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Don Jr. accuses CNN of ‘blackmail’ over Trump wrestling GIF
With President Trump on his way to Europe, his son Donald Jr. has taken on the job of defending him on Twitter, accusing CNN of “blackmail” in extorting an apology from the creator of a GIF?showing the president attacking a figure representing the network. On Sunday, Trump tweeted a GIF?showing him clotheslining a man with a CNN logo superimposed over his face. It was derived from a 2007 publicity stunt at Wrestlemania?that involved Trump tackling Vince McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
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NYPD Officer ‘Assassinated’ While Sitting in Marked Police Vehicle
Officer Miosotis Familia, a 12-year member of the NYPD, was wrapping up her shift when she was "assassinated in an unprovoked attack” carried out by a gunman.
NewsAssociated PressThe Latest: Mother of slain deputy wants man to be executed
The mother of one victim of a Virginia death row inmate says she hopes the man's execution proceeds as planned. Jeaneen Sutphin is the mother of Eric Sutphin, the sheriff's deputy killed by William Morva in 2006. Morva is scheduled to be executed Thursday for killing Eric Sutphin and Derrick McFarland, a hospital security guard.
NewsAFPOne dead as strong?quake hits central Philippine island: official
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines Thursday, killing at least one person inside a collapsed building with more people feared trapped inside, a local official said. Rescuers were rushing to the town of Kananga where a three-storey commercial building collapsed as the tremor struck the central island of Leyte, town mayor Rowena Codilla told DZBB radio. "We were able to retrieve one dead and one wounded," Codilla said.
WorldReutersCambodia deports 74 suspected of internet extortion home to China
Cambodia sent home on Thursday 74 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money from people there over the internet and by telephone, Cambodian police said. A team of Chinese police arrived in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh on a China Southern Airline flight to pick up the suspects who had been detained in Cambodia. "They established places to commit crime by extorting money from people over the phone," Uk Heisela, the head of the Cambodian police investigation, told reporters.
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Emperor Trump visits Poland with no new clothes and is met with rapturous applause – but it won't work at G20
As he spoke about Poland’s history and its role in defending what he claimed was a threat to Western civilisation, he repeatedly stopped to acknowledge cheers from the crowd. Here was the US President telling them how wonderful they were, and finally confirming America’s commitment to Nato’s Article Five, that part of its constitution that binds its 29 members to the notion of mutual defence. Trump had churlishly refused to do so on his previous visit to Europe, and had been criticised for his behaviour.
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Scientists Discovered a Giant Crocodile With T-Rex Teeth That's Straight Out of Your Nightmares
A giant crocodile with teeth like a T-Rex was a top predator during the Jurassic period, researchers found in a recent study. New cranial fossils enabled a team of Italian paleontologists to identify Razana as a crocodile relative, making her the oldest representative of a group of animals similar to crocodiles called Notosuchians.
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Torrential rains cause severe flooding in Japan
Troops worked Thursday, June 6 to rescue hundreds of people stranded by flooding in southern Japan. Heavy rain warnings were in effect for much of the southern main island of Kyushu after Typhoon Nanmadol swept across Japan earlier in the week. Authorities in Fukuoka on Kyushu said six people were injured, two of them seriously.
WorldAFPChild in Germany brings WWII bomb into kindergarten
A child in Germany sparked the evacuation of a kindergarten Wednesday by unearthing a World War II bomb and bringing it back to the classroom, police said. The youngster "found an incendiary bomb on a walk in the woods and carried it into the kindergarten," a police spokeswoman in the western city of Darmstadt said. Explosives experts rushed to the scene and retrieved the bomb, allowing the children to return to the kindergarten.
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Immigration Officials Still Detaining US Citizens For Deportation
A lawsuit filed Wednesday against the immigration practices of Miami-Dade County, Florida, said Garland Creedle, a U.S. citizen, had been illegally detained for deportation which violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights as well as Florida law itself. At the time however, he posted bail, but was then detained overnight on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant.?Creedle was born in Honduras but his father being a U.S. citizen had allowed him to become one too. This was not however an isolated instance?of a U.S. national being detained for deportation by U.S. immigration authorities.
WorldReutersSouth Africa's ANC proposes land expropriation without compensation
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has proposed at its policy conference that land expropriation without compensation should be allowed where it is "necessary and unavoidable", President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday
NewsAssociated PressWidow goes after money Canada will give ex-Gitmo prisoner
The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said Tuesday they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured. Lawyer Don Winder made the comments as a decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give millions of dollars to Omar Khadr came under mounting criticism. An official familiar with the deal said Tuesday that Khadr will receive 10.5 million Canadian dollars (US$8 million).
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Pregnant Woman Critically Injured in Lightning Strike Gives Birth, Is Doing Better
A pregnant woman who was struck by lightning while out for a walk in her Florida neighborhood has had her baby delivered by emergency C-section, her family said. Meghan Davidson was critically injured in the strike, but is now improving and has been moved from the intensive care unit, according to her husband. “I think it’s devastating,” congregant Linda Kelly told The Associated Press.
