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South Africa President Is Accused of Misleading Parliament About $36,000 Donation
New York Times 19 Jul 2019
President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered conflicting accounts about the money, given by a company that is involved in a government corruption inquiry ... ....
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz
The Independent 19 Jul 2019
Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard has seized a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the organisation said ... Subscribe now ... . ....
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U.S. Has Evidence That Iranian Drone Was Destroyed, Senior Official Says
National Public Radio 19 Jul 2019
President Trump said a U.S. Navy warship took down the drone in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. But Iranian has denied that it lost a drone. (Image credit. Lance Cpl. Israel Chincio/11th Marine Expeditionary Unit) .......
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US Prosecutors Charge New York Man For Allegedly Fighting For ISIS
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
Kazakhstan-born and naturalized American Ruslan Maratovich Asainov was arraigned on Friday in New York for providing material support for a terror group after he was captured in Syria as a sniper for the Islamic State, according to National Public Radio ... He also asked for the informant to send him $2,800 so that he could buy a scope for his rifle ... ....
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Don’t Be Too Quick To Dismiss Man Who Attacked ICE To Free Jailed Migrants
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In Leo Tolstoy’s “Resurrection,” a Russian novel about prisons and a nobleman who sought redemption for a sin committed years earlier, he wrote of an encounter in which an old man mutters semi-coherently his jailers were the Antichrist ... Nor was he commissioned by an authoritarian leader or state....
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US Ambassador Criticizes Polish Towns Advocating 'LGBT-Free Zones'
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
United States Ambassador in Poland Georgette Mosbacher said he was "concerned and disappointed" in the conservative government's support of a magazine planning to distribute "LGBT-free zone" stickers and continued attacks on LGBT rights on Friday, according to Bloomberg ... Ambassador in Poland Mosbacher said in a Twitter post on Friday ... ....
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Donald Trump Trolled For Asking Yazidi Activist Nadia Murad 'They Gave You Nobel Prize For What'; Watch Video
Yahoo Daily News 19 Jul 2019
Washington, July 19. United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 17, met Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad. During the meet, Trump appeared confused and unfamiliar with the work and cause of Murad, who urged him to help the Yazidis in Iraq ... Also Read ... Watch Video.. Also Read ... — The National (@TheNationalUAE) July 18, 2019 ... ....
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Venezuelans Fret Over Trump Administration's Latest Immigration Restrictions, Deportations
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
A new report from the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said one in five Venezuelans are undernourished due to the crisis, which makes up for nearly all the recent growth in hunger in South America ... But the new rule will also apply to Cubans, Africans, and Venezuelans seeking to gain asylum at the U.S ... Venezuelans already in the U.S....
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President Bolsonaro says claims of hunger in Brazil ‘a big lie’
Raw Story 19 Jul 2019
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of “poor people in the street with a skeletal physique” as evidence ... “There is […] ... ....
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Kosovo Prime Minister Resigns After Being Summoned As War Crimes Suspect
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned on Friday from his position after receiving an invitation by the Special Tribunal in the Hague for questioning as a civilian suspect for war crimes, according to The Maila Bulletin. Haradinaj has been Prime Minister since the early elections in 2017 ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth
Dawn 19 Jul 2019
China's Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on Friday under controlled conditions, completing the latest round of experiments in Beijing's ambitious space programme ... A small amount of the spacecraft's debris fell into a “predetermined safe sea area in the South Pacific”, according to the agency ... ....
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Taiwan Government Says It Could Offer Asylum To Hong Kong Protesters
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
While visiting the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said her government would consider granting asylum to the Hong Kong protesters based on humanitarian grounds on Friday, according to Deutsche Welle ... She made the comments in response to some of the protesters discussing seeking asylum in Taiwan ... ....
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Athens earthquake: Strong tremor felt in Greek capital causing people to run into streets
The Independent 19 Jul 2019photo: AP / Eric Gay
How People Are Beating The Major Heatwave Stretching From Texas To The East Coast
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
Half of the United States was dealing with a massive heatwave stretching from the Midwest through the East Coast on Friday and into Saturday as temperatures reach nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C) in Washington, D.C. and several other major cities, according to USA Today. ... Utility companies in the eastern half of the U.S ... Dr....
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Chinese Social Media Outraged Over Yingying Zhang's Killer Being Spared The Death Penalty In The US
WorldNews.com 19 Jul 2019
After a 30-year-old United States citizen was spared the death penalty for kidnapping and murdering 26-year-old Zhang Yingying on federal charges in Illinois, Chinese users on social media platforms expressed their outrage on Friday, according to The Guardian ... Zhang's family and boyfriend both supported the pursuit of the death penalty ... ....
