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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 ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... Assange is wanted in America to face 18 charges, including conspiring to commit computer intrusion, over the publication of US cables a decade ago ... More follows…. ....
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Coronavirus: Two cruise ship passengers die in Japan after contracting virus
The Independent 20 Feb 2020
wo people have died after contracting coronavirus on board a cruise ship quarantined in Japan. The Japanese couple, who were in their 80s, died in hospital after being taken off the Diamond Princess last week ... ....
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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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Former Mexico President Pena Nieto investigated in corruption probe - report
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2020
Mexican law enforcement authorities are investigating a former president, Enrique Pena Nieto, as part of an inquiry into corruption, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday ... Lozoya, who was arrested in Spain last week, has denied wrongdoing ... He has previously denied receiving bribes from Odebrecht ... ....
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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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Suspect found dead at home after nine killed in shootings in German city
Belfast Telegraph 20 Feb 2020
A man suspected of fatally shooting nine people in the German city of Hanau has been found dead at his home, hours after attacks at two hookah lounges, police said. Officers also found another body at the same address, police said. Police gave no details of the suspected gunman but said there are “no indications of further perpetrators” ... ....
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Why are Marvel fans unhappy about Robert Pattinson's Batman suit?
International Business Times 20 Feb 2020
Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson's upcoming The Batman movie made headlines earlier this week after a camera test footage was released online. On one hand, DC fans are pretty excited to see Twilight movie hunk sporting the Batsuit but apparently, Marvel fans are not too pleased with it ... Check out a couple of tweets from some angry Marvel fans. ... ....
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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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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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At least eight killed in shootings in Germany: police
Vietnam News 20 Feb 2020photo: Public Domain / Lisa Ferdinando
Pentagon chief visits nuke base to highlight weapon spending
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2020
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration's multibillion-dollar plan for a top-to-bottom modernization of the nuclear arsenal. The costly project is necessary, he said, to keep up with Russia and outpace China ... retaliation....
