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• Trump receives 'portions' of annual physical exam, White House said he's 'healthy and energetic'

  16-11-2019 23:33 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Trump traveled to Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland on Saturday for "portions" of his annual physical exam, the White House announced.
  
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• We Can't Overlook Adults In The Vaping Health Epidemic

  16-11-2019 23:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Unlike teens, adults have not changed buying behavior in the recent past.
  
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• Pence aide testified that Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine were 'inappropriate'

  16-11-2019 23:29 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A top national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents were “unusual and inappropriate,” and “shed some light on possible other motivations” for the president’s order to freeze military aid to the U.S. ally.Jennifer Williams, who serves as Pence’s special adviser for Europe and Russia, told investigators in early Novemb
  
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• Judge denies DNA testing sought 13 years post-execution

  16-11-2019 23:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A Memphis judge ruled on Monday that the daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have the right to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case.April Alley is the daughter of Sedley Alley, executed in 2006 for the 1985 murder of Marine Lance Cpl.In May, April Alley petitioned the court on behalf of her father’s estate to order DNA testing.
  
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• Morrison said he was 'not comfortable' with Ukraine President Zelensky being involved in US politics: the latest

  16-11-2019 23:13 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  In her deposition, Williams said she found the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky to be "unusual and inappropriate."
  
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• Crowd honors tree as Havana celebrates 500th anniversary

  16-11-2019 23:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hundreds of people in Cuba’s capital stood in line to kiss, touch or walk around a towering silk floss tree Saturday in a nod to tradition as they celebrate Havana’s 500th anniversary this weekend.The event comes as Cuba deals with an ailing economy and increasingly tense relations with the U.S., concerns that were briefly cast aside as residents prepared for a gala event Saturday night featuring fireworks, music and international dignitaries.“Havana grows, lives, sings, dances
  
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• Sondland said he was acting on Trump’s orders, aide told investigators

  16-11-2019 22:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Tim Morrison, a top White House national security aide, told impeachment investigators that Gordon Sondland — a U.S. ambassador at the center of the Ukraine scandal imperiling Donald Trump’s presidency — claimed to be acting on Trump’s orders, and in fact was regularly in touch with him.“Every time you went to check to see whether he had, in fact, talked to the president, you found that he had talked to the president?” one lawmaker wondered, according to a tra
  
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• In California's 2020 primary, Latino voters could help Democrats defeat President Trump

  16-11-2019 22:48 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  California's growing Latino population now represents a third of all voters, which translates to political power and a prize for Democratic hopefuls.
  
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• 5 family members, including 3 children, dead in reported shooting at San Diego home

  16-11-2019 22:33 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Five people have died and a child has been hospitalized after an apparent shooting Saturday in San Diego.
  
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• Trump goes to Walter Reed National Medical Center for 'portions' of annual physical exam

  16-11-2019 22:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Trump traveled to Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland on Saturday for "portions" of his annual physical exam, the White House announced.
  
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• NATO ally expels undercover Russian spy 

  16-11-2019 22:11 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  In a rare move, NATO ally Bulgaria has expelled an undercover spy affiliated with the Russian military intelligence service, according to a Western intelligence source.
  
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• Pope Francis compared rhetoric from anti-gay politicians to Hitler speeches

  16-11-2019 22:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Pope Francis compared anti-gay comments made by politicians to speeches made by Adolf Hitler in a speech on Friday in which he denounced homophobia.
  
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• Here's everything we know about Mina Chang, who rapidly rose from a self-described singer to a State Department official with a dubious résumé

  16-11-2019 21:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A closer look at her history reveals the Trump official may have misrepresented her work history and educational background.
  
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• Barr Suggests Impeachment Inquiry Undermines Voters' Intent

  16-11-2019 21:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William Barr on Friday vigorously defended President Donald Trump's use of executive authority and suggested that House Democrats were subverting the will of voters by exploring whether to remove the president from office for abusing his power.Trump campaigned on a vow to upend Washington, and voters were aware of his agenda when they elected him president, Barr said."While the president has certainly thrown out the traditional Beltway playbook and punctilio, he wa
  
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• Hong Kong protesters unleash stash of petrol bombs; Chinese soldiers clear roads

  16-11-2019 21:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Fires blazed on the doorstep of a Hong Kong university into the early hours of Sunday as protesters hurled petrol bombs and police fired volleys of tear gas in some of the most dramatic scenes in more than five months of escalating violence.Hours earlier, squads of Chinese soldiers dressed in shorts and T-shirts, some carrying red plastic buckets or brooms, emerged from their barracks to help clear debris that has blocked some key roads in the city for days.The presence of China's People's Liber
  
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• Hong Kong protesters fire bows and arrows from campus fortress

  16-11-2019 21:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot bows and arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university campus on Sunday, as police charged and charged again, firing tear gas and blue liquid from water cannon after fiery clashes overnight.Several protesters fired arrows from rooftops at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid some of the most dramatic scenes in over five months of unrest in the Chinese-ruled city.Police said a media liaison officer was hit in the leg by an arrow.
  
