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• UPDATE 2-Ukraine must investigate Joe Biden's son, says ex-Ukrainian PM

  28-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/KIEV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring.Hunter Biden's role in the company, Burisma Holdings Limited, is in focus after the White House released a memo showing U.S. President Donald Trump asked hi
  
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• Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when steeping, study says

  28-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The tea bags studied, often used for premium teas, were found to release microscopic plastic particles at high levels.
  
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• Houston Shaken by ‘Cold-Blooded’ Killing of Pioneer Sikh Sheriff’s Deputy

  28-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Harris County Sheriff's Office/TwitterSheriff’’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal gained national attention in 2015 when the Harris County Sheriff’s Office allowed him to become one of first Sikhs in the country to wear a traditional turban and keep his beard long in accordance with his faith. His death on Friday, at the hands of a wanted fugitive who allegedly shot him in cold blood in the back of the head following a routine traffic stop, has shaken the Houston area.Residents staged a
  
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• Yemen Rebels Says They've Captured Many Saudi Soldiers in Attack

  28-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they captured many Saudi soldiers and officers in a large operation near the border between the two countries on Saturday, shortly after the kingdom agreed to a limited ceasefire with the Iranian-backed group.If true, the escalation will likely deal a blow to efforts to end a war that’s killed thousands and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Saudi Arabia mobilized a military coalition in 2015 to back Yemen’
  
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• Yemen Rebels Say They've Captured Many Saudi Soldiers in Attack

  28-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they captured many Saudi soldiers and officers in a large operation near the border between the two countries on Saturday, shortly after the kingdom agreed to a limited ceasefire with the Iranian-backed group.If true, the escalation will likely deal a blow to efforts to end a war that’s killed thousands and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Saudi Arabia mobilized a military coalition in 2015 to back Yemen’
  
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• Julian Assange ‘subjected to every kind of torment’ in prison

  28-09-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of Julian Assange has said the WikiLeaks founder is “being subjected to every sort of torment” at Belmarsh prison while he awaits the hearing that could see him extradited to the United States.
  
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• French police break up yellow vest protest with tear gas

  28-09-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse.Police there said four officers were slightly injured and nine demonstrators arrested for offences including throwing projectiles.A police statement in Toulouse said officers made five arrests after being targeted by missiles thrown by some of the protesters.
  
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• Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general

  28-09-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump's outreach to Ukraine and the administration's attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint from Congress.Trump repeatedly told Ukraine's president in a telephone call that Barr and Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani could help investigate Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript of that summer
  
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• Trump impeachment: White House ‘hid details’ of calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince

  28-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration went to great lengths to restrict access to information about the president’s phone calls to controversial world leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, reports say.It was alleged this week in a whistleblower complaint being examined by Congress, that the White House sought to “lock down” details of Mr Trump’s 25 July conversation with the leader of Ukraine, storing the information in a server normally used for
  
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• Pelosi's Impeachment Move Takes Democrats on Leap Into Dark

  28-09-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Nancy Pelosi set House Democrats on a course toward an impeachment of President Donald Trump without a clear road map for where it will go and how long it will take -- even as new information comes to light. Democrats accelerated their inquiry Friday, issuing a subpoena and setting plans for witness interviews. But Pelosi, the House speaker, must still settle internal divisions over the scope of the inquiry. Then will come a decision about whether to vote to impeach Trump, a proce
  
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• Trailblazing Texas deputy who was first local Sikh officer 'ruthlessly' killed during traffic stop

  28-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, the county's first Sikh officer, was killed Friday during a traffic stop near Houston. Police have arrested Robert Solis.
  
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• Meghan Markle Privately Visited a Memorial to Murdered 19-Year-Old South African Student Uyinene Mrwetyana

  28-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Her death launched a wave of outrage and protests
  
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• Iran releases photo of Khamenei with Hezbollah chief

  28-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has released a "never before seen" photo of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.The three men are shown in front of what appears to be a door covered by a curtain and surrounded by shelves stacked with books -- decor associated with Khamenei's Tehran office.
  
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• Man yelling over Puerto Rican flag shirt convicted of hate crimes

  28-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago man who was seen last year in a viral video berating a woman in a city park for wearing a T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag was convicted this week of two felony hate crime charges.
  
