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Day: September 22, 2018

Top US official denies plot to oust Trump
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Top US official denies plot to oust Trump

    Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued his second denial on Friday of a New York Times report stating that he proposed secretly taping conversations with President Trump and discussed the possibility of Trump administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false, he said in a statement. The New York Times's story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the Department and are advancing their own personal agenda, Rosenstein said in an initial statement earlier Friday. But let me b...
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Five held after students kidnapped and robbed
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Five held after students kidnapped and robbed

    Five men have been arrested after students in Manchester were allegedly kidnapped and forced to hand over thousands of pounds. Police received four reports that people in the city centre had been robbed after being coaxed into a dark Audi A6 vehicle. Several people claimed they were forced to make online transfers of £3,000 from their bank accounts before being let out of the car. Others reported being driven to petrol stations to withdraw the maximum amount of cash available shortly before midnight, fill the car up with petrol then withdraw more money shortly after midnight. All four victims were allegedly kidnapped between Wednesday and Friday this week. Police say they foiled a fifth kidnap-robbery attempt after spotting a vehicle that matched the high-end mot...
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Co-op to replace single use carrier bags with compostables
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Co-op to replace single use carrier bags with compostables

    The Co-op is to be the first major supermarket in the UK to replace single-use plastic carrier bags with lightweight compostable alternatives that shoppers can reuse as biodegradable bags for food waste. The bags a stronger version of the biodegradable bags the convenience chain has been trialling since 2014 will be rolled out within weeks to almost 1,400 stores across England, Scotland and Wales, and then to all 2,600 shops. The change will start in towns, cities and villages where the bags are accepted in councils’ food waste collections, and the phased rollout will replace an estimated 60m plastic single-use carrier bags of the sort that have become an environmental scourge. The new-style bags will cost 5p, but shoppers also have the choice of plastic 10p bags fo...
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Brexit deal still possible despite Chequers rejection
22Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Brexit deal still possible despite Chequers rejection

    EU leaders have insisted a Brexit deal remains possible despite flatly rejecting the Chequers proposal put forward by Theresa May during an acrimonious summit in Salzburg. The prime minister endured a brutal reception from the national newspapers upon her return to London, with her treatment in the Austrian city widely seen as a humiliation. Amid the fallout, Mrs May used a surprise statement in Downing Street on Friday to issue an ultimatum to the bloc to accept her strategy or come up with counter-proposals. She declared the UK would continue preparations for a no-deal Brexit, acknowledging that the two parties had reached an impasse over two big problems in negotiations. The address was commended by senior Conservatives and Brexiteer MPs, although the latter ha...
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