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4.5-Magnitude Quake Rocks Southern California as Region Battles Wildfires
Sputnik 19 Sep 2020
The earthquake has come as America's West Coast continuing to battle wildfires, the worst-affected states being California and Washington. An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale rocked Southern California late on Friday night, the US Geological Survey reported ... The Los Angeles Fire Department issued a warning on Twitter. ⚠️#UnitedStates🇺🇸....
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Trump Mulled 'Using' NBA’s Superstar Dennis Rodman as North Korea Envoy
Sputnik 19 Sep 2020
US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un met several times in the last two years, and so did Dennis Rodman – former NBA player, who first visited North Korea in 2013 as a part "basketball democracy tour” ... Trump then assured the prorgamme’s listeners. “Well he really does like Dennis Rodman." ... “You would have been in a war....
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IRGC vows to revenge US assassination of General Soleimani
Irna 19 Sep 2020
Tehran, Sept 19, IRNA – Commander of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said on Saturday that Iran’s revenge for the US assassination of General Soleimani is certain and serious .......
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U.N. showdown looms over Iran sanctions
Arkansas Online 19 Sep 2020
The Trump administration's push to end the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran comes to a head this weekend at the United Nations, where allies and adversaries argue the U.S. effort to restore sanctions is groundless. The U.S. bid to restore all U.N ... General Assembly -- deepens a chasm between the U.S. and most other nations. European allies say the U.S ... The U.S....
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Deadly Mediterranean hurricane Ianos hits central Greece
The Guardian 19 Sep 2020
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US military deploys more troops, armored vehicles to oil-rich eastern Syria
Press TV 19 Sep 2020
The US military has sent a new convoy of military vehicles and troops to oil-rich eastern Syria amid rising tensions with Russian forces in the region, and as Washington seeks to loot crude resources in the war-torn country ... ‘I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set,’ Trump told the morning show Fox & Friends ... “We don't have a strategy.” ... ....
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Ginsburg's Death Could Lead to Conservative Lock on Supreme Court
Voa News 19 Sep 2020
The death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives President Donald Trump an opportunity to add another conservative to the bench and shift the powerful high court's ideological balance further to the right. With a super-majority on the bench, wide-ranging issues could be impacted ... W ... Supreme Court following the death of U.S ... ....
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Navalny posts photo of himself walking down staircase, says he expects full recovery from alleged poisoning
Russia Today 19 Sep 2020
Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has shared a photograph of himself walking down a flight of stairs, explaining that he is slowly regaining his strength after purportedly being poisoned last month ... He included a photo of himself walking down a staircase, but said he was still having difficulties with some motor functions ... ....
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China says 'resolutely opposed' to U.S. moves against WeChat, TikTok
Canada Dot Com 19 Sep 2020photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez
'Too late to stop it': California's future hinges on managing megafires
The Guardian 19 Sep 2020photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi
Iran warns against ‘dangerous’ US defiance of intl. law as it eyes illegal ban on Tehran
Press TV 18 Sep 2020
Iran has warned against Washington’s “precarious” defiance of international law as the US has signaled that it seeks to illegally extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran ... UN Security Council rejects US resolution to extend Iran arms embargo ... Azadi also slammed US accusations of terrorism, accusing Washington of backing government terrorism itself ... ....
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Japan’s ex-PM Abe visits controversial Tokyo shrine
Indian Express 19 Sep 2020
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he has visited a shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of wartime aggression. Abe’s visit Saturday, which he announced in a tweet, comes days after his resignation. It is his first visit in nearly seven years ... The visit will likely be harshly criticized in both South Korea and China ... ....
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France rejects US allegation Hezbollah storing chemicals to make explosives in Europe
Press TV 19 Sep 2020
Hezbollah calls US sanctions on Lebanon ‘act of aggression’ ... Sales, without offering evidence, went on to allege that Washington believes that Hezbollah has since 2012 transported ammonium nitrate around Europe in first aid kits with cold packs that contain the compound ... US cannot disarm Lebanon’s Hezbollah through sanctions ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
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Halep reaches Rome semis after Putintseva retires
Journal Review 19 Sep 2020
ROME (AP) — Top-seeded Simona Halep became the first semifinalist at the Italian Open when Kazakh opponent Yulia Putintseva retired midway through their match due to a lower back injury Saturday. Halep was ahead 6-2, 2-0 when Putintseva decided she was in too much pain to continue -- having already taken an off-court medical timeout between sets ... ....
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Pompeo promotes anti-Maduro campaign in ‘war-mongering’ tour
Press TV 19 Sep 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pounced on an opportunity during a South American tour, which has been blasted by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a “war-mongering” visit, to ramp up pressure on the leftist leader to resign ... “That means he has to leave.” ... US ‘obsessed’ with Venezuela, FM says on charges against Maduro ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
