| Senate 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare falls apart on Senate floor after McCain defects Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:20 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid to pass a stripped-down repeal of Obamacare failed dramatically early Friday when Sen. John McCain and two other Republicans voted against it.
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| Video Shows Actions and Inactions of Border Officers Resulted in Tragic 2013 Incident Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Investigation finds hundreds of other allegations of misconduct and threats where border officers and agents are rarely prosecuted or even punished.
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| Trump, vowing gang crackdown, urges cops ‘don’t be too nice’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:36 PM PDT  In a speech about the violent MS-13 gang, President Trump encouraged police officers not to be "too nice" with "thugs" when putting them in the back of police vans.
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| Migrant kills man in Hamburg supermarket stabbing, six hurt Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:15 PM PDT  A 26-year-old migrant to Germany who was supposed to leave the country went on a stabbing spree with a kitchen knife in a Hamburg supermarket on Friday, killing a 50-year-old man and leaving six others injured, police and city officials said. Germany is less than two months away from parliamentary elections on Sept. 24 in which Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to win a fourth term despite tensions about her decision in August 2015 to open the door to over one million migrants. Passersby threw chairs and other objects at the attacker as he fled the scene, enabling plain clothes police officers to take him into custody near the store, according to police and videos posted on Twitter.
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| Indianapolis Police Officer Fatally Shot While Responding to a Car Crash Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:53 PM PDT  Lt. Aaron Allen of the Southport Police Department was responding to a call about a crash with people trapped inside a vehicle
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| 4-Year-Old Girl Asks Colorado Cop To Check New Home For Monsters Posted: 29 Jul 2017 04:27 AM PDT  A 4-year-old Colorado girl who asked a cop to help her hunt monsters in her new home, aspires to become an officer herself and help people search for monsters as well.
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| Lost Elderly Dog Reunites With Owner After Hunky Firefighter Rescues Him From Lagoon Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:30 PM PDT  "You okay buddy? Don't do that anymore," the dog's owner Jose Ruiz said in an emotional video of their reunion.
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| US Navy fires warning shot near Iranian vessels, Iranian state news agency says Posted: 29 Jul 2017 06:37 AM PDT  Iranian and US forces have reportedly engaged in another spat in the Persian Gulf as tensions between the two countries heat up following the US Congress's approval of new sanctions against Iran. A US Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an "unprofessional" confrontation with Iranian vessels, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard told a state news agency in the country. The USS Nimitz and an accompanying ship came near an Iranian offshore oil platform in the Persian Gulf, and a helicopter from the ship hovered near vessels manned by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
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| Boko Haram ambush death toll hits 69 Posted: 29 Jul 2017 10:06 AM PDT  At least 69 people died in a Boko Haram ambush of an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria, as three men kidnapped by the jihadists made a video appeal. Experts said the attack -- Boko Haram's bloodiest this year -- underscored the persistent threat it poses, despite government claims the group is a spent force. "So far the death toll stands at 69," said an aid agency worker involved in the recovery of bodies after the attack in the Magumeri area of Borno state on Tuesday.
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| Democrats line up to take on ‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has won reelection from Orange County 14 times, but he'll face more opponents next year than any other congressman.
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| Hamburg attack was by 'failed asylum seeker' who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:24 PM PDT  A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed to death one person and wounded six others in a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg on Friday. The attacker, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, was overpowered by passers-by and arrested. Olaf Scholz, the mayor of Hamburg, said the attack had been motivated by "hate" and added that the suspected attacker was a failed asylum seeker whose deportation had been blocked because he lacked identity papers. Map: Hamburg supermarket attack "I am outraged by the vicious attack that killed at least one Hamburger today," he said. "It makes me especially angry that the perpetrator appears to be a person who claimed protection in Germany and then turned his hate against us." Citing security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the 26-year-old perpetrator was known to police as an Islamist. News agency DPA reported that security authorities were investigating evidence the man had Salafist ties. The attacker stabbed to death a 50-year-old man believed to be a German citizen Police said that he "struck out wildly" at others, wounding five more in the supermarket - a 50-year-old woman and four men aged 19, 56, 57 and 64. Another 35-year-old man was hurt while overpowering the attacker in the street alongside other passers-by shortly after the killing. All of the wounded were being treated or operated on in hospital, some of them for serious injuries, police said. Police officers secure the area after a knife attack at a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Paul Weidenbaum/AP A police murder unit and a specialist politically-motivated crime squad are investigating the attack and were able to secure the suspected murder weapon. German daily Bild published a picture of the attacker in the back of a police car with a white, blood-soaked bag over his head, and reported that he cried "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) during the attack. "Suddenly I saw a man smeared with blood running along the other side of the road with a knife," an eyewitness identified as Ralf W. told Bild. "He shouted out 'Allahu Akbar' as he was running." A female witness standing in line at the supermarket till also told NTV rolling news channel that "as he was running out... he held up his arms and shouted 'Allahu Akbar'." "I thought I was in a horror movie, I thought he would kill me," an unnamed woman who had been in the supermarket told rolling news channel NTV. She said she feared she would die, as she was "queueing for the till and couldn't get away". Police investigators work at the crime scene after a knife attack in a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters The suspect fled the supermarket after the attack. But "people were running after him with improvised weapons, chairs and sticks... they ran after him into a side street," Ralf W. told Bild. "People chased after the killer with chairs, they were throwing them at him," bakery worker Shaylin Roettmer told DPA. The witnesses slightly injured the attacker while they were overpowering him, before handing him over to police. Police cars outside the supermarket in Hamburg Credit: @MarcoZitzow Police blocked off the lively and diverse high street dotted with cafes and shops in the northeast of the port city, Germany's second largest and host of the G20 summit of world leaders in early July. Anti-terror officers armed with automatic weapons patrolled the scene and onlookers gathered behind strips of red-and-white police tape. While the attacker's motives remain unknown, Germany has been on high alert about the threat of a jihadist attack, especially since last December's truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the carnage in which a Tunisian rejected asylum seeker and ex-convict, Anis Amri, 24, ploughed the stolen truck through a crowd.
