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Peru president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns amid corruption scandal

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  • Secret videos recordings link government to vote buying
  • Congress about to hold second impeachment vote on 79-year-old

Peru’s president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has offered his resignation after secret video recordings entangled him in a new corruption scandal on the eve of an impeachment vote, plunging one of Latin America’s steadiest economies into a political crisis.

It was unclear if the opposition-controlled Congress would accept his resignation or proceed with a vote on Thursday to force him from office.

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‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

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Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.

Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach.

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Yemen war: Senate rejects ending US support of Saudi-led campaign

Majority of Senate in favor of genocide!

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The 55-44 vote came after a rare attempt by Congress to claw back its war powers from the executive branch

The US Senate has rejected an effort to end support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and driven the country to the brink of famine, after a rare attempt by Congress to claw back its war powers from the executive branch.

The Senate voted 55-44 on Tuesday against taking up the war powers resolution, which had been opposed by the Trump administration.

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Forty-five U.S. trade groups urge Trump to avoid tariffs against China

He only cares about looking good to himself for the next five minutes – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Forty-five U.S. trade associations representing some of the largest companies in the country are urging President Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on China, warning it would be “particularly harmful” to the U.S. economy and consumers.

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‘Police don’t take it seriously’: Russian exile fears for safety

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Anti-Putin campaigner in London considers hiring private security guards after murder of fellow exile Nikolai Glushkov

Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a former mobile phone tycoon, has lived in the UK for almost a decade, after fleeing Russia in 2009, and has become an active anti-Putin campaigner. He had never considered hiring private security guards, but the opening of a murder investigation into the death of fellow exiled Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov has prompted him to reassess how much danger he might be facing.

“We’ve been discussing it. If you do it, you have to have it 24/7, for everyone. It costs really big money to do it properly,” Chichvarkin said. “For the moment we haven’t decided.” He knew Glushkov a little and was shaken by his death. He assumes he will be on the list of Russian exiles the Metropolitan police are beginning to contact to talk to about security, but has yet to hear from anyone.

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