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• Ethiopia Ruling Coalition Seeks to Further Unite Ahead of Vote

  16-11-2019 21:13 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s ruling coalition took a step closer to the creation of a national unity party as Africa’s second most-populous nation prepares for elections.The executive committee of the alliance voted for the merger of the four parties, Fikadu Tessema, a committee member, said in an interview with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corp.The move will include a fair representation of the ethnic groups in the alliance, Tessema told the national broadcaster. The Ethiopian People&rsq
  
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• Trump, impeachment could loom large in Sen. Collins’ race

  16-11-2019 21:09 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Republican Sen. Susan Collins has a well-funded Democrat prepping to challenge her next year.President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment in the House and subsequent trial in the Senate presents a distinct dilemma for Collins.Of the handful of Republicans senators facing reelection next year, she has done perhaps the most to keep a clear distance from Trump.
  
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• Why Russian Fighter Jets Are Threatening NATO In The Baltics

  16-11-2019 21:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A Russian Su-27 recent intercepted an American F-15C.
  
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• 5 die in apparent murder-suicide in San Diego

  16-11-2019 21:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Five members of a family, including three young boys, have died and another boy was hospitalized with injuries in an apparent murder-suicide in San Diego.Police received a 911 call early Saturday in which dispatchers heard the sound of arguing in the background, Lt. Matt Dobbs said.As officers headed to the house in the Paradise Hills neighborhood in southeastern San Diego, a relative who lives next door called 911 and reported hearing arguing and what sounded like a nail gun being fired.
  
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• Trump commits new offence which could lead to impeachment in the middle of his own impeachment hearing

  16-11-2019 20:28 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  It should not, perhaps, be surprising in the extraordinary state of affairs of Trumpworld that in the middle of his impeachment proceedings the president would tweet something which could lead to a further article of impeachment.The tweet disproves Mr Trump’s claim that he was ignoring the hearings which he had claimed would go nowhere, and attacked using his usual terms against investigations into his conduct – a “worst ever witch-hunt”, “totally fake” and so
  
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• UPDATE 8-Hong Kong campus protesters fire arrows as anti-government unrest spreads

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university on Sunday at police who fired tear gas and water cannon in some of the worst violence in the Chinese-ruled city since anti-government unrest erupted five months ago.Several protesters took up positions on the rooftops of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, armed with bows and arrows, as unrest spread across the territory's central Kowloon district.Protesters, who were sprayed with the blue liquid from water canno
  
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• UPDATE 6-Hong Kong campus protesters fire bows and arrows, set fires

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot bows and arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university campus on Sunday, as police charged and charged again, firing tear gas and blue liquid from water cannon after fiery clashes overnight.Several protesters fired arrows from rooftops at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid some of the most dramatic scenes in over five months of unrest in the Chinese-ruled city.
  
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• UPDATE 5-Hong Kong protesters fire bows and arrows from campus fortress

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot bows and arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university campus on Sunday, as police charged and charged again, firing tear gas and blue liquid from water cannon after fiery clashes overnight.Several protesters fired arrows from rooftops at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid some of the most dramatic scenes in over five months of unrest in the Chinese-ruled city.
  
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• UPDATE 4-Hong Kong protesters fire bows and arrows from campus fortress

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot bows and arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university campus on Sunday, as police charged and charged again, firing tear gas and blue liquid from water cannon after fiery clashes overnight.Several protesters fired arrows from rooftops at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid some of the most dramatic scenes in over five months of unrest in the Chinese-ruled city.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Hong Kong protesters fire bows and arrows from campus fortress

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong protesters shot bows and arrows, wounding a policeman in the leg, and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded university campus on Sunday, with activists braced for a possible final police clearance after fiery clashes overnight.Police fired blue-dyed liquid from water cannon after several protesters fired arrows from rooftops at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid some of the most dramatic scenes in over five months of protests in the Chinese-ruled city.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Hong Kong protesters hurl petrol bombs in fresh university clashes

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Fresh violence erupted around a besieged Hong Kong university campus on Sunday morning, as protesters braced for a possible final police push to clear them after fiery clashes overnight.Huge fires had lit up the night sky at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon district hours earlier as protesters hurled petrol bombs, some by catapult, and police fired volleys of tear gas to force them up onto the podium of the red-brick campus.
  
