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• 2,000 unvaccinated students may not be allowed back to class, Seattle Public Schools warns

  30-12-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seattle Public Schools has informed parents if their student doesn't have updated immunization records by Jan. 8, they won't be allowed back in class.
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit from Bolton deputy regarding Ukraine testimony

  30-12-2019 23:57 via politico.com
  
  Charles Kupperman filed suit in October after he was subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee.
  
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• Donald Trump and Barack Obama Tied as Most-Admired Men in America: Poll

  30-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been named the most-admired man in America. However, he'll have to share the honor with former President Barack Obama
  
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• Trump sets 'red line' for Tehran amid mounting risks

  30-12-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's order for airstrikes on a Tehran-backed Iraqi militia group, after resisting retaliating against Iran for months, sent a clear message Sunday that killing Americans was his red line.US officials said Monday that Trump had exercised "strategic patience" during the past year in the face of Iran's stepped-up military activities in the region challenging the US and its allies.
  
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• Trump Impeachment Trial Tests Vulnerable Senate Incumbents

  30-12-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Senate’s historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will be especially momentous for a small group of vulnerable incumbent senators whose 2020 re-election bids are central to determining control of the chamber.Trump is all but certain to be acquitted on two articles of impeachment since the Constitution requires 67 votes to convict. But for just over half a dozen senators locked in the closest races, and a few others whose contests could tip competitive, their
  
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• Judge tosses ex-White House aide's lawsuit over impeachment testimony

  30-12-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by former White House aide Charles Kupperman seeking guidance on whether he needed to comply with a congressional subpoena in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington said Kupperman's lawsuit was "moot" because a U.S. House of Representatives committee withdrew a subpoena seeking his testimony.In October, House investigators issued a subpoena to Kupperman for his testimony in their invest
  
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• Biden says he'd consider a Republican for VP but 'I can't think of one right now'

  30-12-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden also noted that it was brazen to discuss whom he would tap as a running mate as he has not yet secured the Democratic nomination.
  
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• US: strikes on Iran-backed militia a response to 'campaign' of attacks by Tehran

  30-12-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior official says Tehran has directed campaign against US forces in Iraq and warns further escalation will be Iran’s responsibilityAirstrikes against an Iranian-backed militia on Sunday followed an intensifying campaign of attacks directed by Tehran against US forces in Iraq, administration officials have said, warning that any further escalation in the region will be Iran’s responsibility.A senior US official said there had been 11 attacks against Iraqi bases hosting coalition fo
  
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• Joe Biden Says He’d Be Open to Picking a Republican Running Mate

  30-12-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared on Monday that he’d be open to a Republican as his running mate should he win the nomination, though he was unable to come up with a specific name.During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the 77-year-old former vice president—who has been running on a platform that he can bridge the nation’s partisan divide—was asked by one woman about the possibility that he could lead a bipartisan ticket.“Our 21-year-old son sai
  
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• Cliffs, jungle a big hurdle for feds in Hawaii copter crash

  30-12-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The remote and rugged terrain on the Hawaiian island of Kauai where a sightseeing helicopter crashed, killing all seven people aboard, could make it difficult or even impossible to piece together what led to the wreck.Federal investigators who arrived Sunday are calling the inaccessible area of steep cliffs and thick jungle canopies one of the most challenging crash sites they have seen.Getting a team to the actual site was proving to be one of the initial challenges, National Transportation Saf
  
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• Buttigieg: I would not have wanted my son on Ukraine board

  30-12-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg said Monday that he “would not have wanted to see” his son serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company while he was leading anti-corruption efforts in the country, an implicit criticism of the controversy that has ensnared his 2020 Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden.Hunter Biden's position on the board of the company Burisma has been a rallying point for Republicans as they try to defend President Donald Trump against impeachment charges over Trump ask
  
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• Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn, facing Japan trial, arrives in Beirut

  30-12-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, who is awaiting trial in Japan on charges of financial misconduct, has arrived in Beirut, a close friend said Monday.It was not clear how Ghosn, who is of Lebanese origins and holds French and Lebanese passports, left Japan where he was under surveillance and is expected to face trial in April 2020.Ricardo Karam, a television host and friend of Ghosn who interviewed him several times, told The Associated Press Ghosn arrived in Lebanon Monday morning..
  
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• The Electric Decade: How EVs Redefined Transportation in the 2010s

  30-12-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the 2010s, electric cars began to take shape. But one big question remains: Who’s buying?
  
