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Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "bridges". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2OVHloD via IFTTT

Fifteen-year-old Cheikh Bamba Diaby got into robotics after he had to unblock his sister's mobile phone. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/35Q3POw via IFTTT

How one South African family discovered a secret that made them question their own identity. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/34Dteuy via IFTTT

Advent calendars can be a no-go if you're disabled, so some families have come with ingenious work-arounds to keep the tradition inclusive. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Dz4wQk via IFTTT

Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2DymGSe via IFTTT

Iraqis kept up angry anti-government protests in Baghdad and the south on Saturday to demand a broad overhaul of a system seen as corrupt and under the sway of foreign powers, a day after the premier vowed to quit. Protesters have hit the streets since early October in the largest grassroots movement Iraq has seen in decades, sparked by fury at poor public services, lack of jobs and widespread government graft. The toll spiked dramatically this week as a crackdown killed dozens in Baghdad, the Shiite shrine city of Najaf -- where another protester was killed Saturday -- and the southern hotspot of Nasiriyah. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37Ri6MF via IFTTT

Danielle Stella campaign account also tweeted a picture of a stick figure being hanged with a link to a blog post about her comments. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34ClhWK via IFTTT

Russia’s Avangard hypersonic boost-glide missile is about to operational. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33DfY7T via IFTTT

Hundreds of protesters marched Saturday through downtown Khartoum to demand justice for those killed in demonstrations against Sudan's now ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir. More than 250 people were killed and hundreds injured in the months-long protests that erupted in December 2018, according to umbrella protest movement Forces of Freedom and Change. Bashir, who ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years, was deposed by the army in a palace coup on April 11 after the demonstrations triggered by an acute economic crisis. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P300yI via IFTTT

Footage shows members of the public using a fire extinguisher and a tusk to confront Usman Khan. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2DuSCa4 via IFTTT

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Judiciary committee chairman said on Friday he looks forward to ‘prompt response’ while president is at his Florida golf clubNadler wrote earlier this week: ‘At base, the president has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process.’ Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesHouse judiciary committee chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to Donald Trump on Friday, asking if the president “intends to participate” in impeachment inquiry hearings due to begin next week.“I look forward to your prompt response,” he wrote.The president spent Friday at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, having returned from a surprise Thanksgiving visit to troops in Afghanistan.He did not immediately comment or tweet. Trump has said he would like to testify in the impeachment inquiry, as senior aides from the acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to former national security adviser John Bolton have not.Such...

The American people need to know as much as possible about what the president is accused of. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35O0QWN via IFTTT

The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese who died while being smuggled in a truck to England last month were repatriated to their home country on Saturday. Photos by the official Vietnam News Agency showed the arrival at the Hanoi airport of 16 bodies and seven urns, which had been flown from London. The 31 men and eight women are believed to have paid human traffickers for their clandestine transit into England. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33up2vP via IFTTT

The National Weather Service warns travel could become "impossible" in some places from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Y7SuXx via IFTTT

A Chicago police officer is being investigated for body-slamming a man who spat on his face, authorities said Friday. The officer approached the man for drinking alcohol at a bus stop, police said. “While a single video does not depict the entirety of the interactions between the police and the individual, this particular video is very disturbing,” Lightfoot said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34Ic1k1 via IFTTT

The White House reportedly has no record of a phone call President Trump claims exonerates him in the scandal that is threatening to bring down his presidency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2rD30d8 via IFTTT

The second part of a double-barreled storm is forecast to unload heavy snow and create difficult travel over a large part of the northeastern United States, including some major cities from Sunday to Monday.A winterlike storm from the Midwest will move in this weekend, then hand off to a new coastal storm that strengthens by Monday.Accumulating snow is forecast to occur in Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City and even to some extent around the Trenton, New Jersey, and Philadelphia area from the storm. The heaviest snow, on the order of 6-12 inches is forecast from the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania to central Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire. However, pockets of 12-18 inches are in store for the Catskills and Berkshires, where an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 24 inches is expected.Heavy snow is in store for much of the Hudson, Mohawk and Connecticut river valleys with a few inches as far south as parts of the Delaware and Lehigh valleys.Part of the storm will ...

