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• Migrant detention conditions in Texas 'the worst I've ever seen', admits Republican after reports of lice-infested children sleeping on floors

  23-06-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Conditions in Texas migrant detention centres are the “worst I’ve ever seen”, a Republican from the state has admitted, after reports from lawyers suggested children were enduring lice infestations, flu infections and nights sleeping on cold concrete floors.Representative Michael McCaul added that “at a minimum”, Congress should create a humanitarian aid package for young people being held near the US-Mexico border. He blamed a lack of action by politicians for the
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez and Steve King trade jabs over 'concentration camps' reference

  23-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop,” she tweeted.
  
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• Long Island man becomes 11th to die on Dominican Republic vacation

  23-06-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A pizzeria owner from Long Island has apparently become the 11th American tourist to die in nearly a year after or during a visit to the Dominican Republic.
  
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• University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Missing for Nearly a Week After Taking Lyft

  23-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  SLC Police DepartmentMackenzie Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, texted her parents on June 17 to let them know she had landed safely at the Salt Lake City airport, her father told Fox News. Nobody has heard from her in the week since. According to police, Lueck landed home from a trip around 1 a.m. She then ordered a Lyft to an unfamiliar address in North Salt Lake City, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. According to friends, Lueck’s phone has been off since she went missing,
  
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• The Latest: Istanbul mayor-elect greets tens of thousands

  23-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people attended an election night celebration after a repeated vote in Istanbul made an opposition candidate mayor-elect of Turkey's largest city.Ekrem Imamoglu spoke late Sunday after unofficial returns showed him more than 777,000 votes ahead of his opponent, who conceded defeat earlier in the night.
  
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• 11 Chadian soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack: authorities

  23-06-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  N'Djamena (AFP) - At least 11 Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists at Lake Chad, the latest in a surge of attacks in the region, authorities said on Sunday."The Chadian army lost 11 men including three officers... and six soldiers were wounded,"the regional authority told AFP.It added that Chadian forces killed "26 Boko Haram members" in fighting at Tchoukoutalia after the soldiers recovered cattle that the militants had seized.
  
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• Narco safe houses, ranches and luxury apartments auctioned in Mexico

  23-06-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Houses with swimming pools and escape tunnels, a ranch surrounded by hectares of land and a luxury apartment with a grisly history were among the 27 properties Mexico had seized from drug traffickers and others were auctioned on Sunday.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised that the proceeds from the auction of properties and land, which had been seized by previous governments, would go to aid marginalized communities in the poor and violent state Guerrero."[Buyers] will know tha
  
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• Member of armed border group charged with impersonation

  23-06-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who has been a spokesman for a small group of armed civilians patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border was charged with impersonating a U.S. officer or employee.An indictment returned Wednesday by a grand jury in New Mexico charged James Christopher Benvie, 44, of Albany, Minnesota, with two counts of false personation of a U.S. officer or employee, federal prosecutors said in a news release Friday.The news release from prosecutors does not provide details on the allegations, including what kind
  
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• Cruise ship rescues and mishaps: 6 times emergency struck on Royal Caribbean, Carnival, more

  23-06-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what happens when emergency strikes on the high seas, from norovirus on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Coast Guard airlifts from Carnival Pride.
  
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• House Oversight threatens to subpoena Kellyanne Conway

  23-06-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has cited Conway for multiple violations of the Hatch Act.
  
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• Skydiving plane in Hawaii crash was involved in previous terrifying incident

  23-06-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The skydiving plane that crashed in Hawaii on Friday, killing all 11 aboard, had been involved in a terrifying incident before that.
  
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• Bolton to Iran: Don't mistake US 'prudence' for weakness

  23-06-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  National security adviser John Bolton warned Iran that "no one has granted them a hunting license in the Middle East."
  
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• The Royal Navy on 31 Occasions in 2018 Intercepted Russian Warships

  23-06-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  British warships last year sortied to intercept Russian vessels sailing near U.K. waters at a rate twice what it was in 2013, U.K. Defense Journal reported.Royal Navy ships on 31 occasions in 2018 intercepted Russian ships, up from 12 occasions in 2013.The period of heightened Russian naval activity roughly coincided with Russia’s annexation of Ukraine in 2014, the Russian intervention in Syria in 2015 and escalating tensions between Russia and NATO along the North Atlantic alliance’
  
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• Netanyahu ready to 'consider' long-awaited US peace plan

  23-06-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he is ready to "consider" a US plan to resolve his country's long-running conflict with the Palestinians."We will consider the American proposal in a fair and open way," he said as he hosted US national security adviser John Bolton.The Palestinian leadership has already rejected the plan, citing US "bias" after the White House recognised bitterly divided Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
  
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• Trump calls picking Jeff Sessions for attorney general the 'biggest mistake' of presidency

  23-06-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  "I would say if I had one do over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general," Trump said.
  
