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• Arrest of Giuliani associates adds wrinkle to House probe

  10-10-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry.House committees are trying to determine if President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking a foreign country to investigate a political opponent.— Two Florida businessmen tied to President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the Ukraine investigation were charged Thursday with federal campaign finance violations.
  
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• Slain reporter's mother hopes militants will face US charges

  10-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  An American woman whose son was killed by the Islamic State said Thursday that she is hopeful the transfer to U.S. custody of two British militants brings them a step closer to criminal charges.Diane Foley told The Associated Press that she would like to see the men prosecuted in the United States for their involvement with the Islamic State cell that killed Western hostages, including her son, James, a journalist who was beheaded in Syria in August 2014.El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kote
  
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• Democrat running against Mitch McConnell raises $10.7 million in third quarter

  10-10-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, is running to replace the Senate Majority Leader, who has represented Kentucky on Capitol Hill since 1985
  
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• Free Speech Isn’t Dangerous, but Minimizing It Is

  10-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A piece published late last week in the New York Times argues that our free-speech rights are literally endangering us -- but the truth is, they keep us safe.In a piece titled “Free Speech Is Killing Us,” Andrew Marantz argues that “noxious speech is causing tangible harm,” using tragedies such as Heather Heyer’s murder in Charlottesville, the massacre at the Walmart in El Paso, and the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, as evidence of this. Marantz then declar
  
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• Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

  10-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Jared Chance, 30, had turned down a plea deal that would have made him eligible for parole after 31 years.Ashley Young's torso was found in December in the basement of Chance's Grand Rapids rental home.Chance and Young knew each other and were last seen together at a Grand Rapids bar in late November.
  
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• Migrant Alleged to Have Raped Woman Immediately after Sheriff’s Office Ignored ICE Detainer and Released Him Is Arrested

  10-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An undocumented Salvadoran immigrant accused of raping a woman immediately after he was released from custody by the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, which failed to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement order to detain him, was arrested by ICE agents on Wednesday, the agency has announced.Antonio Ulises Perez, 38, was released from the Oklahoma County Jail on Wednesday and went "almost immediately" to the house of the woman he is accused of raping. ICE arrested Ulises Perez later
  
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• Protesters Parade Police Hostages and Demand IMF Leave Ecuador

  10-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A throng of indigenous Ecuadorian protesters grabbed six policemen off the streets in central Quito on Thursday to cries of “murderers, murderers,” hours before seizing more than two dozen reporters who came to cover the event.The policemen had their motorcycles seized before being hustled to the stage of a theater to the delight of thousands of anti-government protesters resisting an International Monetary Fund-backed austerity drive by President Lenin Moreno. They we
  
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• Evidence from ex-Dallas police officer's murder trial fuels mistrust

  10-10-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Evidence from the trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of killing her neighbor has fueled new questions about whether accused officers are treated differently than other suspects, including testimony that a camera in the cruiser where the officer sat after the shooting was flipped off and that her sexual text messages with her partner were deleted.
  
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• Trump EPA proposes overhaul of lead in drinking water rule, critics call plan weak

  10-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed retooling a 1991 rule on lead and cooper contamination in drinking water, butcritics said the change slows by 20 years the timeline for removing aging lead service lines that could expose children to a toxin known to harm developing brains.Under the rule, community water systems would be required among other things to identify the most impacted areas to find and fix sources of lead when a sample in a home exceeds 15 parts per billion.The EPA said wat
  
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• The Latest: Trump doubts public wants US involved in Syria

  10-10-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  As Turkey's military incursion into Syria continues, President Donald Trump is telling reporters the U.S. has only two choices: Hit Ankara hard with financial sanctions or send in U.S. troops to stop the fighting between Turkish and Kurdish forces.Trump says Turkey knows he does not support the invasion.The president has been roundly criticized by Democrats and Republicans for moving U.S. troops back from northern Syria so they would not get harmed during the planned incursion against the Kurds,
  
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• Kia Telluride, Subaru Forester Owners Complaining to NHTSA about Windshields

  10-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  NHTSA has received dozens of complaints of broken or cracked windshields on the two vehicles, along with beefs that it takes too long to get replacements.
  
