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• US approves $3.3bn sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan

  27-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally.Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said.The sale came as North Korea is expanding its offensive missile capabilities, having proven over the past two y
  
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• Prostitute Arrested in Connection to Deaths of 3 Men, Apparently Including NY Chef: Officials

  27-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A prostitute has been arrested on drug charges in connection to the deaths of three men, officials say.
  
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• Trump administration leaves menstruating migrant girls ‘bleeding through’ underwear at detention centres, lawsuit claims

  27-08-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant girls being held by the Trump administration are being given only very limited access to items as basic as sanitary pads and tampons, according to a lawsuit that claims to put fresh light on the “appalling” conditions being endured by youngsters.Earlier this year, it was revealed children being held in facilities in Texas operated by immigration authorities, were being detained in circumstances United Nations (UN) human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said appalled her. Childr
  
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• Federal judge blocks Missouri's 8-week abortion ban

  27-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won't take effect Wednesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked it from being implemented.U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court, which could take months.Missouri already has some of the nation's most restrictive abortion regulations.
  
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• Puerto Rico braces for rain, power outages as Dorian nears

  27-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Jorge Ortiz, a 50-year-old construction worker, was taking no chances as Tropical Storm Dorian approached Puerto Rico on Tuesday and threatened to hit the island's western and central region at near-hurricane strength.Wiping sweat from his brow, Ortiz climbed up a shaky ladder under the punishing morning sun and tied down pieces of zinc that now serve as his roof because Hurricane Maria ripped the second floor off his house when the Category 4 storm hit in September 2017."They told me I didn't q
  
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• 'I'm just humiliated': Black homeowner in underwear handcuffed by N.C. police after false alarm

  27-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Kazeem Oyeneyin, a black North Carolina homeowner, was handcuffed by police and taken out of his home in his underwear after a false alarm.
  
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• Biden campaign does damage control after electability takes hit in recent poll

  27-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Two new polls do show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden back on top, but is the damage already done? Reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Epstein accusers detail sexual abuse claims in emotional court hearing

  27-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein wept in court Tuesday as they told an extraordinary US hearing held weeks after his death how they were sexually abused by the disgraced financier.Epstein, 66, hung himself in his New York prison cell earlier this month while awaiting trial on charges he trafficked young women for sex, depriving alleged victims of their day in court.It was the first time most of the women had spoken publicly about Epstein.
  
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• 'Robbed of our day in court': Accusers rip 'coward' Jeffrey Epstein in court hearing Tuesday

  27-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein is dead, so women who say the wealthy financier sexually abused them urged prosecutors to target co-conspirators and associates
  
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• Warning about rare mosquito-borne virus Triple E after uptick in cases

  27-08-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Several states, including New Jersey, are now reporting an uptick in cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, also called Triple E. And now, one woman has died.
  
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• Palestinian Harvard student says US nixed visa after social media search

  27-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Palestinian teenager admitted to Harvard University said he was detained for hours at Boston's airport and refused entry into the United States after officers disapproved of his friends' political comments on social media. Ismail Ajjawi, who lives in Lebanon, said that an officer also asked him about his religion during eight hours of questioning Friday at Logan International Airport, according to an account he provided to the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.
  
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• Thailand May Be First in Southeast Asia to Allow Same-Sex Unions

  27-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- In Thailand, the ruling coalition and opposition lawmakers don’t agree on much. Yet within both camps there’s growing support for legalizing same-sex unions.Seven years of work has yielded a draft bill that is near the final stage of approval in parliament. If passed, Thailand would be the first in Southeast Asia to allow such unions, and the second in Asia after Taiwan, which legalized them in May.The law in Thailand wouldn’t go as far as endorsing marriage yet
  
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• Two Palestinians dead in Gaza blast: officials Israeli aircraft strikes Gaza after Palestinian mortar fire

  27-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Palestinian policemen were killed and another person was injured in an explosion in Gaza City Tuesday night, Palestinian officials said."Two people were killed and another injured in an explosion of unknown origin, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.An interior ministry statement said both the dead men were policemen and that Gaza security forces had launched an investigation.
  
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• Trump administration moves millions from FEMA disaster relief to fund ICE

  27-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration will shift $155m in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum-seekers from Mexico, new documents show.A letter sent by California congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard showed that the Department of Homeland Security plans to reappropriate a total of $271m, including the FEMA funds.
  
