Articles for June, 2018

Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions
Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S. economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. Since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal which lifted most sanctio...
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Thieves drain bank account of nation's oldest veteran
The family of a World War II veteran and oldest-living man in the country says someone stole his money.
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Rebel-held Syrian towns accept Assad rule after regime bombardment

Rebel-held Syrian towns accept Assad rule after regime bombardment A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and defeat there would leave rebels with just one remaining stronghold - the area around Idlib province bordering Turkey in the northwest. Rebels met Russian negotiators on Saturday to seek peace terms for Daraa province, where most of their southwest territory is located, but said these failed. Moscow is Assad's strongest ally and its air power since 2015 has been crucial to his recapture of vast swathes of Syria. Local groups in many towns seized by the army in recent days had negotiated their own surrender deals independently of the main rebel operations rooms after heavy air raids. State television broadcast footage from inside the towns of Dael and al-Ghariya al-Gharbiya, where people were shown chanting pro-Assad slogans. Young boys sit atop a truck as they flee rebel-held areas of the city of Daraa Credit: MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images A war monitor and a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah said numerous other towns and villages had agreed to come back under Assad's rule. Fierce battles were still roiling the area around Daraa city, near the Jordanian border, where the army was trying to capture a disused air base, rebels said, and the northwestern chunk of Daraa province remains in opposition hands. Air raids meanwhile intensified, said the monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as displaced people flocked to the border areas least likely to be hit and the United Nations warned about a humanitarian catastrophe. After the peace talks failed on Saturday, warplanes launched a new wave of strikes on the rebel-held towns of Bosra al-Sham, al-Nuaima and other areas, the Observatory reported, causing deaths, injuries and damage. The army's offensive follows the capitulation of rebel enclaves near Homs and Damascus, including eastern Ghouta, which was recaptured after a scorched-earth assault that killed over a thousand civilians and laid waste to several towns. Syrians wait at the border areas near Jordan after they fled from the ongoing military operations by the Assad regime and its allies  Credit: Ammar Al Ali /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Warfare in the southwest could risk a further escalation because of its proximity to Israel. The Israelis have already targeted Iran-backed militias fighting on Assad's side, which they have vowed to keep far from their country's borders. The government's offensive so far has focused on Daraa province, which borders Jordan, but not Quneitra province abutting the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The entire southwest is part of a "de-escalation zone" agreed last year by Russia, the US and Jordan. Despite Washington's threats that it would respond to breaches of that arrangement, it has shown no sign of doing so, and the opposition's top negotiator on Thursday accused it of having struck a "malicious deal" to stay silent.


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Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group
A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday. The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which i...
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12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn
A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
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Donations Help Bail Out Oregon Mom Charged With Manslaughter After 1-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car
She forgot her daughter was in the car, her attorney said.
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Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution

Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollutionSo many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn’t get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.


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Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends
The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
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North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say

North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials sayAfter President Trump’s historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.


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Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ Says

Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ SaysMarkara Man, 33, threatened to kill Pai's family in December 2017, officials say


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