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Pompeo: Iran must be held accountable for Baghdad attacks
Gulf News 19 Feb 2020
... violence can’t become routine.”It cannot become ordinary course that the Iranians, through their proxy forces in Iraq, are putting the lives of Americans at risk,” Pompeo told reporters on his plane as he prepared to fly from Addis Ababa to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday....
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Caroline Flack’s death ruled suicide, coroner says
WPXI 19 Feb 2020
Flack, 40, who left the British reality television show in December 2019 after she was charged with assault, was found dead at her apartment Saturday, People reported. Though no official cause of death when Flack was found, at Wednesday’s inquest the Poplar Coroner’s Court ruled the cause of death as suicide by hanging, Variety reported....
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Is America Propagating One Holocaust (Jewish) While Erasing Another (Palestinian)?
WorldNews.com 19 Feb 2020
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour has taken the plan to the UN already, and is working on a UN Security Council resolution, describing Trump’s plan as “A recipe for the destruction of the national rights of the Palestinian people.” Meanwhile, the U.S....
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Iran state news agency says new virus has killed 2 citizens
Yahoo Daily News 19 Feb 2020
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The new virus has killed two elderly Iranian citizens, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported Wednesday ... No additional details were released ... Officials later said the two patients had died ... Since then, more than 75,000 people have been infected globally, with more than 2,000 deaths being reported, mostly in China ... ___ ... ....
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Turkey’s Erdogan Says Syria Talks With Russia Unsatisfactory; Offensive ‘Matter of Time’
Hamodia 19 Feb 2020
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday talks with Russia on the conflict in Syria‘s northwestern Idlib province were far from meeting Turkey’s demands and he said a military operation there was a “matter of time.” ... Several rounds of talks with Moscow had failed to reach an agreement, he said ... ....
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Trump offered to pardon Assange if he covered up Russian interference in US election, court told
The Independent 19 Feb 2020
Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he covered up Russia's inteference in the 2016 US election, a court has heard. The explosive claim emerged as Assange, 48, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court ahead of an extradition hearing next week ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks" ... ....
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Malaysia suspected MH370 downed in murder-suicide: Aussie ex-PM
The Jakarta Post 19 Feb 2020
Shares ... The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people – mostly from China – en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ... A final report into the tragedy released in 2018 pointed to failings by air traffic control and said the course of the plane was changed manually ... Topics .. ....
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Ending Putin's Support of Venezuela No Easy Feat for US
Voa News 19 Feb 2020
adversaries ... leads a group of now nearly 60 nations that recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's rightful leader following what it considers Maduro's fraudulent 2018 re-election ... "The Russians are nothing if not good chess players," Russ Dallen, the Miami-based head of Caracas Capital Markets brokerage, wrote in a recent report ... ....
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Duke and Duchess of Sussex to begin new life on March 31
Wtop 19 Feb 2020
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are breaking free of the royal family starting March 31, the couple’s office said Wednesday. The announcement comes as Buckingham Palace reviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s use of the label “Sussex Royal” after their decision to step back from royal duties....
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George Zimmerman sues Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren over tweets honouring Trayvon Martin
The Independent 19 Feb 2020
right Created with Sketch ... The number of those who have died from the virus in China climbed to over 900, mostly in Hubei province, and cases have been reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and several others....
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Boeing finds a new issue with Max, debris in fuel tanks
Wtop 19 Feb 2020
A Boeing official said the debris was discovered in “several” planes but did not give a precise number ... The FAA “increased its surveillance based on initial inspection reports and will take further action based on the findings,” said spokesman Lynn Lunsford ... The debris issue was first reported by aviation news site Leehamnews.com ... Source ....
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Woman plays violin while undergoing brain surgery – video
The Guardian 19 Feb 2020
A musician played the violin while surgeons operated on her brain to remove a tumour ......
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Syrian father teaches four-year-old daughter to laugh when bombs falls outside
AOL 19 Feb 2020photo: AP / Sam McNeil
Coronavirus: China's death toll breaches 2,000 but spread of virus is stabilising
One India 19 Feb 2020photo: AP / Alexei Nikolsky
'Could you live on $170 a month?' Russian woman asks Putin
The Times of India 19 Feb 2020
SAINT PETERSBURG. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday faced what appeared to be a rare unscripted grilling from a Russian woman who asked him how much he earns and whether he could live on her income of $170 a month ... "Of course you are right, we still have a lot of social problems that the government has to solve," he said ... ....
