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News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines
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Showing posts from December 7, 2018
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Learning With: ‘9-Year-Old Boy Helps Repeal Snowball Throwing Ban in Colorado Town’
By JEREMY ENGLE from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2rrvdAs
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The Best Dance of 2018
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY, GIA KOURLAS, BRIAN SEIBERT and SIOBHAN BURKE from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2zPCeiZ
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Kremlin shrugs off US call to scrap nuclear-capable missile
The Kremlin shrugged off a U.S. call for it to scrap a nuclear-capable missile Friday, saying it was in compliance with…
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Nissan to recall 150,000 cars due to improper checks
Nissan Friday announced plans to recall approximately 150,000 vehicles owing to improper tests on new units, dealing a …
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In Beijing, North Korea foreign minister reaffirms commitment to denuclearization
North Korea's commitment to denuclearization and maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula are unchan…
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Aoun may call MPs to question Hariri on formation: report
President Michel Aoun reportedly told visitors to Baabda Palace that if the government formation remains deadlocked, he…
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Angela Merkel’s Political Life in Pictures: Tracing the End of an Era
By KATRIN BENNHOLD from NYT World https://ift.tt/2L1xFXi
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China Watchers Demand Action on Harassment of New Zealand Professor
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Pn0wFX
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North Carolina Republican Owes $34,310 for Disputed Absentee Ballot and Turnout Work, Records Show
By SYDNEY EMBER and ALAN BLINDER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2RH1ezK
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On Politics: Arrest of Chinese Executive Endangers U.S.-China Trade Truce
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When a Boyfriend Joins the Marriage
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V.A.R. at the Women’s World Cup? FIFA Still Won’t Say
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Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo Are Killed in Car Crash
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It Doesn’t Matter Who Replaces Merkel. Germany Is Broken.
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Word + Quiz: peregrinate
By THE LEARNING NETWORK from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2SC6Zz3
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Trump Is Expected to Name Heather Nauert, State Dept. Spokeswoman, to U.N. Post
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Quotation of the Day: In America Illegally, and Employed by Trump
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Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’
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Celtics Get Revenge With Easy Win Over the Knicks
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Derrick Henry’s 99-Yard Touchdown Highlights Record-Setting Day
By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2E5KI8C
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China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side
China was preparing to launch a ground-breaking mission early Saturday to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplo…
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Aid groups terminate Aquarius rescue operations
Aid group Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee say they have been forced to end the rescue operations of the Aq…
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Mueller to give details on Russia probe with filings on former Trump aides
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller will provide new details Friday on how two of President Donald Trump's closest …
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Key Hezbollah financier pleads guilty in US
Lebanese businessman Kassim Tajideen, designated by U.S. authorities as an important financial supporter of Hezbollah, …
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OPEC yet to agree final deal as Iran seeks exemptions: sources
Iran appears to be the main obstacle for an OPEC oil output deal Friday as the group's leader Saudi Arabia has yet …
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Israel's Netanyahu hails UN Hamas vote despite defeat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday hailed majority backing in the U.N. General Assembly for condemning Ha…
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Trump expected to pick State spokeswoman for UN ambassador
President Donald Trump is expected to announce he will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the n…
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Hart steps down as Oscars host after outcry over old tweets
Just two days after being named host of the Academy Awards, Kevin Hart stepped down following an outcry over past homop…
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Huawei CFO to appear in Canada court in U.S. extradition case
A top executive of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd who is under arrest in Canada is set to appear in a Vancouver…
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Japan to indict Nissan as well as Ghosn: report
Tokyo prosecutors have decided to indict Nissan as well as its former chairman Carlos Ghosn and another executive as ea…
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All clear after bomb threat forces evacuation of CNN offices
Police have given the all-clear after a phoned in bomb threat forced the evacuation of CNN's offices in New York. …
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Christmas sleigh restaurant hangs above tropical Malaysia
Jingling amid a Kuala Lumpur skyline, nearly a dozen people sit in a hanging sleighlike restaurant as it is raised by a…
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Rapper sues makers of ‘Fortnite’ over dance moves
Rapper 2 Milly filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of Fortnite, saying they are illegally using a dance that h…
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Sails return as shipping tries to go green
As the shipping industry faces pressure to cut climate-altering greenhouse gases, one answer is blowing in the wind. …
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Michael Flynn appears to have come full circle
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn appears to have come full circle, if you read carefully the sentencing memo released Tue…
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Stay sharp, because it looks like fake news is here to stay
The term fake news has become an epithet that U.S. President Donald Trump attaches to any unfavorable story. from The…
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Child marriage is a women, peace, security concern
Child marriage contributes to and is impacted by poverty, gender discriminatory social norms and a lack of access to ed…
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Alfred Basbous, a career balancing form and media
On the steps outside the Mark Hachem gallery, Fadi Basbous remembers the home of his father, Lebanese sculptor Alfred B…
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Julia Roberts is unforgettable in ‘Ben is Back’
In one of Julia Roberts’ many heartbreaking scenes in Ben is Back and they’re pretty much all heartbreaking she lays do…
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Labaki’s ‘Capernaum’ nominated for Golden Globe
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum for a 2019 Golden Globes award Tuesday even…
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Ukraine Parliament votes to quit Russia friendship treaty
The Ukrainian Parliament Thursday voted to withdraw from a wide-ranging treaty on friendship with Russia, the latest st…
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Paris braces for more protest violence
Paris police and store owners are bracing for new violence at protests Saturday, despite President Emmanuel Macron’s su…
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EU, France pledge 1.3B euros in anti-terror aid for Sahel
The European Union and France Thursday said that their total investment in development funding aimed at preventing terr…
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Kevin Hart Steps Down as Oscars Host After Criticism Over Homophobic Tweets
By JACEY FORTIN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2ro6MDO
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Philippine rebels declare holiday truce; government says won't be fooled
Maoist rebels in the Philippines declared a ceasefire on Friday for the Christmas and New Year holidays, but the govern…
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Macron to address France early next week on protests
French President Emmanuel Macron will address France on the "yellow vest" movement early next week as the cou…
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Fearing 'Act IV' of unrest, France to close Eiffel Tower, Louvre, at weekend
France will close the Eiffel Tower and other tourism landmarks in Paris and draft in thousands more security forces on …
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South Korea eyes $300-million deal to buy U.S. missiles for Aegis destroyers
South Korea plans to buy dozens of U.S.-built ship-to-air missiles, in an order worth about $300 million, to boost air …
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Explainer: How does extradition to the U.S. work?
The arrest in Canada of a top Chinese technology executive for possible extradition to the United States has roiled mar…
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Explainer: What is China's Huawei Technologies and why is it controversial?
The arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and daughter of the fou…