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Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria
China 14 Oct 2019
Syria's Kurds on Sunday announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara pressed a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry. The announcement came as the United States ordered the withdrawal of almost its entire ground force in Syria ... [Photo ... [Photo....
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The US is rethinking the 50-plus nuclear weapons it keeps in Turkey
Quartz 13 Oct 2019
Turkish forces are pushing into northern Syria, replacing and sometimes even firing on the US troops retreating at Donald Trump’s orders. The question of whether Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is really a US ally was put to US defense secretary Mark Esper on Fox television this morning ... Which brings up a problem....
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Pentagon chief vows to cooperate with impeachment probe
China 14 Oct 2019
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday the Pentagon would cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry -- in an apparent break with President Donald Trump's policy to thwart the probe ... [File photo. AFP/ Brendan Smialowski] ... "I don't know the status of what that document preparation is ... - 'Absolutely illegal' -....
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Russia ‘bombed four hospitals in Syria in four hours’, report finds
The Independent 13 Oct 2019
The Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria in order to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad, according to an investigation by The New York Times ... A new front in the conflict opened this week, when Turkish forces crossed the border as part of a campaign against a Kurdish-led militia ... Subscribe now....
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praises 'close' UAE partnership ahead of visit
The National 14 Oct 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the UAE as a very "close and promising partner" ahead of his landmark visit to the country on Tuesday. The Russian leader will arrive in the Emirates from Saudi Arabia with a delegation of ministers, trade representatives and officials ... Read More ... It will be his first visit to the UAE since 2007 ... ....
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Has He Been Found? Hunter Biden Steps Down From Chinese Firm Amid Criticism From Trump
Sputnik 13 Oct 2019
Donald Trump has previously called on China to investigate alleged illegal activities of Joe Biden’s son Hunter, following the latter’s leading position within a private Chinese company linked to state enterprises ... “Hunter undertook these business activities independently”, Biden’s attorney George Mesires said in a statement....
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Gold slips as a partial US-China trade deal lifts risk appetite
CNBC 14 Oct 2019
Gold prices eased on Monday, extending falls into a third session, as news that the United States and China had made progress in their recent high-level trade talks lifted risk appetite ... ....
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Top Spain court to rule on Catalan separatist leaders' fate
China 14 Oct 2019
Spain's Supreme Court is expected to issue a verdict Monday in the controversial case of 12 Catalan leaders over their role in a failed 2017 independence bid that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades ... [Photo. AFP/Lluis Gene] ... [Photo. AFP/Gabriel Bouys] ... But the separatist movement is hoping for just the opposite....
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Russia already HAS weapons that can penetrate ANY missile defense, but its development won’t stop ...
Russia Today 12 Oct 2019
Offering a sort of basic technology lesson, he explained that other countries' existing anti- missile systems are designed to shoot down enemy projectiles that “follow a ballistic trajectory”. But Russia has done its utmost to be one step ahead of its near-peer rivals, Putin assured his interviewer ... ....
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Ecuador reaches deal to cancel austerity measures, end mass protests
Market Watch 14 Oct 2019
President Lenín Moreno and leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples struck a deal late Sunday to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven dead. ... Indigenous leaders, in turn, will call on their followers to end protests and street blockades. ... and 8 p.m ... 2....
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Tunisia Polls Suggest Conservative Professor Wins Election
Voa News 13 Oct 2019
A conservative, Islamist-backed law professor looked set to assume Tunisia’s presidency after polling agencies suggested he overwhelmingly won Sunday’s runoff election in the country that unleashed the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings ... This is only Tunisia’s second free presidential election ... A crowd gathers on Tunis' main avenue, Oct. 13, 2019 ... ....
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New Zealand PM Ardern steps up fight against extremist online content
The National 14 Oct 2019
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced more funding and support on Monday to target violent extremist content online, just months after an alleged white supremacist livestreamed a massacre at two mosques in Christchurch ... A new team of 17 people will be dedicated to tackling such content, the government in a statement ... Read More ... SHARE. ....
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Varun Dhawan CONFIRMS playing Arun Khetarpal in his biopic; Calls it the most important film ...
Pinkvilla 14 Oct 2019
Varun Dhawan CONFIRMS playing Arun Khetarpal in his biopic; Calls it the most important film of his career Varun Dhawan, who has been working on David Dhawan’s Coolie No. 1, has announced his next project now ... Entertainment. News EntertainmentTags. Varun Dhawan Arun Khetarpal ... ....
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Woman dropped 40 metres from rescue helicopter among 19 dead in Japan typhoon
Metro UK 13 Oct 2019
More than 27,000 military troops and other aid personnel have been been deployed to help with the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis (Picture. AP/Getty). More than 27,000 military troops have been deployed to help rescue people trapped in floods after ferocious Typhoon Hagibis caused devastation across Japan ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Mr Suga said ... ....
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Up to 35 dead as Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2019
Tens of thousands of rescuers worked through the pre-dawn hours Monday to reach people trapped by landslides and floods in Japan caused by a powerful typhoon that has killed up to 35, officials and local media said ... One elderly woman wearing an orange life vest was brought out from a boat on the back of a hard-hat wearing rescuer ... ....
