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• Feds: Epstein Has Been Paying Off Alleged Accomplices

  12-07-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephanie Keith/GettyFederal prosecutors said Friday that accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should stay locked up until trial because he’s willing to use “intimidation and aggressive tactics”—including recently wiring $350,000 to former accomplices.“Epstein’s efforts to influence witnesses continue to this day,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday evening in a court filing in response to the financier’s request to be released on bail.
  
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• Best Prime Day Funko Pop Deals Available Now (US)

  12-07-2019 23:28 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day 2019 is fast approaching, marking the busiest summer shopping day of the year. Prime Day itself will run from Monday, July 15 through Tuesday, July 16, but other retailers are hopping on the opportunity to challenge Amazon's retail holiday. Target, Walmart, Ebay, and several other online retailers are all holding their own summer sales events to compete with Prime Day.If you just can't get enough Pops, Prime Day and the surrounding sales are a good time to stock up. GameStop's s
  
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• Best Prime Day Deals On Funko Pops So Far (US)

  12-07-2019 23:28 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day 2019 is fast approaching, marking the busiest summer shopping day of the year. Prime Day itself will run from Monday, July 15 through Tuesday, July 16, but other retailers are hopping on the opportunity to challenge Amazon's retail holiday. Target, Walmart, Ebay, and several other online retailers are all holding their own summer sales events to compete with Prime Day.If you just can't get enough Pops, Prime Day and the surrounding sales are a good time to stock up. GameStop's s
  
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• 27 Republicans just joined Democrats to block Trump from going to war with Iran without congressional approval

  12-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "This is the only way to stop Trump from starting another costly war. Constitutional rights aren't optional and endless war isn't inevitable."
  
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• Tropical Storm Barry is expected to make landfall tomorrow morning as a hurricane. Here's where the storm's path is heading.

  12-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Barry is headed toward Louisiana. It's expected to make landfall tomorrow morning, then head north toward Arkansas and beyond.
  
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• 'My family is gone': Husband reacts to drunk driver's sentencing for crash that killed his wife and baby

  12-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  "My family is dead. My entire family, gone. Everything I worked for, everything I lived for, just gone," the victim's husband said.
  
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• Amazon CTO Werner Vogels shared a powerful response to the ongoing protests of the company's involvement with ICE

  12-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, shared some very personal family history in response to the protesters.
  
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• Washington AG opens inquiry into NRA's financial affairs

  12-07-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The attorney general for Washington D.C. has issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and its related charitable foundation as part of an investigation into allegations of financial misconduct inside the powerful gun lobbying organization.The subpoenas add to a host of difficulties for the NRA, which is facing internal turmoil and multiple external inquiries as it gears up for a 2020 election push in support of President Donald Trump.Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement tha
  
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• Flight data from Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets show a lavish travel schedule as the walls closed in

  12-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Crowdsourced flight data show Jeffrey Epstein traveled almost constantly as the US government built its case against him.
  
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• Why the Sexual Predator in the White House Needed to Get Rid of Acosta

  12-07-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Brendan Smialowski/GettyMany of Donald Trump’s “best people” have left in disgrace but none more so than  Alexander Acosta, who showed no conscience or remorse in letting pedophile Jeffrey Epstein off the hook when he was a federal prosecutor. In a press conference ordered up by Trump to save his job, Acosta failed miserably. And on Friday morning, Trump perp-walked Acosta, wearing his now familiar smirk, out to face the press corps on the south lawn of the White House, to
  
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• The Latest: Man accused of orphanage sex abuse kept jailed

  12-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An American man accused of sexually abusing four girls who lived in the Kenyan orphanage that he founded will remain behind bars, at least for the next few days.A federal judge in Philadelphia on Friday ordered 60-year-old Gregory Dow, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, temporarily detained until a hearing Wednesday on his status.Federal prosecutors say Dow is a flight risk, noting he left Kenya in 2017, just as police were investigating sex abuse allegations at the Dow Family Children's Home in Boito.
  
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• Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan unloads on lawmakers at House hearing on migrant detention facilities

  12-07-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Homan blasts Congress for the delay in additional funding for the humanitarian crisis, urges lawmakers to fix the situation; FBN's Hillary Vaughn reports from Capitol Hill.
  
