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As U.S.-China Trade Talks Resume, A Deal Remains Uncertain

U.S. trade negotiators are heading to Shanghai for talks with their Chinese counterparts this week, but there appears to be little pressure for a settlement in the year-old conflict.

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UN envoy calls for truce in Libyan war for Muslim holiday

The U.N. envoy for Libya called Monday for a truce between the country’s warring parties during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, warning that the ongoing conflict can grow into “a full-blown civil war” with potentially existential consequenc…

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Iran vs. Royal Navy: British Naval Destroyer Deploys to Persian Gulf

The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan has arrived in the Persian Gulf,  temporarily doubling the number of British warships in the Persian Gulf following repeated Iranian attacks on British ships.The brief increase in British warships in the region, from…

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TSA: Man checked missile launcher in luggage at BWI

BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal officials say they’ve found a missile launcher in a man’s luggage at the airport in Baltimore. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the military grade weapon was located in the man’s checked lu…

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Iranian women face 10 years for sharing videos of hijab removal

Iranian women face 10 years for sharing videos of hijab removalIranian officials have warned that posting video footage of women removing their mandatory headscarves in public could lead to up 10 years imprisonment, according to media reports yesterday.  The announcement specifically named the US-based social media platform of Masih Alinejad, which since 2014 has been inviting Iranian women to post pictures of themselves without the hijab. Ms Alinejad has been accused by the Iranian regime of working as an agent of the US government over the website, known as My Stealthy Freedom.  “As Masih Alinejad has a contract with the Americans, all those women who send the video footages of removing their hijab to her will be sentenced between one to 10 years of jail according to the article 508 of the Islamic Criminal Justice Act,” the head of Tehran’s Court of Revolution cleric Mousa Ghazanfarabadi told Fars news. Earlier this year Ms Alinejad met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who “thanked her for her bravery and continued dedication to the cause of freedom for Iranian women”.  In recent days the morality police in Iran has reacted to a number of incidents in which its vigilantees have been attacked in Tehran metro while “advising” women not to remove their hijab. She has denied working for any foreign governments.  Asked by the Fars news agency if sending video clips to an individual in US amounts to a criminal act, Mr Ghazanfarabadi has said: “My understanding of the law is that three types of video recordings are criminal acts; to film our military installations; to record private life of another citizen and the third case is to record a film with the aim of working with an enemy government”. In 2015, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy gave Alinejad its women’s rights award for “giving a voice to the voiceless and stirring the conscience of humanity to support the struggle of Iranian women for basic human rights, freedom, and equality”. The hijab mandatory in public for all women in Iran with punishment for violations usually two months imprisonment and a £20 fine.

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Trump’s Polarizing Pick for Spy Chief Has Tough Path in Senate

(Bloomberg) — Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats won 85 Senate votes when he was confirmed early in Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump’s choice to replace Coats, Representative John Ratcliffe, probably will have to rely exclusively on Republica…

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Trump’s intel pick collaborated with a fierce Russia foe

GOP Rep. John Ratcliffe, the president’s nominee for director of national intelligence, once worked with a leading Putin critic on the Magnitsky Act — which Russians have been pushing to overturn.

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Aleksei Navalny ‘Poisoning’ Comes at a Critical Moment in Moscow Protests

Epsilon/GettyMOSCOW—How far will the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin go to silence opposition figure Aleksei Navalny? At a moment when more than 1,400 people have been arrested at peaceful protests in Moscow, and the challenges to Putin’…

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Interview With Konstantin Remchukov: Moscow Election Protests Reflect A “Stark” Generational Shift

Russia has been experiencing a fresh wave of tumult over the past weekend as a protest rally took place on Saturday about upcoming Moscow municipal elections. The Russian authorities banned over a dozen candidates from participating in the September el…

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Boris Johnson Issues Ultimatum to EU Over Brexit Talks as Pound Slumps

(Bloomberg) — EPrime Minister Boris Johnson will not start talks with European Union leaders over Brexit unless they first agree to his demand to reopen the divorce deal they struck with his predecessor, Theresa May, his office warned Monday. So far, …

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Trump appoints loyalist to top intelligence post after ousting of man who produced scathing assessments of Russia

Donald Trump is to nominate a loyalist who recently performed a strong public defence of the president to be the country’s top intelligence official, after the departure of a veteran who presented harsh assessments about Russia the Oval Office did not …

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