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• Trump to Counter-Program Next Democratic Debate: Campaign Update

  30-12-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats seeking to replace Donald Trump in the White House will have some competition for television viewers during their next debate: The incumbent president himself.Trump’s campaign announced Monday that his next rally would be in Milwaukee on Jan. 14. That’s the same day as the Democratic candidates’ seventh debate, in Des Moines, Iowa.Trump’s impeachment could complicate matters. It’s unclear whether the Democratic debate will proceed if the Sen
  
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• New York Jews scared, defiant as mayor decries anti-Semitism 'crisis'

  30-12-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn, police, state troopers and civilian volunteers stand guard as Orthodox Jews mark the end of Hanukkah under heightened security following a spate of attacks.New York, home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel, had long been a place where Jews felt safe.
  
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• Joe Biden says he would consider picking a Republican running mate and asked the 'well-known ones' to 'step up'

  30-12-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congressional Republicans have spent the past several months slamming Biden and his son Hunter as corrupt over Hunter's work in Ukraine.
  
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• Renault-Nissan boss Ghosn, awaiting trial in Japan, is in Beirut: source

  30-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) - Carlos Ghosn, the ousted boss of the Renault-Nissan carmaking alliance who was grounded in Japan while awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct, was in Lebanon as of Monday, a person close to Ghosn told Reuters.The person, who declined to be identified, did not elaborate on how Ghosn reached Lebanon and said the former Nissan chairman - who is out on bail with conditions including handing his passport in to Japanese authorities - would issue a statement "soon".Ne
  
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• Ousted Renault-Nissan boss Ghosn leaves Japan: report

  30-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carlos Ghosn, the ousted boss of the Renault-Nissan carmaking alliance who was awaiting trial in Japan, flew into Lebanon on Monday evening, France's Les Echos newspaper reported.The newspaper cited its own unnamed source and a report in Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour.It was unclear how Ghosn, who holds both French and Lebanese citizenship, would have been able to leave Japan, where he has been under strict court-imposed restrictions on his movements.
  
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• Ousted Renault-Nissan boss Ghosn leaves Japan for Lebanon

  30-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carlos Ghosn, the ousted boss of the Renault-Nissan carmaking alliance who was awaiting trial in Japan on charges of financial misconduct, flew into Lebanon on Monday evening, several newspapers reported.France's Les Echos newspaper cited an unidentified source and a report in Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour, but there was no immediate confirmation from official sources.The Wall Street Journal and New York Times said Ghosn had fled Japan.
  
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• Ghosn says he escaped 'injustice' in Japan; Lebanon calls arrival a private matter

  30-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT/TOKYO (Reuters) - Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a "rigged" justice system in Japan, raising questions about how one of the world's most-recognized executives had slipped away while on bail.Ghosn's abrupt departure marks the latest twist in a year-old saga that has shaken the global auto industry, jeopardised the alliance of Nissan Motor Co Ltd and top shareholder Renault SA and increased scrutiny of Japan's judicial system."I am now in Le
  
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• Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn says he is in Lebanon, denies fleeing justice in Japan

  30-12-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS/TOKYO (Reuters) - Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn confirmed he fled to Lebanon, saying he wouldn't be "held hostage" by a "rigged" justice system and raising questions about how one of the world's most-recognized executives escaped Japan months before his trial.Ghosn's abrupt departure marks the latest dramatic twist in a year-old saga that has shaken the global auto industry, jeopardized the alliance of Nissan Motor Co Ltd and top shareholder Renault SA and cast a harsh light on Japan's j
  
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• The cofounder of Wyze, the home security camera company that accidentally exposed millions of people's data, says the incident was a 'wake-up call'

  30-12-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wyze cofounder Dave Crosby told Business Insider the incident has led the company to reevaluate its security practices.
  
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• Islamist militants kill 18 in attack in eastern Congo

  30-12-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Islamist militants have killed 18 people in an attack on a village in eastern Congo, a regional official and a local human rights group said on Monday, the latest in a 60-day counter-offensive that has killed nearly 200 civilians.The attack occurred in Apetina, in a remote forested area a few miles from the Ugandan border where attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group, have increased since Oct. 30, when the army launched a campaign to root them out.Democratic Repub
  
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• Expert details the cheapest way to own a car

  30-12-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you need a car, the most frugal option is to buy one that’s 2 to 3 years old, pay cash and drive it until the wheels fall off.
  
