| Trump on Democrats' impeachment inquiry: 'We're kicking their ass' Posted: 08 Nov 2019 09:28 AM PST  President Trump on Friday continued to rail against the ongoing impeachment inquiry launched by House Democrats, saying there is no need to hold public hearings because he did nothing wrong in his "perfect" call with Ukraine.
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| Greta Thunberg shuts down heckler at climate rally Posted: 08 Nov 2019 12:40 PM PST  "I think if you want to speak with me personally, maybe you can do it later," the 16-year-old Swedish activist said to a woman who tried to interrupt her speech in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.
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| Teenagers charged with murder of photographer after pushing six-foot log off cliff as she took pictures of class below Posted: 09 Nov 2019 12:13 PM PST  Two teenagers are facing murder charges after a six-foot log fell from a cliff and killed a photographer taking school pictures below.Victoria Schafer, 44, was killed instantly when the 74-pound log fell about 75 feet and hit her as she photographed students for their senior pictures near Old Man's Cave at Hocking Hills State Park, in Ohio, on 2 September.
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| Judge stays 'Texas 7' gang member execution for second time Posted: 08 Nov 2019 12:20 PM PST  A federal judge on Thursday stayed the execution of a "Texas 7" gang member who was convicted in the killing of a police officer because the state has refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber.
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| U.S. seen as 'exporter of white supremacist ideology,' says counterterrorism official Posted: 08 Nov 2019 03:24 PM PST  After an upsurge in racially motivated attacks around the world, other countries are beginning to regard the United States as an exporter of white supremacism, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday.
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| Jeff Sessions Senate bid: Can he overcome Trump? Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:23 AM PST  Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he is running for Senate to reclaim a seat he gave up to join the Trump administration. Will his high profile disagreement with the president keep him from getting back to Congress?
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| 2020 Honda Civic Si, Updated, Is Even More Fun for the Money Posted: 09 Nov 2019 03:10 PM PST |
| TIMELINE-Indian court hands disputed site to Hindus; Muslim group unhappy Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:02 PM PST ![TIMELINE-Indian court hands disputed site to Hindus; Muslim group unhappy]( "TIMELINE-Indian court hands disputed site to Hindus; Muslim group unhappy") India's Supreme Court on Saturday awarded a Hindu group the ownership of a centuries-old religious site also claimed by Muslims in a case that has caused deep divisions and deadly riots between the two communities. 1528 - The mosque in Ayodhya, in what is now India's biggest state of Uttar Pradesh, was built by Mughal emperor Babur, according to documents produced by Muslim groups in court. 1949 - Muslim groups accuse government officials of conniving with Hindu monks to place an idol of an infant Lord Ram in the grounds of the mosque.
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| Intelligence community unveils plans for disclosing foreign electoral interference; promises no 'partisan politics' Posted: 08 Nov 2019 01:21 PM PST  New guidelines are designed to enable the prompt disclosure of information about threats.
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| Oklahoma woman imprisoned in failure-to-protect case is free Posted: 08 Nov 2019 10:36 AM PST  An Oklahoma woman whose sentence for failing to report her boyfriend's abuse of her children was far harsher than his for the abuse itself wiped away tears and hugged family and friends Friday as she was released after 15 years. Tondalao Hall, 35, left a women's prison in McLoud, Oklahoma, after serving about 13 more years behind bars than her boyfriend, who pleaded guilty in 2006 but was released on probation with credit for time served. "Blessed to be with my family, I just want to be with my family," Hall said as she walked away from the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center on the eastern edge of Oklahoma City.
