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Turkish jets bomb Syria’s Kurdish-held Afrin

Turkish Genocide 2.0 – Türk Soykırım 2.0

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Turkey has begun a new air and ground operation to oust Kurdish militants from the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin. Ankara accuses the Kurdish YPG militia of being a terror group.

With government shutdown, Republicans reap what they sow

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It takes a special type of hypocrite to accuse your opponents of hypocrisy for following in your footsteps

Today’s Republican party is built on principle. As a matter of principle, the GOP believes it is the only party that can shut down government as a negotiating tactic. The Democrats’ job is to keep that government open and to cave in to its demands.

These truths we hold to be self-evident, after watching several rounds of this sad kabuki theater through the Clinton and Obama years.

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Mitch McConnell: Democrats got “their very own government shutdown” – video

Looks like a fool, walks like a fool, talks like a fool – that McConnell!

Speaking on the floor after the vote, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blamed the government shutdown on a “cynical decision by the Democrats”. However, his counterpart, minority leader Chuck Schumer, blamed Donald Trump, saying the president had “walked away from two bipartisan deals” and that “a Trump shutdown will serve as a perfect encapsulation for the chaos he has unleashed”.

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Vancouver aquarium won’t keep whales or dolphins captive after public outcry

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Canada aquarium has announced it will end the practice of keeping cetaceans in captivity, after pressure from the public

For years the Vancouver aquarium fended off pressure from animal right activists, local government and residents, arguing instead that whales and dolphins were central to its mission. But this week the tourist attraction gave in to public pressure, and announced that it would end the practice of keeping cetaceans in captivity.

“It had become a local hot topic, to the point where it was just hijacking everything else,” said John Nightingale, the aquarium’s president.

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Twitter admits far more Russian bots posted on election than it had disclosed

50,000 more accounts – Twitter out of control and Facebook too1

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Company says it removed more than 50,000 accounts and reported them to investigators, marking latest upward revision of figures

Twitter has admitted that more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts used its service to post automated material about the 2016 US election – a far greater number than previously disclosed.

Announcing the discovery in a post to its website late on Friday, the company said the posts had reached at least 677,775 Americans, all of whom would be receiving a warning by email.

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