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• Jordan Anchondo killed shielding her 2-month-old in El Paso, Texas shooting

  04-08-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Mother of 3, Jordan Anchondo, died in the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart while shielding her 2-month-old baby, according to her sister.
  
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• Canadian police divers search river for missing teen murder suspects

  04-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police divers are searching a river for two missing teenagers suspected of a double murder, after finding an abandoned boat on its shores.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.Authorities announced on 31 July that they were scaling back the search, which had taken officers to the remote town of Gillam in northern Manitoba.
  
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• Trump Says ‘Hate Has No Place’ in U.S. After Two Mass Killings

  04-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.In his first on-camera response to the killings, which left about 30 people dead, President Donald Trump said that “hate has no place” in the U.S.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off
  
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• Majority of House Democrats back a Trump impeachment inquiry, adding pressure to Nancy Pelosi to act

  04-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to move on impeachment of Donald Trump but it may be harder to avoid now that most Democrats support it.
  
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• Chicago shootings leave 40 shot, 3 fatally; Mt. Sinai Hospital closes emergency room

  04-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A West Side hospital is not accepting any more patients to its emergency room after a violent weekend in which 40 people were shot, three fatally, across the city.
  
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• You Probably Forgot All about These Great Performing '90s Cars

  04-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The '90s were great for semi-secret performance cars like these.From Car and Driver
  
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• Fire risks from global warming spread to wet US Northwest

  04-08-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Nestled in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires.The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major burns even as global warming has driven an increase in the size and number of wildfires elsewhere in the American West.In Issaquah and towns like it across the region, that takes a shape familiar from recent destructive California wildfires: heavy vegetation that spills into backyards
  
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• More than 175 killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• 175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• Dayton, El Paso, Gilroy and beyond: You're right to be afraid. Mass shootings are more numerous and deadly

  04-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A survey found 41% of Americans fear random mass shootings. FBI data shows a rise in shootings – and victims – so that's not an unreasonable fear.
  
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• Teen arrested after 'throwing' boy from London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested on Sunday after allegedly throwing a six-year-old boy from a tenth-floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern gallery, police said.The boy was airlifted to hospital and is in a critical condition, while the 17-year-old male suspect is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.The Tate Modern, a leading contemporary art museum on the banks of the River Thames, was initially locked down but visitors were later allowed to leave.
  
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• Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than month

  04-08-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Gulf, state media said Sunday, in what would be the third such seizure in a month amid heightened tensions with its foe the United States.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "seized this ship around Farsi Island which was carrying around 700,000 litres of smuggled fuel", said a Guards statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA.Seven foreign crew were arrested in the operation carried out on Wednesday night, said Fars news agency, which is consider
  
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• Patrick Crusius: El Paso shooting suspect fuels fears of increasing white supremacist threat

  04-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Patrick Crusius, the suspected gunman in the El Paso mass shooting, was being investigated for hate crimes on Sunday as a familiar portrait began to emerge of the alleged shooter.  Just as it was the case in a series of recent tragedies in the US, the suspect in Texas was a young, white man who had had apparently espoused racist ideology.  The attack comes amid increasing concerns about the threat of domestic terrorism associated with racism and white supremacy in the US
  
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• Republican officials point to video games after El Paso mass shooting

  04-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  After a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 20 people dead, Republican officials partially blamed the attacks of terror on violent video games.
  
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• Iran seizes third tanker and seven sailors in Persian Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran yesterday said it had captured an oil tanker and seven sailors it accused of “smuggling” fuel through the Persian Gulf to Arab states – the third such seizure in recent months.   Iranian state television reported that the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp detained the tanker, its crew and 700,000 litres of fuel on Wednesday. "The seizure of the oil tanker was in coordination with Iran's judiciary authorities and based on their order
  
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• Brazil gang leader dresses up as daughter in jail escape bid

  04-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him behind bars and walking out the penitentiary's main door in her place, authorities said Sunday.Rio's State Secretary of Prison Administration released photos showing da Silva in a silicon girl's mask and long dark-haired wig, wearing tight jeans and a pink shirt with a cartoon image of donuts.Authorities say da Silva was part of the leadership of the Red Command, one of the most powerful crimi
  
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• Alert for Pakistan villagers amid tension with India

  04-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities on Sunday asked villagers along the heavily militarised de facto Kashmir border to remain alert as tensions rose with India.The advisory came after Pakistani officials evacuated more than 50 Chinese nationals working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers.Pakistan on Sunday accused India of using cluster bombs against civilians in the same area, in Noseri sector.
  
