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SCOTUS Sends Clear Message To Trump: That He Is Above Congress, Below Civic Virtue and Responsibility
WorldNews.com 10 Jul 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The day Donald Trump assumed the office of the presidency, many Americans feared that there was a clear mismatch in character ... This is the reason critics were in disbelief over the Supreme Court’s rulings about President Trump’s tax returns ... He is a correspondent for www.WN.com ... Unmaking The Presidency....
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The Russian whistleblower risking it all to expose the scale of an Arctic oil spill catastrophe
CNN 10 Jul 2020
Norilsk, Russia (CNN)Vasily Ryabinin stands on the banks of the River Daldykan and pushes a long stick into the blood-orange sludge. Raising the stick, he puts a lighter to it and it ignites it like a torch. "Still burns really well," Ryabinin says ... It was 2 a.m. in the Arctic summer ... Read More. Ryabinin brought us there by foot along railroad tracks ... ....
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Chinese officials warn of 'unknown pneumonia' in Kazakhstan that is deadlier than coronavirus
CNN 10 Jul 2020
(CNN)A new "unknown pneumonia" that is potentially deadlier than the novel coronavirus has reportedly killed more than 1,700 people this year in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, according to a warning issued by Chinese officials Thursday ... 628 of those deaths took place in June alone ... Read More ... Photos. The novel coronavirus outbreak ... 1 of 325 ... ....
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In Nigeria, a new crisis deadlier than Boko Haram is rising
The Independent 10 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
Joe Biden just ate Trump's populist lunch
Democratic Underground 10 Jul 2020
Washington Post ... Instead, Trump followed the supply-side, pro-donor and pro-wealthy playbook that Republicans have locked themselves into for decades. On Thursday, former vice president Joe Biden snatched the populist mantle back from Trump. The Post reports ... An economy that is more powerful precisely because everyone is cut in on the deal ... ....
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Turkey's president formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque
Yahoo Daily News 10 Jul 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally re-converted Istanbul’s sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned it into a museum. Erdogan signed a decree handing over Hagia Sophia to Turkey’s Religious Affairs Presidency and declaring it open to Muslim worship ... U.S ... ....
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Nikki Haley positions herself to lead the post-Trump Republican party
The Guardian 10 Jul 2020
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Genocide denial gains ground 25 years after Srebrenica massacre
The Guardian 10 Jul 2020
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The white-collar fraud pandemic is as serious as Covid
Business Line 10 Jul 2020
Wirecard is the latest corporate scandal. The German company declared, last week, that it was unable to locate €1.9 billion of its bank deposits! Its stock price declined 99 per cent, dropping from €104 on June 7, to €2 on July 8, wiping out shareholders. The Wirecard fraud is eerily similar to Satyam ... The third are country laws ... Not the management....
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Mexican president thanks Trump for not mentioning border wall at summit
Toronto Sun 10 Jul 2020
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for avoiding in public the thorny subject of the U.S. president’s promised border wall during a summit in Washington earlier this week. Lopez Obrador also thanked his U.S ... Overall, Lopez Obrador hailed his Washington trip as a success....
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Scientists devise new plan to test if mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ is primordial black hole
Russia Today 10 Jul 2020
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a new method to hunt down black holes beyond our galaxy which may finally figure out what is going on with the oft-theorized but never-witnessed ‘Planet Nine.’. The method will make use of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission, which is expected to begin operations in mid-2022....
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Hong Kong protests: top court to hear legal challenge against mask ban
South China Morning Post 10 Jul 2020
Hong Kong’s top court will hear the legal challenge brought against the government’s ban on masks imposed at the height of anti-government protests last year ... The judges also held that it would be unconstitutional to ban masks in lawful public meetings and processions, or to grant police powers to physically remove them ... ....
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Iran Made 'Procurement Attempts' for Its Nuclear Programme Last Year, Report Says
Sputnik 10 Jul 2020
The crisis around Tehran’s atomic programme resumed in 2018 after President Donald Trump announced America's unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ... ....
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Multiple protests against French minister accused of rape
Wtop 10 Jul 2020
The actions started Friday morning in Dijon, where new Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and Prime Minister Jean Castex were meeting with police. A dozen feminists held out banners and signs condemning Darmanin and rape culture ... Source ....
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Microsoft Teams takes on Zoom with bizarre new feature
Metro UK 10 Jul 2020
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Microsoft is adding a virtual auditorium view to its Teams communication platform in a bid to make video meetings feel more natural during lockdown ... Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement ... This is…strange (Microsoft 365) ... ....
