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‘We were not hidden’: Jeffrey Epstein accuser pleads with Prince Andrew to speak to FBI

18-11-2019 23:48 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

An alleged victim of billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded for Prince Andrew to provide evidence against the disgraced financier, after revealing she was invited to a party where he was due to be among the attendees.Giving her name only as Jane Doe 15 – a common anonymous pseudonym in the US – the now-31-year-old said during a press conference that she had been raped by Epstein at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

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Best Buy's Top Black Friday Deals on Tech Products

18-11-2019 23:47 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

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Some Hong Kong protesters escaped police by lowering themselves off a bridge and speeding away on motorcycles

18-11-2019 23:41 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Hong Kong Polytechnic University remains sealed off with many pro-democracy, anti-government protesters trapped on campus as fears of violent clashes with police intensify.At least some demonstrators escaped at great personal risk, as dozens of protesters lowered themselves more than 30 feet down from a bridge with plastic hosing before jumping onto the back of waiting motor bikes and speeding off while police fired projectiles, Reuters reports.> Footage shows daring escape by Hong Kong prote

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Louisiana government computers knocked out after ransomware attack

18-11-2019 23:37 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Many state agencies had their servers taken down in response to the attack, Governor John Bel Edwards said in a series of messages posted to Twitter.Ransomware works by scrambling data held on vulnerable computers and demanding a payment to unlock it.Louisiana Secretary of State spokesman Tyler Brey said that while his office's website was briefly offline, the tallying of Saturday's vote, in which Bel Edwards narrowly won re-election, was unaffected.

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Ben Carson slams Maxine Waters: ‘Basic manners elude you’

18-11-2019 23:36 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

“My mother always taught me that people shouldn’t throw rocks, especially while they live in a glass house,” Carson wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO.Waters had written Trump on Oct. 28 demanding answers on reports that the administration is mulling moving homeless people off the streets in California.“Your shamelessness knows no bounds,” Waters wrote in that letter.

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Bethenny Frankel Sells Her SoHo Loft

18-11-2019 23:28 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The former Real Housewives of New York City star originally listed it for $5 million in February 2017, but later lowered the price to $4 million

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Passenger dies after fall from balcony on Carnival’s Horizon during cruise

18-11-2019 23:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

A man fell from a balcony to a deck below on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship as it was returning to port in Miami, officials say.

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Washington silent as US-crafted regime under fire in Iraq

18-11-2019 23:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The US posted tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, huddled with its leaders and helped craft its laws -- but with the country swamped by deadly protests, Washington is staying out of the fray.Its apparent absence during a key turning point in Iraq lays bare how much its interests and influence have waned since the 2003 US-led invasion that opened the door to fellow Shiite-majority neighbour Iran."The (US-Iraq) gulf has never been so big, and keeps getting bigger," a senior Iraqi official told AF

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Defendant in NY attack that killed 8 speaks out in court

18-11-2019 23:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Sayfullo Saipov, 31, remained quiet until the end of a federal court hearing meant to discuss issues relating to his upcoming trial.U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick advised him he probably should express himself through his lawyers and he reminded him that anything he said could be used against him.

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Campus under siege as Hong Kong police battle protesters

18-11-2019 23:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Police tightened their siege of a university campus where hundreds of protesters remained trapped overnight Tuesday in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing Chinese control over the semi-autonomous city.In yet another escalation for the movement, protests raged across other parts of the city, fueled by palpable public anger over the police blockade of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the desire to help the students stuck inside.Now in its fifth month, the Hong Kon

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Evo Morales Says 32-Year-Old Senator Is Bolivia’s Rightful President

18-11-2019 23:20 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

(Bloomberg) -- A 32-year-old senator from Bolivia’s majority socialist party should be the nation’s president, ousted leader Evo Morales said in an interview.Monica Eva Copa, from Morales’s MAS party, was elected leader by the Senate last week. Morales says that makes her the legal head of state, rather than Jeanine Anez, whose claim to be interim president has been recognized by the U.S. and Brazil. Anez and her backers have begun an aggressive remaking of the nation’s f

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US ends sanction waivers for Iran's Fordow nuclear plant

18-11-2019 23:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The United States announced Monday it would halt sanctions waivers for Iran's Fordow plant, ending a key part of a landmark nuclear deal after Tehran said it had resumed enrichment activities.The move is intended to end Russian and European cooperation with Iran on the once-secret site, which was supposed to become a civilian research center under the 2015 agreement.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's announcement of renewed activity at Fordow -- a series

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Colombia church massacre victims ID’d with DNA put to rest

18-11-2019 23:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Relatives of those killed in a Colombia massacre put their loved ones to rest Monday nearly two decades after the attack – while also warning that the government hasn’t done enough to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again.Family members held a memorial ceremony in the Chocó province town of Bojayá following a painstaking process in which forensic scientists used DNA to identify nearly 80 people initially buried in mass graves.People were sheltering in a church

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Trump says he'd 'strongly consider' giving written testimony in impeachment inquiry

18-11-2019 23:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Trump tweets he would "strongly consider" giving written testimony even though he doesn't like "giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax."

