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Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria
China 14 Oct 2019
Syria's Kurds on Sunday announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara pressed a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry. The announcement came as the United States ordered the withdrawal of almost its entire ground force in Syria ... [Photo ... [Photo....
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Top Spain court to rule on Catalan separatist leaders' fate
China 14 Oct 2019
Spain's Supreme Court is expected to issue a verdict Monday in the controversial case of 12 Catalan leaders over their role in a failed 2017 independence bid that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades ... [Photo. AFP/Lluis Gene] ... [Photo. AFP/Gabriel Bouys] ... But the separatist movement is hoping for just the opposite....
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Ecuador reaches deal to cancel austerity measures, end mass protests
Market Watch 14 Oct 2019
President Lenín Moreno and leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples struck a deal late Sunday to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven dead. ... Indigenous leaders, in turn, will call on their followers to end protests and street blockades. ... and 8 p.m ... 2....
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Pentagon chief vows to cooperate with impeachment probe
China 14 Oct 2019
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday the Pentagon would cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry -- in an apparent break with President Donald Trump's policy to thwart the probe ... [File photo. AFP/ Brendan Smialowski] ... "I don't know the status of what that document preparation is ... - 'Absolutely illegal' -....
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praises 'close' UAE partnership ahead of visit
The National 14 Oct 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the UAE as a very "close and promising partner" ahead of his landmark visit to the country on Tuesday. The Russian leader will arrive in the Emirates from Saudi Arabia with a delegation of ministers, trade representatives and officials ... Read More ... It will be his first visit to the UAE since 2007 ... ....
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'Pakistan willing to facilitate Saudi-Iran talks in Islamabad'
Khaleej Times 14 Oct 2019
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, during a joint conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani here, said he wished to facilitate and not mediate between Tehran and Riyadh. During his day-long visit to Tehran on Sunday, Khan said that a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia should never happen, Geo News reported ... ....
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New Zealand PM Ardern steps up fight against extremist online content
The National 14 Oct 2019
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced more funding and support on Monday to target violent extremist content online, just months after an alleged white supremacist livestreamed a massacre at two mosques in Christchurch ... A new team of 17 people will be dedicated to tackling such content, the government in a statement ... Read More ... SHARE. ....
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Antibody-based eye drop may treat dry eye disease: Study
DNA India 14 Oct 2019
Researchers found that patients suffering from dry eye can be cured with a new eye drop made from human antibodies. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to identify the presence of a specific type of antibody, called anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies, or ACPAs, in human tear fluid ... ....
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The US is rethinking the 50-plus nuclear weapons it keeps in Turkey
Quartz 13 Oct 2019
Turkish forces are pushing into northern Syria, replacing and sometimes even firing on the US troops retreating at Donald Trump’s orders. The question of whether Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is really a US ally was put to US defense secretary Mark Esper on Fox television this morning ... Which brings up a problem....
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Nobel awards season comes to an end with economics prize
Star Tribune 14 Oct 2019
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the last Nobel winner later Monday, when it awards its prestigious economics prize ... ....
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Top Philippine cop resigns after accusation of link to drug scandal
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2019
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' police chief stepped down on Monday less than a month before his retirement, after he was accused of involvement in "recycling" confiscated drugs, an allegation that could undermine the government's anti-narcotics campaign ... Duterte has rejected the accusations ... Albayalde was set to retire on Nov. 8 ... ....
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Singapore eases monetary policy for first time in 3 years
Business Line 14 Oct 2019
Singapore's central bank eased monetary policy for the first time in three years on Monday, as widely expected, with the city-state's bellwether economy narrowly dodging recession ... MAS said it would “reduce slightly” the slope of the Singapore dollar's policy band, using wording that suggested a shallower easing than some had expected ... .......
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Facebook AI Researchers Are Relying on Maths for Automatic Translations of Words
News18 14 Oct 2019
Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way. numbers ... Powerful automatic translation is a big priority for internet giants ... Facebook has artificial intelligence experts on the job at one of its research labs in Paris ... ....
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Scott Morrison points finger at UN for pursuing 'negative globalism'
The Guardian 14 Oct 2019
But while Morrison gave the UN a blast in parliament on Monday for allegedly ratcheting Australia up, it was actually the current government that agreed to an increase in ambition as part of the Paris framework which Tony Abbott signed Australia onto, and Malcolm Turnbull later ratified .......
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Russia ‘bombed four hospitals in Syria in four hours’, report finds
The Independent 13 Oct 2019
The Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria in order to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad, according to an investigation by The New York Times ... A new front in the conflict opened this week, when Turkish forces crossed the border as part of a campaign against a Kurdish-led militia ... Subscribe now....
