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US declares 'most' of China's maritime claims in South China Sea illegal
CNN 14 Jul 2020
Describing the move as "strengthening U.S ... "The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire ... Everyone wears a mask ... In addition, the US "rejects any PRC maritime claim in the waters surrounding Vanguard Bank (off Vietnam), Luconia Shoals (off Malaysia), waters in Brunei's EEZ, and Natuna Besar (off Indonesia)." ... ....
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France celebrates virus heroes on redesigned Bastille Day
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jul 2020
France is recalibrating Bastille Day’s usual grandiose military parade to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic instead. Ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers, postal workers as well as frontline medics who died fighting Covid-19 are all being honoured on the country’s biggest national holiday ... AP/PA Images. / ... AP/PA Images. / ... ....
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Attacking Hong Kong dollar peg would hurt those the US hopes to help
South China Morning Post 14 Jul 2020
The United States is unhappy with China’s new national security law for Hong Kong and is seeking ways to express its disquiet ... As Geoff Yu, senior EMEA market strategist at US bank BNY Mellon, noted last week, legal and institutional support for the Hong Kong dollar “remains strong” and is embedded in Article 111 of the Basic Law ... ....
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US swaps Venezuelan fuel oil for Russian products
Russia Today 14 Jul 2020
The United States has been raising its imports of fuel oil from Russia over the past year and a half after the US imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s exports, Reuters reported on Monday, quoting data from Refinitiv Eikon ... Also on rt.com Russia supplies first shipment of Arctic oil to China ... Also on rt.com China set to fall short on US energy purchases ... ....
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Two arrested after bomb threat forces Ryanair flight to divert to Stansted
The Independent 14 Jul 2020
Two men have been arrested after a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing due to a bomb threat ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... ....
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Pic of Johnny Depp Covered in Ice Cream Emerges Online Amid Libel Trial Against the Sun
Sputnik 14 Jul 2020
Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is currently suing British newspaper The Sun over a 2018 article referring to him as a “wife-beater” following the claims of his ex-wife Amber Heard. For the second week in a row, the UK’s High Court has been hearing a slew of provocative details about the couple’s one-year marriage ... ....
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WHO chief: Pandemic 'going to get worse and worse and worse'
The Hill 13 Jul 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is raging out of control in North and South America, and that the virus will continue spreading unimpeded unless governments and individuals take the steps needed to suppress its transmission ... European countries confirmed just 18,804 new cases on Saturday ... .......
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Was Glinka anti-Semitic? MSM ‘gets facts wrong’ as it fumes over Berlin’s plans to rename metro station after Russian composer
Russia Today 14 Jul 2020
The woke idea of renaming a Berlin metro station after Russian composer Mikhail Glinka has enraged some German media which call him an anti-Semite. But those behind the accusations simply have the facts wrong, experts told RT ... For Glinka, ethnicity played no role. The accusations, however, do not appear to stand up to criticism....
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Sound of the police: how US law enforcement uses noise as a weapon
The Guardian 14 Jul 2020photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/iGlobalWeb
Woman thought she had a cold but it was a worm living in her throat
Metro UK 14 Jul 2020
The culprit measured 38mm long and 1mm wide, was identified as a nematode roundworm (Picture. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene). A young woman went to the doctors complaining of a tingly sore throat only to find out the culprit wasn’t a cold, but a live worm which was burrowing into one of her tonsils ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... ....
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Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in U.S. state Colorado
China.dot.org 14 Jul 2020photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
Key questions: Letters show Queen unaware of plan to remove former Australia PM
Belfast Telegraph 14 Jul 2020
Newly-released correspondence has revealed Her Majesty was not informed of her representative to Australia’s decision to dismiss then-prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975 and replace him with opposition leader Malcolm Fraser. Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key questions surrounding the release of the letters ... PA. / ... / ... Sir John wrote ... / ... ....
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Miami is now the coronavirus epicenter as cases surge, one expert says
CNN 14 Jul 2020
(CNN)With more than 2,000 patients hospitalized and hundreds in ICUs, "Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic," one infectious disease expert said Monday, comparing the South Florida metropolitan area to the city where the pandemic originated ... The first known cases of the virus were first detected in the city in December ... Read More ... Expert ... ....
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Sudan declares emergency in North Darfur state after violence erupts
The Independent 14 Jul 2020photo: AP / Michael Conroy
Judge delays first US federal executions in 17 years
News24 14 Jul 2020
A United States appeals court has maintained a suspension of the first federal executions in the country in 17 years, rejecting a government request to overturn a lower court's delay ... ....