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• Trump tweets as gun violence and white nationalist terrorism stalk America

  04-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Domestic terrorism now results in more deaths than the foreign kind but the president shows no sign of toning down his rhetoricDonald Trump takes part in a listening session on 21 February 2018 on gun violence with teachers and students after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo menaces have stalked America throughout its history. One is gun violence. The other is white supremacy. In El Paso, Texas, on Saturday they collided.A 21-year
  
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• Wife of Syria's Assad says she is free of cancer

  04-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife of Syria's president said she is "completely" free of breast cancer a year after her diagnosis, in an interview with state TV.The half-hour interview, aired late Saturday, was Asma Assad's first since she was diagnosed — a rare declaration in the Arab world, where prominent figures often conceal their ailments.It was also designed to portray a modern attitude in a region where cancer remains a taboo, and many view it as an affliction.
  
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• Nigeria security agents arrest activist for calling for revolution

  04-08-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigerian security agents arrested Omoyele Sowore, an activist, news organisation founder and former presidential candidate who was calling for revolution, the security agency said on Sunday.Sowore, a human rights activist who founded Nigerian online news organisation Sahara Reporters and ran for president as a minor candidate in the February election, was arrested by the State Security Service on Saturday.The detention comes as President Muhammadu Buhari, who won a second term in the election, f
  
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• Patrick Crusius identified as El Paso suspected shooter, sources tell ABC News

  04-08-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal authorities are treating the shooting, which "appears to be designed to intimidate a civilian population," as a case of domestic terrorism.
  
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• Like Animals review – sweet two-hander challenges limits of language

  04-08-2019 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Summerhall, Edinburgh
  With a flurry of feathers and splash of water, Kim Donohoe and Pete Lannon ask how much can ever know another creatureAt a moment when we urgently need to reassess our relationship with the natural world, an exploration of human-animal connections feels timely. Kim Donohoe and Pete Lannon’s sweet two-hander blurs the usually sharp division between human and not-human, while posing the question of how much we can ever really know another being – furry, feathered
  
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• Trial for priests accused of abusing deaf Argentine students

  04-08-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Ezequiel Villalonga signs frantically with his hands to express the power he feels after years of suffering now that the priests whom he and other former students at an Argentine institute for the deaf accuse of abuse are finally going to trial.Villalonga, 18, is one of about 20 ex-students of the Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in Mendoza province who say they were sexually abused, including cases of rape, between 2004 and 2016.The complaints at the insti
  
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• Teenager arrested after boy thrown off viewing platform at London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after reports that a young boy had been thrown from a 10th floorviewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, the police said on Sunday."A 17-year-old male had remained with members of the public on the tenth floor viewing platform," the police said.
  
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• Have your ticks left feeling out in the cold | Brief letters

  04-08-2019 18:39 via theguardian.com
  Miles Davis | Bristol | Toilets | Elgin marbles | Ticks | FestivalsRegarding Miles Davis’s 10 greatest albums as listed by John Fordham (G2, 2 August): I was surprised by the omission of the 1964 live album My Funny Valentine. The long title track, with its brooding intro, is one of Davis’s finest. When I become famous and get invited on to Desert Island Discs, this will be the track I save from the waves. I’d better get a move on.
  Geoff Lavender (aged 73)
  Chichester, West Suss
  
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• This Off-Duty Soldier Heroically Rescued Multiple Children in El Paso

  04-08-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "I wasn't focused on myself, and I wasn't focused on my surroundings ... I was just focused on those kids," Glen Oakley said
  
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• Not Even ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ From NRA—Just Boasts About Its Legislative Wins

  04-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At times like this, I pay a visit to the NRA’s website. If you’ve never looked at it, do so. As you’d expect, it’s a slick and professionally produced affair, nearly all of it devoted to boasting about the group’s successes and legislative wins. There wasn’t a word, Sunday morning, about the weekend’s carnage in El Paso and Dayton. There was, however, one piece of content that the weekend’s events turned into a macabre joke. The lead story, so
  
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• The Latest: WH says Trump 'saddened,' angry after shootings

  04-08-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Mulvaney described recent shootings as a "difficulty" facing the U.S. that "predates this administration by many, many years." He says there should be some public discussion about gun laws but also the role of social media.
  
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• Dayton Shooter Murdered Sister in Attack, Officials Say

  04-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Bryan Woolston/ReutersThe gunman who attacked a bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday morning killed his sister in the massacre, officials said.Connor Betts, 24, of Ohio was identified as the deceased gunman by authorities during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Betts killed his sister, 22-year-old Megan, and eight other people, officials added. At least 26 other people were injured.Betts opened fire outside of a bar called Ned Peppers in the city’s Oregon District, a downtown hub filled with
  
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• Iran seizes another foreign oil tanker, state media says

  04-08-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the vessel, the third detained by Iran amid U.S. tensions, of trying to smuggle oil from Iran.
  
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• Suspect sought after woman stabbed in stomach at Brooklyn subway station

  04-08-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police released video of the suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing on a subway platform in Brooklyn.
  
