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Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten to avenge military parade attack
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
By Michael Georgy. DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to exact "deadly and unforgettable" vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf Arab states of backing the gunmen ... Soldiers crawled about as gunfire crackled. Women and children fled for their lives ... "We are Muslims, they are kafirs (non-believers)," the man says. He adds ... ....
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14 shot — 1 killed — Saturday in Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times 23 Sep 2018
A man was killed and 12 others were wounded in a series of shootings in Chicago over 24 hours Saturday. The day began with a string of shootings near Garfield Park on the West Side between midnight and 3 a.m., according to Chicago police. A single drive-by shooting wounded three people, including a woman, as they stood outside in the 100 block of North Karlov Avenue ... A 35-year-old man was riding a bicycle just before 10 p.m ... in Lawndale....
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City police officer wounded in West Baltimore shooting
Baltimore Sun
24 Sep 2018
A Baltimore police officer was shot Sunday evening in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood — in the same block where two people were shot last week, according to police. The officer was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was doing well and was expected to be released... ....
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US tells Iran to 'look in the mirror' after Ahvaz attack
BBC News 23 Sep 2018
An anti-government Arab group - Ahvaz National Resistance - and the Islamic State (IS) group both claimed responsibility for the killings. And Mr Rouhani said the "bully" US, along with Gulf states it backed, had enabled the attack ... "He's got the Iranian people... "He can blame us all he wants. The thing he's got to do is look in the mirror.". Mr Rouhani will face Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly this week ... He added ... Related Topics. ....
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Brett Kavanaugh faces second allegation of sexual misconduct
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces a second allegation of sexual misconduct after another woman came forward accusing him of inappropriate sexual behaviour during his college years at Yale University ... She said she clearly remembers the judge, then a teenager, pulling up his pants after a penis was thrust in her face during a drinking game ... Kavanaugh, who currently sits on the D.C ... This is a smear, plain and simple ... ....
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Whitsundays shark attacks occurred in swimming 'no-go zone', conservationists say
The Guardian 24 Sep 2018
The central Queensland harbour where two people were attacked by sharks in recent days is known to Whitsunday locals as a “no-go zone” for swimming, Queensland-based conservationists say. Jonathan Clarke, from Sea Shepherd Australia, has spent months inspecting shark drum lines in Queensland. He said the drum lines were often left for days without bait, creating “a false sense of safety” for swimmers ... Read more ... Read more ... .......
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Swiss Canton Overwhelmingly Votes for 'Burqa Ban' in Public Spaces
News18 23 Sep 2018 Editphoto: AP / Luca Bruno
Ronaldo keeps Juventus perfect in Serie A
Supersport 24 Sep 2018
Clearly something has to change ... </p>Giacomo Bonaventura had a goal disallowed in the first half but made no mistake after 61 minutes, only for Emiliano Rigoni to snatch a point for the visitors in injury time.</p>","video_url".[{"0"."https.//hls.dstv.com/hls-vod/supersport/ssarchive/SOC_230918_ISA_FROVJUV_HD5_500K.mp4.m3u8"}], ....
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Haley: US 'not looking to do regime change anywhere'
CNN 23 Sep 2018
"The United States is not looking to do regime change in Iran," Haley said on CNN's "State of the Union." ... ....
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Tanzania ferry death toll rises to 224, ship's managers detained
Yahoo Daily News 23 Sep 2018
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian authorities said on Sunday the number of people who died in a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria had risen to 224 and the vessel's managers had been detained for questioning ... Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told TBC officials involved in managing the ferry had been detained ... ....
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NASA's Mars MAVEN Craft Captures Selfie on Fourth Birthday
Newsweek 22 Sep 2018
The MAVEN mission to Mars entered the upper atmosphere of the planet four years ago as of Friday and NASA is celebrating with one of its signature space selfies....
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Trump's tariffs on $200 bn of Chinese goods kicks in
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) The ongoing trade war between the US and China has escalated after American President Donald Trump's administration's new 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods kicked in on Monday, spanning thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts ... The US tariffs imposed earlier in the year mostly hit industrial goods ... --IANS. ksk. ....
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Land of the free? How Trump has put America’s identity in peril
The Guardian 23 Sep 2018
Some 20 months into his term Trump has been pretty much the president we expected. loud, boastful, bullying, reckless, ruder than the worst-bred minor royalty, tetchy as a wolverine in heat. The main thing to note is the very most main thing. he’s still going ... Fact-based argument, rational analysis, empirical proofs haven’t stopped him, nor have stark demonstrations of his laughably obvious lies ... Twitter ... We, America, elected Trump....
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Joshua overpowers Povetkin to retain world heavyweight titles
Supersport 23 Sep 2018
</p>A previously close contest turned in Joshua's favour decisively when he sent the Russian crashing to the canvas with a straight right hand and left hook. </p>Povetkin gamely beat the count but Joshua piled in before referee Steve Gray stopped the contest at one minute and 59 seconds of the seventh round ... </p>"Povetkin is a very tough challenger and he proved it tonight," Joshua told Sky Sports....
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Hong Kong bans pro-independence party
The Times of India 24 Sep 2018
HONG KONG. Hong Kong banned a political party which promotes independence on Monday, a first since the city was handed back to China by Britain 21 years ago as Beijing ups pressure on any challenges to its sovereignty. Semi-autonomous Hong Kong enjoys freedoms unseen on the mainland including freedom of expression but the space for political dissent is shrinking in the face of an increasingly assertive China under President Xi Jinping....
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