Newsvally: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

Thousands march to demand justice as Nicaragua protest toll hits 43

Thousands of Nicaraguans marched peacefully through the capital Managua on Saturday in a mass demonstration to demand justice following the violent suppression of a wave of protests that left 43 people dead. During the rally, which was called by the Catholic church, Managua's bishop issued a deadline of one month to see if there was a serious intention to achieve change through a national dialogue aimed at resolving issues that triggered the country's worst unrest in 11 years. The rally took place just hours after university students at the forefront of anti-government unrest issued conditions for talks with the government of embattled President Daniel Ortega.

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Confident Pompeo makes Middle East diplomatic debut

Washington's newly appointed secretary of state landed in Riyadh Saturday on a tour of America's key Middle East allies, after vowing to bring some "swagger" back to US diplomacy. Mike Pompeo touched down in Saudi Arabia shortly after authorities in the kingdom said they had intercepted four missiles fired at the south of the country by Yemeni rebels, underlining the tensions in the region. The Saudi capital is the first stop on a three-day trip that will also take him to Israel and Jordan to update friends on President Donald Trump's plans for the Iran nuclear deal.

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Rep. Gohmert reacts to recovered Strzok-Page text messages

Recovered FBI text messages were delivered to congressional committees; House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert reacts on 'Fox & Friends.'

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Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in meet for historic inter-Korean summit

North Korea's state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.

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North Korea’s ‘Complete Denuclearization’ pledge raises questions after summit

The leaders of North Korea and South Korea committed to the idea of a nuclear-free region in Friday’s historic summit, but U.S. officials want proof that Kim Jong Un will get rid of his weapons.

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Trump Asks If There Are Hispanics In The Room Before Demanding His Wall

President Donald Trump was met with silence at a campaign-style rally in

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Voters vent frustration, disappointment with Washington, elected officials

ABC News contributor Frank Luntz held a focus group with Democratic and Republican voters to understand how they feel about the state of politics heading into the midterms.

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Kim Jong-un: North Korea to allow foreign experts to witness nuclear site closure in May

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has said that he will dismantle his country’s main nuclear testing site in May and invited South Korean and US experts, and journalists to view the process. The dictator’s pledge was made to Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s prime minister, during their historic talks on Friday, according to Mr Moon’s spokesman. As well as promising to close the Punggye-ri bomb testing site Kim said he would change North Korea’s time zone by half an hour, reverting it to match South Korea’s. Reports of the pledge came as senior White House figures spoke optimistically about hopes for full North Korean denuclearisation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who held secret talks with Kim in Easter when he was still head of the CIA, said the US has an "obligation" to pursue a diplomatic solution with North Korea. In an interview with ABC news, he said the US must "engage in diplomatic discourse to try and find a peaceful solution so that Americans aren't held at risk by Kim Jong Un and his nuclear arsenal". Rocket man: How Kim Jong-un emerged from his father's shadow to silence the doubters Kim and Mr Moon, meeting in a ‘truce village’ between their countries’ borders on Friday, pledged to work towards the “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsular. The meeting, which some analysts have criticised for not producing a timetable or firm plans for denuclearisation, came ahead of Kim’s scheduled talk with US President Donald Trump, expected within the next few weeks. According to a team of Chinese geologists the Punggye-ri site may not be usable anyway, having suffered a land collapse following North Korea’s sixth nuclear bomb test in September 2017. However, Yoon Young-chan, Mr Moon's spokesman said that Kim claimed that the site still had new tunnels “in a very good condition”. On Sunday Mr Yoon quoted Kim as saying: “Once we start talking, the United States will know that I am not a person to launch nuclear weapons at South Korea, the Pacific or the United States… if we maintain frequent meetings and build trust with the United States and receive promises for an end to the war and a non-aggression treaty, then why would be need to live in difficulty by keeping our nuclear weapons?” Analysts have cast doubt over the meaningfulness of Kim’s pledges. Before Friday’s talks Jeffrey Lewis, director East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said that Kim did not need the Punggye-ri site, and could “shift big tests to neighbouring mountains”. Korean detente How did we get here? Professor Tong Zhu, fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at Beijing’s Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, told The Telegraph: “There is no way that North Korea is going to give up its nuclear deterrent capability.” “North Korea worked so hard to obtain that capability in the first place. Its primary objective is to keep its nuclear capabilities, then the next priority is to address the negative consequences resulting from its nuclear development. Then to develop a normal relationship with the rest of the international community.” On Sunday John Bolton, the US National Security Adviser, was asked by Fox News if the US making concessions to North Korea, such as easing sanctions, would require Kim to fully give up his nuclear weapons. "We have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003, 2004,” he replied. Mr Bolton was referring to Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi allowing US and UK weapons inspectors to view and help dismantle the Libya’s nuclear and chemical weapons programmes around that time. Gaddafi’s move followed years of sanctions against Libya, but many US government officials claimed that the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was the biggest influence for him denuclearising. Analysts have argued that Kim sees the fate of Gadaffi, who was toppled from power then killed in the Libyan civil war in 2011 after US forces attacked troops loyal to him, as a cautionary tale. Others have said that Mr Trump's recent threats to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, will make North Korea nervous about US promises. Addressing the concerns, Mr Pompeo said last night/SUN: "I don't think Kim Jong Un is staring at the Iran deal and saying, 'Oh goodness, if they get out of that, I won't talk to the Americans any more,’. There are higher priorities that he is more concerned about than whether or not the Americans stay in the [Iran deal]." With the clock ticking towards the historic Trump-Kim meeting, on Sunday Mr Yoon also suggested that Kim’s decision to alter North Korea’s time zone to match South Korea’s was made when he saw two wall clocks in a summit room showing different times for the two countries. Mr Yoon said that Kim found it “heartbreaking” seeing the un-matched clock hands. In August 2015 North Korea announced a new ‘Pyongyang time’ zone for the country, which was half an hour before Japan and South Korea’s time zone. The move was made to symbolically distance North Korea from Japan, which occupied the country from 1910 until 1945. Pope Francis last night/SUN lauded Kim and Mr Moon for their "brave commitment... to follow a sincere path to peace towards a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons."

