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• Venezuela's Guaido vows to bring in aid next week

  12-02-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido told tens of thousands of supporters on Tuesday that desperately-needed humanitarian aid would be brought into the country on February 23, despite opposition from President Nicolas Maduro."It's sure that the humanitarian aid will enter Venezuela because the usurper will have no choice but to leave Venezuela," said self-proclaimed acting president Guaido.US aid has been piling up in Colombia at the border with crisis-hit Venezuela but until now the bridge
  
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• Substitute teacher resigns after she allegedly told student his athletic wear is 'prison attire'

  12-02-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A substitute music teacher at Rand Road Elementary has resigned after she allegedly told a student his athletic clothes looked like "prison attire," Lisa Luten with Wake County schools said Tuesday.
  
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• UK foreign secretary condemns attack on BBC cameraman at Trump rally

  12-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday condemned an attack on a BBC cameraman by a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas.Asked on Tuesday by Sky News whether it was acceptable for Trump to whip up his fans to the point that a cameraman was attacked, Hunt said: "It is never acceptable when journalists and cameramen are attacked just for doing their job."Wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap, a man was seen shoving BBC cameraman Ron Skeans befo
  
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• BBC wants security review after cameraman attacked at Trump rally

  12-02-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The BBC asked the White House to review security arrangements Tuesday after a BBC cameraman was assaulted at a rally in Texas with President Donald Trump.British Broadcasting Corporation cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked by a Trump supporter yelling anti-media slogans during the US president's rally in El Paso late Monday.As he does at most rallies, Trump had repeatedly encouraged the crowd to boo at the journalists covering the event, accusing them of "fake" coverage.
  
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• NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover which has been silent for 8 months

  12-02-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA is trying one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, before calling it quits. The rover has been silent for eight months, victim of one of the most intense dust storms in decades. Thick dust darkened the sky last summer and, for months, blocked sunlight from the spacecraft's solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will issue a final series of recovery commands, on top of more than 1,000 already sent. If there's no response by Wednesday - which NASA suspects will be the c
  
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• Sub teacher tells students Martin Luther King killed himself

  12-02-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina substitute teacher has submitted her resignation after a student told his father that the teacher told his class that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not assassinated but instead killed himself.
  
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• Rapper 21 Savage released from immigration custody: lawyers

  12-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for rapper 21 Savage say he has been released on bond from federal immigration custody.
  
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• The Society of Tattletales

  12-02-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Esquire magazine launched a series of reported essays this morning with an article titled “The Life of an American Boy at 17.” It featured a tall, handsome, but not particularly dynamic white kid from Wisconsin who thinks he’s likely to end up working at a “water plant.” Thousands of people who don’t subscribe to Esquire, or normally read Esquire, or fit in with Esquire’s target demographic are furious about the choice of subject. Or at least they are pr
  
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• Johnson & Johnson's nasal spray for depression wins FDA panel backing

  12-02-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The panel voted 14-2 in favor of the drug esketamine, developed to treat major depression in patients who have not benefited from at least two different therapies, saying its benefits outweighed the risks.One panel member abstained from voting.Esketamine is a chemical mirror image of anesthetic ketamine, which is also abused as a recreational party drug and goes by the street nickname "Special K".
  
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• Contrasting realities on immigration as Trump, O'Rourke host dueling rallies in El Paso

  12-02-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Standing within earshot distance of one another, President Trump and Beto O’Rourke held opposing rallies in El Paso, Texas, that clashed over immigration.Trump and his contingent of an estimated 6,500 chanted “Build the wall” and “U-S-A” over and over, while O’Rourke and an estimated 10,000 supporters called for a path to citizenship for those wanting to cross the border.While Trump spoke from inside a packed El Paso County Coliseum arena with a large U.S. fla
  
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• Green New Deal: McConnell wants Democrats to go 'on record' about AOC's climate change plan

  12-02-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't like the Green New Deal, but he wants a vote on the controversial so Democrats can be put on the record.
  
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• Birdwatch: meeting king penguins, the Falkland Islands' crowning glory

  12-02-2019 22:30
  Five species of the bird breed on the islands, but the majestic king penguins steal the show“It’s like Scotland – but with penguins. You’ll love it!” That was how a friend of mine summed up the Falkland Islands before my visit, and he was absolutely right.Five species of penguin breed here, raising their young in noisy, smelly colonies during the brief austral summer: the Magellanic, gentoo, southern rockhopper, macaroni and king. Continue reading...
  
