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• As Inquiry Widens, McConnell Sees Impeachment Trial as Inevitable

  19-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- It was only a few weeks ago that the top Senate Republican was hinting that his chamber would make short work of impeachment.But this week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, sat his colleagues down over lunch in the Capitol and warned them to prepare for an extended impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.According to people who were there, he came equipped with a PowerPoint presentation, complete with quotes from the Constitution, as he schooled fellow senators on the
  
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• Lebanon's Nasrallah says he's against government resignation

  19-10-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's influential Hezbollah leader said Saturday he is against the government's resignation as nationwide protests gained momentum on their third day, calling for the removal of the country's political elite.Hassan Nasrallah said the current unity government should instead bring "a new spirit" to tackling the economic crisis fueling the demonstrations.The spontaneous protests are Lebanon's largest in five years, spreading beyond Beirut.
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon party pulls out of embattled government

  19-10-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese Christian leader has asked his four ministers in the Cabinet to resign amid nationwide protests against the country's political elite.Samir Geagea, who heads the right-wing Lebanese Forces party, said late Saturday he no longer believes the current national unity government headed by Premier Saad Hariri can steer the country out of a deepening economic crisis.The protesters are calling for the government to resign.
  
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• Republican congressman announces retirement after saying he is open to Trump impeachment

  19-10-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  * Francis Rooney said he wanted ‘do right thing’ with his vote* A day later, he says he will step downFrancis Rooney, right, is sworn in in January. Photograph: Susan Walsh/APA day after telling reporters he would consider voting to impeach Donald Trump, the Florida Republican Francis Rooney told Fox News he had decided to retire from Congress.On Friday, Rooney was asked about the political consequences of impeachment, a process the House will probably vote to advance after an inquir
  
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• 'The halls of Congress are no joke': AOC reflects on Congress as she endorses Sanders

  19-10-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the pressure she'd felt in Congress led her to "appreciate the enormous, consistent, and non-stop advocacy" of Bernie Sanders.
  
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• How Would Taiwan Slowdown a Chinese Invasion? Think Lots of Missile Boats.

  19-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taiwanese navy needs to start building small, cheap, missile-armed attack boats, and fast. It’s the only way Taipei can hope to hold off a Chinese invasion force long enough for the United States to intervene on the island country’s behalf.
  
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• Andrew Yang’s ‘Freedom Dividend’ Echoes a 1930s Basic Income Proposal that Reshaped Social Security

  19-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew Yang wants to give Americans $1,000 a month.
  
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• Turkey urges US to use 'leverage' to get Kurdish force pullout: AFP interview

  19-10-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Saturday urged the United States to use its "leverage" over Syrian Kurdish forces to ensure an orderly pullout under an agreement reached with Washington, a presidential spokesman told AFP.Ankara had no intention of "occupying" any part of the neighbouring country, he insisted.Turkey and the United States reached an agreement that gives Kurdish forces five days for a complete withdrawal from a safe zone along the border -- a deadline which expires Tuesday night.
  
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• Kenya’s Treasury Chief Is Confident Rate Caps Will Be Scrapped

  19-10-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s interest-rate caps will be scrapped because lawmakers won’t be able to raise enough support in parliament to oppose the president, acting Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani said.President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected a bill that seeks to retain caps on interest rates that commercial banks can charge on loans. Parliament must now either amend the bill to reflect Kenyatta’s wishes or vote to push it through.The widely circulated Daily Nation newspaper has report
  
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• Trump calls Mexico's president to express 'solidarity'

  19-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday that President Trump called him to express his "solidarity" following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin's son that prompted a wave of violence in the city of Culiacan.
  
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• The Latest: Syria Kurds say they will withdraw from border

  19-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Syrian Kurdish official says his forces will pull back from a border area in accordance with a U.S.-brokered deal after Turkey allows the evacuation of its remaining fighters and civilians from a besieged town there.Redur Khalil, a senior Syrian Democratic Forces official, said Saturday the plan for evacuation from the town of Ras al-Ayn is set for the following day, if there are no delays.Khalil said a partial evacuation happened earlier Saturday from Ras al-Ayn after much stalling and
  
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• Russian Media Cheers Trump’s Moves in Syria: ‘Putin Won the Lottery!’

