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• G7 leaders vow to help Brazil fight fires, repair damage

  25-08-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers got ready to join the fight against blazes that have caused global alarm.German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country and others will talk with Brazil about reforestation in the Amazon once fires there have been extinguished."Of course (this is) Brazilian territory, but we have a question here of the rain
  
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• Bat poo no longer blights church and interrupts service, as worshippers rejoice over new scheme

  25-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Enticing the next generation through their ancient doors, keeping donations topped up and ensuring that the organ is tuned usually rank high among any church’s list of priorities. For one congregation in Leicester, however, their problems have been somewhat more ungodly. For years, members of All Saints Church in Braunston-in-Rutland have been plagued by faeces dropping from the ceiling where a 500-strong colony of bats now reside.  This has meant that instead of praying or enjoying t
  
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• Authorities: Los Angeles deputy lied about sniper assault

  25-08-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Los Angeles County deputy lied when he said he was shot in the shoulder while standing in a sheriff's station parking lot last week and will face a criminal investigation, authorities said. "The reported sniper assault was fabricated" by Deputy Angel Reinosa, Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon said at a news conference late Saturday. Reinosa, 21, made a frantic radio call Wednesday claiming he'd been shot by someone in a nearby building as he walked to his car outside the Lancaster station, prompti
  
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• Majority of Americans ‘Angry’ at Political System, Poll Shows

  25-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Amid an escalating trade war, fears of an economic downturn and a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls, a majority of Americans are simply “angry” at the U.S. political system, a new poll showed on Sunday.An NBC News and The Wall Street Journal survey asked 1,000 adults how much they agreed with the statement they “feel angry because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in W
  
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• Saudi intercepts six Yemen rebel missiles: coalition

  25-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia intercepted six missiles fired by Yemeni rebels at the southern city of Jizan on Sunday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, as the insurgents escalate cross-border attacks.The missiles fired by the Iran-aligned Huthis targeted civilians in Jizan, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.The rebels' Al-Masirah television said the Huthis had launched 10 "Badr 1" ballistic missiles targeting military aircraft and apache helicopters in Jizan airpo
  
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• Driver kicks pregnant woman in stomach during fight at Chick-fil-A, police say

  25-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The pregnant woman tried to pull in front of her in the drive-thru lane, police said.
  
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• Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack

  25-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid.The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based near Al-Qaim about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Iraq's western desertic border with neighbouring Syria.It is the latest in a string of suspicious explosions and drone sightings at Hashed bases that have sparked concern of a pos
  
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• Innocent man jailed for 82 days and loses jobs for bringing three jars of honey back to US

  25-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea.Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favourite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.
  
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• Hezbollah chief threatens Israel after Beirut 'drone attack'

  25-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Hezbollah on Sunday threatened Israel after a "drone attack" on the Lebanese Shiite movement's Beirut stronghold, vowing to "do everything" to thwart future attacks.Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States, is a major political actor in Lebanon and a key government backer in war-torn Syria.The Shiite movement and Israel, which have fought several wars, have upped their belligerent rhetoric in recent months.
  
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• The Latest: French, US officials talk tech tax at dinner

  25-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Taxes on tech giants and a French wine dispute are on the menu at a special dinner with top White House and French officials at the G-7 summit.A French official says French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire invited U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. trade representative Robert Lightizer and White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow to dinner Sunday night in the French resort of Biarritz.U.S. President Donald Trump is dining with other world leaders nearby.
  
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• A Georgia attorney thought a man hit his Mercedes with a golf ball. He ran him over and killed him, DA says

  25-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  An Atlanta attorney has been charged with murder after he allegedly struck and killed a real estate investor he says hit his car with a golf ball.
  
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• Hong Kong police drew their guns and fired a warning shot after being chased by protesters

  25-08-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A weekend of violent clashes between protestors and police in Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong ended with drawn guns amid pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
  
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• Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war

  25-08-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.-China trade war as leaders at a global summit pushed the unpredictable American president to ease frictions over tariffs and cooperate on other geopolitical challenges.Trump's head-snapping comments at the Group of Seven summit about his escalating trade fight with China — first expressing regret, then amping up tariff threats — represented just the latest m
  
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• Seven people shot at two-year-old’s birthday party in Washington DC suburb

  25-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven people have been left hospitalised after a shooting at a two-year-old’s birthday party in a suburb of Washington DC.Police believe the incident, which took place on Saturday at around 9pm local time (1am GMT), may have been sparked by an “exchange of words” between party-goers and a bystander who had approached the group.
  
