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• 'Crazy Rich Asians' sparkles at N.America box office

  19-08-2018 23:35 via yahoo.com
  Highly anticipated rom-com "Crazy Rich Asians" -- the first Hollywood film with an mainly Asian cast in a generation -- dazzled the North American box office in its debut weekend, claiming the top spot, industry estimates showed Sunday.
  
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• Afghan president offers Taliban new provisional ceasefire

  19-08-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a provisional three-month ceasefire with the Taliban in a televised broadcast Sunday, a move welcomed by Washington but yet to receive a reply from the militants themselves.The announcement followed a bloody week of fighting across Afghanistan which saw the Taliban launch a massive assault against the provincial capital Ghazni.Anticipation had been mounting ahead of Ghani's speech following mixed signals from the presidential palace over whether the governm
  
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• British woman rescued 10 hours after falling off cruise ship near Pula, Croatia

  19-08-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  A British woman has been rescued after falling from a cruise ship off the coast of Pula, Croatia and spending 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea at night, Croatia's coast guard said Sunday.
  
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• Cuomo calls out Trump, says he's 'un-American'

  19-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  The New York governor has had a war of words with the president since saying America was "never that great."
  
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• Afghanistan announces Muslim Eid holiday ceasefire with Taliban

  19-08-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Taliban sources said their leaders had also provisionally agreed a four-day truce during the annual Islamic feast of sacrifice, though supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada still had to give his final approval.Fighting has been mounting in the Taliban's insurgency against the government in Kabul and NATO coalition forces, launched after the Islamist group was ousted from power in a U.S.-led military intervention in 2001.The truce announcement came a day after clashes erupted in the norther
  
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• Desperate Venezuelans defy Ecuador's passport rules and cross border

  19-08-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of desperate people who traveled days from Venezuela, mostly by bus but some on foot, were prevented from passing the checkpoint near the southwestern town of Ipiales by a regulation set by Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno that kicked in on Saturday.The primary school teacher, 37, was traveling with her boyfriend and had planned to cross legally with her Venezuelan national ID card en route to find work in Peru, where other family members successfully arrived weeks ago.Peru's government
  
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• US welcomes Afghanistan's latest ceasefire offer to Taliban

  19-08-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The announcement by President Ashraf Ghani followed a bloody week of fighting across Afghanistan which saw the Taliban launch a massive assault against the provincial capital Ghazni.It came after a brief, unprecedented ceasefire earlier in June."The last ceasefire in Afghanistan revealed the deep desire of the Afghan people to end the conflict, and we hope another ceasefire will move the country closer to sustainable security," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
  
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• Pompeo says 'time for peace' as Afghanistan announces ceasefire with Taliban

  19-08-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  The United States is ready to support and facilitate direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, welcoming a Muslim Eid holiday ceasefire announced by President Ashraf Ghani."The United States welcomes the announcement by the Afghan government of a ceasefire conditioned on Taliban participation," Pompeo said in a statement.
  
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• Trump says 'nothing to hide' from Special Counsel Mueller

  19-08-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Trump, in a series of tweets, denounced the New York Times for a Saturday story saying White House Counsel Don McGahn has cooperated extensively with the special counsel, Robert Mueller.The Times said McGahn had shared detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice."I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn't have to," Trump said in a tweet.
  
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• UK woman rescued after falling from cruise ship in Croatia

  19-08-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  PULA, Croatia (AP) — A British woman was rescued Sunday after falling from a cruise ship and spending 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea at night, Croatia's coast guard said.
  
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• Netanyahu and Bolton discussions focus on Iran nuclear program

  19-08-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  White House national security adviser John Bolton arrived in Israel on Sunday on the first leg of an overseas trip, and met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Iran the focus of talks.Bolton is one of the U.S. administration's leading hawks in dealing with Iran's nuclear program."We've got great challenges for Israel, for the United States, for the whole world - the Iran nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile programs are right at the top of the list," Bolton said.
  