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• Romney undecided on impeachment, stands by Trump criticism

  10-10-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Mitt Romney hasn't yet decided whether President Donald Trump should be impeached, but the Republican senator from Utah on Thursday stuck by criticism that has earned him a stream of insults from Trump on Twitter.Romney said that while he thinks some things the president has done are wrong, it doesn't necessarily mean Trump should be removed from office.Romney's comments came following an appearance at a Salt Lake City event about the increasing number of people sickened by a mysterious illness
  
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• Virginia Governor Announces Right to Vote Restored for Over 22k Felons

  10-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Thursday announced that he has restored the voting rights of more than 22,000 convicted felons.Since taking office in January of last year, the Democratic governor has restored the rights to vote, serve on a jury, run for public office, and become a notary public to 22,205 Virginians with felony convictions, Northam's office said in a statement.“Virginia remains one of the few states in the nation that permanently strip individuals of their civil rights a
  
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• Syria's Kurds: Turn to Damascus or concede to Turkey?

  10-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Syria's most powerful Kurdish group is grappling for friends after its ally, the United States, abandoned it to an invasion by Turkey, whose warplanes, tanks and artillery are raining shells onto its stronghold in the north of the country.The Kurdish fighters have few options.The Turkish military operation, backed by warplanes and a formidable mobilization, has already targeted dozens of locations along a stretch of nearly 200 miles along the Syrian-Turkish border in its opening salvo.
  
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• WWII Lesson for Trump: Turkey Was in Bed With the Nazis

  10-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Nazis melted gold dental fillings from concentration camp victims and found the best price for it was in neutral Turkey.At the same time, Turkey kept selling Germany the chromium ore it needed to build weapons and continue the war. But in harkening back to World War II in an effort to justify giving Turkey a green light to crush the Kurds, President Donald Trump ignored such damning truths. He instead said of the Kurds, “They didn't help us with Normandy.”Never mind tha
  
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• Man caught driving a stolen van stuffed with 131 pounds of marijuana plants, police say

  10-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Delaware police say the van was loaded with several marijuana plants, some appearing to have been recently pulled out of the ground.
  
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• Climate Change Is Shaping Up As an Utter Disaster for Much of America's Bird Life

  10-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Two thirds of American bird species are at risk, according to a new report
  
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• Kurdish Troops Are Defenseless Against Turkish Air Strikes

  10-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish planes have been able to attack without facing serious opposition. Kurdish forces for decades have struggled to acquire a meaningful air-defense capability.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Migrant protesters occupy U.S.-Mexico border bridge, crossing closed

  10-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  GATEWAY BRIDGE, U.S.-Mexico border, Oct 10 (Reuters) - M igrants seeking asylum in the United States who are camped in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading U.S. authorities to close the crossing, witnesses and authorities said.Hundreds of the migrants have been sleeping for weeks on the end of the bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, a city known for gang violence and for cartels that control human trafficking.Many of those living in tents or on th
  
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• Graham Tricked By Russian Prank Call, Called Kurds a ‘Problem’ for Turkey

  10-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) spoke in August with a Russian prank caller who identified himself as the Turkish defense minister in order to fool Graham's office into patching him through to the senator, according to Politico.While speaking with who he thought was Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Graham acknowledged  that the Kurdish YPG forces pose a security threat to Turkey. That acknowledgement stands in sharp contrast to the praise that Graham has heaped on the Kurds in recent
  
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• Parking-space enforcer in Florida 'stand your ground' case sentenced to 20 years in prison

  10-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A white man who cited Florida's "stand your ground'' law in the killing of an unarmed black man after a parking dispute was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Outrage in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo over Handke's Nobel win

  10-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Austrian writer Peter Handke's Nobel literature prize win on Thursday sparked outrage in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, where he is widely seen as an admirer of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.In the 1990s, Handke emerged as a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia, even comparing them to Jews under the Nazis, a remark he later retracted."Never thought would feel to vomit because of a Nobel Prize," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter.
  
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• 2020 Toyota Hybrids and EVs Get 10-Year, 150,000-Mile Battery Warranty

  10-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight 2020 models get the longer coverage including Prius and other hybrids, Prius Prime plug-in, even the Mirai fuel-cell vehicle.
  
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• Teen Suspect Still at Large After Shooting in Colorado High School Parking Lot

  10-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are still looking for the teenager who is accused of shooting another teen outside Sheridan High School in Colorado.
  
