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• Watergate in full: Epic documentary shows at Berlin festival

  12-02-2019 16:15 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  BERLIN (AP) — Director Charles Ferguson thought Watergate had never "properly been done." The result is a documentary that explores the American presidential scandal in its full epic span and clocks in at more than four hours.
  
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• Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid settle collusion lawsuits against NFL out of court

  15-02-2019 20:41 via The Independent - World
  
  'The parties have decided to resolve the grievances,' according to statement
  
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• Trump is bullyingly brilliant at getting what he wants. Democrats need to wake up if they want to win in 2020

  15-02-2019 20:32 via The Independent - World
  
  Trump's rival in 2020 has to show they'll fight as hard as he does
  
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• Trump news: President begrudgingly signs border bill and declares national emergency at US-Mexico border

  15-02-2019 20:20 via The Independent - World
  
  President predicts lengthy legal battle over national emergency reaching all the way to Supreme Court
  
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• National emergency: What powers has Donald Trump invoked to bypass Congress?

  15-02-2019 19:18 via The Independent - World
  
  President averts second government shutdown by signing new funding bill but declares crisis measures to ensure southern border wall built
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to introduce bill blocking Trump's 'fake national emergency'

  15-02-2019 19:18 via The Independent - World
  
  Democrat joins Joaquin Castro in a co-sponsored bill seeking to block the president's declaration before it can go into effect
  
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• Spanish prime minister takes big risk by calling for general elections

  15-02-2019 19:11 via The Independent - World
  
  Analysis: General elections are proof that Catalan question has left no corner of Spanish politics untouched
  
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• Thirty years on, Soviet war in Afghanistan continues to divide Russia

  15-02-2019 18:49 via The Independent - World
  
  Vladimir Putin has overseen effort to rehabilitate view of war in Russians' eyes
  
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• The Britons who went to join Isis: Where are they now?

  15-02-2019 17:44 via The Independent - World
  
  More than 200 British citizens still unaccounted for
  
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• Trump says he's 'most excited' about death penalty for drug dealers in China trade deal

  15-02-2019 17:05 via The Independent - World
  
  'If you wanna know the truth, I think there's no more important point,' US president says of executions for Chinese fentanyl peddlers
  
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• Trump declares national emergency to access border wall funding, setting stage for legal battles

  15-02-2019 16:59 via The Independent - World
  
  Donald Trump is signing a federal funding bill to avoid another government shutdown and announcing a series of executive actions along the US-Mexico border, including the declaration of a national emergency — setting the stage for a major legal showdown.
  
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• Trump news - LIVE: President begrudgingly signs border bill and declares national emergency at US-Mexico border

  15-02-2019 16:57 via The Independent - World
  
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• Trade talk optimism pushes stocks higher in early trading

  15-02-2019 16:35 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  NEW YORK (AP) — Plans to extend key trade talks between the U.S. and China drove stocks broadly higher in early trading.
  
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• Netanyahu misquoted on Holocaust in Poland, his office says

  15-02-2019 16:35 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Israeli government said Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was misquoted by a newspaper on the extremely sensitive issue of Polish behavior during the Holocaust, seeking to defuse a diplomatic crisis.
  
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• Israeli leader's trip to Poland beset by string of missteps

  15-02-2019 16:30 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A two-day security conference in Warsaw was supposed to be a crowning achievement for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stamping a seal on his long-held goal of pushing his behind-the-scenes ties with Arab leaders into the open. Instead, the publicity-seeking Israeli leader made one embarrassing misstep after another, distracting attention from his main mission and sending his aides into a nonstop cycle of damage control.
  
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• White woman threatens black deputy with KKK during arrest

  15-02-2019 16:28 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  DELAND, Fla. (AP) — A white woman stopped on suspicion of drunken driving in Florida told a black deputy she would have the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses on his yard.
  
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• Pompeo: Venezuelans reject Maduro's 'model of governance'

  15-02-2019 16:28 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he sees obvious signs that President Nicolas Maduro is starting to understand Venezuelans reject him as their leader.
  