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| Review: Detroit Is an Important but Flawed Look at American History Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:44 AM PDT  This is the type of movie we need right now. But there's no shame in wishing that it were a better one
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| Exclusive: Majority of Americans support transgender military service - poll Posted: 28 Jul 2017 10:36 AM PDT  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans believe that transgender individuals should be allowed to serve in the military, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. The July 26-28 poll suggested that the country largely disagrees with President Donald Trump's announcement this week that he will ban transgender personnel from the armed forces.
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| Japan: NKorea fires possible missile, could land off Japan Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:44 AM PDT  Japan's prime minister says North Korea has fired what is believed to be a missile and it may have landed in the sea off Japan.
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| 'The president is a pyromaniac': the week Trump set fire to the White House Posted: 29 Jul 2017 07:39 AM PDT  Donald Trump began the week by turning a national scout jamboree into something resembling a youth rally. "This is certainly the week in which the Trump administration went off the rails," said Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to Bill Clinton.
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| Man's brand new Ferrari goes up in flames within an hour of purchasing it Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:03 AM PDT  There's nothing quite like the feeling of sitting in the driver's seat of a brand new car, especially if it's the car of your dreams. You would want to take that baby out for a spin. Unfortunately for this driver, things didn't quite work out. SEE ALSO: Lucid Air, Tesla's new rival, can hit an impressive speed of 235 mph The South Yorkshire Police Operational Support posted pictures of the charred remains of a brand new £260,000 ($340,468) Ferrari 430 Scuderia. In the post, they wrote: "Officers were deployed to a single vehicle collision with reports that the vehicle had left the carriageway and burst in to flames. Road conditions were wet at the time and as officers arrived on scene it became clear there was a vehicle well alight and colleagues from South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue were in attendance squirting water all over some kind of sporty motor some 50 or so meters down a banking." Amazingly the driver only sustained minor cuts and bruises. When the officers asked him what kind of car it was, the driver said, "It was a Ferrari. I've only just got it, picked it up and hour ago." Ouch. Now that's got to sting. Officers who spoke to witnesses of the crash believe that excessive speed wasn't a contributing factor in this accident, which begs the question, "What the hell happened?" While the cause of this inferno is still unknown, what is certain is that it's a miracle that the driver managed to escape relatively unscathed. We can't say the same about his pride. WATCH: Made-to-order amphibious car lets you ride from land to water
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| Hackers to scour voting machines in search for election vulnerabilities Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:13 AM PDT  By Jim Finkle LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hackers attending this weekend's Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas will have a chance to break into voting machines and voter databases in a bid to uncover vulnerabilities that could be exploited to sway election results. Organizers decided to set up the 25-year-old conference's first "hacker voting village" to raise awareness about the threat of election results being altered through hacking. Such concerns have been growing since the end of last year, when news surfaced that top U.S. intelligence agencies had determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered computer hacks of Democratic Party emails to help Republican Donald Trump win the Nov. 8 election.
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| ‘New York City Up and Down’ — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:41 AM PDT !['New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont]( "'New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont") "New York City Up and Down" is an elegant, incisive and unexpected review of 40 years of exploration by one of the most revered documentarians working today.
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| NASA's Cassini Craft Found Molecules In Titan's Atmosphere That May Be The Basis Of Life Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Cassini has made yet another discovery, molecules that could support life in Titan's upper atmosphere.