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| U.K. Conservatives Still Ahead of Labour in Opinion Polls Posted: 09 Nov 2019 04:26 PM PST ![U.K. Conservatives Still Ahead of Labour in Opinion Polls]( "U.K. Conservatives Still Ahead of Labour in Opinion Polls") (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.'s Conservative Party was ahead of the opposition Labour Party as the campaign for the Dec. 12 general election picked up steam., according to several polls published over the weekend. The ruling Conservatives had 41% support compared with 29% for Labour, according to Opinium's poll issued Saturday for the Observer newspaper. The Tories were at 42% last week and Labour at 26%.The Liberal Democrats were third, with 15%, followed by the Brexit Party at 6% and the Scottish National Party at 5%. The online survey of 2,001 U.K. adults was carried out from Nov. 6 to 8.There's a 9-in-10 chance that the true value of a party's support lies within 4 points of the estimates provided by the poll, and a 2-in-3 chance that they are within 2 points, according to Opinium.The YouGov poll for The Sunday Times also showed Conservatives at 41%, which was unchanged from the prior week.Labour was at 26%, Liberal Democrats at 17% and the Brexit Party at 10%. The poll surveyed 1,598 adults from Nov. 7-9 and the margin of error was not specified.The Conservatives maintained a 12 percentage points lead over the Labour Party from last week, according to Deltapoll's national opinion survey for the Mail on Sunday newspaper.Voting intentions for the Conservatives and Labour rose by 1 percentage point to 41% and 29% while support for Liberal Democrats increased 2 percentage points to 16%.The Brexit Party saw a decline of 5 percentage points to 6%, according to Deltapoll that surveyed 1,518 people online between Nov. 6 and 9.To contact the reporter on this story: Madison Park in San Francisco at mpark197@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Sebastian Tong at stong41@bloomberg.net, Steve GeimannFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Hundreds of Indian Sikhs make historic pilgrimage to Pakistan Posted: 09 Nov 2019 07:47 AM PST  Hundreds of Indian Sikhs made a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan on Saturday, crossing through a white gate to reach one of their religion's holiest sites, after a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. Cheering Sikhs walked joyfully along the road from Dera Baba Nanak in India towards the new immigration hall that would allow them to pass through a secure land corridor into Pakistan, in a rare example of cooperation between the nuclear-armed countries divided by decades of enmity. Buses were waiting on the Pakistani side to carry them along the corridor to the shrine to Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak, which lies in Kartarpur, a small town just four kilometres (2.5 miles) inside Pakistan where he is believed to have died.
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| A white restaurant manager was sentenced to 10 years for enslaving and beating a black man Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:27 AM PST ![A white restaurant manager was sentenced to 10 years for enslaving and beating a black man]( "A white restaurant manager was sentenced to 10 years for enslaving and beating a black man") A white restaurant manager in South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving and torturing an African American cook
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| Indian court rules in favor of Hindus in explosive row with Muslims Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:34 PM PST  India's Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Hindu group on Saturday in a centuries-old dispute with minority Muslims over a place of worship in northern India that has been a lightning rod for tension between the two communities. The court said the disputed land be handed over to a Hindu trust to build a temple while Muslims will be provided a separate parcel of land. A lawyer for a Muslim group said the decision was disappointing and the group was likely to file a review petition.
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| Impeachment transcript details intrusion by GOP Rep. Gaetz Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:24 AM PST  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff did not take kindly to a protest waged by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
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| Jeffrey Epstein death memes and conspiracy theories are everywhere. This is why they're so popular. Posted: 09 Nov 2019 10:49 AM PST  The theory that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered is widespread and pervasive. Its popularity illustrates our growing distrust in public institutions.
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| Harris, Warren compete for support from black female voters Posted: 09 Nov 2019 05:29 AM PST  Kamala Harris got a much needed boost this past week when the California senator picked up the endorsement of Higher Heights, the country's largest political organization aimed at electing black women. A day after Harris' announcement, the Massachusetts senator won the backing of more than 100 black female activists. The dueling endorsements signal an emerging battle between Warren and Harris for the support of black women, who are the Democratic Party's most loyal and consistent voters.
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| More Dictator Than God: Kim Jong-Un's Cult Of Personality Is Going Strong Posted: 08 Nov 2019 05:40 AM PST  But it can't last forever.
