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July 23, 2019
Portuguese firefighters bring forest blazes under control
LISBON — Firefighters aided by overnight rain on Tuesday brought under control massive wildfires raging for four days in a central region of Portugal where dozens of people were killed in huge blazes in 2017.Nearly 1,100 firefighters were still deployed to completely put out the blazes, which ripped through the heavily forested Castelo Branco region, 200 km north of Lisbon, said commander Luis Belo Costa of the civil protection agency."The ...
July 23, 2019
Iran warns new British PM it will 'protect' Gulf waters
TEHRAN — Iran warned Britain's next prime minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday that it will "protect" waters of the oil-rich Gulf, amid a standoff between the two countries over the seizure of tankers.In the face of rising hostilities with the United States, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday impounded a tanker sailing under the flag of US ally Britain.The seizure of the Stena Impero ship has been seen as ...
July 23, 2019
Li Peng, the 'Butcher of Beijing', dies aged 90
BEIJING — Former Chinese premier Li Peng — known as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown — has died at the age of 90, state media said on Tuesday.Li died of an unspecified illness in Beijing after he failed to respond to medical treatment late Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.Li gained notoriety worldwide as one of the key architects of the brutal ...
July 23, 2019
Kabul seeks clarification on Trump talk of wiping out Afghanistan
KABUL — Afghanistan called on Tuesday for an explanation of comments by US President Donald Trump in which he said he could win the Afghan war in just 10 days by wiping out Afghanistan but did not want to kill 10 million people.Trump's remarks followed a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House on Monday at which Trump voiced optimism that Pakistan could help broker a ...
July 23, 2019
Iran observes all US ships in Gulf region: Iran navy chief
GENEVA — Iran observes all US ships in the Gulf region and has an archive of images of their daily movements, the head of Iran's navy, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, said on Tuesday, according to the Young Journalists Club news site."We observe all enemy ships, particularly America, point-by-point from their origin until the moment they enter the region," Khanzadi said, noting that images were recorded using Iranian drones. "We have ...
July 23, 2019
US policemen fired for suggesting Democratic lawmaker be shot
WASHINGTON — Two Louisiana policemen were fired on Monday over an incendiary Facebook post suggesting a liberal congresswoman should be shot, as President Donald Trump's tweets attacking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other lawmakers sparked a national uproar.The officer's Facebook post followed criticism that the president's incendiary rhetoric, which continued on Monday with a new tweet about the four "very racist" and "not very smart" Democratic congresswomen, was bordering on incitement to ...
July 23, 2019
Mystery deepens over murder of tourist couple in Canada
MONTREAL, Canada — Police in Canada on Monday released a sketch depicting a bearded man wanted for questioning after the bodies of two tourists were discovered in a rural part of British Columbia.The bodies of 23-year-old Lucas Fowler from Sydney, Australia and his 24-year-old girlfriend Chynna Deese from North Carolina in the United States were found last Monday along the side of the road in the province's remote north."We can ...
July 23, 2019
Swedish teen Thunberg slams 'hate and threats' as visit divides French parliament
PARIS - Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday lashed out at the abuse she receives for speaking out over global warming, after a visit to France's parliament provoked a backlash from right-wing deputies.Some right-wing MPs boycotted the impassioned speech at the National Assembly by Thunberg, whose school strikes protesting government inaction over climate change helped sparked a worldwide movement.But Thunberg, 16, took on her critics directly, saying all ...
July 23, 2019
Brexiteer Boris Johnson to be Britain's next prime minister
LONDON - Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party on Tuesday.His victory catapults the United Kingdom towards a Brexit showdown with the EU and towards a constitutional crisis at home, as British lawmakers have vowed to bring down any ...
July 23, 2019
Trump touches off storm in India with Kashmir mediation offer
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi never asked US President Donald Trump to help mediate with Pakistan their dispute over the Kashmir region, the government said on Tuesday, after Trump's comments set off a storm of criticism.Trump told reporters on Monday that Modi had asked him, during a meeting in Japan last month, if he would like to be a mediator on Kashmir, which is at the heart ...
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