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• Nato summit: Leaders arrive at Buckingham Palace for event hosted by the Queen

  03-12-2019 20:54 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Buckingham Palace event to be hosted by the Queen Prince Andrew 'a very tough story', President says Trump on Corbyn | 'I know nothing about him, honestly'  US wants 'nothing to do' with NHS ​ Nato leaders have begun to arrive at Buckingham Palace ahead of a reception to be hosted by the Queen on Tuesday evening. It comes following an earlier diplomatic flare-up between Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. The US president denounced a claim by Mr Macron that th
  
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• Explainer: Genocide case against Myanmar at the top U.N. court

  13-12-2019 13:54 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was due to leave the Netherlands on Friday after defending her country against accusations of genocide during three days of hearings at the International Court of Justice.The west African country of Gambia filed a case in November, alleging Myanmar was committing "an ongoing genocide" against its minority Muslim Rohingya population.As a first step, Gambia asked the court to order emergency measures to protect the Rohingya and keep the conflict from getting worse.
  
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• 'Moral call to rest of the world' on climate from hardest hit countries, Obama says

  13-12-2019 10:23 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Island nations and poor coastal countries facing the severest effects of climate change offer a "moral call to the rest of the world" to act now, former U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday."For those of you who are... experiencing the effects of it right now, there may be some hard questions in terms of adaptation versus mitigation," Obama said at a youth leaders conference in Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur, organized by the Obama Foundation.Island countries that could disappear
  
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• U.S. and 'like-minded' partners will keep security in Asia: admiral

  13-12-2019 08:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A partnership between the United States and "like-minded nations" will keep Asian countries secure in the face of competition from a rising China, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said on Friday.On a visit to Bangkok, Admiral John Aquilino, 56, criticized China's construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea, a vital trade waterway with rich energy resources where Beijing has disputes with five nations."We are in competition with the People's Republic of China," Aquilino told
  
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• Uganda Pop-Star Bobi Wine Says Opposition Seeks Single Candidate

  13-12-2019 08:40 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Robert Kyagulanyi, the Ugandan pop star turned politician who goes by the stage name Bobi Wine, said he is in advanced talks with opposition parties to field a single presidential candidate in 2021 elections against Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the east African country since 1986.Wine, the 37-year-old reggae singer who says at least 157 of his concerts have been canceled by the government, said he hopes to be the candidate as Uganda has a young population. He is in talks with Ki
  
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• New Zealand volcano eruption: elite military team recovers six bodies from White Island as divers continue hunt

  13-12-2019 08:37 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A New Zealand military team in gas masks and hazmat suits recovered six bodies on Friday from the volcanic island that fatally erupted earlier this week, as doctors worked to save badly burned survivors. An eight-person bomb disposal squad set off before dawn and spent four hours on White Island, which experts said could erupt again. Six of the eight bodies on the island were successfully retrieved and taken to a naval patrol vessel for transfer to the mainland for disaster victim
  
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• Jamal Khashoggi: US spy chief given deadline to name Saudi writer's killers

  13-12-2019 08:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  * Trump ally Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused* Congress gives intelligence chief 30 days to assign responsibilityUS intelligence agencies will be given a month to make a formal declaration on whether the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was responsible for the murder of the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.The annual military spending bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was passed by a large majority in the House of Represen
  
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• Britain’s Political Map Changes Color in Ways Few Could Imagine

  13-12-2019 08:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Towns in northern England share a history of mining, faded industry and neglect. For generations they also had another thing in common: staunch support for the Labour Party.From Workington on the west coast to Bishop Auckland and Blyth on the east, the dominoes fell as the results from the U.K. election rolled in through the small hours of Friday morning. The U.K.’s tortured ef
  
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• New Zealand military team recovers 6 more bodies after White Island volcano eruption, pushing death toll to 14

  13-12-2019 07:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The volcano's continued venting previously delayed plans by authorities to recover the bodies. Scientists believe another eruption is possible.
  