  19-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyPresident Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandoning the Kurds—America’s longstanding allies—to Turkey’s incursion. On the home front, the controversial move has been met with criticism on both sides of the political aisle, but the reaction in Moscow was far from mixed. As Trump uncorked chaos in the Middle East, champagne tops were likely
  
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• Hondurans call for president to step down after drug verdict

  19-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition groups called Saturday for continuing protests to demand that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández be removed from office after his younger brother was convicted of drug trafficking in a New York court.President Hernández insisted via Twitter that the verdict is not against the state of Honduras, saying his government has fought drug trafficking.On Saturday he attended a parade to honor the country's armed forces and posted pictures of himself on Twitter smiling alo
  
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• Impeachment inquiry puts spotlight on Perry, who shunned it

  19-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Long after more flamboyant colleagues flamed out of President Donald Trump's favor amid ethics scandals, low-profile and folksy Rick Perry survived in the Cabinet in part by steering clear of controversy.The former Texas governor said Thursday he was quitting as energy secretary by year's end.The announcement came as the House impeachment investigation highlighted his work in Ukraine, where he promoted U.S. natural gas and where Trump hoped to find dirt on Democratic rival Joe Biden.
  
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• Kenya, Somalia Say Aid Will Keep Flowing Despite Border Dispute

  19-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The finance ministers of Kenya and Somalia insist that a maritime-border dispute between the two nations won’t stop the cross-border flow of humanitarian aid and trade.The dispute about ownership of a 150,000 square-kilometer (58,000 square-mile) area off their Indian Ocean coastline has not caused any hostility between the two nations, Somalia Finance Minister Abdirahman Duale Beileh and Kenya’s acting Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani told reporters. They spoke on Satur
  
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• Egypt reveals details of 30 ancient coffins found in Luxor

  19-10-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt's antiquities authorities on Saturday revealed the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins that were recently discovered in the southern city of Luxor.Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters the coffins, with inscriptions and paintings, were found in the Asasif Necropolis on the Nile River's west bank near Luxor.The coffins were for men, women and children from the 22nd dynasty (945-715 B.C.) and had been collected and hidden by a priest for fea
  
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• Turkey urges US to use 'leverage' to ensure Kurdish force pullout: AFP interview 

  19-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Saturday urged the United States to use its "leverage" over Syrian Kurdish forces to ensure an orderly pullout under an agreement reached with Washington, the presidency spokesman said."We are committed to this agreement: Within five days they are supposed to leave and we have told our American colleagues to use their leverage, their connections to make sure that they leave without any incidents," spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told AFP in an interview in Istanbul.Turkey and Kurdish forces on
  
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• Michigan Farmers Suffered a Massive Apple and Pumpkin Heist, Losing Thousands of Dollars in Produce

  19-10-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  "This was not a one man job"
  
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• Hong Kong democracy activist injured in knife attack

  19-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A man handing out leaflets for a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who slashed his neck and abdomen on Saturday, days after a leading activist was left bloodied in another street attack.The injured 19-year-old, wearing black clothes and a black face mask, was knifed near one of the large "Lennon Walls" that have sprung up around the city during months of demonstrations, police said.Footage posted on social media showed another man holding a knife shortly
  
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• Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

  19-10-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Syrian government forces to move out of areas near the Turkish border so it can resettle up to 2 million refugees there, his spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday, adding that Erdogan will raise the issue in talks next week with Syria's ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.Government troops have moved in to several locations in northeastern Syria this week, invited by Kurdish-led fighters to protect them from Turkey's invasion.
  
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• FACT: Cuba Hosted Russian Spy Planes to Use Against America

  19-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A forgotten tale of the cold war.
  
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• 7 Things To Do With Your Old Smartphone

  19-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Put those outdated gadgets to good use.From Popular Mechanics
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez throws her support to Bernie Sanders

  19-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  At a rally Saturday in Queens, N.Y., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders for president official.
  
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• 8 Trump officials made stunning revelations about how the president and Giuliani weaponized the State Department

  19-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump and Giuliani used the State Department to circumvent career diplomats and policy experts and carry out a shadow foreign-policy agenda.
  
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• Democrats attempt to block Trump’s struggling golf resort from hosting G7 summit

  19-10-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the house and the senate have moved to block Donald Trump’s plan to host the 2020 G7 summit at his struggling Florida golf resort.On Thursday, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced the influential summit between the world’s economic powerhouses would be held at the Trump National Doral Miami on the urging of the president.
  
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• India's Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger

  19-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A large arsenal in a dangerous part of the world.
  
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• Thousands in Germany, France protest Turkish push into Syria

  19-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of people in the German city of Cologne and in the French capital demonstrated Saturday against Turkey's offensive in northern Syria.Cologne city authorities said around 10,000 people took part in marches organized by left-wing groups.In Paris, more than 1,000 gathered at the Place de la Republique to denounce Turkey's actions.
  
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• Do Germans Know a Hate Crime When They See It?

