| Trump administration briefing on Iran angers Republican senators, boosts effort to restrict presidential power Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:06 PM PST  A briefing by Trump administration officials about the U.S. military strike that killed Iran's most famous general backfired on Wednesday, angering two Republican senators and driving them to support a Democratic effort to require congressional approval for any further military engagement.
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| Devastating images of burned koalas and wallabies are emerging from Australia as 1 billion animals are feared dead Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:57 PM PST  Despite rescue efforts, tens of thousands of koalas are feared dead on one island alone. Ecologists worry fires could wipe out endangered species.
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| Trump Signs Emergency Declaration for Puerto Rico After Quake Posted: 07 Jan 2020 08:28 PM PST |
| Jimmy Kimmel Dunks on GOP Rep Who Tweeted Fake Obama-Iran Photo Posted: 07 Jan 2020 10:28 PM PST  The day after congressman Paul Gosar posted a fake photo of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Jimmy Kimmel had some harsh words for the Arizona Republican. "If you're not familiar with this guy, he's the congressman whose own siblings—his brothers and sisters—took out an attack ad against him during the midterms and endorsed his opponent," Kimmel said in his monologue Tuesday night. After showing the fake photo, which was accompanied by the caption, "The world is a better place without these guys in power," the host explained just how misleading it was. "Obama never met the guy," he said. "And the guy is still the president of Iran." Ronan Farrow Not 'Optimistic' About Harvey Weinstein Trial, Calls Out Manhattan DA Cyrus VanceStephen Colbert Blasts Trump's 'Tragically Ill-Conceived' Move Toward War With IranIn response to the many reporters and others on Twitter who pointed out the error, Gosar tweeted, "No one said this wasn't Photoshopped. No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met with Rouhani in person.""Well, OK then!" Kimmel shot back "'No one said this wasn't Photoshopped?' Is that the standard now? You can post whatever you want and leave it to us to figure out if it's Photoshopped? Because if that's the case I have a photo of Paul Gosar being spanked by Jared from Subway that I would like a lot of people to see." Then Kimmel shared another "real photo" of President Donald Trump "happily shaking tiny hands with the guy who ordered the murder of a reporter for the Washington Post." He helpfully added, "That is not Photoshopped." Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Japanese man pleads not guilty to killing 19 due to mental health Posted: 07 Jan 2020 07:16 PM PST  A Japanese man accused of stabbing 19 disabled people to death pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a dramatic trial session interrupted when he seemed to put something in his mouth, struggled with court officials and lay on the floor writhing. Satoshi Uematsu, 29, a former care home worker accused of killing 19 disabled people and wounding 26 in a care center in 2016 - one of post-war Japan's worst mass killings - was removed from the court and did not return when the trial resumed. Before the interruption, Uematsu's lawyer said Uematsu acknowledged details of the indictment were true, but he has a psychiatric disorder that led to diminished capacity at the time of the incident.
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| Why Did U.S. Missile Defense Fail In September's Saudi Oil Attack? Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:45 AM PST  Saudi Arabia might find itself a lot more open to attack than it thinks.
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| UN Security Council declares commitment to 'international law' as tensions flare Posted: 09 Jan 2020 09:57 AM PST  The UN Security Council on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to "an international order based on international law" amid fears of armed conflict between the United States and Iran. The declaration was issued at the start of a debate on the UN Charter which had been tabled before the present crisis by Vietnam, a non-permanent member of the Security Council and which assumes the rotating presidency this month.
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| 11 Bathroom Seating Options Beyond the Toilet Posted: 09 Jan 2020 05:00 AM PST |
| It looks like Iran is ready to start bombing its fake aircraft carrier again Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:12 PM PST  Iran looks to have fixed its fake aircraft carrier after using it for target practice years ago, meaning it may be planning to start hitting it again.
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| US allies see Mideast strategy vacuum that Putin can fill Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:37 AM PST  He was the leader on the world stage, visiting troops stationed in a far-flung war zone for the holidays, shoring up alliances and economic deals in the Mideast, requesting a meeting with the German chancellor in his capital, portraying himself and his country as reliable partners in an increasingly uncertain world. Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a busy week, stepping into the aftermath of the American drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Putin's visit Tuesday to Syria was emblematic of a reality that has been playing out in recent months: The U.S. strategic position in the Middle East is a mystery to many of its allies, and Russia is more than ready to fill any vacuum.
