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WWII Submarine USS Grayback Carrying 80 Men Discovered 75 Years After Disappearing
IFL Science 12 Nov 2019
A 75-year mystery is laid to rest this Veteran’s Day following the discovery of the USS Grayback (SS-208), an established World War II submarine that disappeared in 1944 with 80 crewmembers onboard ... USS Grayback had a successful military career, sinking more than a dozen Japanese ships during its three-year service ... Lost 52 Project ... Lost 52 Project ... ....
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Chinese man held after 51 children and three teachers burned in kindergarten attack
South China Morning Post 12 Nov 2019
More than 50 children were burned, two of them seriously, when a man scaled the wall of a kindergarten in southwestern China and sprayed caustic soda on them. Police detained a 23-year-old man about 40 minutes after the attack in Kaiyuan, Yunnan province, adding that they believed he was acting alone ... ....
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Rocket fire after Israel kills Palestinian militant commander in Gaza strike
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
Israel's military killed a commander of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a strike on his home in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, prompting retaliatory rocket fire and fears of a severe escalation in violence ... Israel did not immediately comment on that strike ... The group said Ata's wife was also killed ... - 'Maximum alert' - ... ....
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Violence brings Hong Kong to 'brink of total breakdown': police
Reuters 12 Nov 2019
Hong Kong police fired tear gas in the heart of the Central financial district and at two university campuses to break up pro-democracy protests as violence was bringing the Chinese-ruled city to what they said was the "brink of total breakdown" ... ....
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Bolivia military, police ready for violent protests; Morales leaves for Mexico
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia´s military and police readied on Monday to quell acts of "vandalism" posing a threat to citizens as La Paz braced for violent clashes with thousands of supporters of ousted president Evo Morales marching toward the capital city, where opposition protesters and police set up barricades ... Police chief Yuri Calderón added ... ....
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Former President Jimmy Carter hospitalized to relieve pressure in brain
Democratic Underground 12 Nov 2019
Former President Jimmy Carter was hospitalized Monday night for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding, The Carter Center said in a statement. The bleeding was caused by Mr. Carter's recent falls, the statement explained ... CBS News medical contributor Dr ... Mr ... Read more ... ....
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Nasa reveals pictures of Mercury as observers witness rare solar transit
Metro UK 12 Nov 2019
Photo issued by Nasa/SDO of Mercury as it makes a rare transit of the Sun (PA). Astronomers and space enthusiasts have watched as Mercury made a rare transit of the sun. The smallest planet in the solar system could be seen as a tiny black disc moving across the glowing orb, starting in the UK at just after 12.35pm on Monday ... Advertisement ... ....
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Daca: Dreamers take fight with Trump to Supreme Court
BBC News 12 Nov 2019
The Daca programme affects an estimated 700,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children. Another million people were eligible but did not apply for the scheme. Most of them are from Mexico and other Latin American countries ... President Obama signed the order following failed negotiations for immigration reform on Capitol Hill ... ....
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Train crash kills at least 16 people in central Bangladesh
The Telegraph India 12 Nov 2019
At least 16 people were killed and 60 others injured in a head-on collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria district in central Bangladesh on Tuesday, railway officials said ... The salvage campaign is nearly completed as railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan and our senior officials visited the scene to oversee the rescue drives, the spokesman said ... ....
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Lebanon Offers Banks Dollars as ‘Haircut’ on Deposits Ruled Out
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s central bank has no plans to impose formal restrictions on the movement of money or force depositors to accept losses, its governor said, but will offer “unlimited” dollars for commercial lenders to finance trade and meet customer demand through weeks of protest ... Lebanon’s Debt Downgraded Again by Moody’s Amid Bond Meltdown....
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Star Wars director Rian Johnson responds to diversity backlash against The Last Jedi: ‘F*** them’
The Independent 12 Nov 2019
Star Wars. The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has hit back at people who criticised the 2017 film for its diverse cast. . The eighth movie in the franchise starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley and Lupita Nyong'o. ... Download the new Indpendent Premium app ... Shape Created with Sketch ... Rex ... Rex....
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Courtroom shootout kills 2, injures 3 in eastern Thailand
China.dot.org 12 Nov 2019photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi
European Signatories Call on Iran to Reverse Actions Against Nuclear Deal
Voa News 12 Nov 2019
France, Germany, Britain and the European Union say they are "extremely concerned" about Iran's renewed uranium enrichment activities and what they call "regrettable acceleration of Iran's disengagement" from commitments it made under the 2015 agreement regarding the country's nuclear program ... sanctions ... U.S ... ....
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Impeachment aside, federal budget remains a pressing matter
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
Impeachment hearings for President Donald Trump come at the very time that Capitol Hill usually tends to its mound of unfinished business ... 20 virtually assured ... On spending, Trump is a wild card as usual ... He has struggled to win much wall funding from Congress, where lawmakers in both parties have other designs for the money ... ....
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Air quality sinks to 'severe' in haze-shrouded New Delhi
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
NEW DELHI (AP) — A thick haze of polluted air hung over India's capital Tuesday, with authorities trying to tackle the problem by sprinkling water to settle dust and banning some construction. The air quality index exceeded 400, about eight times the recommended maximum, according to the state-run Central Pollution Control Board ... ....