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• Giuliani Claims 'Truth Isn't Truth' and Says Trump Tower Meeting Sought Information on Clinton

  19-08-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Giuliani and Trump both claim the action is routine
  
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• GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Says John Brennan 'Abused His Privilege'

  19-08-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said on Sunday that former CIA Director John Brennan
  
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• U.S. Catholics 'sickened' by sex abuse report, stand by their faith

  19-08-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Many churchgoers said they were sickened and saddened by a grand jury report detailing widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania but they would not let the Roman Catholic Church's cover-up dissuade them from their faith.Nearly 200 parishioners filled almost all the pews for Saturday’s Mass at St. Patrick’s Church in York, Pennsylvania, where six priests who at one time worked in that parish are accused in the report https://bit.ly/2vTa9oY of sexually abusing chil
  
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• Palestinians sort through 8 years of mail held by Israel

  19-08-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian postal workers in the West Bank are sifting through eight years' worth of undelivered mail held by Israel.
  
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• Quakes cut power, topple buildings on Indonesian island

  19-08-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  SEMBALUN, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake has cut power across the Indonesian island of Lombok and destroyed buildings as the tourist hotspot tries to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people.
  
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• Iran lawmakers target Rouhani's finance minister as sanctions bite

  19-08-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Iranian lawmakers launched impeachment proceedings against the finance minister on Sunday, ramping up pressure on the president who is already facing attacks from hardliners over his handling of the economy in the face of new U.S. sanctions.A group of 33 MPs signed a motion accusing the minister, Masoud Karbasian, of being unable to manage the economy or form and implement policies.If lawmakers are unhappy with his answers, they can vote to impeach and sack him - a move they took two weeks ago a
  
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• Top Trump adviser arrives for talks in Israel

  19-08-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Ahead of a joint dinner at Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence, John Bolton said that "the Iran nuclear weapons programme, the ballistic missile programmes are right at the top of the list" of global challenges."I'm delighted to be here, and look forward to our discussions," he told Netanyahu in a video released by the Israeli premier's office.
  
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• James Clapper: Brennan’s anti-Trump rhetoric is ‘an issue in and of itself’

  19-08-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that former CIA Director John Brennan’s rhetoric has become “an issue in and of itself.”
  
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• 2 strong earthquakes in less than 12 hours jolt Indonesia's Lombok Island

  19-08-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  As the Indonesian island of Lombok continues to recover from the devastating earthquake earlier this month, two more powerful tremors jolted the island in a span of less than 12 hours to end the weekend.
  
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• Chinese police nab suspects after $87 mn cryptocurrency theft

  19-08-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Chinese police have arrested three suspects alleged to have stolen assets worth 600 million yuan ($87 million) through hacking, state media reported Sunday, as cyber criminals target holders of bitcoin and other virtual currencies.Police in the northern city of Xian began investigating in March when a victim surnamed Zhang complained that hackers had taken control of his computer to steal 100 million yuan ($15 million) worth of cryptocurrency, the Shaanxi Daily reported.The 100 million yuan haul
  
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• Media take on ICE for detaining murder suspect

  19-08-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  ICE detains man who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital, claiming he is a murder suspect; Art Del Cueto of the National Border Patrol Council speaks out.
  
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• Former CIA Director Brennan Considers Legal Action to Keep Security Clearance

  19-08-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  He also said it's up to Congress to put aside politics and step in
  
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• Elon Musk Responds to Arianna Huffington’s Criticism of Tesla Work Culture

  19-08-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  The dude needs a nap.
  
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• Series of quakes rocks Indonesia's Lombok, causing panic

  19-08-2018 19:08 via yahoo.com
  A series of quakes including a powerful 6.9 magnitude tremor struck the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, killing one person and causing others to rush out of buildings in panic.The quakes, which could be felt on the neighboring island of Bali, came two weeks to the day after another 6.9 earthquake killed 460 people on Lombok.Everyone is still outside, not going back in,” Teddy Aditya, an official at Indonesia's search and rescue agency said fr
  
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• The I-400: Japan's Wanted Underwater Aircraft Carriers To Launch a Second Pearl Harbor

  19-08-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  So what happened? 
  