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| Ask the Captain: What goes into landing a plane on an icy, slippery runway? Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:00 AM PST  Though landing in icy conditions is challenging, it can be done safely, says aviation columnist John Cox. Here's how pilots manage to land safely.
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| Trump wants to know 'How are your 409K's doing' in this 'all-time high' stock market Posted: 09 Jan 2020 07:56 AM PST  President Trump knows business. He knows the stock market. And he thinks he knows what should be happening to your "409K's" right about now.After stock market indexes rose to record highs early Thursday, Trump sent a tweet asking "HOW ARE YOUR 409K'S DOING?" If they're "only 50 percent up," he continued, well, "What are you doing wrong?"(Screenshot/@RealDonaldTrump on Twitter)Trump eventually deleted his tweet and corrected it to "401K's," which are indeed an actual thing.> STOCK MARKET AT ALL-TIME HIGH! HOW ARE YOUR 401K'S DOING? 70%, 80%, 90% up? Only 50% up! What are you doing wrong?> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2020But not before Time's Alex Fitzpatrick noted that a Sept. 2019 Gallup report found only 55 percent of Americans own stock, and well, 90 percent up from zero is still zero.More stories from theweek.com The world is abandoning America 37 TV shows to watch in 2020 5 scathing cartoons about Trump's Iran mess
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| Five maximum security prison officers attacked, UK counter-terrorism police investigate Posted: 09 Jan 2020 01:32 PM PST |
| China Would Rather You Forget Their Losing a War Against Vietnam Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:08 PM PST  In 1979 the PLA didn't live up to expectations.
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| Losing Iowa Isn’t an Option for Bernie Sanders Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:08 AM PST  Iowa is key for every 2020 contender. For Bernie Sanders, it might be everything. For weeks, a polling famine has left few clues into who could capture enough fire to win the Iowa caucus. One highly anticipated survey released on Sunday served pundits a cold political buzzkill—showing a three-way tie between Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigeg—and providing an opaque glimpse into the unknown status of the February's inaugural event. The high production value Democratic debates, set to descend on Des Moines next Tuesday, have done little to tip the scales either: the same leading trio have qualified to compete on stage for the seventh time, as they have during each prior televised event. But as Feb. 3 nears, some Democratic strategists, pollsters, and activists at the national and early state levels are giving a cautious nod to the notion that if Sanders competes strongly enough to win the Hawkeye State, he could activate an avalanche of successes that would significantly complicate the path forward for the rest of 2020's top tier. "For everybody else in the field, it's a problem if Sanders wins the first two," Jeff Link, a longtime Democratic pollster in Iowa, told The Daily Beast. "He's going to have a head of steam going into Nevada and South Carolina and Super Tuesday."Sanders' campaign has gone to great lengths to ensure that happens, launching a do-or-die offensive focused on locking down the state he narrowly lost as an insurgent alternative to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Now, for the first time in the cycle, he leads polling averages, showing an upward trajectory over the past several months. In nearly a dozen Iowa surveys released since mid-October, when Sanders re-emerged more energized after suffering a heart attack, he has remained firmly in place, or, at times, risen in standing. "Bernie Sanders is enormously underrated in this race," Peter Leo, chairman of Iowa's Carroll County Democratic Party, said. "He's come back stronger than ever. I've even noticed the amount of energy the man has post-surgery." Looking to capitalize on that momentum, the Vermont Independent has taken care to distance himself from his top rivals, escalating in rhetoric and campaign materials with just weeks until voting commences. In an interview with CNN on Monday night, Sanders sought to contrast his record with Biden's on issues of particular significance to Midwestern voters. His critique of the North American Free Trade Agreement, one of his campaign's signature attacks, argues it cost American workers "millions of jobs." On Tuesday morning, he published an op-ed in the Des Moines Register, the influential paper whose endorsement several presidential aspirants are courting, seeking to draw sharper distinctions with his rivals on health care and other progressive issues. "Unlike some of our opponents, we are not proposing to appease pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance industry that are bankrupting over 500,000 people every year and denying Americans adequate medical treatment—we are going to end their profiteering once and for all," he wrote.In the latest CBS/YouGov poll, Sanders is tied with Biden and Buttigieg at 23 percent, with each hypothetically securing a similar number of delegates out of the caucuses, the survey indicates. That is to say, Sanders' status as a frontrunner remains viable, but tenuous. While he enjoys the enthusiastic energy of a massive volunteer base of grassroots supporters, and the highest fundraising haul of any contender to date, totalling $34.5 million in the fourth quarter, he's within striking distance of Buttigieg and Biden in multiple matchups, with some Democrats on the ground scratching their heads about who might have an edge, and wondering where Sanders fits into the mix. "No one is really showing their volunteer armies yet," Sean Bagniewski, chairman of the Polk County Democrats in Des Moines, said. "It might shock the hell out of us."Following just seven days after Iowa, in New Hampshire, where Sanders swept in 2016 by double-digits, he has a home-away-from-home edge. Having traveled to the state during the 2018 midterm elections (some operatives quipped he never really stopped campaigning after 2016), Democrats in the Granite State recognize Sanders as a familiar and formidable force. