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• Teen activist to lawmakers: Forget praise, work on climate

  17-09-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of Congress hailed Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg as a "superpower" for her work to spark a worldwide, youth-driven push to fight climate change.Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said the 16-year-old Thunberg and other young activists bring "moral clarity" to the fight against global warming.Thunberg was not impressed.
  
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• Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda

  17-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the Houston area were preparing high-water vehicles and staging rescue boats Tuesday as Tropical Storm Imelda moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump up to 18 inches of rain in parts of Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana over the next few days.The storm, which formed Tuesday, made landfall near Freeport, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist and director of flood operations for the Harris County Flood Control District in Ho
  
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• Triple threat: Tropical Storm Imelda swamps Texas, Humberto nears Bermuda and TD 10 forms in Atlantic

  17-09-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  While Hurricane Humberto nears Bermuda, there's flooding in Texas due to Tropical Storm Imelda, and Tropical Depression 10 is spinning up in the Atlantic
  
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• Georgia homeowner kills three teens wearing masks in possible 'stand your ground' case

  17-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The fatal shooting of three teens by a Georgia homeowner this week could be a 'stand your ground' case, the Rockdale County Sheriff says.
  
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• US attorneys reportedly knew that Jeffrey Epstein didn't qualify for Florida jail work release where he allegedly abused women

  17-09-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A secretive sentencing deal penned by then-US Attorney Alex Acosta let Epstein leave jail to work in his private office 12 hours a day.
  
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• One in 16 American women forced into first sexual encounter: study

  17-09-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  One in 16 American women were either forced or coerced into their first sexual encounter, according to a study investigating the long-term negative impacts of such "trauma" on women's health.In the US, "the #MeToo movement has highlighted how frequently women experience sexual violence," the researchers wrote in the introduction.Published Monday in the American Medical Association's peer-reviewed journal (JAMA Internal Medicine), the study is based on a sample of more than 13,000 women aged 18 t
  
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• Trump to bar California from setting vehicle emission rules: sources

  17-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas and vehicle fuel efficiency standards and barring all states from setting such rules, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday. The move is sure to spark legal challenges over issues including states' rights and climate change that administration officials say could ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump met with senior officials last Thursday
  
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• HK activists take cause to US Congress, urge pressure on Beijing

  17-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement on Tuesday appealed directly to US lawmakers to exert pressure on Beijing, warning that an erosion of the city's special status would embolden China's leaders around the world.In an appearance likely to infuriate Beijing, young people at the forefront of Hong Kong's mass protests testified before a congressional commission in support of US legislation aimed at defending Hong Kongers' civil rights."This is not a plea for so-called 'foreign interferenc
  
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• US sanctions Italy, Panama and Colombia firms over Venezuela ties

  17-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran, an associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The move is the latest US escalation of sanctions targeting the inner circle of Maduro, who is grappling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of Venezuela's 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
  
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• Trump on Cokie Roberts: She 'never treated me nicely' but she was a 'professional'

  17-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts was a veteran and award winning journalist who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75.
  
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• Belgian F-16s scrambled to intercept 2 Russian nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over the Baltic Sea

  17-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Belgian Air Force intercepted two Russian Tu-160 supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers at close range in Baltic airspace.
  
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• Trump says Cokie Roberts 'never treated me nicely’ but 'was a professional'

  17-09-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  “She never treated me nicely,” President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about the the death of Cokie Roberts. “But I would like to wish her family well. She was a professional, and I respect professionals.”
  
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• KFC is testing a fried chicken sandwich with donuts as the buns

  17-09-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Just when you thought it was time to bring home the troops from the great chicken sandwich war between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, KFC introduces a new sandwich. And it's bold.The new sandwich features the chain's Extra Crispy™ chicken filet between two hot glazed donuts.If stacking food isn't your thing you can also enjoy the components side-by-side. KFC is also introducing a Kentucky Fried Chicken & Donut Basket meal, which includes the option of chicken on the bone or chicken tenders,
  
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• Israel election: early exit polls suggest Netanyahu is in trouble

  17-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel was holding its breath on Tuesday after early election exit polls suggested Benjamin Netanyahu’s centrist rivals had won more seats in parliament, potentially endangering the prime minister’s 13 years in power.  While no final results were available, two out of three early exit polls indicated that Mr Netanyahu’s Likud had fallen slightly behind Blue & White, the centrist coalition led by former army general Benny Gantz. A third poll showed the parties tied
  
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• Migrants anxious before court dates in Texas tents

  17-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Abel Oset was seized with panic.The two were going to plead their case in a court set up inside a tent in Laredo, beamed via video conference to a judge in another city — the latest attempt to clear a massive backlog of asylum cases.Oset dreaded the very real possibility that he and his 22-year-old son would be sent back over the international bridge, back to Nuevo Laredo and its cartels and violence.
  