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| South Korea to End Intel-Sharing Pact With Japan as Planned Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:27 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. South Korea reiterated its plans to terminate a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a symbolic deal between the two major U.S. allies."Our position on the termination of GSOMIA hasn't changed," according to a presidential Blue House official who declined to be identified, confirming the Nov. 23 termination of the General Security of Military Information Agreement signed three years ago. "We don't think the termination would weaken the alliance with the U.S."The report followed Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha's comments at parliament earlier in the day, where she said the decision "disappointed" the U.S., and Seoul would reconsider the termination of the pact if Japan cancels its July move to restrict exports to South Korea.Relations between the two U.S. allies have soured to the worst level in decades since the South Korean Supreme Court ordered a Japanese company to compensate former Korean workers conscripted during the 1910-1945 colonial times. Japan, which says all such claims were settled under a 1965 treaty, responded with tighter checks on exports to South Korea, citing national security concerns. Seoul has also stripped its neighbor from a list of trusted export destinations.To contact the reporter on this story: Kanga Kong in Seoul at kkong50@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Shamim Adam at sadam2@bloomberg.net, Ville HeiskanenFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| US demands Russia, Syria stop air strikes killing civilians Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:02 AM PST  The United States on Friday demanded that the Syrian government and its Russian allies stop air strikes in northwestern Syria, saying they had a pattern of attacking civilians. An AFP correspondent on Wednesday saw a rescue worker carry the limp body of a tiny girl, her throat covered in blood, in the village of Al-Sahaara in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib. The US State Department said that attacks in the northwestern area over the previous two days had struck a school and a maternity hospital, killing 12 people.
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| Buffalo Wild Wings employee dies after exposure to 'common' cleaning agent, 10 others hospitalized Posted: 08 Nov 2019 05:27 AM PST  An employee of a Buffalo Wild Wings in Massachusetts died and 10 others were hospitalized after exposure to a cleaner inside the restaurant.
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| Slain in Mexico, seven-month-old twins buried in rain-swept funeral Posted: 07 Nov 2019 10:08 PM PST  Suspected cartel gunmen attacked Rhonita Miller LeBaron, 30, and four of her children on Monday, also striking two other vehicles, killing a total of three women and six children on an isolated dirt road in the hills of Sonora. All of the victims were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. "We pray, Father, that good will come out of this terrible incident, that the way may be opened up for this country to find justice for those that don't have a voice," said Rhonita's father-in-law, Kenny Miller, speaking at the graveside where children lay flowers as a soft rain fell.
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| Nikki Haley: ‘There’s Just Nothing Impeachable’ About Trump’s Actions Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:29 PM PST  Stephanie Keith/GettyAs the impeachment inquiry against him heats up, President Trump appears to have gotten perhaps his most dramatic defense yet from former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley: According to her, impeachment proceedings are akin to "the death penalty for a public official" and Trump simply doesn't deserve the death penalty. In excerpts from an interview with CBS News released late Friday, Haley scoffed at the idea that Trump would actually be removed from office."You're going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn't happen and giving money and it wasn't withheld?" Haley told CBS' Norah O'Donnell. "I don't know what you would impeach him on."The former ambassador, who resigned in late 2018, went on to liken impeachment proceedings to capital punishment."And look, Norah, impeachment is like the death penalty for a public official. When you look at the transcript, there's nothing in that transcript that warrants the death penalty for the president," she said, referring to a transcript of the July 25 phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president that sparked the impeachment inquiry.O'Donnell pushed back, noting that the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, Alexander Vindman—who listened in on the call—had testified to Congress that the rough transcript of the call released by the White House was not complete."There's still things that are missing from it," O'Donnell said."The Ukrainians never did the investigation, and the president released the funds," Haley replied. "I mean, when you look at those, there's just nothing impeachable there.""I think the biggest thing that bothers me is the American people should decide this," Haley added, apparently taking issue with Congress' constitutional right to impeach a president if deemed appropriate. "Why do we have a bunch of people in Congress making this decision?"The first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry are slated to begin next week—with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and two top diplomats, William Taylor and George Kent, expected to testify. The inquiry was sparked by a whistleblower complaint about the July 25 call. The whistleblower raised concerns about Trump leveraging military aid to pressure Ukraine into investigating widely debunked corruption allegations against his potential political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, along with alleged 2016 election interference by Ukrainians.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Rep. Matt Gaetz barged into Fiona Hill deposition Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:42 AM PST  According to transcripts released by House Democrats, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, in a heated exchange with Rep. Adam Schiff, was told to leave the closed-door Fiona Hill deposition.
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| Pakistan opens visa-free border crossing for India Sikhs Posted: 09 Nov 2019 06:11 AM PST  The prime ministers of India and Pakistan inaugurated Saturday a visa-free border crossing for Sikh pilgrims from India, allowing thousands of pilgrims to easily visit a Sikh shrine just inside Pakistan each day. Imran Khan and Narendra Modi held separate opening ceremonies on their respective sides of the new border crossing.