The U.S. began the formal withdrawal process from the Paris Climate Agreement earlier this month. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2r23327 via IFTTT

Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit. Carrying signs that read "One planet, one fight" and "The sea is rising, so must we", thousands flocked to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the latest "Fridays for Future" protest inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg. In total, about 630,000 people demonstrated across more than 500 cities in Germany, the Fridays for Future movement said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DtAXj6 via IFTTT

A 2019 Colorado law bars law enforcement officials in the state from holding a person based only on a request from ICE. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DrcNWx via IFTTT

New York's famous jewellery brand is changing hands, but will the new owners keep its popular touch? from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2DxYYWo via IFTTT

Beijing wants people to use only real identities online but there is concern over data collection. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/37S8v8y

Two Carnival Cruise Line passengers died in a bus crash while on an independent tour in Belize on Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L5fHEA via IFTTT

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Donald Trump on Friday to say whether he’ll send his attorneys to participate in impeachment proceedings before the panel. Rep. Jerrold Nadler also is asking Republicans on his committee which witnesses they plan to ask permission to subpoena. The letters from the New York Democrat came as the House impeachment probe enters a new phase with a hearing next week on whether Trump’s actions might constitute impeachable offenses. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2q838RE via IFTTT

Iraqi officials say four protesters were killed amid ongoing violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq, hours after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his intention to resign. Security and hospital officials say one protester was killed and 18 wounded Friday by security forces who fired live rounds and tear gas to repel them on Baghdad’s historic Rasheed Street, near the strategic Ahrar Bridge. Officials say three protesters were shot dead by security forces in the southern city of Nasiriyah, bringing the total killed there to six on Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37PDPov via IFTTT

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Is Trump using "health attacks" on US diplomats in Havana as an excuse to punish Cuba? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33ByRYR via IFTTT

Iraq’s embattled prime minister offered his resignation on Friday, following the bloodiest day in weeks of unrest. Adel Abdel Mahdi, who took up the post of premier last year, said he would submit to the parliament a formal letter requesting my resignation to "preserve the blood" of Iraqis. Demonstrators greed the news with cheers, throwing rice and dancing to music in Baghdad's Tahrir (Liberation) Square. “Long live the revolution, long live the heroes. Thank you to the people,” one protester said over a loudspeaker. Mr Mahdi’s decision came hours after Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric, gave a sermon urging lawmakers to reconsider their support for the government, in a major boost to Iraqi demonstrators who have taken to the streets against a ruling class. "It's our first victory, and we're hoping for many more," shouted one demonstrator. "It's also a victory for the martyrs who fell," he said. An Iraqi anti-g...

A series of explosions at a chemical plant forced some 60,000 people to be evacuated from the area surrounding Port Neches in Texas.The first blast occurred at 1am on Wednesday, injuring three workers who are now in hospital. TPC Group, which operates the plant, confirmed all other employees have been accounted for. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qK5kiE via IFTTT

The White House reportedly has no record of a phone call Donald Trump claims exonerates him over a scandal which is threatening to bring down his presidency.The US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified to congress earlier this month that Mr Trump had made clear to him in the call that there was “no quid pro quo” with Ukraine. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OR1QCV via IFTTT

A humble loaf of bread has become a new symbol for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters who have embraced a slew of colourful and sometimes surreal memes as they push the Beijing-backed government for reforms. Activists have begun bringing loaves of "Life Bread" -- a local brand beloved by Hong Kongers -- to demonstrations, or leaving them next to protest walls after a video of a police officer taunting protesters went viral. The footage was shot last week during a siege by police of Polytechnic University where a tense stand-off unfolded between riot officers and hundreds of activists who barricaded themselves inside. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DvhIFG via IFTTT

Black Friday blizzards and snow expected from Nevada to the Upper Midwest and into New England. Meanwhile, severe thunderstorms are headed south. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37S6yc3 via IFTTT

Delta, American Airlines, Southwest, Emirates, and more have posted Black Friday and Cyber Monday flight deals. We expect more sales, too. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OvxN4L via IFTTT