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who also enjoys a possible neighboring state advantage, has slipped in recent surveys, falling to a distant fourth place from Sanders' first. "If Bernie wins those first two states, I think the establishment will have a collective freakout the likes of which we have never seen before," Rebecca Katz, a progressive Democratic strategist, said. "We're in for a very long and hard fight with lots of ugly attacks and big money spent."Gaming out a scenario where Sanders wins Iowa, more than a half-dozen Democratic operatives, pollsters, and activists interviewed acknowledged the possibility that a New Hampshire victory could likely follow, turning voters' attention to the Nevada caucus, which was viewed as a critical turnaround moment in Clinton's campaign."It's hard to argue that it doesn't change the calculus," one progressive strategist familiar with Sanders' 2016 early state operation said, arguing that if Sanders wins the first three contests, including Nevada—a possibility multiple Democrats privately acknowledged, with various degrees of confidence and skepticism—it could have a catalytic effect on the rest of the primary. "If that happens there's no stopping him," the strategist said. Nevada hasn't seen a poll since mid-November. Two surveys released that month place Sanders and Warren in a statistical tie, well behind Biden in the top slot. In aggregate averages, the former VP dominates by 10 points. But Sanders has recently gained traction with Hispanic voters, a critical base of supporters in Nevada courted by multiple candidates that the senator has also targeted through much of his 11-month campaign. In the latest Fox News poll, Biden leads Sanders by 6 percentage points overall. But 31 percent of Hispanic voters are backing Sanders over Biden, who earns 24 percent. "Bernie's ground game in Nevada is off the hook," a separate unattached Democratic strategist said. That echoes Sanders' national uptick with Hispanic voters, following his endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in October. Sanders now has a 12-point lead over Biden with Hispanic voters nationally, capturing more than a third of that voting bloc, according to a recent Morning Consult poll. All of that legwork leads to South Carolina, the first-in-the-South primary conventionally expected to serve as a firewall for Biden, who enjoys overwhelming support from African American voters in the state. The former vice president is a favorite to win the primary, with multiple sources pointing to his consistent support from one of the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies. The stars would have to align perfectly for all of that to change—that is, for Biden's support with black voters to evaporate—and for Sanders to be the heir apparent to that collapse. Anything is possible, strategists and party officials say, but it would be a tall order."I think there's a lot of fluidity here," Carol Fowler, the former South Carolina Democratic Party Chair, said. "But I don't think it's going to be as determined by Iowa's outcome as it was in 2008."In the lead-up to the 2008 primary, the smart money was on Hillary all the way. Then, when little-known freshman senator Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus, the electoral calculus realigned in his favor, with a significant population of voters in South Carolina voting to elect the first black president.Fowler cautions it's trickier this time to imagine such an outcome boosting Sanders. "While of course Bernie has some support, I don't see his support growing all that much because of what happens in Iowa and New Hampshire." In 2016, when Clinton was up again after competing eight years prior in the state, she overperformed expectations, handily creaming Sanders, a defeat his team has taken steps to avoid repeating in 2020. Since the launch of his campaign in March, Sanders has traveled to South Carolina multiple times, picking up a variety of endorsements from local elected officials, including a mayor who formerly backed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who dropped out in December. His efforts have caused other party officials to take note. "I have been very interested and somewhat impressed to see that Bernie Sanders appears to have learned from the mistakes Bernie Sanders made in 2016," Trav Robertson, the South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, told The Daily Beast. "He's not campaigning at the African-American community, he's campaigning in the African-American community."Antjuan Seawright, a South Carolina-based Democratic strategist, included Biden alongside Sanders in his calculation. "If Bernie is the winner of Iowa and New Hampshire and Biden wins Nevada and South Carolina, I