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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard declares ‘end of sedition’

The beginning of the end for current leaders of Iran The elite branch of Iran’s military has hailed “the end of sedition” as it embarks on a crackdown against anti-government protests. The country’s supreme leader blames foreign agents for the unrest that killed 21 people.

Matter: In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas

The desire to confirm long held beliefs of one route migration to Americas leads to delusion that two bodies confirms theory. Never mind histories tha tell of many routes and earlier migration than some scientists want to believe or investigate. Genetic analysis of an 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska suggests that North America was settled by a previously unknown people who originated in Siberia.

Jeremy Hunt defends decision to postpone non-urgent NHS surgery

Fool on the hill

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Health secretary apologises to people whose operations have been cancelled but says approach is planned and methodical

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has defended plans to postpone non-urgent surgery until the end of the month, amid growing criticism of the government’s response to the NHS winter crisis.

Hunt said the decision was made to allow “a planned, methodical, thoughtful” approach. He also apologised to patients who had faced upheaval, saying: “It’s absolutely not what I want.”

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America’s UN ambassador dismisses proposed North-South Korea talks

If you will not be our puppet… forget you? rubbish rhetoric

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  • Nikki Haley distances US from Seoul’s plan to hold cross-border talks
  • Haley’s remarks in clear contrast to state department’s cautious stance

The US envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has distanced the Trump administration from proposed contacts between North and South Korea, saying it would not take any talks seriously if Pyongyang did not abandon its nuclear arsenal.

Haley’s dismissive assessment of planned high-level talks between Seoul and Pyongyang, was in clear contrast with the state department’s more cautious response – the latest example of Haley taking an independent line on foreign policy issues from the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.

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RT, Sputnik and the new Russian war

News outlets funded directly or indirectly by the Kremlin have one objective and one objective only, admits repeatedly Margarita Simonovna Simonyan, the influential editor-in-chief of the Russian broadcaster RT and Rossiya Segodnya, the government-controlled agency which runs the Sputnik multimedia platform. Her work philosophy was made patently clear in a recent interview with the television program Pravo Znat in which she described her idea of the new world order as “alternative reality.”

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Dozens of snake eggs found in Australian school sandpit

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Wildlife rescuers retrieve 43 eggs thought to be from of one of the world’s most poisonous snakes, the eastern brown

Students at a school on the New South Wales mid-north coast have learned a valuable lesson: sandpits make great snake nests.

Wildlife rescuers were shocked when a call to remove about a dozen eggs from a sandpit at a school near the coastal town of Laurieton, 350km north of Sydney, became rather more dramatic.

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Israel indicts Palestinian teenage girl who punched soldier: army

This is how a state indicts itself for being an overbearing occupier and just plain foolish. OFER PRISON, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl on Monday on charges including assault for punching an Israeli soldier in the face two weeks ago, an incident which made her into a hero for Palestinians and was seen as humiliating by right-wing Israelis.

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