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Taliban Captures Afghan Army Base, Killing 17
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
The Taliban overran a military base in northern Afghanistan after five days of fighting across the city of Ghazni, killing 17 soldiers on Tuesday as Afghan forces continued to fight against the terrorists across the city's outskirts, according to Voice of America ... Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack ... The Taliban also seized eight military Humvees in the attack ... A U.S ... A spokesman for the U.S ... Col ... ......
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Trump's Ambassador Says Britain Faces 'Serious Consequences' If Iran Trade Continues
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has published an unprecedented editorial in a British newspaper, warning Prime Minister Theresa May to side with the U.S. against Iran or face “serious consequences,” Newsweek reported.Ambassador Robert “Woody” Johnson called on British leaders to join the U.S ... from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known commonly as the Iran Nuclear Deal....
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Egyptian Road Workers Uncover Mysterious Sphinx
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
A mysterious sphinx has been discovered during roadwork in the Egyptian city of Luxor, Fox News reports.Mohamed Abdel Aziz, director general of Luxor Antiquities, announced the find Sunday, according to Egypt Today ... Archaeologists recently opened a ‘cursed’ ancient black granite sarcophagus ... Late last year, archaeologists also revealed that they had uncovered the graves of four children at an ancient site in Egypt. WN.com, JIm Berrie ....
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Primary Night Results For Races in Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
Christina Hallquist made history on Tuesday night by becoming the United States' first transgender gubernatorial nominee for a major political party in Vermont, according to The Washington Post. Hallquist was able to achieve the major breakthrough for LGBT Americans which have often been removed from higher levels of elected office an will face Gov. Phil Scott in November's election ... Democratic Sen ... Sen ... Jim Newberger in November....
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Trump Lashes Out At Omarosa After Tape Reveals Campaign Discussing Racist Remarks
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and a "dog" in tweets on Tuesday morning, according to CBS News. "When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!" Trump tweeted ... ... "I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have ... ... Patton said ... ....
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US orders $480mn-hypersonic missile prototype suitable for ‘great power competition’
Russia Today 14 Aug 2018
The US Air Force paid $480 million for a second top-spec hypersonic missile prototype to gain ground “in the era of great power competition,” following reports of Russia’s successes in developing unrivaled high-speed weapons ... ....
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Trump Campaign Files For Arbitration Against Former White House Aide Omarosa
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump's campaign filed an arbitration action against former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman on Tuesday for allegedly violating a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2016, according to The Washington Post. Trump's 2020 re-election campaign announced it filed an arbitration with the "American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement." ....
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New Study Warns The Next Four Years Will Be Unusually Warm
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
Researchers said Earth is likely to see a continuation in extreme temperatures over the next four years until 2022 as natural warming coincides with the effects of climate change, according to The Guardian. The report published this week in the journal Nature Communications said there would be minimal relief for the planet through the next four years during a summer marked by global wildfires and heatwaves ... Dr ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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A Sixth Firefighter Dies During Fight Against Raging Northern California Wildfires
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection announced Monday night a firefighter died while fighting the Mendocino Complex Fire and did not release any information about the firefighter but said on Tuesday a "fact-finding on the accident" was underway, according to National Public Radio ... It is extremely dry and susceptible to fire," Derek Tisinger, Cal Fire Battalion Chief and Public Information Officer told NPR....
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UK Police Raid, Search Properties After Vehicle Attack Outside Parliament in London
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
British counter-terrorism police carried out searches at three locations in central England on Tuesday night as part of their investigation into a vehicle attack where a car injured three people before slamming into barriers outside the Houses of Parliament in downtown London, according to The Associated Press. Police said the suspect is a 29-year-old U.K ... Two addresses in Birmingham and one in Nottingham were searched ... ....
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Nebraska Carries Out The Country’s First Execution in21 Years Using Fentanyl
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
In an series of unprecedented moves Tuesday, the US state of Nebraska not only carried out its first execution in nearly a generation, but authorities used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out the death sentence, the Washington Post reported ... Moore had spent more than half his life on death row, the report said. He was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers in 1979 ... Lawmakers voted to override a veto from Gov....
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Newly Discovered Pterosaur Fossil Indicates Flying Reptiles Thrived Before Dinosaurs
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
A newly described species of pterosaur with a long, narrow head filled with sharp pointy teeth and a 1.5-meter wingspan had already mastered the skies by the time dinosaurs dominated the ancient world, IFL Science reports.Fossils of pterosaurs – winged reptiles that lived up until the Cretaceous extinction event – have been found around the world by intrepid researchers and collectors ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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Vienna Tops Survey As World's Most Livable City
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
Manchester's rise puts it ahead of London in the rankings by 13 places, the widest gap between the two cities since the survey began two decades ago.The EIU said Manchester's jump in the rankings was due to an improved security score ... According to the survey, nearly half of the cities have seen their livability ranking improve over the past year ... Two other Australian cities also made this year's top ten ... 1. Vienna, Austria; 2 ... 1....
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Trump Shames Sessions; Says Russia Probe Wouldn't Exist If We Had 'Real Attorney General'
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
Trump has said if he knew Sessions would recuse himself, he would have “put a different attorney general in.”Sessions decided to extricate himself from the Justice Department's investigation in March 2017 after consulting with department officials ... "Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him," the president said in a statement regarding Sessions' nomination.WN.com, Jim Berrie....
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Genoa bridge collapse: At least 22 killed in ‘enormous tragedy’
The Irish Times 14 Aug 2018
A motorway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, Italy, on Tuesday, killed at least 22 people and the death toll will rise, Italian deputy transport minister Edoardo Rixi has said in a television interview. “It’s not acceptable that such an important bridge ... was not built to avoid this kind of collapse,” Rixi said on SkyNews24, speaking from Genoa. “The central section came down.”. Eight people are reportedly injured ... Disastro a #Genova ... ....
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