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New York Driver Captures Hudson River Flooding Inside the Lincoln Tunnel
The Daily Telegraph Australia 15 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons
Daesh must be held to account for its crimes
Middle East Monitor 15 Jul 2020
There is no question that those responsible for acts of mind-numbing atrocities and destruction against the Syrian people are criminals and should be held accountable ... Militant group Daesh was, and is, the chief culprit masquerading as the founders of a new Islamic Caliphate ... .......
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Why the Trump administration's win over Huawei could be bad news for TikTok
CNN 16 Jul 2020
(CNN Business)A week after saying his administration was "looking at" banning short-form video app TikTok in the United States, President Donald Trump claimed credit for personally thwarting the expansion plans of another Chinese-affiliated technology company. Huawei ... TikTok is a national security threat, US politicians say ... Read More ... ....
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Twitter's rigid fact-check rules allow Trump to continue spreading false information about the election
CNN 15 Jul 2020
Washington (CNN)The world took notice on May 26, when Twitter fact-checked President Donald Trump for the very first time. Trump posted a series of blatant lies about mail-in voting, and declared that "this will be a rigged election." ... He repeated the phrase "rigged election" five times. Yet, Twitter took no action ... Read More ... Drawing a fine line ... U.S ... ....
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Confederate Statues Were Never About History Or Civil War, But KKK And White Supremacy
WorldNews.com 15 Jul 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling ... An overwhelming majority of Confederate memorials were erected many years after the Civil War had ended. They instead were installed as symbols of White supremacy during periods of U.S ... The second wave swept across the South in 1876, after Rutherford B ... Their goal ... Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen ... 22. ....
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Sculpture erected to replace Colston statue in Bristol removed
RTE 16 Jul 2020
The sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester erected on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston once stood in Bristol is being taken down. Pictures from the scene appeared to show workers at the site at around 5.20am today ... Colston statue in Bristol replaced by sculpture of black protester ... This morning we removed the sculpture ... ....
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Tech CEO Found Decapitated and Dismembered In His NYC Apartment
Slashdot 15 Jul 2020
According to ABC News, 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was discovered decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday. The death was deemed a homicide and no arrested have been made as of yet. From the report. Saleh co-founded Pathao, a ride-share app that's popular in Bangledash ... ....
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Siberia's heatwave 'effectively impossible' without climate change - scientists
RTE 16 Jul 2020
The heatwave which has hit Siberia over the last six months would have been "effectively impossible" without climate change caused by humans, scientists have found ... It is the strongest result of any study by the World Weather Attribution initiative in attributing extreme events to climate change, the team behind the analysis said ... ....
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Covid Spreading in Unexplained Ways, Nations Consider More Lockdowns
NDTV 16 Jul 2020
As countries across Asia Pacific struggle with resurgences of the coronavirus, one data point is steering government responses. the share of cases with no clear indication of how infection occurred ... ....
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As Trump refuses to lead, America tries to save itself
CNN 16 Jul 2020
(CNN)President Donald Trump isn't leading America much as its pandemic worsens. But that's not stopping Walmart -- along with Kroger, Kohl's, and city and state leaders and officials -- from making the tough decisions that the President has shirked ... Read More. Democratic Kansas Gov ... Montana issued its own recommendation on masks ... Fauci vs. Navarro ... Dr ... ....
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Russian scientists hail results of COVID-19 vaccine trial
The Jakarta Post 16 Jul 2020
Shares. Russian scientists hailed the results of their first clinical trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, saying it had been proved safe and that volunteers had developed an immune response ... More than 100 possible vaccines are being developed and tested around the world to try to stop the pandemic ... ....
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ISIS bride Shamima Begum wins right to return to UK to appeal her loss of citizenship
ABC7 16 Jul 2020
LONDON -- Shamima Begum, the British woman who joined ISIS as a teenager in 2015, is in order to challenge the government's decision to strip her of citizenship ... She had fled the U.K. and been married off to an ISIS fighter, four years earlier, when she was 15 years old ... The government has said they will appeal the judgment ... ....
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Trump bristles at question about police killing Blacks
Pittsburgh Tribune Review 15 Jul 2020
2 minutes ago ... In one interview, Trump seemed taken aback when asked why African Americans are still dying at the hands of police. “And so are white people ... .......
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Trump joins Iran ‘No to Executions’ protests
Middle East Monitor 16 Jul 2020
US President Donald Trump has joined throngs of social media users posting the Persian hashtag meaning “No to Executions” to protest the planned execution of three men over their involvement in demonstrations in November 2019 ... “Three individuals were sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests ... .......
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