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Pompeo: Iran must be held accountable for Baghdad attacks
Gulf News 19 Feb 2020
Addis Ababa ... “There has to be accountability connected to those very serious attacks.”. Pompeo was referring to a February 16 incident in which several rockets landed inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, causing minimal damage and no injuries ... Tehran denied involvement in that incident ... Pompeo countered that the US was ready to talk any time ... ....
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Is America Propagating One Holocaust (Jewish) While Erasing Another (Palestinian)?
WorldNews.com 19 Feb 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. News from many of the state’s boards of education couldn’t have been more demanding. Dictated by the Trump administration and the United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education, public school teachers must now implement Holocaust Remembrance Week ... The U.S ... “Portraits Of Empire....
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Caroline Flack’s death ruled suicide, coroner says
WPXI 19 Feb 2020
Coroners have ruled that former “Love Island” host Caroline Flack died by suicide, officials said Wednesday. Flack, 40, who left the British reality television show in December 2019 after she was charged with assault, was found dead at her apartment Saturday, People reported ... Content Continues Below ... “My heart is broken,” Burton wrote on Instagram ... ....
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Turkey’s Erdogan Says Syria Talks With Russia Unsatisfactory; Offensive ‘Matter of Time’
Hamodia 19 Feb 2020
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday talks with Russia on the conflict in Syria‘s northwestern Idlib province were far from meeting Turkey’s demands and he said a military operation there was a “matter of time.” ... Several rounds of talks with Moscow had failed to reach an agreement, he said ... ....
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Malaysia suspected MH370 downed in murder-suicide: Aussie ex-PM
The Jakarta Post 19 Feb 2020
Shares. Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed "very top" level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberated downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people – mostly from China – en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing ... ....
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Woman plays violin while undergoing brain surgery – video
The Guardian 19 Feb 2020
A musician played the violin while surgeons operated on her brain to remove a tumour ......
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Boeing finds a new issue with Max, debris in fuel tanks
Wtop 19 Feb 2020
Boeing said Tuesday that it found debris contaminating the fuel tanks of some 737 Max jets that it built in the past year but was unable to deliver to airline customers. A Boeing official said the debris was discovered in “several” planes but did not give a precise number ... Those steps include more inspections before fuel tanks are sealed ... Source ....
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Coronavirus: China's death toll breaches 2,000 but spread of virus is stabilising
One India 19 Feb 2020photo: Creative Commons / Marco Verch
Beijing expels three WSJ journalists over opinion piece calling China 'real sick man of Asia'
The Independent 19 Feb 2020
China has expelled three Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporters in response to an opinion article the newspaper published, which described the country as the “real sick man of Asia”. Beijing's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it had revoked the press credentials of the journalists because the WSJ refused to apologise or investigate the matter ... ....
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Iran won't hand over 'damaged' black box of Ukraine plane-ministers
Canada Dot Com 19 Feb 2020photo: AP / Becky Bohrer
Coronavirus: 781 Westerdam cruise passengers test negative in Cambodia
South China Morning Post 19 Feb 2020
Nearly 800 passengers from the MS Westerdam cruise ship remaining in Cambodia have tested negative for the coronavirus, the country’s health ministry said on Wednesday ... ....
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Former South Korean president jailed after losing appeal
The Jakarta Post 19 Feb 2020
Shares. Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was taken to prison Wednesday to begin a 17-year term for bribery and embezzlement after losing an appeal against a lighter sentence. ... He instead blamed civil servants he worked with and Samsung employees, the court said ... . Topics .. ....
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Donald Trump says US will strike ‘very big’ trade deal with India, but not soon
South China Morning Post 19 Feb 2020
United States President Donald Trump said Washington and New Delhi were working on a major trade deal, but he was not sure if it would be completed before the US presidential election in November ... We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot ... We’ll have it ... ....
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Devices found in missiles, Yemen drones link Iran to attacks
Wtop 19 Feb 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A small instrument inside the drones that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry and those in the arsenal of Yemen’s Houthi rebels match components recovered in downed Iranian drones in Afghanistan and Iraq, two reports say ... drone strike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad last month ... Gen....
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