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The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now

Dina Spector   

The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now

Israel oil spill

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

The polluted area caused by an oil spill is seen at the Evrona desert reserve, near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat December 10, 2014.

Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Thursday.

1. Hong Kong authorities started clearing on Thursday the main pro-democracy protest site near government headquarters that has block major roads in the city's financial district for nearly 10 weeks.

2.Israel is dealing with the worst oil spill in its 66-year history after a breached pipeline leaked as much as 5 million litres of crude into the Evrona desert reserve and could spread to the Red Sea shore.

3. A US Senate report on CIA interrogations claims that the intelligence agency lied about how Osama Bin Laden was captured in 2011.

4. Google said it will shut its Google news service in Spain due to a new law that requires the company to pay publishers for showing their work.

5. The OEPC decreased its projection for oil demand in 2015 to 28.9 million barrels a day, its lowest level since 2002.

6. Greenpeace has apologised for a placing a banner next to the figure of an ancient hummingbird carved into the ground in Peru, which was part of a publicity stunt to put pressure on the United Nations climate talks in Lima.

7. Pakistani teenagerMalala Yousafzai and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi received their Nobel Peace Prizes on Wednesday at a ceremony in Oslo.

8. Brazil's National Truth Commission on Wednesday released a damning 2,000-page report on the killings and acts of torture commited between 1964 and 1985 under the nation's military dictatorship.

9. Alan Rusbridger will step down as editor in chief of The Guardian next year, to become chair of The Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.

10. Northern regions of the UK were pounded Wednesday and early Thursday by strong winds and huge waves spawned by a "weather bomb" storm system.

And finally ...

The BBC is going to build an insane theme park in Kent, a county south east of London.

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