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• UPDATE 2-Ukraine must investigate Joe Biden's son, says ex-Ukrainian PM

  28-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/KIEV, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring.Hunter Biden's role in the company, Burisma Holdings Limited, is in focus after the White House released a memo showing U.S. President Donald Trump asked hi
  
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• Houston Shaken by ‘Cold-Blooded’ Killing of Pioneer Sikh Sheriff’s Deputy

  28-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Harris County Sheriff's Office/TwitterSheriff’’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal gained national attention in 2015 when the Harris County Sheriff’s Office allowed him to become one of first Sikhs in the country to wear a traditional turban and keep his beard long in accordance with his faith. His death on Friday, at the hands of a wanted fugitive who allegedly shot him in cold blood in the back of the head following a routine traffic stop, has shaken the Houston area.Residents staged a
  
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• Yemen Rebels Says They've Captured Many Saudi Soldiers in Attack

  28-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they captured many Saudi soldiers and officers in a large operation near the border between the two countries on Saturday, shortly after the kingdom agreed to a limited ceasefire with the Iranian-backed group.If true, the escalation will likely deal a blow to efforts to end a war that’s killed thousands and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Saudi Arabia mobilized a military coalition in 2015 to back Yemen’
  
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• Yemen Rebels Say They've Captured Many Saudi Soldiers in Attack

  28-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they captured many Saudi soldiers and officers in a large operation near the border between the two countries on Saturday, shortly after the kingdom agreed to a limited ceasefire with the Iranian-backed group.If true, the escalation will likely deal a blow to efforts to end a war that’s killed thousands and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Saudi Arabia mobilized a military coalition in 2015 to back Yemen’
  
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• French police break up yellow vest protest with tear gas

  28-09-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse.Police there said four officers were slightly injured and nine demonstrators arrested for offences including throwing projectiles.A police statement in Toulouse said officers made five arrests after being targeted by missiles thrown by some of the protesters.
  
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• Clinton's White House Faced Impeachment With Discipline. Trump's Approach Is Different.

  28-09-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The last time Congress tried to impeach a president, the White House chief of staff had one rule: No one who wasn't working directly on impeachment, including the president himself, was ever allowed to talk about it.John D. Podesta, President Bill Clinton's wiry, uber-disciplined chief of staff, delivered the message during a senior staff meeting. White House staffers were supposed to stay in their lanes, doing their jobs, or risk being fired. Any water cooler discussion about the
  
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• Princeton grad who killed dad after his $1k weekly allowance was cut gets 30 years to life

  28-09-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Thomas Gilbert Jr. was convicted three months ago of shooting his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr., a wealthy hedge fund manager.
  
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• Trailblazing Texas deputy who was first local Sikh officer 'ruthlessly' killed during traffic stop

  28-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, the county's first Sikh officer, was killed Friday during a traffic stop near Houston. Police have arrested Robert Solis.
  
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• Meghan Markle Privately Visited a Memorial to Murdered 19-Year-Old South African Student Uyinene Mrwetyana

  28-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Her death launched a wave of outrage and protests
  
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• Iran releases photo of Khamenei with Hezbollah chief

  28-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has released a "never before seen" photo of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.The three men are shown in front of what appears to be a door covered by a curtain and surrounded by shelves stacked with books -- decor associated with Khamenei's Tehran office.
  
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• Man yelling over Puerto Rican flag shirt convicted of hate crimes

  28-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago man who was seen last year in a viral video berating a woman in a city park for wearing a T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag was convicted this week of two felony hate crime charges.
  
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• A US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworld

  28-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A cursory look at the Russian website iMGSRC.ru reveals a horrific underworld of shared photos of children.
  
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• Elk knocks down woman, butts her with antlers at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado | VIDEO

  28-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A bull charged at people, knocked a woman down and repeatedly butted her with its antlers.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani claims he's 'the real whistleblower' and that no one will know the real story on Trump and Ukraine 'if I get killed'

  28-09-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Giuliani told Politico he believes he deserves whistleblower protection, but his attempts to defend himself have only further incriminated him.
  
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• U.S. and Nazi Soldiers Joined Forces for One World War II Battle

  28-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A strange time.
  
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• Stormy Daniels wins $450,000 over strip-club arrest

  28-09-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with President Trump before he took office, has won $450,000 in a legal settlement with the city of Columbus, Ohio, over her arrest last year at a strip club, officials said Friday.
  
