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Rudy Giuliani blasts Mueller's team and bets on anti-Trump texts
Giuliani's comments mark the Trump team's latest attack on the Mueller probe. Cohen, who worked for Trump over the past decade, is the focus of an investigation in the Southern District of NY into whether he violated campaign-finance laws or committed bank fraud, wire fraud, illegal lobbying , or other crimes. [Full Article...]
An Iranian teenager was detained for posting dance videos on Instagram
Teenage dancer, Maedeh Hojabri, was arrested in Iran . "I'm dancing for liberty and joy, which are your right", said one middle-aged woman who posted a video of herself dancing in her living room. Hojabri had been dancing in a public forum, which is frowned upon in conservative Iranian circles, and doing so without the headscarf prescribed by Iran's clerical rulers. [Full Article...]
Boris Johnson resigns in major Brexit blow to UK PM Theresa May
In his resignation letter, Mr Davis said the "current trend of policy and tactics" was making it look "less and less likely" that Brexit would deliver on the referendum result and the Tory commitments to leave the EU customs union and single market. [Full Article...]
President Trump Announces Supreme Court Pick Monday Night
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Speaking of the president's shortlist, which The Hill reported includes Brett Kavanaugh , Raymond Kethledge , Amy Coney Barrett and Thomas Hardiman , Graham suggested that any conservative Republican would be happy with the options-touting Hardiman in particular as a good choice. [Full Article...]
Russia salutes ‘heroes’ after Croatia ends World Cup dream
Thank you for believing in us. "But we showed our worth". The team was ranked 70th in the world by Federation Internationale de Football Association before the World Cup started, making the host nation the lowest ranking side in the event. [Full Article...]
Kavanaugh has inside track for Trump's Supreme Court choice, sources say
But the four judges who are apparently the finalists for President Donald Trump's second Supreme Court nomination are being measured against a set of questions that go well beyond age and ideology. "One way in which Kennedy was an originalist was he didn't consider assisted suicide to be a constitutional right", said Cathleen Kaveny, a professor of theology and law at Boston College. [Full Article...]
Donald Trump slams North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies over military spending ahead of summit
We hope Trump's conciliatory vibe toward Russian Federation in recent days doesn't foreshadow damaging giveaways. "Germany, which is the biggest country of the ..." Germany's defense minister last week rebuffed Trump's twinning of trade and European defense spending. [Full Article...]
Delhi gang rape: Verdict on review pleas on Monday
If that fails, their last legal option is to file a mercy plea before the President. This led to the introduction of the death sentence for raping girls younger than 12. The woman was gangraped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. [Full Article...]
Lebanese tourist gets 8-year jail term for insulting Egyptians
The sentence came after she posted a video in which she used profanities to describe her holiday in Cairo where she says she was sexually harassed. Al-Mazbouh was arrested early June at Cairo International Airport as she was on her way to board a flight out of the country. [Full Article...]
Dershowitz 'shunned' for defending Trump 'civil liberties'
One of them, an academic at a distinguished university, has told people that he would not attend any dinner or party to which I was invited.... Some his old friends in Martha's Vineyard don't see it that way, however; he said they are "shunning" him. [Full Article...]
All ministers have to sell her Brexit plan
Some language in the deal is likely to irk Brexiteer MPs especially if they think references like "common rulebook" mean too much European Union influence after Brexit. May was cautious on whether she will win the support of the EU, saying only that she had "been talking to European leaders over the last week or so". [Full Article...]
Paul Manafort being held in solitary confinement, lawyers say
Manafort has reportedly been locked away in the "VIP" section of Virginia's Northern Neck Regional Jail since he arrived on June 15. Manafort has asked a federal appeals court to order his release from custody pending his separate upcoming federal trials, the earliest of which starts in Virginia later in July. [Full Article...]
Popular travel vloggers in Canadian waterfall death plunge
Gamble, 30, and Lyakh may have died trying to save Scraper - who was the first to fall, the Vancouver Courier reported . The members of the group all aged in their 20s and 30s met at high school, and posted weekly videos "to inspire our viewers to get out and explore the world". [Full Article...]
Migrants: Merkel and Orban clash over Europe's 'humanity'
Talks between the three awkward coalition partners continue, and it may yet prove hard to reconcile Seehofer's CSU, which faces a strong AfD challenge in Bavarian elections in October, with the Social Democrats' more dovish line. If vehicles had to detour through the Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland, Austrian officials estimate it would add €124 (£110) to the cost of each journey. [Full Article...]
11 killed, 45 missing as torrential rain pounds Japan
More rain, heavy at times, is forecast Sunday for most much of western Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, with the skies starting to clear Monday. In Hiroshima Prefecture, 41 people were missing, while seven remained out of contact in Ehime Prefecture. [Full Article...]
Supreme Court Nominee List Shortens to Mostly 'Identical' Candidates
In his decade on the circuit court, Kavanaugh has sent the highest number of young lawyers to Supreme Court clerkships and has been bipartisan in his dealings, offering clerks to every justice on the high court except for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [Full Article...]
White House Taps Former Fox News Executive For Senior Communications Job
He will be tasked with establishing the broader message and tone of the president's agenda. Spicer filled in again in an acting role before Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci on July 21, 2017. Last year, Gabriel Sherman wrote an article for Vanity Fair revealing that Shine was a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by Andrea Tantaros, a former Fox News host. [Full Article...]
Nun held for selling baby to childless couple
Spokesperson Sunita Kumar said the Missionaries of Charity was investigating. Sister Koshleniea, the in-charge of the rescued girls' section who was detained on Tuesday, was formally arrested on Thursday for her alleged complicity in selling a newborn boy to a childless couple from Uttar Pradesh. [Full Article...]
Dead, Homes Destroyed As Klamathon Fire Rages Out Of Control
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday that the blaze had burned almost 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) with 0 percent containment. Cal Fire said it poses danger to about 990 structures. County 911 lines were jammed with calls, and emergency officials said they contacted 1,200 lines to urge evacuations. [Full Article...]
USA orders non-emergency government personnel to leave Nicaragua
The sanctions were imposed on the officials because of concerns over the "ongoing crisis in Nicaragua", including "violence perpetrated by security forces and others that have resulted in the death of at least 220 demonstrators, and almost 1,500 injured", the statement said. [Full Article...]