The Russian consulate in Seattle has been closed by order of the US authorities. The staff has decided not to take down the Russian flag, though, leaving it for the Americans to deal with.
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US President Donald Trump has reportedly pulled over $200 million in funds earmarked for Syria. It comes after he hinted that the US would no longer bother itself with Syrian problems upon achieving its military goals there.
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Over 143,000 people, including tens of thousands of rebels and their families, have left Syria's eastern Ghouta amid a ceasefire which also helped some 40,000 residents return to their homes, the Russian military said.
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Chinese authorities have busted a high-tech smuggling ring that used unmanned aerial vehicles to illegally transport almost $80 million worth of smartphones from Hong Kong. The suspects smuggled up to 15,000 phones per night.
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Of the 20 shots fired by Sacramento, California, police officers, unarmed black man Stephon Clark was hit by eight, according to an autopsy commissioned by his family. Seven of the shots came from behind and one from the side.
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Anguished Mourners Beg for Answers After Jail Fire in Venezuela
An emergency meeting is being held by the UN Security Council after some Muslim states and the Arab League decried what they view as Israel's brutal crackdown on protesters in Gaza, which led to the deaths of at least 15 people.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger channeled the Terminator in his first breath after waking up from heart surgery.
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A Whistle-Blower’s Canadian Roots: the Canada Letter Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower, brought Canada into a story that’s drawn intense scrutiny to Facebook this week. And it’s not just because he’s from Victoria, British Columbia.
After focusing close attention on the social network with the disclosure that Cambridge used personal data from millions of the social media site’s users without permission to help Donald J. Trump’s election campaign, Mr. Wylie brought a company from his hometown, Aggregate IQ, into the fray this week during testimony before Britain’s Parliament.
Photo Christopher Wylie in London last week. Credit Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In his testimony, Mr. Wylie said that Aggregrate, a subsidiary of Cambridge Analytica’s parent, drew on Cambridge’s Facebook data to sway social media opinion in favor of the Leave side in the 2016 British referendum on the European Union vote, and he repeated claims that the Canadian company..