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MIDDLE EAST
Iraq security forces
kill 44 protesters
;
Prime Minister
acknowledges corruption problems
and says protesters' concerns
are 'righteous':
Iraq's PM
calls for talks as thousands of
protesters defy curfew
:
4,000 protesters rallied in
Baghdad, defying a
government-enforced curfew to
call again for improved
services, more jobs and an end
to widespread corruption.
Iraqi PM
lifts curfew in the capital:
Report
; Curfew lifted or
Saturday morning as death toll
in protests across Iraq grows.
Iraq: Well-Known Iraqi
Cartoonist Shot Dead with His
Wife in Basra
Artillery
shells hit Idlib medical clinic
registered on 'safe list':
Trails of blood snaked
across the clinic’s tiled floor
in photos shared by a local news
page two hours after the
bombing.
Putin Announces End of
'Large-Scale Combat Operations'
In Syria
Turkey
Plans an Attack on Syrian Kurds:
The Turkish government
plans to use Syrian refugees to
displace the local Kurdish
population in northern Syria.
US, Turkey occupation
forces, conduct northeast Syria
patrol amid new concerns
Syrian rebel groups
merge as Turkish offensive looms
Yemen: Saudi bombs Sanaa
Blood Bank
Running out
of mercenaries?
Saudi
Arabia enlists women in military
for first time
Footage of Canadian LAVs
in Yemen raises questions about
arms deal to Saudi Arabia
Huthi offer of truce in
Yemen 'positive': Riyadh
Israeli
occupation forces kill
Palestinian protester in Gaza,
wound dozens:
28-year-old Palestinian
killed and 54 others wounded
during weekly protests.
14 Palestinians homeless
as Israel demolishes homes in
Jerusalem
Lapid
cedes rotation with Gantz: We
will not sit with Netanyahu:
The Blue and White alliance’s
Yair Lapid has said he waives
his premeriship rotation with
party head Benny Gantz because
he will not serve under Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Iran Foils
Foreign-Backed Assassination
Plot Against General
AFRICA
Libya: 2 more civilians
killed by indiscriminate
shelling in Tripoli
ASIA
N Korea, US envoys to
resume nuclear talks in
Stockholm
Putin praises Donald
Trump for North Korea talks
Undercover Cops Badly
Beaten As Hong Kong Protesters
Rampage Over 'Anti-Mask' Law
Hong Kong: Face mask ban
prompts thousands to protest
EUROPE
Four killed in Paris
police HQ knife attack
Reuters: Kremlin hails
special relationship with China
amid missile system cooperation
Ukraine's top prosecutor
REOPENS corruption case
targeting energy company that
paid Joe Biden's son $50,000 per
month
Former U.S. official
claims he warned Trump attorney
against trusting information on
Biden by Ukrainian sources
Zelensky Visit a
DISASTER! Ukrainian Prez.
Sabotages Trump With Staggering
Corruption!
Democrats reveal damning
texts from Ukraine investigation
— here are 7 key revelations
Putin Opens Up On Attack
on Saudis, Dollar Demise And
Danish "Sovereignty" Over Nord
Stream 2
European Parliament to
Veto Boris Johnson’s Brexit
Proposal
Brexit: EU ‘unconvinced’
at Boris Johnson’s proposals -
BBC News
Brexit: Boris Johnson
will send letter to the EU
asking for extension - if no
deal is agreed by 19 October
Boris has
destroyed what is left of UK’s
credibility;
British government has
broken its own solemn legal and
political commitments
GLOBE
Watch: Assange’s father
describes his son’s
‘degradation’ in prison
Whistleblowers and the hypocrisy
of the ruling class:
The Whistleblower
Protection Act should, in
theory, protect heroes such as
Snowden and Chelsea Manning. But
there is policy as enacted, and
then there is policy as
practiced.
Is
This The End Of Facebook And
WhatsApp? Encrypted Messaging?:
Bloomberg reported that
Facebook, its messaging platform
WhatsApp and others would now be
forced to disclose encrypted
messages to law enforcement
agencies.
Here is AG Barr’s full
letter to Facebook asking it not
to make messages completely
secret
PayPal Drops Out of
Facebook’s Libra Payments
Network
Weakening the dollar is
the last hope for the global
economy, economist says
AMERICAS
Brazil: 12 Prosecutors
Arrested for Bribing Car Wash
Suspects
Ecuador Declares
Emergency Amid Major Protests
Over IMF Sponsored Cuts
Ecuador Assembly Calls
for President's Removal, Early
Polls
How Venezuela defeated
Washington’s coup attempt at the
United Nations
Canada joins the Arms
Trade Treaty — but will it
cancel the Saudi deal?
Canadian police
illegally shared details of
Huawei exec phone with US
authorities
ACLU
Challenges Deportation of Man to
El Salvador:
The American Civil
Liberties Union is challenging
the federal government’s
decision to deport a man to his
native El Salvador, despite a
court order allowing him to
remain in the United States.
After terrifying ICE
raid, those left behind have a
share in the terror caused by
the raids.
U.S. Border Officials
Use Fake Addresses, Dangerous
Conditions, and Mass Trials to
Discourage Asylum-Seekers
As Man Dies in ICE
Custody, California Moves to Ban
For-Profit Prisons, Including
Immigrant Jails
"Flat-Out False": WaPo
Calls Out Adam Schiff For Lying
About Whistleblower
CIA's top
lawyer made 'criminal referral'
on whistleblower's complaint
about Trump conduct;
Experts are raising
questions about why the Justice
Department did not open an
investigation.
Trump to tell Pelosi
that White House won't cooperate
on impeachment until the full
House votes
Trump to send Pelosi a
letter 'daring' her to hold
impeachment inquiry vote
Testimony by Trump’s
Ukraine envoy seems to skewer
Democrats’ impeachment narrative
Another GOP senator
breaks from Trump to defend
Ukraine whistleblower
By 45%-38%, Americans
support impeaching Trump over
Ukraine allegations, poll finds
In case you
missed it:
Nancy
Pelosi and husband involved in
some fishy business:
Why isn’t our media
keeping us informed of things of
this nature?
US unemployment drops to
lowest since 1969
US debts
bigger than 2008 on a new all
time high.
Auto loans nearly
doubled since 2008 from $740
million to $1.3 trillion.
Student loans surged to $1.6
trillion and credit card debts
will cross the $1 trillion soon.
Watch:
Trump's America: Great again or
big failure?:
Mehdi Hasan challenges
the US presidentāl adviser,
Stephen Moore, on the economy,
racism and Trump's fitness for
office.
California to “Solve”
Homeless Problem by Throwing
Homeless People in Prison
New York City Declares
Using the Term 'Illegal Alien'
Can Result in a $250,000 Fine