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Patrick Frazee Convicted of Murdering His Missing Fiancée With a Baseball Bat, Burning Her Body

18-11-2019 23:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastA Colorado man accused of fatally beating his fiancée last Thanksgiving before enlisting his secret girlfriend to clean up the murder scene was found guilty on Monday. Patrick Frazee, 33, was found guilty of all six charges related to the slaying and disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth, including two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. The cattle ranger was sentenced to life without

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U.S. agencies lax as China stole intellectual property: Senate report

18-11-2019 23:03 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Federal agencies responded too slowly as Beijing recruited U.S.-based researchers to transfer intellectual property from American laboratories, leaving U.S. taxpayers unwittingly funding the rise of China's economy and military, U.S. Senate investigators said on Monday.The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the 105-page report saying China started in the late 1990s to exchange salaries, research funding, laboratory space and other incentives for information from U.S. univ

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The Fighter Planes Iran Desperately Wants (This Picture Is a Clue)

18-11-2019 23:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

But no one is selling.

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Senate report faults slow FBI response to Chinese 'brain gain' scheme

18-11-2019 23:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

A Senate report urges the FBI to crack down on China’s poaching of U.S. research.

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Immigrants don't flock to states that expand health benefits

18-11-2019 22:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Federal policy changes in 2002 and 2009 led some states to expand public health insurance coverage to some children born outside the U.S. and to certain pregnant women.The proportion of immigrants making interstate moves within the first five years of U.S. residency didn't appear to be influenced by expanded public health benefits, the study found."Our study showed that recent public health insurance expansion was not associated with a discernable increase in migration between states among eligi

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Black Friday 2019 TV Price Predictions

18-11-2019 22:57 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

With the Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019 shopping period now clearly in our sights, we’ve got lots of information on the kinds of deals TV shoppers will be seeing. There’s still a fair amount of g...

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Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is now okay with Israeli settlements in the West Bank

18-11-2019 22:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The United States is changing its tune when it comes to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, bucking international consensus in the process."The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with international law," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters during a press conference Monday.The statement indicates that the U.S. will take a softer stance on the matter going forward, which is becoming a trend for the Trump administration in matters related to the I

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Joe Biden leads crowded Democratic field by 20 points in new South Carolina poll

18-11-2019 22:47 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

A Quinnipiac University poll out of South Carolina shows Biden leading the Democratic field by 20 points including high favorablity and recognition.

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At least 4 wounded by gunshots during protest in Haiti

18-11-2019 22:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least four people were shot and wounded during a small protest in Haiti’s capital Monday after a speech by embattled President Jovenel Moise.Monday was the anniversary of a key battle of the Haitian Revolution, and earlier in the day Moise rejected calls to resign.Opponents say Moise should leave office over economic mismanagement and failure to investigate corruption.

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At Hong Kong university, a daring escape but fears of bloodshed

18-11-2019 22:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Some of the protesters who escaped on Monday lowered themselves several metres from a bridge they had occupied on the campus to a flyover below. They then sped off on the back of motorcycles that were already waiting or arrived quickly.

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Buttigieg campaign criticized for using stock photo of Kenyan woman to promote plan to address US racism

18-11-2019 22:20 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

"We apologize for its use and for the confusion it created," a Buttigieg spokesman said, adding that the use of stock photos is "standard practice."

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Majority of young voters want Trump impeached, removed from office, poll finds

18-11-2019 22:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, more young voters support than oppose the impeachment of President Donald Trump and his removal from office.

