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• French hiker missing in Italy nine days found dead

  18-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of a French hiker who disappeared nine days ago south of Naples was found Sunday, local Italian authorities said. "The body of Simon Gautier has been found a short while ago," the authorities in Sapri, near Belvedere di Ciolandre where the 27-year-old hiker was found dead. Gautier called for help on August 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than "in the middle of nowhere, on the coast".
  
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• Migrant rescue ship stuck off Italy rejects Spain port offer

  18-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A charity vessel carrying 107 rescued migrants and stuck in limbo off Italy on Sunday rejected an offer to go to Spain as "absolutely unrealistic" because of the "humanitarian emergency" on board.Spain had offered to take in the Proactiva Open Arms ship anchored off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, slamming Italy's "inconceivable" refusal to allow it to dock after 17 days at sea.Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, has refused to allow migr
  
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• Netflix Is Producing A He-Man Anime Series

  18-08-2019 23:20 via gamespot.com
  
  While Masters of the Universe was an animated series created to sell toys, fans of the franchise love it and want to see more and more they shall get. In 2021, Sony and Mattel will partner for a new He-Man movie--starring Noah Centineo--and now, there's also an anime series coming to Netflix.Announced at Power-Con, director Kevin Smith surprised audiences and announced this new project. He will serve as showrunner and executive producer of Netflix's anime series Masters of the Universe: Revelati
  
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• Canada slams UK decision to 'off-load' Islamist fighter

  18-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada said on Sunday that Britain's decision to strip Jack Letts - dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by the media - of his British citizenship was an attempt to shift responsibility for what to do with him onto Canada, where he also has citizenship.A statement from Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale's office confirmed a British media report from Saturday, which said that Letts' UK passport had been torn up.Letts traveled from Britain to Syria to fight with Islamic State in 2014, according to medi
  
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• Cathay Remains Under Scrutiny After CEO Takes Fall for Protests

  18-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is counting on the resignation of its British chief executive officer, Rupert Hogg, to move beyond the tumult that saw its employees’ participation in the Hong Kong protests draw the ire of Beijing. But will it be enough?Incoming CEO Augustus Tang has the delicate task of continuing to placate China, an increasingly important market for the 72-year-old airline, while also minimizing the fallout from staff, customers and investors as the unrest in
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for democracy in latest Hong Kong protest against China

  18-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy rain failed to keep hundreds of thousands of protesters from swarming Hong Kong streets Sunday to rally against the Beijing government.
  
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• Apple CEO warns Trump about China tariffs, Samsung competition

  18-08-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports as well as competition from South Korean company Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.Trump said Cook "made a good case" that tariffs could hurt Apple given that Samsung's products would not be subject to those same tariffs.
  
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• Massachusetts RMV suspends 869 more drivers two months after deadly N.H. motorcycle crash

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts RMV has now suspended more than 2,400 drivers for out-of-state violations that weren't processed. More are likely.
  
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• Drug dealer spared jail after telling judge his baldness had ruined his life

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge spared a drug dealer from jail after hearing his alopecia had led to a life of ridicule and that selling drugs was a way of making friends. Cameron Bridges started selling drugs after being frozen out by his peers for much of his school life and to support his £150 a day cocaine habit. Bridges, of Polperro, Cornwall, admitted possession of cocaine, ketamine and cannabis with intent to supply, as well as possession charges and assaulting an emergency worker. Truro Crown Court h
  
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• After El Paso shooting, Mexican Americans can no longer be ambivalent minority

  18-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  We think of ourselves as both an immigrant ethnic group and a racially oppressed minority. After El Paso, that is a luxury we can't afford.
  
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• White House economic adviser: 'I sure don't see a recession'

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow dismissed fears about a possible recession after a roller-coaster week for stocks.
  
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• Tons of pot found in truck full of jalapeno peppers in California, Border Patrol says

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog picked up on something strange Thursday night in a tractor-trailer shipment of jalapeno peppers at a San Diego crossing, the agency says in a release.
  
