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• Trump dismisses concerns about leaving Kurds at the mercy of Turkey

  09-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump was unconcerned about what is widely characterized as a betrayal of the Kurdish fighters who bore the brunt of the battle against ISIS.
  
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• Brazil minister says oil on beaches likely from Venezuela

  09-10-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The oil that has been polluting Brazil's northeastern beaches since early September is likely coming from Venezuela, according to a report by Brazil's state oil company cited by the country's environment minister.The oil "very probably comes from Venezuela, as says the Petrobras study," Brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles told members of the lower house of Congress' environmental commission.
  
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• Once wealthy Mexican state plagued by killings, extortion

  09-10-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Business and church leaders say they are being hit by a wave of extortion demands by criminal gangs in Mexico's north-central state of Guanajuato, which was recently considered a Mexican success story for attracting high-tech manufacturing investment, including five auto assembly plants.Arturo Gonzalez Palomino, head of the state's association of auto dealerships, said Tuesday that at least two car lots in Celaya have been shot up by criminals demanding protection payments."They spayed the deale
  
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• 'PG&E clearly hasn’t made its system safe.' California lawmakers slam utility amid widespread power outage

  09-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  As millions in California lose power during a fire-prevention blackout, lawmakers charge that PG&E; didn't take proper safety steps ahead of time.
  
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• Police interview reveals how woman responded to learning of son-in-law’s murder

  09-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Video shows Wendi Adelson telling her mother about the shooting death of her ex-husband, Dan Markel. The Adelson family has denied being involved in Dan Markel’s death and has not been charged.
  
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• White House, Congress Play Constitutional Chicken in Historic Balance of Power Fight

  09-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress and the White House are staking out maximalist constitutional positions across a number of fights, potentially remaking the balance of power for a generation
  
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• EPA: Our goal is to improve California’s air quality

  09-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  'If the EPA disapproves ... that triggers statutory clocks for highway funding sanctions. ... We request a response from (California) by Oct. 10'
  
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• Warren jumps ahead of Biden in latest 2020 polls

  09-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is leading the crowded pack of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic primary nomination for the first time, according to new results from polling aggregation website RealClearPolitics, which averages poll data from across the US. The numbers released on Wednesday show the progressive Massachusetts senator polling at 26.6 per cent, with former Vice President Joe Biden slightly behind her at 26.4 per cent.The latest numbers follow Tuesday’s Quinnipiac University poll, whi
  
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• Yes, America Probably Has Secret Stealth Drones Around Iran

  09-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
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• EU Hints at Huawei Risk in 5G Security Assessment

  09-10-2019 21:46
  The European Union hinted strongly it viewed Chinese tech group Huawei as a security risk to its roll-out of 5G networks in a report released Wednesday.
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• Police search homes for 2nd suspect in Kansas bar shooting

  09-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A fugitive suspected of taking part in a mass shooting last weekend at a Kansas bar that killed four people and wounded five others was given probation last year for trafficking contraband in prison instead of more time behind bars.Hugo Villanueva-Morales could have faced up to nine years in prison for the trafficking contraband conviction.Instead, he was freed by the same Leavenworth County, Kansas, judge who made news this year when he reduced the sentence of a convicted sex offender because h
  
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• Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says

  09-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth's solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday.Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets."If we are talking about exoplanets, things should be clear: we will not migrate there," Mayor told AFP near Madrid on the sidelines of a conference when asked about the po
  
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• A winner of this year's Nobel prize in physics is convinced we'll detect alien life in 100 years. Here are 13 reasons why we haven't made contact yet.

  09-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A Nobel prize-winner thinks we'll detect aliens within 100 years, possibly sooner. Other scientists think we might never make contact.
  
