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Stimulus negotiations: Self-imposed deadline arrives with no sign of a deal
CNN 07 Aug 2020
Washington (CNN)This was deadline day, the day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer were aiming to have a topline agreement ... It's not even close ... This is closer to falling apart at this point than coming together. Congress is gone ... Pelosi ... ....
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US intelligence chief warns of China, Russia, Iran meddling in Nov elections
The News International 08 Aug 2020
A top US intelligence official has warned of China, Russia and Iran meddling in the upcoming presidential elections . "We assess that China prefers that President Trump -- whom Beijing sees as unpredictable -- does not win reelection," said William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center ... ....
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Zinedine Zidane speaks out on Real Madrid future as Juventus eye Maurizio Sarri replacement
Metro UK 08 Aug 2020
Zidane’s future is uncertain (Picture. AFP via Getty). Zinedine Zidane issued a cagey update on his Real Madrid future amid suggestions he could be on Juventus’ shortlist to replace Maurizio Sarri. Both Real and Juve tumbled out of the Champions League on Friday night at the hands of Manchester City and Lyon respectively ... Advertisement ... Advertisement ... ....
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Nagasaki And The Shimoda Case: When The U.S. Was Tried For War Crimes And Found Guilty
WorldNews.com 07 Aug 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling.The mention of “war crimes” usually brings the Nazis and the Holocaust to mind. But the United States has its own dark history of scorched earth policies filled with massacres, rape, bio-chemical warfare, and concentration camps ... War Crimes Over Nagasaki. And then there was Nagasaki ... Why Nagasaki? ... J....
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Climate crisis: Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf 'disintegrates' amid intense rising temperatures
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40 per cent of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday....
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At least 8 soldiers dead in blast outside Somali army base
Yahoo Daily News 08 Aug 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least eight soldiers and wounding 14 others, with the toll expected to rise, police said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group quickly claimed responsibility via its radio arm, Andalus ... Police Capt ... ....
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Facebook removes major QAnon group along with hundreds of accounts posing as black Trump supporters
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
Facebook has staged a major cull of fake accounts, taking down hundreds masquerading as black supporters of Donald Trump and supporters of the conspiracy theory movement QAnon – as well as one of the platform’s largest QAnon groups ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
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Erdogan says Turkey restarted drilling in eastern Mediterranean
Kathimerini 07 Aug 2020
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey had resumed energy exploration work in the eastern Mediterranean as Greece had not kept its promises regarding such activities in the region ... "We have started drilling work again," Erdogan told reporters after participating in Friday prayers at the Hagia Sophia mosque ... [Reuters] ....
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US consulate in Hong Kong calls collusion claims 'ludicrous'
Manila Standard Today 07 Aug 2020
The US consulate in Hong Kong on Friday said it was "ludicrous" to suggest its diplomats meeting with pro-democracy politicians could breach the city's new national security law, a charge levelled in a recent Chinese state media report ... "These meetings are neither secretive nor mysterious," the consulate said ... ....
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China Sentences a Fourth Canadian Citizen to Death on Drug Charges
Time 07 Aug 2020
(BEIJING) — China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court in the southern province of Guangdong....
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Beirut explosion: Protesters tear-gassed after trying to storm Lebanon's parliament as anger grows over port blast
Yahoo Daily News 07 Aug 2020
A demonstrator is pictured amid smoke rising from tear gas during a protest near parliament in Beirut. REUTERS. Police in Beirut have tear-gassed protesters attempting to storm the nation’s parliament as fury grows over the explosion that left 145 people dead and thousands injured ... من المواجهات أمام مجلس النواب pic.twitter.com/pHdDYsm3tA ... ....
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18 dead as plane skids off runway in India
Business Day Online 08 Aug 2020
An Air India Express plane with 190 people on board has crashed at an airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 18 people, officials say ... The flight was repatriating Indians stranded by the coronavirus crisis. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “pained by the plane accident” ... ....
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Ministers warned against ‘push back’ suggestion for migrant boats
Belfast Telegraph 08 Aug 2020photo: AP / Thibault Camus
Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage
Open Democracy 07 Aug 2020
On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave across a radius of more than 7 kilometres. The explosion was heard as far away as Cyprus, but it was felt across the whole world. It is hard to measure the size of the human loss at this point ... Join the COVID-19 DemocracyWatch email list ... Sign up ... ....
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong files court challenge to 2019 poll disqualification
Gulf Daily News 07 Aug 2020
Hong Kong. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong filed a court challenge on Friday against his disqualification from district polls, in a move which may have implications for this year’s removals of opposition candidates for the city’s legislature ... But he is against independence which is anathema for Beijing ... ....
