| PHOTOS: Violent riots in Paris after 2 weeks of nationwide protests over rising taxes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:32 PM PST  Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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| Trump Refuses To Say Whether He Regrets Attacking The Bush Family Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:31 PM PST  President Donald Trump refused to say whether he regretted any of his previous
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| PHOTOS: Aftershocks shake Alaska after back-to-back earthquakes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 01:55 PM PST  Aftershocks on Saturday continued to fray nerves in Alaska. There have been 545 aftershocks, including the 5.7 magnitude shaker that came almost immediately after Friday's big quake measuring 7.0. Eleven have had magnitudes of 4.5 or greater.
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| Explosives attack at US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:21 PM PST  The US consulate in Mexico's second city, Guadalajara, was attacked with explosives hours before a visit to the country by Vice President Mike Pence and first daughter Ivanka Trump, authorities said Saturday. "The investigation has been handed over to federal authorities, who will give information on developments in due time," the prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located, said on Twitter. The attack ocurred just before Pence and President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka flew into Mexico City on Saturday morning at the head of a high-level US delegation attending the inauguration of Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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| Man drops engagement ring down drain moments after proposing in New York's Times Square Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:15 AM PST  Police in New York City are searching for a man and woman who lost an engagement ring down a drain during a proposal that took a disastrous turn. The couple's engagement was caught on camera after the man got down on one knee in Times Square on Friday evening. According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the woman said yes.
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| Iran says it will continue missile tests after U.S. allegation Posted: 02 Dec 2018 01:24 PM PST  Iran said on Sunday it would continue missile tests to build up its defences and denied this was in breach of U.N. resolutions following U.S. allegations that Tehran had tested a new missile capable of carrying multiple warheads. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he called Iran's testing of a medium-range ballistic missile in violation of the 2015 international agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme, from which Washington has withdrawn. "Missile tests ... are carried out for defence and the country's deterrence, and we will continue this," Brigadier- General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran's armed forces, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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| Israel police recommend indicting Netanyahu in third graft probe Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:56 AM PST  Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for bribery and other offences, the third such move against the premier in recent months. Netanyahu immediately rejected the accusations, but the cases against him have led to speculation that they could eventually force the long-serving prime minister to step down. The head of the opposition Labour party, Avi Gabbay, renewed his call for Netanyahu to resign.
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| 15 Items To Shop Now During Lord & Taylor’s Friends & Family Sale Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:05 PM PST  To keep the shopping momentum going strong Lord & Taylor is having one of its
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| Mattis reveals Russian government attempted to interfere in U.S. midterm elections Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:12 PM PST  Defense Secretary James Mattis revealed that the Russian government attempted to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections last month during remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, CA.
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| En el G20 de Buenos Aires comparan al Primer Ministro de India con Apu Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:13 PM PST  Una televisora de noticias en Argentina enfrento una reaccion violenta despues
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| Don Lemon Gives Blistering Review Of Donald Trump's G20 Performance: 'Weak, Weak, Weak' Posted: 01 Dec 2018 01:01 AM PST  CNN's Don Lemon has examined why President Donald Trump seemed unwilling to
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| Researchers say ancient ring may bear Pontius Pilate name Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:12 AM PST  Israeli researchers say an inscription on an ancient ring discovered near Jerusalem may include the name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who Biblical accounts say sentenced Jesus to death. It would be a rare example still in existence of an inscription with the name of the man believed to have sent Jesus to his crucifixion. The researchers recently announced their analysis of the inscription on the ring -- which was actually found some 50 years ago -- in Israel Exploration Journal.