A black hole with a mass of about 70 times that of the sun is lurking across our galaxy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35JT5Bi via IFTTT

A former Republican congressman said he would “probably vote to impeach” Donald Trump if he were still serving in the US House of Representatives while suggesting the president's scandals are “infuriating" current GOP House members.Charlie Dent, a frequent critic of Mr Trump who resigned from Congress last year, said he has heard from several of his former Republican colleagues who are “absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the president’s behaviour”. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37OHeDL via IFTTT

A Chicago police officer is under investigation after body-slamming a man during an arrest on the South Side, an incident captured in a viral video. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35NpyqA via IFTTT

(Bloomberg) -- Armed police shot a man after a possible terrorist attack sent hundreds of people running for their lives in the heart of London.Several civilians were believed to have been injured in a stabbing just before 2 p.m. in the London Bridge area on the edge of the capital’s financial center, police said.Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke away from the general election campaign to rush back to his Downing Street offices where he will be briefed on the events.The streets around London Bridge were locked down and armed police cleared restaurants and shops in the area. Officers are treating the incident as terror-related “as a precaution,” although the circumstances are still unclear, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.The U.K. is set to hold a general election on Dec. 12 and the last election campaign in 2017 was interrupted by attacks, including one that killed eight people in the same area of London.During the incident on Friday, armed officers burst into restaurants ...

Iraqi officials say four protesters were killed amid ongoing violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq, hours after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his intention to resign. Security and hospital officials say one protester was killed and 18 wounded Friday by security forces who fired live rounds and tear gas to repel them on Baghdad’s historic Rasheed Street, near the strategic Ahrar Bridge. Officials say three protesters were shot dead by security forces in the southern city of Nasiriyah, bringing the total killed there to six on Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37PDPov via IFTTT

Over a foot of snow is forecast in mountainous parts of Colorado, Utah and Arizona on Friday before the storm system slips toward the upper Midwest, the National Weather Service said. Freezing rain will likely turn to snowy blizzards in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan beginning on Friday night, with more than 18 inches of snowfall possible in some mountainous areas, the service said. More than 4 million Americans were expected to fly and another 49 million expected to drive at least 50 miles or more this week for Thanksgiving, according to the American Automobile Association. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Dr536D via IFTTT

A massive winter storm that has already prompted warnings from Arizona to Wisconsin will be lumbering east in coming days, almost certainly interfering with Thanksgiving return-travel plans for millions, The Washington Post reports. By the time it's finished, the storm, created by the same conditions that caused the "bomb cyclone" in California and Arizona earlier in the week, could pummel an area stretching from the Sierra Nevadas to New England -- where a nor'easter is predicted to begin on Sunday night. "This storm will... produce significant snow and blizzard conditions across the Northern Plains through Saturday before moving to the Great Lakes and Northeast Sunday and Monday," the National Weather Service said in a statement. USA Today reports that Accuweather is forecasting up to three feet of snow in South Dakota's Black Hills region, where "visibility could be so low at times it may be difficult to determine where the road surface actually ...

Russia, Japan, and Spain are all dealing with their growing elderly populations and declining birthrates. The US could be next. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37OPuDV via IFTTT

Two Carnival Cruise Line passengers died in a bus crash while on an independent tour in Belize on Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L5fHEA via IFTTT

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Nearly 260,000 properties have been bought using the Isa, Treasury figures show. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37NCfTW via IFTTT

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BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the week's best technology news stories. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2OvnYnt via IFTTT

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back on Wednesday against speculation over who he’ll appoint to replace retiring Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33uaCMe via IFTTT

Iran has arrested eight people it accused of CIA links and sending abroad information on recent urban unrest, days after the United States said it had received thousands of messages on a protest crackdown in the Islamic republic. New York-based Human Rights Watch has accused Tehran of "deliberately covering up" more than 140 deaths that it said came when security forces suppressed demonstrations against a sharp fuel price hike. Iran said that among the more than 500 people arrested were eight who were "linked to the CIA", state news agency IRNA said late Wednesday, citing the head of the intelligence ministry's counter-espionage department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2R92VZF via IFTTT

