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• Slim chance of ever finding Chinese scholar's body

  19-07-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Brendt Christensen, a former doctoral student in physics at the University of Illinois, abducted Yingying Zhang in 2017 from a bus stop.In filings before the trial began in June, prosecutors acknowledged they considered a plea deal with Christensen after his arrest in late 2017 in which they would abandon plans to seek the death penalty if he divulged what he did with the remains and where they could be found.State and federal officials conducted widespread searches for Zhang's remains for month
  
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• Pocket-sized shark squirts glowing clouds from pockets

  19-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species.Researchers from around the Gulf and in New York have named the species the American pocket shark, or Mollisquama (mah-lihs-KWAH-muh) mississippiensis (MISS-ih-sip-ee-EHN-sis).It's only the third out of more than 500 known shark species that may squirt luminous liquid, said R. Dean Grubbs, a Florida State University scientist who was not involved in the research.
  
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• Britain will be considered but robust towards Iranian - Hunt

  19-07-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said London would respond in a considered but robust way to the seizure of a British tanker by Iranian guards, and warned that Tehran would be the biggest loser if freedom of navigation is restricted.Hunt said he had spoken to U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo to discuss the situation, and expected to speak to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, who he said was currently in a plane."This is completely unacceptable," Hunt said.
  
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• US offers $7 mn to find Hezbollah agent as Pompeo visits Argentina

  19-07-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Friday offered a $7 million reward to find a Hezbollah operative accused of masterminding a deadly 1994 attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sought to unite Latin American nations against the militants.Pompeo visited to mark the 25th anniversary of Argentina's deadliest attack, lighting a candle at the site of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association where a plaque lists the names of the 85 dead.
  
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• Judge rules against hedge funds that challenged 2016 Jarden deal

  19-07-2019 23:32
  A Delaware judge ruled against hedge funds on Friday that tried to get more cash out of Newell Brands Inc's2016 acquisition of consumer goods company Jarden Corp, the latest setback for a...
  
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• Power station fires knock out service on hot day in Madison

  19-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Fires at two transmission substations in Wisconsin's capital on Friday knocked out power to thousands of customers on the hottest day of the year to-date, sending dual plumes of thick, black smoke into the air and shutting down government buildings, courtrooms and businesses, and leading the governor to declare a state of emergency.No injuries were reported as a result of the 7:40 a.m. explosion and fire at the Madison Gas and Electric main power center a few blocks from the state Capitol, which
  
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• Lawyers: Actor is a victim, so special prosecutor not needed

  19-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for Jussie Smollett on Friday filed motions contending that because the actor was the victim of an attack earlier this year in Chicago a judge should reverse his decision to appoint a special prosecutor. Cook County Circuit Judge Michael Toomin named a special prosecutor to investigate why State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office dropped all charges alleging the "Empire" television series actor made up the attack to promote his career. "Not only have the media and the public failed to critical
  
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• Pittsburgh marks its 4th alligator sighting since May

  19-07-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A baby alligator was found far from the tropics in the parking lot of a grocery store outside Pittsburgh on Friday morning, the fourth alligator discovered near the city since May.An employee found the 2-foot-long (60-centimeter-long) creature near a garbage can at the Giant Eagle grocery store in Shaler, about 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh."It looks like a little baby alligator," Shaler Township Police Lt. Dave Banko told the Tribune Review newspaper.
  
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• Florida father allegedly zip-tied son to plywood and forced him to sleep without a mattress

  19-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida father was arrested after he allegedly used zip ties to strap his 13-year-old son to a piece of plywood
  
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• Venezuelan teen blinded by police fire still wants to study

  19-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Venezuelan teenager who lost his eyesight when he was hit by police buckshot during a protest said Friday that he wants to continue studying.Wearing reflective sunglasses, 16-year-old Rufo Chacón also spoke about difficult living conditions in his home state of Táchira, where he was injured during a demonstration over a lack of cooking gas early this month."You see continuous darkness," Chacón told journalists outside the Caracas office of Foro Penal, a human rights group.
  
