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Scientists show how ALIENS ‘see’ Earth when looking from deep space
Russia Today 19 Aug 2019photo: Creative Commons
Four awesome WhatsApp features you can use right now
Deccan Chronicle 19 Aug 2019
Every WhatsApp upgrade brings about some exciting features that the 1.5 billion users the world over absolutely love. In India, WhatsApp has over 400 million users with the instant messaging giant often launching features that are specific to our country ... Some of these features have already rolled out centring on forwarding messages ... Group Invitation....
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Britain revokes ‘Jihadi Jack’s’ citizenship, sparking row with Canada
Indian Express 19 Aug 2019
By Nik Martin . Canada on Sunday it was “disappointed” that Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national former “Islamic State” (IS) recruits being held in northern Syria ... Several UK media outlets reported on Sunday that Letts had been stripped of his British citizenship ... Advertising. Flew to Syria ... “I’m not innocent,” he told ITV News ... ....
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Trump warns Tiananmen-style Hong Kong crackdown would harm trade deal
Mail Guardian South Africa 19 Aug 2019
Donald Trump has warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protests would harm trade talks between the two countries, in comments that followed a huge, defiant march through the streets of the global finance hub ... “I think it’s a very hard thing to do if there’s violence.” ... ....
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Is Changing The Statue of Liberty’s Poem And History A Step Towards Fascism?
WorldNews.com 19 Aug 2019
The Statue of Liberty ... Poetic InjusticeIf the Trump administration gets their way, the famous poem, “The New Colossus,” will read ... So are non-European migrants who were just as instrumental in building America as Europeans or Bracero Programs where millions of Mexican and Central American workers were recruited to help win World War I and II....
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A look at the Islamic State affiliate's rise in Afghanistan
Yahoo Daily News 19 Aug 2019
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing at a wedding party in Kabul claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate has renewed fears about the growing threat posed by its thousands of fighters, as well as their ability to plot global attacks from a stronghold in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan ... The U.S ... airstrikes ... Today, the U.N....
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Iran tanker departs after Gibraltar rejects US demand
The News International 19 Aug 2019
GIBRALTAR. The Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute has departed from Gibraltar after the British overseas territory rejected a US demand to seize the vessel ... Authorities in Gibraltar have not confirmed its departure ... Iran has repeatedly denied any violations ... GIBRALTAR ... Authorities in Gibraltar have not confirmed its departure ... ....
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Jeremy Corbyn: General election will stop Brexit 'crisis'
BBC News 19 Aug 2019
The Labour leader will say the Tory party has "failed our country" and a general election is the "change of direction the country needs" ... ....
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Judge postpones 2nd corruption trial of Malaysia’s former PM
Wtop 19 Aug 2019
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The second trial of Malaysian’s ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund was delayed Monday by a week to allow his first trial to end ... High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah agreed to postpone the second trial until Aug. 26 ... U.S ... Source ....
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This is crunch point for our oceans: let’s do the right thing
The Guardian 19 Aug 2019
Quite simply, they are in crisis .......
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Trump rages over poll numbers and coverage of his racism after approval ratings plummet
The Independent 18 Aug 2019
Donald Trump has vented his anger over media coverage of his repeated racism after a series of polls showed his approval ratings had fallen and that he was on track to lose the 2020 election. More follows…. Independent news email. Only the best news in your inbox. Independent news email. Only the best news in your inbox ... Update newsletter preferences ... ....
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Gold prices dip on firmer dollar, equities
Yahoo Daily News 19 Aug 2019photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Millions of Muslims risk being stripped of citizenship in India and declared 'foreign migrants'
The Independent 18 Aug 2019
We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view ... Subscribe now ... Show all 10 ... 1/10 ... 2/10 ... AP ... Instead, it is vowing to bring this campaign to force people to prove they are citizens to other parts of India, part of a far-reaching Hindu nationalist program fuelled by Mr Modi’s sweeping re-election victory in May and his stratospheric popularity....
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Pakistan govt presents first anniversary progress report
Khaleej Times 19 Aug 2019
Ruling Pakistani Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government on Sunday presented its progress report on the first anniversary of its assuming office, reviewing achievements made by the government ... "When we assumed power last year, the national treasury was almost empty, and we did not even have money to run daily affairs of the country ... ....
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Video Allegedly Showing Prince Andrew Waving Off Young Woman at Epstein's New York Mansion Released
Sputnik 18 Aug 2019
Explosive court documents released hours before Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide last week revealed that UK Prince Andrew, the eighth in line to the British throne, was named in a 2015 lawsuit against an alleged "madame" for the US financier's purported child sex trafficking ring ... ....