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• President Buhari returns to Nigeria after two-week leave

  19-08-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country on Saturday evening after two weeks of leave in Britain, according to the presidency's official Twitter account, which on Sunday shared pictures of the leader disembarking from his plane.Presidency spokesmen have declined to say whether or not Buhari had any medical appointments during his absence.After Buhari spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed ailment, opposition critics said he was unfit for offic
  
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• Irish archbishop urges pope to speak frankly about abuse

  19-08-2018 18:41 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The archbishop of Dublin said Sunday he hopes Pope Francis will speak frankly about the "darkness" of priestly sex abuse during his upcoming visit to Ireland, which has been clouded by new revelations of misconduct in the U.S. Catholic Church.
  
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• John Brennan Stands By His Claim That Trump’s Behavior Is ‘Treasonous’

  19-08-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  Former CIA Director John Brennan is sticking by his assertion that President
  
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• Mick Mulvaney Suggests Military Parade Canceled For Reasons Besides Money

  19-08-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that cost wasn't the
  
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• Afghan president calls for Eid cease-fire, Taliban to reply

  19-08-2018 18:22 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called for a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
  
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• Why Japan Truly Failed at Pearl Harbor (And What China May Learn From It)

  19-08-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  In short, this is a rival who seems to have learned from Yamamoto: don’t jab a sleeping giant, and if you do, don’t steel his resolve. Let him slumber until it’s late in the contest, and you may prevail. China may have learned the true lessons of Pearl Harbor. Let’s do the same—and get ready.
  
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• Former Intel Officials Defend John Brennan In Wake Of Revoked Security Clearance

  19-08-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Several former intelligence officials have come to the defense of former CIA
  
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• Beautiful shots of diver swimming near sunken ships emerge

  19-08-2018 17:29 via yahoo.com
  A series of beautiful shots of divers swimming near sunken ships have emerged. Alex Voyer, 39, was sailing around the Caribbean on a 60-foot boat when he stopped for a dive. The images show  amazing shipwrecks as free divers explore the seabed. Alex, a photographer and free diver, said: “With my girlfriend, Marianne Aventurier, we are sailing all summer around the Caribbean to learn more about sailing.” (Caters News)
  
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• Rudy Giuliani Stuns NBC's Chuck Todd: 'Truth Isn't Truth'

  19-08-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani on Sunday gave another eyebrow-raising TV interview, telling
  
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• New earthquake on Indonesian island Lombok triggers landslides

  19-08-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  A strong earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, triggering landslides, damaging buildings and sending people fleeing just two weeks after a tremor killed more than 480 people there. The 6.3-magnitude quake, centred in East Lombok, struck at a relatively shallow depth of seven kilometres (four miles) and was felt across the island, officials said. It was the third major quake in less than a month to rock the island, after deadly tremors on July 29 and August 5 an
  
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• A Mach 6 SR-71? This Is How Amazing (And Deadly) the SR-72 Could Be.

  19-08-2018 17:00 via yahoo.com
  It could have a strike mission. 
  
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• Trump officials sued over killer whales’ plummeting population crisis

  19-08-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  Environmental campaigners are suing the Trump administration for allegedly failing to protect the ocean habitat of a species of critically endangered killer whale.The Centre for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service, arguing it has left the last remaining southern resident killer whales at risk.The population of the imperilled orca species off the US west coast is at its lowest in more than 30 years, numbering just 75.
  
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• Ebola deaths in DR Congo rises to 49 with 2,000 feared 'contacts'

  19-08-2018 16:35 via yahoo.com
  The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has now claimed 49 lives since the start of the month, the government has said, and the World Health Organization expects more cases.Confirmed cases are verified through laboratory tests on samples taken from patients.The cases treated as "probable" often concern sick people with a close epidemiological link to confirmed cases, but who have not been tested.
  
