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• Worker who survived New Orleans hotel collapse deported

  29-11-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A construction worker hurt in last month’s collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans has been deported to his native Honduras on Friday.The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, 38, was flown to Honduras from Alexandria International Airport, which is near several ICE detention facilities in central Louisiana.Border Patrol officers arrested Ramirez Palma two days after he fell several stories as the upper floors
  
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• North Korea warns Japan's Abe may soon see real ballistic missile launch

  29-11-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea's state media on Saturday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "imbecile and political dwarf" for calling Pyongyang's latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher a ballistic missile launch and warned he may see a real one in the near future.North Korea fired two short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Thursday in a fourth test of its new "super-large multiple-rocker launcher," with its North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressing "great satisfac
  
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• N.Korea warns Japan's Abe may soon see real ballistic missile launch

  29-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea's state media on Saturday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "imbecile and political dwarf" for calling Pyongyang's latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher a ballistic missile launch and warned he may see a real one in the near future.North Korea fired two short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Thursday in a fourth test of its new "super-large multiple-rocker launcher," with its North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressing "great satisfac
  
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• Tens of thousands rally in Europe, Asia before UN climate summit

  29-11-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit.Carrying signs that read "One planet, one fight" and "The sea is rising, so must we", thousands flocked to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the latest "Fridays for Future" protest inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg.In total, about 630,000 people demonstrated across more
  
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• Millions Around The World Strike on Black Friday for Action on Climate Change

  29-11-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The protests are meant to raise awareness of overconsumption and demand action at the U.N.'s COP25, which begins in Spain next week
  
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• Police chief says Oklahoma Starbucks served cup labeled 'PIG' to an on-duty officer

  29-11-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the incident, a Starbucks spokesman issued statements to media saying the company has suspended a barista pending the investigation.
  
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• Prince Andrew scandal: Charity Duke partnered with to help sex trafficked women will review its connection to him

  29-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The charity Prince Andrew partnered with to help sex trafficked women in India has told the Telegraph it will "review" its connection to him in the wake of the Epstein scandal. Senior figures at the Women's Interlink Foundation (WIF), with which the Duke started his Key To Freedom initiative in 2012, told the Telegraph they had not been aware of allegations against the Prince. The West Bengal-based charity's founder Aloka Mitra said she was “shocked” by the sexual abuse allegations a
  
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• US cryptocurrency promoter charged after advising North Korea

  29-11-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A prominent American cryptocurrency promoter and former hacker was charged with sanctions violations Friday after he allegedly advised North Korea on using virtual money to avoid international controls.Virgil Griffith, 36, who lives in Singapore and works for the blockchain and cryptocurrency developer Ethereum, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, the Justice Department said.
  
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• Scotland's red deer population being brought under control thanks to surge in culling

  29-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scotland's red deer population is starting to be brought under control following record levels of culling, according to an official progress report. The review by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) found an "improving picture of deer management" over the past three years, with "marked reductions" in numbers in some regions. It said land managers conducted the largest cull of red deer ever reported in Scotland's uplands in 2017/18, with a 26 per cent increase on the previous year's total. The number
  
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• Democrats can't beat Trump, says America's first black billionaire

  29-11-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's first black billionaire and founder of the BET television network doesn't believe any of the current Democratic challengers are capable of defeating Donald Trump in 2020.Bob Johnson told CNBC that the president "has always been at a position" where the election is "his to lose".
  
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• Nadler asks Trump if he 'intends to participate' in impeachment hearings

  29-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judiciary committee chairman said on Friday he looks forward to ‘prompt response’ while president is at his Florida golf clubNadler wrote earlier this week: ‘At base, the president has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process.’ Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesHouse judiciary committee chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to Donald Trump on Friday, asking if the president “in
  
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• The China Challenge Continues to Mount

  29-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This is why the West must ensure the maintenance of peace, security of borders, and world trade.
  
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• Third occupant of Spain 'narco-sub' arrested: police

  29-11-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The third occupant of a submarine seized off the Spanish coast carrying three tonnes of cocaine worth 100 million euros ($110 million) was arrested on Friday, police said.Police intercepted the 20-metre (65-foot) submarine -- thought to be the first of its kind captured in Europe -- off the northwestern region of Galicia on Saturday.Two Ecuadorans were arrested as they tried to escape from the submarine, but the third occupant managed to flee from police.
  
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• The US fertility rate has dropped for the fourth year in a row, and it might forecast a 'demographic time bomb'

  29-11-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia, Japan, and Spain are all dealing with their growing elderly populations and declining birthrates. The US could be next.
  