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• Democrats say surprise move to postpone impeachment vote was to head off GOP strategy of dragging the vote into the middle of the night

  13-12-2019 06:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN he suspected that the GOP wanted the vote to happen in the "thick of night."
  
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• Hong Kong police slip on banana peel with tear gas tweet

  13-12-2019 05:23 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hong Kong's much-maligned police force has slipped on a banana peel by trying to make light of its liberal use of tear gas during the territory's protest movement.Respondents to the post called it crass and some, in turn, posted videos of Hong Kong police's actions, which protesters say has been excessive.
  
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• Panel Delays Vote on Articles to Friday: Impeachment Update

  13-12-2019 05:18 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The House Judiciary Committee has been debating two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump all day Thursday. The impeachment resolution is H.Res. 755.Here are the latest developments:Panel Delays Vote on Articles to Friday (11:18 p.m.)The House Judiciary Committee delayed voting on articles of impeachment until Friday morning. Chairman Jerrold Nadler scheduled the panel to return at 10 a.m.House Vote Tentatively Planned on Wednesday (6:01 p.m.)An impeachment vote b
  
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• Death toll from New Zealand eruption rises to 14 after authorities conduct harrowing mission to retrieve bodies from the island

  13-12-2019 05:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  New Zealand police said that two people remain missing and are presumed dead after one of New Zealand's most active volcanoes erupted on Monday.
  
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• Corbyn to Stand Down as U.K. Labour Party Faces Record Defeat

  13-12-2019 04:40 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Jeremy Corbyn said he will stand down as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party after a comprehensive rejection of his bid to lead the country.Early results confirmed the exit poll forecast, which suggested Labour would lose 61 seats since the 2017 election, finishing on just 201 MPs, as Boris Johnson’s Conservatives head for a big majority. If correct, it would be
  
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• Gaetz brought up Hunter Biden's substance abuse issues at impeachment but it backfired

  13-12-2019 03:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  After GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz brought up Hunter Biden's substance abuse during Thursday's impeachment hearing, things got personal.
  
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• Senior China diplomat says U.S. seriously damaged hard-won mutual trust

  13-12-2019 03:11 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday that the United States had seriously damaged the hard-won mutual trust between the countries by criticizing Beijing over issues such as Hong Kong and the treatment of Muslim Uighurs."Such behavior is almost paranoid, and is indeed rare in international exchanges, seriously damaging the hard-won foundation of mutual trust between China and the United States, and seriously weakening the United States' international credibility," said State Councillor
  
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• Corbyn Urged to Quit as U.K. Labour Party Faces Record Defeat

  13-12-2019 03:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Jeremy Corbyn is under growing pressure to quit as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party after what looks like a comprehensive rejection of his bid to lead the country.Early results appeared to confirm the exit poll forecast, which suggested Labour would lose 71 seats since the 2017 election, finishing on just 191 MPs, as Boris Johnson’s Conservatives head for a bi
  
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• China’s Foreign Minister Urges Cooperation With U.S.

  13-12-2019 03:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged a return to cooperation with U.S., as the world’s two largest economies neared a preliminary deal to scale back their ongoing trade war.Wang told a conference on Chinese diplomacy Friday in Beijing that the U.S. actions on a range of issues have damaged the “hard-won” relationship between the two sides. He accused U.S. officials of having “defamed” the Chinese side, saying the American government’s flawed u
  
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• Trump has begun 2024 campaign and is eligible to serve third term, senior Republican says

  13-12-2019 02:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee says he has been "named to head up" what would be an unconstitutional 2024 re-election campaign for Donald Trump.Mr Huckabee, father of former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, made the explosive claim in a pair of tweets on Thursday afternoon in which he also said the US president was "eligible" for a third term due to congressional investigations into him.
  
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• Six more bodies recovered in risky mission near New Zealand volcano; death toll at 14

  13-12-2019 02:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The volcano's continued venting previously delayed plans by authorities to recover the bodies. Scientists believe another eruption is possible.
  
