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Americans in Africa: Why we left America to live in Africa
BBC News 03 Aug 2020photo: WN / Dalia
40 countries relax travel restrictions
Journal Online 03 Aug 2020
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported that 40 countries have relaxed their inbound travel restrictions to allow foreign travelers including Filipinos subject to strict medical restrictions and other protocols imposed by the respective governments ... ....
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Is Trump Gaming The Media And Americans With Tweets To Distract Them From Real National Emergencies?
WorldNews.com 03 Aug 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Long before Steve Bannon helped Donald Trump win the presidency, there was Arthur Finkelstein, a wealthy New York State-based Republican consultant who worked for conservative and right-wing candidates in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Central and Eastern Europe ... The president tweeted later ... ....
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IDF strikes Gaza in response to tonight's rocket launch
The Jerusalem Post 03 Aug 2020photo: Creative Commons
There may never be a 'silver bullet' for COVID-19, WHO warns
Canada Dot Com 03 Aug 2020
GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned on Monday that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a “silver bullet” for COVID-19, and the road to normality would be long ... “The message to people and governments is clear. ‘Do it all’,” Tedros told a virtual news briefing from the U.N....
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When Should the US Go to War?
Antiwar 03 Aug 2020
The U.S. is the most militarized and warlike nation on earth. Most Americans don’t think of their nation that way. Indeed, stating this fact often generates anger and outrage ... The tally of nations droned, bombed, invaded, and/or occupied, threatened with war by the US, or attacked by other nations aided by America, over the last three decades is long ... ....
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Trump plans ‘Emergency’ to stay in office, top Democrat says
Indian Express 03 Aug 2020
President Donald Trump has no intention of “peacefully” transferring power if he loses the November election, according to House Majority Whip James Clyburn ... “I believe that he plans to install himself in some kind of emergency way to continue to hold onto office,” Clyburn said. “And that’s why the American people had better wake up.” ... A U.S ... Tags ... ....
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Former Pope Benedict is seriously ill: Report
The Times of India 03 Aug 2020photo: AP / Mohammad Ghadamali
Data leak suggests number of Covid-19 deaths in Iran higher than reported: Report
Business Line 03 Aug 2020
The actual number of Covid-19 deaths in Iran may be higher than what has been made public by the government according to a report by the BBC. According to a BBC report, the government’s own data suggests that there have been almost 42,000 deaths where the patients had shown Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July ... .......
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A senior Merkel ally says China is an 'ever more powerful snake' that Germany will take the fight to
The Times of India 03 Aug 2020
Germany will take the fight to China as an EU leader, a senior ally of Angela Merkel has said. Germany took on the European Council's rotating presidency last month ... 'One thing is clear ... ....
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Thousands remain evacuated from Southern California wildfire
San Francisco Chronicle 03 Aug 2020
BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders remained in place early Monday for thousands of people after a wildfire in mountains east of Los Angeles exploded in size and forced crews to battle flames in triple-digit heat ... As of Monday morning, it was 5% contained. The cause was under investigation ... Forest Service ... No injuries were reported ... ....
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Special Forces emails about SAS killings in Afghanistan 'deeply troubling', says lawyer
The Independent 02 Aug 2020
Internal Special Forces emails disclosed as part of a High Court case around the deaths of four Afghans shot by the SAS have been described as “deeply troubling” by a lawyer for a relative of the deceased ... Download the new Independent Premium app. Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now ... Shape Created with Sketch. Afghanistan war....
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At least 21 killed, dozens wounded in Islamic State attack on Afghan prison
Stars and Stripes 03 Aug 2020
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged on Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said ... More assailants opened fire ... Some of the dead were prisoners, said Khogyani ... The affiliate is headquartered in Nangarhar province ... The U.S....
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Protests in Germany against COVID-19 rules - They call themselves “Second Wave”
WorldNews.com 03 Aug 2020
"Take off the masks", "no compulsory vaccination", or "return of freedoms!""Don't vaccinate your children, resistance, resistance! - Were chanting demonstrators. Several thousand demonstrators demanded Saturday in Berlin for the abolition of restrictive measures to combat Covid-19, whose new infections nevertheless worry authorities ... ....
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SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
Live Mint 03 Aug 2020
CAPE CANAVERAL . , Fla. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by U.S ... Both astronauts gave a thumbs-up as they emerged ... Southwest desert ... ....