think they're both well positioned to compete in Super Tuesday," Seawright said. "Bernie's fundraising haul gives him the ability to compete in multiple places."While polling shows an overwhelming South Carolina lead for Biden—coming in at 35 percent in averages to Sanders' 15.3 percent—some surveys suggest that gap may be narrowing. Asked for comment about state strategy, a Sanders campaign official pointed a Post and Courier/Change Research poll, the most recent data available in the state, which shows Sanders gaining the most ground of any candidate in South Carolina. In that survey, the Vermont senator is within 7 points of Biden. In addition, a separate poll offers another way for Sanders to crack Biden's firewall: as a default pick. A Quinnipiac University survey from November shows that 17 percent of Biden supporters list Sanders as their second choice favorite, the most of any candidate. Multiple strategists acknowledge that if Biden underperforms expectations in the early contests leading up to the Palmetto State primary, that 2 option becomes more relevant."It is absolutely irrational to deny momentum," Robertson said. "I do think Bernie Sanders has learned from his campaign in 2016, and I've seen it."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Furore after top Bollywood star attends student demo Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:42 AM PST  One of Bollywood's top stars sparked a social media storm on Wednesday, attracting admiration and vitriol after showing solidarity with students who were attacked at a Indian university this week. Indian film stars have traditionally shied away from politics, fearing their films could be boycotted or their safety threatened. The protest came two days after masked attackers went on a rampage inside the campus of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), leaving 34 students and faculty members injured.
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| These are the nationalities of the 176 people killed in the Ukraine International Airlines crash in Iran Posted: 08 Jan 2020 01:32 AM PST  The victims were 82 Iranian citizens, 63 Canadians, and 11 Ukrainians, as well as citizens from Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, and the UK.
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| Teen grateful to be alive after 30 hours in Utah mountains Posted: 09 Jan 2020 07:13 AM PST  A California teenager who survived nearly 30 hours alone in the snowy Utah mountains said Wednesday he kept himself awake with phone alarms, built a snow cave for shelter and held a special beaded bracelet to keep his hopes up. Nicolas Stacy-Alcantara, 17, of Fresno, was visiting Utah to see an ex-girlfriend and decided to go for a day-long hike in relatively mild weather last week, he said. The teen took an Uber up a canyon east of Salt Lake City, bringing six peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and 40 ounces of water with him.
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| McConnell Says Senate Will Move on if Pelosi Does Not Submit Impeachment Articles by Week’s End Posted: 09 Jan 2020 11:20 AM PST  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Thursday that the Senate would move on and "get back to the people's business" if the House continues to withhold the articles of impeachment through the end of the week."This conversation is over," McConnell said from the Senate floor. "Should future House majorities feel empowered to waste our time with junior varsity political hostage situations? Should future Speakers be permitted to conjure up this sword of Damocles at will and leave it hanging over the Senate unless we do what they say? Of course not."House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she expects to send the two impeachment articles the House passed against President Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, over to the Senate for a trial "probably soon.""I'm not holding them indefinitely. I will send them over when I'm ready, and that will probably be soon," Pelosi said Thursday at her weekly press briefing, explaining that House Democrats are waiting to see what the Senate's "terms of engagement" will be.McConnell remained loath to accept the Speaker's explanation for the delay, however."Look. There is real business for the American people that the United States Senate needs to complete," the Kentucky Republican said. "If the Speaker continues to refuse to take her own accusations to trial, the Senate will move forward next week with the business of our people. We will operate under the assumption that House Democrats are too embarrassed to ever move forward."Pelosi has faced increasing pressure to send the articles to the Senate, including from members of her own party."If it's serious and urgent, send them over. If it isn't, don't send it over," remarked California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein."I think the time has past. She should send the articles over," Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, said."The Speaker of the House has managed to do the impossible. She has created this growing bipartisan unity here in the Senate in opposition to her own reckless behavior," McConnell quipped.House Democrats have initiated "one of the most grave and most unsettling processes in our Constitution and then refused to allow a resolution of it," the Senate majority leader said before accusing the lower chamber of subjecting the country to an "unending Groundhog Day of impeachment without resolution."
