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Hong Kong bus crash kills 6, injures more than 30 others

The violent crash of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong killed six people and injured more than 30 others on Wednesday, police said.

18/12/2019

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Trump impeached on charges of abuse of power, obstruction

Donald Trump has become the third sitting U.S President to be formally impeached by the House of Representatives

18/12/2019

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Live updates: House votes on impeachment of President Trump

The latest from the historic vote in Congress, a day after Trump derided the process as a Democratic "crusade."

18/12/2019

USA

Women won't get equal pay for 257 years, new report says

The World Economic Forum's report measured the gender gap in 153 countries across politics, economics, health and education.

18/12/2019

USA

Manafort hospitalized while serving seven-year prison sentence

The lawyer for Trump's ex-campaign manager said it was not clear what is wrong.

17/12/2019

USA

Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes

The criticism comes after a report by the DOJ inspector general that found "so many basic and fundamental errors."

17/12/2019

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Read the full letter Trump sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on eve of impeachment vote

Read the full letter President Donald Trump sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on eve of impeachment vote

17/12/2019

USA

Trump lambastes Pelosi over impeachment in blistering letter

"More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials," Trump wrote.

17/12/2019

USA

Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas can stay free on bail

Parnas was arrested in October along with Igor Fruman, another Giuliani associate, and pleaded not guilty to charges of funneling money from foreign entities to U.S. candidates in a scheme to buy political influence.

17/12/2019

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Star Wars fans out in force for 'The Rise of Skywalker'

'The Rise of Skywalker' concludes the so-called "Skywalker saga" of films begun by George Lucas in 1977.

17/12/2019

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Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates gets 45 days in jail after cooperation in lobbying case

The ex-Manafort partner, who pleaded guilty in 2018, agreed to cooperate with Mueller's team and other federal investigators.

17/12/2019

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Giuliani boasts, then backtracks on some details of engineering Ukrainian ambassador's ouster

"She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody," Giuliani told The New Yorker of the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

17/12/2019

USA

Trump campaign looks to re-energize 'disengagers' for 2020

Even with impeachment looming, the president's team is concerned about luring back 2016 supporters who have been sidelined.

17/12/2019

USA

Euroviews. Americans don't protest in the streets like the French do — yet ǀ View

Americans are increasingly striking and protesting for economic improvements, with support for unions reaching its highest level in decades.

17/12/2019

USA

McConnell shreds House's 'slapdash' impeachment investigation, hits Schumer for wanting new witnesses

"By any ordinary legal standard, what House Democrats have assembled appears to be woefully inadequate to prove what they want to allege," McConnell said.

17/12/2019

USA

Maria Butina, convicted in U.S. of being Russian agent, gets job as state TV host

Butina, 31, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court last December to one count of conspiring to act as an agent for Russia.

17/12/2019

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Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine to leave post at end of year

Bill Taylor testified at the House Intelligence Committee's inquiry into President Donald Trump's hold on military aid to Ukraine.

17/12/2019

USA

Democratic debate gets green light after labor dispute settled

Candidates had vowed they would not cross a picket line to face off at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

17/12/2019

USA

Pope abolishes 'pontifical secret' in clergy sex abuse cases

"The carnival of obscurity is over," declared Juan Carlos Cruz, a prominent Chilean survivor of clergy abuse and advocate for victims.

17/12/2019

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Security engineer says Google fired her for trying to notify co-workers of right to organize

"I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google's obligations under labor law," said Kathryn Spiers, the former Google engineer.

17/12/2019

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Rudy Giuliani's own words tell the tale of the Ukraine scandal

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

17/12/2019

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Trump's approval rating mostly unchanged despite impeachment

Compare President Trump's approval rating with Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton.

17/12/2019

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Italian soccer condemned for using monkey paintings in anti-racism campaign

"Once again Italian football leaves the world speechless," one campaign group said, describing the paintings as a "sick joke."

17/12/2019

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Indian students decry police as citizenship protests grow

Police response to a previous protest seems to have sparked a broader movement against the new law, with demonstrations across the country.

17/12/2019

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Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case

Musharraf has been living in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and is said to be very ill and unlikely to travel home to face the sentence

17/12/2019

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Will Democrats beat GOP again in 'dark money' donations in 2020, despite rhetoric from the left?

As 2020 nears, Democrats may be on track to beat the GOP at the "dark money" game for the second national election in a row — and Republicans are nervous.

17/12/2019