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Stimulus negotiations: Self-imposed deadline arrives with no sign of a deal
CNN 07 Aug 2020
Washington (CNN)This was deadline day, the day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer were aiming to have a topline agreement ... It's not even close ... This is closer to falling apart at this point than coming together. Congress is gone ... Pelosi ... ....
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Nagasaki And The Shimoda Case: When The U.S. Was Tried For War Crimes And Found Guilty
WorldNews.com 07 Aug 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling.The mention of “war crimes” usually brings the Nazis and the Holocaust to mind ... War Crimes Over Nagasaki ... Those who were not vaporized or instantly killed had their facial features burned off, their eyes melted in their sockets, and the patterns of their clothing tattooed on their flesh ... Why Nagasaki? ... J....
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Climate crisis: Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf 'disintegrates' amid intense rising temperatures
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40 per cent of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday....
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China Sentences a Fourth Canadian Citizen to Death on Drug Charges
Time 07 Aug 2020
(BEIJING) — China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court in the southern province of Guangdong....
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US consulate in Hong Kong calls collusion claims 'ludicrous'
Manila Standard Today 07 Aug 2020
The US consulate in Hong Kong on Friday said it was "ludicrous" to suggest its diplomats meeting with pro-democracy politicians could breach the city's new national security law, a charge levelled in a recent Chinese state media report ... "These meetings are neither secretive nor mysterious," the consulate said ... ....
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Erdogan says Turkey restarted drilling in eastern Mediterranean
Kathimerini 07 Aug 2020
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey had resumed energy exploration work in the eastern Mediterranean as Greece had not kept its promises regarding such activities in the region ... "We have started drilling work again," Erdogan told reporters after participating in Friday prayers at the Hagia Sophia mosque ... [Reuters] ....
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Facebook removes major QAnon group along with hundreds of accounts posing as black Trump supporters
The Independent 07 Aug 2020
Facebook has staged a major cull of fake accounts, taking down hundreds masquerading as black supporters of Donald Trump and supporters of the conspiracy theory movement QAnon – as well as one of the platform’s largest QAnon groups ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
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In Vino Veritas? Wine Can Mitigate the Symptoms of Coronavirus, Scientists Suggest
Sputnik 07 Aug 2020
As many countries around the globe continue their work on a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, Canadian scientists might have found a way to mitigate at least one symptom of the disease that wine lovers will truly appreciate ... ....
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France doesn’t want to run Lebanon: Emmanuel Macron
Deccan Chronicle 07 Aug 2020photo: AP / Matthias Schrader
Champions League: Here's how much money the winning team gets
Yahoo Daily News 07 Aug 2020
Champions League. Here. More. 07 Aug 2020. Champions League. Here's how much money the winning team gets. To earn Champions League qualification for teams across domestic leagues in Europe means a lot. There are mainly two reasons for this ... Secondly, teams are guaranteed a lot of money for just simply reaching the group stage ... Prize money ... Money ... Fact ... Fact ... ....
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Beirut explosion: Protesters tear-gassed after trying to storm Lebanon's parliament as anger grows over port blast
Yahoo Daily News 07 Aug 2020
A demonstrator is pictured amid smoke rising from tear gas during a protest near parliament in Beirut. REUTERS. Police in Beirut have tear-gassed protesters attempting to storm the nation’s parliament as fury grows over the explosion that left 145 people dead and thousands injured ... من المواجهات أمام مجلس النواب pic.twitter.com/pHdDYsm3tA ... ....
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong files court challenge to 2019 poll disqualification
Gulf Daily News 07 Aug 2020
Hong Kong. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong filed a court challenge on Friday against his disqualification from district polls, in a move which may have implications for this year’s removals of opposition candidates for the city’s legislature ... But he is against independence which is anathema for Beijing ... ....
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Burna Boy: “A revolution is needed. I want to inspire it”
NME 07 Aug 2020
Burna Boy was not a well-behaved student. Back then – before the Brit and Grammy nominations, the sold-out arena shows all around the world and the 600million streams of his irresistible music – he was Damini Ogulu, a recalcitrant schoolboy in southern Nigeria, skipping classes and getting into trouble ... ‘Bro, you’re being brainwashed’.” ... Getty ... ....
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Dutch cyclist Jakobsen out of coma after crash: Race organisers
The Times of India 07 Aug 2020
WARSAW. Dutch cyclist has awoken from a medically-induced following a horrific crash in and is now in "good" condition, race organisers said on Friday. "We have good news from the hospital in Sosnowiec! @FabioJakobsen is awake now from the coma. Condition is 'good'," the Tour of Poland said on Twitter ... Download ... Sports. ....
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Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage
Open Democracy 07 Aug 2020
On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave across a radius of more than 7 kilometres. The explosion was heard as far away as Cyprus, but it was felt across the whole world. It is hard to measure the size of the human loss at this point ... Join the COVID-19 DemocracyWatch email list ... Sign up ... ....