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• US Detains Immigrant After He Spends Year in Seattle Church

  19-07-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  An immigrant who has spent the past year inside a Seattle church to avoid being deported to Mexico was detained after presenting himself to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
  
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• Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin complains about current U.S. lunar ability

  19-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  When President Donald Trump asked Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, what he thought about the United States' current ability to operate in space 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission, the ex-astronaut had a ready response."Actually, I've been a little disappointed over the last 10 or 15 years," Aldrin told Trump on Friday.With the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing being celebrated this week, Trump brought into the Oval Office the surviving astronauts from that missi
  
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• Immigrants seeking asylum leave home countries because of 'unlivable conditions'

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Eitan Pelen, manager of UNICEF USA's Child Migration & Protection, explains why immigrant families seek asylum and why action must be taken to protect them.
  
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• Charges dropped in case alleging girl's forced birth control

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Charges were dropped Friday against a woman accused of forcing her friend's 12-year-old daughter to get a birth control implant without the mother's permission.Online court documents show two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly endangering another person were withdrawn against 29-year-old Valerie Fullum.Fullum's attorney, Steve Townsend, said that the girl was never forced to get the implant, and that story was fabricated by others who want
  
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• Bernie Sanders defends staff pay after complaints his campaign isn't paying $15 an hour

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders defended his campaign’s compensation package after an article highlighted concerns that staffers weren't receiving the $15-an-hour wage he champions.
  
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• Trump victory on health plans advances effort to undo Obamacare

  19-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies that don’t meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled, advancing the government’s efforts to undo Obamacare.
  
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• Trump news: President responds to Iran seizing British ship, as he announces he spoke with Kanye West about A$AP Rocky

  19-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has responded to the Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard seizing at least one British oil tanker.After saying he was in talks with the UK, Mr Trump - who pulled America out of the Iran Nuclear Deal last year - said: "This only goes to show what I'm saying about Iran. Trouble. Nothing but trouble."The events come a day after Donald Trump said the US Navy "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, a claim Iran denied. In the midst of the international tensions, which have esca
  
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• Laws banning gay sex under challenge in tiny Caribbean nation

  19-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A gay man in the tiny Caribbean nation of Dominica filed a legal claim challenging its laws that ban gay sex and punish same-sex relations with prison terms and psychiatric confinement, a Canada-based rights group said on Friday.Dominica is one of nine Caribbean countries that outlaw gay sex, and taking down its ban could build momentum to address the anti-gay laws throughout the region, supporters said.The challenge seeks to prove the law violates Dominica's constitution that guarantees rights
  
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• 2.2 earthquake rattles Berks County, Pa.

  19-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A small earthquake was recorded in parts of Berks County on Friday.
  
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• Michelle Obama counters Trump: 'There's a place for us all'

  19-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Former First Lady Michelle Obama countered President Trump’s attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color by emphasizing the importance of America’s diversity.
  
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• Ahead of U.S. deadline, Mexico minister has fulfilled migration enforcement pledge

  19-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday that Mexico has followed through on its commitment to the United States to reduce migration from Central America, as a deadline in a bilateral pact approaches.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to travel to Mexico City to discuss migration and trade with Ebrard on Sunday, a day before the end of a 45-day period in which the Mexican government pledged to significantly lower the number of people trying to cross the U.S. border il
  
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• Baby's family mad about hospital bills in cut-from-womb case

  19-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago-area hospital says it regrets sending bills to the family of a baby boy who died about seven weeks after attackers cut him from his mother's womb.Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn sent bills for Yovanny Lopez's care that totaled about $300,000, said the family's lawyer, Frank Avila.Some bills even referred to Yovanny as "Figueroa, boy" — the last name of Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of orchestrating the attack on the baby's mother so that she could claim him as her o
  
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• Brazil alerted companies about U.S. embargo on Iran: Bolsonaro

  19-07-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The Brazilian government has been alerting local companies about the extent of sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran and the possible consequences in case of noncompliance, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday."There is this problem, the U.S. unilaterally imposed these sanctions on Iran.Brazilian companies have been informed by us about this situation and are running a risk there," Bolsonaro told reporters.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Britain says seizure of two vessels by Iran is unacceptable

  19-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain said Iran's seizure of a British-flagged vessel and a Liberian-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was unacceptable and called for freedom of navigation in the Gulf."I'm extremely concerned by the seizure of two vessels by Iranian authorities in the Strait of Hormuz," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said."I will shortly attend a COBR (national security) meeting to review what we know and what we can do to swiftly secure the release of the two vessels - a British-flagged vessel and a Lib
  
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• Mom, daughter accused in pregnant teen's murder now charged in her baby's death

  19-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspects are accused of killing a teen who carried her baby to full term before she was killed.
  
