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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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WHO chief: Pandemic 'going to get worse and worse and worse'
The Hill 13 Jul 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is raging out of control in North and South America, and that the virus will continue spreading unimpeded unless governments and individuals take the steps needed to suppress its transmission ... European countries confirmed just 18,804 new cases on Saturday ... .......
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Sound of the police: how US law enforcement uses noise as a weapon
The Guardian 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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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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Zinedine Zidane 'really proud' of Real Madrid after club secures ninth consecutive win
Yahoo Daily News 14 Jul 2020
Granada [Spain], July 14 (ANI). After Real Madrid registered their ninth consecutive win in La Liga, manager Zinedine Zidane said he is 'really proud' of the team but insisted them not to lose focus as they haven't 'achieved the objective yet' ... We can't ask for anymore ... (ANI). ....
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Judge delays first US federal executions in 17 years
News24 14 Jul 2020
A United States appeals court has maintained a suspension of the first federal executions in the country in 17 years, rejecting a government request to overturn a lower court's delay ... ....
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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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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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Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in U.S. state Colorado
China.dot.org 14 Jul 2020photo: White House
Trump’s Latest Speeches, Spectacles Resemble Modern Apocalyptic, Millenarian Movements Like Fascism
WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It may surprise some to know that fascism has been studied as a form of modern millenarianism. Millenarian movements pursue an apocalyptic confrontation with the status quo in hope of creating a future utopian society established through supernatural deliverance and political revolution....
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Artificial Intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
The Times of India 14 Jul 2020
WASHINGTON DC. Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities, all the configurations that would lead to collisions would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds ... He is the lead author on a paper detailing the approach in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... ....
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Glee actress Naya Rivera dies at 33 after tragic boat accident, body recovered from Lake Piru
India TV 14 Jul 2020
Actor Naya Rivera, best known for playing Santana Lopez on hit TV musical drama 'Glee,' has been found dead on Monday in Lake Piru, California ... She was found in the northeastern portion of the lake, near the surface of the water ... .......
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US COVID-19 vaccine program to start manufacturing by late summer, says US official
The Jakarta Post 14 Jul 2020
Shares. Drugmakers partnered with the US government are on track to begin actively manufacturing a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said on Monday ... He added that the administration is already working with companies to equip and outfit manufacturing facilities and acquire raw materials ... Topics .. ....
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China and Iran draw up military and trade partnership in defiance of Trump administration
The Independent 13 Jul 2020
The partnership, detailed in an 18-page proposed agreement, would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways and dozens of other projects ... Download the new Independent Premium app....