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• Disney Details Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Resort Experience At D23

  25-08-2019 21:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Disney has finally revealed details of the upcoming Star Wars hotel, the Galactic Starcruiser, a virtual space cruise experience that will send guests from Disney World in Orlando, Florida to a galaxy far, far away aboard a ship called The Halcyon.The experience will last two nights and two days, and is designed for all intents and purposes feel like you're on a cruise ship in space. Of course, anyone who's actually been on a cruise and stayed inside an interior room with no view of the ocean ou
  
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• Disney World's Guardians Of The Galaxy Ride: Name And Details Revealed At D23

  25-08-2019 20:47 via gamespot.com
  
  Disney World in Orlando is getting its very own Guardians of the Galaxy ride as an answer to Disneyland's Guardians Of The Galaxy: Mission Breakout in Disney's California Adventure--and it won't be a re-skin of an already existing attraction.During the presentation at Disney's D23 Expo, the first details were revealed, including the name and story. A high-speed indoor roller coaster, Guardians Of The Galaxy Cosmic Rewind will take park guests from Earth to Xandar and back in a ship belonging to
  
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• China Signals Intervention as Hong Kong’s Protests Intensify

  25-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- China sent the strongest warning yet of using troops on Hong Kong’s streets where Beijing says protests have turned into a “Color Revolution,” with water cannons and tear gas fired in skirmishes between police and demonstrators in the 12th straight weekend of unrest.“It’s not only China central government’s authority but also its responsibility to intervene when riots take place in Hong Kong,” the state-run Xinhua News Agency said Sunday i
  
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• 2020 decisions don't have to be either far left or road to hell: Today's Toon

  25-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
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• Lindsey Graham warns Trump not to pull all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan

  25-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has long been eager to withdraw American troops out of the country.
  
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• California Adventure Avengers Campus MCU Ride Will Take Guests To Wakanda

  25-08-2019 20:31 via gamespot.com
  
  Disney has made plenty of announcements throughout this year's D23 expo, but the company saved some reveals for Sunday. During the Disneyland parks panel, they shed some light on one of the new attractions headed to the upcoming Avengers Campus in the California Adventure park.The ride, which will be part of the Avengers Campus phase 2, will be based on the Black Panther corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but will feature many of the Avengers, not just T'Challa himself. It will open with a
  
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• First Details Of Disneyland's Spider-Man Ride Revealed

  25-08-2019 20:16 via gamespot.com
  
  The first details about Disneyland's upcoming Marvel-themed land, Avengers Campus, have arrived thanks to Disney's D23 Expo, including the first details of the new Spider-Man attraction W.E.B. or the "Worldwide Engineering Brigade." The ride will feature "web-slinging vehicles" and Spider-Bots, developed by Peter Parker, which are glitching during the ride's story.Developing...
  
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• First Details Of Disneyland's Avengers Campus Spider-Man Ride Revealed

  25-08-2019 20:16 via gamespot.com
  
  The first details about Disneyland's upcoming Marvel-themed land, Avengers Campus, have arrived thanks to Disney's D23 Expo, including the first details of the new Spider-Man attraction W.E.B. or the "Worldwide Engineering Brigade."The ride will feature "web-slinging vehicles" and Spider-Bots, developed by Peter Parker, which are glitching out during the ride's story.Concept art for the new ride vehicles was shown during the presentation, teasing some of the ride's interactive features which wil
  
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• Seven dead in Majorca air crash as sightseeing helicopter collides with ultralight plane

  25-08-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven people, including two children, died when a sightseeing helicopter and an ultralight aircraft crashed in mid-air over Majorca. The helicopter had three adults and two children on board, all of whom were killed. According to the Balearic Islands government it was believed they were all German. However, a local report suggested one of them may have been Italian. Two men in the ultralight, who were local to Majorca, also died. An ultralight is a form of small aircraft with only one or two sea
  
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• WRAPUP 5-Hezbollah leader says Israeli army to face quick retaliation to drone "attack" in Beirut

  25-08-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned the Israeli army stationed along the border with Lebanon that his movement was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli drones which crashed overnight in a suburb of Beirut.Nasrallah, whose Iran-backed movement fought a one-month war with Israel in 2006, issued the toughest warnings to his enemy in years.
  
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• Iranian official Javad Zarif arrives unexpectedly at G7 amid tensions. Trump's response? 'No comment'

  25-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian official Mohammad Zarif arrived unexpectedly at the G7 meeting in France, a dramatic move that seemed likely to highlight U.S. isolation.
  
