| Trump says he would meet Iran's leaders 'anytime' with 'no preconditions' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Months after pulling the United States out of a nuclear deal with Iran, the president says he is willing to meet with leaders from Tehran.
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| California Firefighter's Home Burned Down In Carr Fire While He Fought Other Blaze Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Northern California firefighter Jason Campbell came home from battling one of
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| TSA Has Been Secretly Monitoring Travelers Who Aren't Listed On Government Watch Lists Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:37 AM PDT  Federal air marshals have been secretly tracking dozens of American travelers
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| Marine Killed In Car Crash After Visiting Newborn Daughter In Hospital Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:58 PM PDT  Kevin Quinn's dream of becoming a father came true for on Wednesday when his
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| Minneapolis police release body cam footage from Thurman Blevins shooting Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:29 AM PDT  Minneapolis police have released body cam footage of the moment a black man was shot from behind while running from police. The death of 31-year-old Thurman Blevins ignited a familiar debate around police violence in his community, where family members have called for the officers involved to be prosecuted. The incident is under investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey released the body cam footage early, under pressure from Minneapolis residents and all 13 city council members.
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| North Korea renews work at long-range missile factory, US intelligence officials say Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:00 PM PDT  US spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior US official said on Monday, in the midst of talks to compel Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms. Photos and infrared imaging indicate vehicles moving in and out of the facility at Sanumdong, but do not show how advanced any missile construction might be, the official told Reuters. The Washington Post reported on Monday that North Korea appeared to be building one or two new liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missiles at the large research facility on the outskirts of Pyongyang, citing unidentified officials familiar with intelligence reporting. According to the US official who spoke to Reuters, one photo showed a truck and covered trailer similar to those the North has used to move its ICBMs. Since the trailer was covered, it was not possible to know what, if anything, it was carrying. The White House said it did not comment on intelligence. North Korean missile ranges The evidence obtained this month is the latest to suggest ongoing activity in North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities despite talks with the United States and a June summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump declared soon afterward that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat. Kim committed in a broad summit statement to work toward denuclearisation, but Pyongyang has offered no details as to how it might go about that and subsequent talks have not gone smoothly. It was not the first time US intelligence clashed with the president's optimism. In late June, US officials told US media outlets that intelligence agencies believed North Korea had increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons and that it did not intend to fully give up its nuclear arsenal. Hwasong-15 ICBM - new North Korean missile Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs despite its pledge to denuclearise. But he insisted the Trump administration was still making progress in its talks with Pyongyang. Joel Wit, a former State Department negotiator and founder of 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project, said it was unrealistic to expect North Korea to stop its programmes "until the ink is dry on an agreement." That was the case with US negotiations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and more recently with Iran, "which continued to build more centrifuges capable of producing nuclear material even as it negotiated with the United States to limit those capabilities," Wit said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location in September Credit: AFP The Sanumdong factory produced two Hwasong-15 ICBMs, North Korea's longest-range missiles, but the US official noted that Pyongyang still had not tested a reliable re-entry vehicle capable of surviving a high-velocity trip through the Earth's atmosphere and delivering a nuclear warhead. It is possible, the official said, that any new missiles the North is building may be for further testing of such vehicles and of more accurate guidance systems. "They seem to have figured out the engines, but not all the higher-tech stuff, and that might be what this is about," the official said. "What's more, a liquid-fuelled ICBM doesn't pose nearly the threat that a solid-fuelled one would because they take so long to fuel, and that's something we almost certainly could see in time to abort a launch, given our assets in the vicinity." North Korean soldiers are seen at the border village of Panmunjom during a ceremony to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement last week Credit: Getty The reports come as generals from the rival Koreas met at their shared border for talks meant to ease a decades-long military standoff, Seoul officials said. During the April 27 summit, the leaders of the Koreas agreed to disarm a jointly controlled area at Panmunjom, work to prevent accidental clashes along their disputed western sea boundary and halt all hostile acts. Since then, the Koreas dismantled their frontline propaganda loudspeakers, restored a military hotline and held their first general-level talks since 2007. The meeting comes days after North Korea returned the reported remains of US war dead, the most recent sign of blossoming diplomacy after last year's threats of war. The general-level officers were discussing ways to implement April's inter-Korean summit agreements on non-nuclear military issues, but no huge announcement was expected from the talks at the border village of Panmunjom. Some experts say South Korea can't agree on any drastic measures to reduce animosity unless the North takes serious nuclear disarmament steps.
