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• Keep city as white 'as much as possible,' council candidate says, stunning forum in Michigan

  24-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Jean Cramer, a candidate for city council in Marysville, Michigan, made the comment at Thursday night in response to a question about diversity.
  
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• Doubling down on racist comments, council candidate says she opposes interracial marriage

  24-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Marysville, Michigan mayor Dan Damman has called for city council candidate Jean Cramer to withdraw. She says she doesn't plan to.
  
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• First Trailer For Breaking Bad Movie, El Camino, Released

  24-08-2019 23:28 via gamespot.com
  
  A movie that continues the story of AMC critically-acclaimed drama series Breaking Bad is on the way. A listing for "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" appeared on Netflix, with the description reading, "Fugitive Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) runs from his captors, the law and his past." [Update] A trailer for El Camino has been released and features a character talking about Jesse. It seems he's being interrogated by people looking for the meth cook, who has escaped captivity and is now on the run.
  
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• Breaking Bad Movie, El Camino, Is Coming To Netflix

  24-08-2019 23:28 via gamespot.com
  
  A movie that continues the story of AMC critically-acclaimed drama series Breaking Bad is on the way. A listing for "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" appeared on Netflix, with the description reading, "Fugitive Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) runs from his captors, the law and his past."According to the listing Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is writing and directing the movie. The New York Times reports that Netflix will officially announce the Breaking Bad movie on August 26 and then it will be
  
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• Retailers Dealt Another Blow as Trump Steps Up China Tariffs

  24-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. For American retailers, what Trump giveth, Trump taketh away.President Donald Trump’s administration, which said just 10 days ago it would delay until December some of its new tariffs on Chinese goods, has hit the retail sector with a new blow: The new levies will be raised to 15% from 10% as retaliation after China threatened to impose additional tariffs on $75 billion of
  
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• Britain will withhold $37 billion from EU in no-deal Brexit: Mail on Sunday

  24-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to tell European Union leaders he will withhold 30 billion pounds ($37 billion) from the Brexit divorce bill unless they agree to changes to the deal, the Mail on Sunday reported.If Britain leaves the bloc without a trade deal, lawyers have concluded the government's will only have to pay the EU 9 billion pounds, rather than 39 billion pounds, the newspaper reported.
  
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• Immigration: Baby girl in critical condition after illegal border crossing in Texas

  24-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A baby girl is in critical condition after being detained by the U.S. with her father. They had crossed the Rio Grande illegally in a group of 21 people.
  
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• Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military

  24-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said."The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (I
  
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• U.S. ‘Starting to Lose China,’ Says Global Times’ Hu Xijin

  24-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. China will follow through with retaliatory measures announced Friday and fight the trade war to the end, in the face of the U.S.’s failure to keep its promises, the state-run People’s Daily wrote in a Saturday editorial.Later, the influential Chinese journalist Hu Xijin said on Twitter that the U.S. is “starting to lose China.”On Friday, Beijing unveiled
  
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• Everything We Know About Disneyland's Avengers Campus

  24-08-2019 22:39 via gamespot.com
  
  The new Marvel-based theme park land is coming to Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim, as well as Disneyland Paris.It's been a pretty big year for new themed lands in Disney Parks. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge first opened its doors in Anaheim at Disneyland, followed by its Orlando location at Disney's Hollywood Studios, allowing park guests to experience a brand new interactive Star Wars story on an original planet named Batuu. But more than that, Galaxy's Edge set a brand new standard for Dis
  
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• First Jungle Cruise Trailers Shown At D23; Marvel At The Backside Of Water

  24-08-2019 22:32 via gamespot.com
  
  While there was plenty of Star Wars and Marvel news to talk about from the Walt Disney Studios panel during the 2019 D23 Expo, that's not all that was unveiled. Among the many titles teased for the D23 crowd was Jungle Cruise, which stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt. And yes, it's that Jungle Cruise--the iconic Disneyland boat ride--that is the basis of the movie.Johnson and Blunt were both on hand to talk about the film, bringing dueling trailers. Johnson put his character Frank,
  
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• Oregon defends past nonunanimous jury verdicts to high court

  24-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Oregon's criminal justice system would be "overwhelmed" if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in an upcoming case that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional, the state's attorney general has told the court.Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in an amicus brief on Friday that if the U.S. Supreme Court finds nonunanimous juries unconstitutional, it could invalidate hundreds or even thousands of convictions in Oregon.Oregon is the only state in America allowing 11-1 or 10-2 jury verdicts in c
  
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• Teenager may have infected Disneyland tourists with measles while visiting theme park, health officials warn

  24-08-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Disneyland visitors may have been exposed to measles after a teenager visited the theme park while she had the disease, public health officials have warned.A New Zealand girl travelled to the tourist spot and other popular southern California destinations last week despite being sick with the highly-infectious disease.
  
