VietPress USA (August 19th, 2016):
Hanh Duong
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Ukraine
Divulges Details of Alleged Payments to Trump Aid
On Friday, Ukrainian
MP Serhiy Leshchenko released details on alleged cash payments totaling $12
million between Donald Trump's recently appointed campaign chief Paul Manafort
and the Kremlin-back former Uhkrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich. Accoding to Leshchenko,
money was allocated to finance services such as carrying out exit polls at
elections, buying computers and conducting research for the Ukrainian
government.
A car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in Elazig, Turkey
An estimated 2,000
demonstrators have taken to the streets of a city in eastern Turkey.
A car bomb exploded outside the police
headquarters in Elazig on Thursday.
At least five people died and 146 were injured, 14
seriously.
The authorities say the attack was carried out by
the Kurdistan Worker’s Party or PKK.
The group has waged a campaign of car bombings
targeting police stations and roadside bomb attacks against security personnel.
Last week, PKK commander Cemil Bayik threatened to
increase attacks against police in Turkish cities.
Memorial service
A memorial service has been held for three of the
victims of Thursday’s car bombing.
Tributes were paid to police officers Yusuf Kenan
Mutlu, Serhat Ozturk and Elvan Ozbay.
Turkey’s state news agency Anadolou said their
coffins would be taken back to their home towns for burial.
Two further attacks
There were two other attacks in Turkey on Thursday.
Three people were killed and 40 injured when a car
bomb exploded near a police station in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, near
the Iranian border.
A total of 14 people were killed and more than 220
wounded.
Naked statues of Donald Trump popped up in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland
Life-size naked
statues of Donald Trump popped up in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Seattle and Cleveland on Thursday. one of the statues in Union Square quickly
drew the attention of people before it was removed by the city's parks
department.Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, when asked about the naked Trump
statue, said, "That is a frightening thought. When he's wearing clothes I
don't like him." Meanwhile the statues in California are still standing.
Swimmer in
Lochte Scandal Donates $11K to Leave Rio
One of the U.S.
Olympic swimmers caught up in Ryan Lochte's fabricated tale of robbery in Rio
will pay a hefty fine to leave Brazil. Gold medal winner Jimmy Feigen reached a
deal with authorities to donate almost $11,000 in order to leave the country.
He will have his passport returned after reaching the agreement with local
prosecutors. Feigen was one of four swimmers whose taxi ride back from a late
night party ended in a confrontation in at a gas station. Police say one of the
men vandalized a bathroom . Investigators debunked Lochte's story about being
robbed at gunpoint by men posing as police.
US Women's
Relay Appeals Race
Allyson Felix
attempts to hand the baton to English Gardner in the Women's 4x100-meter relay
in round 1. Felix, the second leg on Team USA's 4x100-meter relay team, was
about to hand off the baton to her teammate, English Gardner. But it did look
like the US wouldn't advance to the final, in which the Americans were expected
to win a medal. The appeal was found in the Americans' favor, and there will be
a US re-run at 8 p.m. local time -- 7 p.m.
Details
About Paul Manafort Alleged Ukraine Payments Is Released
MOSCOW (AP) —
Ukraine's anti-corruption body has released entries from once-secret accounting
documents that purport to show payments from a pro-Russian political party
earmarked for Donald Trump's campaign chairman. The Associated Press reported
earlier this week that Paul Manafort helped Ukraine's Party of Regions secretly
route at least $2.2 million to two Washington lobbying firms. Manafort told
Yahoo News that AP's account was wrong.
Christina
Grimmie’s Family Releases Her Final Music Video
Fans continue to
mourn the loss of singer Christina Grimmie who tragically lost her life earlier
this year when she was gunned down outside of a concert in Florida. Before she
passed, Grimmie was in the middle of creating some of the greatest music of her
career and fans were saddened they would never hear it. However, Christina's
family hope to keep her memory alive by releasing the music video for her song
"Anybody's You," the second single off Grimmie's four single EP,
"The Ballad of Jessica Blue."
UK zoo
celebrates World Orangutan Day by letting 'red-haired people' in for free
It's World Orangutan
Day so Twycross Zoo in the UK did something a bit different by letting people
with red hair in for free, the idea being that red hair is relatively rare and
so are our orangutans.
There are four Bornean Orangutans at the zoo at
Twycross Zoo - Batu, Kibriah, Maliku, Molly.
This video shows the four of them in their
enclosure as well as crowds of people enjoying the zoo.
'Brady
Bunch' House Robbed
An elderly woman who
lives in the suburban Los Angeles home made famous by TV sitcom "The Brady
Bunch" scared off burglars who were ransacking the house, police said
Thursday. The resident, who is aged in her 70s, was not hurt in Wednesday
night's "hot prowl" break-in at the property in Studio City. The
suspects fled but left behind physical evidence, police sources told NBC News.
Police said the suspects tried to get in through windows before smashing a
downstairs sliding glass door.
Republicans
Block Modest Climate Action
The White House
Council on Environmental Quality issued a non-binding suggestion, formally
known as “guidance,” to federal agencies to think about climate change when
making decisions under a law called the National Environmental Policy Act. What
should have produced a shrug (or, hopefully, a cheer) caused a panic on the
right that’s only getting louder. The recent guidance suggests that federal
agencies account for climate change in the Nepa process.
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