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• Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris

  16-06-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris.
  
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• Suspected North Carolina burglar caught after being fought off by boy with machete

  16-06-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Jataveon Dashawn Hall, 19, is accused of breaking into a home in Hillsborough on Friday and forcing the boy into a closet while he gathered the family's electronics, according to a statement by the Orange County Sheriff's Office.After the boy hit Hall in the head with a machete, Hall sought treatment at the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, where workers who had been asked to look out for a man with a head wound notified sheriff's deputies, including an officer who was eating lunch at the cente
  
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• Most Americans want Trump to comply with House subpoenas. But impeach him? Not so fast

  16-06-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds those views aren't partisan.
  
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• UK PM front-runner Johnson pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025

  16-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, the front-runner to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, pledged on Sunday to "end the digital divide" in Britain with the rollout of full fiber broadband by 2025.Using his column in the Telegraph newspaper, Johnson, who was criticized for missing the first television debate on Sunday with the other contenders for Conservative Party leader, said he would speed up the rollout of full fiber broadband."The government has just set a new target for the 100 per cent roll-out of full fibe
  
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• Burglary suspect caught, had machete wound inflicted by boy

  16-06-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, nearly two days after he slipped away from the hospital where he was treated for a head wound.Sgt. Shane Brown of the Burlington Police Department said Jataveon Dashawn Hall was arrested in an apartment there Sunday afternoon.Hall, 19, was returned to Orange County, where the sheriff's office said he faces charges including breaking and entering and assault.
  
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• Mexico detains 791 migrants, including 368 children under eight

  16-06-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A total of 791 Central American migrants, including 368 children under the age of eight, have been detained in the Mexican state of Veracruz, officials said Sunday.The detentions of the migrants, who were being transported hidden in four trailers, were carried out at two points, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.While the total age breakdown of the migrants remains unclear, a source speaking on condition of anonymity earlier on Sunday told AFP 270 of the migrants are six or se
  
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• Israel moves to name Golan settlement after Trump

  16-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Now it is the namesake of a tiny Israeli settlement in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet convened in this hamlet Sunday to inaugurate a new settlement named after President Donald Trump in a gesture of appreciation for the U.S. leader's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory.
  
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• Trump Should Grant Georgia an Exemption from Steel Tariffs

  16-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the defining features of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his administration’s use of national-security tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. The controversial tariffs have plenty of detractors, both domestic and international, while supporters justify their legitimacy and effectiveness. However, specifically regarding the 25 percent tariff on steel imports, the tool has caused a great deal of collateral damage. A clear example of this is the country of Georg
  
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• Deutsche Bank to set up 50 billion euro bad bank: FT

  16-06-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  With the creation of the bad bank, Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is shifting the German lender away from investment banking and focusing on transaction banking and private wealth management, the newspaper said.The bank is planning cuts at its U.S. equities business, including prime brokerage and equity derivatives, to win over shareholders unhappy about its performance, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in May."As we said at the AGM on May 23, Deutsche Bank is working
  
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• Hong Kong government apologizes for extradition bill, but defiant crowds pressing on

  16-06-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  As thousands of Hong Kong residents jammed the city’s streets Sunday, the government apologized for the handling of an extradition bill.
  
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• Israel PM's wife convicted of misusing public funds

  16-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An Israeli court Sunday convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraudulently using state funds for meals, under a plea bargain which dropped more severe charges.While the ruling cut short a high-profile trial, the Netanyahu family's legal woes are far from over: the veteran premier himself faces possible indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the coming months.In a deal approved by judge Avital Chen at Jerusalem magistrates' court, Sara Netanyahu was found guilty
  
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• New poll shows Biden with big lead over Trump

  16-06-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic contenders as early campaigning for the 2020 election begins to gain steam.A separate survey of key battleground states, by CBS, shows Democrats strongly favor Biden as the candidate most likely to beat Trump in next year's elections.While the latest polling news proved heartening to Democrats, the Trump re-election campaign reportedly has cut t
  
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• Trump calls newspaper report on Russia power grid 'treason'

  16-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a "virtual act of treason" for a story that said the U.S. was ramping up its cyber-intrusions into Russia's power grid.The Times reported on Saturday that the U.S. has bored into Russian utility systems in an escalating campaign meant to deter future cyber activity by Russia.It comes as the U.S. looks for new ways to punish Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and prevent a recurrence.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• China stays mum as Hong Kong protests extradition bill

  16-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese state media remained largely silent as an estimated two million Hong Kong people took to the streets Sunday to protest an extradition bill, with social platforms scrubbed clean of any pictures or mentions of the rally.Hong Kong's government has been rocked in recent days by massive demonstrations -- and some violence -- which forced the city's embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam to indefinitely suspend passage of the bill.Early Monday, China's official Xinhua news agency issued a four-p
  
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• Boeing CEO calls handling of 737 Max crashes a 'mistake,' vows improvements

  16-06-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg calls his company's handling of two software-related crashes of the 737 Max aircraft a 'mistake.'
  