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Chinese Media Says India Needs to Be Taught a 'Bitter Lesson' Over Its Border Dispute
An editorial that ran in China's Global Times Tuesday has ramped up the rhetoric in an ongoing military dispute along a portion of the Sino-Indian border
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Trump's lack of a North Korea strategy is drawing China and Russia closer | Isaac Stone Fish
‘Xi and Trump share the quixotic desire for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. In a dramatic change, the most shocking response to North Korea’s 3 July missile test – which some analysts think demonstrates Pyongyang’s ability to strike Alaska or Hawaii with a ballistic missile – came not from Donald Trump, but from Beijing and Moscow.
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5.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Montana
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit 5.6 miles?southeast of Lincoln, Montana, at a shallow depth of 2.6 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported?Thursday. Missoula Police Department official Mick McCarthy told local media that they received some calls related to medical requirements but no reports of?power outages or gas leaks so far. "No property damage reported yet, but it's still early," McCarthy said.
ScienceReutersPeru reveals replica of face of ancient female ruler
She died in her twenties some 1,700 years ago, and is believed to have ruled over a desert valley in ancient Peru where her elaborately tattooed body was buried with weapons and gold objects. Using 3D imaging technology and forensics archaeology, the replica was based on the Lady of Cao's skull structure and ethnographic research and took 10 months to create, Peru's culture ministry said. The goal, said Culture Minister Salvador del Solar, was to bring the world closer to one of Peru's best archaeological finds and remind Peruvians of their rich cultural heritage.
NewsAFPUS soldier killed in Afghanistan's Helmand
A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban, US military officials said Wednesday. Private First Class Hansen Kirkpatrick, 19, of Wasilla, Alaska died Monday following the "indirect fire" assault, which means he was hit by a mortar or some other incoming round. Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said the soldiers had been conducting an off-base operation with partnered Afghan security forces when they came under fire.
ScienceBGR NewsScared of dinosaurs? This colossal prehistoric crocodile was even more frightening
Movies like Jurassic Park paint the Tyrannosaurus Rex as a ferocious hunter capable to crushing bones (and Jeep Grand Cherokees), but more recent research suggests the king of the lizards was largely a scavenger. It’s called the Razanadrongobe sakalavae, or “Razana” for short, and it’s not something you’d have wanted to encounter on the muddy shore of a Jurassic watering hole. New research into the ancient crocodile species reveals that its thick jaw bones, deep skull structure, and huge teeth would have made it adept at not just rending flesh from bone, but but pulverizing tendon and bone for consumption as well.
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On Duty NYPD Officer Assassinated In 'Unprovoked Attack'
A New York City police officer was assassinated while sitting in her squad car
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Photographer captures haunting abandoned places of worship in Europe
This incredibly haunting body of work was created by?a committed photographer traveling across Europe to capture the continent’s abandoned places of worship. The photographer, from Norwich, England,?said he is fascinated by the craftsmanship and hard work that went into building such important places of worship, and through his images he likes to show their depth and grandeur. Although he revealed?the countries where his beautiful images were taken, the 35-year-old Kerwin?did not name the exact spots that he traveled to in order to shoot such wonders, adding an element of mystery to his work.
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Father, 4 Children Dead After Mother Fatally Stabs Them in Home Bloodbath: Cops
A horror has unfolded in Georgia as cops believe a mother fatally stabbed her husband and four of their children in their home outside Atlanta. Gwinnett?police were called to a Loganville residence at about 5 a.m. Thursday, when they found the man and children dead from apparent stab wounds.
WorldAssociated PressArab states angry over Qatar's dismissal of their demands
Four Arab nations seeking to isolate Qatar over its alleged support for extremist groups were angered Wednesday by what they said was a "negative" response by the tiny Gulf nation to their demands for ending the crisis roiling the region. Doha's response, they said, was "not serious" and betrayed Qatar's "failure" to realize the gravity of the situation. The announcement followed a meeting by foreign ministers from the four nations — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — in Cairo, shortly after they said they had received Doha's reply.
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Poland Is Way Too Happy About Donald Trump’s Visit
The enthusiasm in Poland about the pending visit of the president of the United States Wednesday is palpable. A group calling itself “Poland for Donald Trump” has launched a Facebook event ?in order to welcome Donald Trump to Warsaw. There are reports ?that members of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) have been asked to bring up to 50 members of their extended circles to a planned presidential speech so that Trump feels like he’s received a warm Polish welcome.
WorldReutersBare-chested Pamplona marchers call for end to bull runs
Around 100 shirtless protesters covered in red powder called for a ban on bullfighting and bull runs as they marched through the streets of Pamplona on Wednesday, in a prelude to the northern Spanish city's famous bull festival. The activists from animal rights groups People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and AnimaNaturalis wore horns on their head and bore slogans including 'Stop Bull Fights' painted in black on their chests. The annual San Fermin festival draws thousands from across the world to brave the 875-metre course through the narrow streets of the medieval city, along which runners in white shirts and red scarves are chased by bulls.
