Germany bans far-left website after G20 violence
Germany has banned a far-left website after police raids on its supporters early on Friday turned up knives, batons and catapults, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.
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Hurricane Harvey: Texas braces for massive storm
Texas is bracing itself for Hurricane Harvey, which may be the worst storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years.
bbc.com
Samsung Heir Gets 5 Years for Scandal That Toppled a President
Jay Y. Lee is set to spend the next five years in prison, one of the harshest sentences handed to a South Korean chaebol executive, after a court convicted him of bribing his way to greater control of the Samsung empire his family founded.
bloomberg.com
Trump imposes new sanctions on Venezuela 'dictatorship,' PDVSA debt
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new Venezuelan government debt and state oil company debt in an effort to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’s “dictatorship” to halt its “tyranny,” the White House said on Friday.
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U.S., Mexico, Canada ink non-disclosure agreements for NAFTA talks
The United States, Mexico and Canada signed non-disclosure agreements before the first round of negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico’s Economy Ministry said on Friday.
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US Removes 4 Military Members for Bringing Women to Pence’s Panama Trip Hotel
Four U.S. military service members who were part of Vice President Mike Pence’s communications team have been removed from White House duties and reassigned for bringing women back to their hotel in Panama, U.S. officials said.
telesurtv.net
Polish government lashes out at ‘arrogant’ Macron, who says Poles deserve better
The French president has irritated Warsaw, suggesting that the Poles deserved a government that would not isolate the country. Polish officials said Emmanuel Macron was an arrogant and poorly informed person, who should mind his own business.
rt.com
Chechnya is forcing hundreds of divorcees to reunite to tackle Isis
President Kadyrov claims children of divorced parents are more likely to join extremist groups.
ibtimes.co.uk
Japan says to impose additional sanctions against North Korea
Japan will impose additional sanctions against North Korea following the reclusive country’s repeated missile launches and unresolved abduction issue, its top government spokesman said on Friday.
reuters.com
India guru rape case: 23 die in unrest as Ram Rahim Singh convicted
At least 23 people have been killed in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in north India.
bbc.com
Far-right smear campaign against Antifa exposed by Bellingcat
Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.
bbc.com
San Francisco latest city to brace for protests
San Francisco braced on Friday for a weekend of protests, including a rally by an Oregon-based group that local leaders labeled “white supremacist” as the city’s mayor urged residents to boycott the event.
reuters.com
White supremacist plotted mass shooting 'because he couldn't get laid'
Messages from a white supremacist who stockpiled weapons and plotted to commit a mass shooting at an Australian shopping centre show how he was "fully prepared to shoot cops".
ibtimes.co.uk
==Arizona man fired after writing on Facebook 'can't wait to drive through anti-Trump protesters'=
A man from Arizona has been fired from his job for making a joke on Facebook about driving his car through a crowd of Trump protesters, less than two weeks after a woman was killed when a white supremacist ploughed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators in Charlottesville.
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