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Pentagon Report: China 'Rapidly' Expanding Bomber Training For Strikes On US Targets
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
A new report released by the Pentagon on Thursday said the Chinese military was expanding its bomber operations and was "likely training for strikes" against the United States and its allies, according to The Guardian. The annual report highlighted China's ongoing efforts to increase its global influence through economic and military expansion, including a defense spending budget which has exceeded $190 billion in 2017 ... ... ... U.S....
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Worse Than Dishonesty: Donald Trump’s Delusions And His War Against Reality
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingI’m going to avoid giving Donald Trump the nickname “Delusional Donald,” a tactic he immortalized during the 2016 campaign – and still does – to zero in on and ridicule his political enemy’s biggest weaknesses. But if he is delusional, as President of the United States he poses a major threat to the country and the world ... Just ask Omarosa Manigault-Newman.1 ... Just as alarming is his base ... ....
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Melting Glacier Reveals WWII Plane Wreckage In Swiss Alps
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
A heatwave in Switzerland has uncovered the wreckage debris of an American WWII plane that crash-landed in the Bernese Alps 72 years ago, CBS News reports. The C-53 Skytrooper Dakota was traveling from Austria to Italy when it collided with the Gauli Glacier at an altitude of 10,990 feet on Nov. 19, 1946.Four crew members and eight passengers were on board during the crash. Several people were injured but there were no fatalities....
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Colombian City Advises Residents To Avoid Daytime Sex During Heatwave
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
It’s been a sweltering summer in many parts of the world, with millions scrambling for ways to cool off. On Wednesday, the 600,000 residents of Santa Marta, Colombia, were given one interesting suggestion ... In his radio interview, Salas said medical facilities have been overwhelmed with heat stroke cases, the Associated Press reported.Santa Marta isn’t alone ... ....
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Turkish Court Rejects Release of US Pastor While Trump Threatens More Sanctions
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
Hours after a Turkish court rejected an appeal from U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson, President Donald Trump chided Turkey for behaving "very, very badly" in the case and warned Washington was "not going to take it sitting down" on Friday, according to National Public Radio ... Both Brunson and the U.S. vehemently deny those allegations. Trump previously told reporters Turkey "made up this phony charge that he is a spy, and he is not a spy." ... ... ....
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Court Delivers Blow To EPA By Ordering US Government To Enforce Chemical Safety Rule
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration had to immediately implement an Obama-era chemical safety rule on Friday which was created after a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas killed 15, according to Reuters. The D.C ... The court said the EPA did not have the authority to delay the rule for 20 months and said it had to implement the Chemical Disaster Rule starting on Friday ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Trump Blames D.C. Officials For Costly, Delayed Military Parade
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump took aim at Washington D.C. officials for his decision to postpone his immense military parade in the capital this fall to at least 2019, claiming they were inflating the price but offered no proof of his claims in tweets on Friday, according to The Washington Post. “The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it,” Trump tweeted ... council wrote. "Better late. Then. never ... ... ....
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More Than 300 Killed During Worst Monsoon in Nearly a Century in Kerala, India
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the death toll from the current heavy rains reached 174 on Friday, but more than 320 have died during this monsoon season, as the "grave" flooding situation continued in Kerala, according to The Hindustan Times ... Meteorologists said heavy rains were predicted for isolated regions in northern Kerala, coastal Karnataka, and some southern portions through Aug. 19 ... I am confident we can achieve this....
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US Sanctions Myanmar Officials For Role in Rohingya 'Atrocities'
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
The United States placed sanctions on four top Myanmar security officials and two of the country's military units on Friday for human rights abuses carried out during the ethnic cleansing on the country's minority Muslim Rohingya communities in the Rakhine state in 2017, according to Politico ... Officials had debated for months over how much to punish Myanmar, where the U.S ... U.S ... The sanctions name Myanmar military commanders ... The U.S....
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Trump Defends Manafort As Jury Breaks After Second Day Without Reaching Verdict
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump weighed in with a public defense of Paul Manafort on Friday, as a jury concluded its second day of deliberations to decide if the president’s former campaign chairman is guilty of tax and bank fraud, The Washington Post reported.Jurors signaled Friday afternoon that they were unlikely to reach a verdict before the day ended and asked if they could leave the courthouse at 5 p.m. U.S. District Court Judge T.S....
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Italy Moves To Revoke Highway Operator's Concessions In Wake Of Bridge Collapse
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
A Genoa court will try to establish the exact cause of the bridge failure, but experts said problems with the concrete-encased cable stays were a possible culprit.WN.com, Jim Berrie....
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Archaeologists Find World's Oldest Cheese in Egyptian Tomb
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
A team of archaeologists made a startling discovery several years ago when digging through an ancient Egyptian tomb by uncovering several jars, one of which contained a white, unidentified substance, according to The New York Times. The new analysis published in the journal Analytical Chemistry now says those researchers found a 3,200-year-old piece of cheese, one of the oldest ever found. Lead author of the paper Dr ... Greco said ... ... Dr ... Dr....
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More Than 100 Killed In Kerala Floods, Landslides
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
At least 106 people have died after torrential rains sparked rivers to overflow, igniting floods and landslides across the state of Kerala on Thursday, according to BBC News. The Kochi Metro and Southern Railways suspended their operations due to the floods and more than 6,600 people have been sent to relief camps in nearby Thiruvananthapuram, with at least 1,330 families housed across 63 relief camps ... "Almost all dams are now opened ... ....
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Teenager Apple fan hacks into its secure systems
Suryaa 17 Aug 2018
Sydney, Aug 17 An Australian teenager pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into Apple's secure systems and said that he was a fan of the technology giant and hoped to work there one day, the media reported ... ....
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Overdose Epidemic In Connecticut Park Highlights Dangers Of Synthetic Marijuana
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
“It’s the addiction.”In 2017, drug overdoses killed nearly 200 people per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released this week, a new record driven by the deadly opioid epidemic.Since K2 was first detected in the U.S. in 2008, clusters of overdose outbreaks have become more and more common....
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