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Alberta Wildfire Forces 80,000 People To Evacuate The entire population of Fort McMurray, Alberta was ordered to evacuate their homes as a massive wildfire swept through the province’s oil sands region. The blaze has already claimed 80% of Fort McMurray’s Beacon Hill community, creating a blanket of smoke that continues to hamper evacuation efforts. As firefighters try to contain the damage, they are reporting that they are struggling to control the fire’s extreme and unpredictable behavior. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked those wanting to help to donate to the Canadian Red Cross. 
French Police Try To Evacuate Migrants, Clash EnsuesProtesters in France formed a human chain around the Jean-Jaurès High School in an effort to prevent police from removing the migrants who had been occupying the space for two weeks. The school had been abandoned and vacant when 150 migrants moved into part of the building last month, prompting many from the Left Party to argue that the space is a better alternative to homelessness. Not everybody thought so. Police used teargas on the protestors and evacuated the space. 

NUTS AND BOLTS: SHOULD READ

#pnut4prez: Kasich Is Out, Trump Takes GOP Nomination Realizing he was dead last in a race where former candidates were still polling at higher numbers, John Kasich, the GOP establishment’s final hope, has dropped out of the running. Trump is now the last man standing and his immediate challenge will be to unify the Republican Party… a party that mostly hates him. 

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Australia Wants To Give Fish HerpesThere are plenty of fish in the sea, but now a lot of them will have herpes. Australia is very particular about its eco-system, so much so that Johnny Depp’s lapdogs created country-wide panic. Well now there is another small defenseless creature the Aussies are after: carp. In an impassioned yet bizarre speech, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce announced that Parliament’s plan to get rid of the “disgusting, bottom-dwelling, mud-sucking creatures” was to unleash a form of the herpes virus on them. The plan to infect the fish with cold sores is costing the government AUD $15 million ($11.4 million) and is effective immediately. 

World Notices That Sweden Has A Neo-Nazi Problem Sweden, the country known for its meatballs and poorly assembled furniture, is unfortunately becoming known for its neo-Nazis, as well. A photo went viral this week of activist Tess Asplund standing with her fist raised in defiance in front of 200 uniformed neo-Nazis marching in the streets of Borlänge. The Nordic Resistance Movement, one of many Swedish neo-Nazi groups which has experienced increased popularity, was granted permission by the government to demonstrate. This is becoming increasingly common. Earlier this year, a group of hundreds of masked, armband-clad neo-Nazis gathered in Stockholm to “punish refugee children” and were seen beating foreign-looking youths. Police arrested several on hate-crime charges.  

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Keeping Our Eye On…

• North Carolina: The US Justice Department has warned North Carolina state officials that they would lose millions of dollars in federal funding unless they change HB2, the measure limiting access to bathrooms for transgender people. According to the statement, the controversial state measure violated federal law under Title VII, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
• China: The country has banned all Ramadan fasting in the Xinjiang region, known for its large Muslim population. Civil servants, students and teachers are prevented from fasting and restaurants were ordered to remain open.
• India: Schools in Delhi were ordered to close early for summer vacation due to a major heatwave. The temperature reached 44° Celsius (111° Fahrenheit) this week. 

LOOSE NUTS: FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT

The UN Is Trying To Stop Celebrity Ape SelfiesThe United Nations Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) is telling celebrities like Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian to knock it off with the ape selfies, because it’s destroying animal lives (and our Instragram feeds.) The UN has reported an alarming rise in trafficked orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos stolen from the wild, and places a large portion of that blame on celebrities for “glamorizing” illegal pets on their social media. “It sends the message that posing with great apes – all of which are obtained through illegal means, and face miserable lives once they grow too big and strong to hold – is okay as long as it’s cute,” said program coordinator Doug Cress. “She’s the cutest little girl in the world,” Paris Hilton said of a dressed-up baby orangutan on social media.