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Russia, Turkey, Iran hold Syria talks

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday hosted his Iranian and Turkey counterparts for talks on Syria in the wake of an alleged chemical attack that has exposed differences between the three powers. The three nations have been attempting to find a political solution to the Syrian conflict at talks that started last year in Astana, Kazakhstan, in competition with the US and UN-backed Geneva initiative. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held separate bilateral talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu and then Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif, who stressed the warmth of their relationship in opening comments.

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3 Palestinians shot dead on Gaza border: Israeli army

Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians on Sunday after two separate infiltration bids on the Gaza border, the army said. "2 suspects attempted to infiltrate Israel from the southern Gaza Strip and damage the (border) security fence," the army tweeted. Forty-five Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the start of what organisers have dubbed the Great March of Return on March 30, with more than 1,500 wounded.

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Stage Set for Trump’s Meeting with Kim Jong Un

The president shared updates about his forthcoming summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, saying he spoke with the leaders of South Korea and Japan, and that the meeting’s time and location are being set.

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Man Accused of Killing Sheriff's Deputy in Maine Is Arrested

John Williams was in custody after a four-day manhunt in the woods

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U.S. concerned by 'destabilizing and malign activities' of Iran: Pompeo

By Lesley Wroughton and Ori Lewis TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States is deeply concerned by Iran's "destabilizing and malign activities", new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier in the day met with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh and stressed the need for unity among Gulf allies as Washington aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran to curb its missile program. The whirlwind trip to NATO in Brussels and to Middle East allies came only hours after Pompeo was confirmed as Trump's top diplomat.

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Armenian ruling party won't nominate own candidate for PM

VANADZOR, Armenia (AP) — Armenia's ruling party said Saturday it will not put forward a candidate for prime minister to keep from exacerbating the political crisis sparked by the naming of the country's termed-out president as premier this month.

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Michelle Wolf performs stand-up routine at White House Correspondent's dinner

Wolf's routine took shots at President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and the media.

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Arizona police officer shot by carjacking suspect dies

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A police officer in the Arizona border city of Nogales was killed after he tried to stop a carjacking suspect.

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North Korea’s ‘Complete Denuclearization’ pledge raises questions after summit

The leaders of North Korea and South Korea committed to the idea of a nuclear-free region in Friday’s historic summit, but U.S. officials want proof that Kim Jong Un will get rid of his weapons.

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Voters vent frustration, disappointment with Washington, elected officials

ABC News contributor Frank Luntz held a focus group with Democratic and Republican voters to understand how they feel about the state of politics heading into the midterms.

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Detractors deride Duterte for asking Filipinos to leave Kuwait

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine labor group and a senator accused President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday of gambling with the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Filipinos in Kuwait, after he asked them to come home amid a diplomatic dispute over reported labor abuse. The Philippines and the Gulf Arab state are embroiled in a row over what Duterte says is a pattern of mistreatment of domestic workers by Kuwaiti employers. The Philippine ambassador has been asked to leave following attempts by embassy workers to "rescue" distressed workers there, which Kuwait says is a breach of its sovereignty.

