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Stimulus negotiations: Self-imposed deadline arrives with no sign of a deal
CNN 07 Aug 2020
Washington (CNN)This was deadline day, the day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer were aiming to have a topline agreement ... It's not even close ... This is closer to falling apart at this point than coming together. Congress is gone ... Pelosi ... ....
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Nagasaki And The Shimoda Case: When The U.S. Was Tried For War Crimes And Found Guilty
WorldNews.com 07 Aug 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling.The mention of “war crimes” usually brings the Nazis and the Holocaust to mind. But the United States has its own dark history of scorched earth policies filled with massacres, rape, bio-chemical warfare, and concentration camps ... War Crimes Over Nagasaki. And then there was Nagasaki ... Why Nagasaki? ... J....
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Climate crisis: Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf 'disintegrates' amid intense rising temperatures
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40 per cent of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday....
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China Sentences a Fourth Canadian Citizen to Death on Drug Charges
Time 07 Aug 2020
(BEIJING) — China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court in the southern province of Guangdong....
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Erdogan says Turkey restarted drilling in eastern Mediterranean
Kathimerini 07 Aug 2020
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey had resumed energy exploration work in the eastern Mediterranean as Greece had not kept its promises regarding such activities in the region ... He said Turkey's Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa, a seismic survey vessel, had been sent to the region to carry out its duties ... [Reuters] ....
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US consulate in Hong Kong calls collusion claims 'ludicrous'
Manila Standard Today 07 Aug 2020
The US consulate in Hong Kong on Friday said it was "ludicrous" to suggest its diplomats meeting with pro-democracy politicians could breach the city's new national security law, a charge levelled in a recent Chinese state media report ... "These meetings are neither secretive nor mysterious," the consulate said ... ....
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Facebook removes major QAnon group along with hundreds of accounts posing as black Trump supporters
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
Facebook has staged a major cull of fake accounts, taking down hundreds masquerading as black supporters of Donald Trump and supporters of the conspiracy theory movement QAnon – as well as one of the platform’s largest QAnon groups ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
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Beirut explosion: Protesters tear-gassed after trying to storm Lebanon's parliament as anger grows over port blast
Yahoo Daily News 07 Aug 2020
A demonstrator is pictured amid smoke rising from tear gas during a protest near parliament in Beirut. REUTERS ... Calls for change had already rung out in the city’s streets earlier in the day after French president Emmanuel Macron surveyed the city where the deadly blast left roads strewn with glass and 5,000 people injured ... August 6, 2020 ... ....
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In Vino Veritas? Wine Can Mitigate the Symptoms of Coronavirus, Scientists Suggest
Sputnik 07 Aug 2020
As many countries around the globe continue their work on a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, Canadian scientists might have found a way to mitigate at least one symptom of the disease that wine lovers will truly appreciate ... ....
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Burna Boy: “A revolution is needed. I want to inspire it”
NME 07 Aug 2020
Burna Boy was not a well-behaved student. Back then – before the Brit and Grammy nominations, the sold-out arena shows all around the world and the 600million streams of his irresistible music – he was Damini Ogulu, a recalcitrant schoolboy in southern Nigeria, skipping classes and getting into trouble ... ‘Bro, you’re being brainwashed’.” ... Getty ... ....
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France doesn’t want to run Lebanon: Emmanuel Macron
Deccan Chronicle 07 Aug 2020photo: AP / Matthias Schrader
Champions League: Here's how much money the winning team gets
Yahoo Daily News 07 Aug 2020
Champions League. Here. More. 07 Aug 2020. Champions League. Here's how much money the winning team gets. To earn Champions League qualification for teams across domestic leagues in Europe means a lot. There are mainly two reasons for this ... Secondly, teams are guaranteed a lot of money for just simply reaching the group stage ... Prize money ... Money ... Fact ... Fact ... ....
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong files court challenge to 2019 poll disqualification
Gulf Daily News 07 Aug 2020
Hong Kong. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong filed a court challenge on Friday against his disqualification from district polls, in a move which may have implications for this year’s removals of opposition candidates for the city’s legislature ... But he is against independence which is anathema for Beijing ... ....
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Biden launches new ad aimed at black Americans
The Gleaner 07 Aug 2020
DETROIT (AP). Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on black Americans, urging them to stand up to President Donald Trump the way their ancestors stood up to “violent racists of a generation ago”. The... ....
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Barack Obama could be pioneer of the dad-shoe trend
The Siasat Daily 07 Aug 2020
Washington D.C. [USA]. Former American President Barack Obama seems to have started the dad-shoe trend with his off-duty looks. According to Footwear News, in several images of Obama’s off-duty look, he is seen wearing loose-fit, straight bottom denim and New Balance sneakers are cemented in the perception of the public ... ....
