| Russia Condemns 'Treacherous And Insane' U.S. Retaliation Strikes In Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2018 05:40 AM PDT  Russia condemned the United States, the United Kingdom and France for their
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| Full Ernst: Trump needs to come to Congress for further Syria strikes Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:55 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview on Meet the Press, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) tells Chuck Todd that she is "comfortable" with air strikes on Syria, but that the president needs authorization for any ground troops.
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| Starbucks faces social media backlash over tepid apology for alleged racial profiling Posted: 14 Apr 2018 02:00 PM PDT  Cell phone video captured a bewildered man at Starbucks this week asking Philadelphia police why they were arresting his two black friends. Onlookers said there didn't appear to be a reason for the arrest. The men were simply sitting at the coffee shop, waiting for their business associate — the aforementioned bewildered man — to show up before placing their orders. SEE ALSO: The tech talent gap is real. Increased diversity is the solution. Now, Starbucks has confirmed that the incident was a mistake, and "are disappointed this led to an arrest." The three-sentence apology, however, is short on details or a even just a blunt admission of guilt. The company did not reply to Mashable's request for more details at the time of this publication. We apologize to the two individuals and our customers for what took place at our Philadelphia store on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/suUsytXHks — Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) April 14, 2018 On April 12, a Twitter user posted a 45-second video of the arrest online, in which she commented: "All the other white ppl are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing." @Starbucks The police were called because these men hadn't ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing. pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci — Melissa DePino (@missydepino) April 12, 2018 The "same thing," specifically, is waiting for a friend or sitting at Starbucks before ordering a drink. This is obviously common in many Starbucks scenarios, as Starbucks is one of the nation's most popular meeting places. As the company states on its website: Details are still lacking, but it appears a Starbucks employee may have called the police on the two black men who — according to Commissioner Richard Ross — didn't leave the establishment after they were refused access to the bathroom because they weren't paying customers. In the tweeted statement, Starbucks apologized to the two customers. It's unlikely such a public apology would have occurred if Starbucks wasn't directly responsibly for the arrest. It's also unlikely that Starbucks would have been forced to publicly apologize for the event had the video of the wrongful arrest not been published to social media. It became an issue they couldn't ignore. As of 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on April 14, the Twitter video has accumulated nearly four million views and the social media conversation around it continues. How revealing that a @Starbucks employee, who works in a place where people spend hours sitting around using the wifi and tapping away on their laptops with or without coffee, gets alarmed enough to call the cops just because black men enter the space and don't order right away. https://t.co/pdzXYfMc09 — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 14, 2018 You'll notice that nowhere in this "apology" was an admission of wrongdoing. Starbucks doesn't think the employees were wrong to call the cops on those men, they're just sorry the men got arrested over it. https://t.co/wcE6s20lwk — EricaJoy (@EricaJoy) April 14, 2018 This is an example of saying a lot but saying nothing. Who called the cops, why did they call the cops, why were the black men targeted for minding their business. I have been to starbucks all over the country 50% of people there not doing nothing but chilling. Need better answer https://t.co/SdfDHSxK0C — Robert Littal (@BSO) April 14, 2018 It took Starbucks two days to issue a paragraph. — Mohamed Salih (@MohamedMOSalih) April 14, 2018 Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson addressed the situation that occurred in Philadelphia later on Saturday with a statement posted in the company's newsroom. It owns what happened more explicitly than the initial statement, notably in this passage. UPDATED April 15, 2018, 11:12 a.m. ET with Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson's statement. WATCH: NASA needs you to send them pictures of clouds
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| Prominent LGBTQ Lawyer Sets Self On Fire In 'Protest Suicide' Of Climate Change Posted: 14 Apr 2018 06:55 PM PDT  David Buckel, a prominent LGBTQ civil rights attorney, fatally set himself on
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| Peru's Vizcarra begins presidency with 57 pct approval rating Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:12 PM PDT  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra kicked off his presidency with a 57-percent approval rating, according to an Ipsos poll published in a local newspaper on Sunday. A former vice president, Vizcarra took office on March 23 after his predecessor, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, resigned in a graft and vote-buying scandal. The Ipsos survey, published in El Comercio, showed 13 percent of Peruvians polled disapproved of Vizcarra.
