| Iranian president: First lift sanctions, then let's talk Posted: 27 Aug 2019 04:49 AM PDT  Iran's president back-pedaled Tuesday on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran, otherwise a meeting between the two would be a mere photo op. Hassan Rouhani's change of heart came a day after Trump said Monday that there's a "really good chance" the two could meet on their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict.
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| Woman who killed boyfriend during sex game released on parole after 18 years Posted: 27 Aug 2019 04:08 PM PDT  Anastazia Schmid was a free woman Tuesday more than 18 years after she stabbed her boyfriend, Tony Heathcote, 39 times during a consensual sex game.
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| Someone Has Killed More Than 40 Wild Burros in a California Desert. There's a $10,000 Reward for the Gunman Posted: 26 Aug 2019 05:24 PM PDT  A burro is simply a wild donkey. They are considered to be an enduring symbol of the Southwest region of America, according to the Associated Press
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| NASA astronaut accused of first space crime denies hacking into wife's bank account Posted: 27 Aug 2019 08:23 AM PDT  An US astronaut accused of committing what may have been the first crime in space allegedly hacked into her estranged wife's bank account while aboard the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year.Anne McClain, one of NASA's top astronauts, accessed her wife's bank account multiple times from a NASA computer while aboard the ISS in January and February during a six-month mission in space, according to a letter the wife's attorneys wrote to the agency's Office of Inspector General.
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| Indiana attorney general exposes the real reason behind California's homeless crisis Posted: 26 Aug 2019 05:44 AM PDT  Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill says California's Proposition 47 has had unintended consequences.
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| This Exoplanet Has the Weirdest Orbit We've Ever Seen Posted: 27 Aug 2019 09:00 AM PDT  There's no circular orbit for this giant world.
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| DEA to expand marijuana research after years of delay Posted: 26 Aug 2019 10:21 AM PDT  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Monday that it will move ahead with a long-delayed expansion of its marijuana research program, in a sign that the Trump administration's hostility to the drug may be waning as a growing number of states have legalized its use. The DEA said it would roll out new guidelines that would allow more growers to produce marijuana for scientific and medical research. The DEA also said producers of hemp, an industrial form of marijuana that has little psychoactive effect, will not have to get a permit from the agency.
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| Fuzzy math: Democrats spend big to draw small-dollar donors Posted: 27 Aug 2019 11:26 AM PDT  Montana Gov. Steve Bullock was told how he could qualify for the next presidential debate, but it didn't make much sense: Spend $60. "You spend $60 on Facebook right now to get a $1 donor," Bullock said last week while campaigning in Iowa , referring to the 130,000 donor threshold that is one of the requirements to reach the debate stage in Houston next month. Facing a Wednesday deadline, a handful of Democratic White House hopefuls are racing against time — and odds — to qualify, trying desperately to meet the donor targets as well as reaching 2% in four approved public opinion polls.
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| Macron attacks 'extraordinarily rude' Bolsonaro after insults about wife Brigitte Posted: 26 Aug 2019 07:28 AM PDT  A war of words broke out between the presidents of France and Brazil as Emmanuel Macron responded angrily on Monday to Jair Bolsonaro's "extraordinarily rude comments" about his wife Brigitte. Mr Bolsanaro appeared to endorse a Facebook comment posted by one of his supporters mocking Mr Macron, 41, for being married to a woman who is nearly 25 years his senior. The comment suggested that Mr Macron was attacking Mr Bolsonaro over the Amazon fires because the Brazilian president was married to a much younger woman. "[Mr Bolsonaro] has made some extraordinarily rude comments about my wife," Mr Macron said at a press conference. "What can I say? It's sad for him, firstly, and for Brazilians … I think Brazilian women will probably be ashamed to read that from their president." He added: "As I feel friendship and respect for the Brazilian people, I hope that they will very soon have a president who behaves in the right way." The Facebook comments which the French president found offensive appeared below a picture of the Macrons beside one of Mr Bolsonaro, 64, and his wife Michelle, 37 years his junior. Brigitte Macron, wife of the French President (C) poses with children and Japan's Prime Minister's wife Akie Abe(R) during a meeting with surfers at the Cote des Basques beach, in Biarritz Credit: AFP "Do you understand now why Macron persecutes Bolsonaro?" read a comment under the pictures. Mr Bolsonaro posted a response: "Don't humiliate the guy. Ha ha." Abraham Weintraub, Brazil's education minister, joined the attack on Mr Macron on Sunday with a Twitter post calling him a "calhorda", a Portuguese term designating a rascal or a cretin. The row between Mr Macron and Mr Bolsonaro broke out over the French president's attempt last week to put international pressure on Brazil to deal with vast fires that were raging unchecked in the Amazon. He threatened to block ratification of an ambitious free trade pact between the EU and the South American common market, Mercosur, until the fires were put out. Mr Bolsonaro, a far-Right climate sceptic, accused the centrist French president of having "a colonial mindset" and interfering in Brazil's domestic affairs by declaring the fires to be a global emergency. Mr Macron retorted that Mr Bolsonaro had "lied" about his environmental commitments at the G20 summit in Japan in June. "President Bolsonaro has decided not to respect his commitments on the climate. nor to involve himself on the issue of biodiversity," he said.