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• A US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworld

  28-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A cursory look at the Russian website iMGSRC.ru reveals a horrific underworld of shared photos of children.
  
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• Elk knocks down woman, butts her with antlers at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado | VIDEO

  28-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A bull charged at people, knocked a woman down and repeatedly butted her with its antlers.
  
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• Record-breaking snowstorm unleashes feet of snow, hinders travel in parts of northern Rockies

  28-09-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The northern Rockies were blasted with the first big snowstorm of the season, which the National Weather Service forecasted as a "historic winter storm."Governor Steve Bullock issued an executive order declaring a winter storm emergency in Montana on Sunday."The storm brought heavy, wet snow with accumulation amounts up to three feet in some locations. High winds have downed trees and power lines resulting in road closures, emergency travel conditions, intermittent cellular service and power out
  
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• U.S. and Nazi Soldiers Joined Forces for One World War II Battle

  28-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A strange time.
  
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• Saudi Arabia to enforce 'decency' amid tourism push

  28-09-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia on Saturday said it would impose fines for violations of "public decency", including immodest clothing and public displays of affection, a day after the austere kingdom opened up to foreign tourists.The interior ministry said it had identified 19 such "offences" but did not specify the penalties, as the ultra-conservative Islamic country begins issuing tourist visas for the first time as part of a push to diversify its oil-reliant economy."The new regulations require men and women t
  
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• Stormy Daniels wins $450,000 over strip-club arrest

  28-09-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with President Trump before he took office, has won $450,000 in a legal settlement with the city of Columbus, Ohio, over her arrest last year at a strip club, officials said Friday.
  
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• Report: Arson suspect set fires before attending reunion

  28-09-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspected arsonist traveled from Missouri to Northern California to set more than a dozen wildfires before attending his 50th high school reunion, a newspaper reported Saturday.A former classmate told the San Jose Mercury News that Freddie Owen Graham appeared happy at the party on Sept. 21.Graham, a Milpitas, California-native who has lived in the Kansas City area for the past three decades, didn't seem troubled or upset, Rich Santoro said.
  
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• California governor vetoes bill stopping Trump environment rollbacks: ‘Special interests threatened and won’

  28-09-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic governor for California has vetoed a bill designed to roll back Trump-era cuts to environmental regulations, prompting anger from lawmakers and environmental groups.Dubbed the “Trump insurance” bill, the legislation was designed to add a string of environmental and working rights legislation introduced by Barack Obama into California law.
  
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• US rejects Iran FM hospital visit unless American freed

  28-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit the country's ambassador in a US hospital if Tehran releases a detained American citizen."Foreign Minister Zarif would like to visit a colleague who is in the hospital receiving world-class care.Iran has wrongfully detained several US citizens for years, to the pain of their families and friends they cannot freely visit," a State Department spokesperson told AFP.
  
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• Greta Thunberg marches in Montreal for global climate protests

  28-09-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The 16-year-old Swede met privately with Trudeau but later told a news conference with local indigenous leaders that he was "not doing enough" to curb greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.Thunberg generated headlines around the world earlier this week with her viral so-called "How Dare You?" speech at the UN climate summit, accusing world leaders of betraying her generation.
  
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• Several teens face gang assault charges after 16-year-old's stabbing death on Long Island: Police

  28-09-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say several teens were charged with gang assault in connection to the stabbing death of a teen on Long Island.
  
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• Ivory Coast Leader Wants to Hand Over Power to New Generation

  28-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is in favor of “handing over to the new generation” in next year’s presidential polls, but did not rule out running in the election.The 78-year-old, who has just over a year left of his second term in office, was addressing reporters in his hometown of Dimbroko after a four-day visit to the surrounding region.Ouattara addressed plans to amend the constitution to include an age limit for presidential hopefuls, saying “
  
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• Princeton grad who killed dad after his $1k weekly allowance was cut gets 30 years to life

  28-09-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Thomas Gilbert Jr. was convicted three months ago of shooting his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr., a wealthy hedge fund manager.
  