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• Trump campaign fires some of its pollsters after leaks show poor numbers for the president

  16-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump was trailing Biden by double digits in the key swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, according to leaked numbers.
  
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• Istanbul candidates clash on TV before election test for Erdogan

  16-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Istanbul's mayoral candidates argued over the election they contested in March and their policy plans in a rare televised debate on Sunday, a week before a re-run vote seen as a test of Turkish democracy and President Tayyip Erdogan's AK party.In the first debate of its kind in Turkey in nearly two decades, AKP candidate Binali Yildirim faced the opposition's Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the initial vote in March but was ousted from city hall when the result was annulled in May.Yildirim, a former pri
  
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• Tory Rivals Clash as Johnson Dodges TV Debate: Brexit Update

  16-06-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Five candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister clashed over Brexit in the first TV debate of the Conservative leadership election on Sunday. But the face of Brexit and clear front-runner in the race, Boris Johnson, was criticized after he refused to take part in the Channel 4 broadcast. The contest continues with the second round of voting on Tuesday.Must read: His Critics Say He Lies, But Tories Want to Trust Boris JohnsonKey DevelopmentsDominic Raab sparred with r
  
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• Damaged tankers reach safe waters after Gulf attacks

  16-06-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Two damaged tankers arrived safely Sunday at locations off the Emirati coast after they were rocked by explosions in Gulf waters, in an incident Saudi Arabia blamed on its regional arch-rival Iran.The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous was carrying highly flammable methanol through the Gulf of Oman on Thursday when it came under attack along with the Norwegian-operated Front Altair -- the second assault in a month in the strategic shipping lane.US President Donald Trump has said the operation had
  
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• Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border

  16-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants.Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants.
  
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• As Battle for Tripoli Rages, Libyan Premier Demands New Dialogue

  16-06-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fayez Al-Sarraj, in a press briefing Sunday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, proposed the conference be held with the help of the United Nations and that it decide on a road map for elections to take place in 2019.Sarraj’s overture came after the UN’s Libya envoy, Ghassan Salame, said Security Council members that include the U.S., Russia and France now agree that the violence that’s killed more than 600 people and displaced tens of thousands since April must stop.Haftar’s
  
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• Ex-Tehran mayor to face trial over wife's killing

  16-06-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tehran mayor and prominent reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi will stand trial next month on charges of murdering his wife, the government-run Iran newspaper said Sunday.Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad on May 28 at their home in northern Tehran, according to Iranian media."On July 1, the first trial session of Mohammad Ali Najafi, former Tehran mayor, will be held at Tehran's Criminal Court," the Iran daily reported.
  
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• Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• Jon Stewart Shames Mitch McConnell for Failing 9/11 First Responders on ‘Fox News Sunday’

  16-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  “We don’t want to be here,” Jon Stewart told the handful of lawmakers who showed up to watch him plea for an extension of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund last week. The former host of The Daily Show likely didn’t want to be on Fox News Sunday this Father’s Day either, but there he was making his case to Chris Wallace.Given the subject matter, it was an understandably serious interview. However, there was one fleeting moment of levity when Wallace noted tha
  
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• Donald Trump declares report of US cyber actions against Russian grid an 'act of treason'

  16-06-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has erupted in fury after it was reported that America has laid the groundwork for a potentially devastating cyber attack on Russia's electric grid, describing the article as a “virtual act of treason”. According to a three month investigation by the New York Times, increasingly sophisticated malware has been embedded in the Russian electricity system which could be activated to plunge the country into darkness in the event of a major confrontation. The president yesterd
  
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• E3 Is Better With Sony And PlayStation There, Xbox's Phil Spencer Says

  16-06-2019 19:37 via gamespot.com
  
  While it was not the only company to sit this year's out--Activision also sat out--there was no absence at E3 2019 more significant than that of Sony. With no PlayStation press conference or show floor booth, it was a much different sort of show. Many would argue it was a worse one without them there--and among those saying as much as is Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who says E3 is just not the same without Sony and Activision, and he wants them return in the future.Appearing on GameSpot sister site G
  
