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• Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker space horses aren't horses, or in space - CNET

  19-11-2019 23:58
  
  They're orbaks, and did you notice their tusks?
  
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• Belarus crowds rally against closer Russia ties

  07-12-2019 15:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Roughly 1,000 Belarusians joined an unauthorised demonstration on Saturday against the prospect of a closer union with Russia.Long-time ruler Alexander Lukashenko was meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Russia on Saturday to discuss "key issues in our bilateral relations, including the prospects for deepening integration", according to the Kremlin.Police quickly intervened to oversee the demonstration but made no arrests.
  
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• Iraqis protest to defy 'slaughter' in Baghdad as drone hits cleric's home

  07-12-2019 15:29 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Iraq's anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital and south on Saturday, grieving but defiant after 17 were killed in an attack demonstrators described as "slaughter".The dramatic developments have threatened to derail the anti-government rallies rocking Iraq since October, the largest and deadliest grassroots movement in decades.Late Friday, at least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded when unidentified gunmen attacked a large building where protesters had camped out for weeks, medics
  
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• Boris Johnson said patients should have to pay to use the NHS so they will 'value' it more

  07-12-2019 15:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Johnson wrote a column for the Spectator magazine in 1995 calling for free healthcare to be restricted to the "genuinely sick and for the elderly."
  
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• Afghanistan bids farewell to slain Japanese physician

  07-12-2019 14:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani led a memorial Saturday in the capital Kabul to bid final farewell to a Japanese physician killed earlier this week in a roadside shooting in eastern Afghanistan that also killed five Afghans, who were traveling with him.Dr. Tetsu Nakamura was affectionately known as “Uncle Murad" by villagers in eastern Afghanistan, where he led the development of water and agricultural management projects since his arrival in Afghanistan in 2008.Ghani joined Afghan National
  
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• Slovak ex-PM Fico left party congress to seek medical treatment: reports

  07-12-2019 13:20 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Former Slovak prime minister Robert Fico left the annual congress of the main ruling Smer party, which he still leads, on Saturday to seek medical treatment, Slovak media reported."I have a huge problem with blood pressure, I am going to a hospital," newspaper Dennik N quoted Fico as telling reporters before he left the Incheba venue in Bratislava.Fico, 55, who had heart surgery in April 2016, was charged on Thursday with racism over his support for a far-right former lawmaker who lost his seat
  
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• Pope meets with Maltese PM hit by scandal over reporter's murder

  07-12-2019 13:17 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Pope Francis on Saturday gave a private audience to outgoing Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, ignoring an appeal to cancel the meeting with a premier engulfed in crisis over a probe into a murdered journalist.Francis met Muscat and his wife and family on Saturday morning, the Vatican said, in an audience that was far more low-key than those normally held with heads of government.Muscat said on Sunday he would resign as leader of the ruling Labour Party on Jan. 12 and in "the days after" wil
  
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• Iranian and American freed in apparent prisoner swap

  07-12-2019 12:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  An Iranian held in the US and an American held in Iran have been freed, the two sides said Saturday, in an apparent prisoner swap at a time of heightened tensions.Tehran announced the release of Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani from the United States shortly before Washington declared American researcher Xiyue Wang was returning home."Glad that Professor Massoud Soleimani and Mr. Xiyue Wang will be joining their families shortly," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.
  
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• Reddit has said that Russia likely posted leaked UK trade documents as part of a vast covert influence campaign

  07-12-2019 12:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The documents were cited by the UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to attack Prime Minister Boris Johnson over a planned US trade deal.
  
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• Medicare for All, Progressive-Campaign Killer

  07-12-2019 12:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Pundits have a ready explanation when one of their favorites loses or ends a campaign: The voters just didn't get to know the candidate the way media do. He or she was too wonky, or eager to please, or insular, or revealing, or uncertain for the masses. The electoral process made it impossible for him or her to connect with voters. The classic example is Hillary Clinton, who has reintroduced herself to the public umpteen times over the decades. A friend who knows her once told me I would like Cl
  
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• Drone hits Iraq cleric's home as tensions rise after Baghdad attack

  07-12-2019 12:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  An armed drone targeted the home of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday, hours after his supporters deployed in Baghdad in response to an attack that left 17 protesters dead.The developments marked a worrying turn for the anti-government protests rocking Iraq since October, the country's largest and deadliest grassroots movement in decades.The mostly young protesters in the capital's iconic Tahrir Square had long feared a spiral into chaos, and on Friday it appeared their apprehensions were we
  
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• United States and Iran swap prisoners in rare act of cooperation

  07-12-2019 12:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The United States and Iran swapped prisoners - a Chinese-American detained for three years on spying charges and an imprisoned Iranian - on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump took office.Trump said Chinese-American Xiyue Wang was returning to the United States.An Iranian official said that Iranian Massoud Soleimani had been freed from detention in the United States.
  
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• Trump complains about light bulbs making him look orange and people flushing toilets 15 times in rambling monologue

  07-12-2019 12:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Donald Trump has complained about new light bulbs which supposedly make him look orange and flushing toilets, during a rambling monologue.At a small-business roundtable meeting, the president went off on a tangent about the bulbs and claimed people have to flush toilets 10 to 15 times because they “don’t get any water”.
  
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• Why care about the Trump impeachment? Your right to vote in free elections is at stake.

  07-12-2019 11:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Trump impeachment is about protecting our freedom and right to vote from lawless foreign election manipulation invited by a dangerous president.
  
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• Nixon, Clinton, Trump: Why is the political 'fire extinguisher' of impeachment more common?

