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Vehicle bomb targeting police station in Somalia's capital kills four
The incident took place at Waberi police station, near Maka al Mukaram road, which is the busiest street in Mogadishu . On Tuesday, at least 15 people were killed when a suicide auto bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Mogadishu . [Full Article...]
Huge forest fires in Portugal kill at least sixty
Secretary of State for the Interior Jorge Gomes said that most had died from smoke inhalation and burns, while two were killed in a road accident related to the fires. "In an immediate response to a request for assistance by the Portuguese authorities, the EU's Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated to provide firefighting aircraft". [Full Article...]
Opposition Split Wide Open, JD-U to Back Ram Nath Kovind
The decision was announced here by Chief Minister K Palaniswami . The rebel AIADMK PTA led by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, who enjoys the support of 12 MLAs and 12 MPs, held discussions with his supporters and announced that it has beenunanimously made a decision to extend their support to Mr Kovind. [Full Article...]
Trump on Jeh Johnson testimony
Some of the emails embarrassed or undermined her campaign. Johnson , who was homeland security secretary from December 2013 to January 2017, appeared Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee . He said he had repeatedly warned previous year about the vulnerability of voter registration databases to hacks. "I knew it wasn't true", he said, "but people thought it was". [Full Article...]
Another leadership test for Pelosi, who's weathered many
On Thursday morning at her weekly briefing, Pelosi fielded several questions about calls for her to go. The message after four races according to the GOP: Americans aren't as sick of the chaos in Washington as the media says. I am a strategic, politically astute leader. "And what they hoped by making it a referendum on Trump was by saying Trump is bad, Trump is terrible, that would b... [Full Article...]
Special education teacher charged in sexual assault resigns
Police say Ramos then consented to a second interview, in which she told police she and the teen started flirting in December, before it turned physical, and having sex " a handful of times " in her vehicle, the last time in April. When police first asked Ramos about the boy, she denied anything inappropriate happened. Her lawyer has previously said Ramos is "cloaked in the presumption of innoce... [Full Article...]
Obamacare replacement bill runs into Republican trouble
The long-awaited plan marks a big step towards achieving one of the Republican party's major goals. Democrats meanwhile formed a united front against the controversial measure, blasting it as a "war on Medicaid", the health care program for lower income Americans. [Full Article...]
Germany spied on the White House, reports claim
The magazine said that it had seen evidence suggesting German security agency the BND had used nearly 4,000 keywords in internal surveillance databases that related to American targets from 1998 to 2006. Hundreds of foreign embassies as well as global organizations like the worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF) were reportedly not spared from being spied on either, the Spiegel said. [Full Article...]