The Dutch parliament has voted to recognize the deaths of Armenians during World War I as genocide. The decision is likely to enrage Turkey amid already strained relations with the Netherlands.
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Marco Rubio refuses to say he won’t take NRA money in heated town hall – live
Father of Florida victim calls responses by Marco Rubio and Trump to mass shooting ‘pathetically weak’ at combative CNN event
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Rubio says that on Monday politicians could unanimously take action on background checks. He believes there is a majority to restrict bump stocks in the Senate.
He says he worries that the national attention span is short; we can’t allow that to happen here, he adds.
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Chris Grady, a senior who recently enlisted in the army, is speaking now to Senator Rubio: “We might not see eye to eye on a lot of these issues, but we need you and your colleagues on both sides to come together with us and find compromise…”
He asks about large-capacity magazine: “Would you agree that there is no place in our society for large-capacity magazines?”
Stronger storms mean new ‘category six’ scale may be needed

Traditional scale used goes only to five but strength and intensity of storms is increasing, says scientists
The increasing strength, intensity and duration of tropical cyclones has climate scientists questioning whether a new classification needs to be created: a category-six storm.
The Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale currently runs in severity from one to five, with five describing near-total destruction.
‘I hear you’ – Trump uses cue card to remind him to listen to shooting survivors

The US president was pictured holding a briefing note that appeared to be a reminder for him to show empathy to school shooting survivors visiting the White House
Briefing notes captured by photographers at US president Donald Trump’s White House listening session with survivors of gun violence show that he needed to be reminded to say “I hear you”.
Related: Trump’s solution to school shootings: arm teachers with guns
Op-Ed Contributor: Billy Graham’s Missed Opportunities
Whatever happened to RIP? Why act the critic to boost yourself using the death of another human being? Too often he resisted revising Protestantism to reflect the diversity and knowledge of the modern world.
Trump suggests arming teachers to deter shootings
Even dumber than we thought. Ever hear of friendly fire deaths. It takes lots of training and real experience to be able to use a handgun to shoot at someone who is shooting at you. You really want your teachers to be armed in school? F#cking idiot! US President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to deter future mass shootings as he held an emotional meeting on Wednesday at the White House with survivors of the gun rampage that left 17 people dead at a Florida high school.
Berlusconi’s comeback shows that Italy still struggles with its fascist past | Sabrina Gasparrini

The former prime minister is capitalising on a cynicism that has its roots in decades of disconnect between citizens and institutions
Many foreign observers are baffled by the return of Silvio Berlusconi to the forefront of Italy’s politics. At the age of 81, and ineligible as a candidate as a result of a court ruling in 2013, he is busy campaigning for his Forza Italia party in the run-up to the 4 March elections.
Personally, I’m not that surprised.
‘I’ve been here for 50 years’: the scandal of the former Commonwealth citizens threatened with deportation
Neo-fascists are so racist in the UK and elsewhere

They have lived nearly all their lives in the UK, working and paying taxes. But in the draconian new immigration climate, an increasing number of elderly people are being told that they are here illegally
For the past year, Renford McIntyre has been homeless, mostly sleeping on a sofa in an unheated industrial unit in Dudley. Although he has lived in the UK for almost 50 years, and spent 35 years working and paying taxes as a tool setter, a delivery man in the meat industry and an NHS driver, he has been told that he is not British – and consequently is neither permitted to work nor eligible for any government support.
McIntyre, 64, has no shower and nowhere to cook, and has to visit friends if he wants to eat hot food or wash. “It’s an appalling place to live. I’m a proud man; I’m embarrassed at my age to be living like this,” he says.
Chinese warships enter East Indian Ocean amid Maldives tensions

A fleet of destroyers and at least one frigate, a 30,000 tonne amphibious transport dock and three support tankers entered the Indian Ocean, during a constitutional crisis and state of emergency in the Maldives.
Erdogan: Turkish army will besiege Afrin within days
And the US and Russia, France, Germany, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Saudi’s say what? Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged Turkey’s forces would lay siege to the Kurdish-controlled Afrin “in the coming days.” Previously, Kurds denied reports of a deal with Damascus to fight the Turks together.
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