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| Photos: Antiwar activists and Syrians protest U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria Posted: 15 Apr 2018 02:09 PM PDT  Antiwar activists and Syrians worldwide demonstrated against the joint U.S., British and French airstrikes launched in Syria Saturday. The missile attack was in response to a suspected chemical attack on civilians by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. (AP)
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| Mother Who Drove Family of 8 Off Cliff Was Drunk: Report Posted: 14 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Two of the children also had Benadryl in their system.
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| Students Were Sexually Assaulted and Used Drugs Because Teachers Protested, Kentucky Governor Says Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT  'Children were harmed'
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| Superman celebrated in honor of 80th anniversary Posted: 14 Apr 2018 09:21 AM PDT  The iconic superhero made his debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938, evolving into cartoons, a TV series and the big screen.
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| Will Trump Fire Rosenstein? It May Not Matter. Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:28 PM PDT  Something very fishy happened last week. On Friday, we were treated to almost
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| Tens Of Thousands In Hungary Protest Far-Right Leader Viktor Orbán Posted: 14 Apr 2018 11:40 AM PDT  Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Hungary's capital of
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| The Latest: Cosby lawyers ask accuser about pyramid scheme Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:20 AM PDT  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the Bill Cosby sexual-assault retrial (all times local):
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| Kate McKinnon Kills As Laura Ingraham On 'Saturday Night Live' Posted: 14 Apr 2018 11:02 PM PDT  Astounding chameleon Kate McKinnon claimed one more victim on "Saturday Night
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| Syria strikes: US Defence Secretary James Mattis says 'this was a one-time shot' - for now Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:24 PM PDT  The US military has revealed the three-nation stake on Syria targeting alleged chemicals assets is over for now – declaring "right now this is a one-time shot". Defence Secretary James Mattis said the US, UK and France had acted together, having determined that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians a week ago. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, said the targets included a Syrian research facility, a chemical weapons storage facility and a command post.
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| Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:33 PM PDT  China's Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday's announcement comes amid a clampdown targeting content across social media platforms as China's leaders look to tighten their grip on a huge and diverse cultural scene popular with the young. Weibo announced the move on its official administrator's account, saying the action aimed to comply with China's new cyber security law that calls for strict data surveillance.
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| OPCW continuing mission into alleged Douma gas attack despite air strikes Posted: 14 Apr 2018 06:13 AM PDT  Experts from the world's global chemical arms watchdog are continuing their mission to probe an alleged gas attack in Douma despite Western air strikes in Syria, the body said Saturday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been "working in close collaboration" with UN security experts "to assess the situation and ensure the safety of the team," it said. It vowed in its statement that the fact-finding mission due to go to Douma later Saturday "will continue its deployment to the Syrian Arab Republic to establish facts around the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma".
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| Nearly 1,400 Sharks Spotted In Mysterious Gathering Off East Coast Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:19 PM PDT  Nearly 1,400 basking sharks were spotted in aerial photos in a puzzling
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| Offer to Withdraw America's Troops from South Korea to Seal a Nuclear Deal with the North Posted: 14 Apr 2018 05:27 PM PDT  Washington's priority should be to eliminate the North's nuclear weapons and the regime's ability to strike America. The prospect of a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un offers a unique opportunity to move Northeast Asia away from more than seven decades of confrontation and conflict.
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| U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:02 AM PDT ![U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria]( "U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria") U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targeting what they said were chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack.
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| ‘SNL’ Host John Mulaney Wrote Last Night’s Best Sketch In 2010 Posted: 15 Apr 2018 11:57 AM PDT  Comedian John Mulaney wrote for "Saturday Night Live" from 2008 to 2014. In
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| Uber Sticking By Self-Driving Cars Despite Recent Fatality Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:48 AM PDT  The company wants to resume testing of its driverless fleet.