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• Trump impeachment: President must answer if he'll call witnesses and bring evidence to hearings

  29-11-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The congressional committee beginning Donald Trump's impeachment hearings next week has given the president a deadline to answer whether he intends to call witnesses and offer evidence.The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin its hearings on 4 December, when legal experts will discuss the Constitutional grounds for impeachment, considering whether the president's alleged abuses of power in his dealings with Ukraine in exchange for politically damaging information on his rivals constit
  
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• Maltese businessman in court as journalist murder case deepens

  29-11-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yorgen Fenech, who is on police bail, also asked the court in Valetta to order the removal of Inspector Keith Arnaud, the chief investigator in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.Caruana Galizia, a campaigning journalist who investigated and exposed corruption, was blown up by a car bomb in October2017.The case has developed into a political crisis for the government of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
  
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• Democrats to Accuse Trump of Seeking Foreign Election Help

  29-11-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The House Intelligence Committee is preparing to release a scathing report alleging President Donald Trump engaged in a months-long effort to seek foreign interference in the 2020 election and obstruct a congressional investigation.In a letter to Trump on Friday, Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler previewed the conclusions from weeks of depositions and hearings, saying the forthcoming report will describe an “effort in which President Trump again sought foreign interference i
  
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• Black Friday comes to Venezuela as socialist government loosens controls

  29-11-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelans flocked to shopping centers in Caracas, the country's largest city, on Friday to take advantage of the first "Black Friday" discounts in recent memory, as socialist President Nicolas Maduro's government loosens controls in the face of an economic crisis.For the first six holiday seasons of his presidency, Maduro attempted to keep consumer goods prices low despite galloping inflation with strict enforcement of price controls.
  
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• Trump's antics leaving Republicans 'disgusted and exhausted', says former GOP congressman

  29-11-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Republican congressman said he would “probably vote to impeach” Donald Trump if he were still serving in the US House of Representatives while suggesting the president's scandals are “infuriating" current GOP House members.Charlie Dent, a frequent critic of Mr Trump who resigned from Congress last year, said he has heard from several of his former Republican colleagues who are “absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the president’s behaviour”.
  
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• Suddenly, the Chinese Threat to Australia Seems Very Real

  29-11-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese defector to Australia who detailed political interference by Beijing. A businessman found dead after telling the authorities about a Chinese plot to install him in Parliament. Suspicious men following critics of Beijing in major Australian cities.For a country that just wants calm commerce with China -- the propellant behind 28 years of steady growth -- the revelations of the past week have delivered a jolt.Fears of Chinese interference once seemed to hover indis
  
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• 2 Men Stockpiled Guns and Far-Right Propaganda in New Jersey. Are They Alone?

  29-11-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWTON, N.J. -- New Jersey investigators were looking into a routine complaint from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend was harassing her when they uncovered something far more dire: The 25-year-old man had stockpiled weapons and far-right propaganda and had talked about shooting up a hospital.Two months later, New Jersey State Police responding to a crash in the same county discovered illegal assault weapons in the back seat of a van. Later, they found 17 more firearms, a grenade launcher and neo
  
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• Trump impeachment: What to expect as hearings begin next week

  29-11-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The next phase of Donald Trump's impeachment hearings begins next week, when members of Congress will discuss whether the president's alleged abuses of power constitute "high crimes and misdemeanours".The phrase, as outlined in the US Constitution, has primed the debate between Democrats leading the investigation and the Republicans who argue that despite several witness testimonies corroborating Mr Trump's pressure on Ukraine to investigate his political rivals in exchange for receiving militar
  
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• This Is America's Role in Saudi Arabia's Power Struggle

  29-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Did you know that Saudi-Iranian oil rivalry was shaped by American power?
  
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• Trump to decide if he wants lawyers at impeachment hearings

  29-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Donald Trump on Friday to say whether he’ll send his attorneys to participate in impeachment proceedings before the panel.Rep. Jerrold Nadler also is asking Republicans on his committee which witnesses they plan to ask permission to subpoena.The letters from the New York Democrat came as the House impeachment probe enters a new phase with a hearing next week on whether Trump’s actions might constitute impeachable offenses.
  
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• Dems ask Trump if he wants lawyers at impeachment hearings

  29-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Donald Trump on Friday to say whether he’ll send his attorneys to participate in impeachment proceedings before the panel.Rep. Jerrold Nadler also is asking Republicans on his committee which witnesses they plan to ask permission to subpoena.The letters from the New York Democrat came as the House impeachment probe enters a new phase with a hearing next week on whether Trump’s actions might constitute impeachable offenses.
  
