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'North Korea may attack Australia to divide USA allies'
Trump will also use the trip to further his trade agenda at two major economic gatherings in the region: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. Trump has long accused China of cheating the US on trade. Several North Korean missiles were recently spotted moved from a rocket facility in the capital Pyongyang, South Korea's Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported late Friday amid speculation that the North was ...
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US Supreme Court Takes Up Case from IL on Fair Share Fees
He said Janus , for instance, disagrees with the notion that taxpayers in a state with severe fiscal problems should be forced to cough up more money to public employees. The case stems from a fight between Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and public-sector unions over his 2015 executive order to stop the fees.
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Catalan separatists occupy polling stations ahead of disputed vote
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government has said any vote on Catalan secession would have to be held across all of Spain , not just in Catalonia . As police methodically sealed off hundreds of schools, some parents chose to send their children home and girded for pre-dawn confrontations Sunday with police.
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UAE: Government to build Mars prototype city
The Mars Science City is just one of many designs readying mankind for its first missions missions to the Red Planet. Once completed, the Mars Science city will be the largest simulated off-world environment ever constructed and will feature laboratories for food, energy and water research and development projects as well as extraterrestrial agricultural testing.
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Railways official says stampede toll rises to 22
The police officials and medical teams have rushed to the spot. Police said the stampede at the Elphinstone railway station was triggered by a rumor that a pedestrian overpass collapsed after concrete chunks fell. Railway minister Piyush Goyal , who incidentally landed in Mumbai yesterday, was not spared either. Many people, to save themselves, had to hang precariously on the outside of the bridge to avoid being caught in the stampede.
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Russian Federation to destroy last chemical weapons on Wednesday, ahead of schedule
The head of the worldwide chemical weapons watchdog hailed Russia's destruction of its last toxic arms as a "major milestone". Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that his country had planned to complete the work by 2020 in line with its Chemical Weapons Convention obligations.