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• Revered as a saint by online extremists, how Christchurch shooter inspired copycat terrorists around the world

  24-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  “Brenton Tarrant was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed to be done.”Those were the words written by John Timothy Earnest shortly before he stormed a synagogue in Poway, California, and opened fire on the Jewish congregation.
  
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• Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play with a penguin because it's pure, uncut goodness

  24-08-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The world can be a cruel, unforgiving place. But, somehow, watching Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play and dance with a penguin makes everything just a little bit better. Even if only for a moment. On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a video of herself and her flipper-sporting friend engaged in a round of what looks to be playful dance. Seriously, it's adorable. The penguin is all the way in."A new day, a new friend," Ocasio-Cortez wrote of her encounter. Importantly, Ocas
  
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• Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country's northwest

  24-08-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A heavily fortified Turkish observation post in the northwestern village of Morek stood surrounded on all sides by Syrian troops Saturday, a testament to the rapid advance of President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria's northwest over the past three weeks as rebel defenses collapsed.Syrian authorities took a group of journalists to tour the observation post, several newly captured villages and the town of Khan Sheikhoun, which was a major rebel stronghold until it was taken by government forces ea
  
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• Evoking 1968, Joe Biden asks New Hampshire voters: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008?

  24-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Reflecting on a turbulent period in the late 1960s that included high-profile assassinations of prominent U.S. political figures, former VP Joe Biden asked voters in New Hampshire to imagine what would have happened if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008.
  
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• Trump’s Offer to Help N.Y. With Subway Baffles Governor's Office

  24-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he is ready to help New York extend the Second Avenue subway in New York City, an announcement that left even state Governor Andrew Cuomo baffled.“Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway,” President Donald Trump said in a tweet.Cuomo’s office on Saturday said that while the governor is involved in discussions with the president and the D
  
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• Felix Sater: Trump wanted to reveal my secret CIA, FBI work during the campaign

  24-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump wanted to reveal years of secret work that his one-time real estate adviser Felix Sater did for the CIA and FBI, Sater tells the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.
  
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• Divorcing Spouse Claims NASA Astronaut Committed Crime in Space: Report

  24-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA astronaut Anne McClain's former partner has accused her of committing identity theft from the International Space Station, according to a report.
  
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• Amidst Spider-Man And Sony Dispute, Tom Holland Appears At D23 For Pixar's Onward

  24-08-2019 20:41 via gamespot.com
  
  It has been a wild week for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it may lose one of its biggest characters--Spider-Man--because of a dispute between Sony and Disney over the rights. In the middle of the madness is actor Tom Holland who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU films. Regardless of the final outcome though, Holland showed up to D23 on Saturday to promote his upcoming Pixar movie, Onward, which is set for release in Spring 2020.The portion of the panel kicked off with a video. The mov
  
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• How Trump Fits Into the Long, Fraught History of the Relationship Between Israel and American Jews

  24-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Daniel Gordis, author of 'We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel,' talks to TIME
  
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• A man was training to get a gun permit. The instructor accidentally shot him, police say

  24-08-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The instructor, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department trainer, accidentally shot a student attending the class to get a concealed weapons permit.
  
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• Britain sends another warship to Gulf

  24-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A third British warship is heading to the Gulf, the Royal Navy announced Saturday, amid heightened tensions in the region.Britain has already sent the HMS Kent to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and is now redirecting the Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender from its mission to the Pacific.Britain outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.
  
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• 2020 Democratic presidential field begins to shrink

  24-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Christian Hanley and Kristen Hawn weigh in on the field of 2020 Democratic hopefuls as candidates begin to drop out of the race.
  
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• Will the real Mr. No-Deal step forward please?

  24-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  As world leaders touched down in the French seaside resort of Biarritz for the Group of Seven summit, the long-running tensions over Britain's departure from the EU got a tad personal.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Council president Donald Tusk each suggested that the other is bent on scuttling the chances that the UK will break away from the single market of 500 million with an agreement.
  
