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• Federal prisoner found guilty on terror charges for 2nd time

  13-12-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An East African man imprisoned in Texas for terrorism was convicted Friday of trying to recruit fellow prisoners to join the Islamic State group and plan attacks in the United States, federal prosecutors announced.A jury found Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, 45, guilty of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and making a false statement to the FBI after a seven-day trial, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Texas.In 20
  
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• Democrats pick over Labour loss in UK as Biden warns of moving 'so far' left

  13-12-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frontrunner Biden says Labour disaster shows Democrats should avoid selecting leftwing nominee – but others disagreeLabour’s crushing defeat in the British general election ignited instant debate among Democrats in the US, with 2020 election frontrunner Joe Biden framing it as a warning to the party against moving too far left.While the Conservative prime minister, Boris Johnson, is often compared to Donald Trump, some also see parallels between the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, a 70
  
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• UN official: Chilean police abused protester's human rights

  13-12-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.N. human rights report released Friday accused Chilean security forces of serious human rights violations against protesters over the past two months, including deaths, torture, sexual abuse and the use of excessive force.The report was released by the U.N. Human Rights Office, which is headed by former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet — a domestic political rival of current President Sebastián Piñera.The high commissioner's report, which drew push-back from Chilean of
  
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• Why the Next North Korea Crisis May Bring Less Fire, Less Fury

  13-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Donald Trump is trading insults with Kim Jong-un, North Korea is launching missiles and no one’s talking about disarmament. It’s beginning to feel like the days of “fire and fury” are here again.Or maybe not. While Kim’s nuclear arsenal is believed to have only grown more dangerous in the two years since Trump last threatened to “totally destroy” the country, the geopolitical landscape has shifted in ways that may make the b
  
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• Pompeo warns Iran of 'decisive response' if harm in Iraq

  13-12-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday warned Iran of a "decisive" response if US interests are harmed in Iraq, after a series of rocket attacks on bases."We must... use this opportunity to remind Iran's leaders that any attacks by them, or their proxies of any identity, that harm Americans, our allies or our interests will be answered with a decisive US response," Pompeo said in a statement."Iran must respect the sovereignty of its neighbors and immediately cease its provision of lethal aid a
  
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• Trump has told the same story about a Jewish friend 4 times — and always changes their name

  13-12-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has at least three Jewish friends. He just asks them all the same questions.On at least four occasions over the past few months, Trump has pulled out a story where he's purportedly asking a friend which of his administration's moves have been bigger for the Jewish people. The friend always gives the same answer — but Trump changes the name of who he's talking to each time, The Washington Post reports."Charlie, let me ask you what’s bigger for the Jewish people," Trump
  
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• Trump's shadow war with North Korea likely to intensify soon

  13-12-2019 21:49 via cbsnews.com
  
  At the end of the year, a trio of events in the North are likely to threaten President Trump's hopes for progress in U.S.-North Korea relations
  
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• UN can't confirm weapons used in Saudi attacks were Iranian

  13-12-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.N. chief said in a report to the council obtained Friday by The Associated Press that the U.N. also can’t confirm that the missiles and drones were transferred from Iran “in a manner inconsistent” with the Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six key countries.The United States has blamed Iran for the attacks.
  
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• Victorious Johnson urges Britain to move past Brexit divide

  13-12-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Britons on Friday to put years of bitter divisions over the country's EU membership behind them as he vowed to use his resounding election victory to finally deliver Brexit next month.Johnson's ruling Conservatives won their best result for three decades on Thursday night after promising to get Britain out of the European Union on January 31, a new deadline set by Brussels.The snap general election turned into a re-run of the original 2016 EU membership ref
  
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• Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border

  13-12-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he'd be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis.The quiet migration of around 17,000 Brazilians through a single U.S. city in the past year reveals a new frontier in the Trump administration's effort to shut down the legal immigration pathway for people claiming fear of persecution.Like hundreds of thousands of families from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, known collectively as the Northern Trian
  
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• Fox News incandescent after Angela Merkel crowned world's most powerful woman over Ivanka Trump

  13-12-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s favourite Fox News show has hit out at a listing of the world’s most powerful women for placing German chancellor Angela Merkel in first place while the president’s daughter Ivanka was ranked 42nd.The Forbes listing of the world’s most powerful women placed Germany’s fourth-term leader and continental Europe’s guiding force at the top of the listing after 14 years in power of one of the world’s leading economies.
  
