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Karachi revitalization drive aims to remake Pakistan's largest city
At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless.
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Trump cuts aid to Central American countries as migrant crisis deepens
The U.S. government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States and threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Korean Air stops serving peanuts after teens' flight disrupted by allergy
Korean Air Lines said on Sunday it has stopped serving peanuts as snacks to customers in response to a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight because of a peanut allergy.
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Algerian army repeats call to declare president unfit for office
Algeria's army chief renewed a call for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit for office and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military, after weeks of protests demanding an end to the ailing leader's 20-year rule.
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Frequent crossers of U.S.-Mexico border fret over threatened shutdown
Workers and students who frequently cross the U.S. border with Mexico worried over the weekend about the impact on their lives if President Donald Trump follows through on a threat to shut entry points used by hundreds of thousands of people every day.
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UK's May under pressure to rule out long Brexit delay
British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a new push by members of her Conservative Party to lead Britain out of the European Union in the next few months, even if it means a potentially damaging no-deal Brexit.
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Fearing Brexit, protesters gather along Irish border
Anti-Brexit campaigners protested at six different points of the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland on Saturday, fearing a return of customs checks could risk peace, jobs and their way of life.
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Liberal lawyer Caputova on path to win Slovak presidential election: partial results
Anti-graft lawyer Zuzana Caputova led Slovakia's presidential run-off vote with 58.4 percent of the vote after results from 64 percent of polling stations were counted, giving her nearly certain victory, statistics office data showed on Saturday.
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U.S. ending aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras over migrants
The United States is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, known collectively as the "Northern Triangle," the State Department said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States.
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UK's May risks 'total collapse' of government in Brexit impasse: Sunday Times
British Prime Minister Theresa May risks the "total collapse" of her government if she fails to get her battered Brexit deal through parliament, the Sunday Times newspaper said, amid growing speculation that she might call an early election.
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Libya's rival leaders could overcome army control dispute: U.N. Secretary General
There are signs that Libya's two rival leaders may for the first time solve a key dispute over control of the army, amid efforts to overcome the country's eight-year-long conflict, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday.
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Slovak ruling party candidate Sefcovic concedes defeat in presidential election
Slovakia's ruling party-backed candidate Maros Sefcovic conceded defeat in the euro zone country's presidential election on Saturday.
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'Cause-play': swamp monsters and unicorns take on Congress
Humorously absurd characters have been appearing in the background of congressional hearings for Trump nominees
Some unlikely protesters have been gracing the confirmation hearings of nominees for top government posts during Donald Trump’s time in office.
This week, the Senate energy and natural resources committee held a confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist who has been serving as the acting interior secretary since the resignation of Ryan Zinke in January. And as the committee pressed him on his lobbying record Thursday, a protester in the gallery highlighted the contradiction inherent in his nomination by dawning a swamp creature mask.
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Trump out for blood in looming 2020 fight as legal perils far from over
The president celebrated victory with the Mueller report – but then his latest effort to invalidate Obamacare left some feeling he ‘stepped all over that message’
It felt like a victory lap. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Thursday night, surrounded by a sea of red Make America Great Again hats, a defiant Donald Trump held the podium before a raucous crowd.
Related: Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000
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'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer
Anna Sorokin, who went by ‘Anna Delvey’, is accused of perpetrating a two-year, $275,000 scam of friends, banks, designers and upscale hotels
Judge Diane Kiesel could barely conceal her irritation. Anna Sorokin, the defendant at the centre of a highly publicized art world extortion trial, was refusing to attend proceedings on account of dissatisfaction with her courtroom outfit.
Related: 'Magic trick': trial begins for fake heiress who swindled friends, banks and hotels
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'AOC TMZ': why Republicans obsess over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Some on the right say it’s wrong for Trump and his followers to fixate on the young New York Democrat. Others are convinced she’s electoral poison
“It’s weird,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mused on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers earlier this month. “Why are so many grown men just obsessed with this, like, 29-year-old?”
Related: Ocasio-Cortez says Green New Deal critics are making 'fools of themselves'
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US will cut off aid to Central American countries over asylum seekers
- State will cut aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
- Administration seeks to step up removals at southern border
The US is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, the state department said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump blasted the countries for sending migrants north.
Related: 'This is our moment': Beto O'Rourke attacks Trump and calls for unity
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'This is our moment': Beto O'Rourke attacks Trump and calls for unity
Launching his White House run in El Paso, the Democrat cited the presence blocks away of migrants held behind barbed wire
Beto O’Rourke, the former punk rocker from a border town in Texas, formally launched his insurgent campaign for the US presidency on Saturday by denouncing fear and division promoted by Donald Trump and calling for a revival of inclusive American democracy.
Related: Beto O'Rourke goes to Nevada in search of ideas – 'I'm all ears'
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Colorado man turns himself in after neighbor's killing recorded on cellphone
James W Hanlon in custody after a phone found next to victim Gary Dolce’s body contained a recording of the shooting
A Colorado man was taken into custody after the killing of his neighbor was recorded on the victim’s cellphone, police said.
James W Hanlon, 53, turned himself to police in the Denver area on Friday night. Colorado Springs police lieutenant Howard Black said no other details were being released because the investigation was ongoing.
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Trump intervenes in case of Navy Seal charged in stabbing of Isis prisoner
- Edward Gallagher also accused of shooting unarmed civilians
- President cites Fox & Friends, says prisoner will be moved
Donald Trump cited the Fox & Friends TV show on Saturday as he announced his intervention in the case of a US Navy Seal charged with murder in the stabbing of a teenage Islamic State fighter taken prisoner in Iraq.
