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• Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris

  16-06-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris.
  
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• New York subways celebrate Pride Month with new 'Pride Trains' and MetroCards

  16-06-2019 23:32 via cnn.com
  To mark 50 years since the Stonewall uprising, New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority has put its own Pride logos on 50 train cars across the city.
  
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• Home intruder suspect thwarted by 11-year-old with machete arrested, police say

  16-06-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man accused of entering a North Carolina home on Friday before being thwarted by an 11-year-old with a machete has been taken into custody, police say.
  
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• Ginger Spice is sorry for 'being a brat' and leaving the Spice Girls

  16-06-2019 23:19 via cnn.com
  The Spice Girls have hinted that their sell-out reunion tour will travel to Australia early next year, after Mel B made a surprise announcement during the group's final performance at London's Wembley Stadium Saturday evening.
  
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• YouTuber comes out as gay in video

  16-06-2019 23:09 via cnn.com
  Eugene Lee Yang, a popular YouTuber of "Try Guys" fame, released a video during Pride Month to announce he is gay.
  
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• Most Americans want Trump to comply with House subpoenas. But impeach him? Not so fast

  16-06-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds those views aren't partisan.
  
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• Trump campaign to fire multiple pollsters after unflattering numbers leak

  16-06-2019 23:03 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's campaign says it will fire several pollsters after internal polling numbers that showed the President lagging behind Democratic presidential candidates in key states were made public, according to two campaign officials.
  
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• UK PM front-runner Johnson pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025

  16-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, the front-runner to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, pledged on Sunday to "end the digital divide" in Britain with the rollout of full fiber broadband by 2025.Using his column in the Telegraph newspaper, Johnson, who was criticized for missing the first television debate on Sunday with the other contenders for Conservative Party leader, said he would speed up the rollout of full fiber broadband."The government has just set a new target for the 100 per cent roll-out of full fibe
  
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• NASA spacecraft is orbiting closer to an asteroid than ever before

  16-06-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  In the dark and lonely place that is space, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has managed to reach a new level of proximity as it studies an asteroid.
  
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• North Macedonia police detain 50 migrants within days

  16-06-2019 23:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Police in North Macedonia say they apprehended 50 Europe-bound migrants who allegedly entered the country from Greece.
  
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• Mexico detains 791 migrants, including 368 children under eight

  16-06-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A total of 791 Central American migrants, including 368 children under the age of eight, have been detained in the Mexican state of Veracruz, officials said Sunday.The detentions of the migrants, who were being transported hidden in four trailers, were carried out at two points, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.While the total age breakdown of the migrants remains unclear, a source speaking on condition of anonymity earlier on Sunday told AFP 270 of the migrants are six or se
  
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• Miriwoong: The Australian language which barely anybody speaks

  16-06-2019 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia has about 100 indigenous languages at risk of being lost - so how do you save them?
  
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• Trump's Iran problem: he's blown America's credibility

  16-06-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  Sowing mistrust has consequences. President Donald Trump has sown mistrust by questioning his own intelligence community, withdrawing from critical international coalitions and spreading disdain for the media.
  
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• Samantha Vinograd: Trump's Iran problem -- he's blown America's credibility

  16-06-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  Sowing mistrust has consequences. President Donald Trump has sown mistrust by questioning his own intelligence community, withdrawing from critical international coalitions and spreading disdain for the media.
  
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• Mike Pence Is Not Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Successor

  16-06-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  It isn’t too soon to start thinking about who will succeed Donald Trump. Win or lose in 2020, attention will quickly turn to who might pick up his populist/nationalist mantle. The question is broader than who will be the GOP presidential nominee four years hence. Who will lead and shape the conservative movement in the future?It is easier to say who should not try to step into the president’s place: Vice President Mike Pence.He is a “good guy,” as former vice president Jo
  
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• Trump Should Grant Georgia an Exemption from Steel Tariffs

  16-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the defining features of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his administration’s use of national-security tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. The controversial tariffs have plenty of detractors, both domestic and international, while supporters justify their legitimacy and effectiveness. However, specifically regarding the 25 percent tariff on steel imports, the tool has caused a great deal of collateral damage. A clear example of this is the country of Georg
  
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• Boy stops home intruder with machete blow to head, but suspect escapes from hospital

  16-06-2019 22:33 via cnn.com
  Hours after a young North Carolina boy thwarted a home invasion with a machete to the back of his head, the 19-year-old suspect walked out of a hospital and got away, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Massive Protests Force Apology From Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam for Divisive Extradition Bill

  16-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Massive Protests Force Apology From Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam for Divisive Extradition Bill
  
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• Deutsche Bank to set up 50 billion euro bad bank: FT