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• Texas church shooter wore wig and fake beard, says security head who shot him

  30-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The victims of Sunday's shooting, identified as Anton Wallace, 64, of Fort Worth and Richard White, 67, of River Oaks,were also members of the civilian security force at West Freeway Church of Christ, the state's attorney general said.Jack Wilson, the head of the security detail, fired a single shot that took down the gunman, who has been identified by authorities as Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43, of River Oaks.Wallace was serving communion at the church in the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement
  
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• Greta Thunberg said it would be a waste of time for her to talk to Trump about climate change

  30-12-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump, who is withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, has a long record of expressing skepticism on climate science.
  
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• U.S. presidential candidate Sanders given clean bill of health after October heart attack

  30-12-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders passed a stress test this month after a heart attack required him to have two stents inserted in an artery in October, doctors to the Democratic presidential candidate said on Monday. Sanders' campaign released letters from his main doctor and two heart specialists, who all gave the 78-year-old White House hopeful a clean bill of health after physical exams, electrocardiogram monitoring and a treadmill stress test. "Mr Sanders is more than fit enough to pursue vigorou
  
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• DNC rejects Andrew Yang's request to commission polls to increase diversity at January debate

  30-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The DNC said that commissioning primary polls would break with its tradition of independent polling.
  
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• Test shows citizenship question had impact with subgroups

  30-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Although a test showed that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census wouldn't have had an impact on overall response rates, it did make a difference in neighborhoods that were bilingual and had substantial numbers of non-citizens, Hispanics and Asians, the U.S. Census Bureau said Monday.In its final report on a test conducted last summer, the bureau said there were lower self-response rates when a citizenship question was added to a test questionnaire in neighborhoods where 5 percent or
  
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• AP Exclusive: Trump ally may have broken Venezuela sanctions

  30-12-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Erik Prince, a major Republican donor and founder of controversial security firm Blackwater, has been referred to the U.S. Treasury Department for possible sanctions violations tied to his recent trip to Venezuela for a meeting with a top aide of President Nicolas Maduro, two senior U.S. officials said. There's no indication that Prince, whose sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, will be sanctioned for the meeting last month in Caracas with Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
  
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• Does Russia Really Have A 100 Megaton Nuclear Torpedo Called Status-6?

  30-12-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon thinks so.
  
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• Russian court jails 2 terrorism suspects arrested on US tip

  30-12-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A St. Petersburg court on Monday ordered the detention of two Russian men who were arrested on a tip provided by the U.S. and are suspected of plotting unspecified terrorist attacks in the city during the New Year holidays.The Dzerzhinsky District Court ruled that the suspects identified as Nikita Semyonov and Georgy Chernyshev should remain in custody pending their trial.The FSB didn't elaborate on their alleged motives or targets, but Russia's state television reported that the suspects had re
  
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• Here's who becomes president if Trump is removed from office in an impeachment trial

  30-12-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The vice president is the first in the line of succession to the presidency, followed by the speaker of the House of Representatives.
  
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• Census Estimates Show California, New York Losing House Seats to Demographic Change

  30-12-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Census Bureau estimates released Monday reportedly showed the country’s slowest population growth rate in a century, as demographic shifts to the south bring impending changes to the House of Representatives.“While natural increase is the biggest contributor to the U.S. population increase, it has been slowing over the last five years,” Sandra Johnson, Census Bureau demographer, said in the release. “Natural increase, or when the number of births is greater than the numbe
  
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• 19-year-old found guilty of lying about being gang-raped

  30-12-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British teenager has been found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus. The woman, 19, was convicted of a single count of public mischief at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, Cyprus, on Monday.
  
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• Iranian-backed militia threatens retaliation for US strikes on their forces in Iraq and Syria

  30-12-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Iran-backed militia vowed on Monday to retaliate for US military strikes in Iraq and Syria which killed 25 of its fighters and wounded dozens. "Our battle with America and its mercenaries is now open to all possibilities," Kataib Hizbollah said in a statement. "We have no alternative today other than confrontation and there is nothing that will prevent us from responding to this crime."   Iraq described the attacks on Kataib Hizbollah as a “flagrant violation” of its sovereig
  
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• Looking down on a decade: Satellite images tell the stories

  30-12-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some were so massive they were visible from space, captured through state-of-the-art imaging satellites belonging to technology company and imagery provider Maxar Technologies.Together, The Associated Press and Maxar assembled a selection of the most striking images.2017 was the year America’s hurricane luck ran out.
  