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| French government considers state of emergency over Paris yellow vests protests Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:08 AM PST  France is considering imposing a state of emergency to stop a repeat of the violence in Paris that left swathes of the city centre looking like a war zone and injured 133 people. President Emmanuel Macron returned from a G20 summit in Argentina on Sunday morning and went directly to the Arc de Triomphe to assess the damage at the historic monument caused by so-called "yellow vest" anti-tax protestors. The arch, which lies at the top of the prestigious Champs Elysées avenue, was where the violence kicked off early on Saturday morning before spreading as far as the Louvre and the Opera districts. Under heavy security, Mr Macron spoke with police and firefighters on one of the avenues near the Champs Elysées, with some bystanders cheering but more jeering him, including yellow-jacketed protesters chanting, "Macron, resign!" Young men, many of them with their faces masked, had battled riot police throughout Saturday in some of the capital's poshest areas, smashing shop windows, overturning cars and torching buildings and vehicles, including at least one police car. French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a firefighter during a visit to the streets of Paris Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images Street cleaners were out in force on Sunday to clear away the burnt-out cars, broken glass and the remains of barricades from the city's worst day of rioting in a decade that saw more than 400 people arrested. Mr Macron was due to hold a lunchtime meeting with the prime minister, interior minister and top security service officials at the Elysée presidential palace to discuss the unrest in Paris and many other French regions. When asked if the government might impose a state of emergency, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said it would be among the options considered at the Elysée meeting. At least two "yellow vest" protestors seriously injured when a crowd pushed down railings at Tuileries gardens on Rue de Rivoli in Paris. Gilets jaunes pic.twitter.com/KEET0mSdHY— Rory Mulholland (@mulhollandrory) December 1, 2018 "It is out of the question that each weekend becomes a meeting or ritual for violence," he said. The comment came as calls were being made on social media for the "yellow vests," whose revolt was sparked by planned fuel tax hikes, to meet again next Saturday on the Champs Elysées. The yellow vest movement, which began just a few weeks ago, has morphed into a broad opposition front to Mr Macron, a 40-year-old pro-business centrist elected in May 2017 who is accused of being the "president of the rich" and of neglecting ordinary French people. Protesters defaced the city with slogans such as "the yellow vests will triumph" Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images Violent anarchist and far-right groups have since infiltrated it and are thought to be behind many of Saturday's clashes in Paris. Mr Macron faces a dilemma in how to respond to the "yellow vests", not least because they are a grassroots movement with no formal leaders and a wide range of demands. An estimated 75,000 demonstrators, most of them peaceful, were counted across the country on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
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| Caravan migrants in Mexico fill new border shelter after rains force exodus Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:00 PM PST  Earlier in the day, streams of migrants laden with heavy backpacks, tents and blankets, much of it soaking wet, loaded buses leaving their original migrants shelter within sight of the border. For those among the at least 6,000 migrants who have descended upon the Mexican border city of Tijuana, just south of San Diego on the U.S. side, the move to a former outdoor concert venue after torrential rains a day earlier reduced the old shelter to a muddy, smelly mess was a welcome relief. "Here it's better," said Victor Manuel Argeta.
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| Big Brussels climate march marks COP24 start Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:44 AM PST  Tens of thousands of marchers took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to mark the start of the UN climate summit in Poland. Speaking through a blow-horn, activist Evert Nicolai of Oxfam Action urged leaders to do what was needed towards fighting climate change. The march, dubbed Claim The Climate, ended with speeches and performances at the Parc Cinquantenaire that overlooks the European Union institutions.
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| Bill Clinton Remembers His Unlikely Friendship With George H.W. Bush in an Emotional Op-Ed Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:53 AM PST  "I cherished every opportunity I had to learn and laugh with him. I just loved him"
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| Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:49 AM PST  U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have pressed pause
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| Powerful quake rattles Anchorage, hitting roads, bridges hardest Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:02 PM PST  A powerful earthquake jolted southern Alaska on Friday morning, buckling roads, disrupting rush-hour traffic and jamming telephone service in and around Anchorage, the state's largest city, but there were no reports of serious injuries. The 7.0 magnitude quake struck about 8 miles (13 km) north of Anchorage, a city of 300,000 residents accounting for about 40 percent of Alaska's population, and was followed by dozens of aftershocks that continued to rattle nerves throughout the day. Public schools and many businesses across Anchorage closed early, and an eerie quiet settled over the city's largely deserted streets by nightfall.
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| Murdered British radio host laid to rest in Lebanon Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:27 AM PST  British radio presenter Gavin Ford was laid to rest Sunday near Beirut in a ceremony that brought together dozens of fans, friends and family members days after his murder. Ford's lifeless body was discovered Tuesday at his home in Beit Meri, a mountain town east of the capital where his employer Radio One is also based. Ford had worked since the 1990s at the station, where hosted one of Lebanon's most popular shows.
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| San Francisco Christmas lights display seen nationwide Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:25 PM PST  "This tree represents what America should be. This tree represents immigrants, African Americans, Us."
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| Comey makes deal over House subpoena, backs off legal fight Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:12 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has reached a deal to testify privately to the House Judiciary Committee, backing off his legal fight for an open hearing, his attorney said Sunday.