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• REFILE-Hong Kong protesters unleash stash of petrol bombs; Chinese soldiers clear roads

  16-11-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Fires blazed on the doorstep of a Hong Kong university into the early hours of Sunday as protesters hurled petrol bombs and police fired volleys of tear gas in some of the most dramatic scenes in more than five months of escalating violence.Hours earlier, squads of Chinese soldiers dressed in shorts and T-shirts, some carrying red plastic buckets or brooms, emerged from their barracks to help clear debris that has blocked some key roads in the city for days.The presence of China's People's Liber
  
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• Why Aren’t the Democratic Presidential Candidates Pushing for Bold Change in the Middle East?

  16-11-2019 20:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Even if the proposals of many Democratic candidates were implemented, little would change in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
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• French protesters, police clash on 'yellow vest' anniversary

  16-11-2019 20:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  French police fired tear gas and water cannon against stone-throwing "yellow vest" protesters in Paris Saturday, on the first anniversary of the movement challenging President Emmanuel Macron's policies.There were clashes in other French cities as activists rallied to prove their movement is still a force to be reckoned with, a year after the first giant protest on November 17, 2018.Numbers attending the protests and levels of violence have sharply diminished in recent months from the height of
  
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• Stents no better than drugs for many heart patients: U.S. study

  16-11-2019 20:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making lifestyle changes, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday.The $100 million government-backed study, presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Philadelphia, is the largest yet to look at whether procedures to restore normal blood flow in patients with stable heart disease offers an added benefi
  
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• Diplomat had to 'hold phone away from ear' as Donald Trump loudly asked about Joe Biden investigation

  16-11-2019 19:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A US diplomat has told Congress he overheard Donald Trump on a phone call asking about getting the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Mr Trump was speaking so loudly that the person he was talking to had to hold the phone away from their ear, allowing those nearby to hear what was being said. The call was described by David Holmes, the political counselor at the US embassy in Kyiv, in evidence given behind closed doors to the impeachment inquiry. Mr Holmes said he was having lunch wi
  
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• How China Is Learning From Russia's War In Syria

  16-11-2019 19:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Beijing has long watched other power's modern military interventions.
  
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• 'Kill, rob, burn and bury the bodies': Man convicted in 3 grisly farm deaths

  16-11-2019 19:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Sean Kratz and his cousin were “on a mission to kill, rob, burn and bury the bodies,” Assistant District Attorney Kate Kohler told jurors.
  
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• ‘We Must Be As Harsh as Them’: Leaked Docs Reveal China’s Mass Incarceration of Muslims: NYT

  16-11-2019 19:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via GettyHundreds of internal Chinese government documents obtained by The New York Times reveals striking new details about the execution of the country’s mass detention of ethnic minorities over the past three years in the Xinjiang region.The rare leak of documents, described in the newspaper’s bombshell report as “one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades,” details how Chinese a
  
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• Sandy Hook lawsuit could force Remington to open books

  16-11-2019 19:12 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has upended a longstanding legal roadblock that has given the gun industry far-reaching immunity from lawsuits in the aftermath of mass killings.The court this week allowed families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre to sue the maker of the AR-15 used in the attack.The case against Remington will now proceed in the Connecticut courts.
  
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• 'Funny, loyal, light of our lives': Santa Clarita mourns victims of Saugus school shooting

  16-11-2019 19:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The community of Santa Clarita is remembering Dominic Blackwell and Gracie Muehlberger, two students killed in the Saugus High School shooting.
  
