| Texas Border Patrol Chase Ends In Crash, Killing At Least 5 Immigrants Posted: 17 Jun 2018 03:11 PM PDT  At least five people were killed and several others injured when an SUV
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| Trump defends North Korea summit, trashes media: 'We got so much for peace in the world' Posted: 17 Jun 2018 07:23 AM PDT  Sunday morning, President Trump repeatedly defended the North Korea summit and accused the press of not giving him the credit he deserves for trying to bring more stability to the Korean peninsula.
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| Monday's Morning Email: Dems Beg GOP For Help Stopping Immigrant Family Separations Posted: 18 Jun 2018 04:19 AM PDT  ### TOP STORIES
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| Kellyanne: 'As a mother, as a Catholic' nobody likes family separation policy Posted: 16 Jun 2018 11:43 PM PDT  Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway tells Chuck Todd Democrats are holding up the funding for family detention center funding, during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press
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| Art festival on verge of being shut down when shots rang out Posted: 17 Jun 2018 07:39 PM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A 24-hour arts and music festival in New Jersey was on the verge of being shut down because of numerous fights when gunfire erupted, authorities said. One suspect was killed and 22 people, including two other suspects, were injured.
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| 5.6 magnitude quake shakes Guatemala; no damage reported Posted: 17 Jun 2018 08:38 PM PDT ![5.6 magnitude quake shakes Guatemala; no damage reported]( "5.6 magnitude quake shakes Guatemala; no damage reported") A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Guatemala on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), but disaster officials said it did not cause any damage, including at the Fuego volcano where recent eruptions have killed 110 people. Strong shaking was felt but "all is calm," Guatemala's disaster agency said in a statement. A Reuters witness said tremors were not felt in the capital Guatemala City.
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| Trey Gowdy Threatens DOJ, FBI Officials Over Clinton Probe Documents Posted: 17 Jun 2018 09:04 AM PDT  House oversight committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) threatened on Sunday to
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| Inside the country’s largest immigration processing center as family separation outrage grows Posted: 17 Jun 2018 08:43 AM PDT  NBC News' Jacob Soboroff went inside the country's largest immigration processing center where more than a thousand kids have been separated from their parents since the policy began.
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| New Lincoln MKC Could Be Renamed "Corsair" Posted: 18 Jun 2018 05:32 AM PDT  The replacement for the current Ford Escape-based SUV should arrive in 2020.
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| Weekend Rewind: Federal judge reverses Manafort's bail Posted: 18 Jun 2018 02:27 AM PDT  Take a look the top stories that happened over the weekend, including the reversal of fortune for President Trump's former campaign head Paul Manafort.
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| Full Kellyanne Conway: 'Nobody likes' immigration policy separating families Posted: 16 Jun 2018 11:23 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to President Trump, tells Chuck Todd that migration and the White House family separation policy can only be solved with Democrats' help.
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| Clashes flare as UN seeks solution in Yemen's Hodeida Posted: 17 Jun 2018 07:51 AM PDT  Yemeni pro-government forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, battled Huthi rebels around the key port city of Hodeida on Sunday, as a top UN envoy held crisis talks with the insurgents in the capital. Saudi Arabia and its allies in a regional military coalition on Wednesday launched an offensive aimed at retaking the Red Sea city of Hodeida, home to the country's most valuable port which is controlled by the Iran-backed Huthis. The United Nations has warned the offensive could spark a fresh humanitarian crisis in a country already hit by war and impending famine, sending its envoy for Yemen to the capital Sanaa in a bid to come to a solution with the rebels.
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| Supreme Court sides with Florida man in free speech case Posted: 18 Jun 2018 10:03 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who has been an outspoken critic of the south Florida city where he lives is now 2-0 in disputes with the city before the Supreme Court.
