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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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Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his running mate
Vox 11 Aug 2020
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has officially chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Harris, who ran for the presidency herself, is a historic choice. She’s the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to be a major-party nominee for the vice presidency ... And she and Biden are close ideologically ... ......
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Belarus president cuts off internet amid widespread protests
The Guardian 11 Aug 2020
Belarusians seeking to protest against his government have been mostly cut off from the outside world ... .......
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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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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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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 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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'Bullying' Apple fights couple over pear logo
BBC News 11 Aug 2020
In its filing with the US patent office, the firm says the Monsons' pear logo "consists of a minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf, which readily calls to mind Apple's famous Apple Logo and creates a similar commercial impression, as shown in the following side-by-side comparison" ... Ms Monson said the comparison took them by surprise ... ....
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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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Sheep Farmer’s Alleged Baby Food-Based Bitcoin Extortion Attempt Thwarted
XBT.MONEY 11 Aug 2020
A resident from Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, was accused by local authorities of attempting to blackmail the supermarket chain, Tesco. According to The Yorkshire Post, Nigel Wright, a sheep farmer, allegedly wrote Tesco a series of letters claiming that he had planted contaminated baby food in their supermarket stores ... Source. CoinTelegraph .......
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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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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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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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Sharon Stone writes memoir that doesn't 'pull any punches'
The Oklahoman 11 Aug 2020photo: AP / Susan Walsh, File
Trump says 'great' bond with China's Xi changed after COVID-19
Canada Dot Com 11 Aug 2020
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping has frayed in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic and that he has not spoken to his Chinese counterpart in a long time ... “I had a great relationship with President Xi ... Trump said his feelings changed amid COVID-19....
