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Australian firefighters worry about wildfires approaching Sydney
Yahoo Daily News 06 Dec 2019
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Firefighters battled to contain nearly 150 fires burning in New South Wales state on Friday as strong winds fanned the flames and again shrouded Sydney, Australia's biggest city, in hazardous smoke ... Fires are still burning in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland states ... ....
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Taylor Swift Speaks Out About Not Using Her Body as an "Exercise of Control"
E! Online 05 Dec 2019
In her next decade, Taylor Swift intends on calling the shots.
With her 30th birthday fast approaching on Dec. 13, the superstar songstress is looking forward to feeling "a bit more... ....
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Democrats Nix Sen. Harris - Cash In On Bloomberg’s Paramilitary Police And Whiteness
WorldNews.com 06 Dec 2019
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. On the day Senator Kamala Harris decided to drop out of the presidential race, writing that. "I'm not a billionaire. I can't fund my own campaign;" polls showed Michael Bloomberg, a relative newcomer to the race, had just moved ahead of her. Unlike Sen ... In the meantime, and with Sen ... Harris ... Harris wrote....
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Four accused in Hyderabad vet rape-murder case killed in police encounter
Yahoo Daily News 06 Dec 2019
Hyderabad vet rape-murder case. Senior Police officials arrive at the site of the encounter. All four accused in the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian were killed in an encounter with the Telangana Police in the early hours of Friday ... One of the four accused had gestured to the other three to flee after attacking the cops ... More ... ....
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'Dotage of a dotard': North Korea renews attack on Donald Trump
BBC News 06 Dec 2019
North Korea has renewed its attack on President Trump, after he threatened Pyongyang with military action ... ....
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Iran may have killed more than 1,000 in recent protests: US
The Times of India 06 Dec 2019
WASHINGTON. Iranian security forces may have killed more than 1,000 people, the top US diplomat for Iran said on Thursday, since protests over gasoline price hikes began in mid-November, a crackdown US President Donald Trump described as "horrible." ... 25 ... A separate UN resolution on Yemen bans the supply of weapons to Houthi leaders ... ....
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US considering troop boost to counter Iran
Deccan Herald 06 Dec 2019
The United States said Thursday it was considering deploying fresh forces to counter Iran, with an official saying some 5,000 to 7,000 troops could head to the region. Testifying before Congress, John Rood, the under secretary of defence for policy, said the United States was "observing Iran's behaviour with concern." ... "It's clearly not ISIS ... GET IT....
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Over 3000 incidents of sexual assault reported in 2018 in US, says Uber
DNA India 06 Dec 2019
Ridesharing company Uber stated on Thursday that it has received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault in the United States in 2018. Uber reported that there was a 16% drop in the rate of sexual assault incidents in its five most serious categories from the previous year ... They will all be right." ... US Uber sexual assault cases Uber in US. ....
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Asian shares gain as Trump fuels trade deal optimism, oil firm on OPEC+ output cut
Reuters 06 Dec 2019
Asian stocks gained on Friday as investors took heart from U.S. President Donald Trump saying trade talks with China were "moving right along", and U.S. oil prices sat near 2-1/2-month highs after OPEC and other producers agreed to cut output ... ....
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Global measles deaths surge to 142,000, WHO estimates
Business Day 05 Dec 2019
London — Measles infected nearly 10-million people in 2018 and killed more than 142,000, mostly children, as outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday ... Globally, measles vaccination rates have stagnated for almost a decade, the WHO said ... Highly contagious ... ....
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France, Germany and UK reiterate claim that Iran has nuclear-capable ballistic missiles
CNN 05 Dec 2019
(CNN)Ambassadors from France, Germany and the UK have again alleged that Iran has developed nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, in a joint letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General officially released by the UN on Wednesday ... Intelligence agencies have tracked Iranian short-range ballistic missiles into Iraq, US official says ... ....
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Biden endorsed by John Kerry for U.S. presidency
China.dot.org 06 Dec 2019
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday endorsed former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's presidential bid. "I'm not endorsing Joe because I've known him for so long, but because I know him so well," Kerry tweeted ... President) Donald Trump has broken apart." ... Enditem ....
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Hong Kong police sound alarm over homemade explosives
The Journal 06 Dec 2019
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's much-maligned police force provided a rare behind-the-scenes look Friday at its bomb disposal squad to show the potentially deadly destructive force of homemade explosives seized during months of protests that have shaken the Chinese territory ... But he added ... �Petrol bombs, TATP, are not the normal in Hong Kong.� ... ....
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France: Police and protesters clash in massive strike over Macron's pension reform
Deutsche Welle 05 Dec 2019photo: Creative Commons
Wreck of German cruiser discovered off Falkland Islands a century after being sunk by Royal Navy
The Independent 05 Dec 2019
Marine archaeologists have uncovered the century-old wreck of a German warship sunk in the south Atlantic during the First World War. SMS Scharnhorst was destroyed during the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, having been chased down by a Royal Navy squadron seeking revenge for an earlier defeat ... Shape Created with Sketch ... 1/6 ... 2/6....
