• US sanctions Chinese company, big buyer of Iranian oil 
  The US has imposed sanctions against a Chinese company that is the biggest buyer of Iranian oil in the world, amid an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing and US threats against Tehran.
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• Gender-selective abortion? No girls born in 3 months across 132 Indian villages
  A probe into sex-selective abortions has been kicked off in northern India, after government data revealed that of the 216 children born across 132 villages in the past three months, not a single one was female.
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• Black helicopters over DC? Pentagon accidentally reveals ‘classified’ domestic Black Hawk mission
  The US Army apparently plans to swarm the nation’s capital region with Black Hawk helicopters as part of an ongoing “classified flight mission” that the Pentagon accidentally exposed while requesting funds from Congress.
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• UK calls for EU-led armada in Persian Gulf over tanker tensions with Iran
  The once-mighty sea power Britain has called for an “European-led maritime protection” mission in the Persain Gulf, after London and Tehran escalated tensions by seizing each other’s oil tankers.
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• Venezuela blames nationwide blackouts on ‘electromagnetic attack’
  Massive power outages all across Venezuela were likely caused by an “electromagnetic attack,” the government of President Nicholas Maduro said, stressing that authorities are working to restore the service as soon as possible.
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• ‘Big victory’? Trump & Democrats agree to offload US debt issue on next president & future Americans
  Republicans and Democrats have struck a deal on raising the debt ceiling and US government budgets through 2021, lowering the risk of a shutdown or a default and kicking the $22 trillion economic can down the road.
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• NASA’s legendary flight director Christopher Kraft dies aged 95
  
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23 July 2019

• A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Trump’s Middle East Policy Could Push Yemen’s Houthis into Iran’s Hands

  As both the United States and Saudi Arabia continue to wage war and impose economic blockades on both Yemen and Iran, it is

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• “The US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

  Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup - and the Neoliberalism it brought with it - have

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• Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

  Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening

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• Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis

  The supposedly random ‘violence’ and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American

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• The Roots of Evil: Right-Wing Israeli Settler Group Accuses Palestinians of Land Theft

  Israeli settler groups are turning the Israel-Palestine narrative on its head, accusing Palestinians of trying to illegally

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• Seeking New Routes for Oil Delivery Saudi Arabia Tightens Its Grip on Eastern Yemen

  Saudi Arabia is consolidating its military hold on eastern Yemen's al-Mahrah province, hoping to use the area for an oil

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• The Glaring Holes in Michelle Bachelet’s Venezuela Human Rights Report

  Roger Harris reports on how UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's recent report is a gift to US regime

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