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• California hospital chain going to court over high prices

  10-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  One of California's largest hospital systems is facing a trial over accusations that it has used its market dominance to snuff out competition and overcharge patients for medical bills.The antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health, which operates 24 hospitals with 5,500 doctors across Northern California, was first brought by employers and unions amid growing frustration over the rising cost of health care in 2014.California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed a similar suit last year follow
  
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• The Media Scramble the Jets for Elizabeth Warren’s Lies

  10-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is telling a lie about herself. Again. The media are covering for her. Again.It is by now well established that Elizabeth Warren is a serial liar. She lied about her parents having to elope because of racism against her mother, who was white. She lied about being the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey (which doesn’t keep such records). She lied about being a “single mom” when she met her second and present husband (she was still married, an
  
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• Powerful Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York to retire

  10-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Nita Lowey, the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee and a 31-year veteran of Congress, announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of next year.Lowey is a longtime ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and is one of Capitol Hill's old-school dealmakers."Frankly to have a job that I love so very much made this a very difficult choice," Lowey said in an interview.
  
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• California power outage: Isn't there an easier way?

  10-10-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses has been cut off, affecting millions of people in California.Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said a forecast of extreme wind and dry weather has created fire danger of an unprecedented scope, prompting it to initiate the largest preventive outage in state history to reduce the risk of wildfires sparked by faulty power lines.HOW LONG WILL THE POWER BE OUT?
  
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• Activists Can't Agree on How to Fight Climate Change. The IMF Says Just Do Something.

  10-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The IMF says a carbon tax is best to fight climate change but says countries should do what works best for them — so long as they do something.
  
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• The Royal Caribbean has named the world's next biggest ocean liner, set for China

  10-10-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Make that five: Royal Caribbean's Oasis class, which is synonymous with some of the biggest cruise ships in the world, will officially welcome in 2021 its newest creation, the name of which was unveiled on October 10, during a keel-laying ceremony held at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France.Come 2021, the Royal Caribbean cruise line will be the proud owner of a new ocean liner, dedicated to the Chinese market.It will also be the first of the Oasis class to cruise the
  
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• Found on the Street, a Memory Card Labeled 'Homicide' Led Anchorage Police to Arrest a Man For Murder

  10-10-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  An Anchorage woman turned in an SD card she found on the street that contained videos and images of an alleged murder in a local hotel room
  
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• Trump tax returns: Deutsche Bank 'does not have president's financial documents', court says

  10-10-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Deutsche Bank says it does not hold copies of Donald Trump’s tax returns, according to a letter sent by the company to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.The disclosure is the latest development in an ongoing battle between the president and House Democrats, who have sought to force the German lender to release banking records from Mr Trump and his family.
  
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• Vaping-related lung injury cases jump to 1,299; deaths rise to 26

  10-10-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of lung injury cases linked to vaping has jumped to 1,299 and deaths to 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
  
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• Impeachment: Lawmakers subpoena Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, hours after their arrests

  10-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Ukrainian-born businessmen who worked with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, were subpoenaed hours after they were arrested.
  
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• 27 people have died from a mysterious lung illness linked to vaping. Here’s where they're all from.

  10-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 27 people are dead across 22 US states after contracting vaping-related lung injuries. The youngest person was 17, and the oldest was 75.
  
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• UPDATE 2-GM CEO Barra takes role in talks to end UAW strike

  10-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra met with senior United Auto Workers officials to discuss the No. 1 U.S. automaker's most recent proposal to end a more than three-week-old strike that has cost it over $1 billion, a union spokesman said on Thursday.Barra met with UAW President Gary Jones and senior union negotiator Terry Dittes on Wednesday at a time when GM had not yet received a formal response to a new offer made on Monday morning, sources briefed on the matter said.GM declined to com
  
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• Oil Is Killing Brazil’s Turtles. No One Knows Where It’s From

  10-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- More than a month since oil started washing up on some of Brazil’s most touristic beaches, dotting sand with black patches, killing sea turtles and scaring off fishermen, the origin of the crude is still a mystery.“We don’t know the oil’s origin, where it came from or how it got here,” Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said at an offshore exploration auction in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.The crude probably leaked from a ship in the ocean, he ventured,
  
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• Boy, 12, among casualties as Turkey intensifies assault on Kurds in northern Syria

  10-10-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish mortars killed one 12-year-old boy and ripped off a young girl’s leg as Turkey pummeled Kurdish-held towns on the second day of its assault on northern Syria on Thursday.  Muhammad Yusuf Hussein and his 7-year-old sister Sarah were hit in a strike on Qamishli, the de facto capital of the unrecognised Kurdish statelet of Rojava.      On the other side of the border, Turkish authorities said four children including a nine-month old baby had been killed in ret
  
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• Ukraine's Zelensky 'breaks record' for world's longest press conference

  10-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular comedian before he was elected president of Ukraine this spring, promised to bring a fresh kind of politics to the ex-Soviet nation.Around eight hours into the marathon event, Zelensky's first major press conference since coming to power in May, a representative of the agency stood up to deliver the news.The previous record was held by Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, with a press conference that lasted over seven hours, Ukrainian media reported.
  
