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SA watchdog calls for probe in Zuma's govt
This is why thousands of people from various opposition parties marched through the streets of Pretoria, calling for Mr Zuma to go. In her report, Madonsela revealed evidence of possible corruption at the top level of Zuma's government, and the president has been accused of an inappropriate relationship with wealthy businessmen.
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Turchia, esplosione in capoluogo area curda: 20 feriti
Sarebbero stati arrestati anche altri deputati dell'Hdp, il tutto nell'ambito delle indagini contro il Pkk , che viene considerato da Ankara come un'organizzazione terroristica. L'esplosione, aggiungono i media locali, è stata udita in diverse parti della città e ha causato danni agli edifici vicini. Restrizioni anche per i servizi di messagistica di Whatsapp, e Instagram.
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Russian-declared cease-fire in Aleppo falls apart
Its presence suggests that Russian Federation may be intending to escalate its assault on rebel-held parts of the northern Syrian city. The city of Aleppo and its surrounding environs have become one of the main theaters of the Syrian war.
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Two Special Forces Soldiers From Fort Carson Killed In Afghanistan
Afghan forces liberated the city with the help of USA special unit forces and airstrikes. "Our service members were doing their part to help the Afghans secure their own country while protecting our homeland from those who would do us harm", he said in a statement.
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Last remaining Calais 'Jungle' children evacuated from camp
While welcoming the announcement by the French authorities that the children are being relocated to dedicated centres where the next steps concerning their future will be decided, the Committee is of the view that both Governments can not say they were caught off-guard by the Calais situation.
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UK's Johnson: Court ruling won't hurt Brexit timetable
She telephoned Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's top official, to spread the word that her plan is still to start the process to remove Britain from the European Union by the end of March. It seems Theresa May is wrong Brexit does not mean Brexit as Brexit has been blocked by the high court and must be voted on by MPs and Lords instead of going by what the people of this country want.
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Asian shares slip, dollar nurses losses as US election looms
But with this newfound risk in U.S. Presidential elections - are we seeing a legitimate paradigm shift in which the Federal Reserve is, all of the sudden, expected to jerk rates higher even with calamitous price action in global and U.S. "It's easy to see Trump as "bad" for Mexico in particular and for U.S. trade-dependent economies in general, but there are limits to what a president can legislate", wrote Kit Juckes at Société Générale.
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Steven Seagal granted Russian citizenship by Putin
Seagal joins French actor Gérard Depardieu , and the boxer Roy Jones Jr who also received citizenship past year. Be Civil - It's OK to have a difference in opinion but there's no need to be a jerk. He was granted Serbian citizenship earlier this year. Firstly, he just made complimentary remarks about Putin, then actor went to Chechnya and hang out with Putin's friend Ramzan Kadyrov, where was dancing the traditional folk dance in the style.
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US services companies grew at slower pace in October
The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 56. "There was slow growth in October, coming off of huge uptick in September", said Tony Nieves, chair of the ISM Non-Manufacturing Committee. The five industries contracting in October were: Educational Services; Mining; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Public Administration; and Arts, Entertainment & Recreation.
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Search resumes for 44 missing from Indonesia boat sinking
A total of 21 people have been confirmed dead, almost 40 people have been found alive while rescue teams are searching for the remaining migrants. A boat carrying 93 people capsized off Indonesia's west Batam Island early Wednesday, leaving at least 20 dead and 34 others missing, the local and national search and rescue offices said.
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'The thought of Donald Trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death'
The Hillary Clinton campaign is back on the air in Colorado. After weeks of Trump's accusations that the election is "rigged", a little more than six in 10 of his supporters say they will accept the results as legitimate if he loses, while more than a quarter of his supporters say they will probably not accept the outcome if Clinton is declared the victor.
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Pelosi on Comey: 'Maybe he's not in the right job'
He went on to call Comey's letter to members of Congress, which alerted them to the discovery of emails that may or may not be pertinent to the FBI's prior investigation into Clinton's private email server, "appalling". "I think it's obvious to everyone that it was political - I'm sure you're exhausted of hearing this terminology but I'm gonna use it anyway - it's unprecedented for a federal investigative body with law enforcement authority or any federal agency to make any pronouncement ...
