| Boyfriend Of Missing Phoenix Teen Kiera Bergman Arrested Posted: 20 Aug 2018 10:10 AM PDT  The on-again, off-again boyfriend of Kiera Bergman, a missing Arizona
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| Trump: Mueller’s Russia probe makes ‘Joseph McCarthy look like a baby!’ Posted: 19 Aug 2018 07:32 AM PDT  President Trump claimed that Robert Mueller's investigation into Moscow's interference with the 2016 U.S. elections is more extreme than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hunt for Communists in the U.S. government in the 1950s.
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| Government to investigate fresh claims of plundering of Second World War shipwrecks in Asia Posted: 18 Aug 2018 11:00 PM PDT  An investigation is being launched into claims that up to 10 British Second World War wrecks in Asia have been plundered for scrap metal. Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary, said he was "very concerned" to hear fresh allegations that remains of four ships lying off the Malaysian and Indonesian coasts have been looted. It comes after six wrecks, including Royal Navy battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, were feared to have been damaged or destroyed by scavengers. Altogether the wrecks are thought to be the final resting place for hundreds of Royal Navy sailors and civilians. Remains of the British and Dutch sailors were reportedly dumped by the metal merchants in an Indonesian cemetery. Mr Williams said the Government "absolutely condemns" the unauthorised disturbance of any wreck containing human remains. "I am very concerned to hear any allegations of incidents of Royal Navy wrecks being plundered in the Far East," he said. "We will work closely with the Indonesian and Malaysian governments to investigate these claims." Family members pay their respects to the 915 Dutch soldiers killed in the battle of the Java Sea at the Dutch war cemetery Ereveld in Surabay Credit: AFP The wrecks of HMS Tien Kwang, HMS Kuala, HMS Banka and SS Loch Ranza had recently been targeted by thieves for their metal, the Mail on Sunday reported. HMS Tien Kwang, a submarine chaser, and HMS Kuala, an auxiliary patrol vessel, were carrying hundreds of evacuees when they were attacked by Japanese bombers near the Indonesian Riau Islands on February 1942. Earlier that month the SS Loch Ranza, a cargo ship, had been set on fire in a Japanese air raid off the Riau Islands and exploded, killing seven men. It came after HMS Banka, a minesweeper, sank after hitting a mine off the coast of Malaysia in December 1941, killing its crew of four British officers and 34 Malay sailors. Chinese-owned barges fitted with cranes have been carrying out the illegal operations, the newspaper reported. Relatives of sailors expressed horror earlier this year at reports that their bodies may have been dumped in an unmarked mass grave in Indonesia. "They have no respect for anyone", Shirley McGowan, whose grand-father was killed in the sinking of HMS Repulse, told The Telegraph in February. "For them, it is only about the dollars. "These ships are war graves and they should be treated as such", she added. Looters are said to favour targeting the Second World War-era wrecks because of the ship steel's properties. Built before the advent of atomic weapons, the metal has absorbed little background radiation, making the material suitable for sensitive instruments. Royal Navy battleships HMS Prince of Wales, where Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter, and HMS Repulse both sank off the Malaysian coast, on December 10 1941. In 2014, the ships, the last resting places of more than 830 Royal Navy sailors, were found to have been damaged by scavengers. Two years ago, the MoD was accused of failing to protect historic wartime wrecks after it was disclosed three British warships, the HMS Exeter, HMS Encounter and HMS Electra, been broken up and removed by illegal scrap metal scavengers.
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| Over 2 million Muslims begin annual hajj pilgrimage Posted: 19 Aug 2018 06:30 AM PDT  MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times each day during their prayers.
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| California: man driving wife to hospital to give birth arrested by Ice agents Posted: 19 Aug 2018 04:12 AM PDT  The surveillance footage showed the agents handcuffing Arrona and taking him away, leaving a sobbing Venegas alone. A woman from California said she had to drive herself to the hospital to give birth alone, after her husband was arrested by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice. María del Carmen Venegas told a Spanish-language TV station, KMEX-TV, that she and her husband, Joel Arrona–Lara, 36, were driving to the hospital for a planned C–section on Wednesday when they stopped for gas in San Bernardino, just east of Los Angeles.