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• Arizona Official Smuggled Pregnant Women Into the U.S. and Paid Them to Give Up Their Babies: Authorities

  09-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastAn Arizona official faces charges in two states for his alleged role in an international adoption fraud scheme that involved smuggling pregnant women into the U.S. from the Marshall Islands and then paying them to give up their babies, according to court documents.Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen was charged Tuesday night with 11 felony offenses, including human smuggling, the sale of a child, and communications fraud, the Utah Attorney General’s
  
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• Trump's Syria-Kurds move gets results -- quick and negative

  09-10-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. must escape the "Endless Wars" in the Middle East, President Donald Trump repeatedly declares.When on Wednesday Turkey attacked the Kurds, America's longtime battlefield allies, U.S. troops had evacuated from harm's way.From Iran to North Korea, China, Iraq, Afghanistan and Venezuela, nearly all of Trump's foreign policy priorities remain works in progress nearly three years into his presidency.
  
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• Pay freeze at the UN? Trump administration owes the United Nations $1 billion

  09-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump brushed aside a warning from the U.N. that the organization risks being unable to pay its staff and bills if member countries don't chip in.
  
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• Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

  09-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  SOPA Images/GettyA small group of Activision Blizzard employees walked out of work Tuesday afternoon to protest the company’s actions against a gamer who expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong during an official livestream.The game publisher behind online multiplayer hits like World of Warcraft and Overwatch banned Hong Kong-based professional Hearthstone player Chung Ng Wai from thegame’s lucrative pro league for a year on Tuesday. Chung, who uses the handle &ld
  
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• Fossils of 'shark-toothed' carnivorous dinosaur found in Thailand

  09-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Fossils of a large carnivorous dinosaur that was a top predator about 115 million years ago have been unearthed in Thailand --a brute that was among the early members of an impressive group of flesh-ripping dinosaurs known for their shark-like teeth.Siamraptor, the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in Thailand, lived during the Cretaceous Period in an environment centered on a meandering river system and preyed on plant-eating dinosaurs, the researchers said.Paleontologist Duangsuda C
  
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• California gov. calls for Trump's removal

  09-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has all the evidence to believe "completely corrupt" President Trump should be removed from office by Congress, but with Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate he says the best way to boot Trump from the White House is at the ballot box.
  
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• Who are the Kurds? A Middle Eastern people with 'no friends but the mountains'

  09-10-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. and others have turned their backs on the Kurds before. Now President Trump and his administration have done so again.
  
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• Arizona county assessor charged in human smuggling case

  09-10-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The assessor of Arizona's most populous county has been accused of human smuggling in an adoption fraud scheme that brought dozens of pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. to give up their children for adoption, court records show.Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen has been charged with human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud in Utah, and with fraud, conspiracy, theft and forgery in Arizona."Petersen's illegal adoption scheme exploited highly vulnerable group
  
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• Biden calls for Trump's impeachment for first time

  09-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “He’s shooting holes in the Constitution,” the former vice president said in a speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday. “And we cannot let him get away with it.”
  
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• Iranian Hackers Update Spear-Phishing Techniques in Recent Campaign

  09-10-2019 20:20
  The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in a campaign observed in August and September, ClearSky’s security researchers report.
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• Back from the dead: Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming

  09-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time ever, scientists have found corals that were thought to have been killed by heat stress have recovered, a glimmer of hope for the world's climate change-threatened reefs.The chance discovery, made by Diego K. Kersting from the Freie University of Berlin and the University of Barcelona during diving expeditions in the Spanish Mediterranean, was reported in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.Kersting and co-author Cristina Linares have been carrying out long-term monitori
  
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• Teacher at Elite Boarding School Used Nightly ‘Check-In’ System to Molest Sleeping Students, Cops Say

  09-10-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Nelson Almeida/GettyA teacher at an elite boarding school in New Jersey used his position as a dorm “duty master”—who is responsible for nightly check-ins with students—to molest two teens while they slept, police said.Dominic Brown, a 23-year-old history teacher and water polo coach at The Lawrenceville School, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a Mo
  
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• Trump’s Defiance of the House Inquiry Is Hard to Defend

  09-10-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The White House’s fierce response to the impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives, calling the enterprise “an unconstitutional effort” and a violation of “constitutionally mandated due process,” seems to make one commitment: noncooperation.The key sentence in the eight-page letter, signed by White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone, is this: “Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of f
  
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• Opioid makers' latest legal woe: West Virginia handyman