Another element of the parents' search for answers is the history of Cornell student suicides connected to the gorges in Ithaca. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qWxVBh via IFTTT

Rudy Giuliani said he had been approached by the Ukrainians with multiple business offers, but dismissed all of them and never accepted any money. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37FWEud via IFTTT

The return of unwanted goods bought in Black Friday sales is costing retailers billions. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2OSypQX via IFTTT

What happens to your old fridge when it's time to replace it, the BBC's Dougal Shaw reports. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2OSWGGr via IFTTT

Illegal money lenders are targeting people around Black Friday, campaigners warn. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/37Lc7sM via IFTTT

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how sticking plasters became a million dollar idea. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/33nETwk via IFTTT

The technology company is resisting calls for its staff to join unions, but do they need to? from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2DszFVz via IFTTT

A breakthrough in battery technology would be an engineering triumph and spur to other technologies. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/34wHtkP via IFTTT

A grand-jury indictment from January alleged that "the University was being used by foreign citizens as a 'pay to stay' scheme" to obtain visas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pUSgq0 via IFTTT

(Bloomberg) -- A trial court sentenced seven people to death for their roles in Bangladesh’s worst terrorist attack, which killed 20 diners, most of them foreigners, in a cafe in 2016.Judge Mojibur Rahman pronounced the verdict in a packed Dhaka courtroom on Wednesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Chief Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu said at a briefing. The decision brings to a close the year-long trial that followed a two-year investigation, which saw one accused being acquitted. The indicted have the right to appeal.“They wanted to destabilize the country and destroy the economy by forcing foreigners and investors to leave Bangladesh,” prosecutors said in case documents.Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian and three Bangladeshis were killed by terrorists who stormed the Holey Artisan restaurant in the diplomatic area of Dhaka in 2016. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the 12-hour hostage crisis.Security forces shot dead five attackers and also, reports say mistakenly, a pizza c...

Israel on Thursday demolished the West Bank homes of four Palestinians accused of a deadly attack, sparking clashes with stone-throwing protesters, the army and an AFP journalist said. The houses in the village of Beit Kahil near Hebron in the occupied West Bank were home to men who were "part of the squad that carried out the stabbing attack" which killed an off-duty soldier in August, the army said. Clashes broke out during the demolitions, the army said, with Palestinians hurling "rocks and burnt tyres at troops". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33w6E5I via IFTTT

Zimbabwe is on the brink of man-made starvation and the number of people needing help is “shocking” for a country not in conflict, a United Nations special expert on the right to food said Thursday. Hilal Elver said she found stunted and underweight children, mothers too hungry to breastfeed their babies and medicine shortages in hospitals during her 10-day visit to the economically shattered country. Zimbabwe’s food crisis has the potential to spark fighting, the U.N. expert said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37NNP1e via IFTTT

Not a single drop of Japanese beer was exported to South Korea last month, according to official figures on Thursday, as a boycott campaign against Japan over a historical dispute dries up demand. Japanese beer shipments to South Korea stood at 7.9 billion yen ($72 million) last year, accounting for more than 60 percent of the country's global exports of the amber nectar. Exports of Japanese instant noodles and sake to South Korea have also plummeted. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33p8XHJ via IFTTT

Publishing a list of the pieces taken in Monday's brazen raid, the Green Vault museum at Dresden's royal palace said the items stolen included a sword whose hilt is encrusted with nine large and 770 smaller diamonds, and a shoulderpiece which contains the famous 49-carat Dresden white diamond. The Dresden white is one of the most precious jewels in the collection of former Saxon ruler August the Strong. "None of the diamonds would have been in themselves extra special except for the one large Dresden White," he said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35HnIra via IFTTT

An early morning explosion rocked an East Texas chemical plant in Port Neches, injuring three workers. An afternoon blast prompted evacuations. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OSIahO via IFTTT

Kelly Mehlenbacher was among a group of aides who resigned amid the latest round of layoffs by the Harris campaign. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OqxRCx via IFTTT

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