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• ‘Marxist, Joke, Disgrace’: How Corbyn United Britain Against Him

  13-12-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON—Jeremy Corbyn’s radical left-wing experiment has been obliterated by the British public.The Labour leader limped to the party’s most pathetic defeat since 1935 after publishing arguably the most socialist party platform in British history.Boris Johnson—a party leader widely viewed as elitist, dishonest, and out-of-touch—was swept to power by the very working-class communities that have cherished and sustained the Labour party since its foundation in 1900.Form
  
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• Corbynism Is Over As Britain Rejects Radical Left-Wing Fever Dream

  13-12-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON—Jeremy Corbyn’s radical left-wing experiment has been obliterated by the British public.The Labour leader limped to the party’s most pathetic defeat since 1935 after publishing arguably the most socialist party platform in British history.Boris Johnson—a party leader widely viewed as elitist, dishonest and out-of-touch—was swept to power by the very working-class communities that have cherished and sustained the Labour party since its foundation in 1900.Forme
  
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• The real warning in Labour's crushing defeat

  13-12-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson's historic victory on Thursday was his own. He purged the party of die-hard Remain heel-diggers, set the agenda of "get Brexit done," and won, tearing the heartland out of the Labour coalition and earning the largest Tory majority since 1987.But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's loss was also his own. Labour's 202 seats in the newly elected parliament will mark the weakest representation for the party since 1935. Labour hemorrhaged support, shedding over 2.5 million voters and 7.8 perc
  
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• Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes

  13-12-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A district court judge in Washington, D.C. has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter’s notes from a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
  
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• Bullets and blackout: inside four days of killing in Iran

  13-12-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pouya Bakhtiari could barely contain his excitement as he sat in gridlocked traffic on the motorway between Tehran and his home city of Karaj.  The 27-year-old Iranian engineer filmed on his mobile as motorists parked their cars in the middle of the busy roadway to protest a sudden hike in petrol prices pushed through by the government.  Other drivers may have been frustrated but Pouya was thrilled by the open display of defiance against Iran’s rulers. “People, don’t
  
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• Lebanon's Hezbollah insists on a coalition government

  13-12-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said Friday the best emergency government to deal with the country's worsening economic crisis is one that includes all political groups.Hassan Nasrallah's comments indicated there was no resolution yet on who should head an emergency government, two months after Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned Oct 29.Nasrallah's comments were also a rejection of a proposition put forward by political ally Gebran Bassil, who called for a government made up of ex
  
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• The Perfect Storm Launches Metals Markets Higher

  13-12-2019 19:35 via kingworldnews.com
  
  This week saw the perfect storm propel the metals markets higher across the board.
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• UN extends Palestinian refugee mission until 2023

  13-12-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations extended the work of its Palestinian refugee agency for another three years on Friday, despite fierce opposition from the United States and Israel.The current mandate was due to run out in June 2020 but 169 countries approved a renewal up to 2023 at the UN General Assembly, with the Americans and Israelis voting against and nine countries abstaining.The resolution approved on Friday "all donors to continue to strengthen their efforts to meet the anticipated needs of the agency
  
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• Shinzo Abe cancels Japan-India summit amid citizenship bill violence

  13-12-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Japan's prime minister cancelled a planned summit in India after a second day of violent unrest over the enactment of a controversial new citizenship law. Clashes erupted between police and students in Delhi, a day after two people were shot dead in widespread protests in the north eastern state of Assam. Narendra Modi's government has said its Citizenship Amendment Bill, making it easier for non-Muslim minorities from neighbouring countries to gain India citizenship, will protect those persecut
  
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• Battle ahead: Scotland party leader vows independence push

  13-12-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won the majority he needs to push through Brexit, but he faces another big challenge from Scotland, where the independence-minded Scottish National Party and its leader Nicola Sturgeon have surged to a commanding position.WHO IS NICOLA STURGEON AND WHAT IS HER ROLE IN SCOTTISH POLITICS?The dynamic Sturgeon, 49, is leader of the Scottish National Party, which dominates the political scene, and as such she is Scotland’s first minister.
  
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• Rebecca Walser: British election results – What Boris Johnson, Brexit teach Democrats (and Trump)

  13-12-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What began with the people’s Brexit referendum in June 2016 that turned into a three-and-a-half-year quagmire has finally ended the right way – at the ballot box with the people’s choice.    
  
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• Boris Johnson Gets Roars and Hugs While Opponent Faces Despair

  13-12-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson was momentarily stunned. The official U.K. election exit poll wasn’t just predicting he would hold on to power, it put his Conservative Party on course for its biggest win for more than 30 years.As the British prime minister watched the results on television in his Downing Street study at 10 p.m., an elated Johnson leaped from his seat and hugged his partner, Carrie Symonds.The exit poll was accurate. As the votes were confirmed in the hours that followed, John
  
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• Trump says Dems are "trivializing impeachment"

  13-12-2019 18:52 via cbsnews.com
  
  President Trump, during a meeting with Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez, said Democrats are "trivializing impeachment."
  
