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• Ethiopia says army to take over security in troubled south

  22-07-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopia announced Monday that soldiers and federal police will take over security in a restive southern region following days of violence that has left at least 18 people dead."The regular security structure has been unable to ensure rule of law and has been stymied by various agendas," said a statement read on regional state television late Monday.The unrest stems from efforts by the Sidama ethnic group, the largest in the southern region, to establish a new semi-autonomous state - a project t
  
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• More officer diversity won't cut racial disparity in US police shootings – study

  22-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Research found as percentage of black officers who fired in fatal shootings increased, the citizen shot was more likely to be blackThe report also found that of all the shootings analysed, in 56% of fatal officer-involved shootings a single officer fired their weapon. Photograph: Eric Thayer/ReutersIncreasing the diversity of America’s police officers will not necessarily cut racial disparities in fatal police shootings, according to a new study which claims that race-specific crime rates
  
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• Widespread blackout hits Venezuela, government blames 'electromagnetic attack'

  22-07-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  It was the first blackout to include the capital, Caracas, since March, when the government blamed the opposition and United States for a series of power outages that left millions of people without running water and telecommunications.The blackouts exacerbated an economic crisis that has halved the size of the economy.Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said the outage on Monday was caused by an "electromagnetic attack," without providing evidence.
  
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• Tropical depression forms in the Bahamas, expected to bring rain to Florida

  22-07-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The depression is expected to remain weak, with its primary impact being about 1-3 inches of rain across eastern Florida on Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Hospital sued over school principal's death

  22-07-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A hospital sued by the family of a New Jersey high school principal who died after a procedure to donate blood marrow to an anonymous French teenager says it is saddened by the tragic death.Hackensack University Medical Center is a defendant in the suit filed by the fiancee and family of Derrick Nelson, who fell into a coma in February and died in April.A spokeswoman for Hackensack Meridian Health says the hospital isn't commenting on the lawsuit but says it has been in touch with Nelson's famil
  
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• NASA Finally Completes the Orion Crew Capsule

  22-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA hopes the capsule will take astronauts back to the Moon, and Mars after that.
  
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• 'Triad' attack on Hong Kong protesters sparks anger

  22-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  An assault on pro-democracy protesters by suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded sparked a firestorm of outrage in Hong Kong on Monday, in a dramatic escalation of political turmoil plaguing the Chinese city.Footage broadcast live on Facebook showed people screaming as the assailants beat multiple protesters and journalists in a subway station and in trains carriages, leaving pools of blood on the floor.
  
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• Here’s the clearest evidence yet of why Huawei can’t be trusted, and it involves North Korea

  22-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Up to this point, Huawei has made a valiant effort at defending its reputation against a US-led opposition campaign that's stoked fears the company is basically a proxy for the Chinese central government and security apparatus. Pressed to defend its actions and ban of the company's products, the Trump campaign has offered up a kind of pre-emptive war defense -- that just the threat alone justifies the actions taken. That's the same sentiment former US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge shared
  
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• Correction: Sunken Warship story

  22-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story July 18 about divers finding a sunken U.S. Navy ship off Maine coast, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the Navy, erroneously reported the last U.S. warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II. It was the USS Frederick C. Davis, not the USS Eagle PE-56.CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — A private dive team has located one of the last U.S. Navy warships to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles (kilometers) off the coast of M
  
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• Mother: Family will sue cruise company over toddler's death

  22-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  There are "a million things" the cruise company could have done to prevent the death of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico, the toddler's mother said in an interview broadcast Monday. Michael Winkleman, the family's attorney, has challenged a Puerto Rico police report that says Chloe Wiegand's grandfather dropped the toddler out of a window July 7th when the Freedom of the Seas was docked in Puerto Rico.
  
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• Rep. Rashida Tlaib Calls For $20 An Hour Minimum Wage

  22-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib called for a federal minimum wage of up to $20 an hour at a “One Fair Wage” event in Detroit on Sunday.“Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15. Now I think it should be $20 … It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour,” Tlaib said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday.Tlaib and Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell participated in an event called “Server for an Hour&rdq
  
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• Fox News’ Shep Smith Grills Embattled Puerto Rico Governor: Can You Name Anyone Who Supports You?