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• TAKEAWAYS: In South Carolina, a new Democratic landscape

  23-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden has had a run of bad headlines that can befall a front-runner with a long record and bent toward free-wheeling ineloquence.A 36-year senator, Biden didn't apologize for recently recalling his dealings with racist "Dixiecrats" when illustrating his argument that Capitol Hill once functioned with comity.Biden said rivals — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who is black, demanded an apology — ignored the full context.
  
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• Indian soldiers recover bodies of 7 missing mountaineers

  23-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian paramilitary soldiers have reached the bodies of seven of eight members from a team of international climbers believed killed on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain, an official said Sunday. An administrator of Uttarakhand state, Vijay Jogdande, said the soldiers reached the bodies Sunday, but they had yet to be identified. Veteran British mountaineer Martin Moran led a team of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian on an expedition on Nanda Devi East.
  
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• Iran and US trade barbs ahead of new sanctions

  23-06-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and the United States, locked in a tense standoff after the US withdrew from a nuclear deal, traded barbs Sunday the day before the US tightens sanctions against the Islamic republic.Both sides say they want to avoid going to war, but tensions have spiralled as a series of incidents, including attacks on tankers and the shooting down of a US drone by Iran in the Gulf, raised fears of an unintended slide towards conflict.On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a US-made
  
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• Saudi minister says whatever the Palestinians accept, everyone else will accept

  23-06-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Saudi minister said on Sunday that improving the Palestinians' situation should be welcomed but that addressing the political process in resolving the conflict with Israel is "extremely important".Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir was responding to questions from broadcaster France 24 about U.S. proposals for economic development as part of the Middle East peace process.“I think anything that improves the situation of the Palestinian people is something that should be wel
  
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• 'Snow job': Palestinians reject economic portion of White House peace plan

  23-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  One official cast the plan as an effort to use funds from wealthy Arab countries “to kill the political aspirations of the Palestinian people.”
  
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• 'Officer down! Officer down!' Chilling footage reveals deadly shootout in Sacramento

  23-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A hearing is Monday for the man accused of killing a rookie Sacramento police officer in a fierce shootout captured on the bodycam of a fellow officer.
  
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• U.S. explores requiring domestic 5G equipment to be made outside China: WSJ

  23-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  As part of a 150-day review that started after cybersecurity concerns in the United States, officials are asking telecom equipment makers if they can develop U.S.-bound hardware including cellular-tower electronics as well as routers and switches, and software outside of China, the WSJ reported.In May, the Trump administration took aim at China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, banning the firm from buying vital U.S. technology without special approval and effectively barring its equipment from U.S.
  
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• Georgian protesters slam 'Putinism' as Moscow tensions soar

  23-06-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Georgian capital Tbilisi for a fourth day on Sunday as tensions rose between Moscow and its ex-Soviet neighbour.Some protest placards took aim at Bidzina Ivanishvili, the oligarch leader of the ruling party, believed by many to be the power behind the scenes in the Western-backed country of 3.7 million people.Others slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin who in response to the protests has banned Russian airlines from flying to Georgia and Geo
  
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• 'She's just lifeless': Ohio mom, day care owner have differing stories on death of 2-month-old girl

  23-06-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Danielle Townsend, the day care's owner, tells USA TODAY that the infant "died at the hospital from natural causes."
  
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• Erdogan's ruling party loses Istanbul election in major blow to Turkish president

  23-06-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The winner of the re-rerun of Istanbul's mayoral elections declared a "new beginning for Turkey" on Sunday after the ruling party's candidate lost the city for the first time in 25 years, in a major blow to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "It was not a single group or party, but the whole of Istanbul and Turkey that won this election," said Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), who received 54 per cent of the vote.  President Erdogan 
  
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• UPDATE 4-Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi airport, killing one, wounding 21 - Saudi-led coalition

  23-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement launched an attack on Abha civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday that killed one person and wounded 21 others, the Saudi-led coalition battling the group in Yemen said.Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV earlier said that the Iran-aligned movement had targeted Abha and Jizan airports in the south of the kingdom with drones attacks."A terrorist attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeted Abha airport, killing a Syrian resident and wounding 21 civilians," the coali
  
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• UPDATE 3-Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi airport, killing one expat, Saudi-led coalition says

