UK: Scapegoating of firefighters for Grenfell deaths exposes fraud of official inquiry
Wrack continued, “The stark, staring obvious problem is how can you wrap a building in flammable material like that. Everyone asked that within hours and yet we won’t even look at that in three years and before they [the inquiry] start to reach conclusions on it, it could quite easily be 2021.”
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Chlorine ‘likely’ used in alleged Douma chemical attack, no nerve agent – OPCW‘s final report
Chlorine was likely used in a chemical attack in Syria’s Douma last April, the OPCW said. The chemical arms watchdog refrained from naming the guilty party in the incident, despite earlier being granted such powers.There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that “the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon has taken place on 7 April 2018.”
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11-year-old girl gives birth to rapist's baby after Argentina delays request for abortion
An 11-year-old girl has given birth to her rapist’s baby after authorities in Argentina delayed her request for an abortion.The girl had become pregnant after her grandmother’s 65-year-old partner raped her.She underwent a caesarean section on Tuesday after 23 weeks of pregnancy and her baby is unlikely to survive.
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Pakistan returns Indian pilot shot down over Kashmir in 'peace gesture'
Pakistan has returned an Indian pilot who had become the face of the worst military crisis between the two countries in decades, in a gesture aimed at demonstrating its willingness to de-escalate the conflict.
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U.S. to end large-scale military drills with South Korea
The U.S. military is preparing to announce that annual large-scale joint exercises conducted with South Korea every spring will no longer be held, according to two U.S. defense officials.The major U.S.-South Korea exercises are being curtailed as part of the Trump administration's effort to ease tensions with North Korea, the officials said.
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Trump tells May to abandon 'unwarranted' food standards for Brexit trade deal
Donald Trump's administration has called on the UK to abandon its "unwarranted" food and agriculture standards before it can sign a free trade deal with the US after Brexit.
businessinsider.com
Grounded ship leaks 80 tons of oil near Pacific UNESCO site
An environmental disaster is unfolding in the Pacific after a large ship ran aground and began leaking oil next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Solomon Islands, Australian officials said Friday.
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EU ready to give Britain more guarantees 'backstop' is temporary: Barnier
The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish “backstop” is only intended to be temporary, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Friday.
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Mexico Approves 60,000-Strong National Guard. Critics Call It More of the Same.
Mexico’s Congress on Thursday approved the creation of a 60,000-member National Guard to tackle the nation’s public security crisis, a force that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made a cornerstone of his plan to confront organized crime and curb soaring violence.
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‘Some sort of fantasy’: Mysterious group declares itself N. Korean ‘government-in-exile’
A shadowy group known as the Cheollima Civil Defense (CCD) has declared itself North Korea’s “government-in-exile” while decrying the government of Kim Jong-un as an “immoral and illegitimate regime.”CCD released a statement Friday, declaring their government, which they have dubbed ‘Free Joseon,’ as “the sole legitimate representative of the Korean people of the north.
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