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• Trump says Boris Johnson win could be 'harbinger' for him

  13-12-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Friday that the big election win by his ally Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain bodes well for his own fortunes in 2020.Johnson's Conservatives won a landslide, trouncing left-wing Labour after a bitter campaign overshadowed by the Brexit process of taking Britain out of the European Union.Trump is campaigning for reelection next year in what is already shaping up to be the most polarizing contest in the United States for decades.
  
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• Pour one out for Jeremy Corbyn

  13-12-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While America watched Lamar Jackson play Madden 2005 on rookie difficulty Thursday night, Jeremy Corbyn prepared to resign as leader of the Labour party after the Conservatives won their fourth consecutive British general election.No love will be lost between Corbyn and the liberal British media establishment. This is understandable. He was fundamentally unsuited to what they consider the greatest challenge of the era: delaying Britain's departure from the European Union with an endless series o
  
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• U.K. Election Sees Record Number of Women Elected to Parliament

  13-12-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The gender gap in the U.K. parliament is still closing even after a spate of female politicians quit this year saying they had been subject to abuse.After Thursday’s election, a record 219 women will take up seats at Westminster, up from 208 at the last election in 2017 and 143 a decade ago, according to Randall’s Monitoring. Women will occupy more than a third of the House of Commons, compared with just one seat in 1918.Women’s groups had expressed alarm before
  
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• Centrists say this is proof Sanders or Warren can't win. They're wrong

  13-12-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For some, Corbyn’s defeat shows that the Democratic party should elect a moderate. But we should be careful about drawing that conclusionThe exit polls for the UK general election had barely been published and US pundits were already tweeting out the lessons for next year’s US presidential election. It’s almost as if their conclusions had been reached before the results were known. “Right populism will always beat left populism,” tweeted Yascha Mounk. Perhaps that&r
  
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• Fishermen rescue bald eagle trapped in octopus' tentacles

  13-12-2019 18:22 via cbsnews.com
  
  Fishermen in Canada broke up the potentially deadly battle between the two animals.
  
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• Trump says Republicans will "remember" this impeachment process when a Democrat is president

  13-12-2019 18:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  President Trump, seated alongside Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez, said Democrats are "trivializing impeachment"
  
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• Critics say Guatemala commission undermining anti-graft push

  13-12-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One by one, witnesses sat in the elegant wooden chair in Guatemala’s Congress in recent weeks to air their grievances against the U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission that over the course of 12 years helped bring to justice hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, judges and others accused of corruption.Cicig won plaudits at home and abroad for its work, hand-in-hand with Guatemalan prosecutors, to bring corruption cases against hundreds of the country’s powerful and privileged, incl
  
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• Wall Street says "meh" to Trump's "massive" China deal

  13-12-2019 18:16 via cbsnews.com
  
  Stocks slipped on Friday after President Trump announced that 25% tariffs won't change in a new trade deal
  
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• Billionaires Pop Champagne, Eye Deals After Corbyn Craters

  13-12-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Champagne was flowing in London’s Mayfair as the news hit.Boris Johnson’s Conservatives weren’t just winning, they were trouncing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour across the U.K., including working-class Northern towns far removed from the West End.Michael Spencer, founder of interdealer broker Icap and longtime Tory donor, threw a celebration at Scott’s, an upscale seafood restaurant in London, according to a person familiar with the matter. About 200 guests t
  
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• Victorious Johnson urges Britain to move past Brexit splits

  13-12-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Britons on Friday to put years of bitter divisions over the country's EU membership behind them as he vowed to use his resounding election victory to finally deliver Brexit next month.Johnson's Conservatives won their best result for three decades on Thursday night after promising to get Britain out of the European Union on January 31.Johnson called the election to break the deadlock in parliament over how to implement the 2016 referendum vote for Brexit, i
  
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• UN talks deadlocked, detached from climate emergency

  13-12-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations climate negotiations were deadlocked and heading deep into overtime Friday with even the best-case outcome likely to fall well short of what science says is needed to avert a future ravaged by global warming.The COP25 summit in Madrid arrives on the heels of climate-related disasters across the planet, including unprecedented cyclones, deadly droughts and record-setting heatwaves.Sixteen-year-old activist Greta Thunberg led student marchers in Turin, Italy Friday, and chastised wo
  
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• Trump says Democrats are "trivializing impeachment"

  13-12-2019 18:07 via cbsnews.com
  
  President Trump responded to the committee-approved articles of impeachment while seated alongside Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez.
  
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• Belgian carnival removed from UNESCO list over racism row

  13-12-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A famous Belgian carnival was removed from the U.N.'s cultural heritage list on Friday following complaints that last year's edition contained blatant displays of anti-Semitism.The Aalst carnival was taken off UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list during a meeting in Colombia's capital city, becoming the first cultural tradition stricken from the U.N.'s global inventory of cultural practices.
  