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• U.S. says no plans to send asylum seekers to remote Guatemalan regions

  16-11-2019 19:09 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  GUATEMALA CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Saturday that it had no plans to send asylum seekers to remote regions in Guatemala after the Central American country floated the plan during negotiations for a bilateral migration agreement this week.The two countries are finalizing a deal signed over the summer that would allow the United States to send asylum seekers who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, but who passed first through Guatemala on their journey, back to Guatemal
  
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• Nuclear missile bunker: yours for less than $400k

  16-11-2019 19:03 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Decommissioned nuclear silo accessed 40ft staircase leading underground was once home to US’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile ever deployedAll this can be yours for $395,000. Photograph: Casey James with Luxe Realty PhotographyOne local newspaper described the sales listing, with calculated understatement, as a “mid-century fixer-upper”: an underground bunker built to withstand a nuclear attack, and to house the fire power to retaliate.The decommissioned nuclear silo
  
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• PSA: Log in to Fortnite this weekend to unlock Supercharged bonus

  16-11-2019 18:30
  
  If you’re hoping to unlock all of the current Battle Pass tiers before the game’s 11th season ends, be sure to log in to Fortnite both today and tomorrow to unlock a special bonus. First introduced with this season, Epic is offering players “Supercharged XP,” which is a way to get a limited — but still quite substantial — amount … Continue reading
  
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• Chicago gang leader accused of attempting to help Islamic State

  16-11-2019 18:22 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A purported street gang leader from Chicago who allegedly became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
  
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• Trump intervenes in military justice cases, grants pardons

  16-11-2019 18:13 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker and a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire upon three Afghans, killing two, the White House announced late Friday. The commander in chief also ordered a promotion for a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a written statemen
  
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• Officer on Leave After Firing Sponge Grenade: Hong Kong Update

  16-11-2019 17:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army soldiers left their Hong Kong barracks for the first time since unrest broke out to join residents and workers in cleaning up after a week of some of the worst violence in five months.On Saturday morning, workers removed the debris from Tolo Highway beneath the bridge blockaded by protesters, while in Kowloon Tong a group of PLA soldiers in T-shirts and shorts helped clear the area before jogging in squads back to their ne
  
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• A super-vaccine for the flu is being marketed to people 65 and older. Is it legit or a scam?

  16-11-2019 17:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Fluzone High-Dose and FLUAD are two of the high-dose flu vaccines that have been licensed for people 65 and older by the FDA.
  
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• Huge Czech protest marking Velvet Revolution demands PM quit

  16-11-2019 17:29 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  More than 200,000 Czechs flooded central Prague on Saturday to mark 30 years since the Velvet Revolution toppled communism in then-Czechoslovakia, with protesters demanding that billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis quit over allegations of graft.Some demonstrators waved flags or brandished banners calling for Babis to step down and chanted "shame!" and "resign!".Czech police tweeted there were "more than 200,000 people while others are still coming" to the protest at Letna park in central Pra
  
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• Protests Erupt Across Iran After Gasoline-Price Increase

  16-11-2019 17:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Protests erupted in cities across Iran, leaving at least one person dead, after the government unexpectedly hiked gasoline prices, the semi-official Iranian Student’s News Agency reported.The fatality occurred during clashes in Sirjan in the southern province of Kerman on Friday, ISNA reported, citing the city’s acting governor, Mohammad Mahmoudabadi. Protests spread on Saturday to Tehran, where motorists blocked highways and intersections with their vehicles in a dens
  
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• Palestinian militant groups come to blows over Israel diplomacy

  16-11-2019 17:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Tensions between Gaza’s two largest Palestinian militant groups have spilled into the open as Islamic Jihad supporters angrily accused Hamas of not coming to their aid in this week’s fighting with Israel.  Islamic Jihad, a smaller militant group backed by Iran, fired more than 400 rockets into Israel this week in retaliation for Israel’s assassination of one of their senior leaders. But Hamas, the dominant force in Gaza, stayed out of the fighting.   Senior Hamas
  
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• The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy

  16-11-2019 17:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Official US policy in Ukraine was to promote rule of law, but the Trump administration sided against it, hearings have shownMarie Yovanovitch testifies Friday on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/APSince the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry in late September into the actions of Donald Trump over his withholding of aid to Ukraine, the Republican defenders of the president have dismissed the inquiry on the ground that hearings were held behind closed
  
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• No More Air: How An Entire Chinese Submarine Crew Died a Tragic Death in 2003

  16-11-2019 17:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A cruel death.
  
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• Cuba cries foul as doctors head home from Bolivia

  16-11-2019 16:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The first of around 700 Cuban doctors were scheduled to fly home from strife-torn Bolivia on Saturday as officials railed against what they charged was slander and mistreatment by Bolivia's conservative interim government.Cuba said Saturday that 10 doctors, including the coordinator of its medical mission, were detained this week and four remained in custody.On Friday, the foreign ministry said it was terminating its medical mission as officials were fostering violence against the doctors by cla
  
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