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| Former FEMA Executive Investigated For Sexual Misconduct Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:55 PM PDT  A former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is being
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| Yahoo News explains: What is Trump Derangement Syndrome? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mock diagnosis used by President Trump's supporters to describe individuals whose dislike of the man makes them incapable of seeing any good in his policies or decisions.
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| After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:16 AM PDT  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Officials said the death toll from Sunday's earthquake, which was centered on the northern part of Lombok, but was also felt on the resort island of Bali to the west, stood at 16. "I thought I was going to die," said John Robyn Buenavista, a 23-year-old American, who was at the summit when the quake hit.
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| Shocking Paris Video: Harasser Slaps Woman After She Tells Him To Shut Up Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:30 PM PDT  An explosive video shared by a French architecture student shows a man walking
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| Twitter Rains Hell On Jeff Sessions' New Religious Liberty Task Force Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:03 PM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the U.S. Justice
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| How one airline is helping to shave seconds to help stay on time Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:43 PM PDT  Delta Airlines is creating a quick and effective way to keep flights on time, such as laser parking, 45-degree taxi parking and quick bag transfer for connecting flights called "hot bags".
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| Multistate hunt for antivenom after exotic snake attacks Michigan man Posted: 31 Jul 2018 10:58 AM PDT  A snake bite forced doctors to frantically call zoos and venom response programs across the country in search of antivenom medicine. A 26-year-old man who was bit by a cobra did not respond to the generic antivenom medicine he was initially provided at a Michigan-area hospital, before being airlifted to Detroit. As his respiratory muscles became paralysed, doctors reportedly scrambled to locate a serum that would neutralize the rare snake venom coursing through his body.
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| Zimbabwe election: Nelson Chamisa claims foul play as historic poll closes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:10 PM PDT  Zimbabwe's leading opposition candidate accused the country's electoral authorities of trying to suppress voter turnout at presidential elections on Monday, raising fears of a disputed outcome to the historic poll. Millions of Zimbabweans turned out to vote in the country's first presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections since dictator Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup in November. The outcome will decide whether Emmerson Mnangagwa, a 75-year-old former ally of Mr Mugabe, or Nelson Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer and preacher leading the opposition MDC alliance, will be the country's next president. The only poll released in the run up to the vote showed Mr Mnangagwa leading Mr Chamisa by just 3 per cent, and the results, which must be announced by Saturday, are expected to be tight. Emmerson Mnangagwa cast his ballot in Kwekwe, 100 miles southwest of Harare Credit: Xinhua / Barcroft Images Mr Chamisa, who has repeatedly accused the country's electoral authorities of colluding with Mr Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF Party, claimed queues at some polling stations in Harare on Monday were a deliberate attempt to reduce turnout in traditional strongholds of the opposition MDC Alliance. "There seems to be a deliberate attempt to suppress and frustrate the Urban vote," Mr Chamisa wrote on Twitter. "Good turn out but the people's will being negated & undetermined due to these deliberate & unnecessary delays." There were queues of up to one hour at Harare polling stations visited by the Telegraph. A voter arrives at a polling station during early morning voting in Kwekwe Credit: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP Polling stations are technically obliged to remain open until all those still in line at 7PM, when polling closes, have voted. EU chief observer Elmar Brok said many voters left voting queues in frustration at long delays but that it was as yet unclear whether those delays were deliberate or down to poor management. "In some cases it (voting) works very smoothly but in others we see that it is totally disorganized and that people become angry, people leave," Mr Brok told reporters in Harare. Profile | Emmerson Mnangagwa Voting generally went smoothly and there was no violence reported. However, several voters said that memories of 2008, when Mr Mugabe unleashed thugs to terrorise MDC activists and supporters, still loomed large. "I'm glad we voted. We really badly need change," said a 61-year-old man who cast his ballot in the Harare suburb of Newlands. "But I don't want to give you my name or say who I voted for because we don't know what the repercussions will be afterwards. It would be easy to track me down." Zanu-PF have ruled Zimbabwe for 38 years and Mr Mnangagwa's near total dominance in the media makes him the front runner in the election. He has sought to attract former opposition voters by publicly breaking with Mr Mugabe and promising a "New Dispensation" of democratic and economic reforms. Nelson Chamisa voted at the 2 Primary High School in Kuwadzana, Harare Credit: Wilfred Kajese/Anadolu Agency However, Mr Chamisa has made significant inroads into former Zanu PF strongholds in rural areas and has attracted large crowds at his rallies. He has said he is certain of victory and that any other outcome could only be the result of vote-rigging by Zanu-PF. "I am moderately bullish," said Terence Mukupe, the Zanu-PF candidate for the constituency of Harare East, before casting his vote. "The MDC vote is split, and the business community, the white community, and the middle classes who used to vote for the opposition have largely switched to ED," he said, using Mr Mnangagwa's initials. But as polls closed on Monday evening there were signs that Mr Chamisa had made inroads into Zanu-PF's own traditional strongholds. One 71-year-old grandmother from a village 40 miles north of Harare said she did not vote for Zanu-PF for the first time because she said she now felt "safe" to support the opposition. Africa's