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• Yuba City man dies in apparent suicide in standoff after police answer assault call

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A 29-year-old man died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Yuba City apartment during a standoff with police on Friday, according to a Yuba City police press release.
  
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• Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island

  18-08-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark."We have been warning for days, desperation has its limits," said Open Arms founder Oscar Camps, who released a video showing four migrants wearing orange life vests swimming toward Lampedusa island.In the evening, Open Arms urgently requested permission to enter Lamped
  
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• Mexico City assesses monument damage after anti-rape march

  18-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City's iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous protest over a string of alleged rapes by police.The deputy director of artistic patrimony at the National Fine Arts Institute, Dolores Martínez, said at the base of the statue that officials were assessing the damage to the Angel and other points in the capital that protesters attacked.Protesters wrote phrases like "They don't take ca
  
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• CDC probes lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use

  18-08-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a "cluster" of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use after such cases were reported in 14 states.The CDC said there was no evidence that an infectious disease was behind the illnesses and that more information was needed to determine whether they were in fact caused by e-cigarette use.The CDC is working with health departments in Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana and Minnesota on the investigat
  
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• U.N. pleads for more help to relieve Venezuelan refugee crisis

  18-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed on Sunday for more humanitarian aid for Venezuelan refugees pouring into neighboring countries where they are overwhelming social services and sparking local tensions.Grandi had planned to visit the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima this weekend, but authorities advised him to cancel due to protests by residents unhappy with the arrival of more than 500 Venezuelans a day.Some 180,000 have stayed in Brazil.
  
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• Man charged in connection with Manhattan rice cooker scare

  18-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Larry Griffin, a homeless man from West Virginia, is charged with placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a New York City subway station.
  
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• San Francisco homeless man accused of attacking woman wearing ankle monitor

  18-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC7 News has confirmed that the man accused of attacking a woman outside her San Francisco apartment building has been fitted with an electronic monitor.
  
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• 7 shot after random Snapchat invites to ‘instant house party,’ Texas cops say

  18-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  An “instant party” in Texas ended with a car chase and several people shot, police say.
  
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• 'No recession in sight' says Trump's top economic adviser

  18-08-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. economy will remain strong through 2020 and beyond, President Donald Trump's top advisers on the economy and trade said Sunday.
  
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• The Israeli spacecraft that crashed on the moon spilled microscopic 'water bears' that can live in space

  18-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Beresheet spilled tardigrades, invisible tiny critters that are capable of living in extreme conditions ⁠— including space.
  
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• UK strips citizenship from dual national 'Jihadi Jack'

  18-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national Muslim convert to the Islamic State group dubbed "Jihadi Jack" being held in northern Syria, leading Canada to accuse the UK of off-loading its responsibilities.The move targeting Jack Letts, 24, who was a dual UK-Canadian national, has prompted a diplomatic row with Ottawa, Britain's Mail on Sunday reported.
  
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• Kuwait says emir recovered from 'setback'

  18-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Kuwaiti state media on Sunday reported Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had "recovered", shortly after Iran's foreign minister indicated that the 90-year-old was unwell.The emir "has recovered from a setback and is in good health now", Kuwait's official news agency KUNA said, citing a palace statement, without specifying the nature of the "setback".Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier on Sunday wished Sheikh Sabah a "speedy recovery" after talking with the Gulf state's of
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege Ember Rise Operators Amaru And Goyo Revealed

  18-08-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  During the Six Major Raleigh Invitational for Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft revealed gameplay footage for the game's upcoming new Ember Rise Operators--Amaru and Goyo. Both Operators previously leaked, as has almost become customary for Siege at this point, but Ubisoft's announcement has revealed a few more details that weren't previously known.Amaru is an Attack Operator armed with a grappling hook that allows her to quickly breach through windows that can't be easily reached by others or ascend u
  
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• 'That is ridiculous': Andrew Gillum rips Rick Santorum for claiming guns aren't 'problem' in mass shootings

  18-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings.
  