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• U.S. panel sets deadline for Trump to decide participation in impeachment hearings

  29-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. congressional panel on Friday gave President Donald Trump a deadline in one week to say whether his legal counsel intends to introduce evidence and call witnesses in upcoming impeachment proceedings that could lead to formal charges of misconduct within a few weeks.The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, which is due to begin weighing possible articles of impeachment against Trump next week, sent a two-page letter to the president setting a deadline of 5 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Dec.
  
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• Trump impeachment news – live: President given deadline to offer evidence, as White House ‘engaged in unprecedented obstruction’

  29-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s White House has “engaged in unprecedented obstruction”, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal has declared in a damning interview with MSNBC, as the White House admits it has no record of a key call between the president and EU ambassador Gordon Sondland that Republicans had hoped would exonerate him.Mr Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, serving turkey to American troops at the Bagram Air Field and pledging to resume peace
  
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• 'Very disturbing': Chicago officer under investigation for body-slamming man to the ground

  29-11-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chicago police officer is under investigation after body-slamming a man during an arrest on the South Side, an incident captured in a viral video.
  
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• River watchers already wary about 2020 spring flooding

  29-11-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Flooding ravaged much of the Missouri and Mississippi River basins and their tributaries earlier this year, reaching record levels and overwhelming levees in many places.Eight months later, parts of the Missouri River are slightly above flood stage at a time of the year when river levels traditionally run low.Conditions are only slightly better on the Mississippi River, which is just a couple of feet below flood stage at several towns from Burlington, Iowa, south to near St. Louis.
  
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• Democrats reportedly fret over long-awaited FISA report

  29-11-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times reports Inspector general Michael Horowitz's long-awaited investigation will criticize FBI leadership's handling of the Russia probe; reaction from former prosecutor Alex Little.
  
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• French hunters should take breathalyser tests, campaigners say after string of deadly accidents

  29-11-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French hunters are facing calls for compulsory breathalyser tests before bearing arms amid fears that a spike in the number of deaths this year could be drink-fuelled. Eight people have already died in hunting accidents since September and the season still has another three months to run.  The death toll has already surpassed the seven who were killed last year out of a total 131 recorded accidents. The spike prompted a plea from environment minister Emmanuelle Wargon for hunters to fully i
  
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• Suriname President Bouterse convicted of murder for 1982 executions

  29-11-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A court in Suriname on Friday convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 following a coup to seize power, sentencing the man who has dominated the former Dutch colony's recent history to 20 years in prison.Opposition parties called for Bouterse, currently in China on an official visit, to step down.Bouterse was expected to return to Suriname on Saturday or Sunday, skipping a planned trip to Cuba, the vice president of his National Democratic Party told
  
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• Climate activists turn attention to Black Friday: 'Shoppers cannot ignore the climate emergency'

  29-11-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Young activists worldwide planned to hold hundreds of demonstrations on Black Friday to protest overconsumption and draw attention to climate change.
  
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• The best Black Friday deals at Best Buy

  29-11-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These are the best deals you can get at Best Buy this Black Friday, including Chromebooks, the Nintendo Switch, Apple Watch, and Samsung 4K LED TVs.
  
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• Threats, arrests, targeted killings silence Iraqi dissidents

  29-11-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After armed men raided the home of Hussein Adel al-Madaniand his wife Sara Talib last year, the Iraqi activists spent months of self-imposed exile in Turkey, changed address upon returning home and ceased participating in protests, according to two friends of the couple.
  
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• Lesbian couple attacked on London bus over sexual orientation, judge rules

  29-11-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The actions of a 17-year-old boy in an attack on two lesbians in London were motivated by hostility towards their sexuality, a judge ruled on Friday."These two women were being pestered, harassed and intimidated because of who they were," district judge Susan Williams told the court.On Thursday, the boy, along with two other teenagers, pleaded guilty at Highbury Magistrates' Court to public order offences in relation to the attack that took place on a London bus in May.
  
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• DR Congo buries 27 massacre victims as anger mounts

  29-11-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic Republic of Congo town of Oicha on Friday buried 27 victims of the latest massacre in the country's volatile east, with hundreds paying homage while lashing out at security forces for failing to stop attacks.The vast majority of the killings have been carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia that has plagued the Democratic Republic of Congo's east since the 1990s.
  
