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Angolan Family Stranded At Korean Airport For Past 6 Months
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
An Angolan family has been stranded at Seoul, Korea’s, Incheon Airport for the past six months, BoingBoing reports.On Dec. 28, 2018, Nkuka Lulendo fled Angola with his wife and four young children ... He was working as a taxi driver in Angola and he accidentally hit a police car ... Now they live at the airport, sleeping on a large square couch....
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Mysterious Caravaggio Painting Found In Attic Sold Privately For Possible $100 Million
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
The painting depicts the biblical story of Jewish heroine Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, thus stopping him from destroying the Jewish city of Bethulia.It was found, covered in dust, in a home in the southern French city of Toulouse ... "But what really makes us dream is the painting. It really is a wonder. We are very lucky."...
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Trump considering withdrawal from 68-year-old treaty with Japan: report
Raw Story 25 Jun 2019
President Donald Trump has been privately talking about withdrawing from the postwar defense treaty with Japan, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Trump is telling confidants the treaty is unfair to the U.S ... ....
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Man murdered fellow train passenger in front of teenage son in row over blocked aisle, ...
The Independent 25 Jun 2019
We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras ... Participants throw themselves down Cooper's Hill for the annual cheese rolling in Brockworth, Gloucestershire ... Participants throw themselves down Cooper's Hill for the annual cheese rolling in Brockworth, Gloucestershire ... ....
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Report: German Firms Sent Weapons-Grade Chemicals To Syria Despite Sanctions
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
A Deutsche Welle report Tuesday claims despite European Union sanctions, German companies were involved in exporting weapons-grade chemicals to Syria during the country’s civil war ... The chemicals were delivered to a Syrian pharmaceutical company with ties to the regime of President Bashar Assad, the report said....
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Conservatives Are Nudging the Supreme Court to Dismantle Affordable Housing Policies
The Intercept 25 Jun 2019
When it comes to conservatives and the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion and labor rights are often considered among their prime targets. Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the court last fall, though, opened the road for a host of other challenges for which conservatives have quietly been laying the groundwork for years ... And it’s still spreading ... St ... I’m in ... ....
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Mueller Agrees To Testify On Russia Probe Before Congress
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
The decision to compel Mueller to testify is a landmark move that will put an end to a months-long saga on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have for weeks fought to get access to information about whether President Trump obstructed justice....
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Moroccan Authorities Break Up Terrorist Cell Group, Arrest 4
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019photo: Creative Commons / ethan lindsey
![Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km2 (61.5 sq mi) in which 406,703 inhabitants live.[1] It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki.](http://ecdn6.wn.com/ph/img/c4/5a/a04dbd87e8f11911fd1801a96324-medium.jpg "Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km2 (61.5 sq mi) in which 406,703 inhabitants live.[1] It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki.")
Vandals Damage Jewish Cemetery In Estonia's Capital
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
A Jewish cemetery in the Estonian capital of Tallinn was vandalized over the weekend, authorities confirmed on Tuesday, Germany’s Deutsche Welle news service reported ... Many Jews were rounded up and sent to prison camps by Soviet occupying forces in 1940. Those who were left were targeted by the Nazis when they arrived in 1941 ... ....
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Australian Prime Minister Warns Of 'Collateral Damage' From U.S.-China Trade Dispute
WorldNews.com 25 Jun 2019
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has warned that the “strained” relationship between the United States and China risks “collateral” damage in the region, amid growing uncertainty in the global economy, The Guardian reports.In a major speech ahead of the G20 summit in Osaka this weekend where U.S ... ....
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Wayfair Workers Plan Job Action Over Partnership With U.S. detention centers
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
Raices said it would welcome such a donation.“We applaud Wayfair workers who are walking out to protest Wayfair profiting from detention centers,” Raices wrote on its official Twitter account. “No one who works for a company profiting from these camps should be standing idly by as children are dying....
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Trump-Iran news: Russia says downed US drone was in Iranian air space, contradicting key claim ...
The Independent 25 Jun 2019
Russia has military intelligence that shows a US drone was in Iranian air space when it was shot down by Iran, the secretary of Russia's Security Council has said ... More follows… We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. Subscribe now. Independent news email ... Post ... ....
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House Oversight recommends contempt charge against Barr and Ross over citizenship question on census
Alternet 25 Jun 2019
In a morning press release, Democratic Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Elijah Cummings announced that the committee has filed a bipartisan report recommending that both Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross be held in contempt of Congress ... “Despite these restrictions, Mr ... ....
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British Prosecutors Drop Probe Into Energy Industry Bribes
WorldNews.com 26 Jun 2019
The SFO’s prosecution of these employees continues.The SFO issued summonses against Unaoil as a corporate body over allegations of conspiracy to give corrupt payments ... Police in Monaco raided Unaoil’s headquarters at the SFO’s request.The first charges from the investigation – against the four employees – came in 2017 ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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Trump threatens ‘obliteration’ if Iran attacks ‘anything American’
The Irish Times 25 Jun 2019
US president Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if the it attacked “anything American”, as Tehran said the latest US sanctions had closed off any chance of diplomacy ... “In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration,” the US president tweeted ... Trump’s fake toughness pulls US back from brink ... No practical impact ... . ....
