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Neymar says he has fulfilled ‘dream’ with cameo in Netflix show Money Heist
Yahoo Daily News 28 Aug 2019
Brazilian footballer Neymar on Tuesday tweeted out a video of him featuring in a cameo appearance on the Netflix series La Casa de Papel, that has been traslated in English as Money Heist ... However, once the case was dropped by the Brazilian police last month, the streaming giant re-released the episodes that featured Neymar ... ....
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3.8 million-year-old fossil ‘game changer’ in understanding of human evolution
AOL 28 Aug 2019
The discovery of a 3.8 million-year-old skull is a “game changer” in the understanding of human evolution, scientists say. Researchers have discovered what they say is a remarkably complete cranium of an early human ancestor. It was found at the Woranso-Mille palaeontological site, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia in February 2016 ... ....
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Air Force veteran says he experienced UFO sighting in 1953
Stars and Stripes 29 Aug 2019
EXETER, N.H. (Tribune News Service) — Ninety two-year-old Irving "Bill" Glater remembers the out-of-this world experience he witnessed May 16, 1953, like it was yesterday. Glater was stationed outside Mainz, West Germany, as a lieutenant in the 2nd Armored Division of the U.S ... "We couldn't track its movements." ... ——— ... .......
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'Help me': Aussie accused of spying in China pleads to return home
This is Money 29 Aug 2019
Ties between China and Australia have deteriorated in recent months and China's near-silence about Yang's fate has only further strained relations. An Australian academic arrested in China accused of being a spy has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help him "go home as soon as possible" ... He said Australia wouldn't help because I am not white ... ....
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Ex-Pentagon chief Jim Mattis says bitter politics threaten US
Indian Express 29 Aug 2019
Former Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is warning that bitter political divisions threaten American society, saying he views “tribalism” as a greater risk to the nation’s future than foreign adversaries. Advertising ... Advertising ... Alone, America cannot protect our people and our economy ... In an apparent reference to Trump, Mattis added ... ....
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Duterte arrives in Beijing to raise South China Sea with Xi
Springfield News-Sun 29 Aug 2019
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in Beijing for a meeting with counterpart Xi Jinping ... ....
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United States did not agree to G7 Amazon aid initiative: NSC
Yahoo Daily News 28 Aug 2019
The United States did not agree to a $20 million emergency aid package to help battle wildfires announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at a G7 summit this weekend, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday ... U.S. President Donald Trump did not attend the leaders' session on biodiversity and climate on Monday ... ....
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US and Taliban finalising an agreement to end the war in Afghanistan
The National 28 Aug 2019
The United States and the Taliban on Wednesday were finalizing an agreement to end America’s longest and most costly war, bringing nearly two decades of conflict to an end ... There would be ceremonies in Oslo, picked to host possible intra-Afghan talks and another in Kabul to mark the agreement ... "We want to end the bloodshed ... Read More ... Updated ... ....
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Meryl Streep vows to get her money back as she investigates insurance fraud by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas in The Laundromat trailer
This is Money 28 Aug 2019
Netflix released the first trailer for The Laundromat on Wednesday. The dark comedy - directed by Steven Soderbergh - stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer and Sharon Stone ... Debut. Netflix released the first trailer for The Laundromat on Wednesday ... Scott Z. Burns produced and penned the screenplay ... Big names ... ....
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Is Today's "Big Lie" the Spectacle of Trump on Twitter and Television?
WorldNews.com 28 Aug 2019
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler put forth the theory that "in the big lie there is a force of credibility." He imagined "untruths so colossal" that the public "would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." ... While part of the U.S ... 42.....
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Hezbollah planning a ‘calculated strike’ on Israel
Gulf News 28 Aug 2019
Beirut. Hezbollah will respond with a “surprise” strike against Israel after drones crashed in Lebanon, but a new war remains unlikely, the Iran-backed movement said, amid heightened fears of a full-scale confrontation between the longtime adversaries ... “Everything will be decided at its time.” ... “Israel’s message to Hezbollah here, writ large, was ... ....
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'War on nature must end,' says activist Greta Thunberg in New York
Gulf News 29 Aug 2019
New York. Teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said the “war on nature must end” and called on Donald Trump to listen to science after she sailed into New York on a zero-emissions yacht Wednesday ... “It is devastating and so horrible. It’s hard to imagine ... Read more ... The Swede also rebuked Trump, a notorious climate change skeptic ... Controversy ... ....
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PM Modi asks ministers to expedite work on J&K; projects
Deccan Chronicle 29 Aug 2019
New Delhi ... The meeting was held after that of the Union Cabinet and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) ... .......