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• Yemen Houthi drones, missiles defy years of Saudi air strikes

  17-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles.The theatrical gesture revealed the proud slogan "Made in Yemen" spray-painted onto the weapons' bodywork.The moment was a celebration of sorts for Yemen's Houthi fighters.
  
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• Trump arrives in Bay Area for first time as president

  17-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has arrived in the Bay Area for the first time as Commander in Chief and is expected to attend a fundraiser in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Pentagon Refuses Funding for 20-Miles of Border Barrier Due to Cost

  17-09-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Defense Department has decided not to move forward with three border-barrier projects in California and Arizona, indicating that the estimated $2.5 billion cost of the 20 miles of planned construction would be too high.Funding for the projects -- three 30-foot-high barriers on the U.S.–Mexico border -- was originally allocated from a counter-drug initiative, which the Pentagon approved pending final analysis of cost projections. That analysis found that the cost would be prohibitive, a
  
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• 29 bodies found in plastic bags in Mexico mass grave

  17-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday.Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera, about a 45-minute drive outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second city."We have 13 complete corpses and 16 incomplete, for a total of 29 bodies," said Gera
  
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• Sheriff indicted for plotting to kill deputy who had tape of his 'racially offensive' remarks

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina sheriff was indicted for obstruction of justice for allegedly plotting to kill one of his deputies.
  
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• New Jersey police searching city park for 5-year-old girl, simultaneous criminal investigation into disappearance

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are focusing search efforts for Dulce Maria Alavez in Bridgeton City Park. Officials said there is a simultaneous criminal investigation ongoing.
  
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• Vatican seeks trial for seminarian accused of sex abuse

  17-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The Vatican's criminal prosecutor is seeking to indict a one-time seminarian accused of sexually abusing younger seminarians who lived inside the Vatican and served as altar boys at papal Masses in St. Peter's Basilica.The Vatican said Tuesday an indictment was also being sought for the former rector of the Vatican's St. Pius X youth seminary, who is accused of aiding and abetting the crime.The scandal at the Holy See's own youth seminary is particularly grave, given that the alleged misconduct
  
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• Tennessee unveils $7.9B block grant proposal for Medicaid

  17-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Tennessee would become the first state in the nation to receive its Medicaid funding in a lump sum under a proposal seeking to drastically overhaul the program that provides health care services to low-income and disabled residents.Nearly four months after Gov. Bill Lee signed off on the idea, state officials released details of the estimated $7.9 billion Medicaid block grant plan Tuesday with the intent of submitting the final product to the federal government in November."We happen to be one o
  
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• New York Times reporters respond to clarification and controversy on new Kavanaugh accusation

  17-09-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking on MSNBC, Robin Pogrebin, said that her editors had removed clarifying information during the editing process.
  
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• Las Vegas man faces weapons charge in synagogue, other plots

  17-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A former security guard accused of compiling bomb components and guns to kill people at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers or a fast-food restaurant has been indicted on a federal firearm charge, court records show.Conor Climo's court-appointed attorney, Paul Riddle, said Tuesday that Climo plans to plead not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday on the one-count indictment filed Sept. 11 in U.S. District Court in Nevada.Climo, 23, was arreste
  
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• Trump news - live: Impeachment hearing exposes 'absolute coverup by White House', as former top aide dodges questions

  17-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee have launched the first impeachment hearings into allegations that Donald Trump obstructed justice and abused power, with the president's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski appearing before the committee as the first witness to testify on questions that were raised by the Mueller report released earlier this year.The witness had been gagged by the White House, however, and two more aides – Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter – were reportedl
  
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• Liam Fox: Britain must accept that Iran nuclear deal is 'dead'

