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CIA Special Unit Takes More Belligerent Stance Toward Iran
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant — just hours after it happened — the explosions on two Norwegian and Japanese oil tankers were the responsibility of Iran, Vijay Prashad of the Independent Media Institute writes in AlterNet.Iran did this, Pompeo said, and Iran would have to pay the price ... ship was assaulted ... Not on U.S ... ....
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Teenager who called Prince Harry a 'race traitor' sentenced
The Guardian 18 Jun 2019
Michal Szewczuk detained for encouraging terrorism on far-right website A teenager who described Prince Harry as a “race traitor” in an online post has been sentenced to four years and three months in a young offender institution ... .......
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Shanahan Withdraws As Defense Secretary Nominee After FBI Probes Domestic Incident
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has "decided not to go forward with his confirmation process" on Tuesday, according to Politico ... "I thank Pat for his outstanding service and will be naming Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, to be the new Acting Secretary of Defense ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Couple die after falling from 27th floor of Hong Kong building
South China Morning Post 18 Jun 2019
Police are investigating after a Hong Kong couple fell to their deaths from a 27th-floor flat on Tuesday.Emergency personnel were called in shortly before 5.30pm when the man and woman fell from Kam Lai House, at Kam Tai Court on Ning Tai Road, Ma On Shan ... ....
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Astronomers searching for alien life release biggest set of data in history
The Independent 18 Jun 2019
Astronomers say they are releasing the biggest set of data ever made public in the search for alien life. Researchers from Breakthrough Listen – a $100 million alien-hunting project launched by luminaries including Stephen Hawking – says it has completed the "most comprehensive and sensitive" search for signatures of alien technology ever performed....
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was probably pilot suicide/murder
Boing Boing 18 Jun 2019
At The Atlantic, William Langewiesche meticulously catalogs and narrates the flight and dissapearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 ... The pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was known to friends to be lonely and depressed, and had played out the bizzare flight to nowhere on Microsoft Flight Simulator. He is surely a mass-murderer and a suicide ... ....
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Anger in India as lychee-linked brain fever kills 103 children
Raw Story 18 Jun 2019
Angry protests erupted in one of India’s poorest states Tuesday over the deaths of more than 100 children from a mysterious brain fever potentially linked to lychees. So far this month 103 children, mostly under 10 and malnourished, have died from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the Muzaffarpur area of the eastern state of Bihar ... ....
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Ana Kriegel murder: Two 14-year-old boys found guilty of killing schoolgirl same age in Dublin
The Independent 18 Jun 2019photo: AP / Yves Logghe
Doctors Say Climate Change Will Lead To More Cases Of Flesh-Eating Bacteria
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019
A new study published this week is warning East Coast beach-goers a dangerous flesh-eating bacteria is on the rise at their local spots, potentially due to warming water temperatures related to climate change, according to CBS News ... Katherine Doktor, an infectious disease specialist at Cooper University Health Care, told CNN ... The U.S....
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US Seizes More Than $1 Billion Worth Of Cocaine In Historic Philadelphia Port Drug Bust
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019
Federal authorities revealed they found 16.5 tons of cocaine on a cargo ship in Philadelphia on Tuesday, making it one of the largest drug seizures in United States history, according to Yahoo News. “This amount of cocaine could kill millions - MILLIONS - of people,” Philadelphia-based U.S. Attorney William McSwain said on Twitter ... The U.S ... The U.S....
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Greece, Cyprus Urge EU To Penalize Turkey Over Drilling
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019photo: AP / Andrew Harnik
Trump threatens to deport millions starting next week as he prepares to announce 2020 bid
The Independent 18 Jun 2019
Donald Trump has promised to begin deporting “millions” of people living in the US illegally, on the eve of the formal announcement of his 2020 presidential re-election campaign, ... He also praised Mexican efforts to prevent illegal border crossings. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view ... Subscribe now ... ....
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Former Federal Prosecutors Call On Congress To Continue Mueller's Work
WorldNews.com 18 Jun 2019
Two former federal prosecutors Barbara McQuade and Joyce Vance wrote a new report for NBC News on Tueday which emphasized even though Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded his Russia investigation, there is still work for Congress to pick up, according to AlterNet ... Nothing could be further from the truth," McQuade and Vance wrote....