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• Zimbabwe's Mugabe buried in home village, ending an era

  28-09-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's founding leader Robert Mugabe was buried on Saturday in his home village of Kutama, ending a dispute between his family and the government of his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his final resting place.Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from independence in 1980 but was a polarizing figure idolized by some for his role in the country's liberation struggle and hated by others for ruining a promising nation through disastrous economic policies and repression against opponent
  
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• Iowa reporter who exposed charity fundraiser's historic racist tweets  fired for his own offensive posts

  28-09-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iowa newspaper reporter who exposed racist tweets by a charity fundraiser has found himself out of a job after his own offensive posts were uncovered.  Aaron Calvin, a journalist for the Des Moines Register, began looking into sports fan Carson King when his jovial plea for beer money turned into a national fundraiser for a children's hospital. But his profile of Mr King led to a public backlash and the newspaper was forced to hire extra security after receiving threats. Public scrutiny
  
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• Texas officer who made headlines for his turban and beard killed in traffic stop

  28-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal was one of the first to wear the traditional Sikh articles of faith as part of his uniformSandeep Singh Dhaliwal, center, a Harris county sheriff’s deputy, was known as a trailblazer for being one of the first to wear a turban and beard as part of his uniform.Photograph: Jon Shapley/APA Texas police officer who made headlines for being one of the first to wear traditional articles of faith as part of his uniform was killed during a routine traffic stop on Friday.Sand
  
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• Robert Mugabe buried in private ceremony after weeks of drama over former Zimbabwean leader's resting place

  28-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was buried on Saturday in his rural home village of Kutama in a private farewell for one of Africa’s most divisive figures. Mugabe died in a Singapore hospital on September 6, aged 95, almost two years after a military coup ended his despotic 37-year rule.   A weeks-long dispute with the administration that forced him from power had caused some uncertainty over the former leader's resting place.  His coffin, drape
  
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• Afghans Defy Taliban Threats to Vote in Presidential Poll

  28-09-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan’s presidential polls closed Saturday amid Taliban violence nationwide and complaints of wrongdoings in some polling centers.Millions of Afghans braved the militant threats and cast their vote for a new leader in the fourth democratic election since the Taliban regime was ousted by the U.S. invasion in 2001.“Amid the challenges and threats, the presidential elections of Afghanistan successfully ended,” Hawa Alam Nuristani, head of the country’s i
  
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• US newspaper sparks controversy by publishing details on whistleblower

  28-09-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Protecting a potentially vulnerable whistleblower versus the public's need to know: a US newspaper's publication of information on the man whose complaint led to an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has sparked controversy and debate.After the release of a complaint accusing Trump of having solicited "interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election," The New York Times reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer once posted to the White House who is an expert on Eu
  
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• US Department of Justice supports Indianapolis Archdiocese in firing of gay teacher

  28-09-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department filed a statement saying the First Amendment protects the right of the Archdiocese to apply Catholic doctrine.
  
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• Vietnam Foreign Minister Warns of Escalation in South China Sea

  28-09-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Unilateral actions risk escalating tensions in the South China Sea, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said at the United Nations General Assembly, comments aimed at China that avoided mentioning China directly.“Vietnam has on many occasions voiced its concerns over the recent complicated developments in the South China Sea, including serious incidents that infringed upon Vietnam’s sovereignty,” Pham said Saturday during the General Debate in New York.&ld
  
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• Legal setback for Trump administration plan to speed some deportations

  28-09-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to set aside a plan that would make more people vulnerable to expedited deportation until a court can rule on the matter.The lawsuit, filed by WeCount! and other immigration advocates, asked a Washington court to overturn a plan making undocumented people eligible for deportation without court oversight unless they could prove they had been in the country more than two years.
  
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• Texas county's first Sikh deputy slain in shooting; Man charged

  28-09-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A sheriff's deputy, described as "a trailblazer" because he was his county's first Sikh deputy when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston.
  
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• Trump's Ukraine call sparks new questions over intelligence chief's firing

  28-09-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The president removed Dan Coats days after his conversation with Zelenskiy and insisted that Coats’s deputy not get the jobDan Coats, seen in 2018, reportedly interrupted a meeting to convince his deputy to resign. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesThree days after his now infamous phone conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Trump abruptly fired his director of national intelligence in favour of an inexperienced political loyalist.According to a New York
  
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• Princeton graduate got 30 years to life for murdering father after his allowance was cut

  28-09-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Shelley Gilbert asked the judge for "as light a sentence as possible" so her son could receive treatment for a variety of his mental health struggles.
  