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• Hezbollah leader: Israeli drones over Lebanon will be downed

  25-08-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah said Sunday that his group will confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace from now on, raising the potential for conflict amid heightened regional tensions.Hassan Nasrallah also vowed to retaliate to an Israeli airstrike inside Syria that took place hours earlier, which he said killed two Hezbollah members.Nasrallah's speech came after one alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut, landing o
  
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• Explainer: Why are the Amazon fires sparking a crisis for Brazil - and the world?

  25-08-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A record number of fires ravaging the Amazon has drawn international outrage because of the rainforest's importance to the global environment and prompted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to dispatch the military to assist in firefighting.WHY DOES THE AMAZON MATTER?The Amazon - 60% of which is in Brazil - is the world's largest tropical rainforest.
  
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• Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensions

  25-08-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.Since the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year, there has been an increasing tempo of attacks and alleged threats, notably this weekend, from unmanned aircraft flown by Tehran's and Washington's allies in the region.The appeal of the aircraft — they risk no pilots and can
  
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• Tropical Storm Dorian is expected to turn into a hurricane this week. Here's where the storm is heading.

  25-08-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Dorian in the Atlantic is expected to strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane this week. A watch has been projected for Barbados.
  
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• Joe Biden is my Harvard, not my 'safety school.' He really is my favorite 2020 Democrat.

  25-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Pundits say there's no enthusiasm for Joe Biden. Why is it so hard to believe that many people, including me, like him best of all the 2020 Democrats?
  
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• Bolivia president does about-face and will now accept aid to put out wildfires

  25-08-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Bolivian President Evo Morales did an about-face on Sunday and said he was now open to international aid to fight the blazes that have engulfed rural villages and doubled in size since Thursday.Morales is also suspending his campaign for re-election for at least a week, just two months from election day, to focus on the wildfires."There have been offers of aid," Morales told reporters on a tour of some of the impacted areas.
  
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• White House insists Trump has authority to block American companies from doing business in China

  25-08-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow asserted President Trump’s threat to block trade between private Americans businesses and China, saying he has “emergency economic power authority” to do so.
  
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• British Airways Bank Holiday chaos as thousands of travellers spend hours on phone trying to salvage plans

  25-08-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways was accused of "ruining" the bank holiday weekend as thousands of holidaymakers attempted to salvage their travel plans in the wake of the planned pilots' strike. Passengers vented their fury at the airline on Sunday as some claimed they spent up to four hours on the phone trying to contact the airline's customer services department to cancel or reschedule their booked flights.  Exasperated traveller Ben Pywell told the BBC he called British Airways on more than 200 occasion
  
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• British Airways Bank Holiday chaos as thousands of holidaymakers spend hours on the phone trying to salvage plans

  25-08-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of British Airways passengers faced Bank Holiday chaos as they spent hours on the phone trying to rebook cancelled flights in the wake of the pilot strike. The pilots are on 9, 10 and 27 September, but the airline also told customers with tickets booked on other days that their flights were cancelled. However, it later admitted that these emails were sent in error, after many passengers had already rebooked flights at their own expense. As so many passengers were affected, the pho
  
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• Donald Trump Upstaged at G7 By Foreign Minister of ... Iran

  25-08-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeff J Mitchell/ReutersIt looked like President Donald Trump was set up for a diplomatic ambush at the Group of Seven summit on Sunday when Iran’s foreign minister suddenly flew into town.The arrival of the smooth-talking Javad Zarif at the elegant French beach resort of Biarritz, where the leaders of the seven most industrialized democracies are gathered, underscored a key conflict between Trump and the rest about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. ‘Absolute Amate
  
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• The Latest: Hezbollah leader: Israeli drones will be downed

  25-08-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that fly over Lebanon from now on.Hassan Nasrallah's speech Sunday came hours after one alleged Israeli drone crashed in the capital, Beirut, while another exploded, authorities there said.
  
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• Prince Andrew took flight on Epstein private jet with Russian model

  25-08-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  In 1999, prince and Anna Malova were among nine people on previously undisclosed flight from the US Virgin Islands to FloridaPrince Andrew in 2013. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/APPrince Andrew took a previously undisclosed flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with a group that included a Russian model.Andrew and Anna Malova, then 27, were among nine people on Epstein’s plane for a trip from the US Virgin Islands to Florida in February 1999, according to flight logs.Malova was later j
  
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• Prince Andrew took a flight on Epstein private jet with Russian model

  25-08-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  In 1999, prince and Anna Malova were among nine people on previously undisclosed flight from the US Virgin Islands to FloridaPrince Andrew in 2013. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/APPrince Andrew took a previously undisclosed flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with a group that included a Russian model.Andrew and Anna Malova, then 27, were among nine people on Epstein’s plane for a trip from the US Virgin Islands to Florida in February 1999, according to flight logs.Malova was later j
  