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• Workers Missed Bills, Burned Savings During Government Shutdown

  12-02-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  More than a quarter of federal employees missed a mortgage or rent payment during the shutdown, while 49 percent fell behind on bills in general, according to the Prudential survey of 352 federal workers, contractors and spouses.“Boy, this is really tough -- it is really a wake-up call for them, and for everybody else, that emergency savings matter,” Jamie Kalamarides, president of Prudential Group Insurance, said in a phone interview.The survey by Prudential, the second-largest U.S.
  
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• Federal jury finds drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán guilty of all counts

  12-02-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal jury in Brooklyn slammed the door on a final escape bid by Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
  
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• McConnell, Schumer Urge Trump to Sign Spending Deal

  12-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday urged President Trump to sign the tentative spending deal Congress reached Monday night."I have recommended that if it becomes what we think it is, I do recommend [Trump] sign it," McConnell told reporters. "I think he's got a pretty good deal here. . . . I hope he’ll find this agreement acceptable and he’ll sign the bill."Schumer, meanwhile, said Trump would be to blame if another government shutdown
  
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• The Latest: El Chapo lawyer vows to appeal conviction

  12-02-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the verdict for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's U.S. trial (all times local):
  
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• US Southern Baptist churches embroiled in sex abuse scandal

  12-02-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States' largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing a sexual abuse crisis after a bombshell report revealed hundreds of predators and more than 700 victims since 1998.The report by two Texas newspapers found some 380 church leaders and volunteers have faced public accusations of abuse, mostly of children as young as three years old.Some of the accused continued to work at Southern Baptist churches, the newspapers said.
  
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• I’m an adult worried about measles. What do I need to know?

  12-02-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  In short, vaccines are the best way to prevent spreading the measles and even those who are not vaccinated as children are able to get the shots.
  
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• A modern take on the classic white shirt at Carolina Herrera

  12-02-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — When the last model walked down the Carolina Herrera runway in a floor-length, billowing gown that looked like a huge white shirt, it was a playful nod in two ways.
  
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• California Gov. Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump of 'Fear-Mongering' in Major Speech

  12-02-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his first "state of the state" speech to criticize President Donald Trump's vision of America.
  
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• Brexit: extending Article 50 would serve no purpose - FT quotes PM May

  12-02-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - British Prime Minster Theresa May told business leaders on Tuesday that extending the Article 50 process under which the UK is meant to leave the European Union on March 29 would serve no purpose, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. May said delaying Britain's departure from the EU would bring no end to Brexit uncertainty or push parliament any closer to approving a withdrawal agreement, the FT report said, citing people who took part in a phone call with the prime minister. ...
  
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• Best High-End Dishwashers From Consumer Reports' Tests

  12-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Best High-End Dishwashers From CR's Tests You'd think that spending $1,500 or more would get you, well, the best dishwasher money could buy. But in fact, our tests show that dishwashers in the $...
  
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• The Latest: Venezuela's Maduro seeks UN cooperation

  12-02-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
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• In eastern Syria, foreign families flee last Islamic State enclave

  12-02-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A field commander with the Kurdish-led forces, which are pushing further into the besieged pocket, said mostly foreign militants were making their last stand.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which holds about a quarter of the country, has mounted an attack to seize the enclave with the help of U.S. air strikes.Many hundreds of civilians streamed out in the past two days alone.
  
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• Meet Trump, the Australian Shepherd Who Just Won Big at the Westminster Dog Show

  12-02-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  'The dog doesn't know that his name is a controversial topic,' his owner says
  
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• 7 of the Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2019

  12-02-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The best semiconductor stocks this year.
  
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• Democratic senators urge administration to reject Sprint, T-Mobile merger

  12-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The signatories included potential or confirmed presidential candidates Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker.Also signing the letters were Senators Richard Blumenthal and Tom Udall.The senators noted the four largest wireless carriers including AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc control 98 percent of the market.
  
