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11:38 06/07/2019
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7.1 magnitude aftershock rattles southern California

A powerful tremor strikes 125 miles north of Los Angeles as communities continued to assess damage from 4 July quake.

10:27 06/07/2019
U.S. clears SoftBank's $2.25 billion investment in GM-backed Cruise

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals for potential national security concerns, approved the investment based on fresh assurances that Cruise’s technology would be completely off limits to SoftBank, a source familiar with the matter said.

10:03 06/07/2019
House panel chair asks watchdog for probe of Homeland Security leaders

Noting that the issue was already being probed by the office of professional responsibility of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service, Thompson asked the inspector general to open a probe into what DHS and CBP leadership knew about the groups and what action they had taken to address it.

18:00 05/07/2019
Rooster Maurice in noisy French court battle with neighbours

A rooster named Maurice, whose early-morning crowing got under the skin of his neighbours, has become the focus of a court battle in France.

17:45 05/07/2019
Plane fire: Virgin Atlantic flight makes emergency landing

The plane was travelling from New York to London on Thursday night when the fire started, forcing the crew to divert the flight.

17:24 05/07/2019
Eva Kor: Auschwitz survivor of Mengele Nazi torture dies

She set up a small Holocaust museum in her adoptive home in the US and has died aged 85, during one of her annual trips to Poland.

16:38 05/07/2019
15:27 05/07/2019
Terrifying winged bug with furry tentacles found in Bali home looks like something out of Stranger Things

The creature was caught on camera crawling across the ceiling and on to the window blind of a home in Bali, Indonesia during a violent storm.

15:01 05/07/2019
Chicago families sue after a case of mistaken identity allowed a man to be taken off life support
A wrongful death lawsuit accuses the hospital and city of being negligent and inflicting intentional emotional distress on the two families by failing to properly identify the patient. The plaintiffs are seeking more than $50,000 from each defendant.
 
14:26 05/07/2019
Iranian oil tanker crew being interviewed as witnesses in Gibraltar

The move could escalate a confrontation between Iran and the West that saw the United States call off air strikes minutes before impact last month. Tehran summoned the British ambassador to voice “its very strong objection to the illegal and unacceptable seizure” of its ship.

14:02 05/07/2019
Jaguar Land Rover to build electric cars at UK plant

Britain’s biggest car company, which built 30 percent of the UK’s 1.5 million cars last year, will make a range of electrified vehicles at its Castle Bromwich plant in central England, beginning with its luxury sedan, the XJ.

13:41 05/07/2019
Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met in Stepanakert Culture and Youth Palace

with participants of the 'Towards Holy Etchmiadzin, Towards Sacred Artsakh' Pan-Armenian Youth forum.
The President noted the importance of holding such events in Artsakh highlighting the substantial role of the Armenian Apostolic Church in cementing the Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora trinity, maintaining the Armenian national identity, developing and strengthening the Armenian statehood. Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan and other officials partook at the event.
Source: Central information department of the office of the Artsakh Republic President

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