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A missile struck a school building in northwestern Syria on Tuesday morning, killing eight civilians, opposition activists said, as government forces captured a key village held by al-Qaida insurgents in the war-torn country's last rebel stronghold. Syrian government troops also surrounded a Turkish observation post in the area, the activists said. Syrian forces launched a wide ground offensive last week into the northwestern province of Idlib, which is dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZkW3dv via Latest News

Mexico complained Monday that 150 Bolivian intelligence agents have surrounded the Mexican ambassador's residence in La Paz and tried to search the ambassador's vehicle. Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said the ring of Bolivian agents in military dress started over the weekend. Mexico briefly gave asylum to ousted President Evo Morales and has given refuge to about 30 of his supporters at its embassy facilities in La Paz. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/376ASOX via Latest News

In a detailed memo to senators, the Trump administration is fighting a bill that would punish Turkey for buying Russian missiles, arguing it would drive the countries closer together. Of note, Team Trump opposes a provision in the bill that would help Syrian Kurdish refugees immigrate to the United States. The case is laid out in a seven-page document obtained by The Daily Beast. The memo was sent by the State Department to Capitol Hill ahead of the Senate mark-up of a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) titled “Promoting American National Security and Preventing the Resurgence of ISIS Act.” That legislation, which passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite Team Trump’s opposition, would sanction Turkey for buying Russian surface-to-air missiles and would bar the U.S. from selling Turkey F-16 or F-35 fighter jets, including parts, until the country has fully abandoned the S-400 missile defense system it purchased from Russia....

In the past decade cries for help have been found in products from Kmart, Walmart, Zara, and Tesco. But it's almost impossible to authenticate them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sRzQHT via Latest News

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Roger Stone was convicted in November of lying to Congress to protect the president. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2s8IEcz via Latest News

PARIS—It looks like heads will roll in Saudi Arabia, literally, for the murder last year of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But they’ll be detached from people that few Saudis and fewer Americans have ever heard of, and certainly not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the mercurial and malign monarch-in-waiting beloved of the Trump clan.Never mind the CIA’s belief that the elaborately choreographed and gruesomely executed murder of The Washington Post columnist could not have been carried out unless MBS authorized it. Conveniently, the two top aides who would have connected the crown prince to the crime reportedly were cleared.The court statement Monday announcing the sentence named none of the five condemned to death. But Saudi Deputy General Prosecutor Shalaan Al-Shalaan told a press conference “We found that Khashoggi’s murder was not premeditated.” This travesty is in fact much bigger news outside the kingdom of Saudi Arabia than inside. There, it’s party time (or hangove...

Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park blew past its yearly eruption record in 2019, shooting up water 47 times, indicating an active period. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EOgqpV via Latest News

Is President Trump only going to get "more extreme" after impeachment?Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) thinks so, predicting to Politico that Trump's "behavior will get more extreme going into the election" after he last week became only the third president in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives."He will commit things that many Americans, including undecided independents, will find offensive," Kaine said. "Whether they’re impeachable offenses, I don't know. But I think in trying to jazz up his own base he's going to do some things that swing voters find offensive."Several Republicans who spoke to Politico certainly didn't suggest Trump's behavior will get less extreme, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) saying, "A virtue of this president is he has been the same person yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and I expect that will continue."But Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under former Presi...

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has stirred anger online by claiming he is "more of a Jew" than 89-year-old Holocaust survivor George Soros. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q9x60w via Latest News

(Bloomberg) -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have allowed federal judges to perform wedding ceremonies because many of them are President Donald Trump’s appointees.“I cannot in good conscience support legislation that would authorize such actions by federal judges who are appointed by this federal administration,” Cuomo, a Democrat, said Friday as he vetoed the bill, which passed the Democratic-controlled legislature overwhelmingly. “President Trump does not embody who we are as New Yorkers. The cornerstones that built our great state are diversity, tolerance and inclusion.”State Senator Liz Krueger, a progressive Manhattan Democrat who sponsored the bill, said the legislature gave the governor authority to perform wedding ceremonies four years ago, and granted similar powers to lawmakers two years ago.“Marriage is inclusive, equal, and open to all who want it,” she said after the veto. “So when it was suggested to me that we expand it to federal judges, I tho...

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At least 11 people have been killed and more than 300 treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local authorities said on Monday. Many were admitted to hospitals on the urging of mayor Vener Munoz in Rizal, Laguna, where the deaths occurred between Thursday and Sunday. The coconut wine that was consumed had been made in his town, he added. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SlZZt1 via Latest News

The Republican senator from Kentucky took to Twitter Monday morning to air silly and semi-serious grievances as part of the made-up holiday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SkObr6 via Latest News

The editor in chief of Christianity Today says his magazine has seen three-times as many people starting new subscriptions in the wake of a row started by their op-ed calling for the removal of Donald Trump from office.Mark Galli, the editor, acknowledged that the magazine has also lost subscribers, but that the new interest far outweighs the backlash. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sUO7DO via Latest News

Hong Kong riot police fired rounds of tear gas at thousands of protesters, many wearing masks and reindeer horns, after scuffles in shopping malls and in a prime tourist district as pro-democracy rallies escalated into Christmas Eve chaos. Protesters inside the malls threw umbrellas and other objects at police who responded by beating some demonstrators with batons, with one pointing his gun at the crowd, but not firing. Some demonstrators occupied the main roads and blocked traffic outside the malls and nearby luxury hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui tourist district of Kowloon. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34O0vm9 via Latest News

India's ruling party launched a video with animated Muslim characters on social media Monday as part of a publicity blitz to try to bust "myths" around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests. The law has stoked concerns that Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government wants to marginalise India's Muslim minority. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/391MR2a via Latest News

It was recently tested in Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Sn8xQg via Latest News

This year's CES 2020 shapes up to be a pretty interesting one with so many companies taking part in one of the biggest tech shows throughout the year. And along with the tech giants like LG and Samsung, OnePlus will be there as well as it already teased a product called Concept One. So far no one really knows what OnePlus' event will be all about but according to industry watchers close to The Korea Herald - a fairly reputable source - OnePlus will announce its foldable smartphone. Unfortunately, the form factor of the device remains unknown - it could be either a tablet-like device... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/2s6yyc9 via IFTTT