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| Back in 2015, a Russian-Built Submarine Claims to Have Sunk a U.S. Navy Sub Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:00 PM PST  And India was the winner--at least in a simulation.
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| The US is scrambling to invest more in Asia to counter China's 'Belt and Road' mega-project. Here's what China's plan to connect the world through infrastructure is like. Posted: 09 Nov 2019 07:24 AM PST  Supporters say it's a way for China to invest in emerging markets. Critics say this is a way for China to use money to leverage political gains.
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| 'New T-Mobile' announces budget plan for $15 monthly and 5G coming Dec. 6 Posted: 08 Nov 2019 04:27 AM PST  T-Mobile plans to turn on its 5G network December 6. It is also planning free internet for low-income families with kids and first responders.
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| Voice messages reveal heart-wrenching moments after family massacre Posted: 08 Nov 2019 02:22 AM PST  Two mothers and six of their children were laid to rest in Mexico as family members shared new details on their heroic efforts to save loved ones
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| White House official says he heard U.S. envoy push for investigation of Bidens Posted: 08 Nov 2019 02:15 PM PST  An official on the White House's National Security Council said he heard the U.S. ambassador to the European Union explicitly press Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, according to a transcript released on Friday by Democrats leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Ukraine expert on the NSC, said Ambassador Gordon Sondland made it clear in a July 10 meeting at the White House that the investigations of the Bidens and Ukrainian gas company Burisma would have to be opened for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to get an Oval Office meeting with Trump.
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| Heirs of holocaust survivors compete to sue Lehman Foundation over $7 million watercolour Posted: 09 Nov 2019 09:03 AM PST  The heirs of two Holocaust victims have sued the Lehman Foundation in New York over a multi-million dollar painting, both claiming their families owned the painting before the Nazi era. The 1917 painting by Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, was purchased by Robin Owen Lehman – the son of late the banker Robert Lehman – from the Marlborough Gallery in London in 1964. It is now estimated to be worth between $5 and $7 million. In 2016, Mr Lehman tried to sell the painting through Christie's auction house to raise money for his charity foundation. However, the move notified the two rival claimants to the painting's whereabouts and all three parties have been stuck in a legal stalemate ever since. According to the heirs of Karl Mayländer, a Jewish businessman in Vienna who was killed in Auschwitz, he owned the watercolour before he was deported to the death camp. His family trust now cites a long distant relative, 98-year-old Eva Zirkl who lives in New York, as the rightful owner of the painting. But the family of another Holocaust victim, Heinrich Rieger, who was Egon Schiele's dentist, believe the watercolour belonged to Mr Reiger before he was killed. The Lehman Foundation now faces two separate claims from the Rieger and Zirkl families' respective trusts in New York. Lawyers representing Mr Lehman tried to settle the dispute in "good faith" outside of the courts, but claim that neither parties were willing to meet in person to discuss their positions. Thaddeus Stauber, a lawyer in Los Angeles who is representing Mr Lehman in the case, told the Daily Telegraph: "We are trying to establish whether either of these claimants have a legitimate claim. Based on what they have submitted at the moment, we don't believe either of them do. "I reached out to all the parties individually and invited everyone to New York to try and reach an agreement in good faith. But for the past three years they have refused to talk to each other." The painting is currently being held in Christie's in New York and cannot be sold until the dispute is settled. The case is due to be heard in the coming month at Monroe County Supreme Court in Rochester, New York state, where a judge is expected to decide who the rightful owner of the piece is. Raymond Dowd, a lawyer in New York representing the Rieger family trust, accused the Lehman Foundation of "procedural lawfare" by insisting that the case be heard outside of New York City. "When you are a large, rich plaintiff you can afford to engage in procedural lawfare," he said, adding that the Reiger family trust have been willing to "engage in good faith discussions". The legal action was originally started by the Lehman Foundation in September, when its lawyers filed court papers in an attempt to establish whether either family was telling the truth. The Robert Rieger Trust in New York have since filed a claim on the watercolour, which they say "was always regarded as a special piece of the Rieger collection". But The Susan Zirkl Memorial Foundation Trust, representing 98-year-old Ms Zirkl, claim that she is the rightful owner. The case comes after Ms Zirkl was returned two other Schiele paintings from an Austrian museum three years ago, after reportedly spending two decades trying to reclaim the drawings. Vienna's famous Leopold Museum agreed to return two watercolours, including a self-portrait of Schiele, to the New York-based heiress of Mayländer in 2016. Lawyers representing Ms Zirkl on Saturday denied the "blatantly false" allegation that they have not engaged in good faith discussions, adding: "Mr. Lehman's counsel is soliciting publicity to manufacture a narrative, and we will not engage in that process."
