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• Iran, Russia lash out at US plans to protect oil in Syria

  29-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and Russia on Tuesday criticized and scoffed at Trump administration plans to protect oil deposits in Syria, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accusing Washington of "illegal" actions.Lavrov joined Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Geneva to lend support to U.N.-backed talks among Syrian government, opposition and civil society delegations on the country's constitution starting Wednesday.The most pointed comments at thei
  
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• Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse

  29-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement.Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are di
  
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• GTFO: 8 New Minutes of Developer Gameplay

  29-10-2019 23:25
  After being unveiled at The Game Awards last year, GTFO has been eagerly anticipated as an Aliens-ish, four-player player-versus-enemy first-person shooter.
  Little had been heard about it for much of 2019, but that has started to change recently. First, we exclusively went hands-on with the latest build and posted a four-player video (see the bottom of this page). And now, the developers at 10 Chambers Collective are showing off eight new minutes of their own gameplay from GTFO, which is due out
  
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• EA Won't Release a Battlefield Game Next Year, Breaking Usual Cycle

  29-10-2019 22:54
  In the company's earnings call Tuesday, EA announced that it will not release a new Battlefield game next year. This is the first time EA has broken the usual one-and-a-half to two-year cycle between Battlefield games since Battlefield: Bad Company.
  Games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners noted that EA confirmed it will release the next Battlefield game will ship in fiscal year 2022, which begins April 2021 and ends March 2022.
  EA also confirmed that Apex Legends would be its primar
  
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• EA Cancels NBA Live 20 as It Retools the Series for Next-Gen Consoles

  29-10-2019 22:51
  EA has announced that NBA Live 20 will not ship this year after previously announcing the title would be delayed to late 2019. Now, EA is looking to retool the series for next-gen consoles before releasing NBA Live 20.
  During EA’s quarterly financial earnings call for Q2 2020, EA CEO Andrew Wilson revealed that the company will not release NBA Live 20. Instead, NBA Live will be redesigned for next-gen consoles.
  EA Sports released the following statement on Twitter:
  “We’re excit
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard: Release documents related to Saudis and 9/11

  29-10-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard joined relatives of Sept. 11 victims on Tuesday in demanding that the federal government release the findings of its investigation into the Saudi government's role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit seeking the release of documents that they believe link the attackers to Saudi government officials joined Gabbard at a museum near the former site of the twin towers. "Our government should not be invoking secrecy to keep its own
  
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• Republicans step in to defend ‘Never Trumper’ war veteran after president rallies attacks on impeachment witness

  29-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump and right-wing media figures have questioned the credibility and loyalty of a key witness in the president's impeachment investigation, prompting several senior Republicans have come to his defence.Lt Col Alexander Vindman, whose testimony revealed that Mr Trump and other US officials had pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, was awarded a Purple Heart after he was wounded by an improvised explosive device during the Iraq War. Originally from Ukraine, Lt Col Vindman arrived in
  
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• Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines environmental award

  29-10-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to "listen" to "science" and not awards.The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her "Fridays for Future" movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.Thunberg had been nominated for her efforts by both Sweden and Norway and won the organisation's an
  
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• Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost has finally begun, here's the official trailer

  29-10-2019 22:02 via gamesradar.com
  The Festival of the Lost event is live through November 19
  
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• Democrats release impeachment resolution that calls for open hearings

  29-10-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats have released a resolution that calls for “open and investigative proceedings” in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump for his alleged political interference in foreign aid to Ukraine.
  
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• The 1 Way Iran Could Start a War with America

  29-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Impeding global shipping.
  
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• Trump mimics Dayton shooting during first visit to Chicago as president: 'Boom boom boom'

  29-10-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Monday mimicked officers killing a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, who murdered nine people with a semiautomatic rifle in August. "Boom, boom, boom," the president said. "They were out there. Perfect. There was no fear. There was no anything. They reacted."
  
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• The $300 Spongebob Collectors Edition Is Up for Preorder

  29-10-2019 21:51
  
  Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is set to release for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC sometime in 2020. A remake of the 2003 original, the game is a 3D platformer that lets you play as Spongebob, Patrick, or Sandy as you fight robots in colorful locales. It features upgraded visuals, restored content that was cut from the original game, and a new horde multiplayer mode.
  If you're ready to plunk down your money and preorder Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikin
  
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• Eric Swalwell and Mark Meadows reportedly got into a shouting match during the Vindman hearing

  29-10-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Things reportedly got heated between House Democrats and Republicans during Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's impeachment testimony Tuesday, CNN reports.Considering the consequences of the hearing (Vindman, the National Security Council's top expert on Ukraine, testified about his concerns regarding the Trump administration's interactions with Kyiv), it's not a shocker that the atmosphere in the closed-door hearing was tense, but the lawmakers reportedly took things to another level with a "shou
  
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• RIP PlayStation Vue, scheduled for death in 2020

  29-10-2019 21:20 via gamesradar.com
  Sony to shutter streaming service
  
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• House Democrats took an important step in the impeachment inquiry, throwing a wrench into the GOP's biggest defense

  29-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The new rules laid out by House Democrats significantly undercut many of the Republican criticisms of how the impeachment inquiry has been conducted.
  
