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WWII Submarine USS Grayback Carrying 80 Men Discovered 75 Years After Disappearing
IFL Science 12 Nov 2019
A 75-year mystery is laid to rest this Veteran’s Day following the discovery of the USS Grayback (SS-208), an established World War II submarine that disappeared in 1944 with 80 crewmembers onboard ... USS Grayback had a successful military career, sinking more than a dozen Japanese ships during its three-year service ... Lost 52 Project ... Lost 52 Project ... ....
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Chinese man held after 51 children and three teachers burned in kindergarten attack
South China Morning Post 12 Nov 2019
More than 50 children were burned, two of them seriously, when a man scaled the wall of a kindergarten in southwestern China and sprayed caustic soda on them. Police detained a 23-year-old man about 40 minutes after the attack in Kaiyuan, Yunnan province, adding that they believed he was acting alone ... ....
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Rocket fire after Israel kills Palestinian militant commander in Gaza strike
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
Israel's military killed a commander of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a strike on his home in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, prompting retaliatory rocket fire and fears of a severe escalation in violence ... Israel did not immediately comment on that strike ... The group said Ata's wife was also killed ... - 'Maximum alert' - ... ....
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Bolivia military, police ready for violent protests; Morales leaves for Mexico
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia´s military and police readied on Monday to quell acts of "vandalism" posing a threat to citizens as La Paz braced for violent clashes with thousands of supporters of ousted president Evo Morales marching toward the capital city, where opposition protesters and police set up barricades ... Police chief Yuri Calderón added ... ....
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Former President Jimmy Carter hospitalized to relieve pressure in brain
Democratic Underground 12 Nov 2019
Former President Jimmy Carter was hospitalized Monday night for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding, The Carter Center said in a statement. The bleeding was caused by Mr. Carter's recent falls, the statement explained ... CBS News medical contributor Dr ... Mr ... Read more ... ....
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Violence brings Hong Kong to 'brink of total breakdown': police
Reuters 12 Nov 2019
Hong Kong police fired tear gas in the heart of the Central financial district and at two university campuses to break up pro-democracy protests as violence was bringing the Chinese-ruled city to what they said was the "brink of total breakdown" ... ....
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Courtroom shootout kills 2, injures 3 in eastern Thailand
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Daca: Dreamers take fight with Trump to Supreme Court
BBC News 12 Nov 2019
The Daca programme affects an estimated 700,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children. Another million people were eligible but did not apply for the scheme. Most of them are from Mexico and other Latin American countries ... President Obama signed the order following failed negotiations for immigration reform on Capitol Hill ... ....
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Train crash kills at least 16 people in central Bangladesh
The Telegraph India 12 Nov 2019
At least 16 people were killed and 60 others injured in a head-on collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria district in central Bangladesh on Tuesday, railway officials said ... The salvage campaign is nearly completed as railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan and our senior officials visited the scene to oversee the rescue drives, the spokesman said ... ....
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Lebanon Offers Banks Dollars as ‘Haircut’ on Deposits Ruled Out
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s central bank has no plans to impose formal restrictions on the movement of money or force depositors to accept losses, its governor said, but will offer “unlimited” dollars for commercial lenders to finance trade and meet customer demand through weeks of protest ... Lebanon’s Debt Downgraded Again by Moody’s Amid Bond Meltdown....
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Air quality sinks to 'severe' in haze-shrouded New Delhi
Yahoo Daily News 12 Nov 2019
NEW DELHI (AP) — A thick haze of polluted air hung over India's capital Tuesday, with authorities trying to tackle the problem by sprinkling water to settle dust and banning some construction. The air quality index exceeded 400, about eight times the recommended maximum, according to the state-run Central Pollution Control Board ... ....
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UN watchdog: Iran’s violations of nuclear deal increasing
Stars and Stripes 11 Nov 2019
VIENNA — The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reported Monday that its inspectors have discovered uranium particles of a man-made origin “at a location in Iran not declared to the agency.”. The revelation from International Atomic Energy Agency is the first time it has acknowledged in a report that allegations made earlier by the U.S ... Since the U.S....
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Afghan president: 3 Taliban released for held US, Australian
Wtop 12 Nov 2019
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday announced that his government has released three prominent Taliban figures in an effort to get the insurgents to free an American and an Australian professor they abducted in 2016 ... He did not elaborate or say exactly when and where the three were released ... Subsequently, U.S ... ___ ... Source....
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Boeing 737 Max jets could fly again by January with safety checks under way
The Guardian 12 Nov 2019
The planes were grounded in March in the wake of two fatal crashes in the space of five months that killed 346 people ... .......
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Bariatic surgery can help prevent strokes in patients
Deccan Chronicle 12 Nov 2019
Washington. A new study suggests that obese patients who undergo weight-reduction surgery live longer and are less likely to experience a clot-caused stroke than those who do not ... The results of the study were published in the journal AHA Scientific Sessions 2019 ... At the time of the surgery, none of the participants had previously had a stroke ... .......
