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• Boris Johnson Humiliated by Parliament in First Brexit Vote

  03-09-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSLONDON—Theresa May’s abject humiliation over Brexit was three years in the making as she endured failed negotiations, misfiring political gambles, and a series of internal revolts. Boris Johnson got there in just one vote. The biographer of Winston Churchill entered Downing Street breathing rhetorical fire just one day before parliament was closed for the summer. On his very first day back in Parliament, he lost his majority in the House of Commons and was then defeated by his
  
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• VanEck SolidX bitcoin trust to sell shares to institutional buyers

  03-09-2019 23:55
  Investment firm VanEck and financial technology company SolidX Management LLC will sell shares in their bitcoin trust to "qualified institutional buyers," the companies said on Tuesday, in a move...
  
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• California Highway Patrol Shares Video of Alleged Drunk Driver Falling Out of Moving Truck Before Crash

  03-09-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The California Highway Patrol shared surveillance video of a suspected drunken driver falling out of a delivery truck before it crashed into a sign.
  
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• The Latest: Source: Mental health reason for 2014 gun denial

  03-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The official tells The Associated Press on Tuesday that Seth Ator had attempted to purchase a firearm in 2014 but was denied after a federal background check.The official said Ator was able to obtain the rifle used in Saturday's rampage in West Texas through a private gun sale, skirting the background check process.
  
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• Democrats in the House Are Split on Impeachment. That Could Come to a Head This Fall

  03-09-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of members in support of action on impeachment has reached 137
  
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• Pilot trainee lands plane after instructor passes out

  03-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A pilot-in-training is being hailed as a hero for landing a plane after his instructor passed out.
  
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• North Carolina court strikes down state legislative map as unconstitutional gerrymander

  03-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A three-judge panel in Wake County Superior Court said the state Senate and state House district lines discriminated against Democratic voters in violation of the state constitution's free elections, equal protection and free speech clauses.The decision is a victory for election reform advocates considering legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering in state courts despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year blocking such cases in federal courts.State Senate Leader Phil Berger, a Repu
  
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• Democrat leaves Colorado Senate race after Hickenlooper's entry

  03-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Mike Johnston is the first Democratic candidate to leave the race after former Gov. John Hickenlooper launched his campaign last month.
  
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• Devastation in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian crawls towards US coast

  03-09-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Weakening slightly but still packing a powerful punch, Hurricane Dorian churned towards the southeastern coast of the United States on Tuesday after delivering a devastating blow to the Bahamas.Bahamas National Security Minister Marvin Dames said several children were among the five deaths reported in the Atlantic archipelago from the monster storm and predicted more fatalities.Aerial footage of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas broadcast by CNN showed scenes of catastrophic damage, with hundred
  
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• Abby Huntsman is back on 'The View' after twins, shares love for fellow NICU parents

  03-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  "The View" season launched with the cutest guests—Abby Huntsman's twin babies. She spoke about being a mom of three and her daughter's scary time in the NICU.
  
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• The Taliban Scoff at Trump’s Afghan Peace Talks Bluff

  03-09-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/ReutersDOHA, Qatar—The American negotiator trying to cut a deal with the Taliban that might let Donald Trump get all uniformed troops out of Afghanistan before next year’s election says that the two sides have an “agreement in principle.”But Taliban officials and diplomats here in the capital of Qatar, where the talks have been held, told The Daily Beast that after Round 9 last week, there was still no deal the Taliban would sign. Trump’s ma
  
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• After Texas shooting, McConnell says gun control legislation is up to Trump to decide

  03-09-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  “Well, we’re in a discussion about what to do on the gun issue in the wake of these horrendous shootings,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt Tuesday.
  
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• California: shock and grief after at least 25 killed in boat fire off Santa Cruz Island

  03-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  * Nine people still missing after fire broke out on diving tour boat* Police say DNA testing required to identify some of the victimsA memorial at Sea Landing at Santa Barbara Harbor. Diving experts said this kind of fire appeared to be unprecedented. Photograph: Ringo Chiu/Zuma/Rex/ShutterstockA boat fire off Santa Cruz Island that left 25 people dead and nine missing sent shockwaves throughout the diving community and across California. Residents and divers said a tragedy of such scale seemed
  
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• Slow-crawling Dorian a new kind of threat