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• Trump Can’t Just Walk Away From ‘Send Her Back’

  19-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Last Sunday, President Donald Trump suggested that four Democratic congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S., “go back” to their ancestors’ countries. Despite a broad public outcry about the leader of the free world unleashing a timeworn racist trope, Trump refused to apologize or back away from his comments.On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to condemn Trump for “racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear
  
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• Man arrested after allegedly raping 4-year-old girl in McDonald's play area bathroom

  19-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Oklahoma authorities are investigating after a man allegedly raped a 4-year-old girl inside the bathroom of a McDonald's in Midwest City.
  
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• First Thoughts On The 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette C8

  19-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Here it is in all its glory: the highly anticipated eighth-gen Corvette.The Corvette C8 reveal was perhaps one of the most highly anticipated unveilings in recent automotive history. It also helps that the car was hyped up for years leading up to last night’s official event. The renderings, rumors, spy shots, leaks, and articles were flying out of the woodworks for years. Speculations ran wild and the forums were overflowing with commentary and images of what could be and what should be. W
  
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• Iran Seizes British Oil Tanker, Escalating Tensions With Western Powers

  19-07-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  GIUSEPPE CACACEIran’s military seized a British tanker in the Persian Gulf on Friday, further ratcheting up the tensions between Tehran and Western powers in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced via state-run news outlets that it had seized the British tanker Stena Impero “for failing to respect international maritime rules.”The seizure comes as an apparent response to Britain’s detention of an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gib
  
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• Iran Guards say they confiscated British tanker in Strait of Hormuz

  19-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had confiscated a British tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz for breaking "international maritime rules".The Stena Impero tanker "was confiscated by the Revolutionary Guards at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organisation when passing through the strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules," the Guards' official website Sepahnews announced.
  
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• Iran says U.S. may have shot down its own drone by mistake

  19-07-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran denied it lost a drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the United States said it had 'destroyed' an Iranian drone that was threatening a U.S. ship.
  
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• Apple’s iPhone 12 will pack a processor unlike anything else in the industry

  19-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Each new iPhone generation brings us a brand new Apple processor that is faster than ever, and much better than what the competition has to offer. The A12 chips that power the iPhone XS and 2018 iPad Pros are so fast that they can outperform most computers in benchmark tests. And that performance inspired many comparisons between the iPhone and MacBooks, further fueling speculation that Apple might soon launch MacBooks powered by its own ARM chips.The iPhone 11 phones that will be released in Se
  
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• Lawsuit: North Dakota officers used 'violence' on protester

  19-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Marcus Mitchell, 24, filed the lawsuit Thursday against Morton County, the city of Bismarck and state Highway Patrol officers.Highway Patrol spokesman Wade Kadrmas declined comment, citing pending litigation.A Morton County official didn't immediately respond to the Bismarck Tribune's request for comment Thursday.
  
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• Oklahoma man accused of raping 4-year-old girl in McDonald's bathroom

  19-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say the incident happened while the child was visiting the fast-food restaurant during a day care field trip.
  
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• Mueller probe witness now faces child sex trafficking charge

  19-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A businessman who served as a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation now faces a charge of child sex trafficking in addition to transporting child pornography.An indictment made public Friday in federal court in Alexandria charges Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, 60, with transporting a 14-year-old boy from Europe to Washington, D.C., in February 2000 and engaging in sex acts with him.It details his efforts to serve as liaison between a Russian banker close to R
  
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• Scarlett Keeling's Goa killer jailed for 10 years as mother welcomes 'closure' after long wait for justice

  19-07-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A Indian former bartender was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting and killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling on a beach in Goa in 2008. Scarlett's mother, Fiona MacKeown, 55, said she felt “relieved” and it was a “kind of closure” after waiting 11 years for justice. The Bombay High Court at Goa sentenced Samson D’Souza, 39, after convicting him on Wednesday of administering drugs to 15-year-old Scarlett, sexual assault, culpable homi
  
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• Russia's Military Is Transforming (And Getting Stronger) Right Before Our Eyes

  19-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  At a meeting of the military-industrial commission in Moscow in September 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed the Ministry of Defense to organize work on the creation of the Military Innovative Technopolis ERA (MIT ERA).In an age of cyber security and artificial intelligence, it is only fair to assume that the technological sophistication of warfare has been upgraded as well. Russia has made headlines for orchestrating an international campaign of information warfare, courtesy
  
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• Murderer deemed too old for prison released early, kills again

  19-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Albert Flick first landed in prison in 1979, when he was found guilty of stabbing his wife to death in front of her young daughter. Now, the 77-year-old, who a judge previously deemed too old to pose a threat, has been sentenced to prison again for a nearly identical crime.
  