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| Trump reportedly suggested fighting hurricanes with nukes. Here's what would really happen if we set off a bomb in the eye of a storm. Posted: 26 Aug 2019 01:07 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has suggested disrupting hurricanes with nuclear weapons, according to Axios. Here's why that wouldn't work.
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| St. Louis officials offered $100K reward for unsolved child murders. Then two more kids were shot Posted: 26 Aug 2019 03:29 PM PDT ![St. Louis officials offered $100K reward for unsolved child murders. Then two more kids were shot]( "St. Louis officials offered $100K reward for unsolved child murders. Then two more kids were shot") Officials in St. Louis offered a $100,000 reward for information in a recent string of child murders. Then two more kids were killed.
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| Beijing confirms arrest of Australian for spying Posted: 27 Aug 2019 03:03 AM PDT  An Australian academic has been arrested in China for spying, Beijing said Tuesday, prompting Canberra to demand the country upholds "basic standards" of justice. Yang Jun, who also goes by his pen name Yang Hengjun, was detained in January shortly after making a rare return to China from the United States. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said earlier on Tuesday that she was "very concerned" that Yang -- a former official turned author -- had been arrested on "suspicion of espionage".
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| Far-Right Vies for Lead in German Regional Election, Poll Shows Posted: 27 Aug 2019 06:00 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the German Social Democratic Party are barely holding their ground against the insurgent far-right Alternative for Germany in two states holding elections on Sunday, two polls showed.The SPD, which has governed the eastern state of Brandenburg since German reunification in 1990, gained 2 points to 21% there. It is neck and neck with the anti-immigration AfD, which also gained 2 points compared with a survey three weeks ago, according to a survey by Insa published in Bild newspaper.In Saxony, a CDU stronghold, Merkel's party gained a point to 29% and is now four percentage points ahead of the AfD, according to a second poll in the same paper. The upstart far-right party surged more than 15 percentage points from the last election in 2014, while the SPD and CDU, both in Merkel's coalition, together plunged by as much.Nazi Salute in Dresden Shows Cracks With Merkel, GermanyWith Merkel's fourth-term government saddled with infighting and deep losses for the SPD, the Sept. 1 election in the two states that were once part of communist East Germany risks prompting an early collapse of CDU-led coalition in Berlin. After almost 14 years in office, Merkel has said she won't run again for chancellor.Several leaders of the center-left SPD have blamed their poor showing in polls on their coalition with the center-right CDU, saying they've abandoned their traditional values.To contact the reporter on this story: Patrick Donahue in Berlin at pdonahue1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Raymond Colitt, Iain RogersFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Israel’s Strategy against Tehran: Revealing the Iranian Threat Posted: 27 Aug 2019 03:30 AM PDT  On Thursday, August 22, members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force took a drone to an area near the Golan Heights, seeking to attack Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) monitored the men, took video of them walking through a field, and struck back two nights later. The air strikes targeted a villa in southern Syria that Jerusalem says was being used by the IRGC and Shiite militias. This includes Hezbollah, a Lebanese ally of Iran that has played a major role in Syria in recent years.The air strike is part of an increasingly firm stand Israel is taking against Iran's regional ambitions in the Middle East. This includes several recent air strikes in Iraq that Iranian-linked paramilitaries have blamed on Israel. It also includes near-daily reports in media from Lebanon to Kuwait asserting that Israel is targeting Iran's network of proxies and their bases in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria. Jerusalem is no longer secretive about this widespread campaign. In January former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot said Israel had carried out thousands of air strikes on Iranian targets.Now IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani has warned Israel that these strikes will be Israel's last. Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah has threatened retaliation. This is part of a rising Iranian-backed chorus against Jerusalem, which includes real threats such as continuing rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza. It also includes threats by Iranian proxies such as Iraqi-based Kata'ib Hezbollah against U.S. forces in Iraq.What is Israel's strategy in all this? The goal is to draw Iran and its allies out of the shadows. Over the past decade, inflamed by the 2015 Iran deal, Tehran has increased its weapons transfers to Hezbollah, sent thousands of advisers to support the Syrian regime, and helped mobilize a network of militias in Iraq. Some of this was used to fight ISIS, or enemies of Bashar al-Assad. But with the ISIS war and Syrian conflict winding down, these groups are turning their threats toward Iran's adversaries. Tehran is obsessed with destroying Israel, as can be seen in its frequent statements and militaristic parades. It has launched drones from Syria into Israel in February 2018, rockets in May 2018, and a rocket in January 2019. Hezbollah threatens that its 150,000 rockets can strike all of Israel.Air strikes on Iran's network of proxies force the network out of the shadows. It can't hide in villas in southern Syria, or launch drones at night, or stockpile ballistic missiles in Iraq if it is looking over its shoulder and increasingly making mistakes through its aggressive and open threats. Iran is used to playing a double game of moderates and hard-liners, sending its smiling foreign minister to the recent G7 while boasting of its allies' drone technology striking Saudi Arabia.The Israeli air strikes couple well with the Washington-led campaign of "maximum pressure." Iran now faces two fronts, the sanctions and strikes, that together are designed to blow the lid on its regional strategy. Tehran will be tempted to make a misstep in its otherwise calculated reactions. Iran has a playbook: If a Western power seizes its tanker, as the U.K. did in July, Iran seizes a tanker. It downed a sophisticated U.S. drone in June but hasn't harmed anyone in six sabotage operations on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. More than anything, Iran wants to preserve its regional power, based in proxies and allies that are often Shiite coreligionists. Its long-term goal is to get Hezbollah and its Shiite paramilitary allies in Iraq into more government positions and build up their parallel-state structures of armed fighters and bases. A war with the U.S. or Israel, or a direct confrontation with Saudi Arabia, as opposed to using proxies such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, is not in Tehran's interest. This is the strategic calculation that underpins Israel's actions, but it can go only so far. A game of whack-a-mole against Iran's drones and missiles is just a setback for Tehran. If Tehran doesn't gamble on a major conflict with Israel, it will continue its creeping annexation of neighboring states.
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| After a Georgia teenager reported a sexual assault to her school administrators, she says she was expelled for 'sexual impropriety.' Now she's suing. Posted: 27 Aug 2019 07:51 AM PDT  The teenager's lawsuit agains the Fayette County Board of Education was filed by the National Women's Law Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.
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| Bangladesh rules women need not say if virgins on marriage certificates Posted: 26 Aug 2019 11:20 PM PDT ![Bangladesh rules women need not say if virgins on marriage certificates]( "Bangladesh rules women need not say if virgins on marriage certificates") Bangladesh's top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women's rights groups trying to protect women's privacy and potential humiliation. Marriage laws in the Muslim-majority country in South Asia had required a bride had to state on her marriage certificate if she was a "kumari" - meaning virgin - a widow, or divorced. Ainun Nahar Siddiqua, one of two lawyers involved in the case, said the case dated back to 2014 with the filing of a writ petition to change in the form provided under the 1974 Bangladesh Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.
