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- Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 03:08 PMActivists in Washington, Chicago and dozens of other U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - N.C. congressional contest marred by voter fraud scheme: official
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 02:11 PMAn investigation into a disputed 2018 congressional election in North Carolina has uncovered a "coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme" to influence the vote's outcome, a state election board official said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU's Juncker expects Trump to refrain from imposing higher tariffs on cars
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 12:32 PMU.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chicago police seek follow-up interview with 'Empire' actor
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 11:37 AMChicago police have shifted the direction of their investigation into actor Jussie Smollett's report of a hate-crime assault and are seeking to interview him again, after releasing two men detained for questioning in the probe, a police spokesman said on Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Army to be 'ruthless' against tampering in Nigeria's postponed vote: Buhari
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 10:02 AMPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday warned that anyone trying to tamper with Nigeria's postponed vote risked their lives and accused the electoral commission of incompetence.
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< - U.S.-backed Syrian forces call for 1,500 coalition troops to stay
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 10:24 AMThe commander of U.S.-backed forces in Syria called on Monday for about 1,000 to 1,500 international forces to remain in Syria to help fight Islamic State and expressed hope that the United States, in particular, would halt plans for a total pullout.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - India says mastermind of Kashmir bombing killed in clash
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 09:03 AMIndian forces on Monday killed three militants, including the suspected organizer of a suicide bombing in the disputed region of Kashmir that fueled tension between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, police said, with five troops also killed in the clash.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain still wants to reopen withdrawal agreement with EU: PM May's spokesman
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:46 AMBritain still wants to reopen the withdrawal agreement it negotiated with the European Union to provide legal assurances over the Irish border, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Facebook says it is 'open to meaningful regulation'
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:56 AMFacebook is "open to meaningful regulation", it said on Monday after British lawmakers said that big technology companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news and abuse of users' data.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Seven lawmakers quit UK Labour Party citing Brexit 'betrayal', anti-Semitism
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 05:50 AMSeven Labour lawmakers quit Britain's main opposition party on Monday over leader Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Labour had been "hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left."
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- U.S. tariffs on EU cars could mean EU buying less U.S. soya beans and gas: Juncker
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 02:09 PMUnited States tariffs on imports of European cars could mean that Europe would buy less soya beans and liquid gas from the U.S., the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigeria's electoral commission allows resumption of campaigning after vote delay: statement
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 01:50 PMNigeria's electoral commission approved on Monday the resumption of political campaigning, the body said in a statement, after the general elections were delayed by a week last Saturday.
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< - No need for Shinzo Abe: Trump already nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 11:31 AMJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not saying whether or not he nominated Donald Trump for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but the question may be moot: the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to say Venezuela's military at risk for supporting Maduro
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 11:08 AMU.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ireland says no-deal Brexit would be 'crazy outcome'
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 10:22 AMIreland is spending hundreds of millions of euros on preparing for a no-deal Brexit, which would be a "crazy outcome" of three years of EU-UK negotiations, Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Germany bans Wirecard 'shorting' as prosecutors probe FT journalist
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 08:52 AMGermany's financial watchdog has banned "short" selling of Wirecard shares due to volatility in the payments firm's stock following reports in the Financial Times which are now the subject of an investigation by German authorities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Parties to resume campaigns after Nigeria poll postponement, president warns against skullduggery
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 08:43 AMPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday accused Nigeria's electoral commission of incompetence over its organization of a national election as the main opposition party prepared to hit the campaign trail once again after voting was postponed for a week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Czech PM Babis says V4 summit in Israel scrapped: CTK agency
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:48 AMA meeting of the central European Visegrad group countries scheduled to start in Israel in Monday has been canceled after Poland pulled out, news agency CTK said, citing Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Poland pulls out of Israel summit in row over WW2 role
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 07:04 AMPoland pulled out of a planned summit in Israel on Monday, its prime minister said, after Israel's acting foreign minister said "many Poles" had collaborated with the Nazis in World War Two and shared responsibility for the Holocaust.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigerian president, ruling party hold emergency meeting over election delay
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 05:52 AMPresident Muhammadu Buhari was meeting with senior members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Monday over the postponement of Nigeria's presidential election, the party said.
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- Auto industry lines up against possible U.S. tariffs
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 03:15 PMThe U.S. auto industry urged President Donald Trump's administration on Monday not to saddle imported cars and auto parts with steep tariffs, after the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exclusive: Glencore to take 200,000 T of aluminum from ISTIM Port Klang warehouses
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 12:57 PMMining giant Glencore has bought 200,000 tons of aluminum on the London Metal Exchange and will take delivery of the metal from warehouses owned by ISTIM UK in Port Klang, Malaysia, five sources familiar with the matter said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - N.C. congressional contest marred by absentee ballot scheme: official
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 12:36 PMAn investigation of a disputed 2018 congressional contest in North Carolina has uncovered a "coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme," the state's elections board executive director said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to say in speech Venezuela's military should let humanitarian aid into country
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 10:45 AMU.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S.-backed Syria force seeks help with Islamic State prisoner 'time bomb'
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 10:18 AMHundreds of foreign jihadist fighters held in Syria represent a "time bomb" and could escape and threaten the West unless countries do more to take them back, the Kurdish-led, U.S.-backed authorities holding them said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S.-backed force won't release jihadists but says countries must take them back
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 08:54 AMKurdish-led authorities in north Syria said on Monday they would not free foreign Islamic State detainees but countries must repatriate them, after U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigeria's main opposition party accuses Buhari of 'jungle justice' threat
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 08:42 AMNigeria's main opposition on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari's threat to use soldiers to deal with any attempts to tamper with voting material during a delayed vote was a "direct call for jungle justice".
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel says it will host Czech, Slovak, Hungarian leaders after Polish pullout
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:50 AMIsrael says on Monday that it would host bilateral meetings with the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian leaders this week after Poland withdrew from a planned five-way summit in Jerusalem in protest at Holocaust rhetoric.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Facebook broke rules, should be regulated: UK lawmakers
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:56 AMFacebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new regulator to protect democracy and citizens' rights, British lawmakers said on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Carolina board to hear evidence on election fraud claim
Monday - 02/18/2019 - 06:02 AMNorth Carolina election officials on Monday will begin hearing evidence on allegations that absentee ballots unlawfully collected by a Republican operative may have tipped a tight November U.S.
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