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WhatsApp announced limits on Friday on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its biggest market. More than 20 people have been butchered by crazed mobs in the past two months across India after being accused of child kidnapping and other crimes in viral messages circulated wildly on WhatsApp. Late on Thursday India's government, scrambling to find a response, threatened to take WhatsApp to court, saying the "medium" for spreading malicious rumours "cannot evade responsibility and accountability". "If (WhatsApp) remain mute spectators they are liable to be treated as abettors and thereafter face consequent legal action," the information technology ministry said. The Facebook-owned firm responded on Friday with an announcement it will test limiting the ability to forward messages and cap at five the number of contacts or groups tha...

The N.J. Democratic senator, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been raising the alarm about Brett Kavanaugh’s views on prosecutors’ ability to conduct criminal investigations of a sitting president. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NwoYUM via Latest News

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The Latest on a family reuniting in Honduras after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Nxll0R via Latest News

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday to act on his promise to give up nuclear weapons and said the world, including China and Russia, must continued to enforce sanctions until he does so. After briefing U.N. Security Council envoys in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned against loosening sanctions on Pyongyang after Russia and China suggested the council could discuss such a move. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lgkk0N via Latest News

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, largely held on Saturday a day after one of the most fierce flare-ups along the volatile border in years. Hamas said it had agreed to the truce with Israel, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians, three of them Hamas fighters. A senior Israeli official confirmed a truce was in place. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uROa0l via Latest News

Of the 31 people aboard, only 14 survived from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2myvteo via Latest News

Donald Trump has asked his administration to formally invite Russian president Vladimir Putin to visit Washington later this year, the White House announced on Thursday. Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Trump asked his national security adviser John Bolton to extend the invitation to Putin for a “working level” dialogue between the two leaders. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O5PwNT via Latest News

The first of the 17 victims of a Missouri boat crash have been identified and include nine people from the same family. What should have been a pleasant 70-minute tour of the Ozarks region turned to tragedy for the Coleman family of Indiana who were only on that particular boat because of a ticket mix-up, according to Tia Coleman, who was one of only two survivors from her family along with nephew Donovan, 13. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uGUmch via Latest News

President Donald Trump met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lf9AQ3 via Latest News

Elon Musk has reached an agreement with an artist over an image of a “farting unicorn” the Tesla boss used to promote his cars. Tom Edwards, a potter from Colorado, US, who had claimed the business mogul had “ripped off” his drawing featured on a mug, said the issue had now been resolved "in a way that everyone feels good about". Mr Musk had last year posted the cartoon unicorn image on Twitter, without permission, to advertise his Tesla electric car range. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O778sL via Latest News

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the arrest is unacceptable from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uGWeBH via Latest News

Old Nokia had a goal to connect the next billion people to the Internet. There's a long story that includes a detour through Windows Phone, but never mind that - the goal is still in sight and the way there is through capable, affordable Android phones (the modern Internet is too complex for the KaiOS-running Nokia 8110 4G). The Nokia 3.1 brings in some elements of its more advanced siblings, including color highlights on its aluminum frame. Those copper highlights remind us of the Nokia 6.1 and 7 Plus and are a generally cool look. The back here is plastic rather than metal, but for... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2mAPCjO via IFTTT

Marketing 101, the success of one product creates a ‘Halo effect' to persuade and incentivize consumers to buy other products from your portfolio. Thus Apple hopes that by purchasing an iPhone, iPad or even an Apple Watch, you'll consider buying another Apple product when it's time to replace your aging laptop, for example, you'll choose a MacBook/MacBook Pro. For many though Apple products' pricing in relation to their hardware is enough to put them off. Not known by many, it's an open secret that you can buy refurbished Apple tech directly from Apple's online store, and save a chunk of... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2LbUj2p via IFTTT