  22-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  During his first television interview since the scandal broke out over leaked private chats that have resulted in near-unanimous calls for his resignation, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló struggled to come up with a single name when Fox News anchor Shepard Smith pressed him to offer up anyone who currently supports him.With hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans taking to the streets of San Juan on Monday to demand Rosselló’s resignation after the governor said he wouldn&rs
  
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• Report: Pence canceled trip to avoid contact with an alleged drug dealer

  22-07-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire this month to avoid shaking hands with an alleged interstate drug dealer, Politico reported Monday.
  
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• Why No Enemy Would Dare Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

  22-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Circumstances obviously matter for an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier. An out-of-the-blue attack from a conventionally armed state actor would enjoy the highest levels of success, but would also have an impact on elite and public opinion in the United States that might drive calls for dire retribution. Since the 1950s, the supercarrier has been the most visible representation of U.S. military power and maritime hegemony. Although supercarriers have participated in nearly every military co
  
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• Gambian soldier names ex-president in reporter's 2004 murder

  22-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Gambian army officer on Monday accused ex-president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the 2004 murder of journalist Deyda Hydara and admitted he was involved in the killing.Hydara, who was editor and co-founder of the independent The Point daily and a correspondent for AFP and Journalists Without Borders (RSF), was killed by unidentified gunmen in his car on the outskirts of the Gambian capital Banjul in December 2004.The murder was widely condemned locally and abroad as another sign of Jammeh's despot
  
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• This Is the ATV-Mounted Jammer That Took Down an Iranian Drone

  22-07-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The drone was less than a mile from the USS Boxer when the Marines caused it to crash.
  
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• Neighbors Say They Warned City About Giant Tree That Toppled on Homes

  22-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A storm in St. Louis brought down a huge tree damaging four homes, but neighbors say they`ve been complaining about the tree for two years.
  
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• France, Germany Refuse Italy's Demand to Open Ports to Migrants

  22-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- France and Germany widened the group of countries willing to accept asylum seekers arriving by boat across the Mediterranean, but made no move to accept demands by Italy’s Matteo Salvini that they accept migrant ships directly in their ports.Salvini, in his capacity as Italian interior minister, said Monday’s meeting of European interior ministers was a “flop” that “basically said Italy must continue to be the refugee camp of Europe,” according
  
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• Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises cancel port stops in Puerto Rico ahead of planned protests

  22-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Several cruise lines have canceled port stops in San Juan ahead of planned protests Monday in Puerto Rico, aimed at forcing the governor to resign.
  
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• A boy stole two planes for a joyride. Pilots now want to teach him how to fly

  22-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The boy trespassed a small airport in Huzhou, a city in eastern China, piloting and crashing a seaplane onto a guard rail and driving another one.
  
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• Lawyer: Man who killed mob boss thought he was helping Trump

  22-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged with killing a reputed New York mob boss was deluded by internet conspiracy theories and thought he was helping President Donald Trump defend Democracy, his attorney said in court papers filed Friday.Anthony Comello is facing murder charges in the March 13 shooting of Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, an alleged leader in the Gambino crime family.In a legal filing, attorney Robert Gottleib said Comello was gripped by an irrational belief that Cali was part of a "deep state" that secretl
  
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• Trump boasts Afghanistan would be easy to fix: 'I just don't want to kill 10 million people'

  22-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The president said he could “win that war in a week.”
  
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• Drug kingpin 'El Chapo' appeals life sentence

  22-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, once one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, has appealed his life sentence, court documents published on Monday showed.Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.A symbolic 30 years was also added to the sentence and he was also ordered to pay $12.6 billion in f
  
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• 'Off the face of the earth': Trump says U.S. could win Afghanistan war in a week

  22-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. could wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the Earth” in a matter of days but has chosen to draw down forces.
  