  17-09-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain must accept the Iran nuclear deal is “dead” and join America in trying to force Tehran back to the negotiating table, former defence secretary Liam Fox will say on Wednesday. Mr Fox, who was in the cabinet until July, will use a speech in Washington to warn that the 2015 agreement was "flawed" from the start and that attempts to keep it alive are "futile". The intervention is effectively a call for Boris Johnson to join Donald Trump in withdrawing from the deal and comes amid
  
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• Salamander that lived at London Zoo for 20 years could be the largest amphibian in the world

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A salamander that lived at London Zoo for 20 years has turned out to be a new species which could be the largest amphibian in the world. The animal, which was kept at the zoo in the Twenties and later preserved at the Natural History Museum, was thought to be a Chinese giant salamander, but tests from 17 specimens held at the museum showed it was completely a new species that was actually bigger than its cousin. The amphibian, which has been called the South China giant salamander, was held by t
  
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• Iran could be risking war over the Saudi oil fields because it deliberately wants to spike up the price of oil

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If Iran was responsible for the shocking attack, it falls in line with a pattern of dangerous escalations to harm the US for its harsh sanctions.
  
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• Mother's selfie saves her after she collapses, suffers stroke

  17-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother took a selfie just minutes before she collapsed and suffered a stroke, and now her family is crediting the photo for saving her life.
  
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• Biden's 1960s gang fight yarn: Son of 'bad dude' Corn Pop confirms his father knew Dem frontrunner

  17-09-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The saga of Joe Biden’s mysterious story from the 1960s, in which he and a man called Corn Pop almost battled with a knife and a chain but ultimately did not, may have been confirmed.Mr Biden has told the story of a 1962 confrontation with a man who frequented a public pool in Wilmington, Delaware where he was a lifeguard several times, including in his book. But a video of him retelling it at an event in 2017, at the pool’s dedication ceremony after it was renamed for him, resurface
  
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• US-Russia nuclear war would kill 34 million people within hours and is increasingly likely, Princeton study concludes

  17-09-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.Such a scenario has become “dramatically” more plausible in the last two years because the two countries have dropped support for arms-control measures, according to a team from Princeton University.
  
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• France gives more people iodine pills in case of nuclear accident

  17-09-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  France will soon start distributing radioactivity-blocking iodine pills to an additional 2.2 million people living near the country's 19 nuclear power plants, to be taken in case of accidental radiation leaks, regulators said Tuesday.The ASN nuclear safety authority had announced in June an extension of the safety radius to 20 kilometres (12 miles) of each plant, up from 10 kilometres set in 2016, when some 375,000 households were prescribed the pills.The watchdog said Tuesday that affected resi
  
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• California woman who dreamed about swallowing engagement ring woke up to realize she actually did

  17-09-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A California woman had her dreams come true earlier this month — although probably not in the way she would have liked.
  
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• The High-Risk Strategy That Could Hand Democrats the White House

  17-09-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic voters live in clusters — but there's a way to take advantage of that
  
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• Saudi officials knew they were 'exposed' to drone attacks months ago but they weren't able to do anything to stop it

  17-09-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Drones have been used in attacks on Saudi airports, water facilities, and oil pipelines this year. Leaders knew their country was vulnerable.
  
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• Iran's Zarif says U.S. "in denial" over Saudi attack - Twitter

  17-09-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister said in a tweet on Tuesday that the United States was in denial for suspecting Iran over attacks on Saudi oil facilities, and ignoring that Yemenis were fighting back after years of war against the kingdom.U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday the United States was reviewing evidence that suggests Iran was behind the attacks on Saudi oil facilities and stands ready to defend its interests and allies in the Middle East.
  
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• Flash Flood Watch for parts of southeast Texas including Houston beginning 1 p.m. today

  17-09-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Most areas will get 4-10" of rain this week but a few areas could get as much as 15" or more.
  
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• A North Carolina sheriff allegedly plotted the death of his own deputy because the officer had a tape of him making 'racially offensive' comments

  17-09-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins urged someone to kill a deputy, saying, "The only way you gonna stop him is kill him," an indictment says.
  