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| Croatia Vows to Fight for EU Hopes of North Macedonia, Albania Posted: 09 Jan 2020 08:39 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.Croatia aims to revive the European Union membership prospects of North Macedonia and Albania over the coming four months by assuaging French objections to EU enlargement, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said.Plenkovic signaled that plans by the EU to revamp the method for evaluating aspiring members' readiness provide an opportunity to win over French President Emmanuel Macron by a May summit. Croatia took over the EU's six-month rotating presidency on Jan. 1."We'd like to find a solution unblocking the process with Albania and North Macedonia by the time of the Zagreb summit," Plenkovic told reporters Thursday. "We have a chance to strengthen our influence in Europe and we feel responsible for supporting the European path of our neighbors in the region."Macron crushed the longstanding hopes of the two Balkan countries to begin EU membership talks during the first half of 2020 by vetoing the timetable last October. He said the bloc needed to tighten its vetting of countries seeking EU accession to ensure adequate respect for the rule of law.The French move, supported by the Netherlands, exposed a rift with Germany and most other EU nations keen to dangle the promise of entry to safeguard political stability in the western Balkans, a politically volatile region. The stalemate led to the resignation earlier this month of North Macedonia's prime minister, Zoran Zaev, whose pro-EU credentials left him politically wounded by Macron's snub.The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, intends later this month to propose changes to the bloc's accession process. Plenkovic, who met Macron in Paris earlier this week to discuss the matter, sounded upbeat about the possibility of finding common ground.To contact the reporters on this story: Jasmina Kuzmanovic in Zagreb at jkuzmanovic@bloomberg.net;Jonathan Stearns in Zagreb at jstearns2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrea Dudik at adudik@bloomberg.net, ;Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Michael Winfrey, Andras GergelyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Relax: The Pentagon Isn't Drafting You for WWIII by Text Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:48 PM PST  This is what an actual modern draft would look like.
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| Montana girl Selena Not Afraid, 16, has been missing since New Year's Day. The FBI is asking for help to find her Posted: 08 Jan 2020 08:52 PM PST  The FBI on Wednesday alerted to a missing Montana girl, Selena Not Afraid, 16, who disappeared on New Year's Day near an interstate rest area.
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| 25 photos show what Iran looked like before the 1979 revolution turned the nation into an Islamic republic Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:11 AM PST  From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
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| Christ's bodyguards: the men protecting the Philippines' revered Catholic icon Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:45 PM PST  Frenzied crowds, exhaustion and blazing heat were dangers bearing down on the cadre of guards who shield one of the Philippines' most revered Catholic icons from the believers desperate to touch it. The protectors served as human shields on Thursday, as they do every year, during the procession through Manila of the historic statue of Jesus Christ that believers say grants miracles to those who touch it. Miracles attributed to the Black Nazarene have made it powerfully revered in Asia's bastion of Catholicism, and also engendered a class of admirers desperate to reach it.
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| EU chief warns UK must compromise to get Brexit trade deal Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:17 AM PST  Three weeks before Britain is due to leave the European Union, the president of the European Commission warned Wednesday that the U.K. won't get the "highest quality access" to the European Union's market after Brexit unless it makes major concessions. In a friendly but frank message to the U.K., Ursula von der Leyen said negotiating a new U.K.-EU trade deal will be tough.
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| How the U.S. Assassinated The Man Responsible for Pearl Harbor Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:30 PM PST  Admiral Yamamoto's death in 1943 was a major turning point in the war in the Pacific.
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| Iranian commander vows ‘harsher revenge soon’ against U.S. Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:49 AM PST  The remarks come from IRGC senior commander Abdollah Araghi.
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| Many victims of Britain's most prolific rapist didn't know they had been assaulted until police told them Posted: 08 Jan 2020 06:23 AM PST  Reynard Sinaga was convicted of 159 sexual offences and was described by British prosecutors as the most prolific rapist to be brought to justice.
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| A senator wants to ban the US from sharing intelligence with countries using Huawei 5G — which is most of America's allies Posted: 09 Jan 2020 03:49 AM PST  The US has been desperately trying to convince allies to freeze out Huawei's 5G kit for a year, with limited success.
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| 23 Exoplanets That Could Be a 'Second Earth' Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:59 PM PST |
| Ten years after deadly Haiti quake, survivors feel forgotten Posted: 08 Jan 2020 06:39 PM PST  Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Ten years ago, Herlande Mitile was left disabled by the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti. Today, she uses a wheelchair jury-rigged with a piece of string, which means she cannot go far.
