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• Impeachment's hectic fourth week ends. Here's what to look for next week.

  18-10-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The fourth week of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry in Congress was the busiest so far, with five different depositions, a fractious meeting of Republicans and Democrats at the White House, and a shocking press conference by President Trump’s chief of staff.
  
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• Mitch McConnell Calls Syria Withdrawal ‘Grave Strategic Mistake’

  18-10-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) lambasted the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw Troops from Syria on Friday, declaring that “America’s wars will be ‘endless’ only if America refuses to win them.”In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, McConnell — who said on Thursday that he wanted “a strong, forward-looking strategic statement” — called Trump’s withdrawal “a grave strategic mistake” th
  
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• Ex-officer who killed black man given 1-year prison sentence

  18-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, fleeing black man was sentenced to one year in prison Friday, nearly two weeks after a jury acquitted him of manslaughter charges but found him guilty of violating his oath of office.Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett in Camden County near the Georgia-Florida state line also gave Zechariah Presley four years of probation.Presley's wife said her husband was the "backbone" of their family, and their sons would be devastated if he were
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Chief drank before falling ill in car

  18-10-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago's mayor says that the police superintendent told her that he had a couple of drinks with dinner the night he later pulled over his vehicle because he felt lightheaded and fell asleep.Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells the Chicago Sun-Times that Superintendent Eddie Johnson also told her what he told the media about that he had recently changed medications and felt ill while driving home early Thursday and pulled over.Lightfoot says she has "no reason to doubt" Johnson's account of what happened,
  
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• Trump says Kurds are 'very happy' with U.S.-brokered deal and U.S. has 'taken control' of oil

  18-10-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting is continuing near the Syria-Turkey border despite a Trump administration boast it had helped broker a 'cease-fire,' Kurdish authorities say.
  
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• ANALYSIS-Lira may be Turkey's Achilles heel in Syria battle

  18-10-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's ability to sustain its military campaign in Syria may depend in part on what happens far away from the battlefield: in the foreign exchange market.The lira has long been a pinball of geopolitics and lightning rod for relations between Ankara and its Western allies, specifically Washington.Renewed pressure on the currency and attempts to stabilise it could further endanger Turkey's lean foreign currency reserves, leaving the country potentially with little room to defend the lira if sanc
  
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• AOC, Marco Rubio, and 5 more lawmakers just wrote a letter to Tim Cook calling Apple's decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters 'deeply concerning' (AAPL)

  18-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers have criticized Apple's decision to remove an app that Hong Kong protesters were using to track police activity.
  
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• What Happens Next in Ecuador

  18-10-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests erupted in Ecuador this past week. What do they mean for the country and its economy? Ian Bremmer breaks it down.
  
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• 38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

  18-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of private email and found violations by 38 people, some of whom may face disciplinary action. The investigation, launched more than three years ago, determined that those 38 people were "culpable" in 91 cases of sending classified information that ended up in Clinton's personal email, according to a letter sent to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley this week. The 38 are current and for
  
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• Former White House ethics director on Trump giving his own hotel G7 contract: ‘We have reached the bottom’

  18-10-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The former White House director to the Office of Government Ethics said “there is no level of corruption greater” than Donald Trump’s decision to host the next G7 summit at his exclusive resort in Florida.Walter Shaub, an attorney who served in the Office of Government Ethics from January 2013 to July 2017, slammed the move in a tweet posted on Thursday night.
  
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• U.S. diplomat told Congress he raised red flag about Biden and Ukraine: source

  18-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. diplomat told congressional investigators this week that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden's position with a Ukrainian energy company in 2015, only to be turned away by an aide to then-Vice President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the testimony said on Friday.Hunter Biden's role https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden-ukraine/what-hunter-biden-did-on-the-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company-burisma-idUSKBN1WX1P7 on the board of Burisma Holdings Ltd while his father was in the
  
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• Here's why this year's flu shot is painful

  18-10-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  If you got your flu shot recently, your arm likely felt as though it had been sucker-punched in the days afterward. (And if you haven’t received the vaccine yet, here’s your friendly PSA to stop putting it off.)
  
