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Shooting at Florida base prompts questions about screening of foreign military students
Stars and Stripes 07 Dec 2019
A shooting at a U.S. military base in Florida by a Saudi military student has prompted questions about how the U.S. government scrutinizes candidates for military exchange programs as the Pentagon highlighted the layers of screening already in place ... After the attack, Sen. Rick Scott, R.-Fla., called for a "full review" of U.S ... Sen ... Rep ... .......
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North Korea's U.N. envoy says denuclearization off negotiating table with United States
Reuters 07 Dec 2019
North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations said on Saturday that denuclearization is already off the negotiating table with the United States and lengthy talks with Washington were not needed ... ....
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The truth about whether Boris Johnson is misleading voters over his Brexit deal
The Independent 06 Dec 2019
Jeremy Corbyn has unveiled a confidential government report which he claims provides "cold, hard evidence" that Boris Johnson misled the public over a critical part of his Brexit deal with the EU. The Labour leader said the Treasury document, entitled "NI protocol ... 1 What has Boris Johnson said before? ... 2 What does the leaked document say? ... ....
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If Tehran is pushed too far, it may hit out in ways that are disastrous
The Guardian 07 Dec 2019photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Australian firefighters worry about wildfires approaching Sydney
Yahoo Daily News 06 Dec 2019
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to contain nearly 150 fires burning in New South Wales state on Friday as strong winds fanned the flames and again shrouded Sydney, Australia's biggest city, in hazardous smoke ... Fires are still burning in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland states ... ....
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slammed For Boast: ‘Won’t You Look At That: Amazon Is Coming To NYC Anyway’
Inquisitr 07 Dec 2019
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Mega bushfire near Sydney ‘too big to put out’
The Siasat Daily 07 Dec 2019
Sydney. Australian fire officials warned on Saturday that a mega bushfire raging across a 60 km front north-west of Sydney cannot currently be put out. The Gospers Mountain mega blaze, which is a combination of several fires, across almost 300,000 hectares is just an hour’s drive from the nation’s most-populous city, the BBC reported....
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Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn
The Guardian 07 Dec 2019
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R Kelly’s girlfriend Azriel Clary moves out of his house to ‘distance herself’ from the drama
Metro UK 07 Dec 2019
Azriel Clary has moved out of R Kelly’s home (Picture. Getty/Rex). One of R Kelly’s girlfriends, Azriel Clary, has moved out of his home in a bid to distance herself from the drama surrounding the singer ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Azriel and Joycelyn are R Kelly’s long-time live-in girlfriends (Picture. AP) ... R ... Rex Features) ... More. R Kelly ... Advertisement....
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Tensions as yellow vests join French retirement protests
Artesia Daily Press 07 Dec 2019
PARIS (AP) — Paris police skirmished Saturday with yellow vest activists joining a wave of protest actions against the government’s overhaul of France’s national retirement system, as highway blockades and train stoppages disrupted weekend travel around the country ... The travel chaos is not deterring the government so far, though ... ___ ... ....
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Air strikes kill 19 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
The Times of India 07 Dec 2019
AL-BARA (SYRIA). Syrian regime and Russian air strikes on Saturday killed 19 civilians, eight of them children, in the country's last major opposition bastion, a war monitor said. The air raids in the jihadist-run northwestern region of Idlib also wounded several others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ... more from times of india news....
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US says drone shot down by Russian air defenses near Libyan capital
Arab News 07 Dec 2019
The US military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, US Africa Command says ... “But they certainly know who it belongs to now and they are refusing to return it ... Christopher Karns ... TIPPING THE BALANCE....
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Real Madrid ease past Espanyol to move top of La Liga
Independent online (SA) 07 Dec 2019
MADRID – Real Madrid's Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema scored in each half to earn a comfortable 2-0 win over Espanyol that sent their team provisionally top of La Liga on Saturday. Madrid were not at their best but moved three points clear of rivals Barcelona, who host Real Mallorca in the late game ... We played well and they did too ... Reuters ....
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Mexican President Praises Trump Decision to Delay Terrorist Designation for Drug Cartels
US News 07 Dec 2019
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to... ....
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Iranian, American freed in prisoner swap
Gulf News 07 Dec 2019
Tehran. 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 Sulaimani from the United States shortly before Washington declared American researcher Xiyue Wang was returning home ... AP ... ....
