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Man stabbed boy at Dubai Mall in fight over girl, court hears
The National 27 Nov 2020
A man stabbed a pupil in a fight over a girl at Dubai Mall, Dubai Criminal Court heard on Sunday. According to court records, the Emirati pupil, 17, and his female friend were at the mall together on April 20 when the accused approached them and asked to speak with him outside ... The pupil ran back into the mall and collapsed ... ....
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‘Iran has become Mossad’s street corner’: Iran marks death of nuke chief
The Jerusalem Post 27 Nov 2020
Iranians responded with awe and surprise as a key Iranian nuclear scientist was gunned down east of Tehran. Farsi social media was full of tweets about the surprising shooting of one of the key men behind the nuclear program in Iran. “It seems that Tehran has become a Mossad street corner,” wrote one man on Twitter. ... ....
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Honduran ex-president stopped with bag containing $18,000 in cash at airport
The Independent 28 Nov 2020photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
Biden’s win means some Guantanamo prisoners may be released
Detroit news 28 Nov 2020
authorities maintain the men can be held as “law of war” detainees, remaining in custody for the duration of hostilities, an open-ended prospect ... them or don’t, but don’t just hang on to them,” said Joseph Margulies, a Cornell Law School professor who has represented one prisoner....
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Cash and Carrie: US sanctioned Hong Kong leader has no bank account
Straits Times 28 Nov 2020
HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has "piles of cash" at home as she has no bank account after the United States slapped sanctions on her in response to a draconian security law China imposed on the city ... imposed the new law on the territory in late June....
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Iran's Rouhani accuses Israel of killing nuclear scientist - TV
Yahoo Daily News 28 Nov 2020
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's president on Saturday accused Israel of killing a prominent Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme, state TV reported ... "The assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh shows our enemies' despair and the depth of their hatred... His martyrdom will not slow down our achievements."....
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China has reached a major milestone in ending absolute poverty. But the Communist Party isn't celebrating yet
CNN 28 Nov 2020
Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country -- but it doesn't appear that he's celebrating yet. China was for decades one of the world's most impoverished countries and ending absolute poverty has been an important policy goal for Xi ... Read More....
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Iran scientist's assassination appears intended to undermine nuclear deal
The Guardian 27 Nov 2020photo: Creative Commons / Jacques Paquier
How the legal troubles of a former French president could be a blueprint for Trump's
CBC 27 Nov 2020
president’s legal future. ....
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Chinese academics say coronavirus spread in India MONTHS before Wuhan outbreak
Russia Today 27 Nov 2020
The coronavirus did not start in Wuhan, but instead emerged in India last summer, Chinese academics have boldly claimed, as tensions continue to flare between the two states and amid the ongoing search for the origins of Covid-19 ... Read more Landmark legal ruling finds that Covid tests are not fit for purpose. So what do the MSM do? They ignore it....
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Ethiopian forces close in on Tigrayan capital amid fears for civilians
The National 28 Nov 2020
Ethiopia's military said it seized control of a town 50 kilometres from the capital of Tigray province on Friday, a day after the government said it was beginning the "final phase" of an offensive against the northern region ... Government troops had also taken control of several other towns, he said ... Read More. ‘A dead man walking’ ... Tigray ... ....
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Argentine prosecutors probe Maradona death
The Philadelphia Inquirer 28 Nov 2020
"There are already irregularities," a close family member told AFP ... The prosecutor's office in Buenos Aires has opened a file entit... ....
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Boris Johnson’s unpleasant similarities with Trump are chilling
The Independent 28 Nov 2020
Reading former Republican operative Stuart Stevens’ It Was All a Lie ... Yes, yes, I know ... The political and cultural contexts are very different ... It worked ... The drivers of Nixon’s infamous “southern strategy”; segregation, the Jim Crow laws of former confederate states, the civil rights struggles of the 60s, they don’t exist in a British context ... ....
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How will Iran retaliate for the assassination of its top nuclear scientist?
The National 27 Nov 2020
The chief-of-staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Maj Gen Mohammed Bagheri, vowed “severe revenge” on whoever was behind the assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist, a killing that Tehran has already attributed to Israel ... It could be delayed.” ... Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated ... Beyond the Headlines....
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Earth is 2000 light-years closer to a supermassive black hole than scientists realised
The Independent 27 Nov 2020
The Earth is 2000 light-years closer to a black hole than we previously thought, new research has revealed. The finding comes from the Japanese radio astronomy project VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry), which has been mapping three-dimensional velocity and special structures in the Milky Way since 2000 ... ... Read more ... ....