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• Colorado jury: Uber driver not guilty in death of passenger

  10-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury on Thursday found an Uber driver not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a passenger he said attacked him while driving on a freeway in Denver.Jurors sided with Michael Hancock, 31, who argued that he was defending himself against passenger Hyun (Huhn) Kim.
  
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• 'Does anybody think it is appropriate?' Trump's former national security adviser says soliciting foreign interference is 'absolutely not' ok

  10-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "Of course it's not appropriate," former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said, chuckling. "Does anybody think it is appropriate?"
  
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• California proposes new rules to enforce state privacy law

  10-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  California proposed regulations Thursday that would give consumers more control over how businesses collect and manage their personal information, including requiring a "Do Not Sell My Info" link on companies' websites or apps.California Attorney General Xavier Becerra detailed the draft regulations for the state's new privacy law, due to take effect Jan. 1, which he said will allow people to "pull the curtains back" on information companies have collected on them.The law allows people to reques
  
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• A White House adviser is flip-flopping on whether China gave him information on Joe Biden's son after Trump asked Beijing to investigate the Bidens

  10-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on China, keeps changing his story about whether Beijing gave him information on the Bidens.
  
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• Trump Adviser Claims Chinese Gave Him ‘Quite a Bit of Background’ on Hunter Biden

  10-10-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Pillsbury, the director for Chinese strategy at the D.C.-based Hudson Institute think tank and one of President Trump's advisers on China, told The Financial Times that he'd asked Chinese officials about Hunter Biden’s dealings in the country and gotten “quite a bit of background” in response.Pillsbury, whom President Trump once called “probably the leading authority on China,” first claimed on-air with Fox Business Channel’s Lou Dobbs that he brought
  
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• Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government to chase conspiracy theories

  10-10-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has enlisted parts of the U.S. government and key allies in the pursuit of unproven or disproven conspiracy theories, some incubated in the dark and anonymous corners of the internet.Text messages between U.S. diplomats, a whistleblower complaint and a series of public statements by Trump and other officials in recent days offer the clearest view yet of the extent to which the president has used the government to chase accusations that secret forces have been plotting agai
  
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• GM, UAW clash over how to reach deal to end lengthy strike

  10-10-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motorsand the United Auto Workers (UAW) union clashed late Thursday over how to end a 25-day strike that has cost the company over $1 billion, according to letters seen by Reuters.GM urged the UAW to agree to around-the-clock negotiations to try reach a deal, while the union insisted on dealing with five specific issues first before it responded to a broader proposal from the company.The UAW began strike action on Sept. 16, with the union's 48,000 members s
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. warns Turkey of 'consequences' over Syria assault as U.N. Security Council meets

  10-10-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States warned Turkey at the United Nations on Thursday that it faced "consequences" if its assault against Kurdish militias in northeast Syria did not protect vulnerable populations or contain Islamic State militants.U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, speaking after a closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Syria, did not specify what those consequences could be.Turkey pounded U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens o
  
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• Egypt discovers archaeological industrial zone in Luxor's 'Valley of the Monkeys'

  10-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt on Thursday unveiled two archaeological discoveries in Luxor including an industrial zone at the southern city's West Valley, also known as the Valley of the Monkeys.Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 workshops in the industrial area, the Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement.The area is "composed of houses for storage and the cleaning of the funerary furniture with many potteries dated to Dynasty 18," the excavation team's leader, Zahi Hawass, said in the statement.
  
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• In wake of Turkish offensive, France calls for urgent meeting of anti-Islamic State coalition

  10-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for an emergency meeting of the coalition created to fight Islamic State to discuss Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militias in northern Syria.Le Drian said on France 2 television that the coalition, which includes more than 30 countries, needs to discuss a range of issues because Islamic State could take advantage of the changes on the ground to re-emerge."It (the coalition) needs to say today what are we going do, how do you, Turkey, want to
  
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• Swath of Atlantic still at risk for tropical development into next week

  10-10-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  While the window for tropical systems to brew will soon be closing for some zones in the Atlantic, the risk of tropical development is shifting southward into next week."Two areas we have been monitoring for tropical or subtropical development just off the East Coast of the United States to east of Bermuda are running out of time," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski explained.This image, taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, shows much of the tropical Atlantic Basin. There was a non-tropica
  
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