Our Smartphone World Cup is over and it saw record participation. The final alone saw over 100,000 votes and not one but two changes in the lead. If this Cup taught us anything is that fan engagement is invaluable for the success of a phone. But first, congratulations go to the winner - Samsung Galaxy S9+. It won by a healthy margin, the final score was divided 58/42 in percentage terms, though it was pretty close for a while. Things changed day to day. The S9+ got the early lead and it seemed as it may cruise to victory. Yet, the OnePlus 6 rallied its fans and with 48h remaining it... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2LrXeU0 via IFTTT

This just in - the National Telecommunications Agency in Brazil confirmed the Galaxy Note9's massive battery in a leaked document. The certification document doesn't reveal much but it confirms one of the main features the Galaxy Note9 will boast over its predecessor - the 4,000 mAh battery. Rumors about the large battery capacity have been going around since April and the bit was later confirmed by a different source in June. Now, a month later, ANATEL is here to solidify these claims with an official document. We think that it doesn't get any more legitimate than this. We hope... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2uAzhQP via IFTTT

Roland Quandt just posted a photo of the wireless charger that's going to be announced for the Galaxy Note9 and we have good and bad news. Remember when a leaked FCC document hinted at a crazy fast wireless charger for the Note9 with an output of 25W? Well, the leaked photo shows the very same charger called Wireless Charger Duo with model number EP-N6100. The good news is that it can charge the smartphone and the upcoming Galaxy Watch both at the same time. Pretty convenient, right? Well, yes and no, because as it turns out, the charger is rated at 25W because it has to charge not... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2mymgmb via IFTTT

There will be a successor to the Oppo F7 after all despite the existing phone being fresh on the shelves since this spring. The latest teaser from Oppo that appeared online suggests that the handset will be coming very soon so an August launch seems plausible. From the teaser, we can conclude that the device will come with a double camera setup on the back and historically, the phones from the F-series have been mostly selfie-centric so we can expect an upgrade to the front-facing snapper as well. Meanwhile, the F9 has popped up on the Bluetooth certification website hinting at... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2LCrJTW via IFTTT

Premium Sony Xperias is where a lot of firsts happen - first 4K display on a smartphone with the Z5 Premium, first HDR display on a smartphone with the XZ Premium alongside 960fps super slow-mo video recording, and now, on the Xperia XZ2 Premium - a dual camera for the first time on a Sony smartphone (a bit late to that party, eh?). from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2mwBvMt via IFTTT

Samsung's smartphone lineup is an ever-growing mess of alphanumeric strings of model names. With some J-series hardware now passing as the Galaxy A6 (2018) and A6+ (2018), a reimagining of the A-series was in order, and it appears that could be happening. Samsung's filed for trademarks in Europe for devices named A10, A30, A50, A70, and A90 - doesn't the double-digit designation really open up possibilities for further growth? What's a bit disconcerting, however, is that the Galaxy moniker is missing in the EU filings - only the Tizen-powered Z-series Samsung phones have been... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2Lygufh via IFTTT

It seems like the Xiaomi Mi A2 just can't be contained. A month before the company even scheduled the event, a Spanish YouTube channel published a detailed hands-on video, later taken down. And since last week, the device has been popping up in online stores all over the world. First, it was Poland, then it was Romania and now, a Chinese and a UK store have listed the device for pre-order with some immediate price cuts. The Chinese OEM will be holding an event three days from now on July 24 in Spain and a new Mi A2 Lite variant will be tagging along as well. But strangely... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2uTE7Yv via IFTTT

Thanks to Meizu's CEO, we already know the key selling points of the upcoming company's flagships - the Meizu 16 and 16 Plus. The devices even got their official launch date set up for August 8, which is only a day before the Galaxy Note9 announcement. But like every handset launching in China, the Meizu 16 and 16 Plus need to go through the 3C certification process. A screenshot of the document shows that both devices (with model numbers M882Q and M892Q) are now eligible for the Chinese market. Unfortunately, the listing doesn't give away anything specific about the... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2Lq3v2y via IFTTT

