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‘Will they go to Italy?’ Indian minister rallies behind citizenship law, says other nations won’t take ‘poor’ Hindus

‘Will they go to Italy?’ Indian minister rallies behind citizenship law, says other nations won’t take ‘poor’ Hindus India’s Home Minister G. Kishan Reddy said it was imperative that persecuted religious groups in neighboring countries be granted Indian citizenship, arguing they have nowhere else to go. Speaking in the context of the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act, which fast-tracks Indian citizenship for religious groups fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Reddy said India must pick up the slack for other nations unwilling to take in poor refugees, singling out Italy by name. “It's our moral responsibility to give citizenship to the minorities [from three neighboring Muslim countries],” Reddy said. “If they don't c...

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Taiwan’s chief of general staff missing after helicopter makes emergency landing, rescue effort underway

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Taiwan’s chief of general staff missing after helicopter makes emergency landing, rescue effort underway Taiwanese Air Force General Shen Yi-ming, who is also the island’s incumbent chief of the general staff, was on board a helicopter that crash-landed in northern Taiwan. A massive rescue effort has been launched. Some 13 people were on board a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter when it attempted an emergency landing on Thursday morning, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said. Rescuers were promptly sent to the area of the crash in the mountainous Wulai district in the northern part of the Chinese self-governing territory. So far, several people have been found alive, while three, including Shen, remain unaccounted for. While it’s unclear what prompted the mishap,...

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Tumblegeddon: Washington state highway buried under 30 feet of TUMBLEWEEDS, trapping drivers (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Tumblegeddon: Washington state highway buried under 30 feet of TUMBLEWEEDS, trapping drivers (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Motorists traveling along a highway in Washington state were briefly held captive after a flash storm of tumbleweeds trapped cars under up to 30 feet of the wandering shrub, blocking the road in both directions. Washington’s Route 240 was briefly shut down on Tuesday night due to the pileup, which saw five cars and an 18-wheeler semi-truck buried under hundreds of tumbleweeds carried into the area by high winds. The roadway was closed down for several hours while Department of Transportation workers cleared away the piles. “People were still stuck at midnight and rung in the new year trapped under the weeds,” Washington State Patrol trooper C...

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Post-Iraq war US intel report predicting 2020 looks ‘eerily prescient’ only compared to agencies’ political blunders

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Post-Iraq war US intel report predicting 2020 looks ‘eerily prescient’ only compared to agencies’ political blunders A 15-year-old intel report predicting the world of 2020 has been hailed for its accuracy, but much of the future it describes was already underway in 2004. Could today’s hyper-politicized intelligence community see even that much? Rolling out a list of “eerily prescient” predictions in order to brag about their accuracy – no flying cars here! – the National Intelligence Council (NIC) report is just what one might expect from an intel community desperate to shore up its reputation ahead of what’s sure to be a hotly contested presidential election. Also on rt.com Spooks behind Patriot Act, drone &...

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Kurz set to return to power in historic coalition deal bringing Greens into Austrian government

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Kurz set to return to power in historic coalition deal bringing Greens into Austrian government Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz has finally made a deal with the Greens to form a governing coalition that will see Kurz return to power and the Greens join the national government for the first time. Kurz and his Greens counterpart Werner Kogler announced on Wednesday that the deal had been done, both seeming quite proud that they had been able to keep “key campaign promises.” “When you present the program you will see that both work - greening the tax system, and reducing the tax burden,” Kurz said, vowing to “do everything to serve the Austrians.” “We agreed more on climate protection than we suspected,” Kogler said, explaining that “greeni...

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Ex-NBA commissioner David Stern, who led the league for 3 decades & turned it into multi-billion dollar enterprise, dies at 77

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Ex-NBA commissioner David Stern, who led the league for 3 decades & turned it into multi-billion dollar enterprise, dies at 77 Stern died on Wednesday afternoon as a result of a brain hemorrhage he suffered in mid-December, which required emergency surgery, the NBA said in a statement. He was the league’s fourth commissioner, founded in 1946. The longtime NBA head transformed the sports league into a “modern global” industry, helping to bring televised games to over 200 countries in dozens of languages, said current NBA head Adam Silver. David Stern, the NBA commissioner who oversaw the sport's biggest stage for three decades, has died.He was 77. pic.twitter.com/Zc9IngkTPI— ESPN (@espn) January 1, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/w...

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Israeli cops disguised as Palestinians attacked by Jewish teens in no-Arabs-allowed settlement, 2 arrested

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Israeli cops disguised as Palestinians attacked by Jewish teens in no-Arabs-allowed settlement, 2 arrested Two teenage boys from the Jewish-only settlement of Bat Ayin have been arrested for attacking a pair of cops disguised as Palestinian laborers in what the right-wing legal aid group defending them has condemned as a “provocation.” The youths pounced on the officers dressed as Palestinian technicians, hitting and pepper-spraying them, after the men refused to give a clear explanation of why they were walking around the center of the West Bank settlement on Tuesday, local media reported. They were subsequently taken in for questioning and, their lawyer Moshe Polsky has claimed, held overnight. The boys’ names were not released as they were both min...

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Netanyahu says he’ll seek immunity from prosecution in corruption cases

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Netanyahu says he’ll seek immunity from prosecution in corruption cases Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed he will seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution in multiple corruption cases hanging over him ahead of upcoming March elections. In a speech at Jerusalem's Orient Hotel on Wednesday, Netanyahu clarified his intention to seek immunity, saying it would only be “temporary” and last the duration of the next parliamentary session. “There is no possibility for anyone to avoid standing trial,” he said. The PM added that he had never promoted or altered any law in an effort to avoid standing trial and that the immunity law exists to “protect elected officials from political lawsuits.” Also on rt.com...

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Heil Bandera: Ukrainian nationalists hold torchlight parade to celebrate Nazi collaborator’s birthday

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Heil Bandera: Ukrainian nationalists hold torchlight parade to celebrate Nazi collaborator’s birthday Thousands of nationalists In Kiev have celebrated the New Year with torchlight parades in honor of Stepan Bandera, a WWII nationalist regarded by modern Ukrainians as a hero and by Poles, Jews and Russians as a war criminal. Blue-and-yellow Ukrainian national flags mingled with red-and-black banners of the Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), responsible for the mass murder and persecution in what is today western Ukraine, during the last years of the Second World War. В эти минуты в Киеве начинается традиционное факельное шествие в честь Степана Бандеры. pic.twit...

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Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip following Baghdad embassy attack

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Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip following Baghdad embassy attack US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has pushed back a planned trip to Ukraine, after protesters stormed the fortified American embassy in Baghdad. Pompeo was due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in Kiev, on the first leg of a five day jaunt to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus. The meeting would have been the highest-profile visit of an American official since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for allegedly pressuring Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden’s business dealings in the country. Pompeo postponed the trip on Wednesday, AFP reported, citing State Department sources. The news came as protesters dispersed from the American embassy ...

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