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Google is tracking you, regardless of your smartphone's privacy settings
DNA India 21 Aug 2018
Google has been accused in a lawsuit of illegally tracking the movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they use a privacy setting to prevent it ... "Google represented that a user 'can turn off Location History at any time ... The plaintiff, Napoleon Patacsil of San Diego, is seeking class-action status on behalf of U.S ... ....
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[UPDATE] Cohen Pleads Guilty To 8 Charges; Admits He Worked With Trump To Silence Accusers
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guiltyTuesday in a Manhattan courthouse to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws in a federal investigation that scrutinized his business dealings and efforts to silence women with negative stories about Trump, The Washington Post reported.Cohen pleaded guilty to five counts ......
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Search on for man who threatened to shoot Trump
Khaleej Times 21 Aug 2018
Law enforcement authorities have launched a search operation for a man who's suspected of threatening to shoot US President Donald Trump, a media report said ... According to officials, Christy posted ... Trump." ... ....
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BREAKING: Manafort Found Guilty On 8 Counts In Fraud Case
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty Tuesday on eight counts in the bank and tax fraud case against him, The Los Angeles Times reported. The jury remained undecided on the remaining 10 counts, the report said.The Washington Post reported the verdict is a major – if not complete – victory for special counsel Robert S ... U.S. District Court Judge T.S....
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US Deports Nazi Labor Camp Guard to Germany
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
The United States deported a 95-year-old former Nazi labor camp guard back to Germany on Tuesday after more than a decade of diplomatic fights over his status, according to The Guardian. Jakiw Palij, who lived in Queens, New York City, arrived at Dusseldorf airport on Tuesday morning after his deportation was ordered in 2004 after an investigation ordered him to be denaturalized ... His U.S ... The U.S ... U.S ... "Your neighbor is a Nazi!" ....
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Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Claims To View Roe v. Wade As 'Settled Law'
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
“We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins said ... Kavanaugh was serving as an associate counsel in the office of independent counsel Kenneth Starr and wrote he was "strongly opposed" to providing Clinton with any "break" and suggested 10 questions which included highly sexually-charged information about his affair with Lewinsky....
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Brexiteers are using the notion of Project Fear to manipulate you
The Guardian 21 Aug 2018
“Hardly a day goes by without another scare story about the UK failing to get medical isotopes.” And who among us, if they had cancer, wouldn’t turn to a failed party leader and benefits system scrambler for advice, as opposed to, say, the BMA council chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, with his 28 years’ experience as a doctor and CBE for services to primary care?....
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UN Says Myanmar Denying 'Effective Access' To Rakhine State After Rohingya Crisis
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
The United Nations said they were still waiting for "effective access" to the Rakhine state in Myanmar on Tuesday after more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced from their homes during a brutal army crackdown, according to Reuters ... “We need to have the possibility to do a proper job.”. Suu Kyi on Tuesday claimed Myanmar "granted access" to the UN for 23 villages in the Rakhine state as part of a "pilot assessment program." ... ....
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Taiwan loses another diplomatic ally as El Salvador switches to Beijing
CNN 21 Aug 2018
Beijing (CNN)Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China, its third in a matter of months, after El Salvador announced it would sever ties with the island and switch its allegiance to Beijing. The governments in Taipei, Beijing and San Salvador all confirmed the development Tuesday, just days after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited Central and South America to cement ties with the island's remaining allies ... Read More ... ....
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USA freezes bank accounts of Russian oligarchs in Cyprus
Pravda RU 21 Aug 2018
It goes about such countries as Cyprus, Latvia and the UK, the report from the US Treasury says ... ....
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Kremlin says it does not understand Microsoft's U.S. hacking allegations
This is Money 21 Aug 2018
"We don't know what hackers they are talking about," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call when asked about Microsoft's accusations....
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Russia Prepares To Search For Nuclear Missile Lost At Sea After Failed Test
WorldNews.com 21 Aug 2018
... be able to do it without pollution, I would have my doubts about that because it's a very forceful impact when the missile crashes ... The tests apparently showed that the nuclear-powered heart of the cruise missile failed to initiate and, therefore, the weapon didn't achieve the indefinite flight Putin had boasted about.WN.com, Jim Berrie....
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Family: Hunger-striking Ukrainian filmmaker critically ill
Ledger Enquirer 21 Aug 2018
She said, however, that the family doesn't have full information about his health. Russia's prison system has been contradicting claims about the filmmaker's worsening condition, saying ......
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Koreas to shut down some guard posts on DMZ
Inquirer 21 Aug 2018
North and South Korea have agreed to close some guard posts along their border on a trial basis, Seoul's defense minister told parliament Tuesday amid a rapid diplomatic thaw. The Demilitarized Zone that has divided the peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953 is, despite its name, one of the most fortified places on earth, with the areas on either side of it bristling with minefields and barbed-wire fences ... ....
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Scientists develop novel bacteria-powered paper battery
DNA India 21 Aug 2018
The team found that although oxygen slightly decreased power generation, the effect was minimal. This is because the bacterial cells were tightly attached to the paper fibres, which rapidly whisked the electrons away to the anode before oxygen could intervene. The paper battery, which can be used once and then thrown away, currently has a shelf-life of about four months....
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