Number of Arizona marijuana initiatives doubles

Second marijuana initiative filed ... The Campaign to Legalize and Regulate Marijuana filed paperwork last week for a competing effort to legalize marijuana, potentially jeopardizing any effort to legalize the drug in 2016.

Like the first initiative, the group seeks to let adults carry up to an ounce of marijuana and proposes a 15 percent tax to help fund public education. However, those who carry more than 8 ounces of marijuana could be slapped with a misdemeanor, as opposed to a felony, as the first initiative proposes.

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Bitcoin Might Be The Next Big Thing In The Remittance Market

Bitcoin's most disrupting feature is its decentralized architecture. Indeed, bitcoin relies on a P2P network of computers to proceed money transfers. Each part of the network works to create new bitcoins ('mining'), keep the network alive and validate transactions.

All the transactions are registered in the blockchain that is used to validate a transaction using cryptography technology: it ensures that you can't use a bitcoin you don't own or you don't use the same bitcoin more than once. This last action previously required a third party, but with bitcoin this is not the case anymore: the network replaces financial institutions and banks.

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NYSE creates a new bitcoin index

The New York Stock Exchange is diving deeper into the world of Bitcoin with the introduction of a bitcoin pricing index.

The index, which will be made available through NYSE's Global Index Feed and free on its website for a limited time, is intended to serve as a definitive benchmark for valuing the currency — in the same way that the LIBOR index is used to measure global interest rates.

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A complete timeline of India-China relations since Modi took charge – Quartz

Much before he became India's prime minister, Narendra Modi was already a self-professed admirer of China.

"China and its people have a special place in my heart," Modi said in 2011 while he was on his fourth visit to the country as the Gujarat chief minister. "I admire their hard working, disciplined and resilient nature and above all, their sense of history."

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Unexpected triumph means Cameron can govern UK on his own

LONDON (AP) — After years of sharing power, David Cameron pulled off an unexpected election triumph that gave the Conservative prime minister a second term with an outright majority Friday and dealt a stinging defeat to his three main rivals.

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