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| Kentucky Gov. Apologizes After Claiming Teacher Protest Would Result In Child Abuse Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:15 PM PDT  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologized Sunday after recently saying school
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| Russia calls for UN meeting on Syria, mulls supplies of S-300 systems Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:57 AM PDT  By Andrey Ostroukh MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as Moscow said it would consider supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria following U.S.-led strikes. "Russia convenes an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss aggressive actions of the U.S. and its allies," President Vladimir Putin said in a statement published on the Kremlin website. "The current escalation of the situation around Syria has a devastating impact on the whole system of international relations," he added.
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| Legal fight lingers for man freed in 1980 murder case Posted: 14 Apr 2018 07:23 AM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — John Floyd spent 36 years locked up for a New Orleans murder he insisted he didn't commit. A federal judge sees things the same way and ordered his release from jail last year and a new trial. Her decision was backed by a federal appeals court.
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| Mother Discovers Cancerous Tumor on Her Foot During Pedicure Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:27 AM PDT  She had to have her foot amputated.
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| Scepticism as Myanmar announces return of first Rohingya family Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:30 AM PDT  Myanmar's government said it has repatriated the first family of Rohingya refugees, among the 700,000 who fled a brutal crackdown, but the move was slammed by rights groups as a publicity stunt which ignored warnings over the security of returnees. The stateless Muslim minority has been massing in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh since the Myanmar army launched a ruthless campaign against the community in northern Rakhine state last August. The United Nations says the operation amounts to ethnic cleansing, but Myanmar has denied the charge, saying its troops targeted Rohingya militants.
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| Hear The 2019 Audi TT RS Play Its Five-Cylinder Symphony Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:11 PM PDT  Don't expect any major styling changes.
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| Only 11 Syrian refugees have been taken in by the US this year Posted: 14 Apr 2018 02:57 PM PDT  America has accepted just 11 Syrian refugees so far this year, it was revealed, hours after Donald Trump ordered air strikes on the country, risking sparking an uprising in violence. It prompted accusations of hypocrisy by the Trump administration. In 2015, under Barack Obama's presidency, the US admitted 2,192 Syrian refugees, State Department figures show.
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| 4 Islamic Jihad members killed in Gaza 'work accident' blast Posted: 14 Apr 2018 07:00 AM PDT ![4 Islamic Jihad members killed in Gaza 'work accident' blast]( "4 Islamic Jihad members killed in Gaza 'work accident' blast") GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The militant Islamic Jihad group said four of its members were killed Saturday in a "work accident" in the southern Gaza Strip along the border with Israel.
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| Mercedes: Nissan Will Never Get X-Class' V6 Diesel For The Navara Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:10 AM PDT  A sporty Navara to take on the Ford Ranger Raptor is planned, but it won't have Mercedes' 3.0-liter diesel engine.
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| Removing Richard Spencer from Facebook is a gesture, not a fix Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:33 AM PDT  After a long month and an even longer week for Facebook, the social network is taking publicity-friendly steps to scrub hateful views from its platform. Two pages associated with the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer were removed on Friday. Both the National Policy Institute, an organization that favors a white ethnostate, and Altright.com, Spencer's online magazine, no longer have a home on Facebook. SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook testimony turned into a lesson on how the internet works The removals came after Vice News reached out to the site to find out why those two pages were still active. The query was prompted after Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg insisted during his Congressional testimony that "we do not allow hate groups on Facebook." A third group flagged by Vice, The Nationalist Initiative, was also removed. It's not clear how many followers that third page had, but the two connected to Spencer combined for around 15,000 followers. The move comes exactly one month after Facebook banned Britain First, the far-right, anti-Islamic group whose hateful and misleading tweets were once retweeted by Donald Trump. Earlier in the week, Zuckerberg told Congress: "We do not allow hate groups on Facebook, overall. So if there's a group that, their primary purpose or a large part of what they do is spreading hate, we will ban them from the platform overall." The pledge was met with skepticism in various corners of the world. In one example, a group of civil liberty organizations in Myanmar penned an open letter to Zuckerberg, decrying "the inadequate response of the Facebook team" to stamping out hate speech. That skepticism isn't without merit. Spencer is a widely known figure on the internet because of his toxic, xenophobic views, but it took a media organization asking "Why?" for any action to be taken. This isn't difficult to research, either. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy nonprofit, maintains a running list of active hate groups in the United States. As of this writing, 62 groups are listed; we won't link to them here, but a quick Google search reveals that many also appear on Facebook even now. Make no mistake: It's great to see Facebook stepping up and shutting down the influence of problematic figures like Spencer and Britain First. But there are plenty of groups out there that exist and are known, but haven't made headlines yet. Why does it take a major news event, or a query from a media organization, for Facebook to take action? Wouldn't it be more of a fix to root these problem groups out before they build a platform for themselves? WATCH: It seems Mark Zuckerberg's team should be the one answering questions
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| Reports of explosions heard in Damascus, Syria as Trump announces airstrikes Posted: 13 Apr 2018 06:46 PM PDT  CBS News foreign correspondent Seth Doane is the only network correspondent inside Damascus, Syria. He reports that as President Trump was speaking, he heard "rumbling" that appeared to be airstrikes.