  03-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  After devastating the Bahamas, Dorian is continuing its long crawl toward the southeast US with slightly weakened winds. Hurricane Dorian stormed into the record books on Sunday when its maximum sustained winds of 185 miles (300 kilometers) per hour tied it in second place with 1998's Gilbert and 2005's Wilma as the most powerful Atlantic hurricane since 1950, according to Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project. First place is still held by 1980's Allen, which had maximum susta
  
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• Cheerleader Accused of Murdering, Burying Newborn Goes on Trial

  03-09-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo Courtesy Warren County Sheriff's OfficeIn July 2017, police in small-town Ohio uncovered an unmarked infant’s grave in the backyard of a prominent family. On Tuesday, jury selection began in the case of the alleged murderer—a high school cheerleader accused of killing her newborn baby to protect her good-girl image.Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, is charged with is charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, and three othe
  
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• 'Total devastation': Hurricane slams parts of the Bahamas

  03-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands.It looks like a bomb went off," said Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a local hurricane relief organization and flew over the Bahamas' hard-hit Abaco Island."We wanted to go out there, but that's not a risk we're capable of taking," Tammy Mitchell of the Bahamas' National Emergency M
  
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• The Latest: AP Source: Texas shooter got gun at private sale

  03-09-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A law enforcement official says a gunman who killed seven people in West Texas had obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, evading a federal background check.Officials said Seth Aaron Ator had previously tried to obtain a gun but failed a federal background check.Obtaining the weapon through a private sale, as opposed to buying it through a licensed gun dealer, would've allowed Ator to skirt the background check.
  
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• Santa Cruz boat: 34 passengers presumed dead as authorities call off search for survivors of the fire

  03-09-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A tragic Mayday call from the captain of a boat which caught fire off the coast of California described how all of his passengers were trapped below deck "with no escape hatch".  Audio of the harrowing distress call was released as authorities confirmed 34 people are presumed dead and the search for survivors was suspended on Tuesday. In the 3.14 am recording, the captain can be heard telling a Coast Guard operator: "There's 33 people on board the vessel on fire. They can't get off." The op
  
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• Israeli army says uncovers Hezbollah missile site

  03-09-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army said Tuesday it had exposed a Hezbollah site dedicated to the manufacture of "precision-guided" missiles in Lebanon, just days after a cross-border flare-up between the arch-foes."The IDF is exposing a facility belonging to Hezbollah... designed to convert and manufacture precision-guided missiles," the Israeli army said in a statement.It released what it said was an aerial photograph of the site in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, near the town of Nabi Chit.
  
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• Renewing or applying for airport fast pass Global Entry? Brace for lengthy delays

  03-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Global Entry trusted traveler program has been plagued by lengthy application delays. Some travelers report over 100 days to renew.
  
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• Chris Hayes and Progressives’ Lack of Respect for the Constitution

  03-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Last week, conservatives in the Twitterverse had a good chuckle at the expense of MSNBC host Chris Hayes for something he said about the Electoral College on his show.“The weirdest thing about the Electoral College,” he offered, “is the fact that if it wasn't specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.”This is one of those things that sound a lot better in your head than they do coming out of your mouth! We’ve all been guilty o
  
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• Florida is ready, but where is the hurricane?

  03-09-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Houses and businesses are boarded up, bridges to barrier islands are blocked and many residents of Florida's beachside communities are long gone."The uncertainty is a little nerve wracking," says Drew Gabrielson, clutching his trembling Chihuahua Rodney as he looks across a beach at the roughening surf.On Tuesday, Dorian began moving at five miles per hour (eight kilometers per hour), a positively jaunty pace after being stuck at a near standstill for the better part of two days as it battered t
  
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• Upper atmosphere gridlock stalled Dorian

  03-09-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian is finally moving.Before Dorian picked up speed Tuesday morning, the upper atmosphere had been too calm.Its eyewall first hit Grand Bahama Island Sunday night, and into Tuesday morning part of the eye still lingered there, meteorologists said.
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro warns of Colombia attack, orders military exercises

  03-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the armed forces to be on alert for a potential attack by Colombia's government and announced military exercises on the border amid the rearmament of a group of former guerrilla commanders.Former FARC guerillas on Thursday announced a rearmament in a video that Colombian authorities believe was filmed in Venezuela, spurring concern of a worsening of the Colombian armed conflict and expansion of armed groups in Venezuela."I've ordered the str
  