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• Report: Arson suspect set fires before attending reunion

  28-09-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspected arsonist traveled from Missouri to Northern California to set more than a dozen wildfires before attending his 50th high school reunion, a newspaper reported Saturday.A former classmate told the San Jose Mercury News that Freddie Owen Graham appeared happy at the party on Sept. 21.Graham, a Milpitas, California-native who has lived in the Kansas City area for the past three decades, didn't seem troubled or upset, Rich Santoro said.
  
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• US rejects Iran FM hospital visit unless American freed

  28-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit the country's ambassador in a US hospital if Tehran releases a detained American citizen."Foreign Minister Zarif would like to visit a colleague who is in the hospital receiving world-class care.Iran has wrongfully detained several US citizens for years, to the pain of their families and friends they cannot freely visit," a State Department spokesperson told AFP.
  
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• It's unclear if Republican senators would be able to stall an impeachment trial

  28-09-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A potential Senate impeachment trial is a long way away, but there is already some speculation that, if the House does wind up voting to impeach President Trump after launching an inquiry, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could deploy some stall tactics, Politico reports.McConnell has said in the past that the Senate would have "no choice" to hold a trial if Trump were ever impeached, but not everyone is convinced. For starters, there is some disagreement over whether the Senate is
  
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• Greta Thunberg marches in Montreal for global climate protests

  28-09-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The 16-year-old Swede met privately with Trudeau but later told a news conference with local indigenous leaders that he was "not doing enough" to curb greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.Thunberg generated headlines around the world earlier this week with her viral so-called "How Dare You?" speech at the UN climate summit, accusing world leaders of betraying her generation.
  
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• Huge tanker blast sparks fire injuring 18 in South Korea

  28-09-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A huge blast on an oil tanker in a South Korean port Saturday sparked a raging fire that spread to a nearby vessel, leaving 18 people injured, authorities said.All 25 of those on board the Cayman Islands-flagged tanker and the 21 people on the second ship have been rescued, according to the Coast Guard.
  
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• Ivory Coast Leader Wants to Hand Over Power to New Generation

  28-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is in favor of “handing over to the new generation” in next year’s presidential polls, but did not rule out running in the election.The 78-year-old, who has just over a year left of his second term in office, was addressing reporters in his hometown of Dimbroko after a four-day visit to the surrounding region.Ouattara addressed plans to amend the constitution to include an age limit for presidential hopefuls, saying “
  
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• Zimbabwe's Mugabe buried in home village, ending an era

  28-09-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's founding leader Robert Mugabe was buried on Saturday in his home village of Kutama, ending a dispute between his family and the government of his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his final resting place.Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years from independence in 1980 but was a polarizing figure idolized by some for his role in the country's liberation struggle and hated by others for ruining a promising nation through disastrous economic policies and repression against opponent
  
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• Iowa reporter who exposed charity fundraiser's historic racist tweets  fired for his own offensive posts

  28-09-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iowa newspaper reporter who exposed racist tweets by a charity fundraiser has found himself out of a job after his own offensive posts were uncovered.  Aaron Calvin, a journalist for the Des Moines Register, began looking into sports fan Carson King when his jovial plea for beer money turned into a national fundraiser for a children's hospital. But his profile of Mr King led to a public backlash and the newspaper was forced to hire extra security after receiving threats. Public scrutiny
  
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• Texas officer who made headlines for his turban and beard killed in traffic stop

  28-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal was one of the first to wear the traditional Sikh articles of faith as part of his uniformSandeep Singh Dhaliwal, center, a Harris county sheriff’s deputy, was known as a trailblazer for being one of the first to wear a turban and beard as part of his uniform.Photograph: Jon Shapley/APA Texas police officer who made headlines for being one of the first to wear traditional articles of faith as part of his uniform was killed during a routine traffic stop on Friday.Sand
  
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• Robert Mugabe buried in private ceremony after weeks of drama over former Zimbabwean leader's resting place

  28-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was buried on Saturday in his rural home village of Kutama in a private farewell for one of Africa’s most divisive figures. Mugabe died in a Singapore hospital on September 6, aged 95, almost two years after a military coup ended his despotic 37-year rule.   A weeks-long dispute with the administration that forced him from power had caused some uncertainty over the former leader's resting place.  His coffin, drape
  
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• US Department of Justice supports Indianapolis Archdiocese in firing of gay teacher

  28-09-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department filed a statement saying the First Amendment protects the right of the Archdiocese to apply Catholic doctrine.
  