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| Indonesia to move capital from sinking Jakarta to Borneo Posted: 26 Aug 2019 07:31 PM PDT  Indonesia's president says the country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans. President Joko Widodo said Monday intense studies over the past three years had resulted in the choice of the location on the eastern side of Borneo island. The new capital city, which has not yet been named, will be in the middle of the vast archipelago nation and already has relatively complete infrastructure because it is near the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda, Widodo said.
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| Bolsonaro says Macron must take back 'insults' for Brazil to accept G7 Amazon aid Posted: 27 Aug 2019 11:30 AM PDT  Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, has said he may accept the $22 million (£18 million) of aid offered by G7 countries to help combat forest fires in the Amazon, providing that French president Emmanuel Macron apologises for calling him a "liar". Mr Bolsonaro initially rejected the $22 million, showing concern that the offer of aid was a veiled attempt to undermine Brazil's sovereignty in the region. This sentiment is shared by farmers associations and regional governments, who fear that France is trying to sabotage Brazilian agribusiness. Mr Bolsonaro's chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni was also dismissive of the aid, saying it would be better used to "reforest Europe". "Mr Macron can't even avoid a foreseeable fire in a church … what is he trying to teach our country?", Mr Lorenzoni said, referring to the blaze at the Notre Dame cathedral in April. G7 nations announced that $22 million would be made available to help combat the wave of forest fires which have been devastating the Amazon region since the beginning of August. Official statistics show that the number of fires in the Amazon has increased by over 83 per cent since 2018, reaching the highest level since 2012, when records were first collected. Last Friday, Mr Macron declared that Mr Bolsonaro had "lied to him" at the G20 conference in Osaka in June, when the Brazilian president promised to respect climate commitments. "First of all, Macron has to withdraw his insults. He called me a liar. Before we talk or accept anything from France ... he must withdraw these words then we can talk," Mr Bolsonaro told reporters in Brasilia. "First he withdraws, then offers (aid), then I will answer." The hostility shown by the Brazilian government toward Mr Macron is partly fuelled by a long-held nationalist fear that foreign interests intend to "steal" the Amazon from Brazil. The Amazon is ablaze in Brazil Much of this backlash was sparked by Mr Macron's first statement on the forest fires, in which he referred to the Amazon rainforest as "our house". On Monday, the French president spoke of the need to create an international statute to govern over the Amazon rainforest, which the Bolsonaro administration saw as a threat to Brazil's sovereignty. "There is a clear effort to extrapolate real environmental problems into a fabricated 'crisis', as a pretext to introduce external control mechanisms in the Amazon," said Ernesto Araujo, Brazil's foreign minister. Mauro Mendes, governor of Brazil's leading grain-producing state Mato Grosso, said that Mr Macron's comments about the Amazon were intended to "create a negative climate for Brazil and support French producers". Race to save the rainforest | Mass deforestation in the Amazon Jair Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 thanks in part to the support of Brazil's huge agribusiness industry. Despite growing pressure from abroad, farmers' associations have stuck by the far-right president. Wellington Andrade, the executive director of the Soy and Corn Farmers' Association in Mato Grosso (Aprosoja), agrees with Mr Bolsonaro's stance toward the forest fires, but warned that Brazilian producers run the risk of "facing trade barriers which are dressed up as environmental barriers". There have been about 75,000 fires in the Amazon this year alone, being largely blamed on loggers and farmers taking advantage of decreased environmental regulations in the region. While the number of fires has increased 83 per cent this year, the number of fines handed out by the national environmental protection agency has fallen 29.4 per cent. Preliminary data from satellites put in place to measure deforestation suggest Brazil has lost over 1,100 sq km of Amazon forest since the beginning of August. If confirmed, this would be the highest deforestation level for August ever recorded. Last week, Mr Bolsonaro sent military troops to the Amazonian states of Rondonia and Roraima, with firefighter planes being deployed to try and extinguish the flames.
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| Tropical storm Dorian gathers strength in Caribbean as Puerto Rico braces for first hurricane Posted: 27 Aug 2019 06:00 AM PDT  A tropical storm is gathering strength and is expected to become a hurricane by the time it hits Puerto Rico.A state of emergency has been declared in the US territory as residents prepare for Dorian to bring the first hurricane of the season.