Special operations chief Edward Gallagher is accused of killing the teenager while he was under his care, then holding his re-enlistment ceremony with the corpse. Navy prosecutors also accuse Gallagher of shooting two civilians in Iraq and opening fire on crowds.
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Ocasio-Cortez says Green New Deal critics are making 'fools of themselves'
Congresswoman hit back at Republicans who claim her resolution would cause ‘genocide’ and the end of hamburgers
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rounded on her Republican opponents, accusing them of making “total fools of themselves” in criticising her Green New Deal proposals.
The Democratic congresswoman from New York has come under increasing attack from conservatives over her resolution that calls for a 10-year “national mobilization” to eliminate greenhouse gases and avert the worst impacts of climate change.
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Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000
Records obtained by Guardian show Stephen Moore reprimanded by judge for not paying alimony, child support and other debts
Stephen Moore, the economics commentator chosen by Donald Trump for a seat on the Federal Reserve board, was found in contempt of court after failing to pay his ex-wife hundreds of thousands of dollars in alimony, child support and other debts.
Related: Trump’s Federal Reserve pick owes $75,000 in taxes, US government alleges
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I'm the only Australian living in North Korea. Let me tell you about it | Alek Sigley
North Korea is a country in transition, moving from isolation to fast food, smartphones and plastic surgery
Many people would balk at the idea of a westerner setting foot in North Korea, which is known internationally for its nuclear weapons, human rights record and its highly regimented, militaristic society.
They might be somewhat shocked to hear then, that one young Australian – that’s me – would give up two years of his 20s to study at Kim Il-sung University, North Korea’s top university, in the country’s capital, Pyongyang.
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Corporations are endangering Americans. Trump doesn't care | Robert Reich
From Boeing to Monsanto and beyond: this week has revealed the tip of the iceberg of regulatory neglect
Why didn’t Boeing do it right? Why isn’t Facebook protecting user passwords? Why is Phillip Morris allowed to promote vaping? Why hasn’t Wells Fargo reformed itself? Why hasn’t Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) recalled its Roundup weedkiller?
Answer: corporate greed coupled with inept and corrupt regulators.
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'The Leggings problem': can we just never hear about them again?
The spandex-based controversy has been broiling in the west for years; and it’s not just men policing women’s bodies, women are doing it to themselves
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Mueller’s report is a warning – and Britain won’t listen | Carole Cadwalladr
The evidence of Russian interference in the US election has profound consequences for the UK – and for democracy
Last Sunday, the biggest ever donor in British political history was celebrating. The man who is currently supporting a hard Brexit campaign for Britain to leave the European Union with no deal and who is under investigation by the National Crime Agency for multiple potential offences took to Twitter to let off steam.
Arron Banks, the Bristol-based businessman who funded Nigel Farage’s Leave.EU campaign, had seen the first news reports of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump and the Russian government and he was cockahoop.
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Who is paying for Monsanto's crimes? We are | Carey Gillam
A US court ordered Monsanto to pay $80m in damages because it hid cancer risks. That’s a small consolation for victims
The chickens are coming home to roost, as they say in farm country.
For the second time in less than eight months a US jury has found that decades of scientific evidence demonstrates a clear cancer connection to Monsanto’s line of top-selling Roundup herbicides, which are used widely by consumers and farmers. Twice now jurors have additionally determined that the company’s own internal records show Monsanto has intentionally manipulated the public record to hide the cancer risks. Both juries found punitive damages were warranted because the company’s cover-up of cancer risks was so egregious.
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Sure, he might say he’s on the pill, but would you really trust him? | Barbara Ellen
Women are right to be sceptical – they’re left holding the baby when things go wrong
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Once again, there are reports of the male contraceptive pill being tantalisingly imminent. And, once again, a mental image occurs of a man and woman looking at each other, arms folded, as if to say: “Sorry, I don’t trust you a bit.”
A University of Washington study, involving 40 men, showed that sperm production could be disrupted with minimal side-effects and everything returning to normal once men stop taking the pill. Which all sounds intriguing, though it wouldn’t resolve the other major issue – the intrinsic lack of contraceptive trust between the sexes, which seems impossible to resolve, leastways to the point where the chemical baton could pass from women to men.
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Bjerregaard knocks out Woods to reach WGC-Dell Match Play semis
• Woods ends McIlroy’s run, then loses to Dane
• Sergio García in controversial defeat by Kuchar
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• Sergio García in controversial defeat by Kuchar
Lucas Bjerregaard pulled off a stunning victory over Tiger Woods in the quarter-finals of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas on Saturday.
Woods had beaten Rory McIlroy 2&1 in their first matchplay meeting, in the last 16, but Bjerregaard completed a 1-up victory over the former world No 1 when Woods missed a short putt on the 18th hole.
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Ashleigh Barty beats Karolina Pliskova to win Miami Open title
- 22-year-old is first Australian woman in top 10 since 2013
- Victory in Florida brings $1.3m prize money
Ashleigh Barty had 15 aces and became the 33rd different player to win a title in as many ATP and WTA tournaments this year when she beat Karolina Pliskova 7-6, 6-3 on Saturday in the final of the Miami Open.
The 22-year-old Australian, seeded 12th, won her fourth title and the biggest of her career. She improved to 18-3 this year and will rise next week to career-high ranking of No9, the first Australian woman since 2013 to reach the top 10 in the world.
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Alaska judge blocks Trump on Arctic and Atlantic drilling
- April 2017 executive order reversed Obama protections
- Green groups celebrate, justice department declines comment
Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic, a judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions.
Related: Ocasio-Cortez says Green New Deal critics are making 'fools of themselves'
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Virginia Fends Off Purdue and Naysayers to Reach the Final Four
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