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• Union boosts strike pay for GM workers as talks continue

  12-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  United Auto Workers said Saturday it's increasing strike pay for workers picketing at General Motors as the walkout by more than 49,000 employees nears the four-week mark.The union also voted to allow members to take part-time jobs and continue to receive strike pay, as long as they perform their picket duty.The moves came as UAW and General Motors continued contract talks on Saturday, a day after the union made a counterproposal to management.
  
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• UAW boosts strike pay as GM walkout continues

  12-10-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Auto Workers union said Saturday it will boost strike pay for 48,000 hourly workers at General Motors Coby $25 a week to $275 as a strike against the largest U.S. automaker nears the end of its fourth week.Talks were continuing late Saturday afternoon to try to resolve the longest nationwide strike at GM since 1970, both sides said.The UAW also said it would allow members striking to take on part-time jobs without reducing their strike pay – as long as they perform pic
  
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• Police: Woman killed by 6-foot log pushed off cliff in Ohio state park; 2 teens charged

  12-10-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio investigators say the six-foot log was pushed or thrown off the cliff in the Hocking Hills State Park. Two teens have been charged.
  
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• 2014 photograph shows earlier ties between Trump and indicted Giuliani associate

  12-10-2019 23:35 via politico.com
  A photograph of President Donald Trump posing with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was posted online in April 2014, two years prior to what had been their first known interaction.In the photo, Trump and Lev Parnas stand shoulder to shoulder, smiling at the camera at what appears to be an outdoor nighttime event.Trump wears a white, Trump-branded cap and white shirt under a jacket.
  
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• UK remains a long way from Brexit deal: Downing Street source

  12-10-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain remains a long way from agreeing a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street source said on Saturday.Negotiators for Britain and the EU have entered intense talks over the weekend to see if they can break the Brexit impasse before a crucial summit next week and a deadline for Britain to leave the bloc on Oct. 31.News of progress in the talks sent financial markets surging on Friday after Johnson an
  
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• Brexit Deal in Sight as Negotiators Wrestle With the Details

  12-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. The U.K. and European Union signaled a Brexit deal is in sight, with negotiators heading into intensive talks in Brussels as a potential compromise over the Irish border starts to emerge.With EU officials saying Boris Johnson had indicated a possible path to detailed talks, the U.K. prime minister planned to update his Cabinet on Sunday on progress toward a Brexit deal. Speculat
  
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• Harry Dunn: Anne Sacoolas says she is 'devastated' over the crash

  12-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The US diplomat's wife who claimed diplomatic immunity after allegedly killing a British teenager in a crash has said she is "devastated by this tragic accident". Anne Sacoolas, 43, wants to meet Harry Dunn's parents when they travel to the US this week to apologise, her lawyer said. She spoke out on Saturday night after Mr Dunn's family confirmed they have arranged to meet her legal team in America "at the earliest possibility". It is the first contact between the two parties since Mrs Sacoolas
  
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• 1 dead, 3 missing after hotel collapses in New Orleans

  12-10-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A large portion of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction near New Orleans's historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday morning amid dust and debris, leaving at least one person dead and three unaccounted for, authorities said.
  
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• Mexico military police halt migrant caravan on its way to U.S.

  12-10-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's military police on Saturday halted and turned back a caravan of up to 2,000 migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America, hours after they embarked toward the United States, according to Reuters witnesses.The migrants had departed before dawn from Tapachula in the southern state of Chiapas near Guatemala despite an ongoing crackdown on migration on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.Around 500 members of Mexico's National Guard military police in helmets and tactical vests
  
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• 5 rappers removed from NYC festival at request of police

  12-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Organizers of a hip-hop festival taking place in New York this weekend said Saturday they have dropped five rappers from the lineup at the request of police.The New York Times reported that the performers were removed from the Rolling Loud festival after a New York Police Department official sent the organizers a letter citing safety concerns if the rappers took the stage.The traveling Rolling Loud festival was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at Citi Field in Queens on Saturday and Sunday and
  
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• Prison officer jailed for relations with inmate

  12-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A married prison officer in the U.K. who had sex with an inmate in a cleaning closet during an 18-month affair has been jailed for a year as a result of his actions.
  
