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Jim Carrey Gives Trump Some Rough Fore-Play in Latest Political Artwork
The Wrap 16 Feb 2019
Jim Carrey came out swinging at Donald Trump with his latest political cartoon. Actor-artist Carrey took a shot at Trump Saturday, gifting fans with a cartoon reflecting on Trump’s recent decision to declare a national emergency in an effort to build a wall along the U.S. border, and the president’s fondness for hitting the links....
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India's newly launched fast train hits cattle hurdle
Dawn 16 Feb 2019
India's first semi-high speed train broke down on Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service ... “The train later experienced technical issues and was stranded on the way to Delhi,” Indian Railways spokeswoman Smita Vats Sharma told AFP ... Explore ... ....
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French Police Fire Tear Gas Amid More 'Yellow Vest' Violence
Voa News 16 Feb 2019photo: AP / Matt Marton
Employee being fired fatally shoots 5 co-workers in Illinois
Hawaii Tribune-Herald 16 Feb 2019
AURORA, Ill. — A 15-year employee being fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company started shooting Friday, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was killed by police, authorities said ... — which makes valves for industrial purposes — in the city about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago ... ....
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Trump’s emergency: the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat
Yahoo Daily News 16 Feb 2019
The phrase “national emergency” conjures up images of riots in the streets and burning cities, a disease pandemic killing millions, or an inter-planetary invasion by little green men from Mars ... “It’s an invasion ... One has to admire Trump ... Not him ... Ironically, funds Trump now plans to seize to finance his wall come from counter-narcotics budgets ... ....
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11 killed, 15 injured in Boko Haram Attack on Maiduguri
This Day 16 Feb 2019
Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri. Eleven persons were killed and fifteen others injured in Saturday’s Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, the Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Damian Chukwu, disclosed ... He said they shot sporadically and detonated IEDs strapped to their bodies ... ....
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Military planes carrying 180 tons of aid for Venezuelans fly from Miami to Colombia
The State 16 Feb 2019
The C-17 planes arrived in Cúcuta in afternoon, where they were met by USAID Administrator Mark Green and representatives appointed Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó, the president of the National Assembly who is now recognized as interim president by the U.S. and nearly to 60 other countries ... Sign Up and Save ... SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE. #ReadLocal. SHARE ... By ... ....
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Islamic State’s ‘Caliphate’ on Brink of Defeat in Syria
The Algemeiner 16 Feb 2019
Though Islamic State fighters still hold out in a pocket of central Syria’s remote desert, and have gone underground as sleeper cells in Iraqi cities, able to launch new attacks, their territorial rule is, for now, almost over ... HUMAN SHIELDS ... All that remains, said Furat, is an encircled pocket some 700 meters square ... SDF officials denied this ... ....
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Karl Marx memorial vandalised for second time in two weeks
Metro UK 16 Feb 2019
A memorial to German philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx has been vandalised for the second time within two weeks. The words ‘Doctrine of Hate’ and ‘Architect of Genocide’ were written across the Highgate Cemetery grave in bright red paint ... Karl Marx’s grave has been vandalised for the second time in two weeks (Picture. PA) ... PA) ... Advertisement....
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St Petersburg: University building partly collapses in Russian city
The Independent 16 Feb 2019
A university in St Petersburg has partially collapsed, according to Russian state news. Several walls have falled inside the building and emergency services fear that people are trapped under the debris ... Subscribe now. ....
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Amazon exec invites Ocasio-Cortez to tour facilities after criticism
The Hill 16 Feb 2019
'Now we're protesting jobs' Reporter says majority appears to favor progressive tax plans Trump tweets video mocking Dems not cheering during State of the Union MORE (D-N.Y.) to visit the corporation's facilities after she denounced its treatment of workers ... “It used to be that we would protest wars, now we're protesting jobs....
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Hundreds of thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan separatists' trial
RTE 16 Feb 2019
Around 200,000 people have marched through Barcelona against the high-profile trial of Catalan separatist leaders that started this week, which they dismiss as a farce ... Demonstrators waved blue, red and yellow Catalan separatist flags and carried banners reading "Freedom for political prisoners." ... "What's happening is really sad ... ....
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Vatican defrocks former US cardinal for sex abuse of minor
This is Money 16 Feb 2019
American Theodore McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican's College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse ... McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican's College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse ... He currently lives in Kansas. - Sex with adult seminarians - ... ....
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Messi reaches 30-goal mark for Barcelona for 11th straight season
Yahoo Daily News 16 Feb 2019
Lionel Messi scored his 30th goal of the season in all competitions, during Barcelona’s 1-0 win against Real Valladolid ... Incredibly, Messi has now scored 30 or more goals in each of his last 11 seasons for Barcelona in all competitions. Given that it’s only February, it is a safe bet Messi will add to that tally before the end of the season ... ....
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