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| Biden: Racism in U.S. a ‘white man’s problem’ Posted: 27 Aug 2019 04:08 PM PDT ![Biden: Racism in U.S. a 'white man's problem']( "Biden: Racism in U.S. a 'white man's problem'") Biden, who launched his campaign focused on defeating President Donald Trump, warned that "silence is complicity."
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| Italy bans German-flagged rescue ship to enter its waters: sources Posted: 27 Aug 2019 06:42 AM PDT  ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree to ban a migrant rescue ship operated by the German charity Mission Lifeline from accessing Italian waters, sources at the ministry said on Tuesday. A succession of charity vessels has struggled over the past year to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italian shores as Salvini, leader of the far-right League, takes a tough line. The ship dubbed Eleonore is currently carrying 101 refugees rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, said Axel Steier, head of Mission Lifeline, adding that both Italian and Maltese authorities had declined to let the migrants land.
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| Sri Lankan Islamic clerics seek clarity on face veil ban Posted: 27 Aug 2019 01:32 AM PDT  Islamic clerics in Sri Lanka asked Muslim women on Tuesday to continue to avoid wearing face veils until the government clarifies whether they are once again allowed now that emergency rule has ended four months after a string of suicide bomb attacks. Clerics are wary of the Muslim community being targeted again for violence, as it was in the aftermath of April's Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 260 people, said Fazil Farook, spokesman for All Ceylon Jammiyyathul Ulama, Sri Lanka's largest group of Islamic clerics.
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| Armed Jewel Thieves Rob New York Diamond District Store Popular With Rappers, Celebrities Posted: 26 Aug 2019 11:30 AM PDT  Avianne and Co's customers have included Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne
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| Amazon fires: Effort to quell rainforest blaze hampered by hostile ground and defiant Bolsonaro Posted: 27 Aug 2019 12:37 AM PDT  Millions of dollars in aid are being pledged. Hundreds of soldiers are heading into the jungle. The Amazon is burning - and the world has taken notice.Now comes the hard part.
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| 21-Year-Old Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering Stranger Outside Colorado Restaurant Posted: 26 Aug 2019 06:45 PM PDT  A 21-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of first degree murder.
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| Is China ready to negotiate? Donald Trump has no clue on how to deliver a trade deal. Posted: 26 Aug 2019 03:35 PM PDT  China isn't going to be forced to change by a U.S. president who has isolated his country on the world stage and can't see beyond his tweets: Our view
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| Netanyahu warns Hezbollah, Lebanon to 'be careful' Posted: 27 Aug 2019 06:54 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned Lebanon, Hezbollah's chief and the head of Iran's elite Quds Force to "be careful" with their words and actions. Addressing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu told a conference in Jerusalem that "he knows very well that the state of Israel knows how to defend itself well, and to repay its enemies".
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| OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reportedly offering opioid settlement up to $12B Posted: 27 Aug 2019 01:50 PM PDT  OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is reportedly offering a settlement worth up to $12 billion to resolve claims over its role in the opioid crisis.
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| Pilot praised for 1989 Iowa crash landing dies in Seattle Posted: 26 Aug 2019 03:38 PM PDT ![Pilot praised for 1989 Iowa crash landing dies in Seattle]( "Pilot praised for 1989 Iowa crash landing dies in Seattle") Al Haynes, a pilot credited for saving the lives of nearly 200 people by guiding a damaged passenger jet into a crash landing at an Iowa airport in 1989, has died. Haynes died Sunday at age 87 in a Seattle-area hospital, said Gary Brown, an emergency services director for Woodbury County, Iowa. Brown confirmed the death with Haynes' daughter.
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| The U.S. Navy SEALs Have Special Ops Jet Skis Posted: 26 Aug 2019 07:51 AM PDT  The SEALs and potential adversaries Iran and Russia both use personal watercraft.
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| British teenager denies lying about being raped by Israeli youths Posted: 27 Aug 2019 02:43 AM PDT  A British teenager who accused a group of Israeli youths of gang-raping her in Cyprus pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of making up the accusation. The 19-year-old was arrested after police said she withdrew an accusation that 12 Israeli teenagers raped her in a hotel room in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa in mid-July. Her lawyers have told reporters she says she withdrew her accusation under duress. A court in the town of Paralimni ordered her released on bail before the trial which is due to start on Oct. 2. She has spent a month in custody. The charge the teenager faces, of public mischief, carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail or a fine. The Israelis, who were on holiday in Cyprus, were detained and later released without charge. They had denied any allegation of assault and have since returned to Israel.