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| Exclusive: U.N. investigators find Yemen's Houthis did not carry out Saudi oil attack Posted: 08 Jan 2020 01:18 PM PST  Yemen's Houthi group did not launch an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities in September, according to a confidential report by U.N. sanctions monitors seen by Reuters on Wednesday, bolstering a U.S. accusation that Iran was responsible. The United States, European powers and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the Sept. 14 attack on the Saudi Aramco oil plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, dismissing a quick claim of responsibility by the Iran-allied Houthis.
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| Croatia Says Short Brexit Transition Would Pose Test for Talks Posted: 08 Jan 2020 08:55 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Croatia, which just took over the European Union's six-month rotating presidency, signaled any deal between the bloc and post-Brexit Britain on a future relationship would be limited should the negotiating deadline be end-2020."We have to be realistic in understanding how much time we have ahead of us if we want to conclude," Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told reporters on Wednesday in Zagreb, the capital.The U.K. is on course to leave the EU by Jan. 31 after Prime Minister Boris Johnson scored an overwhelming victory in last month's national elections on a pledge to "get Brexit done."Expected U.K. parliamentary approval of a hard-fought withdrawal agreement between Britain and its 27 EU partners will trigger a transition phase until end-2020. During this period, the economic status quo will be maintained while both sides negotiate on their future trade, political, security and other relations.Under the Brexit deal, the transition phase could be prolonged by as long as two years. Such a decision would have to be taken by mid-2020.Since his election win, Johnson has said he would forgo the opportunity for any extension of the transition beyond this year. The U.K.'s EU partners aim to approve a mandate for negotiations with Britain in late February on the future relationship."We should adopt a negotiating framework that is inclusive, but also approach it in a realistic manner," Plenkovic said on Wednesday.To contact the reporters on this story: Jonathan Stearns in Zagreb at jstearns2@bloomberg.net;Jasmina Kuzmanovic in Zagreb at jkuzmanovic@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, ;Andrea Dudik at adudik@bloomberg.net, Michael Winfrey, Andrew LangleyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 1 skier still missing after deadly avalanche at Idaho resort Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:16 AM PST  One skier remains missing at an Idaho resort where an avalanche on Tuesday killed two skiers and injured four others. The resort said it received a telephone call Wednesday morning from a concerned family member of the missing skier who was confirmed to be skiing there at the time of the avalanche. Resort officials said Wednesday afternoon that an intense search with dogs did not find the missing person.
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| Pelosi says she'll send Senate articles of impeachment against Trump 'soon' Posted: 09 Jan 2020 01:10 PM PST  "No, I'm not holding them indefinitely," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. "I'll send them over when I'm ready. That will probably be soon."
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| Police detective convicted of inventing a crime to imprison innocent man is allowed to walk free by judge Posted: 09 Jan 2020 03:45 AM PST  A police detective who fabricated a fake assault and lied under oath in order to imprison an innocent man has been spared jail time.Former NYPD officer Michael Bergmann, 34, filed a criminal complaint claiming that a burglary suspect – whose car he had reportedly been pulling over for months in order to find grounds for his arrest – had tried to run him over in such a manner that the offending vehicle left skid marks on the ground.
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| A Border Patrol agent who separated migrant families says it was 'the most horrible thing I've ever done' Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:37 AM PST  A Border Patrol agent told PBS's "Frontline" that he had to separate a devastated two-year-old boy from his family and he refused to do it again.
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| Russia's Akula-Class Attack Submarines Still Strike Fear Into Sailors' Hearts Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:00 PM PST  A powerful and deadly stealth sub.
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| US Army to field Israeli-made long-range missile on helicopters Posted: 09 Jan 2020 07:59 AM PST  An Israeli-made missile is joining the family of Army airborne munitions, but on an interim basis, as the service fleshes out its requirements for weapons that get after greater standoff.
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| 'Megxit': How the world's newspapers reacted to Harry and Meghan's news Posted: 09 Jan 2020 04:19 AM PST  The decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to quit life as senior royals surprised the world on Wednesday.
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| US officials reportedly think Iran may have been shooting to miss as missile attack in Iraq leaves no casualties Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:05 AM PST  US officials, according to several reports, have said they suspect Iran was been shooting to miss, aiming at places where Americans were not.
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