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• EU Leaders May Impose Weapons Embargo on Turkey Over Syria

  12-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- European Union leaders may decide on an arms embargo on Turkey over its incursion into Syria as soon as next week, said four officials familiar with the discussions. The potential move would send a strong signal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and drag Ankara’s relations with its NATO allies to a new low. The officials said the decision could be made over a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Oct. 17-18.Germany and France said Saturday they stopped shipm
  
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• Modi, Xi talk of 'new' ties, after differences

  12-10-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday spoke of a new era in relations, after talks aimed at overcoming differences between the world's two most populous nations.Modi and Xi strolled along a pristine Bay of Bengal beach and held one-on-one talks from chairs overlooking the ocean before their delegations sat down to official negotiations at the historic resort town of Mahabalipuram, south of Chennai.The two leaders met for the second time in 18 months in
  
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• In southern Mexico, migrants gather in caravan aiming to reach U.S.

  12-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Several hundred migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America set off from southern Mexico on Saturday in a caravan headed to the United States, according to a Reuters witness and local media.The migrants assembled and departed before dawn from Tapachula in the southern state of Chiapas near Guatemala despite an ongoing crackdown on migration on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.The scene was reminiscent of a string of caravans that left Central America a year ago, at one point ball
  
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• The Latest: France halts some arms exports to Turkey

  12-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  France is halting exports of any arms to Turkey that could be used in its offensive against Kurds in Syria, and wants an immediate meeting of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State extremists.France's defense and foreign ministries made the announcement in a statement Saturday reiterating opposition to the Turkish military operation, which is facing growing international condemnation.
  
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• Venezuela denies entry of Guatemala's president-elect

  12-10-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The president-elect of Guatemala said he was blocked Saturday from entering Venezuela where he planned to meet opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who is seeking to oust socialist President Nicolás Maduro.Officials defended their actions, saying Guatemala's incoming leader, Alejandro Giammattei, was turned away because he broke with normal protocol followed by heads of state.The commercial flight carrying Giammattei, who takes office in Guatemala on Jan. 14, made an early morning landin
  
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• James Comey keeps a place card from his infamous 'loyalty' dinner with Trump in his office at home

  12-10-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  James Comey has been politically active since his departure from the FBI, and at home he keeps reminders of his clash with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Trump defends Giuliani, said to be under investigation

  12-10-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Saturday defended his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is reportedly under federal investigation over his dealings with Ukraine on Trump's behalf.
  
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• Caravan of 2,000 migrants head toward US from south Mexico

  12-10-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Around 2,000 migrants set out in a caravan from southern Mexico Saturday in the hopes of reaching the United States amid pressure from Washington to impede migrant arrivals that has made obtaining permission to pass through Mexico increasingly difficult.Many of the migrants who departed from Tapachula, Chiapas early in the morning had been waylaid in the city just north of Guatemala for weeks or months, awaiting residency or transit papers from Mexican authorities.The migrants are originally fro
  
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• 4 dead in shooting at illegal gambling site in Brooklyn

  12-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunfire broke out inside an illegal gambling club in Brooklyn early Saturday, police said, leaving four people dead, three wounded, and investigators trying to piece together what prompted the bloodshed.The shooting inside the small, nondescript club started just before 7 a.m. as around 15 people were gambling with dice and cards, police said.At a news conference hours later, Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said investigators were trying to determine if a gambling dispute, a robbery, or somethin
  
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• Canada's Trudeau dons bulletproof vest for campaign event, CBC cites threat

  12-10-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau donned a bulletproof vest for an election campaign rally on Saturday, a Reuters eyewitness said, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. cited sources saying a security threat had been received.Pictures taken by Reuters photographer Stephane Mahe at the event in the Ontario city of Mississauga outside Toronto showed Trudeau wearing bulky protection under his shirt.Police wearing backpacks surrounded Trudeau on stage for the first time since the start of a six-w
  
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• Fox News insiders hint at years of frustration and conflicts for Shep Smith leading up to his departure from Trump's favorite network

  12-10-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources within Fox News say Shep Smith first approached executives to get out of his contract in September, after a long deliberation.
  
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• Bill Gates Praised Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Lifestyle: ‘Kind of Intriguing’

  12-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Billionaire Bill Gates, who has repeatedly minimized his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, visited the convicted sex offender multiple times in the years after Epstein was released from prison, according to a New York Times investigation published Saturday.Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Epstein met repeatedly starting in 2011, including at least three times at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, according a Times report compiled from interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationshi
  
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• Girl scales replica of Trump’s 'un-climbable' border wall

  12-10-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  An 18-foot replica of President Trump’s border wall has been climbed in a matter of seconds by an 8-year-old girl and a man who returned for another attempt while juggling with one hand.
  