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• OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reportedly offering opioid settlement up to $12B

  27-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is reportedly offering a settlement worth up to $12 billion to resolve claims over its role in the opioid crisis.
  
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• Harvard freshman deported after officials ‘find posts from his friends that oppose the US'

  27-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese freshman student beginning classes at Harvard University next month was deported on Friday night after he was “deemed inadmissible” by US immigration officials during an inspection at Boston Logan International Airport.Ismail Ajjawi, 17, said in a written statement obtained by the Harvard Crimson that he was subjected to hours of interrogation by US Customs and Border Protection officials who also searched through his phone and computer devices.
  
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• 'Not nice!': Trump denies rumors of bedbugs at resort he's promoting for G7

  27-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Rumors seem to stem from a 2016 lawsuit alleging an infestation at Trump National Doral brought by New Jersey insurance executive The Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida.Photograph: Michele Eve Sandberg/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has reacted angrily to what he called “false and nasty” rumors that his Miami golf club – the same club he is enthusiastically promoting as the location for the next G7 meeting of global leaders – has a problem with bloodsucking bedbugs.&ldq
  
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• Epstein accusers detail sexual abuse in emotional court hearing

  27-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein wept in court Tuesday as they told an extraordinary US hearing held weeks after his death how they were sexually abused by the disgraced financier.Epstein, 66, hung himself in his New York prison cell earlier this month while awaiting trial on charges he trafficked young women for sex, depriving alleged victims of their day in court.It was the first time most of the women had spoken publicly about Epstein.
  
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• Florida city, under fire for imposing massive fines on homeowners, drops lawsuit against woman

  27-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Dunedin, Florida, has been under scrutiny for massive fines lodged against homeowners over code enforcement violations.
  
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• Deutsche Bank says records sought by Democrats include tax returns

  27-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Financial records related to U.S. President Donald Trump and three of his children that congressional Democrats have requested from Deutsche Bank AG include tax returns, the bank disclosed in a court filing on Tuesday.Two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives subpoenaed Deutsche Bank in April to provide financial records belonging to the president and his children Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
  
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• Lori Loughlin and Husband Appear in Dispute Over Lawyers in College Admissions Scandal

  27-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Lori Loughlin and Husband Appear in Dispute Over Lawyers in College Admissions Scandal
  
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• A nurse was sentenced to 12 years in prison for paying $12,000 in bitcoin to have her former lover's wife killed through a website that ended up being a scam

  27-08-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Cops were tipped off to Tina Jones' plan thanks to journalists reporting on a story about the dark web for CBS News' "48 Hours."
  
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• Attorney: Dropping charges against dad of twins who died in hot car may raise awareness

  27-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Juan Rodriguez's attorney said dismissing the case against him could help raise awareness of the disturbing phenomenon of children dying in hot cars.
  
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• U.S. yield inversion deepens, stokes recession fears

  27-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. yield curve inversion deepened on Tuesday to levels not seen since 2007, rekindling fears of a looming recession that spurred a sell-off on Wall Street and stoked even more safe-haven demand for government bonds.The intense interest in Treasuries supported demand for $40 billion worth of two-year government debt for sale, part of this week's $113 billion fixed-rate Treasury supply.The yield curve often inverts prior to a U.S. recession.
  
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• School: Guard who wounded student was supposed to be unarmed

  27-08-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A private security guard who officials say accidentally wounded a student during a Colorado school shooting that left one teen dead wasn't supposed to be armed, an online news outlet reported. Emails obtained by The Colorado Sun show the suburban Denver charter school had requested an unarmed guard from BOSS High Level Protection about a year ago. In a statement, STEM School Highlands Ranch said it didn't know the guard was armed until the shooting occurred May 7 on the campus that includes stud
  
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• Ex-Google engineer charged with theft of autonomous car secrets

  27-08-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Google engineer was hit with criminal charges Tuesday alleging he stole trade secrets from the technology giant's self-driving car project before he went to work at Uber.If convicted on the charges, Anthony Levandowski faces up to 10 years in prison and a penalty of $250,000 per violation, according federal prosecutors who announced the criminal indictment."All of us have the right to change jobs, none of us has the right to fill our pockets on the way out the door," US Attorney David A
  
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• Trump suggested using bombs to fight hurricanes. These 4 graphics show why that would never work.

  27-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has suggested hitting hurricanes with nuclear weapons. But no nuclear bomb is powerful enough to continuously disrupt a hurricane.
  