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• Royal Tour 2019: Duke of Sussex can't attend project tackling HIV in babies after event location switched

  28-09-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of Sussex was prevented from visiting a project tackling HIV in babies when Angola’s president switched the event to the presidential palace. Angola's First Lady Ana Dias Lourenco gave the Duke a briefing on the Born Free to Shine initiative she is spearheading when he visited the presidential palace in the capital Luanda. He had been due to meet a group of expectant mothers enrolled in a programme to educate them on HIV and AIDS as well as a group of HIV teenagers. He was al
  
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• Hong Kong pro-democracy rally ends early as violence erupts

  28-09-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A massive pro-democracy rally Saturday in downtown Hong Kong ended early after violence broke out, with police firing tear gas and a water cannon after protesters threw bricks and Molotov cocktails at government buildings.It also came three days before a major march is planned on the day China celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party taking power, sparking fears of bloody clashes that could embarrass Beijing.
  
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• Julian Assange ‘subjected to every kind of torment’ in Belmarsh prison as he awaits extradition

  28-09-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of Julian Assange has said the WikiLeaks founder is “being subjected to every sort of torment” at Belmarsh prison as he awaits the hearing that could see him extradited to the US.The whistleblower who is being held alongside some of the UK’s most infamous criminals ahead of his extradition hearing in February, could face a maximum prison sentence of 175 years under charges laid down by Washington.
  
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• Stormy Daniels wins $450,000 payout over strip-club arrest

  28-09-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Donald Trump before he became president, has won $450,000 in a legal settlement with the city of Columbus, Ohio, over her arrest last year at a strip club, officials said Friday. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was arrested in 2018 at the Sirens Gentlemen's Club on sexual misdemeanor charges which were quickly dropped. In a lawsuit filed in January, Daniels alleged her arrest was politically motivated and sued for fa
  
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• UPDATE 3-Yemen's Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation

  28-09-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement said on Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there was no immediate confirmation from Saudi Arabian authorities.The Houthis' military spokesman said in a statement that three "enemy military brigades had fallen" in the attack, which he said was launched 72 hours ago and supported by the group's drone, missile and air defence units.
  
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• Largest captive alligator in US spends goes missing in Storm Imelda floods at height of hunting season

  28-09-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Some people can’t sleep if they know there’s a spider in their house.Imagine being in Beaumont, Texas, and thinking that the largest alligator ever caught in the United States was on the loose.
  
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• 'Trailblazer' Deputy, First in Texas to Wear Sikh Articles of Faith on Duty, Killed During a Traffic Stop

  28-09-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  "He was a trailblazer," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a press conference Friday afternoon
  
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• Ken Starr's warning to Democrats pushing to impeach President Trump

  28-09-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidates, lawmakers ramp up calls for impeachment; reaction from former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr.
  
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• Three killed, including opposition politician, in blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province

  28-09-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A blast in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed three, including an opposition political leader, on Saturday afternoon, police and officials said.Maulana Mohamad Hanif, Deputy Secretary General of the opposition party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), wasamong those killed in thetown of Chaman, nor far from the Afghan border, District Commissioner Mohammad Bashir said.Police told Reuters that unknown perpetrators planted an improvised explosive device on a motorbike parked in
  
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• Yemen's Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation

  28-09-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement said on Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there was no immediate confirmation from Saudi Arabian authorities.The Houthis' military spokesman said in a statement that three "enemy military brigades had fallen" in the attack, which he said was launched 72 hours ago and supported by the group's drone, missile and air defense units.Houthi-run Al Masirah TV quoted the s
  
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• Man Who Berated Woman Over T-Shirt With Puerto Rican Flag Is Convicted of Hate Crimes

  28-09-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago man who was seen last year in a widely viewed video berating a woman in a city park for wearing a T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag was convicted this week of two felony hate crime charges.A Cook County jury found the man, Timothy Trybus, 63, guilty Wednesday after deliberating for 3 1/2 hours at the 2nd Municipal District Skokie Courthouse in Skokie, Illinois.Trybus could face up to five years in prison on Oct. 21, when he is sentenced for his role in the June 14, 2018, episode, in w
  
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