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Engineers Warn About Collapse Dangers Across Europe After Genoa Bridge Tragedy Kills 38
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Officials have been warning about the dangerous condition of infrastructure across Europe before the fatal collapse of the motorway in Genoa, with some experts warning similar tragedies can happen all over the EU, according to The Guardian ... Italy has as many as 300 bridges which are at risk of failure, including a bridge designed by the same engineer who was involved in the Genovese bridge, Ricardo Morandi, in Agrigento, Sicily ... ... ... ....
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Chinese Hackers Targeted US Government, Companies Before Trade Delegation Visited China
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Security researchers released a new report detailing how hackers from a Chinese university targeted American companies and the Alaskan state government for espionage opportunities after a United States trade delegation visited China earlier this year, according to Reuters ... Bill Walker, spent a week in China in May ... as the two are enmeshed in a tit-for-tat trade war ... I’ve never heard of this, so I have no way to give a response." ... ....
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Omarosa Releases Tape Of Lara Trump Offering Her Campaign Job Days After Firing
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
A damaging recording shared with MSNBC by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman of a conversation in which President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara offers her $15,000 a month to work on the president’s campaign after she was fired from the administration was released Thursday further added to the imbroglio, The Hill reported ... "They wrote about you ... Everything, everybody positive, right?" she adds....
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China rebuffs Philippines president's South China Seas rebuke
The Star 16 Aug 2018
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuffed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's call for Beijing to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea on Thursday, saying China had the right to react to foreign ships or aircraft that get close to its islands ... ....
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R&B Singer Aretha Franklin Dead at 76 After Long Illness
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Music legend Aretha Franklin died early Thursday at the age of 76 after a long illness, The Associated Press reported. Reports began circulating Sunday evening the R&B singer was in the hospital and “gravely ill,” the report said.Franklin’s final public performance took place in November 2017, the AP reported. Born in Memphis, the report said, Franklin grew up in Detroit as a singer in her father’s church....
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Smoke From Raging Wildfires In Western U.S. Pushing Carbon Monoxide Across The Country
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Residents across the East Coast could smell the lingering smoke in Baltimore and Washington D.C. on Thursday morning after high-altitude winds carried the scent from the dozens of fires burning across the Western United States, according to The Washington Post. Even though the flames were more than 3,000 miles away, social media posts from Virginia to Maryland from local residents said they could detect the particular scent ... ... ... Ryan M ... ....
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Admiral McRaven asks Trump to revoke his security clearance
CBS News 16 Aug 2018
McRaven, who oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden, argued that Mr. Trump does not show qualities of a good leader ... ....
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Poland's President Vetoes Election Rule Change Which Would Have Benefitted PiS Party
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Poland's president said he would veto a law which was approved by Parliament in July and was proposed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party which would have benefitted larger political parties on Thursday, according to Politico. Andrzej Duda said the law would benefit larger parties, including the eurosceptic PiS and the main opposition group, ......
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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
The Guardian 16 Aug 2018
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year, according to a new report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute. The rise came after the bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017, taking home an average of $18.9m in compensation while their employees’ wages stalled, rising just 0.3% over the year ... Read more ... Read more....
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Turkey's lira is rallying after a $15 billion loan from Qatar
Business Insider 16 Aug 2018
The Turkish lira continued to retreat from its historic low against the dollar on Thursday after Qatar announced a $15 billion funding package for Turkey's wobbling economy ... BST (3.12 a.m. ET) on Thursday morning ... ....
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A 65-Foot Portion of the Berlin Wall Rediscovered By Accident
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
A group of neighbors stumbled on a lost fragment of history in an overgrown portion of central Berlin, uncovering a 20-meter length of concrete wall splattered with vines and faded graffiti in early June, according to The New York Times ... “Our experts were able to confirm its authenticity based on the materials used to build it and its measurements,” Beutin said ... We need places and objects where we can keep the memories alive.”....
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Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Dead At 93
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died Thursday after a long illness at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, Economic Times reported. Vajpayee, 93, the former BJP leader, was a three-time prime minister, the report said.He was admitted to AIIMS in June as his condition deteriorated, Economic Times reported. He had many medical issues including being a diabetic with only one functioning kidney....
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Betsy Riot Punks NRA Lobbyist’s Wife With Domain Name
WorldNews.com 16 Aug 2018
Domain Name Wire reports the group Betsy Riot, which has won a dispute brought by Courtney Cox, wife of the National Rifle Association’s chief lobbyist and principal political strategist, Chris Cox, has been successful in a cybersquatting case....
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Congo: International arrest warrant for opposition's Katumbi
The Oklahoman 16 Aug 2018
Advertisement. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's government says it has issued an international arrest warrant for opposition leader Moise Katumbi, who has been in exile since 2016 ... Katumbi tried to enter Congo before the Aug ... ....
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'Dr BumBum' charged over death of patient after operation
The Guardian 16 Aug 2018
Prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro have charged a celebrity plastic surgeon known as “Dr Bumbum” and his mother with homicide for carrying out an aesthetic procedure that caused the death of one of his patients and was conducted in his apartment ... Prosecutors charged Furtado, his mother, his girlfriend and secretary Renata Fernandes and domestic employee, Rosilane da Silva with homicide ... Read more ... The hospital refused to comment ... .......
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