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Bitcoin Futures Are More Significant Than We Think
LB News 15 Jun 2019
Earlier today, Live Bitcoin News put out an article saying that Litecoin has been this year’s top-performing cryptocurrency. With over 300 percent in gains since the start of 2019, Litecoin is indeed carving out a new name for itself in the crypto space, but that doesn’t mean we should take anything away from bitcoin, the granddaddy of them all ... ....
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If Dean Is Right about Trump and Watergate, America May Slip into a Death Spiral
WorldNews.com 14 Jun 2019
This goes for safeguards which are supposed to protect the U.S ... Not only was The Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to investigate Nixon very bipartisan and civil, but it consisted of a group of Democrats and Republicans that were committed to “bipartisan search for the unvarnished truth.” Just as important were the hearings ... 141 ... ....
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The Philippine ghost town that still hasn’t recovered from Islamic State’s deadly siege
The Independent 15 Jun 2019
Only a week had passed since Mohammad Ali Acampong finished renovating his house when bombs and bullets struck Marawi City. Pro-Islamic State militants were carving out their own “Wilayah”, or province, forcing nearly 100,000 people to flee. It became the Philippine military’s toughest and longest conflict since the Second World War ... Subscribe now ... ....
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Times' Russia report is 'virtual treason,' Trump says
This is Money 16 Jun 2019
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said President Donald Trump's attacks on the press are "dangerous". US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused The New York Times of "a virtual act of treason," after it reported the US is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid ... In February the publisher of the Times, A.G ... ....
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Jimmy Carter receives award for role in China-US relations
China.dot.org 16 Jun 2019
Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who helped set the China-U.S. diplomatic relationship in motion forty years ago, was recognized for his crucial role in an award ceremony this week. . The George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, also known as the Bush China Foundation, bestowed its inaugural George H. W ... ... ... ... ....
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Thieves In Mexico Have A New Target: Trucks Full Of Avocados
WorldNews.com 14 Jun 2019
Organized crime groups seem to be targeting the avocado industry, which the exporters and packers said was creating a worsening security situation in the Michoacán state, which has been the site for several years of fighting crime factions ... This means war has become perpetual and extremely costly” for the criminal groups, Ernst said....
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Malaysian Politician Arrested After Confessing To Being In Sex Video With Minister
WorldNews.com 14 Jun 2019
A politician who confessed to being in a sex video that implicated a Malaysian minister was arrested Friday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, the South China Morning Post reported.Haziq Abdul Aziz, a member of the People’s Justice Party (PKR), was arrested at about 5.30 p.m. local time ... ....
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Singer Accused Of Keeping Sun Bear In Her Condo Says She "Thought It Was A Dog"
IFL Science 14 Jun 2019
The world of Malaysian reality TV stars is a wild one. Zarith Sofia Yasin, a 27-year-old singer from Malaysia, has been charged with allegedly keeping a sun bear in her apartment in Kuala Lumpur, as reported by The Jakarta Post ... Yasin claims she was hoping to give the bear, named Bruno, to a local zoo once it had regained its strength ... - ... [H/T ... ....
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U.S. reportedly increasing digital incursions into Russian power grid
Japan Times 16 Jun 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused The New York Times of “a virtual act of treason,” after it reported the U.S. is stepping up ... ....
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Powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand
Khaleej Times 16 Jun 2019
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake stuck near the remote Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand Sunday, briefly prompting a tsunami warning. After initially forecasting "a threat to beach, harbour, estuary and small boat activities", New Zealand's Civil Defence organisation gave the all-clear eight minutes later ... ....
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Notre Dame celebrates 1st Mass since devastating April fire
Lima Ohio 15 Jun 2019
PARIS — The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15th fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire ... Some of the workers rebuilding the church were also invited ... ....
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Semenya denies she refused to run in Rabat, blames event organiser
Supersport 15 Jun 2019
The Federation made it impossible for her to participate," it read ... "They keep talking, I keep winning....
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Car bomb kills eight in Somali capital: emergency services
This is Money 15 Jun 2019
The Al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attacks saying they were "they were targeting two checkpoints, one of them along the airport road and (the other) along the road that leads to house of legislators." ... group which is dominant in the southern part of the city....
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Climate change: Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090
The Independent 14 Jun 2019
The group moves in a straight line to minimize the risk of falling into hidden crevasse ... The Glaciar Union camp is a Chilean polar station operated by Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) and the three groups of the Armed Forces of Chile marking the beginning of all scientific activities planned in Antarctica for the summer season....