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• Brazil farmers deforesting Amazon 'to survive'

  27-08-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  On his block of land deep in the Amazon rainforest, Aurelio Andrade says deforestation is the only way he and other farmers can survive in the remote region where fires are raging."Here we have no support from the federal government or anyone else, only from God," Andrade tells AFP, wearing an army camouflage T-shirt and matching hat, on his property 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Porto Velho in the northwestern state of Rondonia."We cut trees to plant grass to survive, so that the cattle eat,"
  
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• 'I've suffered and he has won': More than 20 of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers gave emotional testimonies in court as prosecutors moved to shut down his case

  27-08-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 20 accusers of Jeffrey Epstein were given their day in court as federal prosecutors motioned to dismiss the case against him.
  
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• Woman diagnosed with terminal cancer gets to live dream with ride-along with police

  27-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Minnesota woman who is battling terminal cancer checked off riding alongside a police officer off her bucket list.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell: Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend sexually abused two sisters, accusers claim

  27-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Two sisters who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell spent years trying to share their stories with law enforcement and publications to no avail, a new report claims.Maria Farmer, an artist, told The New York Times that she first met Epstein and his alleged accomplice in 1996, and her allegations against Epstein mirror several other accusers, many of whom met in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday to voice their stories as the case was formally dismissed following his d
  
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• A man's truck was stolen while he was robbing a store across the street, police say

  27-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A Washington man called police to report his vehicle as stolen. Police say surveillance footage shows he was stealing from a store when it happened.
  
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• Trump said his Florida resort where he wants to host the next G7 has 'no bed bugs.' The resort settled a lawsuit over bed bugs there in 2017

  27-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said his Florida resort doesn't have bed bugs. In 2017, the Doral resort reached a settlement with a guest who was allegedly bitten by the bugs.
  
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• Bolsonaro says Macron must take back 'insults' for Brazil to accept G7 Amazon aid

  27-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, has said he may accept the $22 million (£18 million) of aid offered by G7 countries to help combat forest fires in the Amazon, providing that French president Emmanuel Macron apologises for calling him a "liar". Mr Bolsonaro initially rejected the $22 million, showing concern that the offer of aid was a veiled attempt to undermine Brazil's sovereignty in the region. This sentiment is shared by farmers associations and regional governments, who fear
  
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• Macron's G-7 performance arms him for likely troubles ahead

  27-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Also wields a deft touch that helped placate the mood of U.S. President Donald Trump. French President Emmanuel Macron used the three-day summit of G-7 leaders he hosted to remind the world — and his skeptical country — of something easily forgotten during months of anti-government protests that wounded his presidency: For all of his short-comings, Macron certainly isn't without talent. "He was brilliant," said Francois Heisbourg, an adviser at the London-based International Institut
  
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• Fuzzy math: Democrats spend big to draw small-dollar donors

  27-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Montana Gov. Steve Bullock was told how he could qualify for the next presidential debate, but it didn't make much sense: Spend $60."You spend $60 on Facebook right now to get a $1 donor," Bullock said last week while campaigning in Iowa , referring to the 130,000 donor threshold that is one of the requirements to reach the debate stage in Houston next month.Facing a Wednesday deadline, a handful of Democratic White House hopefuls are racing against time — and odds — to qualify, tryi
  
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• Mormon church clarifies gun policy: No lethal weapons on church property

  27-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tweaked its rule on guns and lethal weapons after previously calling them inappropriate at churches.
  
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• Sanders: China Has Made ‘More Progress’ on Extreme Poverty than Any Country in History

  27-08-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential contender Bernie Sanders spoke highly about China's leadership in a new interview, saying that the Chinese government has made great strides in combating extreme poverty despite moving in a more authoritarian direction."China is a country that is moving unfortunately in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions,” the Vermont senator said in his interview with The Hill. "But what we have to say about China in fairness to China and its leadership is, if I’m not mi
  
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• College Board says it is replacing SAT 'adversity score'

  27-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant's background to a single number, an idea the College Board's chief executive now says was a mistake.Amid growing scrutiny of the role wealth plays in college admissions, the College Board introduced its Environmental Context Dashboard about two years ago to provide context for a student's performance on the test and help schools identify thos
  
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• Spanish warship picks up 15 migrants to fire political shot