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• Sacramento files lawsuit to ban 7 men from business district

  18-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a "public nuisance" from a popular business corridor.The lawsuit alleges the men are "drug users, trespassers, thieves ... and violent criminals" who have illegal weapons and ammunition and have forced police to dedicate an "excessive amount" of resources to the Broadway corridor.City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood filed the suit Aug. 9 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to a copy posted online by The Sacrame
  
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• Hours-old baby abandoned in Maryland woods found by passerby, hospitalized in stable condition

  18-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The infant was left in a wooded area in suburban Washington on a 90-degree day without so much as a diaper, according to police.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell's sister spotted packing up bags near home where socialite was rumoured to be staying

  18-08-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Ghislaine Maxwell's sister has been spotted packing up bags near the secluded beach front mansion the British socialite had been hiding out in after her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein was rearrested for child sex trafficking charges. Ghislaine, 57, was thought to have been staying at the property owned by Scott Borgerson, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts for some time but has not been seen in the area for several weeks amid intense scrutiny. However The Daily Telegraph observed her
  
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• Dick Cheney to appear at Trump 2020 fundraiser as Republican establishment bows to president

  18-08-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Dick Cheney will appear at a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to an invitation for the event, in a sign that the Republican establishment will publicly back his re-election bid.Mr Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 as an outsider and has often clashed with senior figures in the party, such as Mitt Romney and the late John McCain.However, an invitation to a luncheon fundraiser in Jackson, Wyoming, shows Mr Cheney will appear alongside Iva
  
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• Duke of York pictured inside mansion of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

  18-08-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Peering out from behind the 15ft-high solid oak door Prince Andrew is seen to catch himself and check if anyone is watching as he waves goodbye to an attractive brunette. And it may be little surprise that he was concerned that someone might spot him in the doorway of the £63million Manhattan mansion, as it belonged to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. A video of the encounter emerged as the Duke of York faced a growing list of questions over this association with the financier wh
  
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• Sudan's former dictator Omar al-Bashir due in court for corruption trial

  18-08-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar al-Bashir, the ousted former president of Sudan, is expected to stand in court on Monday for the first stage of a corruption trial which could see him jailed for many years. Bashir took power in a 1989 coup but was deposed in April after mass protests and security forces deciding to withdraw support for his brutal regime, which was behind an alleged genocidal campaign in the Darfur region. The 75-year-old former dictator is in prison awaiting the trail, where he faces allegations of po
  
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• Ohio Police Arrest White Supremacist Who Allegedly Threatened to Attack Jewish Community Center

  18-08-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly threatening to attack a local Jewish community center.
  
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• Earthquake cluster slams Kansas county with 11 quakes in 5 days

  18-08-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week — 11 earthquakes in five days.
  
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• Pete Buttigieg says Trump voters are 'looking the other way on racism'

  18-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans who vote to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2020 are, at best, "looking the other way on racism," said Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg.
  
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• Argentina Faces Fresh Turmoil From Resignation, Debt Downgrades

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Life just got a whole lot tougher for Argentina’s Mauricio Macri a week after his shock primary-election defeat sent markets into a tailspin.The embattled president is suddenly grappling with the resignation of his economy minister and a double downgrade to the nation’s debt. Meanwhile, his opponent Alberto Fernandez, now favorite to win the presidency on Oct. 27, is calling on Macri to renegotiate the terms of a record $56 billion credit line with the International Mo
  
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• 10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday.The fire broke out at in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told AFP.Many residents -- largely low-income garment factory workers -- were not in the slum as they had left their homes to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday with their fa
  
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• Toll from Tanzania fuel truck blast rises to 95: hospital

  18-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Tanzania has climbed to 95, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.A massive fireball engulfed a crowd thronging to collect petrol from an overturned tanker last Saturday near the town of Morogoro, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of Dar es Salaam, the financial capital.It was a man who succumbed to his injuries," said Aminiel Aligaesha, a spokesman for the National Hospital in Dar es Salaam.
  
