| White House under fire for barring CNN reporter from event Posted: 26 Jul 2018 02:24 PM PDT  The White House was under fire Wednesday for barring a CNN reporter from attending an event with the president, allegedly for having asked questions that officials objected to. Reporter Kaitlan Collins was quoted by CNN as saying that White House communications officials told her she could not attend an event with US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker because she had asked "inappropriate" questions earlier in the day. "We strongly condemn the White House's misguided and inappropriate decision today to bar one of our members from an open press event after she asked questions they did not like," the White House Correspondents' Association said in a statement.
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| Pakistan's Imran Khan declares victory as rivals cry foul Posted: 26 Jul 2018 01:33 PM PDT  By Idrees Ali and Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan declared victory on Thursday in a divisive general election, and said he was ready to lead the nuclear-armed nation despite a long delay in ballot counting and allegations of vote-rigging from his main opponents. Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who accuse Khan of colluding with the still powerful army, said the vote count was rigged in what it termed an assault on democracy in a country with a history of military rule. Oxford-educated Khan, in the past a fierce critic of U.S. policy in the region, called for "mutually beneficial" ties with Pakistan's on-off ally the United States, and offered an olive branch to arch-foe India, saying the two nations should resolve their long-simmering dispute over Kashmir.
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| Pakistan election in disarray as incumbent rejects result Posted: 26 Jul 2018 09:39 AM PDT  'Our democratic process has been pushed back by decades', says Shahbaz Sharif (centre), the younger brother of the ousted Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Pakistan's general election has been plunged into chaos after the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) said it would reject the result amid widespread allegations that the military was rigging the ballot in favour of the party led by the former cricketer Imran Khan.
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| Deadly wildfires ravage coastal region near Athens, killing dozens Posted: 26 Jul 2018 07:03 AM PDT ![Deadly wildfires ravage coastal region near Athens, killing dozens]( "Deadly wildfires ravage coastal region near Athens, killing dozens") Sorrow became tinged with anger in Greece on Thursday as rescuers searched scorched land and the coastline for survivors, three days after a wildfire destroyed a small town outside Athens and killed at least 83 people.
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| Hamas vows revenge after Israeli raid kills 3 militants Posted: 26 Jul 2018 05:52 AM PDT  The military wing of Gaza's rulers Hamas on Thursday vowed revenge after Israeli strikes killed three militants in the latest flare-up of violence. Israel said the artillery fire late Wednesday was in retaliation for shots fired at troops along the border which injured one soldier. "We announce the raising of the preparedness level to the highest and alert all of our soldiers and forces in every location," said a statement from the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
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| Chinese man sets off explosive outside US embassy: police Posted: 26 Jul 2018 02:01 AM PDT  A 26-year-old Chinese man set off a small explosive outside the US embassy in Beijing Thursday, sending smoke into the air and injuring his hand before security officials rushed to the scene and took him into custody, police said. Chinese police said no one else was injured in the incident, which took place near the area where visa applicants typically line up to enter the embassy for interviews. The explosion was set off by a man from China's Inner Mongolia region surnamed Jiang, police said, adding that his injuries were not life-threatening.
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| Tariffs ding Detroit automakers' profit forecasts, stocks hit Posted: 26 Jul 2018 12:17 AM PDT  By Nick Carey and Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit automakers General Motors Co , Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) lowered their full-year profit forecasts on Wednesday due to escalating tariffs, hitting their stocks as investors bet that escalating trade disputes would hurt margins and sales. GM cited higher steel and aluminum costs for its 2018 profit forecast reduction as a result of tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
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| Boeing's refueling tanker woes obscure profit beat, shares fall Posted: 25 Jul 2018 07:57 PM PDT  Boeing Co on Wednesday posted better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue but shares dropped as much as 3.6 percent after it reported $426 million in higher costs on its long-delayed KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program. Analysts worry that the world's largest planemaker's exposure to an escalating trade fight between Washington and Beijing as well as mounting costs on the tanker program will slow Boeing shares, up more than 21 percent year to date. "The KC-46 has returned to again haunt Boeing's results," Vertical Research Partners analyst Robert Stallard said in a research note.
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| House Republicans Move To Impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Posted: 25 Jul 2018 06:39 PM PDT  A group of conservative lawmakers on Wednesday filed articles of impeachment
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| Investigators use digital info in search for Iowa student Posted: 25 Jul 2018 04:44 PM PDT  BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — Federal and state investigators are poring through "massive amounts of data" related to a missing University of Iowa student's digital footprint in an effort to track her whereabouts in the hours before she disappeared.
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