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• Lebanon Leader Threatens to Abandon Ship During Largest Protests in Years

  18-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands of protesters set fires and cut off roads across Lebanon Friday, demanding the removal of a political class whose mismanagement and corruption they say has brought the economy to the brink of bankruptcy.In a televised speech, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri gave his feuding coalition government a 72-hour deadline to get behind his plan for an economic overhaul or he would step aside and let them deal with a deepening crisis that has engulfed Lebanon in the bi
  
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• Wisconsin students walk out to protest racial slur firing

  18-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Students at a Wisconsin high school skipped class Friday and marched through the streets of the state capital to protest the firing of a black security guard who was terminated for repeating a racial slur while telling a student not to call him that word.Scores of Madison West High School students walked out of class around 10 a.m. to protest the firing.Madison Police Department officials didn't respond to The Associated Press' request for a crowd count but told the Wisconsin State Journal newsp
  
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• Next-Gen Dodge Challenger Coming in 2023? Don't Be So Sure, Says Dodge

  18-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The number 2023 spotted on press photos has people all excited, but Dodge told C/D it doesn't mean anything.
  
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• The Navy Wants to Push Out Problem SEALs. But Trump May Get in the Way.

  18-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Spiking drinks with cocaine, shooting Iraqi civilians, strangling a Green Beret: The Navy SEAL teams have been rocked by one high-profile scandal after another in recent months, and the leader of the elite commando force, Rear Adm. Collin P. Green, has vowed to clean house.Green has come down hard on misconduct, fired two key leaders and made an unusually public admission that the Navy's secretive warrior caste has an "ethics problem." At the same time, though, he has steered wide of the SEAL at
  
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• Nunes Tries to Use Steele Dossier to Defend Trump During Closed-Door Hearing

  18-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Chip Somodevilla/GettyDuring a closed-door impeachment meeting on Capitol Hill, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) brought up a topic that surprised some attendees: the Steele dossier. The context, according to three sources familiar with the episode, was his effort to explain why President Trump might be “upset” about Ukraine. Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee that is leading the impeachment probe, said some of the dossier’s contents dealt with Ukraine, a
  
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• Rep. Nunes tries to use Steele dossier to defend Trump during closed-door hearing

  18-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  During a closed-door impeachment meeting on Capitol Hill, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) brought up a topic that surprised some attendees: the Steele dossier. The context, according to three sources familiar with the episode, was his effort to explain why President Trump might be “upset” about Ukraine.
  
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• Mystery traders 'made $1.8bn from stock bet' placed hours before Trump tweeted talks with China were ‘back on track’

  18-10-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  */Unknown actors may have made billions from the turmoil Donald Trump has created in the markets through erratic tweets, shoot-from-the-hip foreign policy, and the trade war with China, according to a new report.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Hillary Clinton thinks Russia will back Tulsi Gabbard to help Trump stay in power

  18-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  “This is not some outlandish claim,” Clinton said in an interview this week. “This is reality.”
  
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• Archaeologists discover hidden city in the jungle

  18-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  For centuries, the ancient city of Mahendraparvata has been buried under a dense canopy in the Cambodian jungle. It was one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire, which controlled large swaths of Southeast Asia from the 9th to 15th centuries. Over the last 150 years, archaeologists have uncovered artifacts that they suspected came from Mahendraparvata, but they didn’t have enough evidence to support the link — until now.
  
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• Murderer who triggered Hong Kong protests will go to Taiwan: pastor

  18-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who inadvertently triggered Hong Kong's huge protests after he murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan has agreed to return to the island to face justice, a clergyman who has visited him in prison said on Friday.Chan Tong-kai, 20, is wanted in Taiwan for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend during a holiday the two Hong Kongers took there in February last year.The case triggered an ill-fated proposal by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government to ram through a sweeping extradition bill which would ha
  
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• Horse slaughter: irresponsibility and hypocrisy on all sides have brought us here

  18-10-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The public recoils, although sheep and cows are killed in identical fashion. But the racing industry has a serious case to answer too The biggest trucks at any horse sale belong to the meat dealers. At the end of the day, once those awarded a second chance have been led away, the dealers open the remaining pens and run their unlucky purchases through the saleyard to the loading ramp.Young, well-fed, well-muscled horses – such as thoroughbreds or standardbreds that have recently left the ra
  
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• Louis Vuitton x Donald Trump: the big fashion collab no one asked for

  18-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Is Louis Vuitton not worried about the threat of aligning their plastic-y, tan hides with the plastic-y tan hide in chief? Donald Trump visits the Louis Vuitton Rochambeau Ranch leather workshop in Keene, Texas. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/ReutersLouis Vuitton, the most valuable luxury brand in the world and prize pony of luxury conglomerate LVMH’s stables, has opened a Texas factory, AKA the Louis Vuitton Rochambeau Ranch. Vuitton promised the venture will provide 1,000 American jobs over
  
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• Trump administration's effort to speed removal of migrants seeking asylum headed to Supreme Court

  18-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The justices agreed to consider the administration's effort to speed up removal of thousands of migrants without adding a layer of court hearings.
  
