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Bill Cosby in prison: Where he’ll go, what it will be like
The Mercury News 25 Sep 2018
Bill Cosby’s first stop as he enters the state prison system will be at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, a new $400 million, 3,830-bed prison in Collegeville, near Philadelphia ... When he arrives at SCI Phoenix, the staff will assess his physical, medical and security needs ... Related Articles ... ....
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Sudan And South Sudan Need A Time Out, But Will The U.S. And China Comply?
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingStraddling what many today call the Transition Zone, a volatile area along Africa’s north central region because of dramatic changes in both the human and physical landscape, Sudan and South Sudan have never had a time-out from colonialism or neocolonialism ... Spearheaded by the CIA, it too was keen to see sanctions lifted and to open its own office in Khartoum. It’s also obvious the U.S ... ....
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French man fined for sexually harassing woman on bus
RTE 26 Sep 2018
A French court has fined a man for insulting a woman during an assault on a bus, the first conviction under a new law that punishes sexual harassment in public spaces. The prosecutor's office in the south Paris suburb of Evry said the incident occurred last Wednesday when the 30-year-old man, visibly drunk, boarded the bus and spotted a 21-year-old woman ... ....
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Special throne for Japan’s next emperor arrives in Tokyo
Sacramento Bee 26 Sep 2018
The special imperial throne to be used for the coronation of Japan's new emperor has arrived in Tokyo from an ancient imperial palace in Kyoto more than a year ahead of time....
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China Says Plots To Disrupt Ties With Pakistan Will Fail
NDTV 26 Sep 2018
Any plots to sow discord in China's ties with Pakistan will not prevail, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Tuesday, as Beijing fends off criticism of its economic projects in Pakistan and... ....
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Man who served in US Army Reserves accused of being agent for China
The Times of India 26 Sep 2018
Text messages reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed that in November 2013, Ji was introduced to an intelligence officer from the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, referred to in the complaint as "Intelligence Officer A," by another person only identified as "Intelligence Officer B."....
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Russian parliament approves Putin's pension reform amendments
The Times of India 26 Sep 2018
MOSCOW. Russia's parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin's amendments to a deeply unpopular pension reform plan that has led to a rare outburst of public anger in the country. Parliament's lower house, the State Duma, approved Putin's proposal to soften the reform, raising the state pension age for women by five years to 60, instead of eight years to 63 ... oc/as/dcr. ....
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Thousands Of Georgetown Residents Told To Flee Rising Floodwaters In South Carolina
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
Thousands of people were told to evacuate their homes in Georgetown, South Carolina, after rainfall from Hurricane Florence caused rivers to surge above their banks, threatening some neighborhoods with as much as ten feet of water on Tuesday night, according to Reuters ... We expect the flooding to be worse than Hurricane Matthew a couple years ago,” said Randy Akers, deputy public information officer for Georgetown County....
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EU, China and Russia in move to sidestep US sanctions on Iran
The Guardian 26 Sep 2018
European diplomats hope the proposed measure – known as a Special Purpose Vehicle – will help persuade an increasingly reluctant Iran to stay inside the deal in the hope of rescuing its economy ... For example, Iran could ship crude oil to a French firm, accumulating credit that could then be used to pay an Italian manufacturer for goods shipped the other way, without any funds traversing through Iranian hands or the banking system ... .......
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Erdogan: Turkey Will Keep Importing Iran's Natural Gas Despite US Sanctions
Sputnik 26 Sep 2018
The Turkish lira's slide is not linked to a diplomatic row with Washington, and the country's economic hardship has been exaggerated, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in an exclusive interview to Reuters ... ....
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'World's largest ever bird' named after much debate
Deccan Herald 26 Sep 2018
The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, also discovered unexpected diversity in these Madagascan creatures. It was previously suggested that up to 15 different species of elephant birds had been identified under two genera. However, the latest research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the UK shows, in fact, that this is not the case ... Vorombe titan. World's largest bird. ....
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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: September 26, 2018
WorldNews.com 26 Sep 2018
General NewsGerman blockchain banking service Bitwala is set to launch the first platform that will enable the management of both euro deposits and bitcoin funds within the same bank account. The service is planned to be up and running by November with an estimated 30,000 customers already signed up.Japanese banking giant SBI Holdings has unveiled plans to launch “S Coin”, a crypto token for mobile retail payments....
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Indian arrested in Colombo over plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President
Zeenews 26 Sep 2018
An Indian national who was aware of an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has been arrested, a court was told ... ....
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Japanese Rovers Send Back First Images Ever Taken On An Asteroid's Surface
WorldNews.com 25 Sep 2018
Over the weekend Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft successfully landed two rovers on an asteroid – the first in history, IFL Science reported.Those two little rovers, called Rover-1A and 1B but together MINERVA-II1, have returned some amazing images from their mission at asteroid Ryugu, 280 million kilometers (175 million miles) from Earth.The first image sent back came from Rover-1A on Sept. 21 ... 22....
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EU has more pressing priorities than Brexit: French finance minister
DNA India 26 Sep 2018
The European Union has more pressing priorities than Britain's future relationship with the bloc, starting with its own future, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said ... He said the priority was to strengthen the euro zone, notably by completing plans for a backstop for its bank resolution fund and creating a shared budget, so that it could cope with a new financial or economic crisis ... ....
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