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• UK Labour lawmaker has new plan for parliament vote on no-deal Brexit

  12-02-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  British lawmaker Yvette Cooper, one of the leading campaigners against Britain leaving the EU without an agreement with the bloc, unveiled a new plan on Tuesday to ensure parliament has a chance to vote on ruling out a no-deal Brexit.A first attempt by opposition Labour lawmaker Cooper and Conservative Nick Boles to give parliament the power to request a delay to Britain's March 29 exit from the European Union was defeated by parliament on Jan. 29.Cooper said her new proposal, which has cross-pa
  
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• Venezuela at UN says no aid crisis

  12-02-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's foreign minister insisted at the United Nations on Tuesday that there is no humanitarian crisis in his country even as he announced plans to step up cooperation with UN agencies to help the economy.Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza met Monday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres -- his second meeting in a month -- as the stalemate hardened between opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself acting president, and President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• Trump flaunts his concern for minorities. Native Americans need not apply.

  12-02-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  He did not offer to resign himself over a mocking reference to Native American genocide, or call out his son, Donald Jr., for applauding that remark.
  
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• AOC reveals her Post-it wall of thank you notes in Congress

  12-02-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Yes, you get lots of people who think you’re a youthful, straight-talking breath of fresh air.How delightful then, to see in in real physical form, the gratitude of some of the people who appreciate what you are doing to help them.On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed some some of the colourful messages of thanks that had been sent in by people to her office, and carefully added to the wall beside her door.
  
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• McConnell: Senate to Vote on Green New Deal So Lawmakers Can ‘Go on Record’

  12-02-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate will vote on the Green New Deal resolution introduced last week by a coalition of progressive lawmakers vowing to eliminate all greenhouse-gas emissions within ten years, while simultaneously creating millions of jobs in a government-subsidized green-energy sector.“I've noted with great interest the Green New Deal. And we're going to be voting on that in the Senate. Give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how t
  
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• El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán found guilty and faces life in prison

  12-02-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel.Guzman faced a drumbeat of drug-trafficking and conspiracy convictions that could put the 61-year-old escape artist behind bars for decades
  
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• 'El Chapo' faces prison for life, but Mexico drug trade persists

  12-02-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Guzman, 61, was found guilty on all 10 charges in federal court in New York after an 11-week trial that revealed the inner workings of the Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico's biggest drug gang.While Guzman has been effectively removed from the drug trade, a former associate has taken over the reins of the cartel, one of many gangs that smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States.Largely because of that, the trial has not changed the "rules of war" against the drug trade, security analyst Alejandro Hope
  
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• Tiger surprise: weed smokers find big cat in abandoned Houston home

  12-02-2019 20:08
  Big cat was well-fed and in poorly secured cageAuthorities nickname tiger Tyson after Hangover movieHouston police say some people who went into an abandoned home to smoke marijuana found a caged tiger inside. Related: Eye on the Tiger: the world’s largest ever exhibition of tiger photography – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• New York Lawmakers Fuming Without Key Details on Amazon Campus

  12-02-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  “Is it a done deal?" Senator John Liu, a Democrat who represents the borough’s northeast, asked Howard Zemsky, president and chief executive officer of Empire State Development, at a hearing on Tuesday in Albany.When Zemsky said finalization is pending, Liu asked him to disclose any up-front taxpayer costs to lure Amazon, one of the world’s richest companies, to Long Island City.“You have to perform, be it on jobs or the investment, before you get anything back if you&rsq
  
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• Showdown looms as Venezuela's Guaido sets aid entry date

  12-02-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Most Western countries, including the United States, have recognized Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate president, but Maduro retains the backing of Russia and China as well as control of state institutions including the military.An aid convoy supplied by the United States and Colombia arrived in the Colombian border town of Cucuta last week, where it is being held in warehouses.A Venezuelan opposition envoy has also said Brazil's government would try to get humanitarian aid to the border.
  
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• U.S. oil output to hit new record above 13 million bpd in 2020: EIA

  12-02-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. oil production this year is forecast to be at a record 12.41 million bpd, the EIA said.The country's oil output has surged, boosted by technology to unlock production from shale formations."February's Short-Term Energy Outlook revises the forecast for U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 2020, expecting increased growth during both years," EIA Administrator Linda Capuano said in a statement issued after the report.
  