  09-10-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A small home-improvement company in West Virginia is taking on the nation's opioid giants in a lawsuit blaming the drugmakers for a rise in insurance costs. The handymen at Al Marino Inc. filed the federal class-action suit last week in U.S. District Court against Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and a host of other companies. The case claims the drug businesses created a public health crisis that increased the need for expensive medical treatments, leading to skyrocketing health insurance c
  
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• U.S. arrests counterterrorism analyst over leaks to journalists

  09-10-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country's weapons system to two journalists in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Justice Department said in federal court filings on Wednesday.Information that 30-year-old Henry Kyle Frese passed to the journalists appeared in at least eight different news stories, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for t
  
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• Lindsey Graham says Trump's 'shameless' abandonment of Kurds will revive ISIS terrorists

  09-10-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Trump’s strongest allies, on Wednesday said Kurdish fighters in Syria had been “shamelessly abandoned by the Trump Administration” in its sudden decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria.
  
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• Shooting in Germany was anti-Semitic attack - interior minister

  09-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that a shooting in eastern Germany was anti-Semitic, adding that federal prosecutors who have taken on the investigation thought there were signs that it could be a right-wing extremist attack.According to the federal prosecutors' office, there are enough indications that it was possibly a right-wing extremist motive.
  
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• Gowdy Cut By Fox After Joining Trump Team: Impeachment Update

  09-10-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump won’t cooperate with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that called the investigation “unauthorized” and “invalid.”Here are the latest developments:Gowdy Dropped By Fox After Joining Trump Team (12:49 p.m.)Fox News said Trey Gowdy will no longer contribute to its television programs after the former South Carolina representative agreed to h
  
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• In Iraq’s protests, a popular cry to reform a broken political system

  09-10-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A weeklong display of rage over persistent unemployment and corruption in Iraq left at least 165 people dead and more than 6,000 wounded.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren defends story that she was fired for being pregnant after more details surface

  09-10-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren is now asking supporters to share their own stories of pregnancy discrimination.
  
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• Audit Finds Critical Vulnerability in iTerm2 macOS Terminal Emulator

  09-10-2019 18:48
  A security audit funded by Mozilla has led to the discovery of a critical remote command execution vulnerability in the popular iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator.
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• Exclusive: U.S.-backed Syrian forces halt counter-Islamic State operations - sources

  09-10-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters have halted operations for now against Islamic State in Syria as Turkey launches a military offensive in Syria's northeast, two U.S. officials and a Kurdish military source said on Wednesday. "The SDF stopped the anti-ISIS operations because it's impossible to carry out any operation while you are being threatened by a large army right on the northern border," the Kurdish military source said. One of the U.S. officials, who spoke on cond
  
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• These are the fugitives on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list — and how they got there

  09-10-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list constantly changes. Individuals come and go as they're captured. Here are the 10 who are now on the list.
  
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• Trump's approach to the impeachment inquiry bears a striking resemblance to how the mafia operates

  09-10-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The mafia "did everything Trump is doing, but he's doing it on a much larger scale," said a former federal prosecutor who dealt with organized crime.
  
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• Silent streets, Jews on edge in German city after shooting

  09-10-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Silence gripped the abandoned streets of the eastern German city of Halle Wednesday as elite anti-terror forces carried out a manhunt after a deadly shooting at a synagogue and a Turkish restaurant."We are carrying out an intensive search and ask the public to stay at home," the Halle police force tweeted.Normally busy city streets were closed to traffic, with the only vehicles circulating police cruisers and ambulances with flashing lights.
  
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• The Latest: South Dakota teen faces charges in girl's death

  09-10-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor in South Dakota says she plans to file adult charges against a 17-year-old boy who was arrested after a girl's body was found in his basement.Meade County sheriff's officials believe the victim is 16-year-old Shayna Ritthaler, from Moorcroft, Wyoming, who has been missing since Oct. 3.Acting Meade County state's attorney Michele Bordewyk tells the Rapid City Journal that the teenager is expected to make an initial court appearance Wednesday.
  
