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US declares 'most' of China's maritime claims in South China Sea illegal
CNN 14 Jul 2020
(CNN)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a formal rejection of "most" of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea, the latest in the escalation between Washington and Beijing. Describing the move as "strengthening U.S ... "The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire ... Everyone wears a mask ... ....
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Attacking Hong Kong dollar peg would hurt those the US hopes to help
South China Morning Post 14 Jul 2020
The United States is unhappy with China’s new national security law for Hong Kong and is seeking ways to express its disquiet. Some advisers to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have reportedly suggested taking measures that would undermine the Hong Kong dollar’s Linked Exchange Rate System (LERS), its peg to the US dollar ... ....
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US swaps Venezuelan fuel oil for Russian products
Russia Today 14 Jul 2020
The United States has been raising its imports of fuel oil from Russia over the past year and a half after the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s exports, Reuters reported on Monday, quoting data from Refinitiv Eikon ... Also on rt.com Russia supplies first shipment of Arctic oil to China ... Also on rt.com China set to fall short on US energy purchases ... ....
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Woman thought she had a cold but it was a worm living in her throat
Metro UK 14 Jul 2020
The culprit measured 38mm long and 1mm wide, was identified as a nematode roundworm (Picture. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene). A young woman went to the doctors complaining of a tingly sore throat only to find out the culprit wasn’t a cold, but a live worm which was burrowing into one of her tonsils ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... ....
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Iran executes defense ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy
Wtop 14 Jul 2020
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s judiciary said Tuesday. It was the second such execution in the past month ... and Israel ... Source ....
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Pic of Johnny Depp Covered in Ice Cream Emerges Online Amid Libel Trial Against the Sun
Sputnik 14 Jul 2020
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is currently suing British newspaper The Sun over a 2018 article referring to him as a “wife-beater” following the claims of his ex-wife Amber Heard. For the second week in a row, the UK’s High Court has been hearing a slew of provocative details about the couple’s one-year marriage ... ....
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Sudan declares emergency in North Darfur state after violence erupts
The Independent 14 Jul 2020photo: AP / Christophe Ena
France celebrates virus heroes on redesigned Bastille Day
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jul 2020
France is recalibrating Bastille Day’s usual grandiose military parade to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic instead. Ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers, postal workers as well as frontline medics who died fighting Covid-19 are all being honoured on the country’s biggest national holiday ... AP/PA Images. / ... AP/PA Images. / ... ....
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NASA's Perseverance rover will scour Mars for signs of life
Deccan Herald 14 Jul 2020
NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago. The interplanetary voyage will last six months ... Instead, it had the ingredients for life as we know it ... NASA then decided to proceed in stages ... NASA....
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Miami is now the coronavirus epicenter as cases surge, one expert says
CNN 14 Jul 2020
The Chinese city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, went into a 76-day lockdown in late January after a deadly outbreak infected and killed thousands ... Read More ... Gavin Newsom said indoor activities at restaurants, bars, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos, and museums should shut down ... ....
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Woman shouts ‘I still love sharks’ as she's taken to hospital after getting bitten while swimming
The Independent 14 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Quarax
Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in U.S. state Colorado
China.dot.org 14 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Tony Webster
Sound of the police: how US law enforcement uses noise as a weapon
The Guardian 14 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Sean Glossop
Two arrested after bomb threat forces Ryanair flight to divert to Stansted
The Independent 14 Jul 2020
Two men have been arrested after a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing due to a bomb threat ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... ....
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The Forgotten Victims Of The Pandemic: An Ongoing Migration Crisis
WorldNews.com 14 Jul 2020
With most countries closing borders and issuing some form of stay-at-home orders, safety and services dedicated to asylum seekers and refugees has dramatically decreased. The result is a large number of migrants in Morocco and around the world facing dangerous health situations and increased economic insecurity ... What does this mean for the future?....