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| Angry Democrats look to settle score in Georgia after 'voter suppression denied Stacey Abrams victory' Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:15 AM PST  On a day when it felt the rain would never stop, John Barrow was rallying his team for the final days of battle. In a campaign office 20 miles north-east of Atlanta, he was talking like a high school American football coach in the movies, urging his team to believe in themselves. Mr Barrow, a Democrat running to be Georgia's secretary of state, is desperate to win.
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| Is America's Harpoon Missile Hopelessly Obsolete? Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  Washington should fight smarter not harder.
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| Netanyahu's legal troubles mount as police seek new bribery charges Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:04 AM PST  Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against the leader and his wife.
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| Macron surveys damage after Paris riots, calls for talks Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:25 PM PST  French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday surveyed the damage from a day of riots across Paris and led a crisis meeting that ended with a call for further talks with anti-government activists who have staged two weeks of protests. Macron met with the prime minister, interior minister and top security service officials to forge a response to the violence that left hundreds injured nationwide. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has been asked to meet protest organisers and party leaders as part of a "constant wish for dialogue," the Elysee Palace said.
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| Royal Mail delivers: Postman, can you take this to heaven? Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:18 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — A 7-year-old Scottish boy who sent a birthday card to his father in heaven has received a heart-warming reply.
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| Viral Tide: How Russia became the new frontline in the war on HIV/AIDS Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:00 PM PST  In February this year, Oksana Bobok woke up in a Yekaterinburg hospital to be told her unborn child had been aborted. "I'd been in a coma for a month and a half. It was save me, or save the child. They chose to save me," she said. It was the bitter culmination of an advanced HIV-related infection the 34-year-old former heroin addict had unwittingly been living with for most of adult life. Now wheelchair bound and partially paralysed, Ms Bobok's calamitous fall from health is made all the more tragic by the fact it could have been prevented. It is more than 30 years since HIV/Aids was recognised as a global crisis and, despite a total total death toll of 35.5 million, the response has in many ways been a triumph. Across the world, advances in testing, treatment and, perhaps most important of all, understanding have made HIV a wholly manageable condition. Sex education and safe sex have slashed infection rates, while rapid testing and new antiretrovirals mean those living with HIV can lead full and healthy lives. According to the United Nations, Aids related deaths have fallen 51 percent since their peak in 2004, new HIV infections per year are down 16 percent since 2010, and a record 75 percent of infected people now know their status, with and an estimated 59 percent receiving life saving antiretrovirals. But there is one anomaly - Russia and its former Eastern bloc satellites. Aids deaths in the region have climbed by 38 percent in the past ten years - almost as much as they have fallen elsewhere - and more than half of those with HIV only discover the infection once they develop Aids, according to the latest WHO report. Russia, by far the largest country in the region, now has around a million people thought to be living with HIV. "It's the one region in the world where the rate of new infections is still growing," said Vinay Saldanha, the Moscow-based head of UNAIDS for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. "This is the frontline... What happens here and what governments do in the next two years will determine whether we can actually get the global HIV epidemic [back] on track." Ms Bobok and her husband Piotr, who is also HIV positive Like so many of the problems facing modern Russia, Ms Bobok's tragedy and the HIV crisis are enmeshed with the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet collapse. The first HIV case in Russia was only reported in 1987 - well into the Aids scare sweeping the West, and a year after Margaret Thatcher's government had authorised a hard-hitting publicity campaign to tackle what was already an epidemic in Britain. Russian infection rates grew slowly - until a flood of heroin hit the country following the Soviet collapse as drug traffickers entered a previously untapped market. In around 1996, doctors began to see HIV cases among drug users. And the subsequent needle-borne epidemic ripped through Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet states with frightening speed. Today, experts say 80 percent of infections can be found in just 20 of Russia's 85 regions - the same relatively rich, industrially developed areas that were hit hardest by the heroin glut two decades ago. But it is not just needle sharing that is spreading HIV in Russia today, with most infections now caused by heterosexual sex, and affecting everyone from urban youth to rural pensioners. In terms of sheer numbers, Russia's epidemic is minuscule compared to the catastrophe in southern and eastern Africa. Denying the virus | Who are Russia's 'HIV Dissidents'? But combined with a conservative government reluctant to embrace basic preventative measures such as sex education in schools, and a subculture of so called "HIV dissidents" who variously hold that HIV is a US plot, a conspiracy by big pharma, or nothing to worry about, it has become one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world. "So HIV came on the back of the heroin epidemic. And then from the vulnerable groups the virus spread into the general population, first via needles, then