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• Parliament Debates Plan to Block No-Deal Split: Brexit Update

  03-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his House of Commons majority as he faces a showdown with members of his Conservative Party that will determine the U.K.’s exit from the European Union and the length of his premiership.Johnson has vowed to leave the bloc on Oct. 31, but his political enemies are fighting to stop him from doing so without a divorce deal. Tonight is the first of a series
  
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• Grand Bahama waterlogged in Hurricane Dorian before and after satellite photos

  03-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Next-generation satellite technology capable of penetrating cloud cover shows widespread flooding from slow-moving Hurricane Dorian.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian tracks north as Tropical Storm Fernand forms in Gulf of Mexico

  03-09-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth tracks both storm from the Fox Extreme Weather Center.
  
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• Mississippi wedding venue cites 'Christian belief' in refusing interracial couple

  03-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The business owner has since apologized after being captured on video saying she wouldn't allow an interracial couple to get married at her venue.
  
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• Mexico: Main suspect absolved in 2014 student disappearances

  03-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the main suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 teachers' college students in southern Mexico has been acquitted, a human rights attorney said Tuesday, as justice remains elusive for one of the darkest moments of the country's recent history.Santiago Aguirre, director of the human rights center known as Prodh and a lawyer for victims' relatives, said the judge absolved Gilberto López Astudillo due to "insufficient evidence" and the suspect was released from custody on Saturday wi
  
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• Waves from Hurricane Dorian pound 2nd story of home in Bahamas | VIDEO

  03-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Video shows waves from Hurricane Dorian pounding on the second story of a home in the Bahamas.
  
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• The Latest: Baby, 2 children among victims in family slaying

  03-09-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A 14-year-old Alabama boy faces murder charges in the slayings of five members of his family, including an infant brother, two other siblings, ages 5 and 6, and his father and stepmother.Limestone County Sheriff's spokesman Stephen Young said Tuesday that the teen is being held in a juvenile facility and faces five counts of murder in the juvenile court system.The adult victims were identified as the suspect's father, 38-year-old John Sisk, and Mary Sisk, the boy's 35-year-old stepmother.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido in FARC pledge to Bogota

  03-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday offered to help neighboring Colombia track down dissident FARC rebels after Bogota accused President Nicolas Maduro of giving them a safe haven."We are going to collaborate with the Colombian government on intelligence activities, and the detection of these groups that are operating irregularly," Guaido told reporters in Caracas.Colombia's right-wing President Ivan Duque has pledged to hunt down dissident FARC leaders who last week formally re
  
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• South Africa vows crackdown on xenophobic attacks after five die

  03-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people have been killed in a surge of xenophobic violence in South Africa, police said on Tuesday, as President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed to clamp down and the African Union, Nigeria and Zambia condemned the attacks.Hordes of people -- some armed with axes and machetes -- gathered in Johannesburg's central business district for a third day of unrest directed against foreigners, hours after mobs burned and looted shops in the township of Alexandra, prompting police to fire rubber bullets to disp
  
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• World War II Launched a New Age of Global Power. 80 Years After the War Began, That Era Is Ending

  03-09-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  On Sept. 3, 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Nearly everyone old enough to remember that time as an adult has passed
  
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• Mom arrested in connection to 5-year-old's body found decaying in hidden closet in Houston

  03-09-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say her mother confessed to hiding the child's body for nearly a week. She says the girl, identified as Sierra Patino, died from ingesting chemicals.
  
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• How to Spot a Serious Gun-Crime Proposal

  03-09-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  There was another massacre, this one in Midland and Odessa, Texas. As usual, tragedy was followed by stupidity.The New York Times, in its poetical mode, observed that the crime “clashed with the typically serene and dusty rural landscape of the region.” In reality, Odessa is the most dangerous city in Texas, with a murder rate about twice the national average. So much for “serene.” It is not particularly rural, either, though you pass through a good deal of rurality on th
  
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• Dozens Of DeLoreans Hiding From Hurricane Dorian In Storage

  03-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  We hope these Dorian DeLoreans survive to see another Back To The Future reference.When it comes to a devastating storm like Hurricane Dorian, the protection of vehicles is only a secondary concern to the protection of people, pets and property and the safety of first responders. If you're in the care of classic cars belonging to other people, though, you must do what you can to protect them. That's the situation DeLorean Motor Company of Florida finds itself in with as Orlando is already feelin
  
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• Biden taps influence industry despite pledge on lobbyists

  03-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary promising "from day one" to reject campaign cash from lobbyists."I work for you — not any industry," he tweeted.It's difficult to quantify how much Biden has raised from the multibillion-dollar influence industry, but the roughly $200,000 he accepted from employees of major lobbying firms is far more than any of his rivals has received, according to a review of campaign finance data by The Associated Press.
  