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• PepsiCo moves to profit in 4Q, sees tax benefit

  15-02-2019 16:28 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  PepsiCo moved to a profit in its fourth quarter, getting a boost from a large tax benefit as sales in its Frito-Lay unit North America strengthened. Shares rose $2.36, or 2.1 percent, to $114.95 in Friday ...
  
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• U.S. sanctions five Venezuelans, ratcheting up pressure on Maduro

  15-02-2019 16:26 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on top Venezuelan security officials and the head of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] as it ratcheted up pressure on embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over an election it says was illegal.Along with PDVSA head Manuel Quevedo, Treasury targeted three top Venezuelan intelligence officials and Rafael Bastardo, who U.S. officials say is the head of a national police unit responsible for dozens of extrajudicial killings
  
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• Man United forwards Martial, Lingard out for 2-3 weeks

  15-02-2019 16:25 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United could be without forwards Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial for at least two weeks.
  
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• Fashionistas blast off at London Fashion Week

  15-02-2019 16:25 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  Metallic sunglasses, puffer jackets and knitted headpieces inspired by the first female astronaut's trip into space kicked off London Fashion Week on Friday as the British capital began its leg of the month-long catwalk calendar.Known for its mix of established brands such as Burberry and Vivienne Westwood as well as new designers including Matty Bovan and Molly Goddard, London's event is the second stop of the autumn/winter 2019 womenswear season which began in New York and later heads to Milan
  
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• Movistar terminates contract of Jaime Roson after doping ban

  15-02-2019 16:24 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  MADRID (AP) — The Movistar cycling team says it has terminated the contract of cyclist Jaime Roson after the International Cycling Union confirmed his four-year suspension for doping.
  
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• Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro invites Trump envoy Elliot Abrams for talks

  15-02-2019 16:23 via The Independent - World
  
  Socialist leader predicts he will not be overthrown
  
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• US Vice President Mike Pence makes his first Auschwitz visit

  15-02-2019 16:23 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited the memorial site of Auschwitz on Friday along with the Polish president and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, viewing a train car, crematoriums and the hair of victims that make it such a powerful testament to the evil that befell Europe in the last century.
  
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• Thai party challenging army rule holds first Bangkok rally

  15-02-2019 16:21 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  BANGKOK (AP) — The political party seen as the main challenger to military-dominated government in Thailand held its first rally in the capital on Friday, as campaigning heats up for the first election since a 2014 military coup.
  
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• Progress in U.S.-China trade talks sparks world stock rally

  15-02-2019 16:21 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Progress in the U.S.-China trade talks helped send world stock markets broadly higher on Friday and pulled investors out of the safety of government bonds.
  
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• Europe vote will decide if Italy stays in EU - League lawmaker

  15-02-2019 16:20 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  A prominent member of the far-right League party said on Friday Italy will have to leave the European Union unless the upcoming European Parliament elections show a decisive shift toward populist parties."Either we succeed in changing (Europe) now, or we will have to leave," Claudio Borghi, chairman of the lower house budget committee and the League's economics spokesman, said, referring to the European election."I think this is the last opportunity," Borghi said at a conference on Europe in Mil
  
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• British investigators identify third man in Russian spy poisoning - sources

  15-02-2019 16:19 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  British investigators have identified a Russian military intelligence officer as a third suspect in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, two European security sources told Reuters.The sources confirmed a report by the investigative website Bellingcat which on Thursday identified Denis Sergeev, a high-ranking GRU officer and a graduate of Russia’s Military Diplomatic Academy, as the suspect.Skripal, a former officer in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozen
  
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• APNewsBreak: New rules for handling child bride petitions

  15-02-2019 16:19 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  The Trump administration has announced new rules for scrutinizing requests to bring minor spouses to the United States.The Associated Press reported last month that thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides had won approval over the past decade.
  
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• US industrial output tumbled 0.6 percent in January

  15-02-2019 16:18 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  U.S. industrial production fell 0.6 percent in January, stemming in large part from an 8.8 percent plunge in the making of motor vehicles and auto parts.The Federal Reserve said Friday that that the manufacturing component of the index dropped 0.9 percent last month, reversing a 0.8 percent gain in December.Manufacturing of wood products, computers, electrical equipment, apparel and chemicals also fell in January.
  
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