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• Government shutdown: President Donald Trump says 'not happy' about border security agreement

  12-02-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress must approve the new deal by midnight Friday to keep the government running and avoid another shutdown.
  
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• Royal baby 2019: The Duchess of Sussex's due date, possible names, and all the latest news

  12-02-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duchess of Sussex once described motherhood as being on her “bucket list”, while the Duke of Sussex has frequently confessed he would love to have children. And now the newlyweds, who married in Windsor last May, are just weeks away from welcoming their first child. As the nation waits for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's eighth grandchild to arrive, here's everything we know about royal baby Sussex. When is the Royal baby due? Although Kensington Palace has only said the royal
  
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• Don’t forget Sir Joseph Swan’s lightbulb moment | Letters

  12-02-2019 19:12
  Edison v Swan | Cockleshell Heroes | Rugby ratings | Mountain hares | An odd magazineYour article (A brief history of sleep, 9 February) implies that Thomas Edison was the inventor of the incandescent electric lightbulb. While both he and Sir Joseph Wilson Swan were working to produce a suitable filament for a lightbulb, it was Swan – born in Sunderland – who demonstrated a working incandescent lightbulb using a carbon filament on 3 February 1879 at a meeting of the Literary and Phil
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX to have launches reviewed by Pentagon

  12-02-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon will review rocket launches by Elon Musk's SpaceX, it has said.The certification that allows the company to send launch vehicles into space will be reviewed to check that the US Air Force complied with the requisite guidelines, investigators said in a memo.“Our objective is to determine whether the U.S. Air Force complied with the Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide when certifying the launch system design for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class SpaceX Falc
  
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• Thai princess apologizes after being disqualified from PM run

  12-02-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi's comments came a day after the commission dropped her name from an official list of prime minister candidates.The commission said members of the royal family should stay above politics, echoing a sharp rebuke from King Maha Vajiralongkorn that her bid was "inappropriate" and unconstitutional.Ubolratana's unprecedented nomination by a party allied with populist ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra unsettled the Southeast Asian nation, where the monarc
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez hits back after Trump says her Green New Deal looks like high school paper

  12-02-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  "Sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark," Trump said of the ambitious environmental initiative.
  
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• The Toyota 86 British Green Limited Is a Thing of Beauty from Toyota Japan

  12-02-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  British racing green and a black-and-tan interior make this Toyota 86 just about irresistible.
  
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• US strikes IS-held mosque as Syria battle intensifies

  12-02-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday it struck a mosque that had allegedly been used as an Islamic State control center, as American-allied Syrian forces battled the extremists in their last stronghold in eastern Syria amid reports of more civilian casualties.
  
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• After six years of drought, Mount Isa residents prayed for rain. Then it flooded

  12-02-2019 18:00
  For graziers who sweated to keep their herds alive, praying for rain, the scale of the flood is hard to takeOut the back of Mount Isa, in late January, the locals marked a wry milestone.For an unbroken stretch of 43 stinking afternoons, the temperature at Cloncurry and Camooweal had topped 40C. The herds of cattle in Queensland’s north-west, the ones that had survived through six years of drought, started to show signs of severe heat stress. They became thinner, weaker. Related: Floods, fi
  
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• Beto’s counter-rally hints at how he might run against Trump

  12-02-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Privately, those close to O’Rourke offer nothing further than that. Among his fans was President Barack Obama, who praised O’Rourke for his authenticity. Those close to O’Rourke say they believe he would prefer to run the same kind of campaign for the White House.
  
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• Nigerian widows sue Shell for complicity in activist deaths

  12-02-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The widow of a Nigerian activist executed by their country's government more than two decades ago accused oil giant Shell of complicity in his death at a civil case in a Dutch court Tuesday.
  
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• Maduro calls for return of Venezuela's UK-deposited gold

  12-02-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has called on Britain to return "more than 80 tons of gold" reserves deposited in London instead of sending humanitarian aid, in an interview with the BBC.Venezuela is in the midst of an economic crisis as millions of people face shortages of basic necessities such as food and medicines.The socialist leader told the BBC, according to a transcript made public Tuesday, that his country may have gold reserves weighing 80 tons or more deposited at the Bank of Engla
  
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