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Gunman kills ex-wife at Bangkok shopping mall days after mass shooting
The Himalayan 18 Feb 2020
BANGKOK. The gunman then fled the Century The Movie Plaza, near the Thai capital’s Victory Monument and is still on the run, Thai police said. “One person died and another was injured,” police Colonel Kissana Pattanacharoen told Reuters ... ....
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Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy
Yahoo Daily News 18 Feb 2020
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection. Facing mounting legal costs from defending itself against lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of boys, the venerable non-profit sought Chapter 11 protection in a court filing early Tuesday. A spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America said in a statement that the filing had "two key objectives ... ....
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Facebook’s Libra and what you need to know about it
Cryptopolitan 17 Feb 2020
Facebook’s Libra created a huge commotion since its announcement in mid-2019. The project was revealed as one of the most ambitious crypto projects ever. Moreover, the project’s parent company did not have a flawless reputation and was involved in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal ... What is the goal of Facebook’s Libra? ... Security....
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Coronavirus outbreak: Death toll in China climbs to over 1860
Business Line 18 Feb 2020
The death toll from China’s coronavirus epidemic climbed to 1,868 on Tuesday as 98 more people died while the total number of confirmed cases jumped to 72,436, officials said. Of the new deaths, 93 were reported from Hubei Province, the epicentre of the virus, three from Henan, and one each from Hebei and Hunan, said the National Health Commission....
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Elon Musk takes a dig at Bill Gates, who bought a Porsche Taycan
Independent online (SA) 18 Feb 2020
San Francisco - Tesla founder Elon Musk took a jibe at Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday after it emerged that the world’s second richest man just bought his first electric car - and it wasn’t a Tesla ... "My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming tbh (to be honest)," Musk tweeted in response to Twitter user Tesletter ... IOL & IANS ....
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Maduro says US plotting to invade Venezuela, country ‘not afraid of combat’
Press TV 18 Feb 2020
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the United States and some of its allies are plotting to invade Venezuela and that the South American country is “not afraid of military combat.”. In a televised speech on Monday, Maduro said the US had assembled a “mercenary force” to invade Venezuela ... ....
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Westerdam passenger infected with coronavirus: What we know and what we don't
CNN 18 Feb 2020
Hong Kong (CNN)The Westerdam cruise ship was supposed to have been the lucky one. After being stuck at sea for days, when Japan, the Philippines and Thailand turned it away over concerns it had passengers who could have been infected with the novel coronavirus, on Friday, the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia finally allowed the Westerdam to dock ... ....
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Woman's Ring Belonging to Her Late Husband Lost 47 Years Ago in US Found in Finland
News18 18 Feb 2020
Debra McKenna, 63, lost the ring in Portland when she was a student at Morse High School. ....
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French prosecutors investigate Russian artist over sex video
The Guardian 18 Feb 2020
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HSBC net profit falls 53%, bank to sell assets in overhaul
The Journal 18 Feb 2020
Europe's biggest bank has reported that its net profit fell 53% in 2019 to $6 billion. London-based HSBC, whose profit is mainly from Asia, said Tuesday that it plans to revamp its U.S. and European business and shed $100 billion in assets to improve its profitability ... We continue to monitor the situation closely," it said ... ....
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EU threatens tougher rules on hate speech after Facebook meeting
The Siasat Daily 18 Feb 2020
Brussels. A top EU official for digital policy warned Monday that big tech companies could face tougher rules and penalties in Europe if they failed to adequately curb hate speech and disinformation ... Good regulation of hate speech would require a new type of regulator for the EU, Zuckerberg argued to Jourova. – ‘Not enough’ –....
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SpaceX re-useable rocket misses landing ship
Dawn 18 Feb 2020
WASHINGTON. SpaceX successfully launched its latest cluster of high-speed internet satellites into orbit on Monday, but was unable to land its rocket booster on an autonomous ship, missing a key milestone ... It has successfully landed its booster 49 times previously and Monday’s mission would have been the 50th ... Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2020. ....
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Trudeau tightlipped on plan to end protests ’quickly and peacefully’
Toronto Sun 18 Feb 2020
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was tightlipped Monday about his plan to deal with anti-pipeline blockades on railways, bridges and highways as he emerged from an emergency meeting with cabinet ministers emphasizing his desire to find a quick and peaceful end to the crisis ... The highway and rail line both run south to the U.S ... ....
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Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion
Yahoo Daily News 17 Feb 2020
BEIJING (AP) — When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of his sons ... Their religion and their family ties ... The Xinjiang regional government did not respond to faxes requesting comment ... ....
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Kidnappers prey with ‘total impunity’ on migrants waiting for hearings in Mexico
Yahoo Daily News 18 Feb 2020
A score or so migrants crouch in the dark corridor of the safe house where they have been waiting for a month. Today, their turn has come to go back on the road again – not across the US border, however, but deeper into Mexico, to save their skins ... Related. Remain in Mexico. 80% of migrants in Trump policy are victims of violence ... Photograph ... More ... More ... ....
