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  Last update: 03:54 14.12.2019

  03:54 14.12.2019

  Opinion

  ‘Egos Are So Big’: Netanyahu, Gantz to Waste Millions Competing for Right-Wing Votes Again

  Israel is headed to its third parliamentary election in less than a year after neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Benny Gantz’s parties were able to form a government. While the election is set for March 2, one expert tells Sputnik that nothing is likely to change - especially with the suppression of 5 million Palestinian voices.

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  Last update: 02:01 14.12.2019

  02:01 14.12.2019

  Opinion

  US’ Afghanistan Disaster Caused by Dodging Vietnam War Lessons, Seeking Only Public Opinion Cures

  The Afghanistan Papers have revealed the US never learned the lessons of its loss in Vietnam, with US leaders seeking only how to turn around public opinion, a historian told Sputnik Friday. Indeed, the foundations of the 18-year-long Afghan War were laid just four years after Hanoi’s 1975 victory and based on nearly identical motives.

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  Last update: 02:28 14.12.2019

  02:28 14.12.2019

  US

  White House Defends Trump’s ‘Anger Management’ Tweets on Climate Activist Thunberg

  Stephanie Grisham, White House Press Secretary and First Lady Melania Trump’s communication aide, has come to the defense of her and her husband, US President Donald Trump, after 45’s tweets toward 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg made many question the legitimacy of FLOTUS’ anti-cyberbullying campaign.

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  Last update: 03:39 14.12.2019

  03:39 14.12.2019

  US

  Boy Allegedly Beaten on School Bus for Wearing Trump 2020 Hat

  The boy had initially been proud to wear the hat at school, which he had bought "with his own money" at a flea market, but soon stopped wearing it due to bullying, his mother said.

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  Last update: 03:09 14.12.2019

  03:09 14.12.2019

  US

  Scientist Say It Is Too Soon to Panic Over Vaping

  A group of prominent public-health experts on the vape crisis in the United States published an op-ed this week in Science - one of the country's leading academic journals - urging people not to panic after a spike in vaping-related illnesses.

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  Last update: 01:50 14.12.2019

  01:50 14.12.2019

  Tech

  Artificial Intelligence to Complete Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony

  A team of musicologists and programmers will use artificial intelligence to complete German composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony by next year to mark the 250th anniversary of the famous musician’s birth.

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  Last update: 01:22 14.12.2019

  01:22 14.12.2019

  Viral

  Taylor Swift Claims Ex-Manager Used 'Soros Money' to Buy Her Music Rights

  The famous pop star has been surrounded by scandal recently, as she is claiming her former executives "do not allow her to sing her own songs" and insists her record rights were sold "without her knowing".

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  Last update: 15:08 13.12.2019

  15:08 13.12.2019

  Tech

  Earth Enters Unknown as Magnetic North Pole Continues Push Toward Russia, Crosses Greenwich Meridian

  Earlier this year, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey (BGS) were forced to update the World Magnetic Model a year ahead of schedule due to the speed with which the magnetic north pole is shifting out of the Canadian Arctic and toward Russia’s Siberia.