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Engineers Warn About Collapse Dangers Across Europe After Genoa Bridge Tragedy Kills 38
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Officials have been warning about the dangerous condition of infrastructure across Europe before the fatal collapse of the motorway in Genoa, with some experts warning similar tragedies can happen all over the EU, according to The Guardian ... Italy has as many as 300 bridges which are at risk of failure, including a bridge designed by the same engineer who was involved in the Genovese bridge, Ricardo Morandi, in Agrigento, Sicily ... ... ... ....
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Admiral McRaven asks Trump to revoke his security clearance
CBS News 16 Aug 2018
McRaven, who oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden, argued that Mr. Trump does not show qualities of a good leader ... ....
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Omarosa Releases Tape Of Lara Trump Offering Her Campaign Job Days After Firing
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
A damaging recording shared with MSNBC by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman of a conversation in which President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara offers her $15,000 a month to work on the president’s campaign after she was fired from the administration was released Thursday further added to the imbroglio, The Hill reported ... "They wrote about you ... Everything, everybody positive, right?" she adds....
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Jury Asks Judge Four Questions While In Deliberations For Manafort Trial
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
Jurors in the bank and tax fraud trial of Paul Manafort sent the judge four questions on Thursday as they started deliberations on the case, according to The Washington Post. The group will continue deliberations on Friday for the 18 counts of bank fraud and lying Manafort faces, and if convicted, could spend the rest of his life in prison. U.S. District Judge T.S ... ... “Mr ... ... ... “Guess who the coach of that team is?” Andres said....
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Georgia Woman Facing 'Longest Sentence' For Leaking To Media
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
The Associated Press reports a Georgia woman is to be sentenced to the “longest sentence” ever next week for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media after she mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday.Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner, 26, will be sentenced next Thursday by U.S District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, the report said....
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Chinese Hackers Targeted US Government, Companies Before Trade Delegation Visited China
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Security researchers released a new report detailing how hackers from a Chinese university targeted American companies and the Alaskan state government for espionage opportunities after a United States trade delegation visited China earlier this year, according to Reuters ... Bill Walker, spent a week in China in May ... as the two are enmeshed in a tit-for-tat trade war ... I’ve never heard of this, so I have no way to give a response." ... ....
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More Than 100 Killed In Kerala Floods, Landslides
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
At least 106 people have died after torrential rains sparked rivers to overflow, igniting floods and landslides across the state of Kerala on Thursday, according to BBC News. The Kochi Metro and Southern Railways suspended their operations due to the floods and more than 6,600 people have been sent to relief camps in nearby Thiruvananthapuram, with at least 1,330 families housed across 63 relief camps ... "Almost all dams are now opened ... ....
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Trump's Military Parade Would Cost $80 Million More Than Previous Estimate
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump's demands for a spectacular Veterans Day military parade would cost nearly $92 million, according to preliminary estimates from United States officials released on Thursday, but that price tag is three times the price first quoted by the White House when they announced the plan, according to The Associated Press. ... Col ... We will announce more information when it is available." ... U.S....
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US Prepared To Impose New Turkish Sanctions In Bid To Free American Pastor
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
The United States is ready to impose addition sanctions on Turkey if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refuses to release American pastor Andrew Brunson quickly, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. “We have put sanctions on several of the Cabinet members ... “He needed help getting somebody out of some place, he came out. They want to hold our wonderful pastor. Not fair ... Brunson is being held under house arrest....
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R&B Singer Aretha Franklin Dead at 76 After Long Illness
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Music legend Aretha Franklin died early Thursday at the age of 76 after a long illness, The Associated Press reported. Reports began circulating Sunday evening the R&B singer was in the hospital and “gravely ill,” the report said.Franklin’s final public performance took place in November 2017, the AP reported. Born in Memphis, the report said, Franklin grew up in Detroit as a singer in her father’s church....
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Smoke From Raging Wildfires In Western U.S. Pushing Carbon Monoxide Across The Country
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Residents across the East Coast could smell the lingering smoke in Baltimore and Washington D.C. on Thursday morning after high-altitude winds carried the scent from the dozens of fires burning across the Western United States, according to The Washington Post. Even though the flames were more than 3,000 miles away, social media posts from Virginia to Maryland from local residents said they could detect the particular scent ... ... ... Ryan M ... ....
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Selena Gomez is back in a bikini after being body-shamed for swimsuit photos
Yahoo Daily News 16 Aug 2018
More. Who’s got time to worry about your ex-boyfriend getting engaged when you’ve got a new album in the pipeline, a fresh Coach collaboration, and a boatful of friends who want to soak up every last moment of summer?. Not Selena Gomez, that’s for sure. The pop star looks to be living her best life in a series of photos she posted to Instagram Tuesday night ... This time around, the response has been much more positive ... ....
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China rebuffs Philippines president's South China Seas rebuke
The Star 16 Aug 2018
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuffed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's call for Beijing to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea on Thursday, saying China had the right to react to foreign ships or aircraft that get close to its islands ... ....
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Ecuador Tightens Entry Requirements Amid Growing Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
WorldNews.com 17 Aug 2018
Quito announced on Thursday it would begin tightening the requirements for Venezuelans to enter the country by requiring them to have a passport after three provinces in Ecuador that have already declared a state of emergency over the thousands of migrants crossing into the country every day, according to Reuters ... ... The region is also struggling with a crumbling infrastructure so blackouts and water shortages have become common....
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Turkey's lira is rallying after a $15 billion loan from Qatar
Business Insider 16 Aug 2018
The Turkish lira continued to retreat from its historic low against the dollar on Thursday after Qatar announced a $15 billion funding package for Turkey's wobbling economy ... BST (3.12 a.m. ET) on Thursday morning ... ....
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