  19-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Jens Schlueter/GettyFRANKFURT—Slowly, many would say too slowly, Germany is waking up to the threat of far right terrorism. How could it not after a gunman attacked a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar? Unable to enter, he killed a woman on the street and a man in a kebab shop. The shooter’s “manifesto” was a typical anti-Semitic screed, but his mother’s words, in their way, were more chilling. She told
  
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• 'She stole their lives': Woman convicted of passing school bus, killing 3 kids in crash

  19-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Alyssa Shepherd was found guilty of three felony counts of reckless homicide for the Oct. 2018 crash that killed three siblings.
  
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• Women gather in Paris to protest against deadly domestic violence

  19-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of women took part in so-called "die-in" protests in central Paris on Saturday, hoping to draw attention to domestic violence against women.More than 120 women are believed to have been killed as a direct result of domestic violence in France so far this year according to local associations.Sandrine Bouchait, who heads a victims' association and whose sister was burned to death in 2017 by her partner in front of her seven year-old daughter, told Reuters Television the death toll was una
  
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• GOP congressman who was open to impeachment calls it quits

  19-10-2019 19:53 via politico.com
  Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), who was the first House Republican express openness to voting to impeach President Donald Trump, announced his retirement on Saturday.“I thought the idea was you came and did your public service and left, you accomplish what you want to accomplish and you left," Rooney said on Fox News.The two-term congressman confirmed his plans shortly afterward in an interview with POLITICO.
  
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• The Latest: New Orleans delays plans to collapse 2 cranes

  19-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  New Orleans officials say they must delay plans to topple two cranes that had been looming precariously over the ruins of a partially collapsed hotel.The delay comes a week after the shocking collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel on Saturday that was being built near a corner of the city's historic French Quarter.People living and working near a corner of New Orleans' historic French Quarter are being told they should prepare to leave for several hours as preparations continue for a controlled explosi
  
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• Legionnaires' outbreak linked to hot tub display at North Carolina fair claims fourth fatality

  19-10-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The epicenter of the deadly Legionnaires' outbreak was the Mountain State Fair, held at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in September.
  
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• Hillary Clinton claims Tulsi Gabbard is being 'groomed' by Russia

  19-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton has claimed a Democrat presidential candidate is being "groomed" by the Kremlin to run as an independent in 2020. In an astonishing attack on Tulsi Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, Mrs Clinton suggested Russia would use her to damage the Democrats' chances of taking the White House. Ms Gabbard, 38, responded by calling Mrs Clinton the "queen of warmongers" and the cause of "rot" in the Democrat party. The bitter row began when Mrs Clinton was being interviewed about the pros
  
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• 70,000 California wildfire victims may miss out on payments

  19-10-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  As many as 100,000 Californians are eligible to receive payments for the damages they suffered from a series of devastating wildfires over the last several years.Concerned that as many as 70,000 victims may miss out on payments, attorneys filed court papers Friday to alert the bankruptcy judge that wildfire survivors — many still traumatized and struggling to get back on their feet — aren't aware of their rights to file a claim."People really are overwhelmed and don't understand what
  
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• U.S. President Trump calls Mexico's president to express 'solidarity'

  19-10-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said on Saturday his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump called him to express his "solidarity" following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin's son that prompted a wave of violence in the northwestern city of Culiacan.Cartel gunmen surrounded about 35 police and national guards on Thursday in the capital of Sinaloa state and made them free Ovidio Guzman, one of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's dozen or so children, after his brief detention
  
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• Nestor downgraded as tornadoes damage Florida homes

  19-10-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Nestor was downgraded Saturday after it spawned a tornado that damaged homes and a school in central Florida but spared an area of the Panhandle devastated one year ago by Hurricane Michael.The Polk County Sheriff's Office said several homes were damaged and Kathleen Middle School had a large section of its roof torn off when the tornado hit late Friday near Lakeland, about an hour's drive southwest of Orlando.Another suspected tornado in southwest Florida damaged at least a dozen
  
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• The Latest: Service canceled for Texas woman shot by police

  19-10-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer has been canceled.Saturday's service for Atatiana Jefferson was to be held at Potter's House Church in Dallas.Church representative Mara Silverio says the service hasn't been rescheduled.
  