  23-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement launched an attack on Abha civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday that killed one person and wounded seven others, the Saudi-led coalition battling the group in Yemen said.Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV earlier said that the Iran-aligned movement had targeted Abha and Jizan airports in the south of the kingdom with drones attacks."A terrorist attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeted Abha airport, killing a Syrian resident and wounding seven civilians," the
  
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• Syria says sabotage damaged underwater oil pipelines

  23-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Five underwater pipelines have been damaged and put out of order after a sabotage attack off the coastal town of Banias, Syria's oil ministry said Sunday.The damage was discovered after divers checked to see what was behind an oil leakage, the ministry said.Banias is home to one of Syria's two oil refineries.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Israel will consider U.S. Mideast plan, Palestinians to boycott

  23-06-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  RAMALLAH/JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank, June 23 (Reuters) - I srael's prime minister said on Sunday he would give U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan fair and open consideration, while the Palestinian president rejected the proposal.The two leaders were commenting, separately, about Trump's plan for the first time since details of its initial, economic, phase were revealed by Reuters on Saturday.Trump's team is formally unveiling the economic portion of the plan this week at a worksh
  
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• 1 killed, 10 injured in shooting at bar in South Bend, Indiana

  23-06-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  One man was killed and 10 others were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Bend, Indiana, according to police.
  
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• SpaceX Falcon Heavy: Why everyone should watch this night launch from Kennedy Space Center

  23-06-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The first night launch for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. Monday night.
  
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• Air Canada launches investigation after woman left 'all alone' in dark and empty plane after falling asleep on flight

  23-06-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Air Canada has launched an investigation after a woman was left alone in a dark and locked plane after falling asleep on a flight.Tiffani Adams described waking up “all alone” on a “cold, dark” aircraft after flying from Quebec to Toronto earlier this month.“I fell asleep probably less than halfway through my short 1.5 hour flight,” she said, in a message posted on Air Canada’s Facebook page.“I wake up around midnight (few hours after flight landed
  
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• ‘Obliteration’ could still come to Iran, Trump warns

  23-06-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite calling off a military strike against Iran, the U.S. is still poised to hit Iran hard after weeks of mounting tensions between the two countries, President Trump said on Sunday.
  
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• Pompeo heads to Saudi Arabia, UAE for Iran crisis talks

  23-06-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday he will visit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for talks on the crisis sparked by Iran's downing an American drone."We'll be talking with them about how to make sure that we are all strategically aligned and how we can build out a global coalition" on Iran, he said.Iran shot down a US Global Hawk drone on Thursday, saying it had violated its airspace near the strategic Strait of Hormuz -- a claim the United States denies.
  
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• Ethiopian, African Union mediation needs to be unified - Sudan military council

  23-06-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's ruling military council said on Sunday that Ethiopia and the African Union needed to unify their efforts to mediate between the council and an opposition coalition on the structure of the country's transitional government.The generals and the opposition coalition have been wrangling for weeks over what form Sudan's transitional government should take after the military deposed long-time president Omar al-Bashir on April 11.
  
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• Palestinian president Abbas says certain Bahrain conference will fail

  23-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday he was confident a peace conference this week in Bahrain would fail."We are certain that the workshop in Manama will not be successful," Abbas, who is boycotting the US-led conference focussed on the Palestinian economy, told journalists.The US government unveiled Saturday the economic part of its peace plan that it will present in Bahrain on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the aim of raising more than $50 billion for the Palestinians and creating one m
  
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• Trump: 'Surprise' question about Pence led him to hesitate

  23-06-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump says he hesitated to back a possible 2024 presidential run by Vice President Mike Pence because he was caught off-guard by the question.Given a chance at a do-over, however, Trump still did not endorse his loyal lieutenant."You can't put me in that position," Trump said June 14 when a host of Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" asked him about endorsing Pence should the vice president seek to succeed Trump in 2024.
  
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• Meet Scamp the Tramp, the messy-haired toothless canine just named the world’s Ugliest Dog

  23-06-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Last year's runner up in the annual Ugliest Dog Contest held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, was a messy-haired good boy with no teeth named Scamp the Tramp. No one actually knows what kind of breed he is, and it was clear before he got rescued in Compton -- where he'd been founding wandering around licking fast food wrappers -- that he'd had a hard life up to that point.Over the weekend, though, Scamp went from being a tramp to a champ. More specifically, he was named the winn
  
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• Iran crisis could 'spin out of control': ex-US military aide

  23-06-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A former top US military advisor warned Sunday that tensions with Iran "could spin out of control" after President Donald Trump's last-minute cancelation of air strikes on the Islamic republic.Trump has labeled Iran a danger and in May last year pulled the US out of an international accord on rewarding the country for allowing verification of its nuclear industry.
  