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• Rush to bring aid to 2 million homeless as fears grow over spread of disease after floods in Kerala

  19-08-2018 16:34 via yahoo.com
  A deluge in India's flood-stricken southwestern state of Kerala finally let up on Sunday, giving some respite for thousands of marooned families, while authorities feared an outbreak of disease among over 200,000 people crammed into relief camps. Incessant rains since August 8 have caused the state's worst floods in a century, and at least 186 people have perished, many of them killed by landslides. The beaches and backwaters of Kerala are top destinations for domestic a
  
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• Trump: Mueller’s Russia probe makes ‘Joseph McCarthy look like a baby!’

  19-08-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  President Trump claimed that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s interference with the 2016 U.S. elections is more extreme than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hunt for Communists in the U.S. government in the 1950s.
  
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• Trump Lashes Out At NYT's Bombshell McGahn Report, Calls It 'Fake News'

  19-08-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump fired off several angry Tweets on Sunday aimed at
  
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• 'High Maintenance' Fat Cat in Search of New Home Takes Internet by Storm

  19-08-2018 16:26 via yahoo.com
  Bruno's laid-back look has people clamoring to adopt him.
  
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• More than two million Muslims begin hajj pilgrimage

  19-08-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  More than two million Muslims from around the globe started the hajj pilgrimage on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest annual gatherings in a country undergoing unprecedented change.The ultra-conservative kingdom -- where religion remains a guiding force amid dramatic social and economic reforms -- has mobilised vast resources for the six-day journey, a pillar of Islam."It's the dream of every Muslim to come here to Mecca," said Frenchman Soliman Ben Mohri.
  
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• Tributes pour in for former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan

  19-08-2018 16:03 via yahoo.com
  From his native Africa to the United States, tributes continued to pour in from around the world Sunday after UN chief, Nobel peace laureate, and "diplomatic rock star" Kofi Annan died at the age of 80.The Ghanaian national was a career diplomat who projected quiet charisma and was widely credited for raising the world body's profile in global politics during his two terms as head of the UN from 1997 to 2006.The first secretary general from sub-Saharan Africa, Annan led the United Nations throug
  
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• Focus shifts to rescues as rain abates in India's flood-hit Kerala

  19-08-2018 16:02 via yahoo.com
  Incessant downpours since Aug. 8 have caused the worst floods in a century in the southwestern state, and close to 200 people have perished in the rising waters and landslides.The India Meteorological Department forecast heavy rainfallin only one or two parts of Kerala on Sunday and withdrew a red alert in several districts.A Reuters photographer on a naval helicopter said water levels had receded in villages around the city of Kochi.
  
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• It’s time to end America’s war in Afghanistan

  19-08-2018 15:57 via yahoo.com
  A child born on this date in 2001 – just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 – is old enough to be fighting today in the war in Afghanistan.This week – almost 17 years after the war began – the Taliban attacked Ghazni, killing more than 100 Afghan army soldiers.The Taliban also overran a base, where they killed another 17 soldiers.
  
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• German finance minister Olaf Scholz warns of 'German Trump' if pensions reforms not backed by Merkel

  19-08-2018 15:57 via yahoo.com
  Germany's finance minister warned that a "German Trump" may seize power as he claimed pension reform is the key to preventing the rise of populism in Europe. “Stable pensions prevent a German Trump. That's why politicians should not shirk this topic,” Olaf Scholz, who is also vice-chancellor, said yesterday. Mr Scholz has been pushing for government reforms similar to the UK’s triple lock to ensure pension levels remain stable despite inflation. The vice-chancellor has somethin
  
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• Eight years late, Palestinian mail arrives in West Bank

  19-08-2018 15:48 via yahoo.com
  Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are about to receive a special delivery of more than 10 tons of mail that has been delayed by Israel for the past eight years.Postal workers have been sorting through thousands of mail sacks in the West Bank city of Jericho for the past several days after Israeli authorities allowed the entry of the letters and packages from neighboring Jordan.The 10.5 tons of mail had been held in Jordan since 2010 because Israel would not permit direct transfer to the Pal
  
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• Over 2 million Muslims begin annual hajj pilgrimage

  19-08-2018 15:30 via yahoo.com
  MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times each day during their prayers.
  
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