  27-08-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A Spanish warship collected 15 rescued migrants from an Italian port on Tuesday, having sailed halfway across the Mediterranean to fetch the small group in a high-profile maneuver that sharply contrasted with Italy's refusal to accept them.Madrid dispatched the ship a week ago to pick up the migrants at the end of a prolonged standoff between Italian authorities and a Spanish-registered private rescue boat which had plucked more than 100 people, most of them Africans, from seas off Libya.France,
  
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• ‘Depraved human being’: Jeffrey Epstein accusers voice their anguish in court

  27-08-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  * About 20 women detail turmoil from Epstein interactions* Accusers say billionaire sexually abused them as teenagersGloria Allred, representing alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, arrives with an unidentified women at Manhattan federal court on Tuesday for a hearing in the criminal case against Epstein. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/ReutersJeffrey Epstein was called a coward and a “depraved human being” in a New York courtroom on Tuesday by women who accused him of sexually abusing
  
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• Another resignation shakes LGBT Republican group after Trump endorsement

  27-08-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The first female executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans resigned this week following the group’s endorsement of President Trump’s reelection, the second official to step down in as many weeks.
  
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• Students rally in Pakistan-held Kashmir against India

  27-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  More than a thousand students rallied Tuesday in the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir to denounce India's downgrading of the special status of the portion of the disputed region it controls.The demonstrators chanted "We want freedom" and denounced human rights violations in Indian-administrated Kashmir.Kashmir, which is split between two countries and claimed by both, has been the cause of two of wars between Pakistan and India since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947.
  
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• UK alone will be to blame for no-deal Brexit: EU tells Johnson

  27-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain will be solely to blame if it crashes out of the EU in a chaotic "no-deal" Brexit, the bloc told Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday in the latest clash between Brussels and London.With the clock ticking and Johnson adamant the EU must accept significant changes to the existing withdrawal agreement, fears are growing that Britain could leave without a deal, causing major economic turmoil.Days after Johnson and EU Council President Donald Tusk traded jibes over who would be responsible i
  
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• Trump derailed a meeting with G7 leaders when he insisted Russia should be readmitted to the group and everyone slapped him down

  27-08-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump reportedly derailed a meeting with G7 leaders on Saturday evening after he insisted on Russia's readmittance.
  
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• Lebanon says will defend itself by 'any means' after drone attack

  27-08-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon on Tuesday stressed its right to defend the country "by any means" after a Israeli drone attack hit the Beirut stronghold of the Hezbollah movement.Lebanon's Higher Defence Council, a government body in charge of defence policy, met to discuss Sunday's attack on southern Beirut.It came after President Michel Aoun, a former army chief, denounced the attack as a "declaration of war" and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed retaliation.
  
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• CEOs claim Biden’s brother promised them 2020 candidate would help their companies

  27-08-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Court filings claim James Biden told executives Joe Biden could be influenced to adopt their business modelLatest accounts go further in establishing that Joe Biden’s relatives have sought to profit from his public service. Photograph: Michael Dwyer/APJames Biden, brother of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, is facing renewed claims that he lured potential business associates with promises his brother could be influenced to adopt their business model.According to sworn declara
  
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• Iran could restore oil output to pre-sanctions level within three days: minister

  27-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran would need three days to lift its oil production back to the level it was at before U.S. sanctions were imposed, the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Tuesday."Three days are needed to return production to the levels before the reduction," Zanganeh said, according to the report.U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from world powers' landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and reimposed sanctions in an effort to curb the Islamic Rep
  
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• Trump says 'no bedbugs' at resort he offered for next G7 summit

  27-08-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at "false and nasty" rumors that the Trump golf resort he offered for the next G7 summit is infested with bedbugs."No bedbugs at Doral," Trump huffed in a tweet, after returning from a G7 summit in France where he had touted the Trump National Doral Miami as the ideal venue for next year's gathering of world leaders.Fueling the buzz was a Miami Herald story from January 30, 2017 that Trump's attorneys had reached a settlement with a Doral guest who had c
  
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• Italy refuses migrant rescue ship in latest standoff

  27-08-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday refused to allow a ship carrying dozens of migrants to enter Italian waters, the latest in a string of standoffs over migrant rescues.The Eleonore, run by German charity Mission Lifeline, is seeking a safe port after rescuing some 100 people from a collapsing dinghy in the Mediterranean on Monday.Charity workers rescued the migrants after a run-in with the Libyan coast guard, which wanted to take them back to the crisis-hit north African countr
  
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