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• Legal setback for Trump administration plan to speed some deportations

  28-09-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to set aside a plan that would make more people vulnerable to expedited deportation until a court can rule on the matter.The lawsuit, filed by WeCount! and other immigration advocates, asked a Washington court to overturn a plan making undocumented people eligible for deportation without court oversight unless they could prove they had been in the country more than two years.
  
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• Texas county's first Sikh deputy slain in shooting; Man charged

  28-09-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A sheriff's deputy, described as "a trailblazer" because he was his county's first Sikh deputy when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston.
  
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• Trump's Ukraine call sparks new questions over intelligence chief's firing

  28-09-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The president removed Dan Coats days after his conversation with Zelenskiy and insisted that Coats’s deputy not get the jobDan Coats, seen in 2018, reportedly interrupted a meeting to convince his deputy to resign. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesThree days after his now infamous phone conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Trump abruptly fired his director of national intelligence in favour of an inexperienced political loyalist.According to a New York
  
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• Princeton graduate got 30 years to life for murdering father after his allowance was cut

  28-09-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Shelley Gilbert asked the judge for "as light a sentence as possible" so her son could receive treatment for a variety of his mental health struggles.
  
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• Julian Assange ‘subjected to every kind of torment’ in Belmarsh prison as he awaits extradition

  28-09-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of Julian Assange has said the WikiLeaks founder is “being subjected to every sort of torment” at Belmarsh prison as he awaits the hearing that could see him extradited to the US.The whistleblower who is being held alongside some of the UK’s most infamous criminals ahead of his extradition hearing in February, could face a maximum prison sentence of 175 years under charges laid down by Washington.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Yemen's Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation

  28-09-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement said on Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there was no immediate confirmation from Saudi Arabian authorities.The Houthis' military spokesman said in a statement that three "enemy military brigades had fallen" in the attack, which he said was launched 72 hours ago and supported by the group's drone, missile and air defence units.
  
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• Largest captive alligator in US spends goes missing in Storm Imelda floods at height of hunting season

  28-09-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Some people can’t sleep if they know there’s a spider in their house.Imagine being in Beaumont, Texas, and thinking that the largest alligator ever caught in the United States was on the loose.
  
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• Man Who Berated Woman Over T-Shirt With Puerto Rican Flag Is Convicted of Hate Crimes

  28-09-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago man who was seen last year in a widely viewed video berating a woman in a city park for wearing a T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag was convicted this week of two felony hate crime charges.A Cook County jury found the man, Timothy Trybus, 63, guilty Wednesday after deliberating for 3 1/2 hours at the 2nd Municipal District Skokie Courthouse in Skokie, Illinois.Trybus could face up to five years in prison on Oct. 21, when he is sentenced for his role in the June 14, 2018, episode, in w
  
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• Yemen's Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation

  28-09-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement said on Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there was no immediate confirmation from Saudi Arabian authorities.The Houthis' military spokesman said in a statement that three "enemy military brigades had fallen" in the attack, which he said was launched 72 hours ago and supported by the group's drone, missile and air defense units.Houthi-run Al Masirah TV quoted the s
  
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• Clashes as Hong Kong marks five years since 'Umbrella' protests

  28-09-2019 16:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Renewed clashes broke out in Hong Kong Saturday night as police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hardcore protesters hurling Molotovs and bricks after tens of thousands rallied peacefully in a nearby park.Huge crowds had gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the "Umbrella Movement", the failed pro-democracy campaign that laid the groundwork for the massive protests currently engulfing the finance hub.Tens of thousands crammed into a park outside the city's parliament, the same site
  
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• Winterlike storm unleashing feet of snow, life-threatening conditions in northwestern US

  28-09-2019 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  See a photos recap of the snowstorm by clicking here. * * *Snow will continue to pile up and roadways will remain treacherous for travel as a storm unleashes an early winter blast in the northwestern United States through Sunday.Winter weather advisories, winter storm warnings and/or high wind warnings were in effect for all five states in the northwestern United States as the snowstorm began to take shape on Saturday.Forecasters warned that the early wintry blast could be "historic" for the Nor
  
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• The 50 most miserable cities in America

  28-09-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Based on US census data, we've ranked the most miserable cities across the country. Here are the 50 most miserable.
  