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 is going to be officially revealed on August 9, but it's hardly the best kept secret ever. Even so, new bits come out every now and then and the latest is a set of renders of the phone in the color scheme that Samsung calls Lilac Purple. It complements the Coral Blue images we saw earlier and the live shots of the Midnight Black unit from yesterday. We're yet to see a real-life yellow S-pen, though. Other than the color, there's not much new info we can extract from the render - the Note keeps the sharper corners when compared to the S-series, there is... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2mwuWcR via IFTTT

After OnePlus pushed the July security patches along with much-needed fixes for its more recent OnePlus 5/5T and OnePlus 6 handsets, the company is now sending an OTA update for the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T in the form of OxygenOS version 5.0.4. The new OS version delivers the latest July 2018 security patch and some camera improvements. Unfortunately, the changelog mentions only front camera image quality optimization, so still no love for the main camera. Speaking of, OnePlus has finally fixed a long-lasting issue with third-party camera apps that crashed after switching to... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2O651p1 via IFTTT

George HW Bush’s former cardiologist has been killed in a bicycle drive-by shooting in Houston, Texas. Dr Mark Hausknecht was riding his bicycle near the Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women hospital just before 9am, when he was shot twice by another man on a bicycle, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference. Mr Hausknecht, 65, encountered the shooter as the pair rode in opposite directions down the same street. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NxvhaO via Latest News

Of the 31 people aboard, only 14 survived from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2myvteo via Latest News

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his US counterpart Mike Pompeo on Saturday that the arrest of a Russian gun rights enthusiast on espionage charges in the United States was "unacceptable", his ministry said. US prosecutors say Maria Butina, 29, exploited her close links with the powerful NRA gun lobby while posing as a visiting graduate student to endear herself with senior Republicans, guided by one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's major political supporters, Alexander Torshin. In a telephone call with Pompeo, Lavrov "stressed that the actions of American authorities who arrested the Russian citizen Butina based on false accusations is totally unacceptable," the foreign ministry said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LeUha3 via Latest News

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza appeared to be holding on Saturday after a round of intense fighting which sparked fears of all-out war.  One Israeli soldier and three Hamas fighters were killed on Friday before Egypt and the UN were able to broker a deal to bring a halt to the escalation.  Hamas said an agreement had been reached “to return to the previous state of calm”. Israel did not publicly acknowledge the ceasefire but officials said a deal had been struck. While the ceasefire seemed to be holding, the border was not completely quiet. Israel’s military said one of its tanks opened fire on a Hamas observation post after a group of Palestinians tried to break through the border fence in northern Gaza.  No injuries were reported.  It was not clear if the ceasefire deal included an end to the burning kites and balloons which Palestinians have flown from Gaza into Israel in recent weeks.  The incendiaries have caused more than a thousand fires and...

An amphibious duck boat was carrying 31 passengers including children when a sudden "microburst" storm packing powerful winds hit Table Rock Lake outside Branson, unleashing white-cap waves that swamped the vessel before it sank. Coleman said she plunged deep into the lake and did not know how she was able to survive. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zZJTh6 via Latest News

Huawei's next flagship might ditch the notch for a hole in the display: Report    The Indian Express Huawei's new innovative design has a camera hole in the display: Report    Firstpost Chuck notch, Huawei is developing an LCD screen with a 'hole'    TrueTech Technology News (blog) Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2NzUD7N via Technology

Nokia 6.1 Plus boasts a glass and aluminum build, and a tall 5.8-inch, 19:9 display that includes a small notch up top and a slight chin underneath. In addition, thin bezels on either side can also be spotted. Specifications-wise the phone includes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 and 4GB of RAM. from PhoneArena - Phones https://ift.tt/2uLOGgc via Latest Devices

Iran and the U.S. have engaged in a war of words since the start of the Trump administration. On the ground in the Middle East the maneuvering has been much less confrontational, but dangers still lurk. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uR9za5 via Latest News

HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of a doctor as he rode his bike. (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LcZnUm via Latest News

MUMBAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's WhatsApp is rolling out a global test measure to rein in messages forwarded by users, the messaging app said, after the spread of rumours led to several killings in India and sparked calls for action from authorities. Violence triggered by incendiary false messages in India, WhatsApp's biggest market with more than 200 million users, has spurred government demands to prevent circulation of false texts and provocative content and caused a public relations nightmare. False messages about child abductors on WhatsApp have led to mass beatings this year of more than a dozen people in India, some of whom have died. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LD26CA via Latest News

President Donald Trump met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lf9AQ3 via Latest News

On Thursday, a duck boat carrying 31 people across Table Rock Lake near from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LGbqG1 via Latest News

Hilde Hall felt "elated" to finally start hormone treatment after a trip to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uQFCHd via Latest News

Russia's FSB security services raided a top space research centre Friday as part of an investigation into staff alleged to have passed secret information on Moscow's hypersonic missile programme to the West. The raid took place on the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash), which is the Russian space agency Roscosmos's in-house think tank. Sources told the Kommersant daily newspaper that the probe was over "high treason," with around 10 people suspected of "cooperation with Western secret services." Vladimir Ustimenko, a Roscosmos spokesman, confirmed the search to the newspaper and said the agency was providing maximum assistance to the security services.   The search came just one day after the Defense Ministry published several videos of new weapons systems - two of which were Russia’s publicly acknowledged hypersonic missile projects. The general features of these weapons, known as Avangard and Burevestnik, have been publicl...

Feds think that $69,258 for a police car is too much. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uFpnxb via Latest News

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on the swarm of destructive tornadoes that swept through central Iowa (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zZcaVe via Latest News

It's with heavy hearts that we must share this news: people want to drink the cursed mummy water from the mystery sarcophagus.  The sarcophagus was unearthed during a construction dig in Alexandria, Egypt, and opened earlier this week. Considering its size, nondescript black exterior, and the fact that it was buried with a giant alabaster head, the internet was convinced that it contained some kind of demonic being or ancient hex. But when authorities opened it, they just found three soggy mummies stewing in red sewage water.  SEE ALSO: Unfortunately opening the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus didn't unleash curse on us According to Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri, "The sarcophagus has been opened, but we have not been hit by a curse."  But the saga of the mystery sarcophagus isn't over. A Change.org petition wants authorities to "let people drink the red liquid from the dark sarcophagus." At the time of writing, the p...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, largely held on Saturday a day after one of the most fierce flare-ups along the volatile border in years. Hamas said it had agreed to the truce with Israel, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians, three of them Hamas fighters. A senior Israeli official confirmed a truce was in place. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uROa0l via Latest News

And won’t start out with key air-independent propulsion technology. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NwpQZC via Latest News

It seems like just yesterday "Walking Dead" finally gave us the Michonne/Rick from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LfQ7i0 via Latest News

Justice Anthony Kennedy's final writing as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LoKOMG via Latest News

Christopher Charles Cantwell, a white supremacist who was labeled the "crying from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O6yiQw via Latest News

HANOVER, Mass. (AP) — A police officer killed while investigating a car crash was remembered by his brother-in-law as a family man, a fervent New England Patriots fan and a hero. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LbtNpO via Latest News

A fire that claimed the life of one firefighter and injured two others near California's Yosemite national park has almost doubled in size in three days, authorities said Friday. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said the so-called Ferguson fire had spread to an area of 22,892 acres (92.6 square kilometers), and is so far only 7 percent contained. More than 2,700 people are tackling the blaze, which started a week ago in the Sierra Nevada forest. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JFI60d via Latest News

By Maggie Fick ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has passed a law that grants amnesty to political prisoners who have been released recently and reverses decades of security-obsessed rule. The law is in line with a breathtaking series of political and economic reforms in Ethiopia, a country of 100 million people, since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in April. Security forces also killed hundreds to quell protests against economic mismanagement, inequality and repression. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O4eygi via Latest News

Jeep Head Mike Manley tapped as the replacement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uXg6QG via Latest News

The National Rifle Association hasn't endorsed Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's bid from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O6ARSz via Latest News