tarnished jewel: how four decades of Robert Mugabe left Zimbabwe's economy reeling "We….my friends from church like sweet things, and so some of us grandmothers voted for Chamisa," she laughed. The election has been dominated by the legacy of Mr Mugabe, with both candidates promising a break with the stagnation and political violence of his rule. The former dictator, 94, made a surprise intervention on the eve of the election, saying he would not vote for his own Zanu-PF party and hinting that he would back Mr Chamisa instead. He was cheered when he showed up to vote at his polling station in Highfield, a township on the southern outskirts of Harare, with his wife Grace. Mrs Mugabe was yesterday stripped of her diplomatic immunity by a court in South Africa, where she is facing allegations of assaulting model Gabriella Engels' with an electrical cord in when she discovered her in the company of her sons in a luxury Johannesburg hotel. Another observer in Harare who was in contact with groups in other parts of the country, said there had been isolated incidents of voter intimidation. "So far, and it is too early to make conclusions, there does not seem to have been any pattern or targeted bias. We have heard from colleagues in one or two rural areas - and this needs to be checked - there were some instances of intimidation, but not systemic or as ugly as in the past." Mr Mnangagwa called the election a "beautiful expression of freedom and democracy" and called on candidates not to call the result before the electoral commission announces the official outcome. "In our millions, we voted in the spirit of tolerance, mutual respect & peace," he wrote on Twitter after polling closed. "Let us remember that no matter which way we voted, we are all brothers and sisters, and this land belongs to us all."
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| 'Not Just A Paper Pusher': Former White House Staff Secretaries Weigh In On Kavanaugh Fight Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:01 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Republicans say the Senate does not need to see documents related
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| Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School's Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:01 PM PDT  Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from
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| Northern California wildfire 9th most destructive in history Posted: 30 Jul 2018 09:14 PM PDT  LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.
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| Anger as MH370 families say official report offers no new information Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:07 AM PDT  A long-awaited official report into the disappearance of Flight MH370 gave no new clues about why the plane vanished, relatives of those on board the aircraft said Monday, expressing anger and disappointment. Family members had been hoping that the official investigation team's report could provide them with some closure, over four years after the Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people went missing. Some angry relatives walked out of the briefing.
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| Man Charged With Assaulting Elderly Catholic Priest In Delaware Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  Police in Delaware have arrested a 25-year-old man they claim violently
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| Porsche confirms Taycan specifications Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:33 AM PDT  The name Taycan might not mean much at the moment, but it certainly will when this production version of the Porsche Mission E concept goes on sale towards the end of next year. Orders are already being taken for this exciting new Porsche, and the German automaker has just revealed some of the figures associated with this groundbreaking new model. When it finally goes on sale, the Taycan will be the first production electric vehicle from the legendary performance brand.
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| Police investigating after young pit bull left to drown in cage on river's edge Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  New Jersey authorities are searching for a suspect who they say left a young
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| Zimbabwe's president, opponent both confident of win after close vote Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:41 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too early to call. Mnangagwa said he was receiving "extremely positive" information on the vote. Chamisa said earlier the opposition Movement for Democratic Change had done "exceedingly well" in the vote.
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| Rudy Giuliani: 'Collusion Is Not A Crime' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:27 AM PDT  Rudy Giuliani said Monday that President Donald Trump didn't collude with the
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| LeBron James Is Done With Trump: 'I Would Never Sit Across From Him' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:13 AM PDT  NBA superstar LeBron James called out President Donald Trump on Monday night for escalating racial tensions.
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| Ancient pottery factory unveiled in Israel Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:07 AM PDT  Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a major pottery plant which produced wine storage jars continuously from Roman to Byzantine times. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that excavations near the town of Gedera, south of Tel Aviv, revealed the factory and an adjacent leisure complex of 20 bathing pools and a room used for board games. Excavation director Alla Nagorsky told journalists at the site that from the third century AD the plant produced vessels of a type known to historians as "Gaza" jars for an unbroken period of 600 years.
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| CBS leaves accused CEO in place, for now Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:02 PM PDT  US television giant CBS announced Monday that it would select outside lawyers to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against CEO Leslie Moonves but declined to take further immediate action on his fate. Moonves, who transformed CBS into a ratings winner after joining the network in 1995, is one of the most powerful American men implicated in the #MeToo era that ignited last year after the career implosion of Harvey Weinstein. A New Yorker article published Friday revealed allegations from six women who said Leslie Moonves sexually harassed them between the 1980s and late 2000s.
