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A Sri Lankan Court on Monday granted bail to a Swiss Embassy employee who was detained pending charges that she made statements to create disaffection toward the government and fabricated evidence. Before her arrest, the employee, a Sri Lankan national, had reportedly said she was abducted, held for hours, sexually assaulted and threatened by captors who demanded that she disclose embassy-related information. Sri Lankan authorities have said they investigated her complaint but found no evidence to file charges against anyone. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2F5rTSj

(Bloomberg) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continued his attacks on a local television network he’s accused in the past of bias, and urged owners of ABS-CBN Corp. to sell before its franchise expires in March.In a televised speech delivered in the local language at Davao City on Monday, Duterte suggested the media firm’s franchise renewal is uncertain. He had earlier threatened to block the network’s bid to extend the franchise for 25 years.“Your contract is expiring. I’m not sure what will happen if you renew,” he said. “If I were you, I would just sell.”Duterte has accused ABS-CBN as well as privately-owned Philippine Daily Inquirer of unfair reporting, allegations that the media companies have denied. The president’s criticisms of ABS-CBN pushed its share price to a decade low earlier this month. The stock ended 2019 with a 21% loss compared with the local benchmark index’s 4.7% gain for the year.Duterte also resumed his criticism of water utilities for alleged corruption, ...

Greece's Prime Minister said in remarks published on Sunday that if Athens and Ankara cannot solve their dispute about maritime zones in the Mediterranean they should turn to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to settle the disagreement. Turkey signed an accord with Libya's internationally recognized government last month that seeks to create an exclusive economic zone from Turkey's southern Mediterranean shore to Libya's northeast coast. Greece and Cyprus, which have long had maritime and territorial disputes with Turkey, say the accord is void and violates the international law of the sea. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q6shWP

President Trump has promoted his trade policy, specifically his tariffs on imported goods, as a means of reviving American manufacturing. It has done the opposite, according to a new study from Federal Reserve economists. Trump's trade war with China and other countries has led to higher consumer prices, failed to boost U.S. manufacturing, and led to domestic job losses."We find that the 2018 tariffs are associated with relative reductions in manufacturing employment and relative increases in producer prices," write Fed economists Aaron Flaaen and Justin Pierce. The tariffs did boost the competitiveness of some U.S.-made goods inside the U.S., they found, but that was "completely offset in the short-run by reduced competitiveness from retaliation and higher costs in downstream industries," and protectionist policies are now intrinsically "complicated by the presence of globally interconnnected supply chains."The industries hit especially hard by "...

A top Huawei executive says the Chinese tech company had a strong 2019. But next year promises to be "difficult" as it battles a prolonged American campaign against its business. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/37tKCmR

A gunman wearing a wig and fake beard raised immediate suspicion when he walked into a church service in Texas before opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people, a volunteer security member who shot the assailant said on Monday. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/35chEpT

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A top Huawei executive says the Chinese tech company had a strong 2019. But next year promises to be "difficult" as it battles a prolonged American campaign against its business. from CNN.com - RSS Channel https://ift.tt/37tKCmR

In lauding the epic achievements of Rep. John Lewis who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, historian Peniel Joseph notes in the outpouring of love and support for Lewis a sense of anxiety and fear about losing Lewis's generation, whose moral clarity and fierce resolve in advocating for civil rights are a store of institutional memory our country cannot do without. from CNN.com - RSS Channel https://ift.tt/36ed0ZY

In the past, President Trump said he wouldn't golf that much once he reached the White House, but that's not exactly true. from CNN.com - RSS Channel https://ift.tt/2ZBKxe1

The Kremlin issued a statement saying Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a call to thank President Donald Trump for information provided by the United States that helped foil a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, among other things. CNN's Brian Todd reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel https://ift.tt/2Q9cFlE

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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that former Trump national security official Charles Kupperman had filed challenging a House subpoena for him to testify in the impeachment inquiry after the chamber withdrew their subpoena. from CNN.com - RSS Channel https://ift.tt/37xZX5V