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• U.S. to discuss challenges posed by China, 5G with NATO allies

  29-11-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will discuss threats posed by China, including the country's dominance of 5G telecommunications networks, when U.S. President Donald Trump meets with allies at a NATO summit in London next week, an official told reporters on Friday."This is a very, very high priority for us and the president is going to reiterate that message," the official said.
  
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• Chinese ambassador visits Huawei exec under house arrest in Canada

  29-11-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China's ambassador to Canada on Friday called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to "correct its mistake" of detaining Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou last year on a US extradition warrant.Ambassador Cong Peiwu issued the statement after visiting Meng at her mansion in Vancouver, where she is under house arrest pending an extradition trial scheduled to start in January.
  
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• Families of Mexico massacre victims face backlash after cartel shooting

  29-11-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Members of a U.S.-Mexican religious community who lost relatives in a gangland massacre this month have come under fire from supporters of Mexico's government for pressing the United States to declare drug cartels terrorist groups.
  
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• Macron, Erdogan go head-to-head in 'brain death' row

  29-11-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out on Friday at Emmanuel Macron over his criticism of Turkey's military intervention in Syria, saying the French president was suffering "brain death", a phrase Macron recently used to describe NATO.Erdogan used a televised speech to launch a stunning attack on Macron, just days before the two men join other NATO leaders in England for events to mark the alliance's 70th birthday.
  
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• Gigantic storm to wreak havoc on post-Thanksgiving travel

  29-11-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A massive winter storm that has already prompted warnings from Arizona to Wisconsin will be lumbering east in coming days, almost certainly interfering with Thanksgiving return-travel plans for millions, The Washington Post reports. By the time it's finished, the storm, created by the same conditions that caused the "bomb cyclone" in California and Arizona earlier in the week, could pummel an area stretching from the Sierra Nevadas to New England -- where a nor'easter is predicted to begin on Su
  
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• Mexico warns will not allow US military operations against cartels

  29-11-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the US to conduct cross-border armed operations, after Donald Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.The US president has been talking tough on the powerful drug cartels since one was allegedly responsible for the massacre of nine women and children from a US-Mexican Mormon community in northern Mexico on November 4.Trump tweeted after the killings that the US was ready to help Mexico "wage
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan to Macron: 'You should check whether you are brain dead'

  29-11-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Emmanuel Macron's warning that NATO was dying reflects a "sick and shallow" understanding, telling the French president, "You should check whether you are brain dead."
  
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• The best Black Friday camera deals on Canon, Nikon, Sony, Google, and more

  29-11-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shopping for a digital camera such as a Nikon or Canon DSLR, a GoPro, or a wireless camera for your home? We have the Black Friday deals for you.
  
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• Germany to make anti-Semitism a specific hate crime as Jews 'no longer feel safe'

  29-11-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany is to tighten its laws against anti-Semitic hate crimes in the wake of last month's failed attack on a synagogue by a far-Right gunman. “I am ashamed that Jews no longer feel safe in Germany and that so many are even thinking of leaving the country,” Christine Lambrecht, the justice minister, told German MPs. “We have to send a clear signal against anti-Semitism.” Under the planned changes, crimes with an anti-Semitic motive will attract heavier sentence
  
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• Husband of jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe begs Boris Johnson for 'Christmas miracle' return

  29-11-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has pleaded with Boris Johnson to deliver a “Christmas miracle” and help free the jailed British-Iranian charity worker. Richard Ratcliffe, in a letter to the prime minister released this week, said he felt Mr Johnson had made “placebo promises” to see that 40-year-old Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was released, which he has not kept. Mr Ratcliffe said he sent the letter to Mr Johnson two weeks ago but has not received a reply. He said the
  
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• Ilhan Omar's Republican opponent was banned from Twitter after suggesting the congresswoman should be tried for treason and hanged

  29-11-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican campaign promoted a wild conspiracy theory that Omar had illegally shared sensitive government information with Qatar and Iran.
  
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• Cartels Wars Cause Mexicans to Worry Who Is Really Running Their Country

  29-11-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A long struggle.
  
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• Kamala Harris suffers new blow as aide resigns with scathing letter: 'I've never seen staff treated so poorly'

  29-11-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A blistering resignation letter from a member of the Kamala Harris campaign paints a picture of low morale among staffers of a directionless campaign with "no real plan to win" ahead of the crucial Iowa caucus in 2020.According to the New York Times, the sentiments expressed in a letter from now-former state operations manager Kelly Mehlenbacher were corroborated by more than 50 current and former campaign staffers and allies, speaking largely on the condition of anonymity to disclose the campai
  
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