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September 17, 2019
Spain to hold snap election on Nov. 10 after party talks fail
MADRID — Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday called a snap election for Nov. 10, Spain's fourth in as many years, after failing to secure support from rival parties to confirm him as premier and allow him to form a government.Sanchez acted after King Felipe VI said there were no viable candidates to lead a new government. The king, who is the head of state, had earlier consulted all ...
September 17, 2019
Israeli election too close to call: Exit polls
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's battle for political survival looked set to continue for days or weeks after Israeli exit polls at the end of Tuesday's election showed the race too close to call.The surveys by Israeli television stations showed Netanyahu's right-wing Likud with 31-33 of parliament's 120 seats compared with 32-34 for the centrist Blue and White led by former general Benny Gantz. The exit polls indicated that ...
September 17, 2019
29 bodies found in plastic bags in Mexico mass grave
GUADALARAJA, Mexico — Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday.Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera, about a 45-minute drive outside Guadalajara, Mexico's ...
September 17, 2019
Trump lists Waddell, Kellogg, O'Brien among possible Bolton successors
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the candidates he is considering to become his new national security adviser include former deputy national security adviser Ricky Waddell, Vice President Mike Pence's security aide Keith Kellogg, and hostage negotiator Robert O'Brien.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said the other possible successors to John Bolton, the hawkish national security adviser he fired last week, ...
September 17, 2019
US Justice Department sues Snowden over new book
WASHINGTON — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden seeking to prevent the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor from profiting from his new book.The civil lawsuit against Snowden, who is living in Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance program, accuses him of violating non-disclosure agreements he signed with the CIA and NSA.The lawsuit says Snowden published his book, ...
September 17, 2019
UN extends Afghan mission after China 'Silk Road' veto threat
NEW YORK — The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously extended its mission in Afghanistan after China withdrew its threat of a veto if the text did not mention Beijing's "Belt and Road" trade initiative.For 15 days China had wielded its threat, calling for the resolution to include a reference to President Xi Jinping's effort to reinvent the ancient Silk Road connecting Asia with Europe and Africa through massive investments ...
September 17, 2019
US Senator Harris urges new investigation of Kavanaugh, FBI
WASHINGTON — US Senator Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged a House of Representatives panel to investigate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of new allegations of sexual misconduct by the conservative judge when he was a college student in the 1980s.Harris, one of 20 Democratic presidential candidates, said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler that the panel should "hold Mr. Kavanaugh accountable for his ...
September 17, 2019
US official says Iran behind attack, Pence warns of possible strikes
WASHINGTON — The United States has concluded that an attack on Saudi oil facilities was launched from Iran, a US official said on Tuesday as Vice President Mike Pence again warned that the US military is "locked and loaded" for a possible response.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike involved cruise missiles and that evidence would be presented at the UN General Assembly next week.Pence announced that ...
September 17, 2019
France gives more people iodine pills in case of nuclear accident
PARIS — France will soon start distributing radioactivity-blocking iodine pills to an additional 2.2 million people living near the country's 19 nuclear power plants, to be taken in case of accidental radiation leaks, regulators said on Tuesday.The ASN nuclear safety authority had announced in June an extension of the safety radius to 20 km (12 miles) of each plant, up from 10 kilometers set in 2016, when some 375,000 households ...
September 17, 2019
Facebook taps London police to track terror livestreams
LONDON — Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police to help its artificial intelligence tools track livestreams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre.In March, a self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera to broadcast live footage on Facebook of him attacking two mosques in the city of Christchurch.Facebook and platforms such as YouTube came under intense criticism for initially failing to detect the broadcast ...
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