Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 20th July 2017 at 12:45 (about 9 hours ago)
By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he believed that a $2 billion submarine deal with Germany will be signed after a police investigation into corruption allegations in the affair is completed. The German Defence Ministry and Israeli Foreign Ministry have declined to comment. "Matters will be cleared up and I believe the deal will go ahead," Netanyahu said in Budapest in a briefing to Israeli reporters traveling with him on an Eastern European visit. #
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Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on Jeff Sessions, one of his earliest supporters in Washington, saying he had been treated "very unfairly" by his attorney general. In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, the President said he never would have appointed Mr Sessions to the post had he known he would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. Mr Trump said his attorney general's decision to recuse himself from all matters related to Russia was "very unfair to the president." "Sessions should have never recused himself," Mr Trump told the paper, "and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else." Profile | Jeff Sessions He also criticised Mr Sessions' testimony during Senate confirmation hearings when Mr Sessions said he had not had ?communications with the Russians?, despite having met Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak twice. ?Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers,? the president said. ?He gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren?t.? Mr Sessions' recusal, announced following revelations that he had failed to disclose meetings with Russia's ambassador to the US, effectively paved the way for the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel. Mr Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential ties between the Russian government and Trump campaign aides has cast a growing cloud on Trump's administration. In the interview, Mr Trump also appeared to threaten Mr Mueller, suggesting he had damaging information on the former FBI director. The Donald Trump campaign?s Russia connections The President said Mr Mueller's selection for the job was a conflict of interest because Mr Trump had interviewed him to serve as the replacement FBI director. "There were many other conflicts that I haven't said, but I will at some point," Mr Trump said. He lobbed similar conflict of interest charges at acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, saying he was annoyed to learn where Mr Sessions' deputy was from. ?There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any,? he said. Mr Rosenstein earlier told Fox News that he was confident Mr. Mueller could avoid any conflict of interests. ?We have a process with the department to take care of that,? he said. He also accused former FBI Director James Comey of briefing him on a dossier of unverified, incriminating information, complied by a former British spy, in an effort to gain leverage over the soon-to-be president. ?In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there,? Mr Trump said. As leverage? ?Yeah, I think so. In retrospect.? Five things you need to know about the Trump dossier 02:20 The Justice Department declined to comment on the interview. Mr Trump also addressed the previously undisclosed conversation he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a dinner for world leaders at a summit in Germany. The president said the pair spoke for about 15 minutes at the dinner and said the conversation consisted of "pleasantries more than anything else" - though he said he and Putin also discussed adoption. Russia had banned Americans from adopting Russian children in response to the Magnitsky Act, passed by Congress in 2012, which allowed the U.S. to impose sanctions on Russians deemed as human rights violators. It's the same topic Mr Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., says he discussed with a Russian lawyer at a meeting that has drawn intense scrutiny - a coincidence Trump described in the interview as "interesting." #
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? An international robotics competition in Washington attracted teams of teenagers from more than 150 nations. The team that drew the most attention at the FIRST Global Challenge, which ended Tuesday, was a squad of girls from Afghanistan who were twice rejected for U.S. visas before President Donald Trump intervened. But there were even more stories than there were teams. Here are a few: #
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Saudi police have released without charge a woman who was filmed in a miniskirt at a historic site in the ultraconservative kingdom, the government said Wednesday. The ministry of information said police had released the woman Tuesday night and the prosector had closed the case. Police said Tuesday they were questioning the woman after she appeared in a series of videos, initially posted to messaging app Snapchat, wearing a crop top and a high-waisted miniskirt. #
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Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after doctors removed a blood clot above his left eye last week, his office said on Wednesday. The news was met with shock in Washington and triggered an outpouring of support for the much-respected Republican lawmaker. ?Senator John McCain has always been a fighter,? President Donald Trump said. ?Melania and I send our thoughts and prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and their entire family. Get well soon.? The 80-year-old Republican has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. The senator and his family are reviewing further treatment, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. ?On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,? his office said in a statement. His daughter Meghan McCain said the family were in ?shock? at the news as she released a touching tribute to her father. Statement regarding my father @SenJohnMcCain: pic.twitter.com/SMte9Hkwkq? Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 20, 2017 ?It won?t surprise you to learn that in all this, the one of us who is most confident and calm in my father,? she said. ?He is the toughest person I know. The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggressions of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has. ?He is a warrior at dusk, one of the greatest Americans of our age, and the worthy heir to his father?s and grandfather?s name. But to me he is something more. He is my strength, my example, my refuge, my confidante, my teacher, my rock, my hero - my Dad.? The Arizona senator and chairman of the Armed Services Committee had been recovering at his Arizona home. His absence had forced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to delay action on health care legislation. Profile | John McCain In a statement, Mr McConnell said: ?John McCain is a hero to our Conference and a hero to our country. He has never shied from a fight and I know that he will face this challenge with the same extraordinary courage that has characterised his life. ?The entire Senate family?s prayers are with John, Cindy and his family, his staff, and the people of Arizona he represents so well.? John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.? Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 20, 2017 Mr Obama hailed Mr McCain as an ?American hero & one of the bravest fighters I?ve ever known?. ?Cancer doesn?t know what it?s up against. Give it hell, John,? the former president tweeted. Sarah Palin, his running mate in the 2008 presidential election, described Mr McMain as ?one tough fighter?. About 20,000 people in the US each year are diagnosed with a glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of brain tumor. The American Cancer Society puts the five-year survival rate for patients over 55 at about 4 percent. The tumor digs tentacle-like roots into normal brain tissue. Patients fare best when surgeons can cut out all the visible tumor, which happened with McCain?s tumor, according to his office. That isn?t a cure; cancerous cells that aren?t visible still tend to lurk, the reason McCain?s doctors are considering further treatment including chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say Mr McCain is recovering from his surgery amazingly well and his underlying health is excellent, according to the statement. John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer, @DrSanjayGupta reports. "Truly sad and shocking news" --@AndersonCooperhttps://t.co/XjPImziHbf? Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 20, 2017 With his irascible grin and fighter-pilot moxie, Mr McCain was elected to the Senate from Arizona six times, but twice thwarted in seeking the presidency. An upstart presidential bid in 2000 didn't last long. Eight years later, he fought back from the brink of defeat to win the GOP nomination, only to be overpowered by Mr Obama. Mr McCain chose a little-known Alaska governor as his running mate in that race, and helped turn Mrs Palin into a national political figure. After losing to Mr Obama in an electoral landslide, Mr McCain returned to the Senate, determined not to be defined by a failed presidential campaign. And when Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015, McCain embraced his new job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, eager to play a big role ?in defeating the forces of radical Islam that want to destroy America.? McCain: No desire to re-open wounds of Vietnam 01:23 Throughout his long tenure in Congress, Mr McCain has played his role with trademark verve, at one hearing dismissing a protester by calling out, ?Get out of here, you low-life scum.? Mr McCain stuck by the party?s 2016 presidential nominee, Mr Trump, at times seemingly through gritted teeth ? until the release a month before the election of a lewd audio in which Mr Trump said he could kiss and grab women. Declaring that the breaking point, McCain withdrew his support and said he would write in ?some good conservative Republican who?s qualified to be president.? He had largely held his tongue earlier in the campaign when Mr Trump questioned his status as a war hero by saying: ?He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren?t captured.? Mr McCain said that was offensive to veterans, but ?the best thing to do is put it behind us and move forward.? #
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Amid public outrage over the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by Minneapolis police, the most persistent question was why officers did not turn on body cameras that could have captured what happened. The American Civil Liberties Union said the case showed a need for better compliance and training. Justine Damond, who was originally from Sydney, was shot around midnight on Saturday by an officer responding to an emergency call she had placed about a possible assault behind her house in a quiet residential neighborhood. #
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The President also fired shots at James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller #
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Republican senators attempting to save their stalled effort to repeal and replace Obamacare in a late-night meeting Wednesday were interrupted with news of Sen. John McCain?s brain cancer diagnosis. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told reporters that the senators learned of McCain?s brain cancer diagnosis during the meeting and asked Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., to say a prayer for McCain. ?It was very emotional, almost kind of stunned disbelief for a minute, then we asked James Lankford to lead us in prayer,? Hoeven said. #
Source: Crime and Criminals — 20th July 2017 at 12:45 (about 9 hours ago)
The overall number of recorded crimes rose by 10 percent, according to a new report, with an 18 percent increase in violent crimes and a 26 percent increase in the murder rate. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 20th July 2017 at 11:15 (about 11 hours ago)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? The Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman in an alley shortly after she called 911 to report a possible crime is a Somali-American and father who felt called to work in law enforcement after getting a college degree in business. #