Bond Denied for Suspect in Charlottesville Car Attack
The Latest on violent protests connected to a white nationalist rally in Virginia.
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Google, GoDaddy Drop Neo-Nazi Group's Domain Registration
Alphabet Inc.’s Google yanked its web domain support for The Daily Stormer on Monday three hours after the neo-Nazi website moved to the search engine’s registry system following its rejection from another.
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Scaramucci Says Bannon a 'Snag' on Trump's White House Agenda
Short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that Steve Bannon is hurting President Donald Trump’s ability to move his agenda forward, and suggested the administration move toward the political “mainstream.”
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Trump Denounces White Supremacists After Backlash
President Donald Trump called out white supremacists for their role in the deadly violence over the weekend in Virginia as the administration sought to counter a backlash against his initial failure to directly hold hate groups accountable.
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WannaCry and NHS cyberattack 'hero' Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty in US court
A British cybersecurity researcher credited with helping curb a recent worldwide ransomware attack has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of creating malicious software to steal banking information in 2014.
ibtimes.co.uk
Lebanon's Hezbollah says U.S. can't hurt it, dismisses sanctions
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday dismissed the prospect of tougher U.S. sanctions against his group, which is backed by Iran, and said the U.S. administration had no way to harm it.
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China announces immediate ban on North Korean imports as it upholds UN sanctions
China announced that a ban on North Korean imports such as iron, iron ore and seafood would come into the effect on Tuesday, 15 August, upholding the recently imposed sanctions by the UN Security Council. The punitive economic sanctions are meant to hit the impoverished country hard, and are in response to Pyongyang's aggressive nuclear and missile activities.
ibtimes.co.uk
Venezuelans Reject Trump Threats with Anti-Imperialist March
Claudia Echeverria of La Pastora parish said that Venezuelans “will not permit imperialism to put its claws on our country.”
telesurtv.net
Germany jails Syrian refugee hairdresser for trying to defraud Isis
A Syrian refugee living in Germany has been found guilty of defrauding Isis after he asked the group for hundreds of thousands of euros to commit a terrorist attack he had no intention of carrying out.
ibtimes.co.uk
Charlottesville suspect on school trip to Nazi camp Dachau: 'This is where the magic happened'
The 20-year-old white supremacist from Ohio arrested by police for allegedly driving his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 19 others, thought that "Nazis were pretty cool guys", according to his former school teacher.
ibtimes.co.uk
UK parliament's "Big Ben" bell to fall silent for four years
The "Big Ben" bell in the British parliament's famous clock tower will cease its regular bongs at noon on Aug. 21, falling silent for most of the next four years while renovation works are carried out, the House of Commons said on Monday.
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Yemen cholera epidemic: Cases exceed 500,000 in four months
The number of suspected cases of cholera resulting from an epidemic in war-torn Yemen has reached 500,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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Man charged with car-bomb plot on Oklahoma City bank
A 23-year-old has been arrested and charged with attempting to blow up a bank in Oklahoma City, the FBI says. Jerry Drake Varnell allegedly told undercover investigators that he hoped his actions would "cripple the government" and cause a "revolution".
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