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• U.S. to expand rapid deportation nationwide with sweeping new rule

  22-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Monday it will order more speedy deportations of immigrants who crossed illegally and are caught anywhere in the United States, expanding a program typically applied only along the southern border with Mexico.The rule set to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday would apply "expedited removal" to any illegal crossers who cannot prove to immigration agents that they have been living in the country for two years.Legal experts said it was a
  
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• Iran claims arrest of 17 CIA spies; Pompeo: Iran has 'long history of lying'

  22-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran claims its authorities arrested 17 spies recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the Middle East nation's nuclear and military sites.
  
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• President Trump drops in on MAGA-themed wedding to chants of 'USA'

  22-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The President delivered the ultimate wedding gift to these Trump supporters, making their nuptials a little more memorable.
  
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• Puerto Rico protesters flood streets as governor remains defiant

  22-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  * US island territory hit by general strike* Ricardo Rosselló insists: ‘I am a good man’Demonstrators attends the national strike calling for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday. Photograph: Eric Rojas/AFP/Getty ImagesPuerto Rico saw more massive protests on Monday as hundreds of thousands lined the streets following Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s attempt to cling on to power despite resigning as president of the ru
  
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• President Trump, Supreme Court justices pay respects to late Associate Justice John Paul Stevens

  22-07-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump and a majority of Supreme Court justices paid homage Monday to the late Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.
  
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• Correction: Military-Hyperfit Women story

  22-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story July 21 about a U.S. military study of "hyperfit" women, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a vo2 Max score measures how many millimeters of oxygen are used per kilogram of body weight per minute.ARMY SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER, Mass. (AP) — In the nearly four years since the Pentagon announced it was opening all combat jobs to women, at least 30 have earned the Army Ranger tab, two have graduated Marine infantry school and three have passed the grueling initial assessme
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders shows up to govs shindig as Arkansas rumors swirl

  22-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders is seen as a possible 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate.
  
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• Democratic Senator Takes Shot at DeVos: ‘I Think We Should Send Her Back’

  22-07-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Debbie Stabenow attacked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in a speech Monday, saying "I think we should send her back."“Too many of our children languish in inadequate, ill-equipped schools. Thank you, Betsy DeVos," Stabenow said during her address to the NAACP convention in Detroit. "I really wish she was not from Michigan. I think we should send her back."Stabenow was referencing the chant of "send her back" that Trump supporters launched into during the presiden
  
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• Fox News Host Calls for ‘9/11-Style Commission’ to Investigate How AOC Was Elected to Congress

  22-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Reacting to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) call for a “9/11-style commission” to be convened to investigate the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the border, Fox News host Pete Hegseth said on Monday that there should instead be an investigation to see how the progressive lawmaker was elected to Congress in the first place.During a town hall in her district on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez called for a lengthy study into the president’s zero-tolera
  
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• Mexico, US to launch plan against arms smuggling at border

  22-07-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Mexican government said Monday it has reached agreement with the United States for a joint operation to combat gun smuggling along the U.S. border after seeing a spike in the number of illegal firearms detected.Seizures of assault rifles in Mexico are up 122% so far this year.Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico's military would coordinate with U.S. authorities to launch anti-gun-smuggling operations in five Mexican border cities — Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo
  
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• US mistrust on the rise, with government seen as worst: poll

  22-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans distrust the news media, but see government and political leaders as even more untrustworthy, a survey showed Monday.The Pew Research Center found 69 percent of Americans say the federal government intentionally withholds important information from the public, while 61 percent say the news media intentionally ignores important stories."Americans are worried that distrust in the government and in others is taking a toll on the nation," said Lee Rainie, head of Pew's internet and technol
  
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• Ships urged to alert navies before sailing through Strait of Hormuz

  22-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Shipping associations have called on ship owners to inform Britain's navy of their movements before sailing into the Middle East Gulf and Strait of Hormuz because of the escalating international crisis in the region.About a fifth of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz and shipping companies are already deploying more unarmed security guards as an extra safeguard.
  
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• Every police officer in Stebbins, Alaska, has pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges

  22-07-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  There are seven police officers in Stebbins, Alaska, and all of them have beenconvicted of domestic violence
  
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• Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage

  22-07-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will cut staffers' hours so they can effectively be paid the $15-an-hour minimum wage he champions on the campaign trail.
  