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• Trump Administration Gets High Court Review on Quick Deportation

  18-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a Trump administration appeal that could bolster the government’s ability to deport undocumented immigrants quickly after their asylum bids are rejected.Taking up a politically charged issue, the justices said they’ll review a lower court’s conclusion that people who enter the country illegally have a broad right under the Constitution to make their case to a federal judge before being deported.The case centers on “expe
  
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• Chile shuts down capital city metro as violent protests spread

  18-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Chilean officials shut down the metro system in Santiago on Friday after demonstrators protesting recent fare hikes took to the streets and attacked subway stops, leaving widespread damage across the capital city of nearly 6 million people.Metro officials said the system would remain closed through the weekend, citing "serious destruction" that made it impossible to operate trains safely."It is one thing to demonstrate and another to commit the vandalism we have observed," President Sebastian Pi
  
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• Here's the Deadline Countdown for Every Trump Impeachment Subpoena Issued So Far

  18-10-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  We're updating this live as more subpoenas are issued
  
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• Plans pushed back to explode 2 cranes in New Orleans

  18-10-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Plans have been pushed back a day to bring down two giant, unstable construction cranes in a series of controlled explosions before they can topple onto historic New Orleans buildings, the city's fire chief said Friday, noting the risky work involved in placing explosive on the towers.Making it happen, putting people back in danger," McConnell said.Light, intermittent rain and winds were complicating efforts Friday as workers in buckets suspended from another crane worked to prepare the site, Mc
  
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• Messages reveal a top Boeing pilot knew about problems with the 737 Max's 'egregious' behavior before 2 deadly crashes (BA)

  18-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The messages, sent by the chief technical pilot on the 737 Max to another employee in 2016, showed that he knew about issues with MCAS.
  
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• Deep-sea explorers find sunken warship from key WWII battle

  18-10-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place.Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway.Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the
  
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• First Republican calls for Rick Perry to answer House subpoena

  18-10-2019 20:01 via politico.com
  Senior House Democrats say they won’t let up on their demands for documents and testimony from outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the wake of his resignation announcement — and at least one Republican agrees with them.Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) called on Perry Friday to comply with a House subpoena and cooperate with the impeachment inquiry into the Trump administration's actions in Ukraine.The secretary faces a Friday deadline to comply with the subpoena but has not said what
  
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• Income Inequality Has Soared While Taxes Have Become Dramatically Less Progressive . . . or Not

  18-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The truth gets its boots on pretty quickly in the Internet age. On October 6, the New York Times ran a piece broadcasting the striking claims made by the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in the new book The Triumph of Injustice. Just a couple of weeks later, it’s clear that these claims are built atop a foundation of often questionable and sometimes indefensible assumptions.Per Saez and Zucman, while the rich have been pulling in more and more of the nation’s income &mdash
  
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• Boeing Pilot Lied to F.A.A. Regarding 737 Max Jet

  18-10-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boeing pilot who tested the 737 Max jet in flight simulators in 2016 admitted in a series of text messages that he lied to the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the plane's performance.The text messages, reviewed by the New York Times, show that the lead technical pilot for the plane, Mark Forkner, was having trouble with an automated flight system known as MCAS. Malfunctions with MCAS caused two 737 Max jets to crash, killing a total of 346 people."It’s running rampant in t
  
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• Republican leader struggles to defend Mulvaney quid pro quo press conference remarks

  18-10-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was "very clear in cleaning up his statement" on whether President Trump floated a quid pro quo to Ukrainian leaders.
  
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• McCarthy tries to defend Mulvaney’s clarification on quid pro quo

  18-10-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  At a press conference on Friday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took several questions about White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s initial statement and clarification on whether there was a quid pro quo between the Trump administration and the president of Ukraine.
  
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• The Latest: Woman denies link to Alabama child abduction

  18-10-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman described as a person of interest in the abduction of a 3-year-old Alabama girl is denying any involvement.Attorneys for 29-year-old Derick Irisha Brown of Birmingham released a statement Friday saying she had no role in the kidnapping and hopes for the safe return of Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney.Brown and a man were arrested earlier this week after being described as persons of interest in the child's abduction from a birthday party last weekend.
  