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• New Nintendo Switch Models Now In Production - E3 2019

  16-06-2019 19:36 via gamespot.com
  
  We know from previous reports that two new Nintendo Switch models could be on the way, possibly as soon as this year. Officially, Nintendo has not addressed the possibility, though it did say it would not announce the new systems during E3. That proved to be true, but a new report from The Wall Street Journal published this week, during E3 2019, reveals some new details these rumored new Switch models.Specifically, the report states that Nintendo has decided to move the manufacturing of the new
  
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• Trump Faces Many ‘Uncomfortable’ Voters in 2020 Race

  16-06-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A majority of Americans say they would be “very uncomfortable” voting for President Donald Trump in 2020, and Joe Biden continues to lead surveys on likely Democratic primary voters -- partly on the feeling that he’s best positioned to beat Trump in a general election.A flurry of opinion polls on Sunday also showed that a majority of voters think the Trump administration has gone too far on its immigration enforcement efforts, and that economic optimism has slipp
  
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• Trump Faces Many ‘Uncomfortable’ Voters in 2020: NBC-WSJ Poll

  16-06-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A flurry of opinion polls on Sunday also showed that a majority of voters think the Trump administration has gone too far on its immigration enforcement efforts, and that economic optimism has slipped from the high levels seen shortly before Trump’s inauguration in 2017.In an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, some 52% reported being very uncomfortable about Trump and an additional 10% had some reservations.The negative response about Trump was up 3 percentage points from a poll conducted in la
  
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• Pompeo tries rallying foreign leaders in alleged oil attacks

  16-06-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reaching out to wary foreign leaders to frame alleged Iranian attacks in a Middle East oil shipping route as a problem for the world at large, especially for Asian countries vitally dependent on that oil.Pompeo, in a series of Sunday television interviews, emphasized the U.S. international outreach in the wake of what the U.S. says were Iranian attacks Thursday on two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz .The world needs to unite," Pompeo said.
  
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• New poll shows Trump trailing Biden and four other Democrats

  16-06-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic contenders as early campaigning for the 2020 election begins to gain steam.A separate survey of battleground states, by CBS, shows Democrats strongly favor Biden as the candidate most likely to beat Trump in next year's elections.The Fox poll showed Biden leading Trump by 49 percent to 39 percent among all registered voters nationwide, while Sen
  
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• AOC's New York office building broken into by man who sprayed police with fire extinguisher

  16-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in New York City broke into an office building where representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has offices, before spraying police with a fire extinguisher and hiding in a utility closet.The trespassing occurred on Saturday afternoon, when the office was closed and the liberal firebrand was in Washington.The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said the individual was taken to a nearby hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Officials also said the man was emotionally disturbed.“No one
  
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• White House departures: Who's been fired and who resigned

  16-06-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Here are the notable firings and resignations of the Trump administration, starting with the most recent departure of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
  
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• Turkish post in Idlib hit 'deliberately' by Syrian attack

  16-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey said Syrian government forces "deliberately" attacked on Sunday a Turkish military observation post in northwestern Syria.In a statement, the defense ministry said Turkish troops responded with "heavy weapons" after the artillery attack in Idlib province.Syrian forces launched an offensive to take the last rebel-held territory in Idlib late April, leading to the collapse of a ceae-fire negotiated by Turkey and Russia last year.
  
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• Pompeo vows US will guarantee passage through Strait of Hormuz

  16-06-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Sunday that the US will guarantee free passage through the vital Strait of Hormuz, as he accused Iran of recent attacks on oil tankers and the downing of a US drone.Pompeo would not be drawn on what options the US is considering to protect shipping -- or to punish Iran -- in the wake of Thursday's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, but reiterated that President Donald Trump is not seeking war with Iran.
  
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• QUIZ: Could You Still Pass a Basic Driver's-Ed Test?

  16-06-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Some people could use a little refresher. Share it with someone you love.
  
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• AOC on Trump's willingness to accept political 'dirt' on rivals: 'The pressure to impeach grows'

  16-06-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after President Trump asserted he would take damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign power, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "the pressure to impeach grows.”
  