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McConnell Urges Trump to Speak Out on Protests: Hong Kong Update

18-11-2019 22:17 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam urged protesters holed up in a university to heed police calls to surrender, as tens of thousands of protesters marched to support the trapped demonstrators.Police and protesters clashed around Hong Kong Polytechnic University for much of the day, leading to multiple arrests and injuries. Running battles have occurred, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators who threw bricks and Molotov cocktails.Demonstrations seeking greater de

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Buttigieg speaks at black college in push to boost support

18-11-2019 22:13 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told a crowd at Morehouse College on Monday that what black voters on the campaign trail most want to hear from him are whether he can win and what he is going to do for black America.Buttigieg told the audience of about 250 people at the historically black, all-male college in Atlanta that a strong showing in mostly-white Iowa could help persuade black voters that he can win.Polls have shown that Buttigieg, the white mayor of South Bend, Indiana,

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Latest Epstein accuser calls on Prince Andrew to talk to U.S. authorities

18-11-2019 22:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

A woman who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her as a child on Monday said Britain’s Prince Andrew should tell U.S. authorities what he knows about the financier."Prince Andrew, and any others who were close to Epstein, should come forward and give a statement under oath on what information they have," the woman, calling herself Jane Doe 15, said at a news conference with her lawyer Gloria Allred.The woman on Monday became the latest of more than a dozen women to sue Epstein's e

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Bombs, missiles falling at record pace in long-running Afghanistan war

18-11-2019 22:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

U.S. and allied warplanes are dropping bombs on insurgent targets in Afghanistan at a record pace. But the Taliban doesn't seem to be backing down.

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How to Overcome Losing 600,000 People a Year

18-11-2019 22:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- You know times are hard in provincial South Korea when the guy selling walkers and hearing aids can only make ends meet by day trading. Ho Cheol Lee, 52, keeps his eyes on flashing stock quotes while his shop, crammed with wheelchairs, canes and other equipment for seniors, sits empty. Lee has run the store for roughly two decades, and his plight shows just how dire things have become. Few of his neighbors make enough money sticking to their day jobs, he say

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Pompeo Announces U.S. Will Not Consider Israeli Settlements Illegal

18-11-2019 21:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. would no longer consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be in violation of international law.The move reversed 41 years of U.S. policy regarding the issue based on a 1978 legal opinion from the State Department that concluded the settlements were "inconsistent with international law." In 1981 the policy was reviewed, but not overturned, by then-president Ronald Reagan, who said the settlements were not illegal."After caref

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Butterfly on a bomb range: Endangered Species Act at work

18-11-2019 21:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

In the unlikely setting of the world’s most populated military installation, amid all the regimented chaos, you’ll find the Endangered Species Act at work.There, as a 400-pound explosive resounds in the distance, a tiny St. Francis Satyr butterfly flits among the splotchy leaves, ready to lay as many as 100 eggs.At one point, this brown and frankly dull-looking butterfly could be found in only one place on Earth: Fort Bragg’s artillery range.

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Pompeo declines to defend Marie Yovanovitch and Bill Taylor after saying he 'always defends State Department employees'

18-11-2019 21:55 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is speaking out about why he's not speaking out.Pompeo gave one of the Trump administration's rare press conferences Monday to announce another pro-Israel policy and was immediately hit with impeachment questions. Specifically, Pompeo was asked about one current and one former State Department employee -- and refused to defend them even though he said earlier that's something he "always" does.After his announcement, Pompeo was asked to respond to accusations that h

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Poll: Buttigieg Remains at Zero Percent among Black Voters in South Carolina

18-11-2019 21:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

A new Quinnipiac University poll of South Carolina voters found South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg still at zero percent among black voters, despite the campaign’s release of its comprehensive “Douglass Plan,” which details policies designed to address racial inequality.The poll showed former vice president Joe Biden in the lead with 44 percent of the African American vote — which accounts for two thirds of the primary vote — and 33 percent overall, followed by p

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U.S. charges Miami professor in Venezuela money laundering scheme

18-11-2019 21:52 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Prosecutors in New York accused professor Bruce Bagley of receiving $2.5 million in deposits from bank accounts in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that were the proceeds of bribery and embezzlement in Venezuela, a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office press release said.It said he retained about 10% as a commission.

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Trump says will 'strongly consider' testifying in impeachment probe

18-11-2019 21:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

President Donald Trump said Monday he is "strongly" considering accepting a challenge from opposition Democrats to testify in his own impeachment investigation.A live appearance by Trump before the House Intelligence Committee running the probe is unlikely, given the high legal risks.

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UPDATE 1-Pompeo says U.S. concerned about Hong Kong violence, says China must honor freedoms

18-11-2019 21:47 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The United States is gravely concerned about deepening political unrest and violence in Hong Kong, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, urging the city's government to take clear steps to address public concerns.Speaking at a rare media briefing, Pompeo also said the Chinese Communist Party must honor its promises to the people of Hong Kong in terms of freedoms and liberties."The Hong Kong government bears primary responsibility for bringing calm to Hong Kong," Pompeo said.