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| Sightings, satellites help track mysterious ocean giant Posted: 18 Aug 2018 09:22 PM PDT  The sight of a basking shark's brooding silhouette gliding through the waters off western France is more than just a rare treat for sailors -- it is a boon for scientists trying to trace its secretive migrations across the globe. It may be the world's second largest fish, growing to more than 10 metres (35 feet), but the basking shark, or Cetorhinus maximus, is an enigma for scientists eager to help preserve the plankton-eating giant after centuries of overfishing. Hunted voraciously for its massive fin -- highly prized for sharks' fin soup in China -- as well as its oily liver and meat, global populations of basking shark declined precipitously during the 20th century.
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| Small plane crashes on Phoenix street; pilot, passenger dead Posted: 20 Aug 2018 02:58 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A homemade plane crashed in a Phoenix intersection Monday, killing the pilot and the sole passenger, authorities said.
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| Texas doctor who raped sedated patient will not serve jail time Posted: 20 Aug 2018 11:36 AM PDT  Shafeeq Sheikh was instead sentenced to 10 years' probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. Five female and seven male jurors had recommended the sentencing after deliberating for 14 hours at the Harris County Family Law Center in Houston, Texas. State law required Judge Terry Flenniken is required by the state's law to follow the recommendation, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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| Cossacks and flowers as Putin dances at Austrian minister's wedding Posted: 18 Aug 2018 11:58 PM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an invitation that opposition critics said undermined the West's stance against Moscow. Photographs showed Kneissl, 53, smiling in a long white and cream "dirndl" dress and talking to Putin as they danced in a vineyard in southern Styria province, the venue of her wedding to entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger. Putin - who made a toast in German at the wedding, according to the Kremlin - was pictured listening to her intently.
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| Customers Rally After Yelp Reviewer Calls Cafe's Gay Pride Flag 'Disgusting' Posted: 20 Aug 2018 02:52 AM PDT  An anti-gay review on Yelp that called a restaurant in Dorchester,
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| Church urges followers to drop the Mormon name Posted: 20 Aug 2018 10:24 AM PDT  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is urging its followers to drop the use of the word "Mormon" to refer to the church or its members, according to new directives issued by its leader. Church president Russell Nelson, who has been visiting congregations in North America to explain the move, said Saturday in Montreal: "we're not changing names. "The Book of Mormon" is the religion's sacred text, and the name Mormon has been used to identify the church since it was established in 1830, although initially by outsiders as a derogatory term.
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| Tourists go off beaten path on North Korea's sacred volcano Posted: 20 Aug 2018 03:34 AM PDT  MOUNT PAEKTU, North Korea (AP) — Foreign tourists looking to go off the beaten path in North Korea can now camp out on the country's biggest volcano.
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| China and Russia are Building Lots of Ship-Killer Missiles. The Navy Has Plans to Counter Them. Posted: 20 Aug 2018 04:31 AM PDT  The Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Block II, or ESSM, is a new version of an existing Sea Sparrow weapons system currently protecting aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, amphibious assault ships and other vessels against anti-ship missiles and other surface and airborne short-range threats to ships.
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| Mick Mulvaney Suggests Military Parade Canceled For Reasons Besides Money Posted: 19 Aug 2018 09:26 AM PDT  White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that cost wasn't the
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| Tesla shares fall again on doubts about go-private deal Posted: 20 Aug 2018 08:27 AM PDT  Tesla Motors dropped in early trading on Monday due to rising doubts about Chief Executive Elon Musk's plans to take the electric carmaker private. Shares fell 2.6 percent to $297.55 about 20 minutes into trading, continuing the company's downward trajectory after Musk surprised markets on August 7 by announcing on Twitter he wanted to take Tesla private. Musk said at the time he planned to take Tesla private at $420 a share.
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| Turkey lifts travel ban on German journalist Posted: 19 Aug 2018 11:55 PM PDT ![Turkey lifts travel ban on German journalist]( "Turkey lifts travel ban on German journalist") Turkey has reversed its decision to ban a German journalist from leaving the country while she awaits trial on charges of being a member of a terrorist organization, the journalist said on her Twitter account on Monday. Mesale Tolu confirmed on her Twitter account German media reports that the travel ban Turkish authorities imposed since she was released from prison in December after eight months in detention had been suspended. "As a result of my lawyer's application, my ban on traveling abroad has been lifted," Tolu wrote on her Twitter account in Turkish.
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| 15 of the Coolest Obscure Cars You Can Buy Posted: 20 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT |
| New database documents Irish clergy linked to sex abuse Posted: 20 Aug 2018 06:56 AM PDT  DUBLIN (AP) — An international research group launched a database Monday of Irish clergy convicted or credibly accused of sexually abusing children in hopes of pressing Pope Francis to disclose the names of all the priests and brothers deemed guilty by the church.