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| Abortion to avoid birth defects is like Nazi eugenics: pope Posted: 16 Jun 2018 12:34 PM PDT  Pope Francis on Saturday called the practice of having an abortion after pre-natal tests have discovered possible birth defects a version of Nazi attempts to create a pure race by eliminating the weakest. Francis made the comparison in a long, off-the-cuff address to a members of a confederation of Italian family associations. Francis then spoke of pre-natal tests to determine if a fetus has any illnesses or malformations.
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| Protesters demand an end to Trump policy separating migrant children from their parents Posted: 17 Jun 2018 08:35 AM PDT  MSNBC's Mariana Atencio reports from the Ursula Border Patrol Processing Center in McAllen, Texas where a protest was held in support of all the children held inside without their parents.
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| Georgia Grandma Strangles Rabid Bobcat With Her Bare Hands While Granddaughter Slept Posted: 18 Jun 2018 05:31 AM PDT  Dede Phillips must now get rounds of painful and expensive treatment to prevent rabies.
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| Taxi hits pedestrians near Moscow's Red Square, injuring 8 Posted: 16 Jun 2018 02:08 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Eight people, including two from Mexico, were injured Saturday when a taxi crashed into pedestrians on a sidewalk near Red Square in Moscow.
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| Former WH Chief Strategist Bannon says Trump has never lied: 'Not to my knowledge' Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:12 AM PDT  ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl goes one-on-one with Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and CEO of the Trump campaign, on "This Week."
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| Pot growers refuse to let go of dream after Kilauea volcano erupts Posted: 18 Jun 2018 10:38 AM PDT ![Pot growers refuse to let go of dream after Kilauea volcano erupts]( "Pot growers refuse to let go of dream after Kilauea volcano erupts") Dale Altman and his grandson Josh Doran live on a 5-acre (2-hectare) plot atop a hill on Hawaii's Big Island by the erupting Kilauea volcano, where they grow medical marijuana.
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| Some Prominent Conservatives Call On Trump To Stop Separating Migrant Parents & Children Posted: 18 Jun 2018 08:33 AM PDT  Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus and staunch supporter of
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| Schiff: Nunes didn't share intel, 'first that we've heard about' FBI information Posted: 17 Jun 2018 12:01 AM PDT  Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, tells Chuck Todd that his counterpart, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), didn't share information he received from the FBI.
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| Audi boss arrested in diesel probe Posted: 18 Jun 2018 08:23 AM PDT  Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler was arrested Monday in connection with parent company Volkswagen's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, with prosecutors saying they feared he might try to suppress evidence. The dramatic development comes a week after Munich prosecutors raided Stadler's home after charging him with fraud and falsifying documents that allowed diesel vehicles equipped with cheating software to be sold to European customers. Four police officers detained the Audi boss at his home at between 6 and 7 am, a spokesman for Munich prosecutors told AFP, saying that the arrest was justified as he is suspected of "seeking to influence witnesses or other suspects".
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| The Latest: Fourth death confirmed in Osaka-area earthquake Posted: 18 Jun 2018 07:52 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake in Japan (all times local):
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| Deadly shoot-out, fire break Nicaragua truce; talks proceed Posted: 16 Jun 2018 06:57 PM PDT  By Alonso Soto and Oswaldo Rivas MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Eight people died on Saturday in a shoot-out and fire that shattered a truce struck hours earlier between President Daniel Ortega and protesters, and civic leaders condemned the violence while vowing to continue talks with the government. Nicaragua's crisis, the country's bloodiest confrontations since a civil war ended in 1990, has spanned two months and claimed at least 170 lives. The unrest in the morning came hours after Ortega and protesters struck an agreement to end hostilities, clear roadblocks and allow a foreign inquiry.
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| Megachurch Pastor: 'It’s embarrassing' that Sessions quoted the Bible to defend immigration policy Posted: 17 Jun 2018 08:37 AM PDT  MSNBC's Yasmin Vossoughian interviews Pastor Carl Lentz, lead pastor of Hillsong NYC Church. Pastor Lentz called Sessions use of Romans 13 a "misapplication of scripture".
