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"They believed the optics of the candidate with a woman, even a working reporter, could be used in a smear campaign to insinuate an extramarital affair," Mississippi Today reporter Larrison Campbell said

Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British warship warned them, U.S. officials said. The incident occurred almost a week after British Royal Marines boarded an Iranian tanker, Grace 1, off Gibraltar and seized it on suspicion that it was breaking sanctions by taking oil to Syria. Earlier on Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Britain... Читать дальше...

The device raises the possibility that the alderman may have been alerted to, or was suspicious of, the investigation that led to his indictment.

1. Virgin Orbit's first rocket drop test was a success  Engadget
2. Virgin Orbit's Rocket-Launching 747 Jumbo Jet Nails 1st Drop Test (Video)  Space.com
3. Virgin Orbit 'drop tests' a rocket from a 747 aircraft 35,000 feet in the sky  CNN
4. Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit just dropped a rocket from an airplane  CNET
5. Virgin Orbit Just Dropped a Rocket From a Boeing 747  WIRED
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There is no association between exposure to the 2009 H1N1 'swine flu' vaccine during pregnancy and health problems in early childhood, concludes a new study.

LONDON (Reuters) - British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn's office interfered in independent party discipline processes aimed at rooting out anti-Semitism, the BBC said on Wednesday, a claim that the Labour Party sharply rejected. A BBC investigation spoke to former Labour officials who said top party figures, including Corbyn's communications director Seumas Milne and general secretary Jennie Formby, had minimised complaints of anti-Semitism against party members

Robert Mueller is expected to testify before the House’s judiciary and intelligence committees for two hours each.

IRANIAN ships have failed to hijack a UK oil tanker in the Persian Gulf in a huge blow to Tehran on Thursday.

By Daniel Trotta and Julio-Cesar Chavez CARRIZO SPRINGS, Tex. (Reuters) - U.S. border officers were detaining about 200 unaccompanied children across the southern border on Wednesday, down from more than 2,500 in May, thanks to congressional funding increases, a senior border agency official said.

Atletico Madrid have sent Nehuen Perez away on-loan.

Marca says Perez has been loaned out to Famalicao in Portugal.

COMPETITORS lined up for the new series of Celebrity MasterChef aren’t that famous . . . but they are awfully familiar. That is because many are veterans of “dramality” and reality TV shows, the sort of folk Strictly Come Dancing bosses have tried to stop hiring these days. Top of the list is Joey Essex, who started out […]

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament marks 160 years on Thursday since its "Big Ben" bell first chimed, but the familiar bongs will not ring out to celebrate the occasion as the famous clock-tower is half way through a major restoration project.

LOVE Island’s Maura has been accused of jumping in “Amy’s bed before it was cold” to woo Curtis, by former BFF Elma Pazar. The Essex babe’s strong words come after she was slammed by Maura, 28, for breaking “girl code” after Tom Walker revealed he liked both ladies and Elma dared to have a chat […]

Israeli troops have killed at least 16 Palestinian children and injured more than 1,200 others in Gaza Strip in the first half of 2019, a Palestine-based NGO said on Wednesday.The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said in a statement that as many as 1,233 minors were wounded by Israeli forces during weekly anti-occupation demonstrations at the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, Anadolu News Agency reported.The NGO said that about 16 children were rounded up in the last six months and documented 17 Israeli attacks... Читать дальше...

Virgin Orbit's first rocket drop test has gone off without a hitch. The company's Boeing 747 launch aircraft (Cosmic Girl) successfully dropped a dummy LauncherOne rocket from its wing above the Mojave Desert, bringing it one step closer to launching...

Asylum seeker Yazmin Juarez appeared in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday to testify on the death of...

Chris Klafford brings viewers to tears with his cover of John Lennon‘s “Imagine” on America’s Got Talent. The 30-year-old Swedish singer took the stage for his moving performance on Tuesday (July 9). “What I loved about you was what you did with the song, with your vocal,” judge Simon Cowell said afterward. “I love people [...]

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S

The post Trump’s labour chief Acosta defends Epstein plea deal, calling him ‘a sexual predator’ appeared first on Firstpost.

Speaking at a Jewish settlement, Israeli Prime Minister lists his four principles regarding the future of the West Bank

The Russian Embassy in London said that the decision to deny a visa to a Russian delegate "looks really weird" in the context of UK's invitation to Russia to participate in the event

By Tom Hals (Reuters) - A second U.S. judge has rejected a Department of Justice request to replace its legal team in cases on the 2020 census as the Trump administration tries to add a contentious citizenship question.

A ROYAL Navy frigate forced five Iranian military boats that tried to seize a British tanker to back off after a tense standoff in the Persian Gulf today, according to reports. Iranian Revolutionary Guards tried to storm the oil vessel as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz – but were warned off by the […]

A couple caught up in a mix-up at a fertility clinic is sharing their story after discovering their son had been born to a stranger across the country. Their embryo had been mistakenly implanted into a woman without anyone's knowledge. Jamie Yuccas reports.

Newly released records show that former President Bill Clinton dined with Florida billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 1995 – contradicting a public statement Bill Clinton released on Monday. According to a statement released by Bill Clinton’s spox, the former president said he “knows nothing” about Epstein’s crimes and asserted his interactions with Epstein […]