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| Trump Says He’s Unwilling to Risk U.S. Energy Wealth for Windmill ‘Dreams’ Posted: 26 Aug 2019 12:44 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump scoffed yet again at a source of electricity championed by his own energy secretary, saying wind power doesn't work "all that well.""We're the No. 1 energy producer in the world," Trump said at the end of a summit of Group of Seven in Biarritz, France. "I'm not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills, which, frankly are not working all that well."The comment, in response to a question about climate change, is the latest in a line of statements from the president disparaging wind power. And yet, the U.S. has added more than 15 gigawatts since he took office in 2017, enough to power half of New York state. The industry, meanwhile, now employs more than 110,000 people.Even Energy Secretary Rick Perry touts the benefits of wind, which supplies about 20% of electricity in his home state of Texas.Trump has said turbines are "monstrous," are "killing all the eagles" and cause cancer. His comment Monday came after the Energy Department released a report finding employment in the industry has risen to a record 114,000 full-time jobs. It's also the cheapest new source of electricity in many regions of the U.S."We think the president is making a political miscalculation in his comments on wind energy," Tom Kiernan, chief executive officer of the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement.To be clear, wind energy does have shortcomings. Earlier this month in Texas, wholesale power prices surged 40,000%, in part because output from wind farms fell during a heat wave. And in the U.K., more than a million homes lost power on Aug. 9 after turbines in the North Sea tripped offline.In response to Trump's wind power comment, the Sierra Club called him a "climate denier.""He outright ignores the existence of the climate crisis, his administration is directed by corporate polluters, he believes windmills cause cancer (they don't), and he can't even bring himself to engage in meaningful discussions with other world leaders about how to address the most pressing issue of our time," the group said.\--With assistance from Josh Wingrove.To contact the reporters on this story: Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Washington at jdlouhy1@bloomberg.net;Christopher Martin in New York at cmartin11@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jon Morgan at jmorgan97@bloomberg.net, Joe Ryan, Reg GaleFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| UK alone will be to blame for no-deal Brexit: EU tells Johnson Posted: 27 Aug 2019 10:40 AM PDT  Britain will be solely to blame if it crashes out of the EU in a chaotic "no-deal" Brexit, the bloc told Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday in the latest clash between Brussels and London. With the clock ticking and Johnson adamant the EU must accept significant changes to the existing withdrawal agreement, fears are growing that Britain could leave without a deal, causing major economic turmoil. Days after Johnson and EU Council President Donald Tusk traded jibes over who would be responsible if Britain leaves the bloc on October 31 without an agreement, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker waded into the row.
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| Exclusive: Boeing CEO eyes major aircraft order under any U.S.-China trade deal Posted: 27 Aug 2019 03:46 PM PDT  Boeing Co said on Tuesday that an aircraft order from China could result from any deal to end a yearlong trade war between the world's two largest economies. Speaking to Reuters at the planemaker's widebody aircraft factory in Everett, Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg cautioned that it was "tough to predict" the timing of a potential trade deal between the United States and China. Chicago-based Boeing calls itself the top U.S. exporter and has delivered more than one out of every four jetliners it made last year to customers in China, where it forecasts demand for 7,700 new airplanes over the next 20 years valued at $1.2 trillion.
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| Florida city, under fire for imposing massive fines on homeowners, drops lawsuit against woman Posted: 27 Aug 2019 01:25 PM PDT  The city of Dunedin, Florida, has been under scrutiny for massive fines lodged against homeowners over code enforcement violations.
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| Burger King fires employee who allegedly denied service to deaf woman Posted: 26 Aug 2019 08:22 AM PDT  A Burger King employee has reportedly been fired after he refused to serve a deaf woman at the drive-thru because he was "too busy".Rachel Hollis said she was attempting to order at a Burger King in Oklahoma when she was refused service.
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