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| Jury adjourns without verdict in Manafort trial Posted: 20 Aug 2018 03:46 PM PDT  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's attorney Kevin Downing says his client is happy to hear that the jury ended its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in Manafort's bank and tax fraud trial. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| Man killed on Long Island is New York's first lightning death since 2016 Posted: 19 Aug 2018 05:23 AM PDT  A man was struck and killed by lightning in Kings Park on Long Island, New York, on Saturday evening.
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| Ariana Grande Brought To Tears While Discussing Anxiety, Manchester Bombing Posted: 19 Aug 2018 03:36 PM PDT  Ariana Grande broke down in tears Friday during a radio interview that touched
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| It’s time to end America’s war in Afghanistan Posted: 19 Aug 2018 06:57 AM PDT  A child born on this date in 2001 – just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 – is old enough to be fighting today in the war in Afghanistan. This week – almost 17 years after the war began – the Taliban attacked Ghazni, killing more than 100 Afghan army soldiers. The Taliban also overran a base, where they killed another 17 soldiers.
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| Trump lashes out at Russia probe as 'McCarthyism' Posted: 19 Aug 2018 06:20 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump on Sunday angrily denounced the federal probe of Russia's 2016 election meddling as "McCarthyism at its WORST!," insisting he had authorized his White House counsel to testify to bring the matter to a close. Trump's Twitter storm was set off by a front-page report in the New York Times that said White House counsel Don McGahn had provided Special Counsel Robert Mueller with an unusually detailed account of Trump's thinking during key episodes under investigation.
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| No One Lost the South China Sea (And No One Will) Posted: 20 Aug 2018 01:23 PM PDT  America's excessive involvement in the South China Sea has forced China to deploy more defensive equipment in the area. What happens now?
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| Trump officials sued over killer whales’ plummeting population crisis Posted: 19 Aug 2018 07:53 AM PDT  Environmental campaigners are suing the Trump administration for allegedly failing to protect the ocean habitat of a species of critically endangered killer whale. The Centre for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service, arguing it has left the last remaining southern resident killer whales at risk. The population of the imperilled orca species off the US west coast is at its lowest in more than 30 years, numbering just 75.
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| 2019 Best Colleges Rankings Coming Sept. 10 Posted: 20 Aug 2018 06:00 AM PDT ![2019 Best Colleges Rankings Coming Sept. 10]( "2019 Best Colleges Rankings Coming Sept. 10") In three weeks, on Monday, Sept. 10, prospective students and parents can explore the 2019 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings on usnews.com. In addition to the rankings, U.S. News will provide extensive statistical profiles for each school, a comprehensive college search and detailed explanations of the ranking methodologies. Users can sign up for the U.S. News College Compass to receive access to the My Fit custom ranking, additional data and other exclusive interactive tools.
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| Eight years late, Palestinian mail arrives in West Bank Posted: 19 Aug 2018 06:48 AM PDT  Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are about to receive a special delivery of more than 10 tons of mail that has been delayed by Israel for the past eight years. Postal workers have been sorting through thousands of mail sacks in the West Bank city of Jericho for the past several days after Israeli authorities allowed the entry of the letters and packages from neighboring Jordan. The 10.5 tons of mail had been held in Jordan since 2010 because Israel would not permit direct transfer to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said.
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| ConocoPhillips says PDVSA agreed to pay $2 bn to settle dispute Posted: 20 Aug 2018 04:58 PM PDT  Venezuela has agreed to pay a $2 billion settlement to US oil giant ConocoPhillips, to stop the seizure of the South American nation's assets, the American firm announced Monday. PDVSA, the state oil company once the crown jewel of Venezuela's now imploding economy, will make initial payments of $500 million over the next 90 days, ConocoPhillips said in a statement. In return, ConocoPhillips said it agreed to halt the seizure of PDVSA's oil and assets in the Caribbean -- which it took over after Caracas failed to honor an April 25 ruling by an international arbitrator.
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| Indonesian School Apologizes After Dressing Young Girls as Jihadists for a Parade Posted: 20 Aug 2018 01:19 AM PDT  The principal said they were trying to recycle old costumes, not foment radicalism
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| Taliban reject Afghan ceasefire, kidnap nearly 200 bus passengers Posted: 20 Aug 2018 09:03 AM PDT  Two Taliban commanders said their supreme leader rejected President Ashraf Ghani's Sunday offer of a three-month ceasefire, beginning with this week's Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. In June, the Taliban observed a government ceasefire over the three-day Eid al-Fitr festival, leading to unprecedented scenes of government soldiers and militants embracing on front lines, and raising hopes for talks. Taliban leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada rejected the new offer on the grounds that it too would only help the American-led mission.