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• Mississippi River drops enough to begin closing big spillway

  22-07-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The Mississippi River is finally low enough again to let the Army Corps of Engineers begin closing a huge spillway after a record-breaking run diverting water into Lake Pontchartrain.The corps said Monday in a news release that about 10 of the 168 open bays in the Bonnet Carré ("Bonnie Carrie") spillway would be closed by day's end.Spokesman Matt Roe says full closing is expected to take about a week, with daily checks to make sure the river remains low enough to avoid stressing New Orlea
  
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• US army chief for Mideast in first visit to northern Syria

  22-07-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  US Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie on Monday visited Kurdish-led allies in northern Syria for the first time since taking up the post.McKenzie -- who oversees US operations in the Middle East -- succeeded General Joseph Votel in late March.Votel's departure came just days after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured the last patch of territory from the Islamic State group in eastern Syria with US support.
  
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• French submarine lost in 1968 found at last in Mediterranean

  22-07-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968 has been found, officials said Monday, ending a 51-year wait for families of the crew who continue to seek answers to the naval disaster.The diesel-electric Minerve submarine was lost off France's southern coast with 52 sailors on board on January 27, 1968."We found the submarine Minerve last night located 45 kilometres (30 miles) south of Toulon, about 20 kilometres further south than where it was searched for in 1968," t
  
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• Poachers forced this rhino subspecies to two. Scientists are in a race to save them.

  22-07-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Poachers forced this rhino subspecies down to two. Now scientists are in a race to save them before it’s too late.
  
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• Trump news: Impeachment case 'to be made by Mueller this week', as president attempts to defend his racism in press conference

  22-07-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's “high crimes and misdemeanours” will be made public when Robert Mueller gives testimony before Congress later this week, says House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler.Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Mr Nadler said the former FBI special counsel has “substantial evidence” that the president violated the law “six ways from Sunday”, which will be made clear to the American people when Mr Mueller discusses the evidence contained in his 448-pag
  
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• Istanbul gives Syrians one month to return to provinces in which they are registered

  22-07-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Istanbul set a four-week deadline on Monday for Syrians living without approval in Turkey's largest city to return to provinces where they are registered or face forced removal to those regions.It was not immediately clear how many people could be affected by the order, but Istanbul's new mayor has said that a total of 1 million Syrians live in the city compared with Interior Ministry figures showing 500,000 are registered.Turkey's recession-hit economy and high levels of unemploy
  
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• AMCA Breach: Many More Impacted Healthcare Firms Come Forward

  22-07-2019 18:19
  Many more healthcare companies in the United States published press releases last week to inform customers that they had been impacted by the data breach suffered by the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA).
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• US sanctions Chinese oil trader for violating Iran restrictions: Pompeo

  22-07-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is placing a leading Chinese oil importer on its sanctions blacklist for trading in Iranian crude, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday."As part of that maximum pressure campaign, I am announcing that the United States is imposing sanctions on the Chinese entity Zhuhai Zhenrong and its chief executive Youmin Li," Pompeo said in a speech.
  
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• Nadler: Mueller hearing to air evidence of Trump wrongdoing

  22-07-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday that this week's hearing with Robert Mueller will air "very substantial evidence" of wrongdoing by President Trump and make a case for impeachment.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt announces joint European task force to protect ships in Gulf after Iran's tanker seizure

  22-07-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, on Monday announced a joint European maritime mission on the Strait of Hormuz in the aftermath of a British tanker seizure in the Gulf. In a statement to the House of Commons he said the UK will ask all British flagged ships to give notice of intention to pass through the Strait of Hormuz so they can be given protection. It followed a signal from the United States that it would not aid Britain in the Persian Gulf, in a fresh sign of disagre
  
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• UK Prime Minister holds emergency session on how to respond to Iran-seized tanker

  22-07-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran released new video showing the ship's crew for the first time on Monday, an apparent attempt to show they were unharmed.
  
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• Missing for more than 50 years, wreckage of submarine is finally found

  22-07-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  La Minerve was found almost a mile and half below the sea, France's defense ministry said. It is unknown what exactly caused the submarine to sink.
  
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