang swapped newborn babies with the bodies of dead infants in hospitals and maternity homes, and told their parents the child had died, police told the BBC. Know more

Women rip off their burqas as Syrian residents of Manbij celebrate rescue from Isil : However it is difficult to know the nationality of those killed, Gifford said, as fighters had burned their passports. 

“Much of the paperwork in their headquarters was in French – how women should dress, how fighters should treat their sex slaves,” he said. “It was clear these westerners had all left their comfortable lives and taken up residence in these opulent buildings, oppressing the people who lived there,” he said. Know more

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Today's Historic Event

13th of August 1936

Alaska Whales Fail To Arrive 

Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska were in a state of starvation this summer when the usual whales and seals did not migrate to the northern seas. The ship called, “The Northland” rescued them as it was loaded with 41/2 tons of foodstuffs. 

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