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They have different causes and aims, but mass protests from Iran to Hong Kong accelerate

18-11-2019 21:41 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Mass protests around the world have broken out, for different reasons, in recent months. On Sunday, Iran imposed a near total Internet blackout.

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Transgender kids feel as much like girls or boys as non-trans children: study

18-11-2019 21:40 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Transgender kids feel as much like girls or boys as their non-transgender counterparts, according to a major study of US children that allowed observers to see how the young people conformed to social gender norms.The authors of the study, researchers from the University of Washington who published their findings Monday in the scientific journal PNAS, recruited 317 trans children aged from three to 12 whom they compared to their brothers and sisters, as well as to 316 cisgender children, meaning

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In new pro-Israel shift, US no longer calls settlements illegal

18-11-2019 21:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday, in the latest pro-Israel shift by Washington.The statement puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions and comes just as centrist Benny Gantz races to form a government to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of President Donald Trump.

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Wealth-tax opposition is rooted in the era of American slavery, 2 economists say

18-11-2019 21:34 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Arguments against taxing wealth are rooted in the rhetoric used by southern slaveowners to protect their fortunes during the era of American slavery.

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Pompeo deflects criticism of Yovanovitch's ouster

18-11-2019 21:33 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

"It is worth noting that Ambassador Yovanovitch's departure preceded the arrival of Bill Taylor,” he said in a news conference.“You should just look at the simple fact that it was Bill Taylor that replaced Ambassador Yovanovitch, who in each case has been driving towards the appropriate Ukraine policy, which I am happy to talk about,” Pompeo continued, deflecting further questions about the ongoing impeachment hearings in the House.Yovanovitch appeared before investigators Frid

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'People aren't stupid': de Blasio slams Bloomberg's 'stop-and-frisk' apology

18-11-2019 21:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for the controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy, but Bill de Blasio says he had six years to say sorry.

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Colombia authorizes riot-control measures ahead of protests

18-11-2019 21:23 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Colombia on Monday said it would authorize local authorities to adopt exceptional measures to contain protests planned for Thursday, given the government's wariness over the sort of violent unrest that has swept other Latin American capitals.Student groups and unions called the demonstrations, sayingthe conservative administration of President Ivan Duque is seeking to impose labor and pension reforms, though Duque has repeatedly denied this in attempts to calm critics.Interior Minister Nancy Pat

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Ghislaine Maxwell is at the center of the Epstein controversy, but she's in hiding

18-11-2019 21:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The British socialite friend of Prince Andrew is accused of recruiting girls for the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking ring Ghislaine Maxwell is accused of recruiting girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesPrince Andrew’s recent interview about his relationship with alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has sparked many questions but one stands out: what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell, the Britis

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Pompeo Calls on Lam to Allow Independent Probe: Hong Kong Update

18-11-2019 21:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam urged protesters holed up in a university to heed police calls to surrender, as tens of thousands of protesters marched to support the trapped demonstrators.Police and protesters clashed around Hong Kong Polytechnic University for much of the day, leading to multiple arrests and injuries. Running battles have occurred, with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators who threw bricks and Molotov cocktails.Demonstrations seeking greater de

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UPDATE 2-U.S. to no longer waive sanctions on Iranian nuclear site

18-11-2019 21:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The United States said on Monday it will no longer waive sanctions related to Iran's Fordow nuclear plant after Tehran resumed uranium enrichment at the underground site."The right amount of uranium enrichment for the world's largest state sponsor of terror is zero ... There is no legitimate reason for Iran to resume enrichment at this previously clandestine site," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters.The U.N. atomic watchdog and Iran itself said this month Tehran is again enrichin

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Dozens of Hong Kong protesters make daring campus breakout

18-11-2019 21:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters dramatically escaped a two-day police siege at a university campus late Monday by shimmying down ropes from a bridge to waiting motorbikes, after Beijing again warned it could intervene to end the crisis engulfing the city.Clashes rumbled into the early hours of Tuesday between protesters and police who had threatened to use deadly force to dislodge activists holed up at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).The university siege has become a ba

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U.S. Supreme Court puts temporary hold on Trump financial records fight

18-11-2019 21:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily put on hold a lower court ruling that would require President Donald Trump's accounting firm to hand over some of his financial records to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee. The order issued by Chief Justice John Roberts does not indicate whether the court ultimately plans to hear Trump's appeal, filed on Friday, of the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case represents an important showdown

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