via sex", says Aleksandar Chebin, a project manager at New Life, a charity in Yekaterinburg founded and run by HIV positive volunteers. "Now it is well adjusted, ordinary people who have a family and a job - they are now the main group where infection is detected. "Go and have a look at yourself in the mirror - that's what the risk group looks like." Nika Ivanova's daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Nika Ivanova was an early casualty. Then 17 years old, she had been dating an older boyfriend for six months when a routine visit to the gynaecologist resulted in an HIV diagnosis in the early 2000s. Her boyfriend, it turned out, had once been an intravenous drugs user. "I don't blame him, because he didn't know," she says. "He was a just a young man who had experimented with things. "If only I knew about contraception… I was 17 at the time. No one talked to me at home. No one talked about sex, full stop, and especially not about HIV." Now 34, Ms Ivanova is a professional psychologist living a typical Moscow middle class life - she is proof that with modern retroviral treatment, HIV need not be a death sentence. Nika Ivanova and her daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Unfortunately, many in Russia are not so lucky. Although the state officially distributes anti-retroviral drugs to HIV positive patients for free, in practice only about 380,000 of the roughly one million infected Russians are receiving therapy, according to statistics compiled by the country's Federal HIV centre. "About 60 per cent of people are not getting therapy, and that's why people are still getting Aids," said Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the centre. The problem, he says, is money. He estimates it would take a tripling of annual HIV spending to about $1.3 billion (£1 billion) in order to make up the difference. Ms Bobok, now a wheelchair user, is one of those for whom anti-retroviral treatment is far from secure. Born in eastern Ukraine and raised in a downtrodden part of Russia's Urals, she got into drugs at an early age, contracted HIV via needle sharing, and only found out months later when she landed in prison, age 19. In prison she received antiretrovirals to suppress the virus. But because she only ever held an old Soviet passport, when she was released in 2015 she was classed as a stateless person and struggled to access the state-supplied medication available to Russian citizens. In less than three years, she developed Aids. "She was pregnant for the second time, and they had stopped issuing pills for her as soon as she gave birth last time, " said her husband Pytor, who is also HIV positive. "Her immune system became really weak, and when she was put on life support, the doctor said that her HIV had progressed into Aids because she had not been getting treatment," he added. The couple's first child died after being born prematurely. Russia's ministry of health says a major "test and treat" campaign has seen Aids deaths begin to stabilise and the rate of new infections begin to slow in the past two years. About 30 million Russians, or 30 percent of the population, were tested last year. It has also unveiled a new national strategy for fighting the spread of the disease. Drafted by the country's top HIV doctors, it includes provision for harm reduction measures such as needle exchange programs, and has been welcomed by the UN as a major step forward. But the most fundamental challenge remains political. Ideas such as needle exchange programs, methadone substitution, and sex education in schools have set alarm bells ringing among the Kremlin's conservative base. "We're not prudes - we're opposed to this because there is a big question mark about whether it really works," said Zhanna Tachmamedova, a spokeswoman for the All Russian Parents Resistance, a pressure group that has successfully lobbied for the closure of HIV education programmes in schools in several parts of the country. Oksana Babok and senior foreign correspondent Roland Oliphant in Russia Russian school children have not had any sex education since 1997. Ms Tachmamedova, a St Petersburg-based child psychologist, argues introducing it would be counterproductive. Teach teenagers about sex, she worries, and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancies will increase. Such attitudes dismay educators worried about about the risks teenagers face. "Statistics show that you have less infections, less premature pregnancies, fewer underage abortions, where there is sex education," said Daria Rakhmaninova, a Moscow high school teacher who has launched voluntary seminars for parents and families interested in sex education outside school. There is one part of the country where progressive policies have been tried - with startling success. St Petersburg is the first major Russian city to see a consistent decline in rates of new infections. In 2017, there were about 1750 new diagnoses in the city, down from nearly 2200 in 2015 - a fall of 20 percent in two years. It is a remarkable achievement, which experts put down to the way the city government has harnessed the help of NGOs, businesses and HIV-positive citizens to deliver the WHO's recommended 'test and treat' strategy as well as other harm reduction initiatives like condom and syringe distribution. This month, the Federal Ministry of Health gave the St Petersburg HIV Centre a prize for the best public awareness campaign. And there are signs that other regions may follow suit. Alexander Vysokinsky, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, this month announced the industrial megapolis would be the first Russian city to sign up the UN's Paris declaration - a pledge to get the HIV crisis under control by 2020. It is a hopeful sign, says Ms Ivanova, as she watches her daughter on the playground outside her Moscow apartment block. "The worst thing about this epidemic is that it is not just an HIV epidemic. It is an epidemic of stigma," she said. 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| Mexico's new leader opens presidential residence to public Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:24 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, celebrated taking office Saturday with a festive gathering of supporters in the capital's main square in front of the centuries-old National Place where he will install his offices.