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Migrant Caravan Arrives At U.S. Border, Despite Trump’s Threats

SAN DIEGO ― The caravan of Central American asylum-seekers that sent the Trump

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The Latest: Slain deputy's handcuffs used to arrest suspect

NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the search for a suspect in the slaying of a Maine deputy sheriff (all times local):

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Pompeo briefs Saudi, Israel on Trump plans for Iran deal

Washington's new chief diplomat was to meet Saudi and Israeli leaders on Sunday to rally coordinated opposition to Tehran and brief them on President Donald Trump's threat to end the Iran nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Riyadh on Saturday shortly after Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen fired missiles across the kingdom's border. US officials travelling with Pompeo told reporters the Huthi missiles had been supplied by Iran, and cited the attacks as evidence that regional powers should work together.

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Syrian army tightens noose around Palestinian camp

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops on Sunday tightened the noose around a Palestinian refugee camp held by Islamic State militants in southern Damascus where hundreds of civilians face an uncertain future, state media, witnesses and residents said. Nearly two weeks into a campaign to capture the last area near the capital outside government control that has left many parts of the once teeming Yarmouk camp in ruins, state media announced al Qadm neighborhood next to the camp was retaken. Opposition sources said the army was now engaged in fierce fighting with militants on the outskirts of Yarmouk camp where an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 militants are now encircled.

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Modi-Xi talks highlight India-China rivalry, cooperation

BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and India stressed the importance of close ties in talks Saturday, against the background of their rivalry for leadership in Asia and the potential for cooperation on economic and security matters.

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New top story on Hacker News: Sympathy for the Incel

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Trump on Russian 'informant': Putin wants to make U.S. more chaotic

Trump says Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, claiming to be an "informant" is only doing so because Putin wants to make the United States more chaotic.

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Donald Trump Demands Democratic Senator Quit In Saturday Morning Twitter Rant

President Donald Trump kickstarted his weekend by launching a blistering

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Michelle Wolf performs stand-up routine at White House Correspondent's dinner

Wolf's routine took shots at President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and the media.

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Trump Asks If There Are Hispanics In The Room Before Demanding His Wall

President Donald Trump was met with silence at a campaign-style rally in

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Trump Claims He Wants To Help Dreamers. Time To Put Up Or Shut Up.

The Trump administration was dealt yet another blow to its un-American

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New top story on Hacker News: Hanging the Linux core dump pipe helper

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New top story on Hacker News: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018

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New top story on Hacker News: Human Dx is hiring software engineers to unlock healthcare for all

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New top story on Hacker News: Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)

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Kim Prepared to Cede Nuclear Weapons if U.S. Pledges Not to Invade

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Migrant Caravan, After Grueling Trip, Reaches U.S. Border. Now the Really Hard Part.

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Injecting Drugs Can Ruin a Heart. How Many Second Chances Should a User Get?

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Michelle Wolf’s Routine Sets Off a Furor at an Annual Washington Dinner

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Sprint and T-Mobile Agree to Merge, in Bid to Remake Wireless Market

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The Prosecutor Who Stared Down Bill Cosby

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Pompeo’s Message to Saudis? Enough Is Enough: Stop Qatar Blockade

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I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry

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Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence

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Did I Choose the Wrong College?

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Larry Harvey, the Man Behind Burning Man, Is Dead at 70

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Job Description for the Dumbest Job Ever

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11 Great Titles Expiring From Netflix in May

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Thousands Protest Across Spain After 5 Men Are Cleared Of Gang Rape

Thousands of protesters flooded the streets in cities across Spain after a

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Fmr. Fed. Prosecutor: House’s Russia investigation was ‘superficial’

While House Republicans said conclusively that no collusion occurred, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said the investigation did not go far enough.

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Stage Set for Trump’s Meeting with Kim Jong Un

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Woman Allegedly Suffering From PTSD Sues Southwest Airlines After Engine Failure Flight

She called it a "horror."

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NRA Convention Bans Guns To Protect Mike Pence. Parkland Survivors' Jaws Drop.

Guns will be barred during Vice President Mike Pence's appearance at an

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The Great Game in Asia: How China Sees Taiwan

For the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan represents the final obstacle to truly concluding the Chinese Civil War. In the wake of China’s live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait, along with the largest naval drills in history of the People’s Liberation Army Navy, the Republic of China’s (Taiwan) status and meaning to the U.S.-China relationship is more prominent than ever.

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Suspect in deputy's killing held in maximum-security prison

NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — A man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy was held in the state's maximum-security prison on Sunday pending his initial court appearance.

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1,300-Pound Great White Shark Named Hilton Spotted Near Florida Panhandle

A Twitter-famous shark turned up in a new location on Friday -- near the

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