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• Watch: President Trump meets with the president of Paraguay

  13-12-2019 17:57 via cbsnews.com
  
  The meeting comes after the House Judiciary Committee votes on the articles of impeachment against the president
  
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• Trump calls impeachment vote 'embarrassment' to nation

  13-12-2019 17:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump declared Friday's House committee vote to impeach him ”an embarrassment to our country" and refused to back away from the charge that first ensnared him in the scandal.Almost simultaneous to the vote, Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, turned up at the White House to discuss Ukraine.With a vote by the full House expected next week, Trump declared in the Oval Office that the Democrats had "made absolute fools of themselves" by moving ahead with impeachmen
  
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• Brexit is going to happen. What is a young ‘remainer’ to do?

  13-12-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Remain”-minded youth may be ready to pivot toward shaping a future after Brexit and bridging divisions at home and with the rest of Europe.
  
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• UK Election: Johnson Promises Brexit, Trump Renews Trade Deal Calls

  13-12-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.K.'s departure from the European Union (EU) moved a decisive step closer in the early hours of Friday morning when the Conservative Party headed by Boris Johnson won a decisive general election victory.In the buildup to the election, Johnson had consistently promised to "Get Brexit Done." And, after winning a huge parliamentary majority of at least 78 seats — 364 out of 650 seats, with one still to declare at this writing — he doubled down on his pledge, vowing to push his EU w
  
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• Brexit Bulletin: Taking Back Control

  13-12-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Days to Brexit: 49(Bloomberg) -- Sign up here to get the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox every weekday.What’s Happening? After winning a stunning majority, Prime Minister Boris Johnson can free himself from almost four years of gridlock.Johnson urged Britons to “take back control” during the 2016 referendum on European Union membership. In 2019, he told weary voters that only he could “get Brexit done” — and they handed him a resounding gener
  
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• Iraq's top Shiite cleric condemns hanging of teen gunman

  13-12-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraq's top Shiite cleric Friday denounced the killing of a teenager whose body was strung up by his feet from a traffic pole in a Baghdad square, as conflicting versions emerged about what led to the 16-year-old’s death.Security officials initially told The Associated Press that he had been beaten to death by an angry mob after he killed four anti-government protesters and two shopkeepers in a shooting spree.Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the nation’s top Shiite cleric, on Friday ca
  
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• Iraq's top Shiite cleric condemns gruesome hanging of teen

  13-12-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraq's top Shiite cleric Friday denounced the killing of a teenager whose body was strung up by his feet from a traffic pole in a Baghdad square, as conflicting versions emerged about what led to the 16-year-old’s death.Security officials initially told The Associated Press that he had been beaten to death by an angry mob after he killed four anti-government protesters and two shopkeepers in a shooting spree.Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the nation’s top Shiite cleric, on Friday ca
  
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• Corbyn is Finished But His Radicalism Changed U.K. Politics

  13-12-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- “You had better make f****** sure I don’t win.” It was June 2015 and Jeremy Corbyn did not want to run for the leadership of the Labour Party.But someone had to carry the flag for a dwindling band of socialist politicians in the contest that followed Ed Miliband’s demoralizing election defeat at the hands of David Cameron’s Conservatives. It was Corbyn’s turn to have a go.He took some comfort in his status as the rank outsider in the leadership
  
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• Watch Johnson's first full speech as returning PM

  13-12-2019 17:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson urged a message of unity for the UK in his first speech as Prime Minister since securing a majority in the UK's 2019 election. Watch the full address at 10 Downing Street.
  
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• What a Boris Johnson government means for foreign policy and defence

  13-12-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jeremy Corbyn was closer than Boris Johnson to Donald Trump on some foreign and defence issues. Both the US president and the Labour leader were opposed to wars of intervention by the west, both dislike Nato and the EU, and both find it difficult to criticise Russia.There were, of course, many other fields in which the two men differed – from Palestinian rights, to trade deals between the two countries, to relations with states like Venezuela and Iran.
  
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• Fascinating Email From A KWN Reader Regarding Covert Launch Of QE To Infinity

  13-12-2019 16:59 via kingworldnews.com
  
  As we near the end of 2019 with a world in turmoil and the global economy struggling, here is a fascinating email from a KWN reader regarding the Fed's covert launch of QE to infinity.
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• Merkel faces backbench rebellion over Huawei

  13-12-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Huawei could be excluded from Germany’s 5G network following a backbench rebellion against Angela Merkel. In a blow to the German chancellor’s authority, backbenchers from her own party and her main coalition partners have united to block the controversial Chinese telecommunications company from the project. Mrs Merkel has so far defied US pressure to exclude Huawei from the project. The Trump administration accuses the Chinese government of using the company’s technology to sp
  
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• Wall Street awaits details of Trump's China trade deal

  13-12-2019 16:32 via cbsnews.com
  
  Even though Trump tweeted that a report about a trade deal is "completely wrong," stocks edge toward new highs
  
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