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| Taiwan's president visits Nasa space centre, in a move likely to anger Beijing Posted: 20 Aug 2018 12:37 AM PDT  Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwanese president visited Nasa's space centre in Houston on Sunday, in a move that indicates deepening ties between Taipei and Washington, but which is expected to infuriate Beijing. The trip to the Johnson Space Centre in Texas marks the first time a sitting leader from the self-ruling island has entered a US federal building in an official capacity, although her presence in Houston and in Los Angeles a week earlier were only brief stopovers en route to Paraguay and Belize. But even short transit stops on US soil have traditionally provoked a sharp response from China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and has tried to undermine its sovereignty and stepped up pressure on the international community to exclude Taipei from global forums. Taiwan's population of 23 million meanwhile operates like any other democratic nation with its own government, currency, military and foreign policy and the majority of citizens identify as Taiwanese. Only 18 countries, mainly small Pacific islands and Central American nations, have formal ties with the Taiwanese government, however. President Tsai visited the Nasa Johnson Space Centre in Houston Credit: Richard Carson/Reuters The US has not officially recognised Taiwan since 1979, when it shifted its recognition to China's communist government and imposed restrictions on visiting senior Taiwanese officials to keep Beijing on side. Ms Tsai's transit is the first stopover for the Taiwanese president since the US Congress unanimously passed the Taiwan Travel Act earlier this year, allowing US government figures up to cabinet-level security officials to travel to the island and high-level officials from Taiwan to enter the US. Previously US policy did not permit bilateral visits by Cabinet-level officials. But behind-the-scenes, democratic Taiwan has long had influential allies in Washington's corridors of power, with high profile legislators giving a nod to its strategic importance to America's interests in the Pacific region. During her earlier stop in Los Angeles, Ms Tsai met with three senior US politicians, including California Representative Brad Sherman, who called for the president herself to be granted a trip to Washington, reported Politico. Thank you @Astro_Ellen & @AstroIronMike for coming out on Sunday for a behind-the-scenes tour of @NASA_Johnson. Missed @space_station's #Taiwan fly-by by 23 minutes. Look forward to finding ways of how Taiwan can better support international space efforts. pic.twitter.com/QWOuXm761R— 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen (@iingwen) August 19, 2018 "I want to see one of the highest level" of visits between the US and Taiwan and that is to "welcome you [Tsai Ing-wen] in Washington DC," he said. Ed Royce, the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, who also met with President Tsai, praised the "many positive developments in the US-Taiwan relationship this year." He added: "By encouraging more frequent visits between our two peoples and governments, we further strengthen the critical US-Taiwan partnership." Washington has recently called attention to its positive relations with Taiwan amid soaring tensions with China over trade and Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea. "We'll never know for sure if this [visit] is because of the Taiwan Travel Act or if it would have happened anyway because the Trump administration, as well as Congress, is filled with very enthusiastic supporters of US-Taiwan relations," said Ross Feingold, a Taipei-based lawyer and political analyst. The hard work of the women & men of @houstonpolice in keeping @iingwen & the #Taiwan delegation safe & secure is tremendously appreciated. Many thanks for going above & beyond during our stopover in #Houston. JW pic.twitter.com/K67dWk4Wld— 外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) ���� (@MOFA_Taiwan) August 19, 2018 "It's good that President Tsai was welcomed to visit this facility. Does it change what was already a positive trajectory of US-Taiwan relations? Probably not." China would likely react with the "same style of anger and public statements that we have seen throughout any kind of stopover by the Taiwan president," he told The Telegraph. "The fact that it was a federal building doesn't make it unprecedented if China was to do something like cancel bilateral scientific meetings," he said. Regardless of ongoing tensions with Beijing, Taiwan's government was clearly thrilled by the invitation to Nasa. "#Houston, we've to a president! Couldn't be more proud. @iingwen is the 1st leader of #Taiwan to tour @NASA_Johnson during a #US stopover. Thanks @Astro_Ellen for helping realize this milestone moment," tweeted Joseph Wu, the foreign minister. President Tsai also took to Twitter to express her gratitude. "Before we take off, I want to thank everyone involved for making my #Houston stopover a wonderful one filled with good memories. My administration will continue strengthening every aspect of #Taiwan-US relations. Until next time!"