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| Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers charged, student mourned Posted: 09 Nov 2019 07:39 AM PST  Police in Hong Kong said Saturday that they have arrested and charged six pro-democracy lawmakers, a move that could escalate public fury a day after the death of a university student linked to months of anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. The 22-year-old died Friday, succumbing to injuries four days after falling from a parking garage when police fired tear gas during clashes with protesters. Police said they arrested six lawmakers and charged them Saturday with obstructing the local assembly during a raucous May 11 meeting over a now-shelved China extradition bill that sparked the five months of protests calling for democratic reforms.
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| US-born IS bride appeals again to come home from Syria Posted: 09 Nov 2019 02:43 PM PST  A US-born woman who says she regrets having joined the Islamic State group has appealed again to come home from the refugee camp where she lives with her small son in Syria. The government is refusing to let Hoda Muthana return to the US, arguing that she is not an American citizen. In an interview with NBC News published Saturday, Muthana said she "regrets every single thing" done by IS, which she joined in 2014 after embracing extremist ideology while living with her family in Alabama.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hasn't stopped blocking critics on Twitter despite settling a lawsuit charging she violated the First Amendment Posted: 09 Nov 2019 10:14 AM PST  Ocasio-Cortez recently apologized for blocking a critic on Twitter and settled a lawsuit he filed alleging she violated the First Amendment.
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| Roman Catholic Priests Will Not Break Confession to Report Child Abuse, U.K. Inquiry Told Posted: 09 Nov 2019 05:56 AM PST  The Roman Catholic Church says it would reject any recommendation that would require priests to break confession to report child sexual abuse.
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| Dad warns parents, tourists who travel to Mexico on the one-year anniversary of his son's death Posted: 09 Nov 2019 05:34 AM PST  Kris Meyer on remembering his son Taylor Meyer who was killed in Mexico.
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| Trump's former Russia adviser 'shocked' at Ukraine phone call: 'It really was my worst fears and nightmares' Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:47 AM PST  Donald Trump's former Russia expert said she was shocked to read the partial transcript of his phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart because it was "pretty blatant" he was asking for his political opponents to be investigated.Fiona Hill told the impeachment hearings the call "really was kind of my worst fears and nightmares" in terms of being an effort "to subvert the national security process" and was "basically turning a White House meeting into some kind of asset".
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| UPDATE 6-Iran downs drone over southern port city - IRNA Posted: 08 Nov 2019 01:56 AM PST ![UPDATE 6-Iran downs drone over southern port city - IRNA]( "UPDATE 6-Iran downs drone over southern port city - IRNA") Iranian forces shot down a foreign drone over the port city of Mahshahr in its southern Khuzestan province on Friday, state news agency IRNA reported, quoting an Iranian official. "The downed drone definitely belonged to a foreign country. Its wreckage has been recovered and is being investigated," Khuzestan Governor Gholamreza Shariati, said, according to IRNA.
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| Boy whose mother joined IS in Syria returns to dad in Italy Posted: 08 Nov 2019 04:41 AM PST  An 11-year-old Albanian boy whose mother took him to Syria five years ago when she joined the Islamic State group returned on Friday to Italy for a joyous reunion with his father and sisters. The boy, Alvin, wearing a red cap, smiled shyly as he was escorted by two policewomen at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport to an airport reception where his father, Afrim Berisha, and two older sisters took turns hugging him, long and tightly. Red Cross and Red Crescent staff worked with Albanian and Italian government officials to facilitate his return from the crowded al-Hol detention camp in northeastern Syria where he was living without his family.
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| In the 1950s, America Almost Built Huge Nuclear Bunkers for Ever City Posted: 09 Nov 2019 10:00 AM PST  Would the fall out shelters have worked?
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