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• Couple reveal they are raising child 'gender neutral' and haven't even told close family their baby's sex

  17-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A couple have decided to keep their baby’s sex a secret from close relatives in a bid to avoid gender bias.  Hobbit Humphrey, 38, and Jake England-Johns, 35, refer to their 17-month-old child, Anoush, with the pronoun, "they", and dress them in both girls' and boys' clothing. The married couple, who are members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion, have been accused of “virtue signalling”. However, they are keen to let their child, Anoush, choose their own gen
  
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• Afghan president narrowly avoids Taliban bomb in worst violence since collapse of US negotiations

  17-09-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday - one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul - with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections. The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a suicide bomb at a checkpoint leading to a rally where Ashraf Ghani, the president, was addressing supporters in central Parwan province, just north of the capital, killing 26 and wounding 42. Just over an hour later another
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.N. Security Council overcomes Chinese veto threat to renew Afghanistan mission

  17-09-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed on Tuesday to extend a U.N. political mission in Afghanistan after last-minute talks overcame a Chinese threat to veto if there was no reference to Beijing's global Belt and Road infrastructure project."To our regret a few countries refused to keep the text of consensus previously agreed," said China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun, describing the adopted resolution as a technical rollover.The resolutions mandating the mission in 2016, 2017 and
  
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• AP Analysis: Saudi oil attack part of dangerous new pattern

  17-09-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The assault on the beating heart of Saudi Arabia's vast oil empire follows a new and dangerous pattern that's emerged across the Persian Gulf this summer of precise attacks that leave few obvious clues as to who launched them.Beginning in May with the still-unclaimed explosions that damaged oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, the region has seen its energy infrastructure repeatedly targeted."Iran can count on public skepticism to afford it some deniability under any circumstances, but an atta
  
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• South Korea drops Japan from 'white list' in trade row

  17-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  South Korea Wednesday officially dropped Japan from its "white list" of trusted trade partners, the latest move in a bitter row stemming from Tokyo's use of forced labour during World War II.Seoul had already warned Tokyo it would reciprocate following a similar move by Japan in late August to downgrade South Korea's trade status.Local companies shipping strategic goods to Japan would now have to submit more documents and approval would take around 15 days instead of five, Yonhap news agency rep
  
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• UPDATE 1-Russia detains two N.Korean vessels after one opens fire - reports

  17-09-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian border guards have detained two North Korean boats in Russian territorial waters in the Sea of Japan after one of them attacked a Russian patrol, local media cited the Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying on Tuesday.A Russian border patrol discovered two North Korean schooners and 11 motorboats fishing illegally off its far eastern coast and detained the first vessel, prompting the second one to open fire, the FSB was quoted as saying.Three Russian border guards were wounded in the i
  
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• Wisconsin brothers charged with operating counterfeit vaping cartridge operation

  17-09-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Tyler and Jacob Huffhines ran an operation that cranked out 3,000 to 5,000 counterfeit vaping cartridges each day, authorities say.
  
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• U.N. Security Council overcomes Chinese veto threat to renew Afghanistan mission

  17-09-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed on Tuesday to extend a U.N. political mission in Afghanistan after last-minute talks overcame a Chinese threat to veto if there was no reference to Beijing's global Belt and Road infrastructure project.The resolutions mandating the mission in 2016, 2017 and 2018 all included a reference welcoming and urging efforts like China's Belt and Road initiative to facilitate trade and transit, but in March the United States and some other council mem
  
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• GM stops paying for health insurance for striking union workers; talks continue

  17-09-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Coshifted health insurance costs for its striking workers to the United Auto Workers union as its members walked the picket line for the second day on Tuesday.The UAW on Monday launched the first company-wide strike at GM in 12 years, saying negotiations toward a new national agreement covering about 48,000 hourly workers had hit an impasse.This year's talks between the union and GM, Ford Motor Coand Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA)were expected to be tough, with thorny issues s
  
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• If you have an iPhone 6 or older, it's finally time to upgrade — but not necessarily to the new iPhone 11

  17-09-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The iPhone 6 and older iPhones aren't getting iOS 13, so if you care about the latest and greatest iOS features from Apple, it's time to upgrade.
  
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• U.S. to Return Ambassador to Belarus as Minsk Seeks New Friends

  17-09-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. plans to return its ambassador to Belarus, ending a freeze in ties with the authoritarian former Soviet republic which had lasted for more than 11 years.“We are happy to see that chapter closing, and we are closing it because of the concrete steps in the direction that you, Mr. President, had taken to improve this relationship,” David Hale, Undersecretary of State for political affairs, told Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting in Minsk.The U.S. withdrew its
  
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