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| Arab leaders call for probe into Syria chemical attacks, condemn Iran Posted: 15 Apr 2018 03:40 PM PDT  By Stephen Kalin and Sarah Dadouch DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - An Arab League summit called on Sunday for an international probe into the "criminal" use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned what it saw as Iran's interference in the affairs of other countries. Saudi Arabia and Iran have for decades been locked in a struggle for regional supremacy that is now being played out in proxy wars in several countries, including Yemen and Syria.
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| Father of Parkland Shooting Victim Said He Doesn't Want Cruz's Inheritance Money Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:05 PM PDT  He said he wants ten minutes alone in a room with him instead.
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| Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:41 PM PDT ![Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning]( "Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning") The Syrian government and its allies have absorbed a U.S.-led attack on Saturday and the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia, a senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus said. "We had an early warning of the strike from the Russians ... and all military bases were evacuated a few days ago," the official said. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been backed in the seven-year-long Syrian war by Russia, Iran, and Iran-backed Shi'ite groups from across the region, including Lebanon's Hezbollah.
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| New satire offers Zimbabweans a chance to laugh at Robert Mugabe Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:11 PM PDT  For the first time Zimbabweans can laugh at Robert Mugabe at the theatre without worrying they may be arrested or that the play will be banned. A new and daring comedy, Operation Restore Regasi, about the soft coup d'etat in Harare last November, has packed out the theatre. Audiences have been convulsed with laughter as they watch Carol Magena, playing Grace Mugabe, teetering around the stage trying to seduce Constantino Chiwenga, the army commander, while her frail old husband, Robert Mugabe, 93 at the time, is slumped in his chair, asleep. There was standing room only at the play, which opens with Mr Mugabe under house arrest in his mansion, and Mrs Mugabe shrieking that she wants to leave Zimbabwe immediately and go to Dubai, her favourite shopping destination. Charles Munganasa based his script on what he imagined the first couple would be saying to one another, and to Chiwenga, shortly after the army took power. Carol Magenga as Grace Mugabe, Khetani Banda (2nd L) in the role of former Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and Charles Munganasa as Zimbabwe's former army commander General Costantino Chiwenga Credit: AFP Ms Magena said she was having the "time of her life" playing the former first lady, who emerged into Zimbabwe's political arena only three years ago and hatched a plan to inherit the top job from her husband. She said it was easy to portray Grace Mugabe, both physically and emotionally, as the former first lady so regularly appeared on state television. Profile | Robert Mugabe "She ensured all her meetings were on TV. She is unpredictable, erratic, volatile, even crazy. She said anything that came into her head. We watched as she dominated the media, getting people fired, insulting senior people. She was in control of Zimbabwe." The play's short three-day run was packed out and was extended this week. It closed on Friday but will tour Zimbabwe and South Africa. Munganasa said the play destroys Mugabe's legacy: "He was lost within his own political camp and he thought he was untouchable and invincible and he surrendered power to his wife." He called the play Operation Restore Regasi, because General Chiwenga cannot say L in English and uses R instead. The army's campaign against Mr Mugabe was called Operation Restore Legacy.
