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Lebanon’s Leaders Warned in July About Explosives at Port
Hamodia 11 Aug 2020
Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded, according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources ... Reuters could not independently confirm his description of the letter....
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Russia becomes first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, says Putin
The Jakarta Post 11 Aug 2020
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess ... He said he hoped the country would soon start mass producing the vaccine ... Topics .. ....
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Trump’s attorney general under fire for calling Black Lives Matter a ‘Bolshevik organisation’ with ‘fascistic’ tactics
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
US attorney general Bill Barr made waves with a Fox News interview this weekend in which he called the Black Lives Matter movement “Bolshevik” and “fascistic” – and the fallout is still simmering ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
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Dutch police bust 'largest' cocaine lab at rural riding school
The Guardian 11 Aug 2020
Police seize drugs valued at up to €6m and arrest at least 17 suspects at stables Dutch police have busted what they said was the largest cocaine laboratory ever found in the Netherlands, built in a converted horse riding school in the country’s rural north ... ....
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Trump has a habit of seeking to bypass the US Constitution – here's why his latest executive order circus matters
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before ... That was the sequence of events which took place at the White House on February 15, 2019, three weeks after roughly 800,000 federal workers ended 35 days of not receiving a paycheck during what is still the longest partial government shutdown in US history. Download the new Independent Premium app ... ....
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Police in Kashmir probe claims of staged army gunbattle
The Oklahoman 11 Aug 2020
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said Tuesday that they are investigating allegations from three families who say their relatives were killed by the military in a staged gunbattle and buried as unidentified militants ... They were last heard from on July 17 ... An Indian army spokesman, Col ... (Story continued below...) ... ....
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Climate crisis: Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts
The Independent 11 Aug 2020
Around 127,000 years ago, during the last interglacial period, temperatures in the Arctic rose to around 2 - 6C above what they are today, eventually melting all the sea ice at the planet’s North Pole....
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Turkey to issue Mediterranean exploration licences, raising tensions with Greece
Kathimerini 11 Aug 2020
Turkey will issue gas exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, further raising tensions with Greece which said it would seek an emergency EU meeting to address the issue ... On Monday Turkey sent an exploration vessel into a disputed area, ending a brief period of calm brokered by Germany....
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Explosions hit U.S. coalition supply convoys in Iraq - sources and military say
Canada Dot Com 11 Aug 2020
BAGHDAD — At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad ... Several thousand U.S ... targets such as Washington’s embassy in Baghdad ... MULTIPLE ATTACKS....
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Belarus opposition candidate flees to Lithuania amid crackdown on election protests
CNN 11 Aug 2020
Moscow (CNN)The main opposition candidate in Sunday's disputed presidential election in Belarus has fled the country after security forces mounted a sweeping crackdown on protests over the result ... "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe. She is in Lithuania," Linas Linkevicius tweeted ... Thousands were arrested and the demonstrations resumed on Monday night ... ....
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Huawei may bring all-screen fingerprint unlock feature to future smartphones
The Times of India 11 Aug 2020
Chinese technology major has filed a patent for all-screen technology that would require smartphone users to just tap anywhere on the display to unlock their phones, as per a report by Android Authority. The patent for the technology has been filed in six international markets. China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea and the US ... Download ... Top Videos ... ....
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Covid-19: New Zealand’s largest city in lockdown after first local case in 102 days
The Irish Times 11 Aug 2020
New Zealand has recorded four new cases of Covid-19, after more than 100 days without any community transmission of the disease, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has announced at a late-night press conference. There are four confirmed cases of Covid-19 in one family in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland ... . . ....
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Trump: Biden Is Insulting Men Everywhere by Picking Woman as Running Mate
The Daily Beast 11 Aug 2020
If you’re looking for a quintessential example of fragile masculinity, look no further. President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday morning that, in pledging to pick a woman as his running mate, Joe Biden has offended men everywhere. Trump made his comments in a simpering interview with Fox Sports personality and OutKick founder Clay Travis ... ....
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Iran arrests 5 for spying for foreign intelligence services
Press TV 11 Aug 2020
Iran's Judiciary has confirmed that five Iranian nationals were recently detained on charges of spying for Israel, Britain and Germany, adding two of them have already been convicted ... They were “spying for Israel, Britain and Germany” he explained ... Meanwhile, Shirkhani has been handed a prison sentence for spying for British intelligence services ... ....
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Barcelona need a Messi miracle to beat Bayern... but new Champions League format could help
Yahoo Daily News 11 Aug 2020
Barcelona had to wait 165 days for their Champions League second leg against Napoli, but effectively wrapped up the tie inside 45 minutes on Saturday night. Like so many times in the past, a potential banana skin was negotiated thanks to the brilliance of Lionel Messi ... "It was a heavy blow," coach Quique Setien said later. "I thought he looked OK ... ....