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• Amazon Prime Day 2019 Deals: Best 4K UHD Movie Sales (US Only)

  12-07-2019 22:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day 2019 is almost here. The online retailer's annual summer sale officially kicks off on Monday, July 15, and it'll offer Amazon Prime members bargains on hundreds of products, ranging from video games, consoles, VR headsets, and much more. The deals will extend into other forms of entertainment as well, including 4K UHDs, making this a good opportunity to bolster your movie library.Prime Day may still be a couple of days away, but a handful of deals have already begun cropping up
  
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• Hezbollah chief says has reduced fighters in Syria

  12-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement Hassan Nasrallah said Friday he had decreased the number of fighters supporting the Damascus regime in neighbouring war-torn Syria.The head of the Iran-backed Shiite movement, which has been fighting in Syria since 2013, did no quantify the extent of the reduction.Nasrallah said none of his fighters were currently involved in fighting in Syria's northwestern region of Idlib, where regime and Russian forces have increased deadly bombardment on a jihadist-r
  
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• Dead Drone: Are Iran and America Headed Towards a Bloody War?

  12-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Deptula said the Pentagon must modernize its “geriatric air force with systems that have been designed to operate against high-threat capabilities like stealth fighters, bombers and [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] aircraft.”Iran’s destruction of a U.S. Navy Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, 2019 shouldn’t deter U.S. forces from monitoring the strategic waterway, officials said.Retired U.S. Air Force general David Deptula,
  
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• Poker Player Dennis Blieden Charged With Embezzling $22M From StyleHaul

  12-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Jayne Furman/World Poker Tour via FlickrIn March 2018, a Los Angeles accountant named Dennis Blieden took the poker world by storm. He had only been playing in tournaments for about 18 months and was essentially an unknown.That changed as Blieden, then 28, plowed through 493 entrants and bested veteran players to win the World Poker Tour’s L.A. Poker Classic and its $1 million prize.The website Poker News lauded his “nerves of steel” and Poker Central noted his “fearless
  
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• Cargill shuts animal-feed mills in China as fatal hog disease spreads

  12-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Cargill Inc shuttered animal-feed mills in China in recent months partly because the rapid spread of a fatal hog disease has reduced demand, a company executive said on Friday.The closures highlight the pain for global agriculture companies from the outbreak of African swine fever in China, the world's top hog producer and pork consumer.African swine fever, for which there is no cure and no vaccine, kills almost all infected pigs, though it does not harm people.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Ukrainian fighter found guilty over killing of Italian photographer

  12-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian court sentenced a Ukrainian man to 24 years in jail on Friday over his role in the 2014 killing of an Italian photographer covering fighting between pro-Russian forces and Ukrainian troops.Journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian colleague Andrey Mironov were killed after they were hit by mortar fire near the town of Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine five years ago.Italian prosecutors in the northern city of Pavia said Vitaliy Markiv, a volunteer fighter with the Ukrainian forces at the
  
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• 75 years after D-Day, the US Navy and Marines are still training for sea invasions, but now right by Russia's shores

  12-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  In June, the US Navy and Marine Corps and their partners put on the 47th Baltic Operations, practicing complex missions in a tense part of the world.
  
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• 'We kind of couldn't believe it:' American passenger recounts 21-hour delay as airline struggles

  12-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines blames flight woes on a slowdown by its mechanics to gain leverage in contract talks. The union denies it and blames management.
  
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• Louisiana under state of emergency as Tropical Storm Barry nears landfall — here's what it looks like on the ground

  12-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane over the weekend, threatening downpours that could flood local levees and rivers.
  
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• Who And What Are Marvel's Eternals?

  12-07-2019 21:11 via gamespot.com
  
  While Phase 4 of the MCU is still largely shrouded in mystery and speculation, there has been a steady smattering of casting news revolving around one specific upcoming project: The Eternals, which so far, has reportedly nabbed big names like Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani as well as (potentially debunked) rumors of Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown as unconfirmed roles in the ensemble.But major talent aside, the question still remains: Who--and, perhaps more importantly, what--are Marvel
  
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• Flooding lets fish swim on the highway

  12-07-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  As Tropical Storm Barry gets closer, flooding becomes more and more of a problem. On July 12, many people along the Gulf Coast are seeing water levels rise to dangerous amounts. In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana floodwaters are reaching heights that allow fish to swim over the roads.
  
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• SolSeraph Review - Play God

  12-07-2019 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  SolSeraph is overtly inspired by the Super NES cult classic ActRaiser. If there was any shred of doubt of its roots given its mixture of action-platforming and sim-style management, that was removed when it opened with a slow spinning first-person view barrelling towards the earth--an homage to ActRaiser's Mode-7 showpiece so specific that it virtually winks at the audience. Curiously, though, it's some of SolSeraph's departures from ActRaiser that let it stand on its own, for better and for wor
  
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• All eyes are on Barry as it inches closer to landfall

  12-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Barry shows the massive system tracking through the Gulf of Mexico as it approaches landfall on the Louisiana coast.
  