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| Police Officer Buys Diapers for Young Mother Caught Trying to Steal Them Posted: 29 Jul 2017 07:28 AM PDT  She realized she didn't have the money to afford them.
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| Did Hillary Clinton win after all? The collapse of Trumpcare has turned her defeat into unexpected victory Posted: 29 Jul 2017 02:29 AM PDT  Mitch McConnell drops his trousers on the steps of Congress? The humiliation that was the Senate rebuke in the wee hours of Friday to McConnell's last-gasp effort to kill the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – can't be overstated.
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| Venezuelans plan country-wide protests in open defiance of government ban Posted: 28 Jul 2017 10:34 AM PDT  Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and candidates attend the closure of the campaign for the National Constituent Assembly in Caracas. Venezuelans are planning to defy a government ban on public demonstrations and risk deadly repression with marches across the country to protest against a vote Sunday that opposition forces say will mark the end of democracy. The government's ban on protests – and the opposition's defiance – only heightened the risk of further violence, as more than 370,000 troops were sent out across the country.
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| Elon Musk Just Announced a Long Range Tesla Model 3 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:37 PM PDT  Bring on the miles, baby.
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| Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:48 PM PDT ![Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home]( "Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home") Texas executed on Thursday a man convicted of murdering a woman by stabbing her repeatedly after breaking into her San Antonio home in 2004. TaiChin Preyor, 46, died by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. The execution was delayed for more than three hours to allow the U.S. Supreme Court time to hear an appeal from Preyor's lawyer to spare his life, which the court rejected.
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| AP Analysis: North Korea's 2nd ICBM test augurs a new normal Posted: 29 Jul 2017 06:03 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For all its bluster and over-the-top propaganda, North Korea often does just what it says it will do when it comes to its weapons development.
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| 8-Month-Old Baby Dies After Dad Allegedly Leaves Him in 109-Degree Trailer Posted: 29 Jul 2017 08:18 AM PDT  The boy's sister was also in the trailer.
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| Russia orders out U.S. diplomats in sanctions retaliation Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:57 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for a new round of U.S. sanctions, and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties. Moscow's decision, which had echoes of the Cold War, was announced by the Foreign Ministry a day after the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved new sanctions on Russia.
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| Romania blocks Russia minister plane to Moldova Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:45 AM PDT  Romania on Friday sparked fury in Moscow by blocking a Moldova-bound plane carrying a senior Russian minister entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban over the Ukraine crisis. The foreign ministry in Bucharest confirmed to AFP that the passenger jet carrying deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin was "not allowed to fly over Romanian airspace".
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| 2017 Lexus IS Posted: 28 Jul 2017 11:00 AM PDT  The little L goes a long way.
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| Seamstress from abruptly bankrupt bridal store reunites brides with wedding gowns Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:52 AM PDT  An Oklahoma seamstress has saved dozens of panicked brides after one of the world's largest wedding dress retailers abruptly shut its doors. Rose Ellis is a contract seamstress for Alfred Angelo, the wedding dress behemoth that shuttered more than 60 stores last week, after filing for bankruptcy. Brides-to-be were given little warning of the shut-down, meaning many of them lost the dresses waiting for them at the store.
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| Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:06 AM PDT ![Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq]( "Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq") BAGHDAD (AP) — High-ranking Iraqi security officials say up to 7,000 Islamic State group affiliates remain in Iraq after the fall of Mosul, where the group's leader declared the self-styled caliphate three years ago.
