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Clarksville city worker killed in tractor-trailer hit-and-run accident WSMV NashvilleA Clarksville city street department worker was killed Tuesday morning in a hit-and-run pedestrian accident involving a tractor-trailer.
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British lawmakers on Tuesday face their last opportunity to prevent a no-deal Brexit at the end of October, a Conservative lawmaker leading an emergency debate on Brexit said. Lawmakers will vote at the end of the debate on whether to seize parliament…
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Ukraine’s parliament has voted to strip its members of immunity from prosecution in the first major victory for president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s populist reform programme. Supported by 373 of 450 MPs, the legislation removes from the constitution a guarantee that the chamber’s members cannot be held criminally liable without a vote by parliament. It will come into effect at the start of 2020. The move gives weight to Mr Zelenskiy’s promises to revitalise the reform process and root out entrenched corruption in Ukraine, where voters’ trust in the government had dropped to single digits. Nearly nine out of 10 believe that political parties have been engaged in corruption. Critics have said the change could expose MPs to politically motivated cases. But speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Mr Zelenskiy argued that it would instead keep members from abusing their position, promising that they would not be prosecuted for their votes or political decisions. “If a deputy hits a person with a car, or covers for (illegal) amber mining or commits any other criminal offence, he should bear responsibility,” he said. “This is parliament, not a lair where you can hide out under the cupola for five years.” The pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life was the only fraction that didn’t vote for the measure. The legislation to remove parliamentary immunity was actually introduced by Mr Zelenskiy’s predecessor Petro Poroshenko last year. Although it was ruled legal by the constitutional court, it did not move forward until the new president’s Servant of the People party won Ukraine’s first-ever single-party majority in snap elections in July. As a result, his initiatives stymied by the previous parliament now have a green light. Mr Zelenskiy met with US vice president Mike Pence in Poland on Sunday Credit: Ukrainian presidential press service via Reuters The removal of immunity fulfils a central campaign pledge of the former comedian, who played a teacher-turned-president on television before sweeping into the office for real in April. He has promised to strip the president and judges of legal immunity and establish procedures for impeachment and nationwide referenda, in addition to business-friendly tax and legal reforms. He also said he would involve the United States and UK in new peace talks about the frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Negotiations of a prisoner swap with Russia, which began after Mr Zelenskiy called Vladimir Putin last month, have so far failed to bear fruit, despite Ukrainian officials’ promises of an imminent trade in recent weeks. Also on Tuesday, parliament voted to send a bill to the constitutional court for review that would allow ordinary people to introduce legislation directly. One newspaper columnist said after Tuesday’s vote that parliamentary immunity must also be removed from a law on MPs’ status and from the criminal code to completely strip lawmakers of this protection. But given their parliamentary majority, Mr Zelenskiy’s supporters are well positioned to do this as well. While the president has been vocal in his anti-corruption campaign, many have questioned his ties with oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who owns the channel that broadcast Mr Zelenskiy’s shows and has been trying to reverse the nationalisation of his bank.
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for survivors on Tuesday.
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China will file a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding U.S. tariffs across approximately $263 billion worth of goods from China in annual import value, China’s Commerce Ministry said Sept. 2. The case will be the third dispute that …
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The Israeli military said Tuesday the militant group Hezbollah and Iran have built a precision-missile factory in neighboring Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The army issued a statement saying that “in fear of strikes” by Israel, Hezbollah had moved key equip…
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(Bloomberg) — Boris Johnson lost his government’s ruling majority ahead of a critical showdown with members of Parliament, as the Brexit crisis pushed the U.K. closer toward a snap election.The prime minister is battling political opponents who are de…
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Louisville’s favorite quartet and America’s Got Talent finalists Linkin’ Bridge dropped a new single called “60s Dance.”
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Notre Dame football’s Ian Brook hit a Louisville Ladybird dancer in the face with a football while trying to throw the ball out of bounds.
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(Bloomberg) — French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire met with U.S. authorities in Washington as part of a plan to offer Iran a $15 billion economic lifeline and rescue the Iran nuclear accord, an idea a Trump administration official said was a non-sta…
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Britain, the US and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by supporting a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations has said. UN investigators recommended that the UK and others, who have since 2015 been arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to the coalition, impose a ban on arms transfers to prevent them from being used to commit serious violations. The Court of Appeal in London ruled in June that the UK’s arms sales to the kingdom were unlawful because they did not properly consider whether the weapons would be used to commit “serious violations of international humanitarian law.” The latest UN report will likely be used by right groups and others demanding that the Government end weapons sales to Saudi for use in Yemen. A displaced child, who fled from fighting in Taiz, eats rice in a slum on the outskirts of Sanaa. Credit: Reuters “This shocking report should act as a wake-up call to the UK government,” said Muhsin Siddiquey, Oxfam’s Yemen country director. “It offers all the proof needed of the misery and suffering being inflicted on the people of Yemen by a war partly fuelled by UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other coalition members.” Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the main parties in the coalition fighting against the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capital, are two of the biggest buyers of US, British and French weapons. The report accused the coalition of killing civilians in air strikes and deliberately denying them food in a country facing famine. The Houthis, for their part, have shelled cities, deployed child soldiers and used “siege-like warfare”, it said. Save the Children has reported that more than 85,000 children may have starved to death since the conflict began in 2015. Nurse holds a hand of malnourished two-month-old Jood Motaher two days before her death at a malnutrition treatment centre in Sanaa Credit: Reuters The UN experts compiled a secret list of more than 160 “main actors” among Saudi, Emirati and Yemeni government, as well as Houthi officials, for the first time. Investigators found potential crimes on both sides. “There are no clean hands in this combat, in this contest,” said Charles Garraway, the only Briton on the panel. It found that a Joint Incidents Assessment Team set up by Saudi Arabia to review alleged coalition violations had failed to hold anyone accountable for any strike killing civilians, raising “concerns as to the impartiality of its investigations”. “Of one thing we are pretty sure – things are going wrong in the (coalition) targeting process,” Mr Garraway said. Neither the Saudi government communications office nor UAE officials responded immediately to requests for comment. The development came days after 100 people were killed in coalition air strikes on a Houthi detention centre in the city of Dhamar, south of Sanaa.
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