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• Air Canada reviewing how crew left passenger on parked plane

  23-06-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Air Canada said Sunday it's looking into how crew members could have disembarked from a plane without noticing a sleeping passenger who was left behind."I think I'm having a bad dream bc like seriously how is this happening!!?!" Tiffani Adams recounted in a June 19 Facebook post sent by her friend, Deanna Noel-Dale.The airline confirmed the incident took place but declined to comment on its disembarking procedures or how the passenger may have been overlooked.
  
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• Bear breaks into home, locks itself in laundry room, then goes to sleep in wardrobe before being drugged and removed by police

  23-06-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Sometimes, when life in the wild all gets a bit much, a clean cupboard in a warm home is a much more inviting place for a nap.A black bear broke into a family house, locked itself into a laundry room and then went to sleep on the wardrobe shelf, defying all efforts to lure it out.Police were unable at first to reach the furry intruder because it had managed to bolt the door from the inside as it ripped apart the homeowners’ belongings.When officers knocked on the window to wake the bear, i
  
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• Trump Sets Deadline for Asylum Changes, Vows Deportation Raids

  23-06-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump gave Democrats two weeks to work on immigration reform and stem the flow of migrants at the southern border, but cast doubt on getting action from Congress and vowed to go ahead with a roundup of people facing deportation.“I want to give the Democrats every last chance to quickly negotiate simple changes to Asylum and Loopholes,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday, referring to laws he’s seeking to change. “Probably won’t happen, b
  
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• Erdogan's party loses controversial re-run of Istanbul election

  23-06-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The opposition candidate in the controversial replay of Istanbul's mayoral election was headed for a comfortable victory on Sunday, dealing a blow to the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan's candidate, Binali Yildirim, conceded defeat as initial results showed his opponent ahead with 53.69 percent of the vote with more than 95 percent of ballots counted. "According to the result, as of now my competitor Ekrem Imamoglu is leading the race. I congratulate him and wish him
  
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• Trump says he'd rather face Biden, isn't prepared to lose

  23-06-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Sunday that he'd prefer to run for re-election against Joe Biden, suggesting that the former vice president won't be the "great candidate" Hillary Clinton was in 2016.Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Clinton was "very smart.Asked if he'd rather face Clinton again, the president said, "I would actually rather run against Biden" because "Sleepy Joe.
  
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• Ethiopia says military chief killed, regional coup failed

  23-06-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopia's military chief was shot to death by his bodyguard amid a failed coup attempt against a regional government north of the capital, Addis Ababa, the prime minister said Sunday.The abortive coup Saturday in the Amhara region was led by a high-ranking military officer and others in the armed forces, said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who addressed the nation on state TV at 2 a.m. while wearing fatigues.The soldiers attacked a building where a meeting of regional officials was taking place, sa
  
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• Iran silent on reports of US cyberattack on weapons systems

  23-06-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran warned the US against 'wrong behaviors' but made no mention of reports that Iranian military computers were the target of a cyberattack.
  
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• Robert E Lee statue removed from Dallas park sells for more than $1.4m

  23-06-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  It happened by city decree in the dark of night, or by civic demand at the hands of protesters. When the movement to reckon with Confederate symbols swept the nation, monuments that had long stood in city parks and on college campuses were suddenly dismantled.There was often no clear plan for the future, and few long-term solutions have emerged.Now, one city has settled on an unusual answer: Sell the statue to the highest bidder.A bronze statue of Robert E Lee on horseback that had sat in a Dall
  
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• Trump says 'I don't care about the Europeans' after questions on Iran crisis

  23-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said he “doesn’t care about the Europeans” when it comes to dealing with Iran as the feud between Washington and Tehran escalates.The US president said he had called off an attack against Iran in response to the shooting down of an American drone because he “didn’t think it was proportionate”.Yet Mr Trump also said the US military had identified Iranian targets for air strikes. “I have so many targets you wouldn’t believe …
  
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• Italy holds Netherlands, EU 'responsible' for migrant boat

  23-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he would hold the Netherlands and the European Union "responsible" for the fate of 42 migrants that Rome has blocked from disembarking at Italian ports for over a week.The Dutch-flagged rescue boat Sea-Watch 3 has been stuck in the Mediterranean since rescuing 53 migrants drifting in an inflatable raft off the coast of Libya on June 12.While 11 of those on board the Sea-Watch have been allowed to disembark -- including two pregnant women --
  
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• White House to assert ‘immunity’ claims over ex-McGahn aide

  23-06-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Judiciary Committee wants to hear from Annie Donaldson.
  
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