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Lebanon’s Leaders Warned in July About Explosives at Port
Hamodia 11 Aug 2020
I have no authority to deal with the port directly ... “But until now, no decision has been issued over this matter ... 18, 2018, the security report showed ... “The maintenance started and [port authorities] sent a team of Syrian workers [but] there was no one supervising them when they entered to fix the holes,” the security official said ... ....
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Russia becomes first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, says Putin
The Jakarta Post 11 Aug 2020
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess ... He said he hoped the country would soon start mass producing the vaccine ... Topics .. ....
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Climate crisis: Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
Around 127,000 years ago, during the last interglacial period, temperatures in the Arctic rose to around 2 - 6C above what they are today, eventually melting all the sea ice at the planet’s North Pole....
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Explosions hit U.S. coalition supply convoys in Iraq - sources and military say
Canada Dot Com 11 Aug 2020
The explosions, which caused no casualties but did some material damage, are the latest in a string of such incidents in recent weeks. An attack in southern Iraq on Sunday hit a convoy carrying supplies to coalition forces, the military said. Several thousand U.S ... MULTIPLE ATTACKS ... There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast....
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Trump has a habit of seeking to bypass the US Constitution – here's why his latest executive order circus matters
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
Such a directive to move money appropriated for one purpose to fund a program which Congress explicitly declined to fund is, strictly speaking, prohibited by the US Constitution’s express declaration that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of ......
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Trump’s attorney general under fire for calling Black Lives Matter a ‘Bolshevik organisation’ with ‘fascistic’ tactics
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
US attorney general Bill Barr made waves with a Fox News interview this weekend in which he called the Black Lives Matter movement “Bolshevik” and “fascistic” – and the fallout is still simmering ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
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Trump: Biden Is Insulting Men Everywhere by Picking Woman as Running Mate
The Daily Beast 11 Aug 2020
If you’re looking for a quintessential example of fragile masculinity, look no further. President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday morning that, in pledging to pick a woman as his running mate, Joe Biden has offended men everywhere. Trump made his comments in a simpering interview with Fox Sports personality and OutKick founder Clay Travis ... ....
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Dutch police bust 'largest' cocaine lab at rural riding school
The Guardian 11 Aug 2020
Police seize drugs valued at up to €6m and arrest at least 17 suspects at stables Dutch police have busted what they said was the largest cocaine laboratory ever found in the Netherlands, built in a converted horse riding school in the country’s rural north ... ....
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Sharon Stone writes memoir that doesn't 'pull any punches'
The Oklahoman 11 Aug 2020photo: AP / Semih Ersozler
Turkey to issue Mediterranean exploration licences, raising tensions with Greece
Kathimerini 11 Aug 2020
On Monday Turkey sent an exploration vessel into a disputed area, ending a brief period of calm brokered by Germany ... Greek request ... The United States, saying it took no position on maritime boundary issues of other states, expressed deep concern at Turkey’s exploration work and called for a return to talks ... [Reuters]. ....
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Police in Kashmir probe claims of staged army gunbattle
The Oklahoman 11 Aug 2020
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said Tuesday that they are investigating allegations from three families who say their relatives were killed by the military in a staged gunbattle and buried as unidentified militants ... They were last heard from on July 17 ... An Indian army spokesman, Col ... (Story continued below...) ... ....
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Trump says 'great' bond with China's Xi changed after COVID-19
Canada Dot Com 11 Aug 2020
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping has frayed in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic and that he has not spoken to his Chinese counterpart in a long time ... “I had a great relationship with President Xi ... Trump said his feelings changed amid COVID-19....
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Huawei may bring all-screen fingerprint unlock feature to future smartphones
The Times of India 11 Aug 2020
Chinese technology major has filed a patent for all-screen technology that would require smartphone users to just tap anywhere on the display to unlock their phones, as per a report by Android Authority. The patent for the technology has been filed in six international markets. China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea and the US ... Download ... Top Videos ... ....
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Belarus opposition candidate flees to Lithuania amid crackdown on election protests
CNN 11 Aug 2020
Moscow (CNN)The main opposition candidate in Sunday's disputed presidential election in Belarus has fled the country after security forces mounted a sweeping crackdown on protests over the result ... "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe. She is in Lithuania," Linas Linkevicius tweeted ... Thousands were arrested and the demonstrations resumed on Monday night ... ....
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The Flaw in the US Plan to Rally Democracies Against China
GlobalResearch 11 Aug 2020
But there is a third class of countries, possibly the majority in Africa and Asia, and certainly in the Indo-Pacific region that Mr Pompeo underlined, that have such different cultures and values that it makes no meaningful sense to say that they have the same political systems as those of France or America ... No wonder....
