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BuzzFeed News Here Are Some Of Project Veritas's Funders BuzzFeed News BuzzFeed News has identified more than two dozen donors from around the country who gave money to Project Veritas, the “investigative reporting project” that earlier this week failed to dupe the Washington Post. Some of the donors expressed doubts ... and more » from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/2j509CR

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court has ordered the imprisonment of a former El Salvadoran army colonel for participating in the murder of five Spanish Jesuits in 1989 during the Central American country's civil war, a court ruling showed on Thursday. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2ipZrTq

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BBC News North Korea: Russia accuses US of goading Kim Jong-un BBC News Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme. He rejected a call by the American envoy to the UN Security Council to sever ties with the North after its ... Russia accuses US of trying 'to provoke' North Korea Washington Examiner 'Washington wants Kim Jong-un to lose it': Russia rejects pressure to cut ties with North Korea South China Morning Post Russia accuses Washington of 'provoking' Pyongyang euronews all 41 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/2irxkTU

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 400 U.S. Marines and their artillery are leaving Syria after helping to capture the city of Raqqa from Islamic State, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2BBG4vl

PIRAEUS (Reuters) - Greek authorities on Thursday moved a few hundred asylum-seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland in an effort to ease overcrowding in its camps. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2kbVt1e

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors said on Thursday they were investigating allegations that President Tayyip Erdogan's family moved millions of dollars abroad to avoid taxes, saying there were doubts about the authenticity of documents behind the claims. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2irZ2ju

Fox News How the White House is tackling the opioid epidemic Fox News President Donald Trump declares the nation's opioid crisis a 'public health emergency' to fight abuse of prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl. Here's what declaring it an emergency will do. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has been ... Three things we know about how Kellyanne Conway will handle being opioid czar Quartz Country Facing Deadliest Drug Crisis Attorney General Says, Nov 29 2017 - C-Span C-Span Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway Is Now Leading His Opioids Strategy BuzzFeed News all 28 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/2i6zLYp

ANKARA (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday that she would work to speed up the transfer of financial assistance promised by the European Union to Turkey as part of a migrant deal, Turkish presidential sources said. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2ni6aR5

TMZ.com Russell Simmons Leaving Def Jam, Other Companies After New Sexual Assault Allegation TMZ.com Russell Simmons is stepping down from his Def Jam empire as a new woman, Jenny Lumet, comes forward claiming he raped her in the early '90s. Jenny, a filmmaker and daughter of director Sidney Lumet, says the alleged incident happened when Simmons ... Writer Jenny Lumet: Russell Simmons Sexually Violated Me (Guest Column) Hollywood Reporter Russell Simmons steps down from companies amid allegation 89.3 KPCC Russell Simmons Stepping Down From Company After New Accusation of Sexual Assault: Report NECN WSB Atlanta all 195 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/2ngRAsR

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they detained two once-powerful officials who had run the oil ministry and state energy company PDVSA as part of a deepening anti-corruption purge also seen as a power play by leftist President Nicolas Maduro. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2nh4441

GENEVA (Reuters) - Representatives of Syria's warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2zD9wjq

Shipping giant hit by cyberattack, refuses to pay hackers' ransom U.K. shipping giant Clarkson has fallen victim to a cyberattack, but has vowed not to pay a ransom to the hackers. http://ift.tt/2kcXfzh

ACCRA (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron fears Islamist militants have scored military and symbolic victories in West Africa while a regional military force has struggled to get off the ground, a French presidential source said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2AeQTFv

Shipping giant hit by cyberattack, refuses to pay ransom U.K. shipping giant Clarkson has fallen victim to a cyberattack, but has vowed not to pay a ransom to the hackers. http://ift.tt/2nhRbql

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran protesters set up barricades and clashed with police near a vote-counting center on Thursday, following a widely criticized presidential election that produced no clear result in four days and which the opposition says was fraudulent. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2irIHLL

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said on Thursday he would not serve in the next coalition government being put together by the leader of his conservative party, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2ApmbtV