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Truth About 9/11: WTC 7 'Not Destroyed By Fires'
WorldNews.com 08 Apr 2020
The collapse of the iconic, 47-storey World Trade Center Building 7 in New York City on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, was not a result of fire, as previously thought ... NIST’s 2008 report had concluded that WTC 7 was the first tall building ever to collapse primarily due to a fire ... Source....
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"1,000 Terrorists Killed In Offensive Against Boko Haram," Says Chad Army
NDTV 09 Apr 2020
The Chadian army said today it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed ... ....
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Coronavirus rips through Navajo nation as officials scramble to respond
The Irish Times 09 Apr 2020
When Chad Yazzie joined the Navajo police department just a few months ago, he expected to issue speeding tickets or break up the occasional fistfight. But coronavirus is now tearing across the largest Indian reservation in the United States ... While the Navajo Nation may not technically be at war with the virus, it does not feel at peace either ... ....
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Trump sees 'big, not small bounce' on horizon for US economy
TVNZ 10 Apr 2020
On the same day the federal government announced 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs sweep the nation, President Donald Trump said he saw sunny skies ahead for the US economy ... effort to support the economy through the coronavirus outbreak....
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Covid-19 cases in Russia surge past 10,000 after record daily rise
Gulf Daily News 09 Apr 2020
Moscow. Russia on Thursday reported a record one-day rise in cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19), pushing the official tally to more than 10,000, a day after President Vladimir Putin said the coming weeks would prove decisive in the fight against the virus ... That brings the overall death toll to 76 ... ....
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Goodbye, Bernie Sanders
CNN 09 Apr 2020
(CNN)Bernie Sanders made the unthinkable seem possible, briefly -- that a democratic socialist could capture a major US party nomination. But in the the end, Democrats didn't want his "revolution." ... Sanders ran against what he branded as corrupt party elites, thrilling northern liberals and younger voters ... Read More ... 'Not me, Us' ... As you say ... ....
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Coronavirus: US evacuees sprayed with unknown chemicals by Peruvian authorities
The Independent 09 Apr 2020
Authorities in Peru sprayed down a group of American tourists and other foreigners trying to leave the country with an unknown chemical after imposing a mandatory coronavirus quarantine on their hostel, according to video footage and accounts from several of the evacuees ... “We had no warning whatsoever ... I closed my eyes and plugged my nose.” ... AP ... ....
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Nicaraguan president missing in action for nearly one month and counting
The Jakarta Post 10 Apr 2020
Shares. During Nicaragua's devastating civil war in the 1980s, youthful revolutionary Daniel Ortega toured every town in the Central American nation, clad in his green Sandinista uniform ... Elected president in 1984, Ortega was voted out of office after a single five-year term as the economy floundered ... Topics .. ....
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Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter
The Siasat Daily 10 Apr 2020
Vatican City. Church doors will be shut and the Vatican sealed off when Pope Francis leads 1.3 billion Catholics in Easter Sunday celebrations held under a worldwide coronavirus lockdown ... “We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity,” Francis said in an interview published by several Catholic newspapers this week ... Source....
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Get ready for the Warring Twenties
Asiatimes 09 Apr 2020
The world’s China delusion is over. For three decades, the global elite has assured us that China’s rise to great-power status was “peaceful.” But great powers rarely rise peacefully, and Communist China has hardly been the exception ... That game has now run its course ... "> ... For the most part, the deal has been simple ... China knows it ... Read ATF now .......
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Asteroid set for close encounter to enter Earth's trajectory on Thursday
The National 08 Apr 2020
A giant asteroid measuring up to 4.1km will enter the Earth’s trajectory around the sun tomorrow, coming close to the earth later this month NASA said. According to asteroid trackers at the space agency, asteroid 1998 OR2 will miss the earth by 6.2 million kilometres when it passes by on April 29, posing no threat to the planet ... On April 29 ... ....
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Militants kill 5 banker employees in Afghanistan's western province
China.dot.org 10 Apr 2020
HERAT, Afghanistan, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants killed five employees of Da Afghanistan Bank, the country's Central Bank, in western province of Herat on Thursday, a local official said Friday ... The militants managed to flee the area soon after killing the victims ... Enditem ....
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Harvey Weinstein free of coronavirus symptoms: Spokesperson
Indian Express 10 Apr 2020photo: Creative Commons / Jjw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jjw
Scientists digitally reconstruct skulls of dinosaurs in fossilised eggs
The Guardian 09 Apr 2020
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US economy purged 17 mn jobs amid pandemic
The Siasat Daily 10 Apr 2020
The Federal Reserve launched a series of new lending programs Thursday to pump $2.3 trillion into the damaged US economy, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to offer reassurance, saying the recovery could be “robust.”....