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| U.S. House race in limbo after North Carolina voter fraud claims Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:27 PM PST  North Carolina's board of elections declined to certify Republican Mark Harris' apparent victory in a U.S. House of Representatives race.
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| Here's What's New on Amazon Prime in December 2018 Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  Here are the TV shows and movies coming to Amazon Prime in December 2018, including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 2 and Iron Man 2.
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| North Korean soldier defects to South: South's military Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:02 PM PST ![North Korean soldier defects to South: South's military]( "North Korean soldier defects to South: South's military") A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, but there were no unusual movements by North Korea's military in response. The North Korean soldier was spotted moving toward South Korea, and then crossed over a military demarcation line separating the two sides, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement. North Korean soldiers have even shot at defecting colleagues, raising fears of a clash.
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| US airstrike kills key Taliban leader in Afghanistan Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:31 AM PST  A senior Taliban military commander has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. Abdul Manan, who was the Taliban's 'shadow governor' in the southern Helmand province, died of wounds sustained during an airstrike late on Saturday said Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the official governor of the province. Manan's death was also confirmed by the Taliban who in a statement described it as a "big loss" for the group but vowed that it will not affect their military operations.
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| US and China agree to pause trade war after G20 meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:28 AM PST  Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed to pause a long-running trade war between the US and China, in a deal that will provide relief to global markets. As part of the deal, Mr Trump agreed to pause plans to raise tariffs on $200bn-worth of Chinese goods. China, in response, will buy a "not yet agreed upon, but very substantial amount" of agricultural, energy and industrial goods from the US, according to the White House.
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| What To Watch On Netflix That’s New This Week Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:39 AM PST  Streamline recommends "F is for Family" as the thing to watch on Netflix this
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| Planet Earth working on 3 Mars landers to follow InSight Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:38 AM PST  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As Mars' newest resident settles in, Planet Earth is working on three more landers and at least two orbiters to join the scientific Martian brigade.
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| Trump administration vows to target migrants in future Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration officials vowed Friday to address some of issues that forced them to decide against criminally prosecuting any of the 42 members of a Central American migrant caravan arrested last weekend who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally during a chaotic clash with Border Patrol agents.
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| Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:36 PM PST  With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. The UN climate summit comes at a crucial juncture in mankind's response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing for richer states to make good on the promises they made in the 2015 Paris agreement.
