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Trump 'approved military strikes against Iran but pulled back'
BBC News 21 Jun 2019
The newspaper first published details of the apparent planned strikes late on Thursday night in Washington. Several other US media outlets then independently reported the same ... The strikes were set to take place just before dawn on Friday to minimise risk to the Iranian military or to civilians, the newspaper added ... What has Mr Trump said? ... ....
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Venice Asks UNESCO To Place City On World Heritage Blacklist Over Cruise Ship Problems
WorldNews.com 21 Jun 2019
The mayor of Venice asked UNESCO to place the Italian city on its world heritage site blacklist to help divert cruise ships from the tourist hot spot on Thursday, according to The Daily Telegraph ... “We will write to Unesco to ask for the city to be put on the blacklist,” he told Radio 24. “Venice is in danger and we feel in danger.”....
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More Than Four Million People Impacted By Severe Water Shortage In Chennai, India
WorldNews.com 21 Jun 2019photo: Creative Commons / Tobias Nordhausen
Lufthansa Cabin Crew Union Threatens To Strike In July
WorldNews.com 21 Jun 2019
The German cabin crew union UFO on Thursday called on flight attendants with the German carrier Lufthansa to go on strike in July, Germany’s Deutsche Welle news service reported ... ....
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Researchers Dropped Thousands Of Wallets To Test Honesty Across 40 Countries
WorldNews.com 21 Jun 2019
Even though it's easy to give in to pessimism, a team of economists released a new study on Thursday which got surprisingly optimistic results after conducting a mass social experiment involving 17,000 wallets being "lost" across dozens of countries, according to National Public Radio ... Researchers said two factors were behind their results....
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High iron linked to diabetes, liver disease: study
Xinhua 21 Jun 2019
CANBERRA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- People with too much iron are more likely to contract diabetes and liver disease according to a joint study released on Friday ... UniSA geneticist and co-author of the study Beben Benyamin said that the link between an iron surplus and a lower risk of high cholesterol was particularly important ... ....
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Canadian Frigate Crosses Taiwan Strait Amid China Tensions
WorldNews.com 20 Jun 2019
“Middle powers [like Canada] are about bolstering international institutions and international law so they can restrain the power of very big countries,” Nagy told the outlet ... “It sends the signal that Canada is aligning with the U.S ... ....
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Protesters Clash With Riot Police Outside Georgian Parliament Over Russian Lawmaker Visit
WorldNews.com 21 Jun 2019
Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas after protesters stormed the national parliament building in Tbilisi on Friday morning, according to Yahoo News. The crowd started gathering outside Georgia's parliament to demand the resignation of the legislature's speaker Irakli Kobakhidze ... "We will achieve these demands through peaceful protests." ... ....
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US Navy Seal 'stabbed injured prisoner in neck and claimed he was just an Isis dirtbag'
The Independent 20 Jun 2019
A US Navy Seal chief has been accused of spontaneously killing an injured teenage Islamic State prisoner by stabbing him repeatedly and calling him an “Isis dirtbag” in the process, his former comrades said in court this week ... We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view ... Subscribe now ... Shape Created with Sketch. World news in pictures ... EPA ... AP....
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Microsoft partners with Kano to launch a build-your-own PC
The Star 21 Jun 2019photo: AP / Vincent You
Protesters gather again outside Hong Kong government offices
Yahoo Daily News 21 Jun 2019
HONG KONG (AP) — Several hundred mainly student protesters gathered outside Hong Kong government offices Friday morning after a deadline passed for meeting their demands related to controversial extradition legislation that many see as eroding the territory's judicial independence ... ....
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Senate Votes To Block Trump's Sale Of Arms To Saudi Arabia
WorldNews.com 20 Jun 2019
The United States Senate voted to block the Trump administration from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Axios. The resolution passed 53-45, creating a new challenge to President Donald Trump's relationship with Riyadh amid ongoing tensions simmering in the Middle East ... drone last night ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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EU leaders fail to agree on candidates for top posts
China.dot.org 21 Jun 2019
European Union (EU) leaders on Friday failed to reach a deal on candidates for the bloc's top jobs and announced that they will meet again on June 30 to seek agreement ... ....
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Warner century against BD sends Aussies top
Dawn 21 Jun 2019
NOTTINGHAM. Bangladesh batsman Mushfiqur Rahim hits a boundary during the match against Australia at Trent Bridge on Thursday.—Reuters. NOTTINGHAM. David Warner’s century paved the way for Australia to beat Bangladesh by 48 runs here at Trent Bridge on Thursday as the reigning champions went top of the World Cup table ... Scoreboard. AUSTRALIA. ... D.A ... A.J ... ....
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New Research Links Smartphones To Young Adults Experiencing 'Horn' Growth On Skulls
WorldNews.com 20 Jun 2019
Research from Australia has found a number of young people are shifting their posture to using smartphones which is causing some to develop 'hornlike' bone spurs at the base of their skulls, according to The Mercury News ... David Shahar, the paper’s first author, a chiropractor who recently completed a Ph.D ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