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| The great American total solar eclipse: When is it and how can I see it in the UK and US? Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:14 AM PDT  What's happening? On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will witness an eclipse of the sun for the first time in 99 years, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across swathes of the Earth's surface. Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the moment will see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth become perfectly aligned in a once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle seen from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. 10 amazing places in America to watch the 2017 solar eclipse Who will see it? Everyone in North America, parts of South America, Africa and Europe - including the UK - will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun. However, 14 states across the United States will experience a total solar eclipse with more than two minutes of darkness descending in the middle of the day over the course of 100 minutes. More than 12 million Americans live inside the path of totality and more than half of the nation live within 400 miles of it. Millions more are expected to travel to cities along the path to witness the phenomenon. Eclipse path of totality in black. 14 states across the United States will experience it. Credit: Nasa What areas will see total blackout? Anyone within the path of totality will see the sky become dark for several minutes as the moon completely covers the sun. The path is relatively thin, around 70 miles wide, and stretches from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. It will first be seen at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 PDT, with totality beginning at 10:16 PDT. Over the next 90 minutes, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and end near Charleston, South Carolina at 14:28 EDT. The lunar shadow will leave the US at 04:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds. Solar eclipse 2017, in pictures What time can I see the total eclipse? Here are the mid-eclipse times for some of the major towns and cities along the path of totality, according to Nasa. All times are local. 10:17 - Corvallis, Albany and Lebanon, Oregon 11:34 - Idaho Falls, Idaho 11:44 - Casper, Wyoming 13:00 - Grand Island, Lincoln Nebraska 13:08 - St Joseph, Missouri 13:09 - Kansas City, Missouri 13:14 - Columbia, Jefferson City, Missouri 13:18 - St Louis, Missouri 13:28 - Bowling Green, Kentucky 13:28 - Nashville, Tennessee 14:39 - Greenville, South Carolina 14:43 - Columbia, South Carolina What causes an eclipse? The diameter of the Sun is 400 times that of the Moon but it lies 400 times further away - which means if you are in exactly the right alignment on the surface of the Earth at the right time, you will see the two celestial bodies overlap exactly. Credit: Nasa Where can I see the eclipse in the UK? Sadly Brits won't get a total eclipse like our friends across the pond, but we will be treated to a slight partial eclipse which will still be worth watching. It will be visible in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from around 19:35 on August 21 - but make sure you're in a spot where there's no cloud. At a glance | Future solar eclipses in the UK Will there be a live stream? Yes - Nasa will host an Eclipse Megacast for four hours during the eclipse which will be picked up by local, national and international TV stations. You can also follow all the action via the Telegraph. How can I see it safely? Never look directly at the Sun, even through sunglasses or dark material such as a bin liner or photographic negative. Makeshift filters may not screen out the harmful infrared radiation that can burn the retina of the eye risking permanent eye damage and blindness. Also, viewers must never use binoculars or a telescope. Wear special eclipse viewing glasses - not ordinary sunglasses - or construct a simple pinhole camera which projects an image of the Sun onto a blank piece of paper. Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely When will Britain next see a solar eclipse? There was a pretty spectacular eclipse in Britain in March 2015, but the last total eclipse in the UK was in August 1999. You might be waiting a while for the next decent one too - it won't take place until August 12, 2026. On that date up to 95 per cent of the Sun will be obscured. Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090. How we watched the 1999 solar eclipse - in 90 seconds 01:42 Total solar eclipses in history Eclipses have both fascinated and terrified civilisations for centuries. When King Henry I of England, the son of William the Conqueror, died in 1133, his death happened to coincide with a total solar eclipse plummeting the nation into darkness for four minutes and 38 seconds. Historian William of Malmesbury wrote in 1140 that "the darkness was so great that people at first thought the world was ending."
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| Microsoft’s Windows 10 Fall Creators Update just got several new features Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:03 PM PDT 
Microsoft has been working extremely hard to make Windows 10 the most capable and appealing version of its desktop operating system ever, and it's already made some great progress. Once flooded with compatibility issues and bugs, Windows 10 has come a long way since its launch, and with the Fall Creators Update Microsoft promises it's going to be even better. A newly released insider build of the OS gives us an idea of what to expect, and as PCWorld reports, Microsoft has snuck in several new features.
For starters, the recent update includes some much needed functionality for the built-in Cortana assistant, allowing you to use voice commands to do much more than simply search for info or get the forecast. Windows users will be able to command Cortana to lock their computer, sign out, or even shut the machine down completely. Cortana's default "I can't find it" web search response to complicated queries is also being overhauled with a new preview pane that slide out of the search results box rather than launching a full Edge browser page. Perhaps most interesting of all the additions, Windows 10 will now play nicely with Android phones, allowing you to push an open web page from your smartphone to Microsoft Edge on your PC. It's a handy feature that mimics the Handoff feature between iOS devices and Mac computers, and it's yet another very clear sign that Microsoft realizes its Windows Phone platform is pretty much dead in the water. Lastly, the Creators Update appears to be doing away with mandatory logins under certain circumstances. Rather than popping up the pesky login screen when your computer boots up to apply updates, it will simply send you straight back to your desktop. Additionally, the login process can be tweaked to do away with the login screen even during manual reboots and startups, so you'll never have to see it again if you really don't want to.
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| APNewsBreak: Yellowstone park cracks down on sex harassment Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:54 PM PDT  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As many as 10 workers in Yellowstone National Park's maintenance division will be disciplined after an investigation found female employees were subjected to sexual harassment and other problems.
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| Here's What That Vote on Single-Payer Health Care Really Meant Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:26 PM PDT  The Senate voted down a stunt proposal to create single-payer health care on Thursday.
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| Britain plans to send warship to South China Sea in move likely to irk Beijing Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:38 AM PDT  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain plans to send a warship to the disputed South China Sea next year to conduct freedom of navigation exercises, Defence Minister Michael Fallon said on Thursday, a move likely to anger Beijing. Britain would increase its presence in the waters after it sent four British fighter planes for joint exercises with Japan in the region last year, he said. China claims most of the energy-rich sea where neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
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