[NEWS] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes California's dependence on oil imports, looks at how Libya's internal divisions limit oil exports, observes the devastation of Fort McMurray, reports on EU-Turkish disputes on visa-free travel, observes the problems of Belarus' banks, and reports on Kenya's closure of Somali refugee camps.


• Bloomberg View talks about how the Venezuelan military should be kept out of business.


• Daily Xtra notes the internal struggle in the Conservative Party to accept same-sex marriage.


• The National Post notes an arson attack against Canada's only sex reassignment clinic.


• New Scientist reports on a suggestion that life might have begun on Earth at a very early date.


• The New York Times notes the impact that the marriage of the American consul-general in Shanghai to a Taiwanese man has had on China.


• Open Democracy describes the worsening situation in Turkish Kurdistan.


• Wired notes that Huawei was too eager to copy everything about the iPhone, even screws which aren't very good.