  07-12-2019 11:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Richard Nixon was the first president in more than a century to face impeachment. Donald Trump is the third. A look at why impeachment is more common.
  
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• Indian police investigated over killings of rape suspects

  07-12-2019 08:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A top Indian rights group launched an investigation Saturday into a police shooting of four rape-murder suspects, after accusations they were gunned down to assuage public anger.The victim's brother told local media that said she would get justice when all those who killed her go to the place "where she has gone".
  
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• Why Texas’s fossil fuel support will ‘spell disaster’ for climate crisis

  07-12-2019 08:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The state – which leads the way as US output of oil and gas is forecast to rise 25% in the next decade – is intensifying its production pipeline by pipelineIn the same month that Greta Thunberg addressed a UN summit and millions of people took part in a global climate strike, lawmakers in America’s leading oil- and gas-producing state of Texas made a statement of their own.Texas’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Act went into effect on 1 September, stiffening civil and
  
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• Pearl Harbor veteran to be interred on sunken ship

  07-12-2019 07:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  On Saturday, the 78th anniversary of the 1941 sneak attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, the remains of one of the survivors of the assault will be interred on his sunken ship, the USS Arizona.Lauren Bruner, who was among the last sailors rescued from the Arizona as it exploded into flames and sank, died in September at age 98."It's a historical event and this is the last surviving crewman of the USS Arizona being returned to his ship and his shipmates," Pearl Harbor National Memorial spokesman Jay
  
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• Official documents shed light on Tokyo's role in 'comfort women': Kyodo

  07-12-2019 06:38 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Imperial Japanese Army asked the government to provide one "comfort woman" for every 70 soldiers, Japan's Kyodo news agencysaid, citing wartime government documents it had reviewed, shedding a fresh light on Tokyo's involvement in the practice."Comfort women" is a euphemism for the girls and women - many of them Korean - forced into prostitution at Japanese military brothels.The issue has plagued Japan's ties with South Korea for decades.
  
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• Japan Could Have Made the Pearl Harbor Attack Much Deadlier—Did Playing it Safe Cost It the War?

  07-12-2019 05:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Or was Tokyo just doomed...no matter what?
  
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• Biden Says He Would Consider Giving Ambassadorships to Donors

  07-12-2019 05:29 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden said Friday he would not rule out appointing donors as ambassadors, but wouldn’t make decisions about those roles based on someone’s financial contributions.“Nobody in fact will be appointed by me based on anything they contributed,” he told a group of reporters aboard his “No Malarkey” bus in Decorah, Iowa.“But, for example, you have some of the people who are out there that are prepared to in fact, that are fully qualified &mda
  
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• Military base shooter assailed US as 'nation of evil'

  07-12-2019 05:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A Saudi military student reportedly condemned America as a "nation of evil" in an online manifesto prior to opening fire Friday at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police.The shooting, which took place in a classroom building at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, left eight others wounded, including two sheriff's deputies who responded to the attack.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the shooter was from Saudi Arabia -- the same nationality as 15 of the 19 men
  
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• Mexico Does Not Deserve Credit For Falling Arrests At U.S. Southern Border

  07-12-2019 05:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The United States has better alternatives to deal with this crisis than abandoning its asylum laws and treating asylum seekers like criminals.
  
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• Bankrupt PG&E reaches $13.5 billion settlement with California wildfire victims

  07-12-2019 04:51 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  It filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, citing potential liabilities in excess of $30 billion from wildfires in 2017 and 2018 linked to its equipment."With this important milestone now accomplished, we are focused on emerging from Chapter 11 as the utility of the future that our customers and communities expect and deserve," Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson said in a statement.State fire investigators in May determined that PG&E transmission lines caused the deadliest and most des
  
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• Inquiry Reports Are Sent to Judiciary Panel: Impeachment Update

  07-12-2019 04:36 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Leaders of six House committees have been directed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to begin drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.The House Judiciary panel will hold a hearing Monday to hear presentations on the evidence by the chief counsels for both parties on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees.Here are the latest developments:‘Inquiry Report’ Sent to Judiciary Panel (10:25 p.m.)The “Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report,” was
  
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• Indian rape victim dies in hospital after being set ablaze

  07-12-2019 04:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A 23-year-old rape victim died in a hospital in the Indian capital two days after she was set on fire by a gang of men, including her alleged rapist, Reuters partner ANI reported on Saturday.The woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of northern Uttar Pradesh state to attend a court hearing when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire on Thursday, according to the police.Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state and has become notorious for its poor record regarding crim
  
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• Nord Stream 2 Sanctions to Be Included in Must-Pass Defense Bill

  07-12-2019 04:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Sanctions aimed at blocking the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany were included by U.S. lawmakers a must-pass defense bill, according to two people familiar with the legislation.The sanctions, which would apply to companies building the pipeline project of Russian energy company Gazprom PJSC, are modeled after a bill introduced earlier this year by Senators Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat.The measure targets vessel
  
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• If Russia Invaded Europe, Britian Would Need to Bring Back This 1 Weapon

  07-12-2019 04:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hint: It's a certain type of bomb.
  
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• Should America Fear the Chinese H-20 Stealth Bomber?

  07-12-2019 02:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Or is it even real?
  
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• UPDATE 2-Trump calls for World Bank to stop loaning to China

  07-12-2019 01:57 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called for the World Bank to stop loaning money to China, one day after the institution adopted a lending plan to Beijing over Washington's objections.The World Bank on Thursday adopted a plan to aid China with $1 billion to $1.5 billion in low-interest loans annually through June 2025.China has plenty of money, and if they don't, they create it.
  
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