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Eerie VIRTUAL girlfriends that ‘pleasure men with smart-warming sex sleeve’ on sale

TheSun.co.uk 

PUNTERS will soon be able to buy a “photo-realistic” virtual girlfriend that pleasures them with a sex toy in real life. Players’ digital partners are hooked up to a “stroking device” that triggers responses from their flirtatious digital lover. The Virtual Mate game was announced earlier this year, but The Sun can exclusively reveal that […]

NFAI receives rare snapshots of Simla Conference of 1945

The Hindu 

The six-minute, black-and-white footage of the Simla Conference, which featured in one of two 8 mm tapes, was sent to the NFAI late last month by Margaret South, a resident of West Sussex in the U.K.

Fire resurges on Evia, challenges firefighters

Kathimerini 

Aircraft and firefighters on the ground fought a blaze that burned large tracts of pristine pine forest on the Greek island of Evia on Wednesday as the wildfire flared up again at different spots.

‘Retake Hong Kong’: A Movement, a Slogan and an Identity Crisis - The New York Times

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  1. ‘Retake Hong Kong’: A Movement, a Slogan and an Identity Crisis  The New York Times
  2. Growing fears of Chinese military crackdown on Hong Kong protests  CBS News
  3. U.S. issues travel advisory for Hong Kong, urges caution  Reuters
  4. Christian Whiton: China’s Xi looks increasingly dazed and confused – Could Hong Kong win this showdown?  Fox News
  5. China won't like it, but Chairman Mao would be supporting the Hong Kong protests  The Independent
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Why a U.S.-China War in the Pacifc Would Be a 'Knife' Fight

The National Interest 

Dan Goure

Security,

"Countering great power A2/AD threats, whether in Europe or the Western Pacific, will require an array of assets. But deterring or defeating Russian and Chinese threats to U.S. friends, allies and interests must be based, first and foremost, on a robust, highly lethal and survivable forward deployment of U.S. forces."

A large portion of the U.S. defense establishment is operating under the mistaken belief that a future conflict involving a great or middle... Читать дальше...

Why learning a trade could be the career change you need

New York Post 

For the past six years, Destanie Greczkowski has worked in retail, but now she’s switching gears and moving into the automotive industry. When the Jamaica resident graduates this November from Lincoln Tech with a diploma in automotive technology, she’ll already have experience with engines, brakes, fuels, emissions and transmissions to pursue employment at a dealership....

Injury-plagued Kokkinakis handed final US Open wildcard

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (sports) 

Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis, the injury-plagued world number 212, was Wednesday handed the final wildcard for this year's US Open which gets underway in New York on August 26.

Democrats want answers from Barr on federal executions

The Seattle Times 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee want answers from Attorney General William Barr over the decision to resume executing federal death-row inmates for the first time since 2003. Democrats are asking Barr in a letter why the Justice Department decided to start executions and who was consulted. While the death […]

ASAP Rocky Guilty of Assault in Sweden but Won’t Face Prison Time - The New York Times

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  1. ASAP Rocky Guilty of Assault in Sweden but Won’t Face Prison Time  The New York Times
  2. A$AP Rocky convicted of assault by Swedish court  CNN
  3. A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault in Sweden  Chicago Tribune
  4. ASAP Rocky found guilty of assaulting man in Stockholm  The Local Sweden
  5. Rapper A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault, will not serve jail time | USA TODAY  USA TODAY
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Two treatments for Ebola emerge from a clinical trial in Africa

The Economist 

NEWS ABOUT Ebola, a viral disease that kills up to 90% of those it infects, is usually grim. The latest outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has thus far killed nearly 1,900 people and rages on. But on August 12th the grimness lifted somewhat with the announcement that two anti-Ebola treatments being tested in the country have proved effective. If administered when the first signs of infection appear, they boost survival rates to about 90%.

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