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• South Africa sends troops into 'warzone' township

  12-07-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  South African president Cyril Ramaphosa ordered troops into the suburbs of Cape Town to quell a crime wave that municipal officials say has turned the city into a “warzone.” Hundreds of soldiers will be deployed into sprawling area of townships known as the Cape Flats to combat gang-related violence that saw 14 people killed in 24 hours last week.  More than 900 people have been killed in gang-related violence in the Cape Flats in the past year.  Last Friday, six women betw
  
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• UK PM contenders say EU will drop Irish backstop for Brexit deal

  12-07-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The two candidates vying to become Britain's next prime minister both said Friday they believe the EU will agree a Brexit deal this year without the controversial "backstop" provision for the Irish border.Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson, the favourite over foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to replace outgoing premier Theresa May, predicted the European Union would instead negotiate the issue during post-Brexit free trade talks."We will get a deal by October 31st," Johnson told the BBC during highly-an
  
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• Assassin's Creed Odyssey To Ban XP Farming In Creator Mode Missions

  12-07-2019 20:52 via gamespot.com
  
  Assassin's Creed Odyssey recently introduced a Story Creator mode, allowing players to build their own custom missions. Ubisoft has noticed a glut of missions intended to easily boost XP, and has announced changes to the mode to prevent farming. The studio said in an update that it is doing this to maintain the integrity of the creative mode, as well as to keep the XP farming missions from crowding out other community stories that are using the mode as intended."Story Creator Mode was designed t
  
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• A 4-month-old baby was separated from his parents at the border last year and still can't walk or speak. Experts say he could grow up with trauma he has no memory of experiencing.

  12-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Constantin Mutu was 4 months old when he was separated from his father, and 9 months old when he was finally reunited.
  
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• Pregnant woman, son die after car swept away in heavy rains

  12-07-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A series of storms socked the Northeast with heavy rains and strong winds, causing the deaths of a 9-year-old boy and his pregnant mother whose car was swept away by floodwaters while she was on the phone with emergency officials.Thursday's storms quickly intensified, causing flash flooding in several states and spawning a tornado in a southern New Jersey town.A firefighter who was put in contact with the woman, who was identified as 31-year-old Pamela Snyder, was able to stay on the phone with
  
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• Palestinian child shot in head during West Bank clashes: ministry

  12-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Palestinian child was seriously wounded Friday during clashes between Israeli forces and protesters in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and official media said.Official news agency Wafa named him as Abdelrahman Shteiwi, saying he was 10 years old and was wounded during clashes in Kafr Qaddum near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
  
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• Tropical Storm Barry is expected to hit parts of Louisiana with more than 3 feet of storm surge and 20 inches of rain — here's what that much water looks like

  12-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  New Orleans has already been drenched in nearly 9 inches of rain, prompting a flash-flood emergency declaration.
  
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• Pregnant woman, 9-year-old son killed by floodwaters in Pennsylvania

  12-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Pennsylvania say rising floodwaters killed a pregnant mother and her son Thursday.
  
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• US House votes to curb Trump powers to start Iran war

  12-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The US House of Representatives voted Friday to restrict President Donald Trump's ability to attack Iran, voicing fear that his hawkish policies are pushing toward a needless war.The Democratic-led House approved an amendment on a broad defense bill that would prohibit funding for military operations against Iran unless they are in self-defense or explicitly approved by Congress.The two chambers will have to negotiate over the language as they finalize the defense bill.
  
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• Trump faces uphill battle to keep financial records from Congress after lawyers clash in appeals court

  12-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Judges on a federal appeals court appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump's demand that it block a House subpoena for his financial records.
  
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• VIDEO: Burger King manager told 'go back to Mexico' by customer in Florida

  12-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Video shows a manager of a Florida Burger King being told by a customer to "go back to Mexico."
  
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• Fight Us In Under Night While We Get Hyped For Evo 2019 | GameSpot Community Friday

  12-07-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Michael and Ben are taking on everyone in UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[st] on PS4 while we talk about what we are excited to see this year at Evo 2019!
  
