WORLD STORIES - 11/04/2018

Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases.

aljazeera.com
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Rubella's elimination from Australia 'shows vaccinations work'.

theguardian.com
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A far-right group has abandoned plans to march through Liverpool after members were visibly outnumbered by counter-demonstrators, including the mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson..

theguardian.com
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Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread.

self.politics
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Republicans really want you to think Kavanaugh wasn’t credibly accused of attempted rape.

thinkprogress.org
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Trump Jr. griped that CNN didn’t run his dad’s commercial. ‘This ad is racist,’ the network replied..

washingtonpost.com
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Dads may be more likely to vote for female political candidates if they have a daughter - but only if the daughter is their first-born child, finds new research. This phenomenon is called the “first-daughter effect,” and is stronger in Democrats than Republicans..

brandeis.edu
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Human pregnancy duration seems to be determined by uterine size and fetal growth rate: using maternal height as a proxy for uterine size, quasi-experiment shows that twins of short mothers are born earlier than twins of tall mothers..

bmjopen.bmj.com
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'The Sounds of Silence:' Findings from a new study suggest that people assume that those who are silent in a conversation would agree with their own opinion, even if the majority of the speakers in the group have a different opinion..

inquisitr.com
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DATE: 11/04/2018