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From Washington To Wisconsin, Trump And Republicans Are Using Last-Minute Power Grabs
WorldNews.com 10 Dec 2018
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Political power doesn’t always have to grow out of the barrel of a gun. It can also grow out of imaginary crises and last-minute power grabs ... Last-minute power grabs, that is, which will be fueled by more imaginary crises used as a pretext to first defend, and then later subvert, democracy ... 4 www.vox.com....
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New Zealand PM apologises over young British backpacker's murder
Independent online (SA) 10 Dec 2018
Wellington, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern choked back tears on Monday while offering a heartfelt apology to the family of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane, as the man accused of killing the young traveller made his first court appearance ... The image was captured on Saturday night, about 7.15 p.m ... Picture ... AFP ....
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A NASA Scientist Just Threw a Huge Surprise at Us: 'Aliens May Have Visited Us, We Just Didn't Notice'
Yahoo Daily News 10 Dec 2018
There have been several theories about the existence of aliens-- that they not only visit us but live here with us in human form. And of course, there are myriad of explanations to back these theories. However, Internet theories aside, a NASA scientist, explained in a paper how 'aliens may have already visited us, and we may have just missed it.' ... ....
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Tesla’s Elon Musk on ’60 Minutes’: ‘I do not respect the SEC’
The Tribune San Luis Obispo 10 Dec 2018
Elon Musk stuck a finger in the SEC's eye Sunday night on "60 Minutes." "I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC. I do not respect them," ... ....
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France tells Trump to stop interfering in its politics
News24 10 Dec 2018
US president has published a series of tweets criticising Emmanuel Macron's policies and his low approval rating ... ....
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Ronaldo wants to see Messi follow him to Italy
AOL 10 Dec 2018
Cristiano Ronaldo has urged long-time rival Lionel Messi to "accept the challenge" and follow him to Italy ... Unlike former Sporting CP and Manchester United man Ronaldo, Messi's entire career has been spent at Barcelona and he is under contract through the 2020-21 season ... "No, maybe he misses me! ... Maybe he needs me more ... ....
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Trump 'at center of massive fraud against Americans', top Democrat says
The Guardian 09 Dec 2018
New court filings show Donald Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud” against the American people, the incoming chair of the House judiciary committee said on Sunday. Mob mentality. how Mueller is working to turn Trump's troops. Read more ... “Whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question,” he said ... Read more ... .......
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Nadia Murad: from jihadist captive to Nobel winner
This is Money 10 Dec 2018
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yazidi activist Nadia Murad who was taken hostage by the Islamic State group in 2014 but escaped, is the first Iraqi to receive the prestigious award ... Murad, who was taken hostage by IS in 2014 but escaped, is the first Iraqi to receive the prestigious award ... - Seen as heretics - ... - 'Our peoples' fight' - ... - Happier times - ... ....
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Brexit: UK can revoke Article 50, European court rules
The Irish Times 10 Dec 2018
“That possibility exists for as long as a withdrawal agreement concluded between the EU and that Member State has not entered into force or, if no such agreement has been concluded, for as long as the two-year period from the date of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, and any possible extension, has not expired.” ... –PA ... ....
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Lion Air says November passenger numbers fell less than 5 percent after deadly crash
Reuters 10 Dec 2018photo: White House / Shealah Craighead
The new abnormal: why fires like Paradise will happen again and again
The Guardian 10 Dec 2018
Ruth McLarty, an experienced surgeon, was fairly certain she was about to die in a particularly grisly way ... Trapped in nearby vehicles, some of McLarty’s colleagues made similarly macabre calculations ... “You can hear other people’s cars blow up ... Twitter ... No one alive today will ever see a stable climate system again ... There’s no fire season any more ... .......
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Climate change: Trump coal event overshadowed at COP24
BBC News 10 Dec 2018
Negotiators from the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait refused to "welcome" the IPCC report on 1.5C that a huge majority of countries wanted to put at the heart of the talks. Researchers and campaigners were angered by the move ... Related Topics. ....
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‘I can’t breathe’, Khashoggi’s last words
The Siasat Daily 10 Dec 2018
Washington ... An informed source, who has read a translated transcript of an audio recording of the journalist’s painful last moments, told CNN on Sunday it was clear that the killing on October 2 was no botched rendition attempt, but the execution of a premeditated plan to murder Khashoggi ... “You are coming back,” the man says ... Source....
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Trump commits to $750 bn defence budget
Sify 10 Dec 2018
Washington. US President Donald Trump has agreed to a request from Defence Secretary James Mattis to propose a defence budget of $750 billion for the coming year, according to an administration official. Last week, Trump appeared to call the Defence Department budget of $716 billion "crazy" in a tweet ... Col ... ....
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