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• Federal court: Duggar sister privacy lawsuit can proceed

  12-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawsuit filed by four reality show sisters can proceed against an Arkansas city that released confidential information about their alleged sexual abuse by a brother, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald, Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Joy Duggar had an expectation of privacy when officials from the city of Springdale and Washington County investigated allegations that their brother Josh sexually abused them betwe
  
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• Where Is Xur Today? Destiny 2 Exotic Vendor Location Guide (7/12 - 7/16)

  12-07-2019 19:52 via gamespot.com
  
  With so many brand new Exotic quests in Destiny 2's season pass, it's worth checking out some brand new rolls on old favorites! Check this guide to see where our enigmatic Agent of the Nine is, and what he has in store for your Guardian.
  
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• Destiny 2 - Where Is Xur? Exotic Vendor Location Guide (7/12 - 7/16)

  12-07-2019 19:52 via gamespot.com
  
  With so many brand new exotic quests in Destiny 2's season pass, it's time to check out some brand new rolls on old favorites! Check this guide to see where our enigmatic vendor of the nine is, and what he has in store for your guardian.
  
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• TurboGrafx-16 Mini Release Date, Game Library Announced

  12-07-2019 19:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Konami has announced more release details for its retro TurboGrafx-16 Mini, including a release date and the full game library. The mini-console will include a library of 50 games, though some are repeats between their English- and Japanese-language versions. It will release on March 19, 2020.The mini-console will be available for purchase from Amazon, and pre-orders will open as a Prime subscriber exclusive on the upcoming Amazon Prime Day, which starts on July 15. The name and design of the mi
  
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• U.S. House passes $733-billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto

  12-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733-billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump's veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wall on the border with Mexico.The House passed its version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, by a 220 to 197 vote, without a single Republican voting in favor of the bill and after some of the most liberal Democrats opposed it as they pushed for a reduction in defense spend
  
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• The Latest: House OKs limiting Trump ability to strike Iran

  12-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic-controlled House has voted to limit President Donald Trump's authority to make war against Iran.The party-line vote on the annual defense measure came after more than two dozen Republicans joined with Democrats on a 251-170 tally to require Trump to get authorization from Congress to conduct military strikes against Iran.
  
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• William Barr ordered an investigation into how the CIA concluded Russia wanted to help Trump in 2016 — but that investigation was already done 2 years ago

  12-07-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General William Barr opened an investigation into the CIA that's already been done by Mike Pompeo, a former agency director.
  
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• U.S. appeals court judges spar with Trump lawyer over bid to block House subpoena

  12-07-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared unlikely to grant President Donald Trump's request that it block a congressional subpoena for his financial records.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in a lawsuit Trump filed arguing his accounting firm, Mazars LLP, does not need to comply with a House of Representatives Oversight Committee subpoena.
  
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• The Latest: New Mexico authorities investigating Epstein

  12-07-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  New Mexico authorities say they are investigating sexual abuse accusations against financier Jeffrey Epstein who is already facing federal sex trafficking charges.Epstein owns a ranch south of Santa Fe.State attorney general spokesman Matt Baca said in an emailed statement Friday that the office was interviewing people who say they were victims of Epstein.
  
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• AOC, Tlaib give impassioned testimony at hearing on migrant facilities

  12-07-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib gave impassioned testimony at a hearing on migrant facilities.
  
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• E Jean Carroll says she received death threats after accusing Trump of rape

  12-07-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Exclusive: advice columnist says for the first time in her life she has bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom* ‘I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun’E Jean Carroll’s rape allegations are contained in her new book What Do We Need Men For?Photograph: Craig Ruttle/APE Jean Carroll, the esteemed New York journalist who has alleged Donald Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s, now sleeps with a
  
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• UK's Johnson says his comments about U.S. envoy were a factor in his resignation

  12-07-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain's next prime minister, denied he was responsible for the resignation of the ambassador to Washington but admitted his comments had been a factor in the shock departure of one of the country's most senior diplomats.The former London mayor has been heavily criticized by lawmakers in his own party and the opposition for failing to defend Kim Darroch after Donald Trump attacked the envoy for leaked remarks describing the U.S. administration as inept.Darroch r
  
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• Will Nationalism Poison Ukraine's New President?

  12-07-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Ever since Volodymyr Zelensky’s upset victory in April, Ukrainians have been wondering whether their newly elected president will take new approaches to resolve the conflict with Russia. His thumping victory over Petro Poroshenko, who tried to dismiss all of his opponents as puppets of Russian Vladimir Putin puppets, uncovered a strong, untapped desire to end the Russophobia that has been porminant with over the past five years. During that time, the Poroshenko and other senior government
  
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