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• Merkel Defends Macron's Zarif-to-Biarritz Gambit: G-7 Update

  25-08-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Group of Seven leaders have gathered in Biarritz, France and the host, French President Emmanuel Macron, has just pulled a massive surprise on his guests by inviting the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.Merkel Defends Macron Decision to Fly in Zarif (6:39 p.m.)As news of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s lightning visit to Biarritz was still sinking in, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rode to Macron’s rescue. She espoused the French line that it is a meeting o
  
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• Hezbollah leader says Israel should be on high alert after Beirut, Syria attacks

  25-08-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah vowed to down any Israeli drones in Lebanese airspace and warned Israel's military to be ready for a response after what he said was an Israeli drone attack in Beirut on Sunday.Hassan Nasrallah's words also followed overnight strikes claimed by Israel that he said killed two members of Hezbollah forces in Syria.
  
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• Red Summer 1919: Tree memorializing black Americans killed in Elaine, Arkansas, cut down

  25-08-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A tree memorializing the African American lives lost in a 1919 massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, was chopped down this week in a possible hate crime.
  
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• Exclusive: Iran says it will not negotiate missile work, wants to export more oil

  25-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran wants to export a minimum of 700,000 barrels per day of its oil and ideally up to 1.5 million bpd if the West wants to negotiate with Tehran to save a 2015 nuclear deal, two Iranian officials and one diplomat told Reuters on Sunday.A second official said "Iran's ballistic missile program cannot and will not be negotiated.
  
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• Johnson acknowledges touch and go prospects for Brexit deal

  25-08-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Sunday that the prospect of a Brexit deal was "touch and go," as other European Union capitals grasp the problems Britain has with the withdrawal agreement.Speaking on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, Johnson said that in the last few days, following visits to France and Germany, it has dawned on the EU what "the shape of the problem is for the U.K." Among the key issues is how to prevent the return of a border between EU member Ireland a
  
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• CNN’s Brian Stelter: ‘We Can't Tiptoe’ Around Trump’s Mental Instability ‘Anymore’

  25-08-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter called on media outlets to focus more coverage on what he feels is President Trump’s obvious mental instability, saying Sunday morning that it is an issue we can no longer “tiptoe around.”“He’s getting worse,” Stelter said at the top of his weekend show focussing on the media CNN’s Reliable Sources. “We can see it. It’s happening in public but it’s still a very hard, very sensitive story to c
  
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• Violent deaths of Venezuelans in Colombia on the rise: report

  25-08-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An average of one Venezuelan died violently in Colombia each day in the first seven months of 2019, Colombia's forensic science institute said in a report, a trend that may worsen as immigration increases.More than 1.4 million Venezuelans have migrated to Colombia in recent years, fleeing a deep political and economic crisis that has caused long-running shortages of food and medicines.According to a study from the institute, shared with Reuters on Sunday, 233 Venezuelan people were killed betwee
  
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• California parents charged with hate crime after allegedly assaulting boy found in daughter's closet

  25-08-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  According to San Bruno Police the 15-year-old's biological dad Luisandor Suarez, her mom Haydee Arguello and step-dad Wilfredo Amaya physically abused a 17-year-old African American boy for 30 minutes and threaten to kill him with a deadly weapon after finding him in his daughter's closet.
  
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• OCSD deputy dies 6 years after collapsing during training, never regaining consciousness

  25-08-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  An Orange County deputy died six years after collapsing and losing consciousness, officials said.
  
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• White House insists Trump not having second thoughts on China trade war

  25-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  * Asked he is rethinking tariffs, president says: ‘Sure. Why not?’* Press secretary: Trump regrets not raising tariffs higherDonald Trump admitted on Sunday to having second thoughts about raising tariffs against China, sparking brief hopes of a possible truce in the trans-Pacific trade war. But his spokeswoman later insisted the only regret the president had was not imposing even greater tariffs.It appeared to be the latest incident in a White House pattern, in which Trump appears t
  
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• Correction: Red Flag Laws story

  25-08-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story Aug. 24 about red flag laws, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an officer was fatally shot by a man while serving a warrant to take his guns away last year under Maryland's new law.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.With bipartisan support in many cases, 17 states and Washington D.C. have now passed "red fla
  
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• 200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps

  25-08-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees.During the brutal August 2017 offensive, around 740,000 of the Muslim minority escaped Myanmar's Rakhine state -- joining those who had fled earlier persecution.A total of nearly one million refugees now live in three dozen squalid camps in Bangladesh's southeastern border district of Cox's Bazar.
  
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