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• Norwegian Cruise Line passengers demand refunds after ship skips several scheduled stops

  12-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Norwegian Cruise Line passengers voiced their anger after disembarking from the ship Friday after several port stops were canceled due to weather.
  
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• Should the NBA stand up to China?

  12-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A tweet from an NBA executive set off a backlash from China that has caused players and league officials to backtrack. Should the NBA push back or play ball with Chinese demands?
  
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• Rudy Giuliani interview: 'I gave you my answers, do with them what you want'

  12-10-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  As a man at the very heart of Donald Trump’s impeachment crisis, it should be no surprise that Rudy Giuliani can be a little prickly. “I can talk about almost everything,” he cheerily begins his interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the first with a British outlet since the scandal erupted. By the end, his tone is curt. “I gave you my answers, do with them what you want,” he says as he puts down the phone after a testy exchange. The president’s personal lawyer
  
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• Iranian official says oil tanker attack won't go unpunished

  12-10-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Iranian security official said Saturday that an attack on one of the country's oil tankers won't go unpunished, the official IRNA news agency reported.Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said a day after two missiles struck the Iranian tanker Sabiti as it traveled through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia that "vicious behavior in international waterways will not go without a response." He didn't elaborate.The mysterious attack, which came amid
  
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• California power lines spark wildfires and prompt blackouts. Why not just bury them?

  12-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It would take more than 1,000 years to bury all the lines at the current rate. And it all comes out of the customer's pocket eventually.
  
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• Kurdish general to U.S.: Either protect us, or 'move aside so we can let in the Russians'

  12-10-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, did not mince words when meeting with William Roebuck, the Deputy Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on Thursday, CNN reports. "You have given up on us," Mazloum said, referring to President Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria, giving Turkey an opening to invade, which they have. "You are leaving are leaving us to be slaughtered."An internal U.S. government readout obtain
  
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• Hard Rock hotel construction collapse in New Orleans: At least 1 dead, several missing

  12-10-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The construction of a Hard Rock hotel on Canal Street collapsed Saturday morning in New Orleans. You can watch the harrowing moments here.
  
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• Running for president, Gabbard faces challenge in Hawaii

  12-10-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  In recent days, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has talked to voters over chili and pumpkin bars at a house party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Back home some 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) away in Hawaii, a state senator eying her House seat has been hopscotching across the verdant, mountainous islands that make up her mostly rural congressional district.The campaign Kai Kahele is building for Congress is putting Gabbard's day job in jeopardy as she fights to break through a crowded Democratic presidential pri
  
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• A viral response from Elizabeth Warren is drawing mixed reviews from strategists

  12-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The campaign team for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was pleased with the Democratic presidential candidate's response to a question during Thursday's LGBTQ forum in Los Angeles, but some Democratic strategists think it could turn into her very own "deplorables" moment, The Washington Post reports.Warren was asked what she would say to someone who told her marriage was between one man and one woman. "Well, I'm going to assume it's a guy who said that, and I'm gonna say, 'The just marry one woma
  
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• How Dangerous Is Turkey's Military on the Battlefield?

  12-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  F-16s, submarines and state of the art tanks are just a small part of what Turkey can use to wage war.
  
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• Arab foreign ministers slam Turkish 'aggression' in Syria

  12-10-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Arab foreign ministers on Saturday condemned Turkey's "aggression" in Syria where it is pressing an offensive against Kurdish forces, calling for an immediate withdrawal of Ankara's troops.The statement came after an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo called for by Egypt to discuss Turkey's assault on the Kurds, who have carved out a fragile semi-autonomy in Syria's northeast.
  
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• 16 killed in Burkina Faso mosque attack: security sources

  12-10-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Sixteen people died and two were seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in Burkina Faso's volatile north, security sources said Saturday.Armed men attacked the Grand Mosque in Salmossi on Friday evening, a source told AFP, adding that 13 died on the spot and three succumbed to their injuries later.Although hit by jihadist violence, many Burkinabes oppose the presence of foreign troops -- notably from former colonial ruler France -- on their territory.
  
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• 8-year-old girl scales replica of Trump’s ‘un-climbable’ border wall in seconds

  12-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An 18-foot replica of Donald Trump’s border wall has been scaled in a matter of seconds by novice climbers, an eight-year-old girl and a man who returned for another attempt while juggling with one hand.The US president described his wall as “virtually impenetrable” during a trip to the US-Mexico border in September, claiming 20 “world class” mountain climbers had told him his chosen prototype was difficult to climb.
  
