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Shooting at Florida base prompts questions about screening of foreign military students
Stars and Stripes 07 Dec 2019
A shooting at a U.S. military base in Florida by a Saudi military student has prompted questions about how the U.S. government scrutinizes candidates for military exchange programs as the Pentagon highlighted the layers of screening already in place ... After the attack, Sen. Rick Scott, R.-Fla., called for a "full review" of U.S ... Sen ... Rep ... .......
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The truth about whether Boris Johnson is misleading voters over his Brexit deal
The Independent 06 Dec 2019
Jeremy Corbyn has unveiled a confidential government report which he claims provides "cold, hard evidence" that Boris Johnson misled the public over a critical part of his Brexit deal with the EU. The Labour leader said the Treasury document, entitled "NI protocol ... 1 What has Boris Johnson said before? ... 2 What does the leaked document say? ... ....
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Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn
The Guardian 07 Dec 2019
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Mega bushfire near Sydney ‘too big to put out’
The Siasat Daily 07 Dec 2019
Sydney. Australian fire officials warned on Saturday that a mega bushfire raging across a 60 km front north-west of Sydney cannot currently be put out. The Gospers Mountain mega blaze, which is a combination of several fires, across almost 300,000 hectares is just an hour’s drive from the nation’s most-populous city, the BBC reported....
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Australian firefighters worry about wildfires approaching Sydney
Yahoo Daily News 06 Dec 2019
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to contain nearly 150 fires burning in New South Wales state on Friday as strong winds fanned the flames and again shrouded Sydney, Australia's biggest city, in hazardous smoke ... Fires are still burning in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland states ... ....
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If Tehran is pushed too far, it may hit out in ways that are disastrous
The Guardian 07 Dec 2019photo: AP / Michael Probst
Taylor Swift Speaks Out About Not Using Her Body as an "Exercise of Control"
E! Online 05 Dec 2019
In her next decade, Taylor Swift intends on calling the shots.
With her 30th birthday fast approaching on Dec. 13, the superstar songstress is looking forward to feeling "a bit more... ....
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'One comfort woman for every 70 soldiers', Japanese records show
Al Jazeera 07 Dec 2019
The 1993 report named after then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono details how women were forced to work in brothels ... ....
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US Supreme Court blocks Trump bid to resume federal executions
Webdunia 07 Dec 2019
The US Supreme Court sided with lower courts to keep executions of federal inmates temporarily on hold. The decision spoiled the Trump administration's plan to execute five federal inmates in the coming weeks. The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked White House plans to reinstate executions for federal death row inmates. . ... ....
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Mexican President Praises Trump Decision to Delay Terrorist Designation for Drug Cartels
US News 07 Dec 2019
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to... ....
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US says drone shot down by Russian air defenses near Libyan capital
Arab News 07 Dec 2019
The US military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, US Africa Command says ... “But they certainly know who it belongs to now and they are refusing to return it ... Christopher Karns ... TIPPING THE BALANCE....
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Tensions as yellow vests join French retirement protests
Artesia Daily Press 07 Dec 2019
PARIS (AP) — Paris police skirmished Saturday with yellow vest activists joining a wave of protest actions against the government’s overhaul of France’s national retirement system, as highway blockades and train stoppages disrupted weekend travel around the country ... The travel chaos is not deterring the government so far, though ... ___ ... ....
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Libya’s Ambassador Given 72-hour Deadline to Leave Greece, FM Dendias Says
The National Herald 07 Dec 2019
ATHENS – Greece ordered the expulsion of the Libyan ambassador Friday, in the latest escalation of a dispute over a controversial deal signed between Libya’s U.N.-supported government and Turkey on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean ... All three have blasted the accord as being contrary to international law ... ....
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Air strikes kill 19 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
The Times of India 07 Dec 2019
AL-BARA (SYRIA). Syrian regime and Russian air strikes on Saturday killed 19 civilians, eight of them children, in the country's last major opposition bastion, a war monitor said ... An AFP correspondent at the scene saw rescue workers pick through the rubble of a two-storey home whose concrete roof had collapsed ... more from times of india news ... ....
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Real Madrid ease past Espanyol to move top of La Liga
Independent online (SA) 07 Dec 2019
MADRID – Real Madrid's Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema scored in each half to earn a comfortable 2-0 win over Espanyol that sent their team provisionally top of La Liga on Saturday. Madrid were not at their best but moved three points clear of rivals Barcelona, who host Real Mallorca in the late game ... We played well and they did too ... Reuters ....
