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China rebuffs Philippines president's South China Seas rebuke
The Star 16 Aug 2018
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuffed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's call for Beijing to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea on Thursday, saying China had the right to react to foreign ships or aircraft that get close to its islands ... ....
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Engineers Warn About Collapse Dangers Across Europe After Genoa Bridge Tragedy Kills 38
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Officials have been warning about the dangerous condition of infrastructure across Europe before the fatal collapse of the motorway in Genoa, with some experts warning similar tragedies can happen all over the EU, according to The Guardian ... Italy has as many as 300 bridges which are at risk of failure, including a bridge designed by the same engineer who was involved in the Genovese bridge, Ricardo Morandi, in Agrigento, Sicily ... ... ... ....
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R&B Singer Aretha Franklin Dead at 76 After Long Illness
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Music legend Aretha Franklin died early Thursday at the age of 76 after a long illness, The Associated Press reported. Reports began circulating Sunday evening the R&B singer was in the hospital and “gravely ill,” the report said.Franklin’s final public performance took place in November 2017, the AP reported. Born in Memphis, the report said, Franklin grew up in Detroit as a singer in her father’s church....
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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
The Guardian 16 Aug 2018
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year, according to a new report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute. The rise came after the bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017, taking home an average of $18.9m in compensation while their employees’ wages stalled, rising just 0.3% over the year ... Read more ... Read more....
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Chinese Hackers Targeted US Government, Companies Before Trade Delegation Visited China
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Security researchers released a new report detailing how hackers from a Chinese university targeted American companies and the Alaskan state government for espionage opportunities after a United States trade delegation visited China earlier this year, according to Reuters ... Bill Walker, spent a week in China in May ... as the two are enmeshed in a tit-for-tat trade war ... I’ve never heard of this, so I have no way to give a response." ... ....
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Turkey's lira is rallying after a $15 billion loan from Qatar
Business Insider 16 Aug 2018
The Turkish lira continued to retreat from its historic low against the dollar on Thursday after Qatar announced a $15 billion funding package for Turkey's wobbling economy ... BST (3.12 a.m. ET) on Thursday morning ... ....
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A 65-Foot Portion of the Berlin Wall Rediscovered By Accident
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
A group of neighbors stumbled on a lost fragment of history in an overgrown portion of central Berlin, uncovering a 20-meter length of concrete wall splattered with vines and faded graffiti in early June, according to The New York Times ... “Our experts were able to confirm its authenticity based on the materials used to build it and its measurements,” Beutin said ... We need places and objects where we can keep the memories alive.”....
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Poland's President Vetoes Election Rule Change Which Would Have Benefitted PiS Party
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Duda said he was sending the law "back to parliament for reconsideration" before he was headed to Australia for an official trip ... The threshold established by European law is 5 percent ... The law would have allowed a strong performance by the eurosceptic parties across the EU to deliver those politicians a strong influence in future policy-making within the EU, which will have 27 members when Britain departs the bloc in March 2019....
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Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Dead At 93
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died Thursday after a long illness at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, Economic Times reported. Vajpayee, 93, the former BJP leader, was a three-time prime minister, the report said.He was admitted to AIIMS in June as his condition deteriorated, Economic Times reported. He had many medical issues including being a diabetic with only one functioning kidney....
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Smoke From Raging Wildfires In Western U.S. Pushing Carbon Monoxide Across The Country
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Residents across the East Coast could smell the lingering smoke in Baltimore and Washington D.C. on Thursday morning after high-altitude winds carried the scent from the dozens of fires burning across the Western United States, according to The Washington Post. Even though the flames were more than 3,000 miles away, social media posts from Virginia to Maryland from local residents said they could detect the particular scent ... ... ... Ryan M ... ....
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Betsy Riot Punks NRA Lobbyist’s Wife With Domain Name
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Domain Name Wire reports the group Betsy Riot, which has won a dispute brought by Courtney Cox, wife of the National Rifle Association’s chief lobbyist and principal political strategist, Chris Cox, has been successful in a cybersquatting case....
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'Dr BumBum' charged over death of patient after operation
The Guardian 16 Aug 2018
Denis Furtado, 45, was arrested in July in the upmarket, beachside neighbourhood of Barra da Tijuca where he performed a buttock-enhancing treatment on bank manager Lilian Calixto, 46, who died hours later ... Read more ... The hospital refused to comment ... “As everyone knows, an accident happened,” he said, adding a patient had left his consulting room after a treatment to her buttocks that he had performed many times ... .......
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UN Palestinian schools to open on time despite US freeze
The Times of India 16 Aug 2018
JERUSALEM. Hundreds of UN-run schools for Palestinian refugees will open on time after fresh funding temporarily staved off a financial crisis triggered by a US contributions freeze, the United Nations said today. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said all 711 schools it runs for 526,000 pupils in the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria would open for the coming school year ... ....
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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: August 16, 2018
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
General NewsPantera Capital, a blockchain investment firm, has launched a new crypto fund with a capital commitment of more than $71 million already in place, according to public documents. A filing submitted by the company to the U.S ... As much as 59 percent of U.K ... According to Internet of Business, the research, commissioned by software company Citrix and performed by OnePoll, asked 750 IT executives from U.K ... 13....
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Trump 'cites Russia probe' after ending ex-CIA head's security access
BBC News 16 Aug 2018
Mr Trump said that while former intelligence heads continued to have security access so they could advise their successors, "neither of these justifications supports Mr Brennan's continued access to classified information". The statement added that Mr Trump was also reviewing access to classified information for nine other high-ranking officials, all of whom have criticised the president ... "I will not relent." ... He said in a statement ... ....
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