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Meghan Markle's bodyguard quits after six months
Sydney Morning Herald 14 Jan 2019photo: White House / Keegan Barber
Trump Administration Asked Pentagon for ‘Far-Reaching Military Options' to Attack Iran, Report Says
Newsweek 13 Jan 2019
The Trump administration asked the Pentagon for “far-reaching military options” to attack Iran in September, causing concern among military and diplomatic officials, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that, following a mortar attack by militants allegedly linked to Iran targeting the area where the U.S ... ....
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Mueller at Center of Confirmation
Lebanon Valley News 14 Jan 2019
Washington — Two years of simmering tension between the White House, the Justice Department and Congress will culminate in Tuesday’s confirmation hearing of William Barr to be the next attorney general, where he is expected to resist Democrats’ demands for explicit promises about the fate of special... ....
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Trump denies hiding detail of Putin summit talks from staff
BBC News 13 Jan 2019
"I'm not keeping anything under wraps," Mr Trump told Fox News while referring to the latest report. "I couldn't care less.". He said he had talked in Helsinki to the Russian leader "like every president does" and that they had had a "great" conversation about "very positive things" such as the economy ... "That meeting is open for grabs ... Related Topics. ....
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Italy vows fugitive will spend life in jail for killings
Wtop 13 Jan 2019
ROME (AP) — Italy is praising the capture in Bolivia of fugitive Italian communist militant Cesare Battisti and is vowing that he will “finish his days in prison” to serve murder convictions dating from 1990. Bolivian police seized Battisti overnight ... All rights reserved ... ....
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How a hacked phone may have led killers to Khashoggi
CNN 12 Jan 2019
(CNN)Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised -- along with the rest of Abdulaziz's phone, which had allegedly been infected by Pegasus, a powerful piece of malware designed to spy on its users ... Read More ... Replay ... ....
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Saudi teen who fled family welcomed as 'brave new Canadian' in Toronto
Yahoo Daily News 13 Jan 2019
Qunun refused to meet her father and brother, who arrived in Bangkok to try to take her back to Saudi Arabia ... ....
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Poland 'must pay' for Huawei arrest: Chinese state-run daily
The Times of India 14 Jan 2019
BEIJING. Poland "must pay" for arresting an employee of Chinese telecom giant Huawei for alleged espionage, state-run tabloid Global Times said on Monday. Last week's detention of Wang Weijing follows the December arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer in Canada, and US efforts to blacklist the company internationally over security concerns ... ....
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Violence erupts in France as yellow vests take to the streets
The Irish Times 12 Jan 2019
Police in Paris fired water cannon and tear gas to repel gilets jaunes (yellow vest) demonstrators from around the Arc de Triomphe monument on Saturday. This is the ninth straight weekend of protests against French president Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies ... “Macron, we are going to tear down your place!” read one banner. Paris Letter ... Photograph ... ....
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German World War-era submarine wreck emerges off French coast
Gulf News 12 Jan 2019
Paris. The wreck of a First World War German submarine is gradually resurfacing on a beach in northern French after decades of being buried in the sand ... The crew flooded the vessel and abandoned it and by the 1930s the submarine had largely been buried ... ....
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UK's May to make statement on Brexit deal assurances at 1530 GMT: Sky
Reuters 14 Jan 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May will make a statement to parliament at 1530 GMT before lawmakers continue their debate on her Brexit deal, Sky News reported on Monday ... ....
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Ivanka Trump, possible candidate to lead World Bank: report
The News International 12 Jan 2019
Former US ambassador Nikky Haley and Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, are among the possible candidates to replace the outgoing World Bank (WB) president, Jim Yong Kim, the Financial Times reported Friday ... Ivanka Trump was in 2017 behind the World Bank's $ 1 billion fund to promote women's business initiatives ... ....
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Trump says US will hurt Turkey economically if it hits Kurds
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jan 2019
President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria. Mr Trump’s decision to pull American troops out of Syria has left the United States’ Kurdish allies vulnerable to an attack from Turkey ... Will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms ... ....
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'Game of Thrones' Final Season Premiere Date Revealed
Yahoo Daily News 14 Jan 2019
More. Send your ravens -- we have a premiere date! . Three months before Game of Thrones' eighth and final season is set to debut, we have an official premiere date. April 14. HBO shared the news on Sunday, just before the season premiere of True Detective. . April 14 ... "The last season of Thrones seemed to be designed to break us ... ....
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