Month: October 2019

Man charged with 39 counts of manslaughter after bodies found in back of truck

BASILDON, England – A man has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after 39 bodies were discovered in the back of a truck he was driving outside London. . Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday, according to a statement from Essex Police. He is also charged with conspiracy…

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Syria Kurds expect IS revenge attacks after Baghdadi death

Qamishli (Syria) (AFP) – Syria’s Kurdish forces said they expected revenge attacks by the Islamic State group following the US announcement Sunday that the jihadist organisation’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed. “Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi’s death,” Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces — the de facto…

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Pete Buttigieg may be stealing some of Joe Biden's donors

Financial anxiety is creeping into former Vice President Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign, The New York Times reports. In a confidential memo this week, Biden’s campaign manager Greg Schultz, asked top donors to “dig deep” to help alleviate some of the struggles. The Biden campaign is spending more than it’s taking in and only has…

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Being the frontrunner takes its toll: Joe Biden is more disliked than Bernie Sanders

AP Photo/Jessica Hill Former Vice President Joe Biden’s nomination would be more unsatisfactory among Democratic primary voters than if fellow 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders won the primary, according to recent Insider polling. While 27% of likely Democratic voters would be unsatisfied with a Biden nomination, 21% would be dissatisfied with a Sanders win, and…

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Japan: A Future Nuclear Weapons Superpower?

Key point: Tokyo could get the bomb if it needed to and that would be scary for its neighbors. It is perhaps China’s greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored off the Asian mainland, bristling with nuclear weapons, a nuclear Japan would make China’s security situation much more complex than it is now, and force China…

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