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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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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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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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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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Russia ‘bombed four hospitals in Syria in four hours’, report finds
The Independent 13 Oct 2019
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 ... AP ... Recklessly or intentionally bombing hospitals is a war crime, but proving culpability amid a complex civil war is extremely difficult, and until now, Syrian medical workers and human rights groups lacked proof....
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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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Malaysia to study impact of India's planned trade action
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2019
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said his government will monitor the trade situation with India, which is reported to be considering trade curbs on the Southeast Asian nation over his criticism of actions in Kashmir, news wire Bernama reported ... ....
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Top Philippine cop resigns after accusation of link to drug scandal
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2019
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' police chief stepped down on Monday less than a month before his retirement, after he was accused of involvement in "recycling" confiscated drugs, an allegation that could undermine the government's anti-narcotics campaign ... Duterte has rejected the accusations ... Albayalde was set to retire on Nov. 8 ... ....
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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
Russian engineers have developed brand-new countermeasures to any foreign missile shield, Vladimir Putin has told reporters, adding that its existing weapons have also been upgraded, to meet the requirements of modern warfare ... But Russia has done its utmost to be one step ahead of its near-peer rivals, Putin assured his interviewer ... ....
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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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New Zealand PM Ardern steps up fight against extremist online content
The National 14 Oct 2019
Read More. Life after death in Christchurch ... The morbid rise of dark tourism ... "Countering violent extremism online is an important part of our response to the March 15 terrorist attacks," she added ... Ms Ardern said in a press conference later that the attack in Germany last week was another reminder of the threat of online extremism. Updated ... ....
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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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Facebook AI Researchers Are Relying on Maths for Automatic Translations of Words
News18 14 Oct 2019
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way. numbers ... Powerful automatic translation is a big priority for internet giants ... Facebook has artificial intelligence experts on the job at one of its research labs in Paris ... ....