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Baghdadi Calls On Islamic State Fighters Not To Retreat From Mosul
The advances took the troops 1 mile (1 1/2 km) inside the city. The offensive started more than two weeks ago and is "ahead of schedule", according to the US envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS, Brett McGurk. She said she was not aware of any of civilians dying in air strikes while they were being held as human shields. 'Do not retreat. this whole war only gives us more faith to fight towards victory which is a promise from God, ' al-Bahgdadi said .
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Clinton campaign dismisses polls putting Donald Trump in the lead
They are letting Donald Trump do their commercials. Trump's campaign is expressing new confidence in the final week of the campaign, thanks to the renewed focus on rival Hillary Clinton's email practices. Trump touched several times on the idea that the system is stacked against him and his supporters. "But when a woman does it suddenly we're like 'Why's she doing that?'" Obama said.
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Flags to be lowered to honor slain Iowa officers
Authorities in the U.S. state of Iowa have charged a man with two counts of first-degree murder in the ambush-style killings of two police officers. According to the Des Moines Register, he was taken to jail in the handcuffs belonging to the slain officers.
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FBI told to 'stand down' in Clinton Foundation investigation
In a new interview, President Obama seemed to dismiss FBI Director James Comey's decision to re- initiate the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation . There is an anti-Clinton faction in an Federal Bureau of Investigation office that is suspected of releasing and leaking information in an attempt to get Donald Trump elected president.
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India opens doors of IITs for Nepal students
Earlier on Friday morning, the Indian President offered prayers at Janaki Mandir in Janakpurdham. He was seen off at the airport by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, who also received him when he arrived here for the visit to signify the importance Nepal attaches to his visit.
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Donald Trump to hold election night party at New York Hilton Midtown
He zig-zagged from mockery to dire warnings to boasting about his own record in office. It's clear that both campaigns now see New Hampshire as in play. Trump's Jacksonville visit came after three Florida stops Wednesday, in Miami, Orlando and Pensacola. And after one of the meanest United States presidential contests in memory, many voters are motivated less by support for their own candidate than opposition to the other.
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Maha govt forms SIT to probe Buldhana ashram rape case
When the Deputy Sarpanch of the village, on seeing all the other kids enjoying the atmosphere of Diwali except those three girls, asked them about their silence, the girls told that they were having severe stomach pain and felt something heavy in their stomachs.
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Rahul accuses PM of lying, says defence veterans not getting OROP
Grewal had allegedly committed suicide over OROP. Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said Grewal can not be called a martyr because courageous soldiers do not take their own lives, while Union minister Gen VK Singh called the dead man a Congress worker after doubting his mental stability.
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JNU Students 'Victims' of Najeeb's Violence: ABVP Letter to Cops
Najeeb, a 1st year MSc Biotechonoloy student, went missing from the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on October 15 after a tiff with alleged members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Her heart-wrenching, helpless cry, "it has been 20 days.where is my Najeeb". "There is an undeclared emergency in our country". He said even during the period of Emergency in India, JNU did not surrender when the police entered the campus.
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Russian military urges rebels to leave Aleppo
Syrian rebels have tried to break the regime's siege of opposition-held eastern Aleppo , which has been choked off from food, fuel and other necessities. "There must be military action, of course", he said, if no one evacuated. Asked about Mrs Clinton's proposal to establish a safe zone for Syrian civilians, he replied: "Unless she's prepared to do this properly and go to war with Russian Federation, she shouldn't talk about no-fly zones and nor should we".
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Early voters seem to favor Clinton
The state's Division of Elections says as of Friday, almost 5.3 million registered voters in Florida , or almost 41-percent of active registered voters, have already cast their ballots. There are some changes in the state's Voter ID laws that voters will see in this election. White voters increased their turnout by 55 percent. Colorado , for the first time in a presidential election, is voting mostly by mail .