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| Abe seeks to move Japan off sidelines with Trump trip Posted: 14 Apr 2018 07:31 PM PDT  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to the US Tuesday, hoping his carefully cultivated relations with "golf buddy" Donald Trump will help keep Japan in the loop and out of danger amid a flurry of diplomacy on North Korea. During talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the two allies are expected to stress the need to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang, as well as thrash out bilateral trade frictions. Few leaders have courted the US president as furiously as Abe, who famously visited Trump in his gilded New York tower before the billionaire businessman was even sworn in.
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| 5 Weapons That Make It Clear Israel Dominates the Sky Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:17 AM PDT  Time and again during its short existence, Israel has demonstrated that it has the most powerful military in the Middle East. Nowhere is the gap between Israel and its neighbors larger than in the air. As Chris Harmer, a naval analyst, has commented: "Pilot to pilot, airframe to airframe, the Israeli air force is the best in the world." Israel's air dominance goes beyond the Air Force, and also includes its air and missile defense systems as well as its missile capabilities.
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| Beyoncé Makes History As First Black Woman To Headline Coachella Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:29 AM PDT  Beyonce made history this weekend at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
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| See The 2019 Aston Martin Rapide AMR Being Pushed Hard On Track Posted: 14 Apr 2018 02:26 AM PDT  Key specs: 4 doors, naturally aspirated V12, 592 horsepower, 210 miles per hour.
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| `I Don`t Play Mega Millions:` New Jersey Man Comes Forward as $533 Million Winner Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:41 PM PDT  Food processing plant manager Richard Wahl says he`s only played Mega Millions once before he won a major jackpot.
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| Syria strikes - as it happened: Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons capability 'set back for years' by bombing, Pentagon says Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:53 PM PDT  Joint air strikes by the US, UK and France have set back Syria's chemical weapons capability "for years", the US military said. Cruise missiles were fired at three sites in response to what Theresa May called the "despicable and barbaric" attack in Douma last week that is believed to have killed up to 75 people. Ms May said Bashar al-Assad could face even further strikes if chemical weapons are used again - and the US warned that they were "locked and loaded" if poison used again.
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| US calls for additional sanctions on Venezuela Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:37 AM PDT  US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday called for more sanctions on Venezuela to isolate President Nicolas Maduro and his administration, overshadowing the opening of a summit in Peru with Latin American leaders. Pence urged the extra measures as he met with Venezuelan opposition figures in Lima who called for more sanctions and "intervention" in their crisis-hit country. Maduro was not invited to take part in the summit, which began on Friday but was overshadowed by Pence's calls for sanctions and US-led strikes in Syria, which caused the vice president to abruptly leave the opening ceremony.
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| Indian lawmaker arrested over rape as protests mount Posted: 13 Apr 2018 11:04 PM PDT  By Krishna N. Das and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A lawmaker from India's ruling party was arrested on Friday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing to investigate the case and other attacks. The rallies, which echoed mass protests against sexual violence in 2012, have piled pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, hours earlier on Friday, had promised to take action. The BJP lawmaker, Kuldeep Singh Sengar from the legislature of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in connection with the rape case, senior state police officer Rahul Srivastav told Reuters.
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| Trump: 'mission accomplished' on 'perfectly executed' Syria strike Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:18 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump on Twitter praised Western air strikes against the Syrian government on Saturday as "perfectly executed", and added "Mission Accomplished". Mission Accomplished!" Trump said in a Twitter post. Trump's message echoed the words of a banner that hung behind former President George W. Bush when he gave a speech in 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln, during the Iraq War.
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| In Kentucky, teachers claim victory as vetoes rejected Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:05 PM PDT FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — As Kentucky teachers declare victory after the Republican-dominated legislature overrode vetoes from the state's GOP governor of a spending plan that included new money for education, the question going forward is whether teachers will be able to sustain their momentum into the fall elections when Republicans will try to defend their super majority.
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| Canada's Trudeau defends controversial pipeline project Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:32 AM PDT  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday defended his government's backing of a controversial pipeline project, saying the world could not afford to choose between the environment and the economy. In an interview with French business daily Les Echos ahead of a visit to Paris, Trudeau acknowledged that environmentalists were "concerned" by the Trans Mountain pipeline. Opponents of the pipeline point to the risk of oil spills at sea and say it flouts Trudeau's commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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