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• Black Widow Movie Footage Screened At D23

  24-08-2019 19:53 via gamespot.com
  
  During the D23 Movies panel, which gave us a look at Star Wars: Episode 9, as well as more info on Black Panther 2, and The Eternals, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were in for quite a treat when they got to see footage from the upcoming Black Widow movie.Set to release in 2020, those attending the panel learned that the movie is still filming as they watched an on-set video of Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, and Florence Pugh. The cast was on a helicopter saying they wanted to attend
  
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• The Latest: Iran imposes sanctions on US think tank

  24-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has imposed sanctions on the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its CEO for its role in promoting sanctions and "economic terrorism" against Iran.A Saturday report by Iranian media, including the semi-official Fars news agency, quoted a statement by Iran's Foreign Ministry as saying the foundation and its CEO Mark Dubowitz "intentionally" damaged vital interests of Iran through spreading lies and negative campaigning against Iran.
  
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• New Characters For Marvel's Eternals Confirmed, As Game Of Thrones Star Joins Cast Officially

  24-08-2019 19:43 via gamespot.com
  
  The cast of Marvel's Eternals just keeps on adding star power. This weekend, at Disney's D23 Expo, it was announced that both Kit Harington and Gemma Chan would be joining the cast.News of Harington's reported involvement in the MCU broke before the official announcement, prompting fans to speculate about every possibility, including the potential re-casting of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the wake of the Disney/Fox merge. Similarly, the news that Chan was being courted for the project broke earl
  
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• Britain sends another warship to boost presence in the Gulf

  24-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain is sending another warship to the Gulf to defend freedom of navigation, the defence minister said on Saturday, after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in the region.Tensions have risen between Iran and Britain after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker last month.
  
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• Star Wars Episode 9: New Footage And Poster Drops, Find Out The Details

  24-08-2019 19:37 via gamespot.com
  
  It's been a pretty big weekend for Star Wars fans, thanks to D23. The trailer for The Mandalorian dropped, and we learned more about the Obi-Wan TV series. Both of these are landing on Disney+ this fall. And during the Disney Movies panel at the convention on Saturday, those attending got to see new footage for Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker.Although the only people who actually got to watch the new footage were those who attended the panel, GameSpot's Chris E. Hayner was on the ground
  
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• Black Panther 2 Release Date Announced

  24-08-2019 19:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Black Panther director Ryan Coogler took the stage alongside Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige this weekend during Disney's D23 Expo to officially announce the release date for the upcoming Black Panther sequel--which, apparently, will not be officially called Black Panther 2.Whatever the sequel's real name may be, it will be hitting theaters as part of Marvel's ever-expanding Phase 4 efforts on May 6, 2022.That may seem far away--because it is. Coogler, who returns as writer and director for the
  
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• Israel arrests Palestinians after deadly West Bank blast

  24-08-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli security forces have arrested a number of Palestinians in the West Bank as part of a manhunt after an explosion that killed an Israeli teenager, the army said Saturday.The homemade bomb on Friday near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Ramallah, killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and wounded her father Eitan and brother Dvir.No Palestinian group took responsibility for the blast.
  
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• 2 women accused of shoplifting strollers and accidentally leaving their baby behind

  24-08-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two women were arrested for allegedly shoplifting baby strollers and accidentally leaving their own baby behind as they tried to get away.
  
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• Measles-stricken New Zealand girl visited Disneyland, other California destinations

  24-08-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenage girl from New Zealand sick with measles visited Disneyland and other popular tourist stops across Southern California earlier this month, possibly infecting others, local government health officials warned.The alert comes amid the worst outbreak of measles in the United States in a quarter century, with more than 1,200 cases reported across 30 states since October 2018, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
  
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• Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strain confirmed as 'superbugs' continue to worry experts

  24-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A strain of Salmonella found in beef and soft cheeses in the United States and Mexico has been found resistant to antibiotics, according to the CDC.
  
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• The Blame Game: Trump, Video Game Violence, And Following The Evidence

  24-08-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Following a pair of back-to-back mass shootings, some American politicians and pundits have once again turned their ire towards video games. The most high-profile of these was President Donald Trump, suggesting that video games contribute to a culture of violence that causes people to feel flippant with the sanctity of human life. However, he was far from the only or even the first politician to cast blame. But where does this reaction come from, and does the scientific evidence support it?Playi
  
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• Oninaki Review - Endless Cycles

  24-08-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The world of Oninaki has a complex and interesting relationship with death. For the people living in this realm, death is not just accepted, but sometimes even embraced, as they believe that they will be spirited onto their next life upon their passing. But sometimes people don't just go peacefully into reincarnation. They have unfinished business, lingering desires, or unbearable pain that prevents them from completing the cycle--and if they can't find relief, they may transform into terrifying
  
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• Fear grips Bangladesh camp as 2 Rohingya refugees killed