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Syrian rebels launch multiple attacks on government-held Aleppo
Earlier on Wednesday, Russia had told rebels in Aleppo to leave by Friday evening, signalling it would extend a moratorium on air strikes against targets inside the city. The military's Reconciliation Center in Syria says the helicopter came under fire Thursday in the province of Hama while on a mission to deliver humanitarian aid and made an emergency landing about 40 kilometers northwest of the city of Palmyra.
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Opposition politicians held in terror probe in Turkey
The Council's statement says media coverage of the explosion - except official announcements - is suspended, due to "security concerns". A large explosion, caused by a auto bomb, hit the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region on Friday, hours after authorities detained at least 12 pro-Kurdish legislators for questioning in terror-related probes.
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8 dead and hundreds injured after bomb goes off in Diyarbakir
A auto bomb attack in the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region killed eight people Friday, hours after authorities detained at least 12 pro-Kurdish lawmakers for questioning in terror-related probes. A group of protesters chanting slogans tried to reach the party offices, but were stopped by police before they could enter the street, a Reuters witness said.
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Partisan divide on Comey's letter, but not on trust in federal officials
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said he would neither defend nor criticise the timing of Comey's disclosure. According to American writer and journalist Stephen Lendman, the FBI chose to reopen the investigation into Clinton's emails only after it realized that Republican nominee Donald Trump was winning with a landslide in early voting.
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South Africa: Ombudsman's Report Leads to Calls for Zuma's Resignation
Earlier on Wednesday, the High Court in Pretoria ruled that the report must be released to the public by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The investigation, including evidence from cellphone records and explosive testimony by cabinet ministers, will ratchet up the pressure on Mr.
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Korea leader can be investigated, says her PM nominee
According to spokesman Shin Jae-hwan, the Seoul central district court Thursday accepted a prosecutors' request for a warrant for Choi's arrest. The latest scandal that resulted to releasing an arrest warrant for Choi Soon-sil has caused President Park's approval rating to go down to a single digit and even caused protests across the country asking her to resign.
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Russian-declared ceasefire goes into effect in Aleppo
Yasser al-Youssef, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki rebel group, said Russian Federation "is not serious" and its latest initiatives "don't concern us". However, Malahifji said there were no safe exit corridors, as Russian Federation had stated. Once Syria´s economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been divided since mid-2012 between regime control in the west and rebels in the east.
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Make their blood flow as rivers, Daesh leader urges followers
The extremists have torched more than a dozen wells near Mosul during their retreat into the city in the face of a massive USA -backed offensive. Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says the rights office has received reports of an incident that happened on Monday when IS allegedly killed 50 of its own militants at the Ghazlani military base in Mosul "for alleged desertion".
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Iraqi forces pause Mosul offensive to reposition troops
He said the US -led coalition, which is providing airstrikes and ground support to the Iraqi military and Kurdish forces known as the peshmerga, is not playing any role in the Shiite militias' advance. But for now, the battle for Mosul is far from over, and most of the advancing forces are still some distance from the city limits. Dorrian said he could not confirm the U.N.
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8 killed in car bombing in Turkey; lawmakers held
State media reported that several politicians from the Peoples' Democratic Party ( HDP ), were detained as part of a terror investigation, following raids on their homes. The blast occurred in Diyarbakir's Baglar district, near a building used by the riot police. He said the detainment goes against democracy and democratic forces in Turkey .
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CSIS illegally stored sensitive metadeta, Federal Court judge rules
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was for the second time criticized by a senior judge for not being truthful when applying for wiretaps. As is the case for many of our global partners, CSIS has developed data analytic capabilities and expertise to analyze associated data and enhance its capacity to identify and assess threats to the security of Canada over time.
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Calais Jungle camp to empty as last migrant families move out
Police moved in around 0500 GMT, a Reuters journalist at the scene said. The women and children were bused on Thursday to processing centers where they will be able to seek asylum in France or Britain, regional administration spokesman Steve Barbet said.