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| New Jersey Mom Gives Birth to 'Youngest Survivor' of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting Posted: 17 Jun 2018 01:23 PM PDT  She was one month pregnant during the shooting.
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| Melania Trump and Laura Bush join debate over children separated from families at US-Mexico border Posted: 17 Jun 2018 10:21 PM PDT  Melania Trump waded into a debate over children being separated from their families at the Mexico border, saying the United States should "govern with heart". In a rare intervention the first lady's spokeswoman said she wanted Republicans and Democrats to work together to achieve "successful immigration reform". Her comments were taken by some as an implicit criticism of her husband's recently introduced "zero tolerance" policy at the border. A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas Credit: Getty It was also possible she was backing the president's recent claim that Democrats in Congress were responsible for the situation. Her remarks were followed by a strong statement from former first lady Laura Bush, who called the policy "cruel" and "immoral" and said "it breaks my heart." Melania Trump said she wants an end to children being separated from their families at the Mexico border Credit: CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters More than 2,000 children have been removed from their parents over the last six weeks since Jeff Sessions, the US attorney general, introduced the new approach. Under the policy adults are being detained and prosecuted with their children taken away and sent to separate shelters. Previously, many illegal immigrants were allowed to remain at liberty while they awaited proceedings. Children who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas Credit: AP A spokeswoman for the first lady said: "Mrs Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform. "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart." A mural at a former Walmart where illegal immigrant boys are being held Credit: Reuters Mrs Trump, who immigrated to the United States legally from her native Slovenia, campaigns on behalf of children. The comments came amid a growing uproar over the detention of minors, including hundreds being held at a former Walmart superstore in Texas. Laura Bush was writing a guest column for The Washington Post Sunday and compared the policy to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. "I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel," the wife of George W Bush wrote. She said "the US government "should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso." The US Border Patrol on Sunday allowed reporters to briefly visit the facility where it holds families arrested at the border. The cages in which people are held in cases of illegal entry into the United States Credit: AP Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets. One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn't know because the child's aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl's diaper. Behind the Shutter: US-Mexico border Mr Trump himself has also said he "hates to see separation of parents and children" and has accused Democrats of pursuing a "horrible and cruel legislative agenda". On Sunday Kellyanne Conway, his counsellor, tried to further distance the White House from responsibility. Mrs Conway said: "As a mother, as a Catholic, as somebody who's got a conscience, I will tell you that nobody likes this policy. "Congress passed the law that it is a crime to enter this country illegally. So if they don't like that law, they should change it." Democrats and some Republicans in Congress also criticised the policy, blaming the White House. Illegal immigrant boys are allowed two phone calls a week at a shelter Credit: Reuters Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, accused the White House of trying to send a message "that if you cross the border with children, your children are going to be ripped away from you". She added: "That's traumatising to the children who are innocent victims and it is contrary to our values in this country." Democrats suggested Mr Trump was using the separation of families as a negotiating tool to secure funding for his proposed border wall in future immigration legislation. Adam Schiff, a Democrat congressman, said the administration was "using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build the wall. It's an effort to extort a bill to their liking in the Congress". Mr Trump is due to meet with Republicans in Congress on Tuesday and there is expected to be a vote on an immigration bill next week. Steve Bannon, Mr Trump's former chief strategist, defended the separation of families at the border. He said: "We ran on a policy, very simply, stop mass illegal immigration and limit legal immigration, get our sovereignty back, and to help our workers. "And so he went to a zero tolerance policy. Zero tolerance, it's a crime to come across illegally, and children get separated."
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| Kendall And Kylie Jenner Wish Heartfelt Happy Father's Day To Caitlyn Posted: 18 Jun 2018 07:49 AM PDT  Caitlyn Jenner's model daughters got sentimental on Father's Day.
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| Trump goes on offense against political opponents after North Korea Posted: 16 Jun 2018 11:01 PM PDT  In 51 minutes on the White House North lawn, President Trump served up a series of falsehoods, shortly before his former campaign chairman was sent to jail.
