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Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria
China 14 Oct 2019
Syria's Kurds on Sunday announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara pressed a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry. The announcement came as the United States ordered the withdrawal of almost its entire ground force in Syria ... [Photo ... [Photo....
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The US is rethinking the 50-plus nuclear weapons it keeps in Turkey
Quartz 13 Oct 2019
Turkish forces are pushing into northern Syria, replacing and sometimes even firing on the US troops retreating at Donald Trump’s orders. The question of whether Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is really a US ally was put to US defense secretary Mark Esper on Fox television this morning ... Which brings up a problem....
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Russia ‘bombed four hospitals in Syria in four hours’, report finds
The Independent 13 Oct 2019
The Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria in order to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad, according to an investigation by The New York Times ... A new front in the conflict opened this week, when Turkish forces crossed the border as part of a campaign against a Kurdish-led militia ... Subscribe now....
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Has He Been Found? Hunter Biden Steps Down From Chinese Firm Amid Criticism From Trump
Sputnik 13 Oct 2019
Donald Trump has previously called on China to investigate alleged illegal activities of Joe Biden’s son Hunter, following the latter’s leading position within a private Chinese company linked to state enterprises ... “Hunter undertook these business activities independently”, Biden’s attorney George Mesires said in a statement....
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Woman dropped 40 metres from rescue helicopter among 19 dead in Japan typhoon
Metro UK 13 Oct 2019
More than 27,000 military troops and other aid personnel have been been deployed to help with the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis (Picture. AP/Getty). More than 27,000 military troops have been deployed to help rescue people trapped in floods after ferocious Typhoon Hagibis caused devastation across Japan ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Mr Suga said ... ....
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Russia already HAS weapons that can penetrate ANY missile defense, but its development won’t stop ...
Russia Today 12 Oct 2019
Russian engineers have developed brand-new countermeasures to any foreign missile shield, Vladimir Putin has told reporters, adding that its existing weapons have also been upgraded, to meet the requirements of modern warfare ... But Russia has done its utmost to be one step ahead of its near-peer rivals, Putin assured his interviewer ... ....
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‘World’s greatest archaeological dispute’ to be decided as Indian supreme court wraps up Ayodhya hearing
Yahoo Daily News 13 Oct 2019
India will this week wrap up a hearing on an archaeological dispute that has divided the nation for decades, pitting powerful organised religious groups against a deity itself ... The incident sparked riots across the country ... Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP campaigned on a pledge to build a new temple to Lord Ram on the demolished Babri Masjid site ... ....
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Scientists Believe An Ancient Black Hole Could Be Within Our Own Solar System, Orbiting The Sun
IFL Science 13 Oct 2019
In 2016, researchers suggested that the bizarre orbits of six objects in the solar system's Kuiper Belt could be influenced by the gravity of a mysterious distant planet that scientists had never seen ... The black holecould have roughly 10 times Earth's mass and be the size of a bowling ball ... Or cosmic rays." ... Planet Nine ... Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) ... Caltech ... ....
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Up to 35 dead as Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2019
Tens of thousands of rescuers worked through the pre-dawn hours Monday to reach people trapped by landslides and floods in Japan caused by a powerful typhoon that has killed up to 35, officials and local media said ... One elderly woman wearing an orange life vest was brought out from a boat on the back of a hard-hat wearing rescuer ... ....
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Poland's Ruling Party Declares Victory in Divided Nation
Voa News 14 Oct 2019
Poland’s conservative governing Law and Justice party won the most votes in Sunday’s election in the deeply divided nation and appeared, according to an exit poll, to have secured a comfortable majority in parliament to govern for four more years ... That would translate into 239 seats, a majority in the 460-seat lower house of parliament....
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Defensive Mike Pompeo accuses reporter of working for Democrats after question about Ukraine texts
Raw Story 12 Oct 2019
In an interview clip shared by CNN’s Frederika Whitfield, a tense and defensive Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused multiple times to answer whether he was working with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani during a trip to Warsaw, before accusing the reporter of working for the Democrats. In the clip, courtesy of WSMV […] ... ....
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Tunisia Polls Suggest Conservative Professor Wins Election
Voa News 13 Oct 2019
A conservative, Islamist-backed law professor looked set to assume Tunisia’s presidency after polling agencies suggested he overwhelmingly won Sunday’s runoff election in the country that unleashed the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings ... This is only Tunisia’s second free presidential election ... A crowd gathers on Tunis' main avenue, Oct. 13, 2019 ... ....
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Brexit: Boris Johnson’s hard line on immigrants risks ‘retaliatory deportations’ for UK citizens in Europe
The Independent 14 Oct 2019
Botched announcements by Boris Johnson’s government are putting over a million British citizens living on the continent at the risk of “retaliatory deportations” and other consequences after Brexit, the prime minister has been warned ... ... We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view ... Subscribe now ... ....
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Kenya's Brigid Kosgei smashes 16-year women's marathon world record in Chicago
Russia Today 13 Oct 2019
Brigid Kosgei broke the world record set 16 years ago Britain's Paula Radcliffe as the Kenyan won the Chicago women’s marathon ... The 25-year-old retained her Chicago title with the win, adding it to her win in London earlier this year where she became the youngest ever winner of the race with a time of 2.18.20 ... WORLD RECORD ... ....
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Ecuadorian indigenous leaders agree to dialogue with government
China.dot.org 13 Oct 2019
QUITO, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) said Saturday that it will take part in the "direct dialogue" advocated by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno after ten days of anti-government protests ... Enditem ....
