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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was able to hide out in an unlikely part of Syria, the base of a rival group, because he was paying protection money to its members, according to receipts for the payments recovered by researchers. But he was ultimately betrayed by a close confidant, leading to his death in a raid by U.S. Special Operations forces last weekend. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33epijz via IFTTT

A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NvE3HI via IFTTT

Pakistan: Death toll from fire on the express train jumps to 73    Gulf News PM Imran condoles with Tezgam tragedy victims, orders inquiry    Geo News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2BWzbpZ

WAF moves SHC seeking Munir Akrams removal as Pakistans UN envoy    The News International Rights body seeks Munir Akrams removal as Pakistans ambassador to UN    Geo News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2JE3E0m

Train driver says accident happened due to cylinder blast    Dunya News Pakistan fire: 65 killed, several others injured in Liaqatpur after blaze breaks out in three coaches of...    Firstpost View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2PxYXsr

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Government Asks WhatsApp To Explain Breach Amid Snooping Row    NDTV Israeli spyware on WhatsApp 'snooped' on Indian journalists, activists and others    Times of India IT Ministry seeks WhatsApp’s response on Israeli spyware issue    Hindustan Times Left, Right & Centre | Who Is Spying On Activists, Lawyers, Journalists Through WhatsApp?    NDTV WhatsApp snooping case: Government refutes allegations, says its committed to protecting rights of every    Times of India View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2q9sqyi

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Champion County match: Essex to play MCC in Sri Lanka in March    BBC Sport MCC to play Champion County in Galle during England tour | ESPNcricinfo.com    ESPNcricinfo Kumar Sangakkara To Captain MCC Against Essex    NDTV Sports Sri Lankan legend Sangakkara to lead MCC against Essex    Times of India Opp. Leader Rajapaksa raises concern regarding Govt.'s decision to sign MCC pact    The Sunday Times Sri Lanka View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2WFMRiN

Islamic State confirmed on Thursday that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a weekend raid by U.S. special forces in northwestern Syria, and vowed revenge against the United States. The Iraqi rose from obscurity to lead the ultra-hardline group and declare himself "caliph" of all Muslims, holding sway over huge areas of Iraq and Syria from 2014-2017 before Islsmic State's control disintegrated under U.S.-led attacks. The group confirmed his death in an audio tape posted online and said a successor, identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, had been appointed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N1Dma8 via IFTTT

WASHINGTON -- The average eighth grade reading score on a nationally representative test declined among public school students in more than half of the states, according to data released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the Education Department.The dismal results were part of the release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the "nation's report card." The test assesses a sample of fourth and eighth grade students -- more than 290,000 in each subject in 2019 -- every other year."Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest-performing students are doing worse," Peggy Carr, the associate commissioner of the center, said in a statement.Such findings will inevitably prompt demands for policy change. In a statement, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who is championing a $5 billion school choice program, said that the results "must ...

California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for "greed" and "mismanagement."PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather."I have a message for PG&E," Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. "Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER."Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blam...

The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell almost exclusively along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting no. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N5Vf85 via IFTTT

Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/332gzkj via IFTTT

As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2oCxRpc via IFTTT

GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34rWkNl via IFTTT

President Donald Trump’s top Russia aide on Thursday corroborated aspects of a key U.S. diplomat’s testimony connecting the president to a quid pro quo with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the aide’s testimony to House impeachment investigators. Timothy Morrison, the Europe and Russia chief for the National Security Council, was cited more than a dozen times in William Taylor’s opening statement to investigators last week. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34hfEwr via IFTTT

Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released "in error." Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34mPWqx via IFTTT

The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. The speaker in the audio also confirmed the death of Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, a close aide of al-Baghdadi and a spokesman for the group since 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N0sl94 via IFTTT

Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any "true acknowledgement" of such crimes must include other historical "mass slaughters".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36jWJmB via IFTTT

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After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36cyvdQ via IFTTT

Video of the encounter went viral along with a flood of social media commentary. Some accused Trump of playing a Halloween trick at the kid's expense. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qSZniP via IFTTT

The shark attack occurred in Hook Passage in the Whitsunday Islands off Australia's Queensland coast, rescuers say. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BQYklJ via IFTTT

The head of United States Central Command says Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea after a weekend raid on his compound. Gen. Frank McKenzie told reporters Wednesday that al-Baghdadi died after he exploded a suicide vest just before U.S. troops were going to capture him. McKenzie says two children were killed in the explosion set off by the Islamic State leader. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qR1fsn via IFTTT

Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. Th...