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| Russia, Saudi seek raised OPEC output of 1.5 million bpd Posted: 16 Jun 2018 02:40 PM PDT  Russia and Saudi Arabia will ask OPEC to hike production by 1.5 million barrels a day in the third quarter of 2018, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday. OPEC and Russia decided together in 2016 to cut their supply in order to push prices up following a crash induced by a global crude production glut. An oil production shortfall in Iran and Venezuela has changed the scenario for the two countries and members of the oil cartel.
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| A Gunman Has Been Killed After Wounding Two People at a Walmart in Washington Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:14 PM PDT  A bystander shot the gunman dead outside the store
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| GM replaces 3 Cadillac sedans with 2, invests $175M in plant Posted: 18 Jun 2018 07:42 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is getting rid of three Cadillac sedans and replacing them with two new ones over the next 3½ years.
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| Eid ceasefire proved 'wide support' for Afghan Taliban, they say Posted: 17 Jun 2018 10:32 AM PDT  By Rupam Jain and Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban said their three-day Eid ceasefire, which ends on Sunday, proved the unity of their movement and its "wide national support" as the presidential palace extended its own ceasefire with the militants by 10 days. Taliban fighters headed into cities across Afghanistan over the weekend as they celebrated their Eid cessation of hostilities with feasts, hugs and selfies, raising questions about what happens when their ceasefire ends at midnight (1930 GMT) on Sunday. "The announcement (of the ceasefire), implementation and the wide national support and welcome of the Mujahideen by the people proves that the demands of the Islamic Emirate and the nation are identical – all want the withdrawal of foreign invaders and establishment of an Islamic government," they said.
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| Americans own nearly half world's guns in civilian hands: survey Posted: 18 Jun 2018 09:01 AM PDT  Americans make up 4 percent of the world's population but owned about 46 percent of the estimated 857 million weapons in civilian hands at the end of 2017, a survey showed on Monday. The Small Arms Survey, an independent global research project based in Geneva, Switzerland, found that there were more than 1 billion firearms in the world, of which civilians owned 85 percent, while the rest were held by militaries or law enforcement agencies. The number of guns owned by civilians globally rose to 857 million in 2017 from 650 million in 2006, the survey said.
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| What Father's Day Looks Like For Separated Families Posted: 17 Jun 2018 02:46 AM PDT  As elementary school teachers in South Williamsburg, we see the trauma that
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| Parents May Have to Pay $132,000 After Child Caught On Tape Knocking Down Statue Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:44 AM PDT  The statue was being loaned to the community center where it was knocked down.
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| North Korea 'sought diplomatic back channel through Jared Kushner' Posted: 17 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT  Jared Kushner was partly responsible for setting up a diplomatic back channel with North Korea that led to the Singapore summit. Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser was approached by an American businessman based in Singapore last year, the New York Times reported. Gabriel Schulze, whose family made a fortune in the mining business, told Mr Kushner that a highly placed North Korean official was seeking to speak with him to look into the possibility of a meeting between Mr Trump and Kim Jong-un. The approach came as tensions heightened between the two countries, and Mr Trump and Kim exchanged threats. Senior North Korean officials wanted to get in touch with Mr Kushner because of his family relationship to Mr Trump. Hidden trillions: What if North Korea's economy opened up? They reportedly felt that, amid a rapid turnover of senior White House staff, Mr Kushner would continue to have influence with the president. Mr Kushner reported the possibility of a diplomatic back channel to Mike Pompeo, who was then the Director of the CIA, the New York Times reported. It might have been expected that Mr Kushner would tell the US State Department instead, but he did not have a good relationship with Rex Tillerson, then the Secretary of State. Mr Pompeo took the lead in negotiations with North Koreans and subsequently replaced Mr Tillerson as Secretary of State. The White House and the CIA declined to comment on Mr Kushner's role. Mr Schulze told the New York Times: "I do not discuss the nature of my business or personal relationships." Mr Kushner was also said to have been involved in the setting up a diplomatic back channel between Mr Trump's administration and China early in the presidency. Mr Kushner reportedly set up a diplomatic back channel through Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to Washington, which helped lead to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visiting Mr Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida retreat in April last year. Meanwhile, it emerged that a former confidant of Mr Trump met with a Russian individual who offered "dirt" on Hillary Clinton for $2 million (£1.5 million). Roger Stone, the confidant, told the Washington Post he rejected the offer in May 2016, telling the Russian: "You don't understand Donald Trump. He doesn't pay for anything." It also emerged that the Russian had previously been an FBI informant. Mr Stone, who met the man at a restaurant in Florida, said he appeared to have been the target of an "FBI sting".
