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Global confidence in Trump lower than for China’s Xi, poll shows
Polling on the subject released past year had found that the median level of confidence in USA president across 37 countries had tumbled from 64 percentage the end of the Obama administration to just 22 percent at the start of Trump's first term. [Full Article...]
Iraqi PM orders immediate probe into recent killings of civil activists
Sheikh Zaid hospital, where she was taken at 5:45am, said that the model died after suffering three bullet wounds. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Friday issued instructions for the Iraqi Interior Ministry and intelligence to launch immediate investigation into recent killings of civil activists and social figures across the country. [Full Article...]
Iranian drones allegedly conduct airstrikes in eastern Euphrates
The state-run agency of Fars News released footage shows Iranian drones dropping bombs in eastern Syria. Iran vowed revenge last week after four assailants attacked a military parade, held to mark the start of the eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1980, killing 29 people and wounding at least 60 more including women and children. [Full Article...]
Kavanaugh questioned by police in 1985 over Yale bar fight
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was questioned by local authorities in 1985 following an altercation at a bar following a UB40 concert, according to The New York Times . He said that the altercation happened after a UB40 concert on September 25, when he and a group of people went to Demery's and were drinking pints. [Full Article...]
'Tyrants of Tehran': Netanyahu slams Iran & anti-Semitism at United Nations in speech
Netanyahu added that the Palestinians should look no further than the entity they are under. The deal's supporters were also wrong when they argued that restoring sanctions would rally the Iranian people around the regime, said Netanyahu, on the contrary yet again, "the courageous people of Iran are finally standing up to the brutal regime that repressed them for decades and still squanders thei... [Full Article...]
Horse walks into a bar in France: Runaway animal sends patrons running
She is saddled up ready for a race, but instead chooses to kick out, knocking over chairs as she heads straight for the betting counter. "Between the track and the stables, her rider fell off", he said. "It is all quite exceptional", he told Ouest France newspaper. As shown on the video, the horse ran to the back of the sports bar, then turned around to run the way she came in. [Full Article...]
1,200 convicts escape Indonesian prisons in quake-tsunami zone
Nugroho said conditions in the Balaroa section of Palu were particularly bad because the quake caused the ground to violently heave up and sink down in places, trapping many people under destroyed houses. A particular horror in several areas in and around Palu was liquefaction , which happens when soil shaken by an quake behaves like a liquid. The military has taken over the airport to fly ... [Full Article...]
Federal Bureau of Investigation to Probe Man Who Made False Rape Allegation Against Kavanaugh
Smith; Ford's friend Leland Keyser; and Deborah Ramirez, one of the other women who has also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. "The White House will decide the breadth of the inquiry, though presidential advisers were working in concert with Senate Republicans, said the two people, one a senior administration official, who both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive i... [Full Article...]