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• Long-extinct Tasmanian tigers spotted at least eight times, officials say

  18-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. It "had black stripes on the back side of the body."
  
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• Convicted Killer Now Charged in Estranged Wife’s Cold-Case Murder: Prosecutors

  18-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia State Police/HandoutA Virginia man who is behind bars for killing his girlfriend has now been charged with the murder of his wife three decades ago, prosecutors announced Friday.Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, 53, was indicted by a Stafford County grand jury for the May 1989 murder of 28-year-old Marta Haydee Rodriguez. Rodriguez-Cruz is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for the 2009 murder of his girlfriend, Pamela Butler, who was a federal worker in Washington, D.C.During a Friday pres
  
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• Juul's announcement to suspend flavors is a cynical step that will keep kids hooked

  18-10-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Don't be fooled. The e-cigarette company clings to mint and menthol, the flavors youth like most, as the clock ticks on Trump’s proposed flavor ban.
  
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• Post-Tropical Cyclone Nestor Makes Landfall in Florida. Here's What to Know About Its Path

  18-10-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Reports of tornado damage in Florida have already emerged.
  
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• What attacked a 13-foot great white shark pulled from the ocean? One that is even bigger.

  18-10-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Ocean researchers have pulled a 13-foot-long great white shark from the seas that had bite marks from an even bigger predator.
  
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• China's Nightmare: Why Is Taiwan Building Kamikaze Drones?

  18-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A good or bad idea?
  
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• Boeing pilots' messages on 737 MAX safety raise new questions

  18-10-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boeing Cosenior pilot said he might have unintentionally misled regulators, in a series of internal messages from 2016 that became public Friday, plunging the world's largest airplane maker into a fresh crisis.The messages, first reported by Reuters, sent Boeing's shares tumbling, prompted a demand by U.S. regulators for an immediate explanation, and a new call in Congress for Boeing to shake up its management as it continues to grapple with the fallout from two fatal crashes that have grounde
  
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• Brother of Honduran president found guilty in U.S. drug trial

  18-10-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Honduran politician Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernandez was found guilty of U.S. drug trafficking charges on Friday after a two-week trial that featured dramatic accusations of corruption against his brother, the Central American nation's president.The verdict against Hernandez, 41, on all counts was handed up by a jury in federal court in Manhattan."They reached a verdict that was inconsistent with the truth," one of Hernandez's lawyers, Omar Malone, told journalists outside the courthouse.
  
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• House GOP Leader Praises Mark Zuckerberg for Political Ads Policy

  18-10-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to ban political ads that Democrats say are inaccurate drew praise from the top Republican in the House of Representatives Friday.Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said he appreciated Zuckerberg’s comments on Thursday that policing political speech would be undemocratic.“The idea of banning speech you might not like is nonsense, but sadly the mindset is creeping into places like c
  
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• At tense congressional hearing, Democrats argue for expanding the Voting Rights Act

  18-10-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid what experts are calling a surge in voter suppression measures, Democrats are sending a clear signal they want to restore portions of the Voting Rights Act that were removed by the Supreme Court in 2013, as well as expand the law’s reach.
  
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• Ethiopia Ruling Coalition to Shake Up Decision-Making Structures

  18-10-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s ruling coalition plans to overhaul of its decision-making structures and to tear-up its ideology of three decades, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s part of the alliance said.The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, is a former rebel movement made up of four ethnically-based regional parties -- including Abiy’s Oromo Democratic Party -- and five affiliated regional parties.The ODP announced the plans Frid
  
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• Syria Truce Shaky as Erdogan, Kurds Disagree on What It Means

  18-10-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Kurdish fighters say they have no intention of withdrawing from Syria’s entire northeastern border -- but that’s exactly what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects to happen under the cease-fire accord brokered by the U.S. on Thursday.The conflicting interpretations point to the fragility of the five-day truce deal, which is already being tested with reports of continuing skirmishes between Turkish forces and Syria’s Kurdish YPG militia, which is part of
  
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• Suspect in Case Behind Unrest to Surrender: Hong Kong Update

  18-10-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong protesters flooded the city’s streets again on Friday and police banned a large pro-democracy march planned for Sunday, as the Asian financial hub prepared for yet another weekend of unrest. Meanwhile, the suspect in a Taiwan murder case that sparked Hong Kong’s crisis agreed to surrender himself.Protesters are seeking to keep the pressure on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam with a 20th-straight weekend of demonstrations. Earlier this week, Lam was twice
  
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