California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for "greed" and "mismanagement."PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather."I have a message for PG&E," Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. "Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER."Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blam...

The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/31PZybn via IFTTT

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn of making "an extraordinary reversal" to try to undo his sworn admission that he lied to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators about his contacts with Russia. Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan for the opportunity to oppose a bid filed by Flynn's lawyers last week to have the case dismissed - even though Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 - because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct. The retired Army lieutenant general and former Trump campaign adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his 2016 conversations with Sergey Kislyak, then-Russian ambassador to the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34eme6Z via IFTTT

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A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MUhmOq via IFTTT

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Lindsay Lohan NOT in a secret sexual relationship with Saudi Crown Prince, star’s dad forced to claim after r    The Sun Lindsay Lohan’s father discusses daughter’s relationship with Saudi crown prince Bin Salman    The Independent Lindsay Lohan's relationship with Saudi Crown Prince is 'platonic'    Daily Mail Lindsay Lohan's dad weighs in on her relationship with the Saudi crown prince    Wonderwall Inside Lindsay Lohan's Bizarre Friendship With Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman    The Daily Beast View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/331yDLo

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Resolution comes at delicate time in US-Turkey relationship, shortly after House votes to impose sanctionsPeople take part in a torchlight procession as they mark the 104th anniversary of the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces, Yerevan, Armenia. Photograph: Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the Armenian genocide of a century ago, stepping into a fraught historical debate at a particularly tense moment for the US-Turkey relationship.The House voted 405-11 in favor of the resolution, which is not legally binding, to formally recognize the systematic killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, modern-day Turkey, as a “genocide”.Earlier on Tuesday, the House voted 403 to 16 to impose sanctions on Turkey, in a striking rebuke of Donald Trump after he pulled American forces from northern Syria following a phone call with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, pa...

California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BUhQ0N via IFTTT

House impeachment investigators have invited John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump, to testify before Congress next week, according to reports.Mr Bolton was reportedly called on by House investigators to give evidence for their impeachment inquiry into Mr Trump surrounding the president’s dealings with Ukraine. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N4hMSF via IFTTT

The incident occurred Saturday evening when the off-duty Dallas police officer returned home and thought someone might be inside, DeSoto police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/31QJBSr via IFTTT

Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PEkvDI via IFTTT

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos GettyIt’s been more than two months since Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, but the investigation into possible accomplices is still very much alive. In recent days, federal prosecutors probing the financier’s sex-trafficking ring have been asking Epstein victims if they could serve as witnesses in the criminal case they are building.Representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York traveled to Florida for an Oct. 15 meeting with several of Epstein’s victims and their counsel. The staffers, who worked in the victim services unit, held a similar meeting in New York on Oct. 23, lawyers for the women and a law enforcement source told The Daily Beast.Two people familiar with the investigation said that prosecutors have heard from “dozens” of witnesses or victims since Epstein’s arrest in July.Following Epstein’s death in August, which was ruled a suicide by hanging, the Department of Justice said that it would c...