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• Woman Who Accused 12 Men of Rape Is Guilty of 'Public Mischief' in Cyprus

  30-12-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARALIMNI, Cyrpus -- A British woman was convicted by a Cyprus court Monday for lying to authorities when she accused a dozen Israeli men of raping her and later retracted her statement, the latest twist in a case that divided public opinion in Cyprus and Israel.The British woman, who was 19 when she made the accusation and has not been publicly identified, had accused the men, who ranged in age from 15 to 18, of raping her in a hotel room in the resort town of Ayia Napa in July. The men were ar
  
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• Russia says Putin thanked Trump for helping fight a terrorist plot but offers few details

  30-12-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Kremlin said Presidents Trump and Putin discussed terrorism, as well as "establishing an equal dialogue based on the mutual respect of interests."
  
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• Mexican Police Chief Arrested in Connection with Massacre of American Mormons

  30-12-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A police chief in northern Mexico was arrested for an alleged connection with the November massacre of members of Mormon families that hold dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship, the Daily Beast reported on Monday.Three women and six children from the LeBarón and Langford families were murdered in the Mexican state of Chihuahua by gunmen with suspected ties to drug cartels. The families, who settled in Chihuahua and neighboring Sonora in the 1940's, belong to a sect of fundamentalist Mormons and s
  
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• Trump to counter Iowa Democratic debate with Wisconsin rally

  30-12-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Wisconsin next month, countering a Democratic presidential debate set for the same night in Iowa.Trump's campaign says the rally is set for Jan. 14 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.It's the same night that CNN and The Des Moines Register are sponsoring the first Democratic presidential debate of 2020 at Drake University in Des Moines.
  
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• France waits on Macron as pension strike stretches on

  30-12-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French union leaders upped their calls on Monday for President Emmanuel Macron to give ground on a planned pension overhaul, amid signs that support is flagging for a gruelling transport strike now in its 26th day.Macron will address the nation Tuesday in his annual New Year's Eve speech, having largely left it to his government to defend one of the most contested reforms of his term.The president will reaffirm his "determined ambition (for) a project of social progress that corrects a number of
  
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• Investigators: Plane in Louisiana crash intact on impact

  30-12-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A small plane that killed five passengers when it crashed over the weekend in south Louisiana was intact when it hit the ground, federal investigators said Monday, asking anyone in the neighborhood with audio recordings of the plane to come forward.At a news conference Monday, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg stressed that the investigation into the Saturday crash in Lafayette was still in its early days.Landsberg said investigators have identified what he descr
  
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• 'Difficult or impossible travel': Winter storm wreaks havoc from Midwest to Northeast

  30-12-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A sprawling winter storm continued to deliver snow, ice and wind to much of the Midwest and Northeast on Monday, wreaking havoc with travelers.
  
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• Father who made kids panhandle for drug money gets 20 years

  30-12-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge sentenced a New Mexico father to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of forcing his children to panhandle to get him money for drugs.The office of Attorney General Hector Balderas said Monday the man was sentenced in Albuquerque, nearly three months after a jury found him guilty of three counts of human trafficking.The Associated Press is not naming the father to avoid identifying the children, whom authorities also say were sex crime victims.
  
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• Prosecutors charge Hanukkah stabbing suspect with hate crime, citing journals

  30-12-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York filed the charges.A day earlier the suspect, Grafton Thomas, was arraigned on five counts of attempted murder in a state court in the town of Ramapo.Thomas is accused of stabbing five people on Saturday night with what the criminal complaint described as a "machete" after bursting into a Hanukkah celebration that included dozens of people at Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home in Monsey, about 30 miles (48 km) north of New
  
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• As Betelgeuse Dims, Scientists Wonder If We're Watching a Star Die

  30-12-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The star is fading, and scientists are trying to figure out what that means.
  
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• Hanukkah candles burn in Iraqi Kurdistan

  30-12-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Al-Qosh (Irak) (AFP) - In the glow of the nine-candled menorah, with kippa skullcaps on their heads and tallit prayer shawls around their shoulders, a small association is working to revive Hanukkah in Iraq.The country has been nearly emptied of its Jewish community amid regional conflict and violence within its borders, but this year, the town of Al-Qosh hosted its first Hanukkah celebrations.Al-Qosh is a majority Christian town around 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Mosul, the former self-pr
  
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• Pompeo to visit Ukraine amid impeachment furor, disarray in Trump's policy toward ally

  30-12-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to say how much he knew about the Ukraine pressure campaign. In Kyiv, he plans to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
  
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• U.S. ambassador defends Poland via Twitter against false Russian WWII claims

  30-12-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw came to Poland's defense on Monday following repeated claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Poland bears blame for the outbreak of World War II.
  
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