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• $16.8M in campaign funds have gone to Trump businesses, records reveal

  29-10-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Donald Trump, but the president’s own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid for the presidency, according to an analysis of federal election spending records.
  
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• Game of Thrones prequel, starring Naomi Watts, canceled after filming pilot episode

  29-10-2019 20:57 via gamesradar.com
  It was set to take place thousands of years before Game of Thrones proper
  
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• Game of Thrones prequel reportedly canceled after filming its pilot episode

  29-10-2019 20:57 via gamesradar.com
  It was set to take place thousands of years before Game of Thrones proper
  
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• Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records

  29-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.
  
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• Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon

  29-10-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders said in a CNBC interview that "I don't think I have to" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.
  
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• Frustration mounts as California is hit with more blackouts

  29-10-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California as the state's biggest utility began another round of fire-prevention blackouts Tuesday that could leave millions of people without electricity, some for five days or longer. The shut-offs, aimed at keeping windblown electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, came as fire crews raced to contain two major blazes in Northern and Southern California before the winds picked up dangerously again. The fires have destroyed dozens of homes in S
  
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• Lebanon government falls, protesters say 'more'

  29-10-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's prime minister submitted his government's resignation on Tuesday, bowing to nearly two weeks of unprecedented nationwide protests against corruption and sectarianism.Saad Hariri's sombre televised address was met by cheers from crowds of protesters who have remained mobilised since October 17, crippling the country to press their demands.The move, the demonstrators' most significant win yet, will trigger the complicated task of parliament forming a new government -- if the president ac
  
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• Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower

  29-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional Democrats are struggling to protect the identity of the U.S. government official who filed a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. And those efforts have fueled friction behind closed doors. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) ruled in a closed-door deposition Tuesday morning that any questions that might lead to the revelation of the whistleblower’s identity were out of order, according to two sources familiar
  
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• The Best Board Games for Parties

  29-10-2019 20:30
  Traditionally most board games worked best for smaller groups. But more and more awesome tabletop experiences are coming out that cleanly and elegantly scale up to 10 or even more players, giving everyone something to do, a specific role to play, keeping people moving and shouting, and just generally having a good time. Not all games are suited for a party atmosphere, however; it would be counterintuitive to break out the hours-long Terra Mystica for a friendly get-together.
  If you’re
  
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• Here's how to watch the Death Stranding launch trailer

  29-10-2019 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  The stream is set to begin at 6:50 am PDT / 9:50 am EDT / 1:50 pm BST
  
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• The Far Right Lost Power in Italy Two Months Ago. So Why Are Migrant Rescue Boats Still Being Refused Entry?

  29-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Two months after anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was ousted, migrant rescue boats like the Ocean Viking are still stuck at sea
  
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• Senators grill Boeing CEO over plane involved in 2 crashes

  29-10-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg faced withering questions from senators Tuesday about two crashes of 737 Max jets and whether the company concealed information about a critical flight system."We have made mistakes, and we got some things wrong," Muilenburg conceded.Some members of the Senate Commerce Committee cut Muilenburg off when they believed he was failing to answer their questions about a key flight-control system implicated in both crashes.
  
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• China Is Finishing Its First Large Helicopter Assault Ship

  29-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  What will that mean for America?
  
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• The Obama Foundation Has Just Unveiled a New Set of Renderings of the Presidential Center

  29-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Tod Williams and Billie Tsien respond to previous criticism of the project with their latest designs
  
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• Before First Federal Execution in Years, Family of Victims Dissents

  29-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  HECTOR, Ark. -- In early December, if nothing else changes, Daniel Lewis Lee will be the first federal prisoner put to death in nearly two decades. He was sentenced 20 years ago after being convicted -- along with another man, both white supremacists on the hunt for guns and cash -- of taping bags over the heads of a husband, wife and 8-year-old girl, tying rocks around them and throwing them into a bayou."We owe it to the victims and their families," Attorney General William Barr said in July,
  
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• Russia says Kurds complete withdrawal from Turkish border

  29-10-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's defense ministry said Tuesday that tens of thousands of Syrian Kurdish fighters have completed their withdrawal from areas along the Syrian border, in line with a recent Russia-Turkey deal.Separately, a Russian military statement said an explosive device went off close to Russian armored vehicles near the Darbasiyah border checkpoint, but there were no injuries or damage.Last week's Russia-Turkey deal divides control of northeast Syria and has halted a Turkish invasion of the area.
  