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• Scaramucci turns on POTUS

  18-08-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Ex-Aide wants him off 2020 ticket.
  
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• Right-wing leader threatens to return to Portland every month after 13 arrested in weekend violence

  18-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of the Right-wing protesters who were embroiled in violent clashes with Left-wing counter-demonstrators in Portland over the weekend has threatened to return to the city every month. Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the “Proud Boys”, escalated the long-running feud between white supremacists and Antifa, a loose coalition of Left-wing and anarchist groups, which has brought mayhem to the streets of a number of American cities. He said his group would stage further demonstrations
  
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• Three Palestinians shot dead by Israeli helicopter

  18-08-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Three Palestinians were shot and killed by an Israeli helicopter and tank on the northern Gaza border fence in a marked escalation of violence along the tense stretch. Israel opened fire on what it described as “armed suspects” several hours after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three Qassam rockets at Israel late Saturday. On Sunday morning Hamas’ health ministry reported three men dead and a fourth injured following the incident just north of Beit Lahia. Hamas said in a s
  
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• Trump 'not ready' for China trade deal, dismisses recession fears

  18-08-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying on Sunday they saw little risk of recession despite a volatile week on global bond markets, and insisting their trade war with China was doing no damage to the United States."We're doing tremendously well, our consumers are rich, I gave a tremendous tax cut, and they're loaded up with money," Trump said on Sunday.
  
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• Trump supporters say he 'would probably lose voters...if he goes too far' on gun control

  18-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's supporters in New Hampshire respond to proposals for new gun control legislation on "This Week."
  
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• Epstein's purported madam now a focus in sex abuse cases

  18-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  She's been called Jeffrey Epstein's madam, the woman who recruited girls for his sexual appetites, and at times his social planner and household organizer in places ranging from New York to Palm Beach, Florida. Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a British publishing magnate who died under mysterious circumstances, is one of the most prominent figures left from the Epstein orbit after his suicide in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges . An attorney for Maxwell did not respond Fri
  
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• Portland protests: Woman pinned to ground by police officers after spitting towards them

  18-08-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman was pinned to the ground by six police officers after she spat towards them during a day of protests between duelling far-right and anti-fascist activists in Portland.Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed the Oregon city at the weekend for a widely publicised right-wing rally that attracted the attention of Donald Trump.In video circulating online, a woman can be seen walking towards police and spitting at them once before she is wrestled to the
  
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• At least 1 dead following plane crash in New Castle County, officials say

  18-08-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials said the plane's pilot radioed in that he needed to land but then communication with the pilot was lost; the plane was found in a wooded area a short time later.
  
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• Jordan summons Israel envoy over Jerusalem 'violations'

  18-08-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Jordan summoned Israel's ambassador on Sunday in protest over "violations" at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the foreign ministry said.It summoned envoy Amir Weissbrod to voice its "condemnation and rejection of Israeli violations" at the highly sensitive site, where Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinian worshippers last week.Jordan, the only Arab country apart from Egypt to have a peace agreement with the Jewish state, supervises Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
  
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• Sen. Graham: The dream of every leftist is to have a liberal court enacting laws from the bench

  18-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says expanding the court is code for liberals packing the court.
  
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• Thousands Begin Dispersing After Rainy Rally: Hong Kong Update

  18-08-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters defied a torrential downpour and gathered in centrally located Victoria Park for the weekend’s major rally, after two nights of demonstrations ended peacefully and without police firing tear gas.Sunday’s rally was organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, which said more than 1.7 million people turned out. That would make it one of the biggest demonstrations yet. The police, which confined demonstrators to the park, didn&rsquo
  
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• Buttigieg: opposition to gay marriage will 'wash away' among black Americans

  18-08-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful says change will occur when voters see his policies will work in their interests2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, South Bend, Indiana Mayor, Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign event at the Smokey Row coffee shop in Oskaloosa, Iowa on 15 August. Photograph: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty ImagesOpposition to gay marriage among African Americans will “start to wash away”, Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday, when such voters “struggling to get on to
  
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