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OR highway 'slimed' after hagfish lorry overturns
The hagfish container that flew into the southbound lane triggered a chain-reaction collision involving four vehicles. In the accident one of the drivers received minor injuries. Firefighters were called to hose the creatures off the road. " Our brains couldn't process what was happening ", Butler told KOIN , adding that the containers "just kept going, cascading, a domino effect over these poor cars ".
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China faces backlash after Liu's death
Liu, a government critic and thorn in the side of the authorities for decades, died in custody, having been sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for "subversion". Many held signs with the image of the man they say symbolised courage in the face of adversity, while protesting the Chinese government's actions in detaining Liu Xiaobo up until his death in hospital from liver cancer.
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United States propaganda plan for North Korea hinges on help from Seoul
Park's conservative government said 70 percent of the USA dollars paid as wages and fees at Kaesong was channeled to the North's ruling party. The images of the radiochemical laboratory showed there had been at least two reprocessing cycles not previously known aimed at producing "an undetermined amount of plutonium that can further increase North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile", something that would worry USA officials who see Pyongyang as one of the world's top security threats.
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China offers help on Kashmir, says situation has drawn global attention
Hearing out the Opposition on Kashmir and border tangle with China is also expected to facilitate smooth functioning of Parliament session starting Monday. The People's Daily article paraphrased pieces and editorials run by People's Daily , Xinhua and Global Times to send out a clear message to India to accept China's position on the current stand-off at the Sikkim border , or be prepared to face a repeat of 1962.
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House to Include Border Wall Funding in Spending Bill
Homeland Security said the money would pay for 74 miles of construction, 32 miles of wall, 28 miles of levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley, and 14 miles of replacement for secondary fencing near San Diego, the CNN report said. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, is in the midst of evaluating proposals for the border wall, and has sought both concrete and non-concrete designs, specifically looking for versions that would allow visibility.
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Health Care Fraud Takedown - Nationwide Sweep
Half of those charged in Arkansas were members of Houston street gangs who were burglarizing pharmacies from Texas to Virginia, according to a news release from Patrick C. He cited six MI doctors, now defendants, who purportedly ran a ruse to prescribe patients unnecessary opioids "some of which ended up for sale on the street".