Non-IT News Thread
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Donald Trump meets Queen at start of UK state visit
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are meeting the Queen on the first day of their state visit to the UK.
The pair are at Buckingham Palace for a private lunch and welcome ceremony.
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Nanda Devi: Bodies spotted in hunt for climbers missing in India
A helicopter crew searching for eight climbers who went missing in the Indian Himalayas has spotted five bodies, Indian sources say.
Four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian made up the missing group who disappeared on India's second highest-peak.
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Pentagon tells White House not to politicise the military
The Pentagon has warned the White House not to politicise the military, amid a row over a ship bearing the same name as late Senator John McCain.
Last week, the White House asked for the USS John S McCain to be hidden during his speech in Japan.
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Avengers: Endgame Directors Are Adapting Magic: The Gathering For Netflix
Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo are working on a new project: they are adapting the popular 26-year-old collectible card game Magic: The Gathering for Netflix.
On Monday, Netflix has announced that the Russos are teaming up with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro for an animated series based on the mythology of the fantasy-themed card game. The Russo brothers will “oversee the creation of an all-new storyline and expand on the stories of the Planeswalkers” and will see the heroes and villains of Magic's multiverse “contend with stakes larger than any one world can hold.”
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Canada 'complicit in race-based genocide' of indigenous women
Canada is complicit in a "race-based genocide" against indigenous women, a government report has concluded.
The report cited research finding indigenous women were 12 times more likely to be killed or to disappear than other women in Canada.
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US dad 'punched shark five times' to save daughter
A North Carolina teenager is recovering in hospital after a shark attack left her with severe injuries from bites to her legs and hands, officials say..
According to Paige Winter's family, her father had to punch the shark five times before it let the 17-year-old go. -
Tiananmen: China rebukes Pompeo on 30th anniversary of protests
China has rebuked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for remarks he made on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest.
Mr Pompeo criticised China's human rights record and called for it to reveal how many died in the crackdown.
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Ajit Pai works to cap funding for rural and poor people, gets GOP backing
FCC vote paves way for budget cap on all universal-service broadband programs.
The Federal Communications Commission has preliminarily voted to cap spending on the FCC's Universal Service programs, which deploy broadband to poor people and to rural and other underserved areas. -
Mexico-US tariffs will harm both countries, warn officials
Mexico has warned US President Donald Trump that tariffs on Mexican goods could worsen illegal immigration to the US and end up hurting both countries.
The warning came as Mr Trump tweeted that Mexico could "stop the flow of people and drugs" across the border "if they want".
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Tiananmen 30th anniversary: Thousands hold huge vigil in Hong Kong
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Hong Kong and Macau are the only places in China where people can commemorate the activists killed in 1989.
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Sudan crisis: Dozens of bodies pulled from Nile, opposition says
Forty bodies have been pulled from the River Nile in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, opposition activists said on Wednesday.
Doctors linked to the opposition said the bodies were among 100 people believed killed since security forces attacked a protest camp on Monday.
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Republicans clash with Trump over Mexico tariffs
Republican senators have expressed deep opposition to US President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on goods coming to the US from Mexico.
In a closed meeting with White House officials, senators said they were considering moves to block the tariffs.
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Trump says 'climate change goes both ways'
President Donald Trump has said he believes climate change "goes both ways" following a 90-minute discussion with environmentalist Prince Charles.
"I believe that there's a change in weather and I think it changes both ways," Mr Trump told Piers Morgan in an interview that aired on Wednesday. -
Russia and US warships almost collide in East China Sea
A Russian warship and a US warship have come close to collision in the western Pacific Ocean, with each side blaming the other for the incident.
Russia's Pacific Fleet said the cruiser USS Chancellorsville crossed just 50m (160ft) in front of the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov at 06:35 Moscow time (03:35 GMT).
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Gulf of Oman tanker blasts: Crews rescued safely
Dozens of crew members have been rescued after abandoning two oil tankers hit by explosions in the Gulf of Oman.
Iran said it had rescued the 21 crew members on board the Kokuka Courageous and the 23 on the Front Altair, though the US said its Navy had rescued some.
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Huawei cancels laptop launch because of US trade blacklist
Huawei has ditched a product launch for the first time since the US placed it on a trade blacklist.
It was reported that the Chinese tech firm had intended to unveil a new laptop as early as this week. -
Flint water crisis: Prosecutors drop all criminal charges
Prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against the eight remaining officials awaiting trial over the deadly contamination of water in the US city of Flint in 2014.
They said a more thorough investigation was needed.
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Tim Jones: US dad to be executed for murder of five children
A South Carolina father who killed his five children should be executed, a jury has agreed, ignoring a court plea for mercy from the victims' mother.
Amber Kyzer said on Tuesday convicted murderer Tim Jones Jr, 37, "did not show my children mercy by any means, but my kids loved him". -
Gulf of Oman tanker attacks: US says video shows Iran removing mine
The US military has released a video which it says shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of an oil tanker damaged in an attack in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.
The US also released images of the Japanese tanker apparently showing the unexploded mine before it was removed.