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• Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush seek refuge from Trump impeachment storm

  28-09-2019 15:30 via news.yahoo.com
  * Maine event salutes education summit under George HW Bush* Bush draws laughs by doubting Trump’s attention spanBill Clinton and Jeb Bush at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APAs an impeachment storm raged in Washington, former president Bill Clinton and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, son and brother to presidents, sought calmer waters in Maine.The two men appeared together at the University of New England in Biddeford on Friday, to mark th
  
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• Hong Kong protesters say they're prepared to fight for democracy 'until we win or we die'

  28-09-2019 15:18 via news.yahoo.com
  "We'd rather die in the fight then slowly suffocate to death after we lose the fight," one protester told Business Insider.
  
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• Senate Republicans have barely challenged Trump over Ukraine. Don't expect them to turn against him in an impeachment trial.

  28-09-2019 15:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Barring more significant revelations, GOP senators are unlikely to support impeaching President Donald Trump,
  
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• Analysis: To combat Islamophobia, Khan bridges East and West

  28-09-2019 15:07 via news.yahoo.com
  He spoke of Islam — his religion — but he used references like Charles Bronson's "Death Wish" movie, Monty Python and Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II. He built linguistic and pop-culture bridges as he carefully made his points.Pakistan's enigmatic prime minister, Imran Khan, effortlessly projected his East-meets-West brand from the podium of the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, wearing a navy blazer over a traditional shalwar kameez as he attempted to explain the dangers
  
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• UPDATE 1-Police impose restrictions in Indian Kashmir after Pakistan PM's speech

  28-09-2019 14:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Indian Kashmir tightened restrictions onpeople's movements on Saturday to prevent possible protests following a speech by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Khan warned of a bloodbath once India lifts its restrictions in Kashmir, which have been in force since it revoked the region's decades-old autonomy in August and detained thousands of people.Soon after the speech, hundreds of Kashmiris came out of their homes, s
  
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• How Ukraine envoy's resignation could affect his possible Congressional testimony

  28-09-2019 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Kurt Volker, the State Department's special envoy for Ukraine, resigned Friday amid a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump and his communications with the Ukrainian government, including the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Volker did not provide a public explanation for leaving his post, but a source familiar with his decision said Volker concluded he could not perform the job effectively as a result of the recent developments.One person familiar with the matter told NBC News t
  
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• Are humans preventing flies from eavesdropping?

  28-09-2019 14:27
  Soundscapes may influence the evolution of tightly co-evolved host-parasitoid relationships. Both traffic noise and natural ocean noise were found to inhibit parasitoid Ormia fly orientation to sound, which affects reproduction of the fly and survival of the cricket host.
  
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• 2030 Armageddon: If America And China Went All Out, The World Would End?

  28-09-2019 13:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Let's hope that doesn't happen.
  
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• Malaysia PM says can't provoke Beijing on South China Sea, Uighur issue

  28-09-2019 13:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Malaysia does not want to take a confrontational stance toward China over the disputed South China Sea and Beijing's alleged mistreatment of its minority Uighur Muslims, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview published on Saturday.Malaysia is too small to face up to the Asian powerhouse, even though Chinese ships surveying its waters for oil and gas in South China Sea do so without permission, he told an online news service during a visit to New York this week."We watch what they a
  
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• Meghan visits memorial to murdered South African woman

  28-09-2019 13:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has visited a memorial to a young South African woman whose rape and murder inspired thousands of people to protest the country's high rate of sexual violence.In a quiet stop during a royal tour, Meghan tied a ribbon to the memorial at the post office where 19-year-old university student Uyinene Mrwetyana was attacked last month.A post on the royals' Instagram account called the death "a critical point in the future of women's rights in South Africa" and said the v
  
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• Riot Police Stand By as Demonstrators Gather: Hong Kong Update

  28-09-2019 12:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong riot police stood guard at rail stations as protesters gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of 2014’s Occupy demonstrations with a mass rally, just days before China celebrates 70 years of Communist Party rule.Beijing’s critics are entering their 17th week of protests, and Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday took blame for the “entire unrest” that has rocked the city since June in a bid to calm tensions. Even largely peaceful gatherings have
  
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