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• More women have come forward in a new book to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct

  09-10-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Karen Johnson, a Mar-a-Lago regular, said Trump pulled her behind a tapestry and kissed her without her consent during a party in the early 2000s.
  
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• Zimbabwe quadruples electricity price as crisis deepens

  09-10-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe on Wednesday quadrupled electricity tariffs amid crippling power shortages which have plunged parts of the country into darkness for up to 18 hours as the economy lurches deeper into crisis.Zimbabwe’s economy is caught in a major downturn with shortages of fuel, medicine, and currency as well as hyperinflation which has seen many families living on a single meal a day.Citing "the depreciation of the local currency," the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) said the price of
  
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• Harry Dunn death: Family left ‘angry and frustrated’ after ‘publicity stunt’ meeting with foreign secretary

  09-10-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a teenager killed in a car crash involving a US diplomat’s wife have said they have been left “angry and frustrated” after meeting with Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, which they described as a “publicity stunt”.Harry Dunn, 19, was killed when his motorbike collided with a car in Northamptonshire on 27 August.
  
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• Majority of Americans back impeachment inquiry, new polls show

  09-10-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House says the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is “baseless” and “unconstitutional.” But five new national surveys find most Americans support the probe. And a Fox News poll shows a majority support his removal.
  
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• Mayor in Mexico tied to a truck and dragged through streets for ‘failing to fulfill campaign promises’

  09-10-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Angry farmers in Mexico abducted the mayor of their village and dragged him through the streets after claiming he went back on key campaign promises.Police intervened to free Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández, who suffered no major injuries after the ordeal.
  
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• Boston jail to stop housing federal immigration detainees

  09-10-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Boston's sheriff is ending his office's longtime relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying his jails will stop housing hundreds of federal detainees in order to house more female inmates.Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins maintained the move, which he announced late Tuesday, is not a political statement but an effort to improve the lives of incarcerated women, which he said is the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the country.
  
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• 'I'm Spartacus': Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani performs bizarre impression of Cory Booker live on Fox News

  09-10-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani launched a peculiar attack on New Jersey mayor Cory Booker during a televised interview, in his latest bizarre contribution to Fox News following the move by Democrats to impeach the president.Mr Giuliani has become increasingly embroiled in scandal surrounding Donald Trump over his dealings with Ukraine, after he was found to have been involved in interactions between Kiev and Washington despite not holding a diplomatic role in the president’s administration.
  
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• Protests over Bangladesh student death as PM vows to punish killers

  09-10-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Bangladesh's prime minister on Wednesday vowed to mete out the "highest punishment to the killers" of a university student who died after he criticised a deal the leader made with India.The killing of 21-year-old Abrar Fahad on Monday, allegedly by members of a student branch of the country's ruling Awami League party, has sparked two days of protests in Dhaka and other cities.Some 13 students, including 10 from the Awami League branch, have been detained by police over his death.
  
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• Many in Utilities Sector Expect Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: Survey

  09-10-2019 17:04
  Representatives of the utilities industry believe the risk of cyberattacks on the sector has increased and many expect an attack on critical infrastructure in the next year, according to a study conducted by Siemens and the Ponemon Institute.
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• Egypt denounces Ethiopia for moving ahead with Nile dam amid water: shortage fears

  09-10-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt denounced Ethiopia on Wednesday for moving forward with building and operating a hyropower dam on the Nile, which Cairo worries will threaten already scarce water supplies.Ethiopia, the source of the Blue Nile which joins the White Nile in Khartoum and runs on to Egypt, says the dam will not disrupt the river's flow and hopes the project will transform it into a power hub for the electricity-hungry region.Egypt relies on the Nile for up to 90% of its fresh water, and fears the dam, which i
  
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• China destroys dozens of Uighur cemeteries in drive to 'eradicate' cultural history of Muslims

  09-10-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Even in death there is no respite for the Uighurs, one of the world's most persecuted minorities, according to a new investigation that has revealed China is destroying burial grounds where generations of families have been interred. Over the past two years, tombs have been smashed and human bones scattered in dozens of desecrated cemeteries in China’s northwest region, research by Agence France Presse and satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance has revealed. While the official
  
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