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Pompeo: Iran must be held accountable for Baghdad attacks
Gulf News 19 Feb 2020
Addis Ababa ... “There has to be accountability connected to those very serious attacks.”. Pompeo was referring to a February 16 incident in which several rockets landed inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, causing minimal damage and no injuries ... Tehran denied involvement in that incident ... Pompeo countered that the US was ready to talk any time ... ....
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Trump offered to pardon Assange if he covered up Russian interference in US election, court told
The Independent 19 Feb 2020
Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he covered up Russia's inteference in the 2016 US election, a court has heard. The explosive claim emerged as Assange, 48, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court ahead of an extradition hearing next week ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks" ... ....
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'Could you live on $170 a month?' Russian woman asks Putin
The Times of India 19 Feb 2020
SAINT PETERSBURG. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday faced what appeared to be a rare unscripted grilling from a Russian woman who asked him how much he earns and whether he could live on her income of $170 a month ... A woman in a hooded coat pushed through and immediately asked Putin ... "We are solving them," Putin said ... Top Videos ... ....
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Ending Putin's Support of Venezuela No Easy Feat for US
Voa News 19 Feb 2020
In October 2016, the head of Russia's largest oil company traveled to the birthplace of Hugo Chavez, in the empty, sweltering plains of Venezuela, to unveil a giant bronze statue of the late socialist leader that he and his longtime friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, commissioned from a prominent Russian artist ... adversaries ... sanctions ... ....
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Is America Propagating One Holocaust (Jewish) While Erasing Another (Palestinian)?
WorldNews.com 19 Feb 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. News from many of the state’s boards of education couldn’t have been more demanding. Dictated by the Trump administration and the United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education, public school teachers must now implement Holocaust Remembrance Week ... The U.S ... “Portraits Of Empire....
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Iran state news agency says new virus has killed 2 citizens
Yahoo Daily News 19 Feb 2020
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The new virus has killed two elderly Iranian citizens, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported Wednesday ... No additional details were released. Earlier on Wednesday, Iranian authorities confirmed two cases of the new virus, the first in the country, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency ... ___ ... ....
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Caroline Flack’s death ruled suicide, coroner says
WPXI 19 Feb 2020
Coroners have ruled that former “Love Island” host Caroline Flack died by suicide, officials said Wednesday. Flack, 40, who left the British reality television show in December 2019 after she was charged with assault, was found dead at her apartment Saturday, People reported ... Content Continues Below ... “My heart is broken,” Burton wrote on Instagram ... ....
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Duke and Duchess of Sussex to begin new life on March 31
Wtop 19 Feb 2020
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are breaking free of the royal family starting March 31, the couple’s office said Wednesday. The announcement comes as Buckingham Palace reviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s use of the label “Sussex Royal” after their decision to step back from royal duties....
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KSRTC bus accident: At least 20 killed as bus collides with truck in Coimbatore
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2020
The bus was on its way to Ernakulam from Bengaluru. (ANI). At least 20 people were killed and several injured in a major accident in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore early on Thursday morning after a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus collided with a container truck ... Read this story in Malayalam, Tamil ... "48 passengers were on board ... ....
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Turkey’s Erdogan Says Syria Talks With Russia Unsatisfactory; Offensive ‘Matter of Time’
Hamodia 19 Feb 2020
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday talks with Russia on the conflict in Syria‘s northwestern Idlib province were far from meeting Turkey’s demands and he said a military operation there was a “matter of time.” ... Several rounds of talks with Moscow had failed to reach an agreement, he said ... ....
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George Zimmerman sues Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren over tweets honouring Trayvon Martin
The Independent 19 Feb 2020
George Zimmerman, the Florida neighbourhood watchman famously acquitted after killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has filed a lawsuit against Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg over tweets the presidential candidates posted to commemorate the shooting victim's birthday ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... “He should still be with us today.”....
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Blockchain for the Environment: It Is Real and It Is Here
The Coin Telegraph 20 Feb 2020
Blockchain technology could be the main tool in the efforts to combat climate changes .......
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At least eight killed in shootings in Germany: police
Vietnam News 20 Feb 2020photo: AP / Rob Griffith
Malaysia suspected MH370 downed in murder-suicide: Aussie ex-PM
The Jakarta Post 19 Feb 2020
Shares. Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed "very top" level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberated downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people – mostly from China – en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ... ....
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