| Trump accused of encouraging attacks on journalists with CNN body-slam tweet Posted: 02 Jul 2017 02:00 PM PDT  Donald Trump has called the media 'enemies of the American people'. Donald Trump was on Sunday accused of encouraging his supporters to attack journalists, after he tweeted a video of himself at a pro-wrestling event throwing to the floor a man with a CNN logo for a head. The video, sent as CNN broadcast its Sunday talk show State of the Union, came the morning after an appearance from Trump at an event in Washington honouring veterans, in which he used his speech to further his attacks on the press and broadcasters.
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| Man Who Allegedly Crawled Into Woman's Bed, Asked To Spend The Night Is Arrested: Cops Posted: 02 Jul 2017 01:27 PM PDT  Sungjae Song, 26, is a South Korean citizen who lives in Palisades Park, New Jersey.
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| Trump’s tweet attacking CNN is ‘un-American’, top media ethicist says Posted: 02 Jul 2017 12:55 PM PDT  Experts: Trump's CNN tweet not only undermined the principle of the media being free but could also 'embolden autocratic leaders around the world'. Donald Trump's decision to tweet a video showing him body-slamming the wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, with the clip doctored to show McMahon's head as a CNN logo, was "un-American", a leading media ethicist said on Sunday. "It's definitely un-American," Kelly McBride, vice-president of the Poynter Institute school of journalism, told the Guardian on Sunday.
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| U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reinforce front lines in Raqqa Posted: 02 Jul 2017 12:17 PM PDT  The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deployed around a thousand additional fighters to the front lines with Islamic State in Raqqa on Sunday, the SDF media office said. The fighters were sent to the east and west of the city, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria. The SDF launched its U.S.-backed assault to capture Raqqa last month.
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| S. Africa's Zuma faces parliament vote on Aug 8 Posted: 02 Jul 2017 11:38 AM PDT  South African President Jacob Zuma, who has been weakened by growing criticism from within the ruling ANC party, will face a vote of no confidence in parliament on August 8, officials announced Sunday. Opposition parties have pushed for the vote to be held in secret, hoping to encourage ANC lawmakers to vote Zuma out of office after a series of corruption scandals. In the last two years, Zuma has easily survived three votes of no confidence and a separate parliament vote to remove him from office.
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| YouTuber Tweeted About 'Most Dangerous Video Ever' Before Killing Boyfriend Posted: 01 Jul 2017 05:02 PM PDT  Monalisa Perez accidentally shot and killed her boyfriend during a YouTube stunt gone wrong.
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| UN demands electoral timetable for troubled DR Congo Posted: 01 Jul 2017 04:45 PM PDT  The United Nations on Saturday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to publish a timetable for elections which are due by the end of the year. Under a deal brokered last New Year's Eve, President Joseph Kabila agreed to a transitional arrangement enabling him to stay in power pending presidential and legislative elections by the end of 2017. In a statement, the UN's special representative for DR Congo, Maman Sidikou, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) "to publish an official, consensus-based timetable, without further delay" for staging the elections.
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| Pope dismisses doctrine chief after reform clashes Posted: 01 Jul 2017 04:09 PM PDT  Pope Francis has dismissed the church's chief of doctrine Cardinal Gerhard Mueller -- one of the most powerful cardinals at the Vatican -- and appointed a Spanish Archbishop to the role, the Vatican said Saturday. Mueller had also been caught up in the controversy surrounding the Church's response to the clerical sex abuse scandal after his department was accused earlier this year of obstructing Francis's efforts to stop internal cover-ups of abuse.
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| Snipers, bombs, mortars - Philippine troops battle against Islamists Posted: 01 Jul 2017 03:35 PM PDT  The two spoke quietly to each other as the sniper took three more shots across the Agus river into the militant-held commercial district of Marawi, now a battleground strewn with debris from ruined buildings. Thousands of soldiers are battling to retake the southern Philippine city, where militants loyal to Islamic State launched a lightning strike on May 23. The southern Philippines has been marred for decades by insurgency and banditry.
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| The Latest: Pope sacks German cardinal handling abuse cases Posted: 01 Jul 2017 02:35 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis (all times local):
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| Prince Charles honors Canada troops who died in Afghanistan Posted: 01 Jul 2017 01:59 PM PDT  TRENTON, Ontario (AP) — Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall began the second day of their royal tour Friday at Canada's largest air force base, where they greeted members of the military and honored soldiers who died in Afghanistan.
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