  16-06-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  With the creation of the bad bank, Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is shifting the German lender away from investment banking and focusing on transaction banking and private wealth management, the newspaper said.The bank is planning cuts at its U.S. equities business, including prime brokerage and equity derivatives, to win over shareholders unhappy about its performance, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in May."As we said at the AGM on May 23, Deutsche Bank is working
  
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• Israel PM's wife convicted of misusing public funds

  16-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An Israeli court Sunday convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraudulently using state funds for meals, under a plea bargain which dropped more severe charges.While the ruling cut short a high-profile trial, the Netanyahu family's legal woes are far from over: the veteran premier himself faces possible indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the coming months.In a deal approved by judge Avital Chen at Jerusalem magistrates' court, Sara Netanyahu was found guilty
  
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• Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay left completely without power

  16-06-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  A "massive failure" in an electrical interconnection system has left Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay completely without power, a utility distributor said Sunday.
  
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• Trump calls newspaper report on Russia power grid 'treason'

  16-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a "virtual act of treason" for a story that said the U.S. was ramping up its cyber-intrusions into Russia's power grid.The Times reported on Saturday that the U.S. has bored into Russian utility systems in an escalating campaign meant to deter future cyber activity by Russia.It comes as the U.S. looks for new ways to punish Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and prevent a recurrence.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• Trump campaign fires some of its pollsters after leaks show poor numbers for the president

  16-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump was trailing Biden by double digits in the key swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, according to leaked numbers.
  
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• Istanbul candidates clash on TV before election test for Erdogan

  16-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Istanbul's mayoral candidates argued over the election they contested in March and their policy plans in a rare televised debate on Sunday, a week before a re-run vote seen as a test of Turkish democracy and President Tayyip Erdogan's AK party.In the first debate of its kind in Turkey in nearly two decades, AKP candidate Binali Yildirim faced the opposition's Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the initial vote in March but was ousted from city hall when the result was annulled in May.Yildirim, a former pri
  
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• Tory Rivals Clash as Johnson Dodges TV Debate: Brexit Update

  16-06-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Key DevelopmentsDominic Raab sparred with rivals over his threat to suspend Parliament in order to get Britain out of the EU with no dealRaab, Rory Stewart, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid took part in the first television debate on Channel 4 Cabinet minister Amber Rudd warned Parliament will find a way to stop a no-deal Brexit, and rebel Tories could vote to topple the next PM YouGov/Sunday Times Poll put Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in lead on 24%, with Conservatives and Labour
  
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• US women set another World Cup record

  16-06-2019 20:58 via cnn.com
  It may have received some criticism for the ruthless dismantling of Thailand in its opening game at the Women's World Cup but the USWNT was in no mood to go easy on Chile.
  
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• US sets another World Cup record and moves on to last 16

  16-06-2019 20:58 via cnn.com
  It may have received some criticism for the ruthless dismantling of Thailand in its opening game at the Women's World Cup but the USWNT was in no mood to go easy on Chile.
  
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• Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border

  16-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants.Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants.
  
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• Hong Kong leader apologises as rally chokes city

  16-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  About two million protesters choked Hong Kong's streets in a powerful rebuke of a reviled extradition law, organisers said Sunday, piling pressure on the city's embattled pro-Beijing leader who apologised for causing "conflict" but refused to step down.Throngs of largely black-clad protesters snaked their way for miles through the streets to the city's parliament -- with the organisers' estimate for the crowd size doubling an already record-breaking demonstration the previous Sunday in the city
  
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• As Battle for Tripoli Rages, Libyan Premier Demands New Dialogue

  16-06-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fayez Al-Sarraj, in a press briefing Sunday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, proposed the conference be held with the help of the United Nations and that it decide on a road map for elections to take place in 2019.Sarraj’s overture came after the UN’s Libya envoy, Ghassan Salame, said Security Council members that include the U.S., Russia and France now agree that the violence that’s killed more than 600 people and displaced tens of thousands since April must stop.Haftar’s
  
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• Incredible aerial footage shows scope of massive protests

  16-06-2019 19:58 via cnn.com
  For days, Hong Kong residents have been protesting a controversial China extradition bill, hoping for it to be withdrawn permanently. Consequently, some protesters also want Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to step down.
  
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• The Latest: Edesur: Power restored to 1.5 million Argentines

  16-06-2019 19:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on the blackout in Argentina and Uruguay (all times local): 2:45 p.m. Argentine energy company Edesur says that electricity has been restored to more than 1.5 million people.
  