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• UPDATE 2-Boeing says will take time to win back confidence

  16-06-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Boeing said on Sunday the U.S. planemaker had made a mistake in implementing a faulty cockpit warning system on the 737 MAX and predicted it would take time to rebuild the confidence of customers in the wake of two fatal crashes.Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said Boeing failed to communicate "crisply" with regulators and customers, but defended the broad engineering and design approach to nose-down control software at the centre of probes into the accidents that led
  
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• Pompeo again blames Iran for tanker attacks but insists 'we don't want war'

  16-06-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘President Trump has done everything he can to avoid war’US secretary of state claims ‘lots of evidence’ of Iran culpability The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Washington will guarantee free navigation through vital shipping areas. Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty ImagesThe United States does not want to go to war with Iran, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said on Sunday, following an attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. Pompeo reit
  
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• Mexico detains 791 undocumented migrants, National Guard starts to patrol southern border

  16-06-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican officials detained nearly 800 undocumented migrants on Saturday, the government said, in one of the biggest swoops against illegal immigration in recent months, as members of the National Guard began patrolling the southern border.Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement late on Saturday that 791 foreign nationals were found in four trucks stopped in the eastern state of Veracruz, confirming earlier reports about a mass detention.The apprehension came as Mexico ste
  
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• Here's the secret for living longer and loving retirement

  16-06-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The key for living longer is to retire from joyless work and work at something that brings joy.
  
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• Iran threatens to scale back commitment to Nuclear Deal

  16-06-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has vowed to scale back its nuclear commitments as regional tensions flared over last week’s tanker attack, with both the US and UK pointing the finger at Tehran. The semi-official Tasneem news agency said Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation would on Monday announce the measures Tehran has taken to dial back its international obligations under the terms of the now-crumbling 2015 nuclear deal. Those measures include moves to increase both stocks of enriched uranium and the pro
  
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• Intel launches project to help Israeli tech start-ups

  16-06-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Intel Corp launched a project on Sunday to help start-ups in Israel develop technologies in artificial intelligence(AI) and autonomous systems, and said it planned to bring the scheme to other countries as well.The 20-week program, called Ignite, will offer business and technical support to up to 15 start-ups, the California-based company said, adding it would not take equity stakes in the start-ups now, but might do so eventually.Intel is one of the biggest employers and exporters in Israel, wh
  
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• Erdogan says drilling off Cyprus to continue despite warning

  16-06-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Turkey would not back down from gas exploration in Cyprus after southern European leaders urged Ankara to stop."We continue and will continue to search in those areas that are ours," Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul.You will come off badly if you do so," Erdogan warned, after Cyprus reportedly issued arrests warrants for crew members of Turkey's drilling ship, Fatih, last week.
  
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• Trump to Stephanopoulos: ‘I Like the Truth,’ I Didn't Sit for Mueller Interview Because He’d ‘Get Us for Lies’

  16-06-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump appeared to be obsessed with the Mueller report during his wide-ranging interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, insisting that he read the special counsel’s report while repeatedly claiming it says there was “no collusion” despite Robert Mueller stating specifically that no determination was reached on the concept of collusion.While speaking to Stephanopoulos in the back of the president’s limousine, the president was asked what his pitch to
  
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• UPDATE 3-Sudan's Bashir charged with corruption, in 1st appearance since April

  16-06-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences on Sunday, as he appeared in public for the first time since he was overthrown and detained in April.Bashir was charged last month with incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters, and prosecutors also want him questioned over suspected money laundering and terrorism financing.
  
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• Police: Man sprays fire extinguisher, hides in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office

  16-06-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A man is in police custody after trespassing in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district office in Queens on Saturday.
  
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• Gun Fact: The Glock 18 Fires 1,200 Bullets Per Minute

  16-06-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Glock 18 accepts typical Glock magazines, from ten to seventeen rounds, but a handgun with a rate of fire of 1,200 rounds a minute can empty a standard pistol magazine in a blink of an eye. In order to help feed the Glock 18’s voracious appetite the company released thirty-three round magazines. These longer magazines extend far past the magazine well, making the gun difficult to conceal but double available firepower.In December 2003, soldiers of the U.S. Special Operations Command ca
  
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• Braves' Newcomb passes tests after liner off head

  16-06-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Atlanta Braves will continue to monitor left-hander Sean Newcomb, but he passed initial tests after getting hit in the back of the head with a line drive on Saturday.Newcomb exited his start against the Philadelphia Phillies after a comebacker off the bat of Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto hit off his head and ricocheted into the Philadelphia dugout for a ground-rule double.The line drive exited Realmuto's bat at 102 mph. Newcomb turned his head away before impact but was still hit squarely.
  
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