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• Ted Cruz urges Hong Kong protesters to shun violence, accuses Carrie Lam of 'weakness'

  12-10-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wasn't able to make any inroads with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam during his visit to the city Saturday, but he did get a chance to meet with a few pro-democracy protesters.Cruz was supposed to meet with Lam, but he was informed upon landing that the meeting was canceled. Cruz said Lam's office had asked that the details of their meeting remain secret and requested Cruz not speak to the press about it. Apparently, the senator wasn't keen on those terms, and it loo
  
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• Mother to sue over 'wrongful removal' of children by Dutch social services

  12-10-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother who says her two children were wrongfully taken into care shortly after their ninth birthday by Dutch social services intends to launch legal action against the authorities who handled the case. On March 23, 2012, Nikolai and Anastasia Antonova were removed from their mother’s care. Among the reasons cited for their removal was that the children spoke their mother Jelena’s native language Russian at home, not Dutch. Social workers also claimed their mother might flee with th
  
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• Gunmen kill about 15 people in attack on Burkina Faso mosque

  12-10-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters.The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said on Saturday.Others were seriously wounded, the security source said.
  
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• Four dead in New York shooting

  12-10-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  At least four people died and three were wounded in a shooting at an unlicensed private social club in New York early Saturday, police said.No one has been arrested over the early morning shooting in Brooklyn, and the motive and exact circumstances are not known, a New York police official told AFP.Four men were pronounced dead at the scene, while two other men and a woman suffered non-life threatening injuries, the police official said.
  
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• Canada Has Winter-Tire Appointment Week, and Maybe We Should, Too

  12-10-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  With snow making its first appearance, U.S. drivers in northern areas should consider switching to winter tires.
  
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• USS Ford Will Set Sail With Only 2 Out of 11 Weapon Elevators

  12-10-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  After years of work, the ship still isn't 100 percent fixed.
  
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• BEHOLD: Is China's DF-26 Missile a Real Threat to U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers?

  12-10-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Will Beijing's strategy work?
  
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• Southern California wildfires burning unchecked

  12-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Gusting winds fueling a fast-moving wildfire in southern California showed no signs of abating Saturday as a blaze that forced the evacuation of some 100,000 people kept burning out of control. A red flag warning of critical fire danger -- strong winds and very low humidity -- has been extended into the weekend, the National Weather Service said. Firefighters said people have taken evacuation orders seriously in the so-called Saddleridge fire burning in the San Fernando Valley area of greater Lo
  
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• Xi becomes 1st Chinese president in 2 decades to visit Nepal

  12-10-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Xi Jinping on Saturday became the first Chinese president in more than two decades to visit Nepal, where he is expected to sign agreements on several infrastructure projects.Xi arrived Saturday from India, where he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Nepal is expected to tread cautiously while building relations with big neighbors India and China.
  
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• DUP's Dodds says Northern Ireland must stay in full UK customs union: Repubblica

  12-10-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A mooted eleventh-hour solution to the deadlock over Brexit cannot work because Northern Ireland must remain in a full United Kingdom customs union, the deputy leader of the province's key political party said on Saturday.With the Oct 31 deadline for a new Brexit divorce deal looming, an EU diplomat and an official said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed keeping Northern Ireland in some form of EU customs partnership as well as a UK customs union.Italian newspaper Repubblica quote
  
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• In Hong Kong, all trust gone between police and protesters

  12-10-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  In trying to end the anti-government demonstrations, which broke out in multiple locations again on Saturday and are now in their fifth month, one of the most pressing problems to solve for Hong Kong leaders will be dispelling the now widespread public scorn for police officers.Protest graffiti likening officers to dogs and worse is all over the city, and protesters Saturday chanted for the force to be disbanded.Riot police deployed but stayed far behind the day's largest rally, which drew thous
  
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• WTO Chief Says No Exceptions for UK-EU Trade in Hard Brexit

  12-10-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.In the event of a no-deal Brexit there will be no special rules for trade between the U.K. and the European Union, the World Trade Organization’s director-general Roberto Azevedo said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. A trade without customs duties would only be possible, if customs would be removed for all other trading partners, too, he said.Azevedo also
  
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• UPDATE 1-Kurdish-led SDF says Turkish invasion has revived IS, urges no-fly zone

  12-10-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said a Turkish attack in northern Syria had revived Islamic State and called on allied states that helped fight the jihadist group to close off air space to Turkish war planes.In a televised statement, senior SDF official Redur Xelil said the SDF was continuing to cooperate with the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State even as it must now also confront the Turkish attack on northern Syria.
  
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