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• Ex-Tehran mayor to face trial over wife's killing

  16-06-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tehran mayor and prominent reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi will stand trial next month on charges of murdering his wife, the government-run Iran newspaper said Sunday.Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad on May 28 at their home in northern Tehran, according to Iranian media."On July 1, the first trial session of Mohammad Ali Najafi, former Tehran mayor, will be held at Tehran's Criminal Court," the Iran daily reported.
  
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• Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• Jon Stewart Shames Mitch McConnell for Failing 9/11 First Responders on ‘Fox News Sunday’

  16-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  “We don’t want to be here,” Jon Stewart told the handful of lawmakers who showed up to watch him plea for an extension of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund last week. The former host of The Daily Show likely didn’t want to be on Fox News Sunday this Father’s Day either, but there he was making his case to Chris Wallace.Given the subject matter, it was an understandably serious interview. However, there was one fleeting moment of levity when Wallace noted tha
  
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• Donald Trump declares report of US cyber actions against Russian grid an 'act of treason'

  16-06-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has erupted in fury after it was reported that America has laid the groundwork for a potentially devastating cyber attack on Russia's electric grid, describing the article as a “virtual act of treason”. According to a three month investigation by the New York Times, increasingly sophisticated malware has been embedded in the Russian electricity system which could be activated to plunge the country into darkness in the event of a major confrontation. The president yesterd
  
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• Nearly 1,000 greyhound racing dogs died last year in England, welfare groups call to end sport

  16-06-2019 19:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nearly 1,000 greyhound racing dogs either died or were killed last year in England, leading animal welfare charities to call for an end to the sport in the United Kingdom.
  
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• US weighing military options against Iran, Pompeo confirms

  16-06-2019 19:14 via cnn.com
  • Buttigieg: One of the Iraq war architects now has Trump's ear, and it's concerning
  
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• Pompeo on Iran: US considering range of options including military

  16-06-2019 19:14 via cnn.com
  • Buttigieg: This feels a lot like Iraq run-up
  • MBS blames Iran for tanker attacks
  
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• Moscow warns against 'baseless accusations' over tanker attacks

  16-06-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  "We always urge a sober appraisal of the situation and to wait for more or less convincing evidence to appear," Peskov said on Russian television, extracts of which were published by the RIA Novosti news agency.A Japanese and a Norwegian oil tanker were targeted in attacks on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman.
  
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• Ross Downplays Prospect of Major Trade Deal at Trump-Xi Meeting

  16-06-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed the prospect of a major trade deal emerging from a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, this month.“I think the most that will come out of the G-20 might be an agreement to actively resume talks,” Ross said in an interview Sunday with the Wall Street Journal from Paris, where he was attending the Paris Air Show.Talks between China and the U.S. broke off in
  
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• Husband of detained aid worker goes on hunger strike outside Iranian embassy

  16-06-2019 18:59 via cnn.com
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband has begun a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London, in solidarity with his wife who started her third prison hunger strike in Iran on Saturday.
  
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• Istanbul mayoral candidates to face off in rare debate

  16-06-2019 18:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The two leading contenders for Istanbul mayor are set to face off in a debate a week before a repeated city election.
  
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• Massive power cut hits Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

  16-06-2019 18:47 via cnn.com
  A "massive failure" in an electrical interconnection system has left Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay completely without power, a utility distributor said Sunday.
  
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• New poll shows Trump trailing Biden and four other Democrats

  16-06-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic contenders as early campaigning for the 2020 election begins to gain steam.A separate survey of battleground states, by CBS, shows Democrats strongly favor Biden as the candidate most likely to beat Trump in next year's elections.The Fox poll showed Biden leading Trump by 49 percent to 39 percent among all registered voters nationwide, while Sen
  
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• Netanyahu unveils 'Trump Heights' in the Golan Heights as critics slam move as PR stunt

  16-06-2019 18:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Trump name found on apartment towers, hotels and golf courses now graces a tiny Jewish settlement in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
  
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• Paris zoo gives orangutan Nenette a 50th birthday party

  16-06-2019 18:33 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nenette, one of the world's oldest Borneo orangutans in captivity, has celebrated her 50th birthday at a zoo in Paris, where she has lived almost all her life.
  
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• AOC's New York office building broken into by man who sprayed police with fire extinguisher

  16-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in New York City broke into an office building where representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has offices, before spraying police with a fire extinguisher and hiding in a utility closet.The trespassing occurred on Saturday afternoon, when the office was closed and the liberal firebrand was in Washington.The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said the individual was taken to a nearby hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Officials also said the man was emotionally disturbed.“No one
  
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• Boeing CEO concedes 'mistake' with planes in 2 fatal crashes

  16-06-2019 18:22 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The CEO of Boeing says the company made a "mistake" in handling a problematic cockpit warning system in 737 Max jets before two deadly crashes of the top-selling plane.
  
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