Populist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has invited his biggest political rival to work with him on ousting the country's prime minister as thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets for a fifth day. In a statement on Tuesday Sadr, who leads parliament's largest bloc, asked Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the second-largest, to help him introduce a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. "To answer brother Abdul Mahdi, I thought asking you to call an early election would preserve your dignity but as you have refused, I invite brother Amiri to work with me on withdrawing confidence from you immediately," he said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pYJrLI via IFTTT

Under past precedent in 1974 and 1998 — the last two times the House conducted an impeachment inquiry — the House Judiciary Committee was the hub for investigations, hearings, and a committee vote on articles of impeachment. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Nia3z6 via IFTTT

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Lebanon PM Saad Hariri resigns after two weeks of mass protests    The Express Tribune View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2oslWtR

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TOM LEONARD looks back at the extraordinary life of Robert Evans following his death at 89    Daily Mail Peter Bogdanovich Remembers Robert Evans, ‘the Last of a Breed’    Variety Robert Evans obituary | Register    The Times Robert Evans' extraordinary life of scandal and mob allegations as he dies aged 89    Mirror Online Robert Evans' final tweet was as epic as him    CNN View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2MYapMw

Taimur Ali Khan gives us total Boss Baby feels as he walks with swag in leather boots at the airport; WATCH    PINKVILLA Sara Ali Khan celebrates siblinghood with Ibrahim by her side on Bhai Dooj    The News International Sara Ali Khan spends colourful Diwali with mom Amrita Singh, brother Ibrahim    Geo News After daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, Sara Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar get KBC host Amitabh Bachchan's attention    Janta Ka Reporter Taimur Ali Khan gets annoyed at reporters while Kareena Kapoor tries to calm him    The News International View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2NquWYP

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"Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching." Rev. Robert Morey said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Pr8WzJ via IFTTT

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Saad al-Hariri resigned as Lebanon's prime minister on Tuesday, declaring he had hit a "dead end" in trying to resolve a crisis unleashed by huge protests against the ruling elite and plunging the country deeper into turmoil. Hariri addressed the nation after a mob loyal to the Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah and Amal movements attacked and destroyed a protest camp set up by anti-government demonstrators in Beirut. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MYiIYK via IFTTT

Gen. Mark A. Milley, who watched the raid with Trump in the Situation Room, told reporters at the Pentagon that he doesn't know "what the source of that was." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2oqYAF9 via IFTTT

(Bloomberg) -- Alberto Fernandez doesn’t take over as Argentine president until Dec. 10, but how he interacts with outgoing leader Mauricio Macri in the meantime is key to an economy in turmoil. On Monday at least the two men were talking.Fernandez arrived at the presidential palace in downtown Buenos Aires without any staff, save for a spokesman. Television networks showed pictures of the men, both in suits, shaking hands before sitting in armchairs facing each other. They met for about an hour over coffee.Later on Fernandez smiled and waved as he entered a car to leave, but he did not comment.Even that is a start for what could be a tricky transition period from a market-friendly leader who tried to enact fiscal discipline, to a left-leaning populist who has promised to increase spending for a public tired of the high cost of living and lack of strong public services.Fernandez told Macri during the meeting that he will provide details of a team to work with the Macri administration t...

An English tourist had his foot bitten off by a shark while another was bitten during the attack in the Whitsunday Islands near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Tuesday, officials said. In the latest in a string of shark attacks in the tourist area, a 28-year-old man's right foot was bitten off while a 22-year-old man suffered serious lacerations to his lower left leg, according to Mackay Base Hospital. The pair were in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital after being airlifted from the resort town of Airlie Beach, an official told AFP. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pcRJQ6 via IFTTT

Two in three Americans live in the "border zone," a 100-mile stretch inland where some constitutional due process and privacy protections are functionally canceled in the name of border security. The zone includes entire states -- Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, nearly all of New England, and all but a tiny sliver of Michigan -- as well as about three in four of our 20 largest metro areas. Is the Trump administration trying to make it bigger?The prospect seems obviously attractive to immigration hawks like White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, known to be the president's chief influence on border policy. Yet the possible suggestion of interest in expanding the border zone comes not from Miller but acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Mark Morgan, who joined President Trump on stage at a law enforcement conference in Chicago this week."We will be building 450 miles of big, beautiful wall by the end of 2020," Morgan said, implausibly. ...