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• The Dark Side Is On The Hunt In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's Launch Trailer

  29-10-2019 19:33
  Click here to watch embedded media Publisher: Electronic ArtsDeveloper: Respawn EntertainmentRelease: November 15, 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 15, just three days after The Mandalorian debuts on Disney+. The launch trailer for Jedi: Fallen Order gives us a good look at the Empire's hunting division tasked to track down the last of the Jedi. You play as Cal Kestis, a padawan in training who is on t
  
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• Prosecutors accuse ex-Trump adviser Flynn of trying to walk-back guilty plea

  29-10-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn of making "an extraordinary reversal" to try to undo his sworn admission that he lied to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators about his contacts with Russia.Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan for the opportunity to oppose a bid filed by Flynn's lawyers last week to have the case dismissed - even though Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 - because of all
  
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• Catholic priest says he denied Joe Biden Holy Communion at Mass in South Carolina because of abortion views

  29-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching." Rev. Robert Morey said in a statement.
  
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• Rep. Devin Nunes: Reporters asking me questions about Ukraine scandal are 'assassins'

  29-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Devin Nunes on Monday announced he is now refusing to answer journalists’ questions about President Trump’s Ukraine scandal, labeling reporters who ask him about the story “assassins.”
  
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• London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial

  29-10-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said.Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said.A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of o
  
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• China pushes back against criticism of its Belt and Road lending

  29-10-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bankpushed back on Tuesday against U.S. assertions that China's Belt and Road lending has unfairly saddled poor countries with unsustainable debt.Jin Liqun, AIIB's president, said during an investment conference panel discussion that debt problems associated with China's massive infrastructure drive were often the result of long-standing fiscal mismanagement.
  
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• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Launch Trailer Promises Intense Lightsaber Battles

  29-10-2019 18:41
  The Force is...going to be plenty busy this fall, as in addition to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian, Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be coming to our galaxy with a brand new adventure.
  EA and Respawn have debuted the launch trailer for Jedi: Fallen Order, which you can watch above, teasing Cal Ketsis' intense adventure that awaits players this November. The trailer teases the story we know so far — that after Order 66 Jedi are being hunted down while Cal at
  
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• UPDATE 1-Iraq's Sadr calls on rival to join him in ousting PM

  29-10-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Populist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has invited his biggest political rival to work with him on ousting the country's prime minister as thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets for a fifth day.In a statement on Tuesday Sadr, who leads parliament's largest bloc, asked Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the second-largest, to help him introduce a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi."To answer brother Abdul Mahdi, I thought asking you to call an early electio
  
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• Global leaders, tycoons flock to Saudi 'Davos in desert'

  29-10-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia drew top finance moguls and political leaders to its Davos-style investment summit Tuesday, in stark contrast to last year when outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder sparked a mass boycott.Organisers say 300 speakers from over 30 countries, including American officials and heads of global banks and sovereign wealth funds, were attending the three-day Future Investment Initiative (FII), nicknamed "Davos in the desert".A strong turnout at the event, aimed at projecting the insu
  
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• Boeing CEO Confronted on ‘Stunning' Pilot Messages

  29-10-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. President Dennis Muilenburg testifies before lawmakers in both houses of Congress this week for the first time since a pair of the planemaker’s 737 Max jets crashed, killing 346 people.He was questioned Tuesday by the Senate Commerce Committee and is scheduled for an appearance Wednesday before the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel.Here are the latest developments:Hearing Ends With Warning on ‘Human Factors’ (1:18 p.m.)Boeing’s test o
  
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• Red Dead Online patch notes: New Fear of the Dark limited-time event is here

  29-10-2019 18:32 via gamesradar.com
  Plus some more weekly bonuses and benefits
  
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• In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun

  29-10-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria.AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province.IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.
  
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• Catholic priest denies Joe Biden Holy Communion at Mass in South Carolina because of abortion views

  29-10-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  "Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching." Rev. Robert Morey said in a statement.
  
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• Warren Knocks New York Dems’ Attempt to Edge Out Third Parties, Saying it Will ‘Benefit Republicans’

  29-10-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) on Tuesday slammed a proposal reportedly being pushed by the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party that would place more hurdles in front of third parties seeking to appear on the ballot, calling the plan “deeply undemocratic.”The proposal, which targets the New York Working Families Party, would dramatically hike the voter threshold for third parties to appear on the gubernatorial ballot from 50,000 votes to 250,000 votes, alleviating t
  
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• Daylight saving time is ending this weekend. These states want to make DST permanent

  29-10-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Adjust your clocks back one hour Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. — lest you wake up an hour early to everything in the days ahead. But some states might change that.
  
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• Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there

  29-10-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.
  
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• Halloween weather forecast is frightful for many: Rain, snow and cold predicted

  29-10-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  An onslaught of rain, snow and cold will make for a frightful Halloween for many trick-or-treaters this Thursday, forecasters say.
  
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• Israel not responsible for Palestinian suffering: Kushner

  29-10-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel is not responsible for all Palestinian hardships, US presidential advisor Jared Kushner said on Tuesday, as the Palestinian Authority faces a crippling financial crisis."Israel is not the cause of all the suffering of the Palestinian people," Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, told the Future Investment Initiative conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
  
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