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Secret Service Blocks CBS Reporter From Asking Jared Kushner About Saudi Journalist
WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2018
A CBS News report Wednesday says the U.S. Secret Service will review an incident in which an agent blocked CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett from trying to question White House Advisor and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In the video of the incident after a flight from Washington, D.C ... Trump does not want to halt the deal because he argues it would harm U.S....
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Audio Recording Reveals Khashoggi Was Brutally Dismembered By Saudi Agents
WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2018
You will put me in trouble.”According to both the official and newspaper, one of the agents told Khashoggi, “If you want to live when you come back to Arabia, shut up,”“Horrendous tortures were committed on Khashoggi, who came to the consulate for documents,” the Yeni Safak account said.As they cut off Khashoggi’s head and dismembered his body, a ......
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Mohammed bin Salman never was a reformer. This has proved it | Dilip Hiro
The Guardian 18 Oct 2018
In June, when the ban on Saudi women driving ended, it was portrayed around the world as part of a modernising, liberalising agenda by the new crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman ... They remain in detention without charge, but could face up to 25 years in jail ... Mohamad Bazzi. Read more ... Yet history shows that the brutal suppression of dissent leads to a build-up of popular discontent to a boiling point, with disastrous consequences ... .......
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Vietnam Frees Human Rights Blogger Mother Mushroom, Will Now Move To The US
WorldNews.com 18 Oct 2018
The conviction of Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who started blogging in 2006 about human rights violations, pollution, and corruption in Vietnam, ignited a firestorm of criticism from international organizations and Western governments ... Even though Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia and has opened itself up to foreign investment, the authorities still crack down on anyone who challenges the one-party rule....
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Canada PM Trudeau is still top choice, NDP's Jagmeet Singh lags behind according...
Hindustan Times 18 Oct 2018
world Updated. Oct 18, 2018 09.22 IST. Anirudh Bhattacharyya. Hindustan Times, Toronto ... Nearly the same number of supporters of the Liberal and Conservative parties believe their leader is “setting the party up to win more seats in 2019”, while just about 34%, “are confident about Singh’s ability to grow his party’s seat count next year” ... First Published. Oct 18, 2018 09.22 IST .......
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Mobs Attack Crowds Near Sabarimala After Hindu Temple Opens Entry For All Women
WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2018
One 45-year-old woman told the Press Trust of India she abandoned her attempt to enter the holy site even though she had police protection after agitated protesters surrounded their vehicle and refused to allow them to move further up the hill ... BBC News reporter James Clayton said the protesters gathered to block the road and any women of "menstruating age" and "a huge roar would go up if they found someone....
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WHO Says DRC Ebola Outbreak Is Not A Global Emergency Yet
WorldNews.com 18 Oct 2018
WHO also said there is growing community mistrust both due to the simmering security issues but also from people who avoid follow-up care or delay visiting a medical doctor ... Peter Salama, WHO's deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, said earlier this week "over 10,000 at-risk people have been identified & followed up" since the outbreak first began earlier this year....
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Hungarian Constitutional Amendment Makes Homelessness A Crime
WorldNews.com 18 Oct 2018
United Nations experts called the constitutional amendment passed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government "cruel and incompatible with international human rights law" since it would essentially ban people from being homeless and living on the streets, according to The Washington Post ... Hungarian officials also said they would begin providing extra support this week and argued the law would end up helping save lives ... ....
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Theresa May admits longer Brexit transition period being considered
The Independent 18 Oct 2018
Theresa May has confirmed that she is considering asking the EU for an extended Brexit transition period in a bid to break the deadlock in talks ... . . More follows…. ... Sign our petition here. ....
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Trump meets Pompeo as Khashoggi crisis engulfs White House
CNN 18 Oct 2018
(CNN)President Donald Trump will meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday as the White House struggles to contain a spiraling crisis over a journalist's apparent death at a Saudi consulate ... Trump denied that he was "giving cover" to Saudi Arabia, insisting that he wants to get to the bottom of what happened. "I want to find out what happened, where is the fault, and we will probably know that by the end of the week ... Read More ... ....
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3.7 Billion Old Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
NDTV 18 Oct 2018
It was an extraordinary claim. Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats... ....
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Nestle confirms guidance as third quarter growth ticks up
CNBC 18 Oct 2018
Food group Nestle NESN.S confirmed it wants to grow sales by around 3 percent this year after strong trading in North America and China pushed up underlying sales in the third quarter ... ....
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Did The Dictator Just Become The Dictated? Trump, The Saudi Regime And Jamal Khashoggi
WorldNews.com 17 Oct 2018
Article by WN ... In other words, they submit to the will of others to get those (powerful) others to act in their selfish interest ... It can also lead a nation down a disastrous road ... “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me ... They blamed Al Jazeera for stirring up people through the Middle East and fostering the Arab Spring uprisings, and resented its reporting of atrocities by the Saudi-led and U.S ... 176-77 ... 156....
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Manhunt in Crimea for possible accomplice in school attack
The Telegraph Macon 18 Oct 2018
An 18-year-old student, who later killed himself, was initially believed to be the only one to have been involved in the carnage at the Kerch Polytechnic College on Wednesday ... SIGN UP Be the first to know ... SIGN ME UP! ... Most of the people killed died from gunshot wounds, and those who ended up hospitalized have injuries from a blast from an improvised explosive device that was packed with shrapnel ... That is how powerful the blast was." ... ....
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Facebook tentatively concludes that spammers were behind recent data breach: WSJ
The Himalayan 18 Oct 2018
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