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Strongest Earthquake In Decades Rattles Southern California
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
The largest earthquake to hit southern California in decades rumbled across the region on Thursday morning, striking a remote part of the state with a magnitude of 6.4, The Guardian reported.The earthquake’s center was near the small city of Ridgecrest, near Death Valley National Park and about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles....
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Trump administration attempts to legally justify attack on Iran
The Independent 04 Jul 2019
As it has contemplated military action against Iran, the Trump administration has opened the door to virtually every legal authority it might use to justify an attack, from tying Iran to al-Qaida, to President Donald Trump’s assertion that it would not involve American ground troops and “wouldn’t last very long” ... We’ll tell you what’s true ... 1/17 ... EPA....
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German Scientists Suggest Bible's Philistines Came From Europe
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
Ashkelon is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of present-day Tel Aviv. Goliath, the giant-like warrior was defeated by David with a sling during a battle in the Valley of Elah, southeast of what is now Tel-Aviv ... Philistine DNA, though, had some DNA components that were European in origin....
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Royal Marines involved in ‘bold’ operation to seize supertanker bound for Syria
AOL 04 Jul 2019
A detachment of Royal Marines was involved in a “bold” and “brave” operation to seize a supertanker suspected of carrying oil destined for Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime ... The marines were brought in to use their specialist boarding skills to help ensure the Royal Gibraltar Police could gain access to the tanker at sea ... ....
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Amsterdam Sex Workers Lukewarm To Plans To Reform Red Light District
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
In some cases, this is accompanied by disruptive behavior and a disrespectful attitude to the sex workers in the windows," Halsema said in a statement."At the same time, there has also been a major increase in unlicensed, underground prostitution." ... The chair of the organization Red Light United told Dutch outlet Nieuwsuur ... ....
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Maurice The Noisy Cockerel Gets His Day In French Court
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
Maurice the cockerel, France’s most famous bird, whose piercing dawn call sparked neighbors to take legal action over noise pollution, has finally had his case heard in court, The Guardian reports.A local court in Rochefort has begun examining the case of a dispute over the cockerel between neighbors on the Île d’Oléron ... ....
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Trump Says He Will Ignore Legal Ruling Prohibiting Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
WorldNews.com 03 Jul 2019
President Donald Trump said his administration was "absolutely moving forward" with adding the controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census on Wednesday, even though the Justice Department said it would be printing the documents without the question Trump wanted, according to Raw Story ... Also on Wednesday, U.S ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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What does Facebook’s new crypto currency mean for you?
Sydney Morning Herald 05 Jul 2019
Libra's launch may be one of the most defining events of the 21st Century .......
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Former Head Of Chinese Shipbuilder Sentenced On Corruption Charges
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
A Shanghai court handed down a lenient sentence to the corrupt former head of one of China’s biggest shipbuilders after he shed new light on other crimes, state media reported on Thursday, the South China Morning Post reported.Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced ......
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Justice Secretary Says Parliament Will Stop No-Deal Brexit
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
The current Tory leadership front-runner has said he only wants cabinet ministers who would be willing to deliver no deal.On whether MPs would be able to stop Britain crashing out of the EU, Gauke told The House magazine ... Would he try to resolve this by changing parliament? In other words, by having a general election....
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Remains Of Britain's Largest WWII POW Camp Discovered
WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2019
Admiral Karl Dönitz was the captain of several German U-boats who was captured by Allied forces when his vessel, U-boat 68, was forced to surface in October 1918.The admiral spent about six weeks at the Sheffield camp, according to the research, before feigning mental illness to avoid being treated as a war criminal....
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Cryptocurrency Market Trades Sideways as Bitcoin Hovers Shy of $12,000
The Coin Telegraph 05 Jul 2019
Top cryptocurrencies are mostly trading sideways, with some slight gains for Bitcoin at press time. no evidence of holiday-fueled FOMO yet .......
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Maternal stress and the male foetus
The Guardian 04 Jul 2019
The ratio of boys to girls born alive a few months later is always reduced ... .......
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Putin, After Three Days, Says Fire-Hit Russian Submarine Was Nuclear-Powered
Hamodia 04 Jul 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed on Thursday for the first time that a secret military submarine hit by a fatal fire three days ago was nuclear-powered, prompting Russia’s defense minister to assure him its reactor had been safely contained ... “Still, we would have been happy to have been informed of such incidents.” ... ....
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Alek Sigley: Australian student missing in North Korea is released and 'safe and well'
The Independent 04 Jul 2019
An Australian student who had been missing in North Korea for almost 10 days is "safe and well" and has been released from detention, the Australian prime minister said. Scott Morrison's statement to parliament was the first confirmation that Alek Sigley, a Pyongyang university student, had been arrested by the North Korean authorities ... Comments ... ....