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• Dems ask whether DOJ memo prevented prosecuting Trump for hush payments

  19-07-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  “The Office of the President should not be used as a shield for criminal conduct," Cummings says.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Democratic candidates raise funds off 'Send her back' chant at Trump rally

  19-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid outrage over the chant, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke and other Democratic groups are using the episode in their fundraising emails.
  
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• Klipsch home speakers unlike anything you’ve seen before are down to all-time low prices, today only

  19-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  What, you thought that all the great deals on Amazon were done now that Prime Day is over? Psssshhhh, fat chance! Amazon is running a killer one-day sale on Friday with all-time low prices on Klipsch home speakers that are unlike anything you've ever seen before. Of course, this is Klipsch we're talking about here, so these speakers sound just as good as they look. Klipsch R-24F Floorstanding Speaker retail for $220 a piece, but they're down to just $139.99 each right now. Want the matching subw
  
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• U.S. intelligence chief creates election security position

  19-07-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who has drawn criticism from President Donald Trump for assessments that countered his policies, said on Friday he was creating a new position to focus solely on U.S. election security."Election security is an enduring challenge and a top priority for the IC (international community)," Coats said in a statement.Coats said he had tapped Shelby Pierson, the DNI's crisis manager for election security during the 2018 congressional elections, for the job.
  
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• Israeli ambassador says Omar and Tlaib will be allowed in country

  19-07-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar said the pair are set to visit the country in the coming weeks and has introduced a new resolution supporting the right of Americans to boycott Israel.
  
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• Chevrolet Unveils the All-New, Next-Generation Corvette

  19-07-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The American automaker released the eighth generation of its famed two-seat sports car, and with it comes a nice surprise—the engine is now behind the seats
  
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• UPDATE 6-Britain says Iran seizes two oil tankers in Gulf, Iran says captured one

  19-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON/DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had captured the British-flagged Stena Impero, announcing the move two weeks after the British navy seized an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Iranian forces say they seized British-flagged oil tanker in Gulf

  19-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON/DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian vessel this month, ratcheting up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.Britain said it was urgently seeking information about the Stena Impero after the tanker, which had been heading to a port in Saudi Arabia, suddenly changed course after passing through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf.
  
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• Trump says he is seeking the release of rapper A$AP Rocky at Melania’s request

  19-07-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The president said he had never heard of rapper A$AP Rocky until his wife asked him to help free him from prison in Sweden.
  
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• British-flagged tanker seized by Iran in escalation of Gulf tensions as second ship also veers off course

  19-07-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A British-flagged oil tanker was seized by Iran on Friday night and was heading towards a Revolutionary Guard base, in a major escalation of tensions in the Gulf. The Stena Impero had been en route to Saudi Arabia but made an abrupt change of course and began moving towards the Iranian island of Qeshm, according to data relayed by maritime tracking services. The ship “went dark”, meaning its identification system was turned off, at 16:29 UK time and nothing has been heard from her or
  
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• EU plans to offer Boris Johnson no-deal Brexit extension: The Guardian

  19-07-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  "It will be described as a technical delay to save Boris from political embarrassment but then we will have time to find an agreement," a senior EU diplomat told the newspaper http://bit.ly/2xWScq9.Johnson could maintain the stance of being on course to leave EU without an agreement while keeping open the option of coming to a deal with the bloc, according to the proposal cited by the Guardian.EU leaders are discussing steps to be taken in the event Johnson presses ahead with exiting the Europea
  
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• Strong quake hits near Greek capital of Athens, 4 hurt

  19-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A strong earthquake centered northwest of Athens shook Greece on Friday, causing frightened residents to run into the capital's streets and damaging several buildings.The Athens Institute of Geodynamics gave the earthquake that struck at 2:13 p.m. local time (1113 GMT) a preliminary magnitude of 5.1.The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude of 5.3.
  
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