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| Shark called Helen disguised as baby and stolen from aquarium in pushchair Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:26 AM PDT  Thieves stole a shark called Helen from an aquarium by disguising it as a baby and smuggling it out in a pushchair. The grey horn shark, less than 2ft long, was snatched from the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas and put into a bright orange pickup truck used as a getaway vehicle, footage showed. A member of aquarium staff challenged the group but was unable to stop them leaving, according to local reports.
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| Thomas Markle Attacks Meghan Markle, Royal Family In Brutal Interview Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:56 AM PDT  Despite assurances he would stop giving interviews about his daughter Meghan,
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| Panda celebrates birthday with bamboo bread cupcakes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:05 PM PDT  Giant panda Xiao Liwu celebrated his sixth birthday at the San Diego Zoo with plenty of presents and bamboo bread birthday cupcakes.
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| U.S. says it expects North Korea to uphold promise to give up nuclear arms Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:24 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it expects Pyongyang to keep its commitment made at a June leaders' summit to give up its nuclear arms and would press southeast Asian nations during meetings this week to maintain sanctions against North Korea. Questions have arisen over Pyongyang's commitment to denuclearize after U.S. spy satellite material detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching the United States. The department left open the possibility that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could meet North Korean officials during meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc in Singapore this weekend.
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| Study: 'Medicare for all' projected to cost $32.6 trillion Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes, says a study released Monday by a university-based libertarian policy center.
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| The Koch Network Finally Has GOP-Controlled Government. They’re Not Satisfied. Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:37 PM PDT  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ― The Koch Network should be celebrating. The
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| Family Of Duck Boat Drowning Victims Files $100 Million Lawsuit Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:39 PM PDT  Relatives of two drowning victims are seeking $100 million in damages after 17
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| Apple earnings arrive with trillion-dollar value near Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:52 PM PDT  Apple will release quarterly earnings figures Tuesday as it flirts with a history-making, trillion-dollar market value based on its share price. To hit the trillion-dollar mark, Apple shares would have to climb about seven percent from the $189.91 price logged at the close of official trading Monday on the Nasdaq. The market is eager for news about demand for iPhones and how the company is riding out trade turbulence between the US and China.
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| New US series spotlights Trayvon Martin killing Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:45 AM PDT  The killing of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who went to a Florida store for Skittles but was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer, inflamed the United States in 2012. Six years later, a new television series is reliving what happened and forcing viewers to confront the gut-wrenching agony of losing a child in what Trayvon's parents and the filmmakers hope will enact change. "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story" premiered on the Paramount Network and BET on Monday, a docu-series bankrolled in part by rap mogul Jay Z and due to run in six weekly installments.
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| The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Apologizing Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:51 PM PDT  Apologizing can be very difficult. It takes maturity to put aside your pride
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| Malaysia Flight 370 Was 'Steered Off Course Deliberately,' Report Says Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:40 AM PDT  MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board
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| Whatever Happened to Iran's Qaher F-313 'Stealth' Fighter? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Several years back, Iran rolled out its Qaher F-313 'stealth fighter' in front of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Within hours it was met with near universal derision from defense and aerospace experts around the world.
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| Cambodian PM's party claims election rout, opposition sees 'death of democracy' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:10 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul and Amy Sawitta Lefevre PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said on Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair. Cambodia woke to another chapter of rule by strongman Hun Sen a day after an election that was heavily criticized by rights groups, the United States and other Western countries. "The CPP won 77.5 percent of the votes and won all the parliamentary seats," CPP spokesman Sok Eysan told Reuters by telephone.
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| How inhaling wildfire smoke can wreak havoc on your health Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:57 AM PDT  Fueled by the tremendous threat of wildfires raging in parts of the United States each year is the growing concern for adverse health effects resulting from smoke exposure.
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| Rudy Giuliani Stuns Fox News Hosts With Rambling Account Of Trump Tower Meetings Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:48 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani baffled Fox News hosts Monday when he attempted to clarify
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| 'M*A*S*H' Actor Alan Alda Says He Has Parkinson's Disease Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:55 AM PDT  Actor Alan Alda revealed on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with
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| Mountain lions lurk outside California family's front door Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Poway family surprised to see cougars come right up to their house just after midnight; officials unsure if recent wildfires are pushing animals out of their natural habitats and closer to homes.
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| 16 Things We Really, Really Want from the New IKEA Catalogue Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:44 PM PDT |
