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US declares 'most' of China's maritime claims in South China Sea illegal
CNN 14 Jul 2020
(CNN)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a formal rejection of "most" of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea, the latest in the escalation between Washington and Beijing. Describing the move as "strengthening U.S ... "The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire ... Everyone wears a mask ... ....
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France celebrates virus heroes on redesigned Bastille Day
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jul 2020
France is recalibrating Bastille Day’s usual grandiose military parade to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic instead. Ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers, postal workers as well as frontline medics who died fighting Covid-19 are all being honoured on the country’s biggest national holiday ... AP/PA Images. / ... AP/PA Images. / ... ....
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Attacking Hong Kong dollar peg would hurt those the US hopes to help
South China Morning Post 14 Jul 2020
The United States is unhappy with China’s new national security law for Hong Kong and is seeking ways to express its disquiet. Some advisers to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have reportedly suggested taking measures that would undermine the Hong Kong dollar’s Linked Exchange Rate System (LERS), its peg to the US dollar ... ....
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Two arrested after bomb threat forces Ryanair flight to divert to Stansted
The Independent 14 Jul 2020
Two men have been arrested after a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing due to a bomb threat ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... ....
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US swaps Venezuelan fuel oil for Russian products
Russia Today 14 Jul 2020
The United States has been raising its imports of fuel oil from Russia over the past year and a half after the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s exports, Reuters reported on Monday, quoting data from Refinitiv Eikon ... Also on rt.com Russia supplies first shipment of Arctic oil to China ... Also on rt.com China set to fall short on US energy purchases ... ....
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WHO chief: Pandemic 'going to get worse and worse and worse'
The Hill 13 Jul 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is raging out of control in North and South America, and that the virus will continue spreading unimpeded unless governments and individuals take the steps needed to suppress its transmission ... European countries confirmed just 18,804 new cases on Saturday ... .......
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Sound of the police: how US law enforcement uses noise as a weapon
The Guardian 14 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Bielbienneboy
Pic of Johnny Depp Covered in Ice Cream Emerges Online Amid Libel Trial Against the Sun
Sputnik 14 Jul 2020
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is currently suing British newspaper The Sun over a 2018 article referring to him as a “wife-beater” following the claims of his ex-wife Amber Heard. For the second week in a row, the UK’s High Court has been hearing a slew of provocative details about the couple’s one-year marriage ... ....
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Was Glinka anti-Semitic? MSM ‘gets facts wrong’ as it fumes over Berlin’s plans to rename metro station after Russian composer
Russia Today 14 Jul 2020
The woke idea of renaming a Berlin metro station after Russian composer Mikhail Glinka has enraged some German media which call him an anti-Semite. But those behind the accusations simply have the facts wrong, experts told RT ... For Glinka, ethnicity played no role. The accusations, however, do not appear to stand up to criticism....
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Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in U.S. state Colorado
China.dot.org 14 Jul 2020photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
Key questions: Letters show Queen unaware of plan to remove former Australia PM
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jul 2020
Newly-released correspondence has revealed Her Majesty was not informed of her representative to Australia’s decision to dismiss then-prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975 and replace him with opposition leader Malcolm Fraser. Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key questions surrounding the release of the letters ... PA. / ... / ... Sir John wrote ... / ... ....
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Zinedine Zidane 'really proud' of Real Madrid after club secures ninth consecutive win
Yahoo Daily News 14 Jul 2020
Granada [Spain], July 14 (ANI). After Real Madrid registered their ninth consecutive win in La Liga, manager Zinedine Zidane said he is 'really proud' of the team but insisted them not to lose focus as they haven't 'achieved the objective yet' ... We can't ask for anymore ... (ANI). ....
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Judge delays first US federal executions in 17 years
News24 14 Jul 2020
A United States appeals court has maintained a suspension of the first federal executions in the country in 17 years, rejecting a government request to overturn a lower court's delay ... ....
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US COVID-19 vaccine program to start manufacturing by late summer, says US official
The Jakarta Post 14 Jul 2020
Drugmakers partnered with the US government are on track to begin actively manufacturing a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said on Monday ... He added that the administration is already working with companies to equip and outfit manufacturing facilities and acquire raw materials ... Topics .. ....
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Artificial Intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
The Times of India 14 Jul 2020
WASHINGTON DC. Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities, all the configurations that would lead to collisions would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds ... He is the lead author on a paper detailing the approach in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... ....