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• All 33 passengers presumed dead after horrific California boat fire, Coast Guard says

  03-09-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The names of the boat's passengers were not made available. Authorities say they're working to notify next of kin of those who died.
  
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• 'Hurricane Hunters' have been flying in and out of Dorian — here's what they've seen inside this powerful storm

  03-09-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian is a massive storm that is now threatening the US East Coast. Here's what it looks inside this devastating storm.
  
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• Walmart Asks Shoppers to Stop Openly Carrying Guns in Stores in Wake of El Paso Mass Shooting

  03-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The company will also halt sales of handgun and short-barrel rifle ammunition
  
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• Johnson Loses Majority Ahead of No-Deal Showdown: Brexit Update

  03-09-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his House of Commons majority as he faces a showdown with members of his Conservative Party that will determine the U.K.’s exit from the European Union and the length of his premiership.Johnson has vowed to leave the bloc on Oct. 31, but his political enemies are fighting to stop him from doing so without a divorce deal. Tonight is the first of a series
  
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• Florida rides Dorian's 'emotional roller coaster' after a week of warnings and waiting

  03-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Scott Renfroe was smoking cigarettes with his wife at the end of a dock in Titusville, Florida, on Tuesday morning, where he had come to see if Hurricane Dorian had brought the powerful wind gusts and rip currents that meteorologists have warned about for days.The water was high but not too rough, and there was not a raindrop to be felt, despite nearly a week of warnings that had Renfroe and his neighbors boarding up their homes and stockpiling food as one of the most powerful hurricanes on reco
  
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• Ford Recalling F-150 and Other Models for Potentially Dangerous Seat Defect

  03-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly half a million vehicles are involved, including new and recent F-150, Super Duty, Explorer, and Expedition models.
  
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• Fiat Is Killing the 500 Minicar in the U.S.

  03-09-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The iconic Italian two-door says "arrivederci" after the 2019 model year.
  
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• Vegan Sues Neighbor for Barbecuing In Their Own Backyard Because She 'Can't Go Out There'

  03-09-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  To crib a line from psychoanalysis, sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar and sometimes a barbecue is not just a barbecue. That was the feeling of an Australian woman who sued her neighbor for barbecuing in their own backyard.
  
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• The Latest: Dorian's center leaving Grand Bahama island

  03-09-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The center of Hurricane Dorian is finally moving away from Grand Bahama island but the U.S. National Hurricane Center says the island will continue getting dangerous winds and life-threatening storm surge through the evening.Dorian's maximum sustained winds Tuesday afternoon remain at 110 mph (175 kph), making it a Category 2 hurricane.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: 'Catastrophic' damage in Bahamas leaves 60,000 needing drinking water

  03-09-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescue workers are scrambling to reach the northern Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian pounded the region for another day, leaving a trail of “unprecedented” destruction.  At least five people have been killed in the area and more than 60,000 are expected to need drinking water in the coming days after the “catastrophic” damage.  On Grand Bahama island and the Abaco islands, among the worst affected, more than 13,000 homes were severely damaged or destroyed – som
  
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• UPDATE 3-Walmart to stop selling ammunition for handguns, assault-style weapons

  03-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart Inc, the nation's largest retailer, said on Tuesday it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and some assault-style rifles in all its stores across the United States, calling for national action on gun safety after a string of mass shootings, including two at Walmart stores in Texas and Mississippi.Walmart is among U.S. companies, such as Delta Air Lines and Bank of America, that increasingly are responding to the debate over guns and gun safety as mass shootings have proliferated,
  
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• Israel claims to uncover Hezbollah missile plant in Lebanon

  03-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli military said Tuesday the militant group Hezbollah and Iran have built a precision-missile factory in neighboring Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.The army issued a statement saying that "in fear of strikes" by Israel, Hezbollah had moved key equipment from the site to "civilian locations in Beirut." It didn't specify when this happened.The military said the factory was of "superior importance" to Hezbollah.
  
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