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• 25-Year-Old Mom 'Gave Her Life' to Shield Her 2-Month-Old: These Are the El Paso Shooting Victims

  04-08-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At least seven of the victims were Mexican nationals
  
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• What you should know about bonds: Prices riding 38-year run but won't defy gravity forever

  04-08-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what you should know about investing in bonds. Prices have headed higher for nearly four decades but the good times will eventually end
  
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• Sherrod Brown rips Republican inaction on guns

  04-08-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ohio Democrat also assails Trump for “racist, divisive talk.”
  
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• Rep. Tim Ryan: Trump has created a terrible environment on race

  04-08-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tim Ryan reacts to deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
  
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• Floating nuclear power plant to be towed across Russian Arctic despite 'Chernobyl on ice' concerns

  04-08-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The wind and rain whipped by at several feet per second as crew members stepped outside for a quick smoke, but the world's only floating nuclear power plant barely shifted in the choppy waves of the Kola bay. The length of one-and-a-half football pitches, the Academic Lomonosov looks the part as the vanguard of Russia's “nuclearification” of the Arctic, at least now that its rusty hull has been repainted in the white, red and blue of the national flag.  Later this month it
  
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• Turkey will carry out operation in northern Syria: Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out an operation east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria, in an area controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.Turkey has been running out of patience with the United States, which made an agreement with Ankara to implement a safe zone in northeastern Syria.
  
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• Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria: Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• UPDATE 3-Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria -Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• Thousands take to Hong Kong streets as Beijing says protests must stop

  04-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands again took to the streets on Sunday in Hong Kong to call for broad political changes as Beijing warned that it would not let protests persist.  A commentary run by Xinhua, China's official state news agency said the central government “will not sit idly by and let this situation continue." Two demonstrations snaked through Hong Kong, one close to China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, now heavily guarded after it was vandalised by protesters a few weeks ago.  Demons
  
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• Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorism

  04-08-2019 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the suspected gunman that could carry the death penalty.
  
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• 25-year-old mother died shielding her baby from El Paso gunman

  04-08-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A 25-year-old mother was shot dead as she shielded her baby during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. Jordan Anchondo had been shopping at Walmart for back-to-school supplies when suspected white supremacist Patrick Crusius is reported to have opened fire in the supermarket, killing 20 people and injuring dozens of others. Her sister, Leta Jamrowski, 19, told US media that Ms Anchondo appeared to have thrown herself on top of her two-month-old baby, which survive
  
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• Poll shows Germany still divided 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall

  04-08-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new poll has exposed the enduring political divisions in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has surged to first place in the former communist east, with 23 per cent support. But it has failed to make a similar breakthrough in the former west, where it is in fourth place with just 12 per cent. The figures for the Green Party, which is in second place in the national polls, are almost a mirror image of the AfD&rsqu
  
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• Russian opposition plans new protest despite over 1,000 arrests

  04-08-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections.Saturday's protest, conceived by opposition activists as a peaceful walk to protest against the exclusion of their candidates from a Moscow election next month, was systematically and sometimes violently dispersed by police.Russian investigators had initiated a c
  
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• The Latest: HK police tear gas protesters in shopping area

  04-08-2019 16:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police in Hong Kong have fired rounds of tear gas at protesters occupying a high-end shopping area.The tear gas Sunday evening beat back most of the crowd, but some protesters resisted by throwing the canisters back at officers and hurling eggs and other objects.Demonstrators debated whether they could feasibly defend the area or if they should migrate to another district, as they have been doing throughout the night.
  
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• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on impact of video games, social media on mass shootings

  04-08-2019 16:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick shares the latest from the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
  
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• PHOTOS: Ohio mass shooting leaves 10 dead including the gunman

  04-08-2019 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman wearing body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens, authorities say, in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.
  
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• El Paso congresswoman: Target not randomly chosen

  04-08-2019 15:52 via news.yahoo.com
  "The fact that this store was targeted I believe was not coincidental,“ Rep. Veronica Escobar said.
  
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• Nuon Chea: the Khmer Rouge's unrepentant revolutionary

  04-08-2019 15:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, who died Sunday aged 93, was considered the chief ideologue of the murderous Cambodian regime and a key architect of its killing machine.Once leader Pol Pot's most trusted deputy, he was arrested in September 2007 on charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity that occurred during the brutal Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 to 1979.The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia sentenced him to life in prison last year after he was fou
  
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• Riot Police Break Up Causeway Bay Protest: Hong Kong Update

  04-08-2019 15:38 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong riot police broke up protests blocking roads in Causeway Bay and fired tear gas in the popular shopping district, capping a weekend of violent demonstrations across the city that marked the ninth week of civil unrest in the Asian financial capital.Earlier Sunday, police used gas to deter hundreds of black-clad protesters, many wearing hard hats, goggles and gas masks, from approaching the China liaison office in Sai Wan.The protest movement that began as weekend marches
  
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