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Venezuela’s Oil Woes Deepen as Chinese Contractor Halts Work
A pump jack stands at a Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Petropiar facility in El Tigre, Venezuela, on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. State-owned PDVSA doesn’t publish statistics, but environmentalists and analysts keep seemingly endless lists of examples of wayward crude – unleashed by busted valves, ripped gaskets, and cracked pipes – that they say has…
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Hurricane death toll in Bahamas at 30 as aid begins to land
Dorian lashes the Carolinas with driving rain and fierce winds after devastating the Bahamas and killing at least 30 people. An Isle of Palms resident clears the drain during Hurricane Dorian in South Carolina, USA on September 5, 2019. (AP) Officials in the Bahamas say the country’s death toll from Hurricane Dorian has increased to…
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Ebola survivors face increased risk of death
A worker from the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to administer Ebola vaccination during the launch of an experimental vaccine in Mbandaka, north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 21, 2018. File Photo by EPA-EFE/STR The overall death rate of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have been underestimated, with new research finding…
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Hurricane Dorian weakens to Category 3 as it camps out over devastated Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian weakened to a Category 3 storm over the Bahamas early Tuesday, after virtually stalling over the island nation where it caused devastation and was blamed for at least five deaths. The National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. update that Dorian had maximum sustained winds near 120 mph and was stationary just north of Grand Bahama…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 30 August 2019
Greetings from Tyler, We’ve been waiting endlessly for the Inspector General’s report, and the first portion has finally dropped. Nothing could be taken as factual until Horowitz said so, according to conventional wisdom. His partial report on the shenanigans of the former FBI director were published this week, and once again the DoJ declined prosecution. …
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World’s 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak surpasses 3,000 cases
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases and 2,000 deaths as the yearlong epidemic continues despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments. A total of 3,004 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since Aug. 1 of last year, according to Congolese…
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Astonishing bias: 452 Islamic terror attacks in 31 countries just THIS YEAR (so far) and zero coverage from the media
The vast majority of Americans have come to expect biased coverage from the so-called “mainstream media,” and what’s more, they have come to expect that coverage will be designed to advance the Democrats’ Left-wing agenda. That’s according to some of the most recent polling data available. But additional evidence also supports the contention that what the media tends to…
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World powers need to help the US win a trade deal with China, says ex-Trump negotiator
KEY POINTS One “critically important” thing to a trade deal is unity from allies — and it is in the “self-interest” of Europe, Japan and others to work with the U.S. on those trade issues, he added, said former top White House negotiator Clete Willems. In fact, French President Emmanuel Macron already alluded to his concern…