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| 40+ Thanksgiving Appetizers That Will Wow Your Guests Posted: 20 Aug 2018 10:29 AM PDT |
| All Grown Up! Barron Trump Sports Slicked-Back Hairdo Ahead of New School Year Posted: 20 Aug 2018 10:54 AM PDT  Barron is almost as tall as his father, President Trump.
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| Angel mom slams media coverage of illegal immigrants Posted: 20 Aug 2018 04:51 AM PDT  Mary Ann Mendoza, whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant, says victims' stories are being silenced by the press to support their anti-ICE agenda.
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| The Latest: Suspect, a 2-year employee, fired on co-workers Posted: 20 Aug 2018 11:09 AM PDT  MISSOURI CITY, Texas (AP) — The Latest on deadly workplace shooting near Houston (all times local):
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| Optimism over easing of US-China trade dispute infects markets Posted: 20 Aug 2018 08:50 AM PDT  Optimism over signs that China and the United States will start working to resolve their trade dispute helped stock markets across the world move higher on Monday. "Equity markets are buoyant ahead of the US-China trade talks which commence on Wednesday," said market analyst David Madden at CMC Markets UK. The talks slated for Wednesday and Thursday are the first since the US and China began slapping tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of goods, and according to the Wall Street Journal they are aimed at easing the dispute so US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping can hold a summit in November.
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| More bodies found in flooded Kerala as toll hits 370 Posted: 18 Aug 2018 05:45 PM PDT  Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed at least 370 people and drove more than 700,000 from their homes. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state's worst floods for a century. Thousands remain trapped -- often without food or water -- in towns and villages cut off by the floods, and heavy rain forecast in coming days threatens to compound the disaster.
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| 2019 Ford Shelby GT debuts at 2018 Woodward Dream Cruise Posted: 20 Aug 2018 05:45 AM PDT  Visitors to the 2018 Woodward Dream Cruise on Saturday were treated to the debut of the latest offering from Shelby American: the 2019 Ford Shelby GT. Available as a coupe or convertible, the car is based on the 460-horsepower Mustang GT but sports a 5.0-liter V-8 matching the 480 hp of the Mustang Bullitt, with the extra punch courtesy of a Borla exhaust kit. Interestingly, Shelby is also offering a Shelby GT-H styling pack inspired by the actual 2007 Shelby GT-H, a car Shelby says was the inspiration for the first Shelby GT also launched for 2007.
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| U.S. forces to stay in Iraq as long as needed - spokesman Posted: 19 Aug 2018 02:43 AM PDT  "We'll keep troops there as long as we think they're needed ... The main reason, after ISIS (Islamic State) is defeated militarily, is the stabilization efforts and we still need to be there for that, so that's one of the reasons we'll maintain a presence," Colonel Sean Ryan told a news conference in Abu Dhabi. The number of American soldiers could go down however, depending on when other forces from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation deploy to help train the Iraqi army, he said, adding that about 5,200 U.S. troops are currently based in Iraq. NATO defence ministers agreed in February to a bigger "train-and-advise" mission in Iraq after a U.S. call for the alliance to help stabilise the country after three years of war against Islamic State.
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| Tense calm on Brazil-Venezuelan border after anti-immigrant riot Posted: 19 Aug 2018 03:38 PM PDT  The Brazilian army, which reinforces security at the Pacaraima border post, said 1,200 Venezuelans, including women and children, fled back into Venezuelan on Saturday when residents went on a rampage after the stabbing and beating of a local shop owner. The angry demonstrators destroyed tents used by Venezuelans to camp out in the street near the bus station and set fire to belongings the immigrants left behind. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have poured over the border into Roraima state over the last few years, fleeing economic and political turmoil in their country.
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| Simone Biles Becomes First Woman To Win 5 U.S. All-Around Titles Posted: 20 Aug 2018 07:27 AM PDT  Simone Biles won a record-breaking fifth U.S. all-around title at this
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| Trump's 'good person' defence could affect jurors in Manafort trial Posted: 18 Aug 2018 06:09 PM PDT  Donald Trump's outbursts against the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the US election have become a near-daily occurrence. Addressing reporters on the south lawn at the White House, Trump said his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was "a very good person". At the same time, 23 miles away in Alexandria, Virginia, a jury was deliberating Manafort's fate.
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| A Mach 6 SR-71? This Is How Amazing (And Deadly) the SR-72 Could Be. Posted: 19 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT  It could have a strike mission.
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