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Iran's new parliament speaker says talks with US 'futile'
Manila Standard Today 31 May 2020
Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber on Sunday ... This, he said, would entail "the total expulsion of America's terrorist army from the region" ... ....
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2 different asteroids visited by spacecraft may have once been part of 1 larger asteroid
CNN 31 May 2020
"We have the very exciting chance that two space missions visited two primitive Near-Earth asteroids at about the same times, which allows us to discover two new small worlds," said Patrick Michel, study coauthor and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris....
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Trump postpones G7 summit, wants to expand it to G10 or G11, including India
The Telegraph India 31 May 2020
Trump has already talked about re-inviting Russia back to the group, which was kicked out of the bloc which was originally G8 countries during the previous Obama administration ... Trump talking about inviting India to the next G7 Summit is reflective of the growing international stature of the country....
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George Floyd death: US cities order curfews amid widespread clashes
BBC News 31 May 2020
Large demonstrations have taken place in at least 30 cities across the US. In Chicago, protesters threw stones at riot officers, who responded by launching tear gas canisters. Several people were arrested on Saturday. Police in Los Angeles fired rubber bullets as they tried to disperse protesters who threw bottles and set fire to their squad cars ... ....
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The Hawaii navy base fueling Trump's quest for 'super duper' missiles
Yahoo Daily News 31 May 2020
“I understand many people may have mixed feelings about that ... “History teaches us what happens when other powerful countries weaponize our islands … If the 2018 false missile alert did anything positive, it forced a conversation about how the massive military presence puts a big target over these islands.”Story continues....
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Trump threatens White House protesters with 'vicious dogs and most ominous weapons'
The Independent 30 May 2020
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NASA astronauts head for ISS on historic SpaceX flight
Manila Standard Today 31 May 2020
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (R) and Douglas Hurley, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they depart the Neil A ... AFP ... "It's been 18 years working towards this goal ... The reusable first booster stage of the Falcon 9 rocket separated cleanly about 2.5 minutes after liftoff and landed upright on a floating barge off the Atlantic coast ... ....
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Historic SpaceX Capsule 'Endeavour' Docks at The International Space Station
Newsweek 31 May 2020
The historic SpaceX capsule has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, was scheduled to dock into the orbiting platform at around 10.30 a.m. ET ... ET ... ....
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Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran?
GlobalResearch 30 May 2020
So what is it about Iran that makes it such a target of hostility for Trump and the neocons? There are many repressive regimes in the world, and many of them are close U.S ... As with Bush’s false WMD claims about Iraq in 2003, Trump’s real goal is not nuclear non-proliferation but regime change ... CEPU is secretive about the sources of this money....
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World virus cases top six million as leaders disagree on pandemic response
RTE 31 May 2020
The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million, with Brazil registering another record surge in daily infections as divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic ... Read. ... New York City, the worst-hit American city with about 21,500 coronavirus deaths, is on track to begin reopening the week of 8 June. ... ....
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Crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as industry group rejects substitute
The Guardian 31 May 2020photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Covid-19 expert Karl Friston: 'Germany may have more immunological “dark matter”'
The Observer 31 May 2020
As more data comes in, you adjust your beliefs about the causes, until your model simulates the data as accurately and as simply as possible ... SEIR models start to fall apart when you think about the underlying causes of the data ... about the causes of the data the senses feed to it....
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Another night of chaos and fury as protesters come out despite curfews
CNN 31 May 2020
While some were peaceful, others ended in chaos and devastation ... "No justice, no peace.". Read More ... "I want to be able to just be free and not have to think about every step I take." ... In New York City, authorities said late Saturday night about 120 people had been arrested and "there's a lot more coming in," according to one law enforcement official ... ....
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Could nearly half of those with Covid-19 have no idea they are infected?
The Guardian 30 May 2020
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Fire, pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over
The Guardian 31 May 2020
A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown, cities in ......