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• Johnson Says He’ll Press on After Commons Defeat: Brexit Update

  19-10-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Parliament voted for Boris Johnson to request a further delay to Brexit after a day of high tension in the House of Commons in London. The prime minister, who said the choice is his deal or no deal, said he will not “negotiate delay” with the European Union and will introduce the legislation needed next week for the U.K. to leave the EU on Oct. 31.Lawmakers voted 322 to 3
  
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• McConnell condemns Trump over Syria as impeachment inquiry ramps up

  19-10-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  President faces new pressure after Senate majority leader – with key role in impeachment process – issues foreign policy rebukeMitch McConnell lambasted Trump over a ‘grave strategic mistake’ in Syria. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPAAfter another tumultuous week in Washington, with the prospect of impeachment growing by the day, Donald Trump faced a stinging rebuke from the man who holds the president’s fate in his hands: the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.In a
  
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• Service canceled for Texas woman shot at home by officer

  19-10-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer that had been scheduled for Saturday was canceled amid a family dispute over funeral arrangements.Atatiana Jefferson's funeral had been set to be held at Potter's House Church in Dallas.Church representative Mara Silverio said the service hasn't been rescheduled, but that no events would be held for her Saturday.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani reportedly tried to get a visa for a former Ukrainian prosecutor ousted with the help of Joe Biden

  19-10-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reportedly attempted to secure a visa for former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin, CNN reported Friday.George Kent, the deputy assistant of state for European and Eurasian affairs, reportedly told congressional investigators that Giuliani asked both the State Department and the White House for a visa, two people familiar with his closed-door deposition earlier this week said. The State Department reportedly objected t
  
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• Israel, Russia, and the US are in a diplomatic standoff over a 26-year-old woman smuggling 9 and a half grams of marijuana

  19-10-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced to 7.5 years of prison in Moscow, and negotiating her release is part of a bigger diplomatic dispute.
  
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• Deadly protests in Guinea as Russia calls for change of rules to keep despot in power

  19-10-2019 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  When police shot dead nine pro-democracy protesters in Guinea this week, Western embassies quietly shared their misgivings with the country’s president, Alpha Conde. International human rights groups were more unequivocal. François Patuel of Amnesty International denounced “a shameful attempt by Guinean authorities to stifle dissent by any means necessary”. But one major power seemed unperturbed. Mr Conde’s ruthless response to protests against his apparent efforts
  
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• U.K. serial killers had affair in prison, lawyer claims

  19-10-2019 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Notorious U.K. serial killers Rose West and Myra Hindley were lovers in prison, according to one of their former lawyers. West’s ex-attorney Leo Goatley claimed his client fell for the Moors murderer in 1995 after they were both jailed in the hospital wing of Durham prison.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez Is a Shoo-In, but 11 Other Hats Are in the Ring

  19-10-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK -- It is hard to imagine a scenario where Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loses her seat next year. She has raised more than $3.4 million, is better known than some presidential candidates and handily won a district that is among the bluest in the nation.But that hasn't stopped people -- lots of them -- from trying to unseat her.So far, eight Republicans and three Democrats have filed to run for Ocasio-Cortez's seat in the Bronx and Queens. Two of the Republicans have each raised more tha
  
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• At a School for Suicide Bombers' Children, Dancing, Drawing and Deradicalization

  19-10-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  MEDAN, Indonesia -- Ais likes to dance. She knows the words to "I'm a Little Teapot." Her dimples are disarming.Her parents didn't want their daughter to dance. They didn't want her to sing. They wanted her to die with them for their cause.Last year, when she was 7, Ais squeezed onto a motorcycle with her mother and brother. They carried a packet that Ais refers to as coconut rice wrapped in banana leaves. Her father and other brother climbed onto a different bike with another parcel. They sped
  
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• Syria Kurds accuse Turkey of scuppering US-brokered deal

  19-10-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The commander of Kurdish forces in Syria accused Turkey of sabotaging a US-brokered truce Saturday by blocking the withdrawal of his forces from a flashpoint border town in northeastern Syria.In a wide-ranging interview with AFP, Mazloum Abdi, head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said he still wished to see a role for the US in Syria to counterbalance Russian influence, while recommitting his forces to countering the Islamic State group."The Turks are preventing the withdrawal from the Ra
  
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• Azeri police detain scores of protesters, including opposition party leader

  19-10-2019 16:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Azerbaijan on Saturday detained scores of protesters, including the leader of the main opposition Popular Front, at the start of a planned rally against low salaries, corruption and a lack of democracy in the energy-rich ex-Soviet state.The protesters have a wide range of demands, including higher salaries for state employees and fair and independent elections in a country long accused by human rights groups and Western governments of a lack of transparency.Popular Front leader Ali Ker
  
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• Boris Johnson Furious as Parliament Refuses to Be Bounced Into Brexit Deal

  19-10-2019 16:07 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSLONDON—Boris Johnson was left raging on Saturday as lawmakers forced the prime minister to seek yet another Brexit delay from the European Union. The extremely rare parliamentary vote taken on a Saturday did not reject Johnson’s compromise deal with the EU outright, it merely demanded more time for the deal to be examined and inserted an additional failsafe to stop Britain from slipping out of the EU without an agreed deal on Halloween.No. 10 was furious because Johnson has re
  
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