  24-08-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Bangladesh police said they had shot dead two Rohingya refugees during a gunfight in a refugee camp on Saturday after the pair were accused of killing a ruling party official.Nearly a million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southeast Bangladesh, 740,000 of whom fled a 2017 military offensive against the Muslim minority in Myanmar.The incident comes two days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees, which saw not a single Rohingya turn up to return across the border to conflict-
  
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• The first crime in space? Nasa investigates an unprecedented divorce case

  24-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The divorce case has details that are all too familiar - two partners at loggerheads, a young child caught in the middle and claims of financial malpractice.  Except there is a twist. The person accused of wrongdoing was in space.  In what is believed to be a first, Nasa is investigating whether one of its astronauts committed a crime while in orbit.  The person in question, Anne McClain, was taking part in a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station [ISS] when the
  
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• 'It was sarcasm': President Donald Trump changes course on 'chosen one' remark

  24-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  After raising eyebrows this week claiming he was "the chosen one" to take on China, President Donald Trump said he was being "sarcastic."
  
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• 'Red flag laws' offer tool for preventing some gun violence

  24-08-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  After a white supremacist discussed plans on Facebook for a mass shooting at a synagogue, police in Washington used a new law to quickly seize his 12 firearms, long before he was convicted of any crime.Family members and police routinely face agonizing decisions when otherwise lawful gun owners reveal an impulse to harm themselves or others, and more states are enacting laws that let authorities take away their weapons.With bipartisan support in many cases, 17 states and Washington D.C. have now
  
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• Montana is back among states without state-funded preschool

  24-08-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Montana enters the upcoming school year back among the handful of states without publicly funded preschool, and the unions and education groups that are otherwise staunch allies of Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock are a big reason why his fledgling pre-kindergarten program fizzled.The state briefly broke from those ranks with a 2017 budget item that provided funding for preschool programs through 10 school districts and seven private providers.Bullock, who is now running for the Democratic nominati
  
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• Trump to re-open US consulate in Greenland after being told it's not for sale

  24-08-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The US says it will reopen its consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades - just days after Denmark’s refusal to sell the region sparked a presidential tantrum.Donald Trump angrily pulled out of a state visit to Denmark and dubbed prime minister Mette Frederiksen “nasty” for telling him that his wish to buy Greenland was “absurd”.
  
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• Iceland Held Talks With U.S. Ambassador Over Pence Visit

  24-08-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Iceland’ prime minister is open to a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence during his trip to the Nordic island, should the visit be extended.The option was discussed during a pre-scheduled meeting on Friday between Katrin Jakobsdottir and ambassador Jeffrey Gunter, a government spokesman told Bloomberg.Jakobsdottir, a left-of-center feminist and LGBT advocate, is due to attend a conference by Nordic trade union leaders in Sweden on Sept. 4. That’s the same day in whi
  
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• A 6-month-old baby girl is in critical condition after being apprehended by US border agents near the Rio Grande

  24-08-2019 16:16 via news.yahoo.com
  CBP confirms that a 6-month-old baby girl was taken by helicopter to a hospital after crossing the Rio Grande into the US on Thursday with her father.
  
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• UK Hong Kong consulate worker Simon Cheng freed after detention in mainland China

  24-08-2019 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A British consulate employee in Hong Kong has been freed by China after being detained for 15 days on the mainland amid rising tensions between the former British colony and Beijing. Simon Cheng, 28, a trade and investment officer at the Hong Kong consulate’s Scottish Development International section, went missing on August 8 on his way back from a work trip in Shenzhen, a neighbouring Chinese city.  It was not until after the UK expressed “extreme concern” about his disa
  
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• Hong Kong police fire tear gas as clashes return to city streets

  24-08-2019 16:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong riot police on Saturday fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, in another tense bout of violence.The city has been gripped by three months of street protests that started against a proposed extradition bill to China but have spun out into a wider pro-democracy movement.An uneasy peace had descended this week but that was broken on Saturday as thousands of demonstrators -- many wearing hard hats and gas masks -- mar
  
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• Turkey says Syria safe-zone center with U.S. fully operational: Anadolu

  24-08-2019 15:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A joint Turkish-U.S. operation center to establish and manage a safe zone in northeast Syria is fully operational, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying on Saturday by the state-owned Anadolu news agency.Turkey and the United States agreed to set up the joint operations center for the proposed zone along Syria's northeastern border but gave few details, such as the size of the zone or the command structure of the forces that would operate there."The joint operation center has
  
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• 'I thought she was going to die': Parents separated from children after Mississippi ICE raids

  24-08-2019 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two weeks after massive ICE raids in Mississippi, multiple parents of young children remain in detention.
  
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