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| Michelle Obama tells Meghan Markle: 'Don't be in a hurry' to launch ambitious projects Posted: 02 Dec 2018 04:01 PM PST  It is surprisingly prescient advice given the slew of recent allegations made about the Duchess of Sussex's forthright demeanor and demands. And if there is any truth in the anecdotes that have been tumbling forth from behind palace walls detailing "ghastly" rows with her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, temper tantrums over tiara choices and staff reduced to tears, she may well take note. Michelle Obama, the former American First Lady and a long-term friend of her husband, the Duke of Sussex, has suggested that the Duchess take her foot off the gas, slow down and remember she is in it for the long haul. Asked if she had any advice for the newlywed royal, Mrs Obama drew on her own experience of having every move subjected to public scrutiny. "Like me, Meghan probably never dreamt that she'd have a life like this, and the pressure you feel – from yourself and from others – can sometimes feel like a lot," she told Good Housekeeping magazine. "So my biggest pieces of advice would be to take some time and don't be in a hurry to do anything. I spent the first few months in the White House mainly worrying about my daughters, making sure they were off to a good start at school and making new friends before I launched into any more ambitious work. Michelle Obama Credit: Good Housekeeping "I think it's okay – it's good, even – to do that…. What I'd say is that there's so much opportunity to do good with a platform like that – and I think Meghan can maximise her impact for others, as well her own happiness, if she's doing something that resonates with her personally." Mrs Obama is in the UK today on a whistlestop tour to promote her new memoir, Becoming, and will meet children at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington before speaking at the Royal Festival Hall, London. She and her husband enjoy such a close relationship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they were rumoured to be joining the royal couple for a dinner hosted by George and Amal Clooney at their riverside mansion in Berkshire on Tuesday night. But Palace sources suggested that tales of the star-studded dinner party were wide of the mark. And Mrs Obama announced on Sunday that she was cutting short her European tour in order to return to the US for the funeral of former President George HW Bush on Wednesday. Michelle Obama chats to Prince Harry at a Wounded Warriors wheelchair basketball game in 2015 Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Mrs Obama admits in the interview how she struggled to keep up with life in the White House. "Thankfully I get more (and more regular) sleep these days," she said. "But it probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that sometimes it was a real challenge to keep up with the pace." She said she, her husband and daughters, Sasha, 17, and Malia, 20, had a wonderful life in the White House but added that she was grateful they all "came out of those eight years in one piece". Mrs Obama ruffled feathers at an event on Saturday in Brooklyn when she claimed that a prominent piece of feminist self-help championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, was "s---" that "doesn't work." She told the sold-out crowd that women cannot experience equality in both their professional and personal lives "at the same time," calling the idea a "lie" and arguing that "marriage still ain't equal, y'all." She added: "And it's not always enough to 'lean in', because that s--- doesn't work all the time" before quickly adding: "I forgot where I was for a moment." Sandberg promoted the "lean in" concept in her 2013 book, "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," which urges women to be more proactive at seizing career opportunities. Mrs Obama admitted that she thought in many ways, things were harder for young women today but said that they were not held back by "societal belief that girls and boys can't do the same thing" as her generation was. "They're charging forwards in sports and maths and science and technology," she told Good Housekeeping. "They're speaking up and speaking out, not just in classrooms but in the public arena at a young age. I find great hope in this generation of young women." The full interview appears in the January issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale December 3
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| Saudi Crown Prince to visit Algeria after G20 summit Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:02 PM PST  Before the G20 summit the heir to the throne of the world's top oil exporter visited the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. It is his first trip abroad since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has strained Saudi Arabia's ties with the West and battered the prince's image abroad. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge ofthe murder.
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| Why the Marine Corps and Navy Will Miss the EA-6B Prowler Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  The end of an era.
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| Macron tells PM to hold talks after worst unrest in Paris for decades Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:33 AM PST  Riot police on Saturday were overwhelmed as protesters ran amok in Paris's wealthiest neighborhoods, torching dozens of cars, looting boutiques and smashing up luxury private homes and cafes in the worst disturbances the capital has seen since 1968. After a meeting with members of his government on Sunday, the French presidency said in a statement that the president had asked his interior minister to prepare security forces for future protests and his prime minister to hold talks with political party leaders and representatives of the protesters. A French presidential source said Macron would not speak to the nation on Sunday despite calls for him to offer immediate concessions to demonstrators, and said the idea of imposing a state of emergency had not been discussed.
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| G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:54 PM PST  World leaders have signed off on an agreement which reaffirms a basic commitment by the world's biggest economies to multilateral trade and a "rules-based international order", but bows to US demands for urgent reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Agreement on a joint communique was by no means guaranteed at the beginning of the summit, when US negotiators took hardline positions, rejecting any mention of multilateralism, the "rules-based order" or the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a global safety net.
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| Former President George H.W. Bush has died at 94 Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:18 AM PST  Former President George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States, has died at age 94. His death was announced by his family Friday night, and his health had been declining in recent months. His son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president, released his own statement from the family saying, "George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."
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| UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:01 AM PST ![UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria]( "UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria") BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen opened fire at the convoy of a joint humanitarian assessment mission in eastern Syria, the United Nations said Saturday, wounding a local driver in one of the country's most remote areas where fighting against Islamic State militants has displaced thousands.
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| Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan Posted: 02 Dec 2018 04:09 AM PST ![Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan]( "Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan") KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say an airstrike has killed at least 10 civilians in the eastern Paktia province bordering Pakistan.
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