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• Trump Administration Resists Ukraine Disclosures Ordered by Court

  13-12-2019 01:48 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public IntegrityThe Trump administration has refused to disclose how key officials at the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Management and Budget reacted to President Trump’s decision to halt military aid to Ukraine.On Nov. 25, federal district court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the administration to produce records reflecting what these officials said to one another about the legality and appropriateness of Trump’s order. The
  
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• Washington state seeks to ban sale of 'assault weapons,' high capacity magazines

  13-12-2019 01:46 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  If successful, Washington would become the seventh U.S. state to ban assault weapons, which it defines as semi-automatic rifles with at least one military feature, and the ninth to limit the capacity of ammunition magazines."We should be making it harder for those who want to inflict mass violence and destruction upon innocent people," Governor Jay Inslee said in announcing the gun-control push.
  
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• UK Labour Party blame game begins as crushing defeat looms

  13-12-2019 01:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faced calls to quit on Friday, after equivocation over Brexit and his limited personal appeal contributed to a collapse in traditional strongholds and what looks like his party's worst election defeat in 84 years.An exit poll and early results showed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party were set for a resounding victory in Britain's election, allowing him to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31.The exit poll showed voters had gone with Johnson's "Get Brexit Done" pr
  
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• Trump impeachment vote: Senior Republican attacks Hunter Biden’s alleged crack cocaine use

  13-12-2019 01:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee markup of articles of impeachment took an ugly turn when Florida Republican Matt Gaetz launched a personal attack on former vice president Joe Biden’s youngest son.While introducing a proposed amendment to Democrats’ articles of impeachment – language that would have replaced a reference to the former VP in the first article with with that of his son Hunter and a reference to Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings – Mr Gaetz t
  
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• Chile says no hope of survivors from missing plane

  13-12-2019 01:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Chile confirmed Thursday that a military plane with 38 people aboard crashed in the sea, with no hope of finding survivors."The condition of the plane wreckage that was found makes it practically impossible that there are survivors from this air accident," Air Force chief Arturo Merino told a news conference in the southern port of Punta Arenas.
  
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• Trial-ready: Pelosi faces choice on impeachment prosecutors

  13-12-2019 01:16 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Welcome to the race within the House to win a spot on the Democratic team that will prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the sole decider, but offered no hints Thursday as the impeachment saga accelerated toward an expected vote next week by the full House — and in January, a Senate trial.The impeachment managers will have to withstand the scrutiny and risk of prosecuting the case against Trump from the floor of the Republican-held Sen
  
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• After GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz brings up Hunter Biden's substance abuse, he's reminded of his own DUI

  13-12-2019 01:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  During the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing on Thursday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tried to shift the focus away from President Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.Gaetz introduced an amendment to the articles of impeachment that would refer to the "corrupt" hiring of Hunter Biden by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden has a history of alcohol and drug abuse, which Gaetz gleefully mentioned. "It's a little hard to believe that Burisma hired H
  
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• Pakistan throws 'treason' charges at 250 lawyers for treason in hospital assault

  13-12-2019 01:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Pakistan on Thursday leveled “treason” charges against 250 lawyers who were part of a mob that stormed a hospital in the eastern city of Lahore the previous day, kicking and punching doctors and staff and trashing equipment and property, police said.
  
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• Ex-Roman Catholic deacon indicted on child rape charge

  13-12-2019 00:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A former Roman Catholic Church deacon in New Orleans was indicted Thursday on a charge that he raped an altar boy nearly 40 years ago.George Brignac, 84, was charged by a grand jury Thursday with one count of aggravated rape.District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro noted in Thursday's news release that Louisiana has no time limit for prosecuting such offenses involving a victim younger than 12.
  
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• Jersey City shooter was Army veteran with a lengthy criminal history

  13-12-2019 00:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  David Anderson, was arrested at least five times since 2003, the year he was discharged from the Army, records show.
  
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