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Samsung explains mystery alert sent overnight
BBC News 20 Feb 2020
Samsung has apologised after it accidentally sent an alert to thousands of devices overnight ... ....
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Ben Affleck opens up about sobriety and alcoholism: ‘I don’t want my children to pay ...
The Independent 20 Feb 2020
Ben Affleck opened up about his experience with sobriety and alcoholism in a new TV interview on Thursday. The actor, who portrays an alcoholic basketball coach in his new film The Way Back, sat down with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America to talk about the role as well as his personal life ... Download the new Independent Premium app ... Part II ... ....
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Coronavirus May Be Spreading So Fast Because of Feacal Transmission, Scientists Say
Newsweek 20 Feb 2020photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit
CMS COP13: Not pangolins, illegal trade to blame for coronavirus
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2020
Pangolin is considered to be the mammal most heavily traded for meat. (File) ... Panelist Dr Susan Lieberman from the Wildlife Conservation Society, said that the trade of wild species for food, ornaments and medicines was worth between eight and 20 billion USD per year ... Live animal food markets need to be stopped,” Lieberman said ... ....
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Turkey says two of its soldiers killed in airstrike in Syria
Stars and Stripes 20 Feb 2020
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Defense Ministry says two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike in Syria's Idlib province. Five other soldiers were wounded in the attack. The deaths bring to 15 the number of Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib. A ministry statement posted Thursday on Twitter said Turkey's military is responding to the attack ... 3 ... ___....
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Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
The Wrap 20 Feb 2020
Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months — or 3 years and 4 months — in prison Thursday morning for impeding Trump-Russia investigation. Stone, who worked as a campaign adviser for Trump, was found guilty in November 2019 on all federal counts in a trial stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation ... Also Read....
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London can host 2020 Games if moved over coronavirus, mayor candidate says
Grand Forks Herald 20 Feb 2020
London hosted the Olympics in 2012, but British officials played down the prospect of taking away the Games from Tokyo, which has been planning the event for seven years since its bid won in 2013 ... With the Tokyo Games due to begin on July 24, organizers have set up a task force to coordinate with public health authorities over the epidemic ... ....
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Elizabeth Warren Says Mike Bloomberg Will Drop Another $100 Million 'to Erase America's Memory' of His Debate Performance
Newsweek 20 Feb 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren continued to go after billionaire Mike Bloomberg after the conclusion of the ninth Democratic primary debate, suggesting that the former New York mayor will shell out even more of his vast fortune to "erase America's memory" of his poor debate performance ... "And understand this ... ....
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Investigators see 'xenophobic motive' behind Germany shootings
The Times of India 20 Feb 2020
HANAU(GERMANY). German investigators said Thursday they suspected a "xenophobic motive" behind shootings at a shisha bar and a cafe that left 10 dead overnight in the city of Hanau ... The probe was of "particular importance" and there were "signs of a xenophobic motive", a spokesman for the prosecutors told AFP ... Top Videos....
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Pompeo: Iran must be held accountable for Baghdad attacks
Gulf News 19 Feb 2020
Addis Ababa ... “There has to be accountability connected to those very serious attacks.”. Pompeo was referring to a February 16 incident in which several rockets landed inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, causing minimal damage and no injuries ... Tehran denied involvement in that incident ... Pompeo countered that the US was ready to talk any time ... ....
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Man arrested after non-fatal stabbing inside London mosque
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2020photo: Creative Commons / Shunichi kouroki
Violin was last minute addition to surgery, says brain tumour patient
Reuters 20 Feb 2020photo: Creative Commons
Looted 18th Century Crown Returned to Ethiopia After Decades
Voa News 20 Feb 2020
A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago ... “This is a historic day for us,” Hirut Kassaw, Ethiopia’s minister for culture and tourism, told The Associated Press. The religious crown went missing in 1993 and was discovered in Rotterdam in October ... ....
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South Korean city on high alert as coronavirus cases soar at 'cult' church
The Guardian 20 Feb 2020
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Portuguese PM expresses condolences, solidarity to Germany after fatal shootings
Xinhua 20 Feb 2020
LISBON, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Thursday expressed his condolences and solidarity to his German counterpart Angela Merkel over the twin shootings in the western German city of Hanau ... "Intolerance and racism kill ... Freedom should never be taken for granted," Costa added ... ....