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| FARC peace deal at risk as conservative Duque wins Colombia presidency Posted: 17 Jun 2018 07:08 PM PDT  Conservative Ivan Duque won Colombia's presidential election Sunday after a campaign that turned into a referendum on a landmark 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels that he pledged to overhaul. Duque, 41, polled 54 percent to his leftist rival Gustavo Petro's 42 percent with almost all the votes counted, electoral authority figures showed. Tensions over the deal became apparent in the immediate aftermath of Duque's victory, after the president-elect lost no time in pledging "corrections" to the peace deal.
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| Japan team at World Cup troubled by earthquake, hotel alarm Posted: 18 Jun 2018 09:05 AM PDT  SARANSK, Russia (AP) — Word of a deadly earthquake in Japan and an early-morning false alarm at a team hotel have given the country's World Cup squad some unsettling moments.
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| POLITICS WHITE HOUSE Rudy Giuliani Says President Trump Could Use Pardon Power After Russia Probe Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:29 PM PDT  Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday the president might pardon his jailed, onetime campaign chairman and others ensnared in the Russia investigation once special counsel Robert Mueller's work wraps up.
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| Square obtains NY State cryptocurrency license Posted: 18 Jun 2018 08:42 AM PDT ![Square obtains NY State cryptocurrency license]( "Square obtains NY State cryptocurrency license") Square Inc, the payments company founded by Twitter Inc CEO Jack Dorsey, has obtained a license to offer New York state residents the ability to buy and sell bitcoin through its Cash App, the company said on Monday. This makes Square the ninth firm to have obtained a so-called "BitLicense" by the New York State Department of Financial Services. New York has been considered one of the strictest states for cryptocurrency businesses since June 2015, when it started requiring virtual currency firms doing business there to get a license to hold customer funds and exchange virtual coins for dollars and other regular currencies.
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| Gunman wounds 2, fatally shot by bystander at Walmart store Posted: 17 Jun 2018 09:15 PM PDT  TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — A gunman injured a teen and shot a man in a pair of carjacking attempts Sunday, before being killed by a bystander outside a Washington state Walmart store.
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| 'Incredibles 2' Destroys Opening Weekend Record For Animated Films Posted: 17 Jun 2018 01:08 PM PDT  The first family of the cinematic superhero world has returned in epic
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| Kaliningrad photos appear to show Russia upgrading nuclear weapons bunker Posted: 17 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Vladimir Putin attends naval celebrations in Kaliningrad, which also serves as a base for Russia's Baltic fleet. Russia appears to have upgraded a nuclear weapons storage bunker in its Kaliningrad enclave, in the latest sign of Moscow's increased emphasis on nuclear arms in its standoff with Nato, according to a new report.
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| Kiev police detain 56 far-right activists during LGBT march Posted: 17 Jun 2018 02:50 AM PDT  Ukrainian police said Sunday they had detained 56 far-right activists who tried to disrupt a gay pride march in central Kiev, which saw around 5,000 people take part and a huge security presence. US ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and Rebecca Harms from the European Parliament were at the front of the march. Along the way supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights were guarded by another 5,000 officers, including mounted police.
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