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Bill Cosby in prison: Where he’ll go, what it will be like
The Mercury News 25 Sep 2018
Bill Cosby’s first stop as he enters the state prison system will be at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, a new $400 million, 3,830-bed prison in Collegeville, near Philadelphia ... When he arrives at SCI Phoenix, the staff will assess his physical, medical and security needs ... Related Articles ... ....
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French man fined for sexually harassing woman on bus
RTE 26 Sep 2018
A French court has fined a man for insulting a woman during an assault on a bus, the first conviction under a new law that punishes sexual harassment in public spaces. The prosecutor's office in the south Paris suburb of Evry said the incident occurred last Wednesday when the 30-year-old man, visibly drunk, boarded the bus and spotted a 21-year-old woman ... ....
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Sudan And South Sudan Need A Time Out, But Will The U.S. And China Comply?
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingStraddling what many today call the Transition Zone, a volatile area along Africa’s north central region because of dramatic changes in both the human and physical landscape, Sudan and South Sudan have never had a time-out from colonialism or neocolonialism. Whether the Egyptian and British forces, or the current U.S ... After centuries of ethnic and religious conflict, it didn’t last long ... ....
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Special throne for Japan’s next emperor arrives in Tokyo
Sacramento Bee 26 Sep 2018
The special imperial throne to be used for the coronation of Japan's new emperor has arrived in Tokyo from an ancient imperial palace in Kyoto more than a year ahead of time....
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China Says Plots To Disrupt Ties With Pakistan Will Fail
NDTV 26 Sep 2018
Any plots to sow discord in China's ties with Pakistan will not prevail, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Tuesday, as Beijing fends off criticism of its economic projects in Pakistan and... ....
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Thousands Of Georgetown Residents Told To Flee Rising Floodwaters In South Carolina
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
Thousands of people were told to evacuate their homes in Georgetown, South Carolina, after rainfall from Hurricane Florence caused rivers to surge above their banks, threatening some neighborhoods with as much as ten feet of water on Tuesday night, according to Reuters ... 14, the rainfall from the Category 1 hurricane is lingering in the area ... “We are urging people to take this event seriously ... North Carolina Gov ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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EU, China and Russia in move to sidestep US sanctions on Iran
The Guardian 26 Sep 2018
The European Union, Iran, China and Russia have set out a new plan to sidestep unilateral US sanctions designed to cripple the Iranian economy and force the Iranians to renegotiate the nuclear deal signed in 2015. European diplomats hope the proposed measure – known as a Special Purpose Vehicle – will help persuade an increasingly reluctant Iran to stay inside the deal in the hope of rescuing its economy ... 'There will be hell to pay'....
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Russian parliament approves Putin's pension reform amendments
The Times of India 26 Sep 2018
MOSCOW. Russia's parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin's amendments to a deeply unpopular pension reform plan that has led to a rare outburst of public anger in the country. Parliament's lower house, the State Duma, approved Putin's proposal to soften the reform, raising the state pension age for women by five years to 60, instead of eight years to 63 ... oc/as/dcr. ....
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Man who served in US Army Reserves accused of being agent for China
The Times of India 26 Sep 2018
WASHINGTON. A Chinese citizen was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday on charges that he covertly worked for a high-ranking Chinese intelligence official to help try to recruit engineers and scientists, including some who worked as US defense contractors, the Justice Department said ... He appeared in a federal court in Chicago on one count of acting as an agent for the Chinese government ... He did not elaborate ... ....
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Erdogan: Turkey Will Keep Importing Iran's Natural Gas Despite US Sanctions
Sputnik 26 Sep 2018
The Turkish lira's slide is not linked to a diplomatic row with Washington, and the country's economic hardship has been exaggerated, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in an exclusive interview to Reuters ... ....
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EU has more pressing priorities than Brexit: French finance minister
DNA India 26 Sep 2018
The European Union has more pressing priorities than Britain's future relationship with the bloc, starting with its own future, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said. EU leaders last week rejected British Prime Minister Theresa May's proposals for post-Brexit trade, standing firm on their position that the plan would undermine their cherished single market ... ....
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Japanese Rovers Send Back First Images Ever Taken On An Asteroid's Surface
WorldNews.com 25 Sep 2018
Over the weekend Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft successfully landed two rovers on an asteroid – the first in history, IFL Science reported.Those two little rovers, called Rover-1A and 1B but together MINERVA-II1, have returned some amazing images from their mission at asteroid Ryugu, 280 million kilometers (175 million miles) from Earth.The first image sent back came from Rover-1A on Sept. 21 ... 22....
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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: September 26, 2018
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
General NewsGerman blockchain banking service Bitwala is set to launch the first platform that will enable the management of both euro deposits and bitcoin funds within the same bank account. The service is planned to be up and running by November with an estimated 30,000 customers already signed up.Japanese banking giant SBI Holdings has unveiled plans to launch “S Coin”, a crypto token for mobile retail payments....
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Europe, Russia, China Join Forces To Create Mechanism To Dodge Iran Sanctions
WorldNews.com 25 Sep 2018
In the latest sign of the growing divide between Washington and its allies, the European Union’s foreign policy chief announced Monday that the bloc was creating a new payment mechanism to allow countries to transact with Iran while avoiding U.S ... On Nov. 4, a second round of penalties will fall on Iran's massive oil sector, which accounts for 70 percent of the country's exports ... financial system ... penalties on their operations....
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Researchers find link between lung inflammation and anxiety
Deccan Chronicle 26 Sep 2018
Turns out, persistent lung inflammation may be one possible explanation for why having asthma during childhood increases your risk for developing anxiety later in life, a new study has revealed. In a study with mice, researchers found that childhood exposure to allergens was linked to persistent lung inflammation. It was also connected to changes in gene expression related to stress and serotonin function. ... end-of. ....
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