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Donald Trump doesn't believe his own report on climate change
US President Donald Trump has dismissed a report by his own Government warning of the devastating effects of climate change. "I've seen it, I've read some of it, and it's fine", he said . The measure, signed by almost 200 countries, sets rules for fighting climate change. The National Climate Assessment was written long before the California fires and the hurricanes .
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Russia puts captured Ukrainian navy sailors on TV, begins prosecutions
Russia says the Ukrainian vessels sparked the confrontation by refusing to yield upon orders from Russian border forces to change their course in Russian territorial waters. The simmering European conflict over the Kerch Strait skirmish may be ratcheting up tensions ahead of the week's important meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 in Argentina.
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Global panel grills Zuckerberg for failing to appear at hearing
Instead, the social media company sent Richard Allan, its vice president of policy solutions, to answer questions at the unprecedented hearing by the global "grand committee" held in the UK Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. lawsuit, alleging that a Facebook engineer had notified the company in October 2014 that Russian IP addresses were accessing "three billion data points a day" on the network.
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Death toll in Uganda boat accident rises to 35
Approximately 120 people are said to have been on the boat and some survivors said it was overloaded although the registration list had 104 names and it's possible that some passengers may not have registered. "They were shouting 'Help us!" "We expect (the number of passengers) is beyond the capacity of the boat. We can not now tell when this operation will end, it will be determined by number of recoveries we have made", Mugenyi said.
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Gender-reveal stunt sparked 45000-acre wildfire that did $8M in damage
Dennis Dickey , a border patrol agent from Tucson, pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor violation of U.S. Forest Service regulations. A gender reveal in Arizona has caused a massive forest fire. "I feel absolutely awful about it". The damage to state, federal and private land, and firefighting costs topped US$8 million (NZ$11 million). Dickey, 37, came forward right away to let authorities know that he had sparked the fire which burned 45,000 acres and caused $8 million worth ...
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Conservative vs. moderate in Mississippi Senate election
Trump will be campaigning Monday for GOP Sen. Hyde-Smith has been heavily criticized this month for making racist comments on the Confederate South. Spokeswoman Melissa Scallan said the Hyde-Smith campaign had no comment about the Beauvoir photos . Trump won 58 percent of the state's vote in 2016, and Hyde-Smith has tied herself closely to his presidency.