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Saudi crown prince heads for Pakistan amid India tensions
Yahoo Daily News 17 Feb 2019
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is due to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday at the start of his tour of South Asia and China, but the visit risks being overshadowed by escalating tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan ... Islamabad denies playing a role and has called for an investigation ... ....
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Jim Carrey Gives Trump Some Rough Fore-Play in Latest Political Artwork
The Wrap 16 Feb 2019
Jim Carrey came out swinging at Donald Trump with his latest political cartoon. Actor-artist Carrey took a shot at Trump Saturday, gifting fans with a cartoon reflecting on Trump’s recent decision to declare a national emergency in an effort to build a wall along the U.S. border, and the president’s fondness for hitting the links....
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French Police Fire Tear Gas Amid More 'Yellow Vest' Violence
Voa News 16 Feb 2019
French police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who threw projectiles and set bins on fire in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux on Saturday, as the 14th straight weekend of "yellow vest" protests took a violent turn in the afternoon ... The ministry's estimate in Paris was 4,000 protesters, compared with 5,000 last week. ....
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India's newly launched fast train hits cattle hurdle
Dawn 16 Feb 2019
India's first semi-high speed train broke down on Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service ... “The train later experienced technical issues and was stranded on the way to Delhi,” Indian Railways spokeswoman Smita Vats Sharma told AFP ... Explore ... ....
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Heather Nauert withdraws bid for US envoy to UN
The Siasat Daily 17 Feb 2019
Washington. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Saturday (local time) withdrew herself from consideration for the nomination of the US ambassador to the United Nations. US President Donald Trump will announce a new nominee for the post soon, according to the State Department. In a statement, Nauert said ... Ambassador to the United Nations ... ANI....
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Jussie Smollett's lawyers hit out at allegation that attack was staged
RTE 17 Feb 2019
Lawyers representing Empire star Jussie Smollett have said he is "angered and devastated" by claims that the alleged racist and homophobic attack on the actor in Chicago was staged, adding that "nothing is further from the truth" ... In a statement, Smollett's legal team later said ... ....
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Son of Mozambique's ex-president arrested in graft case
Gulf News 17 Feb 2019
Maputo. The son of Mozambique's former president Armando Guebuza was arrested on Saturday in a legal crackdown on suspects linked to a $2 billion (Dh7.3 billion) government debt scandal, local media and judiciary sources said. Ndabi Guebuza, the oldest of Guebuza's four children, was picked up from his home in the capital, Maputo ... Where's the cash? ... ....
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Trump’s emergency: the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat
Yahoo Daily News 16 Feb 2019
The phrase “national emergency” conjures up images of riots in the streets and burning cities, a disease pandemic killing millions, or an inter-planetary invasion by little green men from Mars. Donald Trump’s national emergency, over his thwarted plans to build a border wall with Mexico, is prompted by none of these horrors ... “It’s an invasion ... ....
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Japan PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after US request: report
The News International 17 Feb 2019
Japan´s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after being requested to do so by Washington, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday ... The report came after Trump´s claim on Friday that Abe had nominated him for the prize ... "Many other people feel that way, too ... That´s okay." ... ....
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In east Syria, IS in last stand to defend dying 'caliphate'
This is Money 17 Feb 2019
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces rest during an operation to expel Islamic State group jihadists from their last bastion in eastern Syria. Diehard jihadists have blocked roads out of the last scrap of their Islamic State group "caliphate" in Syria, US-backed forces fighting them said Sunday, preventing hundreds of civilians from fleeing ... ....
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Employee being fired fatally shoots 5 co-workers in Illinois
Hawaii Tribune-Herald 16 Feb 2019
AURORA, Ill. — A 15-year employee being fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company started shooting Friday, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was killed by police, authorities said ... — which makes valves for industrial purposes — in the city about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago ... ....
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Military planes carrying 180 tons of aid for Venezuelans fly from Miami to Colombia
The State 16 Feb 2019
A shipment of humanitarian aid by the United States that flew out of Miami landed in this Colombian border city on Saturday as part of efforts in response to the humanitarian crisis in neighboring Venezuela ... and nearly to 60 other countries. Trump plans to address the Venezuelan crisis during a gathering in Miami on Monday. Sign Up and Save ... SHARE ... By ... ....
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Iran takes aim at 'hateful' Pence comments
This is Money 17 Feb 2019
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif piled pressure on the EU telling Brussels that a trade mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Iran was inadequate and it needed to do more if it wanted to save the nuclear accord ... But while Zarif welcomed the EU's political support, he said it was not enough, and demanded Europe "walk the walk" ... ....
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11 killed, 15 injured in Boko Haram Attack on Maiduguri
This Day 16 Feb 2019
Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri. Eleven persons were killed and fifteen others injured in Saturday’s Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, the Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Damian Chukwu, disclosed ... He said they shot sporadically and detonated IEDs strapped to their bodies ... ....
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St Petersburg: University building partly collapses in Russian city
The Independent 16 Feb 2019
A university in St Petersburg has partially collapsed, according to Russian state news. Several walls have falled inside the building and emergency services fear that people are trapped under the debris ... Subscribe now. ....
