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A document which was accidentally published by a NATO-affiliated body have exposed the the secret locations of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe. The document was quickly deleted.

The document by a Canadian senator for the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly detailed the future of the organization’s nuclear deterrence policy but accidentally exposed the open secret, reports The Washington Post.

The published document said, “A new era for nuclear deterrence? Modernization, arms control and allied”.

The document was published by Canadian Sen. Joseph Day on behalf of the defense and security committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

The secret information regarding the location of approximately 150 U.S. nuclear weapons scattered across Europe has been mistakenly published.

According to the document, the U.S. nuclear weapons are being stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

The report noted, “These bombs are stored at six U.S. and European bases – Kleine Brogel in Belgium, Buchel in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi-Torre in Italy, Volkel in The Netherlands, and Incirlik in Turkey”.

The director for disarmament and threat-reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, Kingston Reif told that it was no surprise to potentially discover the location of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.

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KLM, the dutch airlines have made a turbulence recently on Twitter regarding their ‘Breastfeeding policy’, that provoked many people.

The airlines told a customer it might ask mothers to cover themselves while breastfeeding. This policy of the airlines has sparked a backlash on Twitter, with many people criticising the policy.

Reports said that a lady named Shelby Angel, who was travelling on a KLM flight from San Francisco to Amsterdam last month had been asked to cover herself up while breastfeeding her baby. A flight attendant gave her a blanket and warned her to cover up if she planned to breastfeed her baby.

Shelby Angel said in her Facebook post, “Before we even took off, I was approached by a flight attendant carrying a blanket. She told me (and I quote) ‘if you want to continue doing the breastfeeding, you need to cover yourself”.

Angel said that she denied the flight attendant’s words telling that her baby will not be comfortable with a blanket while breastfeeding.

This Twitter post of the KLM airlines has provoked many people. The Twitter users asked other airlines, such as British Airways and EasyJet, about their breastfeeding policies.

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Facebook’s cryptocurrency – Libra will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees, has come under further attack at a US hearing.

The politicians said that the company is “delusional” and non-trusted. They said that they do not trust Facebook to operate a global cryptocurrency.

Facebook executive David Marcus has been questioned by the Senate Banking Committee over FB’s intention to launch its Libra digital currency.

Senator Sherrod Brown said that the company had showed “through scandal after scandal that it doesn’t deserve our trust”.

Facebook executive David Marcus at the Senate Banking Committee hearing

Before launching a new business model, the tech giant had been advised to clean up its house. Last moth, the company had announced its plan to launch a digital currency, probably by next year.

But, initially, the company had to get the Washington lawmakers on its side. But, several criticisms came soon after the company had revealed its plan to launch Libra, even from President, Donald Trump.

Trump’s last week tweet said that he is not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.

Facebook said that Libra won’t be an investment vehicle and that the company and its partners have no plans to act like a central bank.

Former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in an interview that, “We don’t actually have a regulatory framework that sufficiently addresses the cash market for digital assets that aren’t securities, like bitcoin. We don’t have a comprehensive way of looking at it”.

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Safa and Marwa, the rare conjoined twins from Pakistan were successfully separated in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. The twins were born by caesarian section in early January 2017 in Peshawar, Pakistan.

The two year old twins had undergone three major operations to separate their heads at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.


Safa and Marwa

They had their first operation at the age of just 19 months in October 2018.

This was a very rare case where the girls were craniopagus twins, with their skulls and blood vessels fused together. Craniopagus twins are those who will be fused at the cranium.

According to Britain’s National Health Service, one in every 2.5 million births produces conjoined twins and only 5% of them are fused at the head.

The hospital had previously separated craniopagus twins in 2006 and 2011, which was all successful.

The technology of virtual reality and 3D printing had been used in the surgery, for creating an exact model of the girls’ anatomy. This helped the doctors to view the complex structure of their skulls as well as the positioning of their brains and blood vessels.

Four major operations with a total time of 55 hours had been done in this medical case with about 100 medical staff included. Reports said that all the amount was funded by a private donor.

The girls were discharged from the hospital and sent with their mother Zainab and their grandfather Mohammad Sadat Hussain.

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The Lion King – directed and produced by Jon Favreau is an American photo-realistic computer-animated musical drama film, which is waiting to hit the big screens on this 19th of July.

The movie, is expected to be an adventure fantasy thriller. The screenplay is written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The music is done by Hans Zimmer.

The movie reviews so far praises its fabulous visual effects and vocal performances. Besides that, the movie is being criticized to be highly derivative of the original and lack of emoting in the animated lion characters relative to the original.

The voice casting of the movie is as follows: Donald Glover as Simba, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Alfre Woodard as Sarabi, Billy Eichner as Timon, John Kani as Rafiki, John Oliver as Zazu, Beyonce Knowles-Carter as Nala and James Earl Jones as Mufasa.

The movie journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes King Mufasa, his father, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But the arrival of this new cub king was not liked by someone in the kingdom. The movie, is expected to be welcomed by all the ones, despite the age!

WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE !!

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Soon after the France’s annual Bastille Day military parade, the yellow vest protesters had a clash with the Paris police. The police have fired tear gas at the protesters near the Champs-Elysées.

Shortly after the parade on Sunday, the boulevard in central Paris was reopened to traffic. A group of so called “Yellow vest” protesters rushed to the region and tried to occupy it.

The police said that about 150 people were banned from attending the parade since they tried to stage some unauthorised demonstration. The yellow vest protesters were also included in this.

The protesters were chanting anti-government slogans, and they knocked down the security barriers set for the parade. They threw objects at the police who tried to disperse them. Reports said that these protesters set fire to bins and portable toilets.

As the police put restrictions on people (protesters) to wear he yellow vest, some had carried yellow balloons instead. Reports said that this violence on Sunday was the worst one in central Paris since March.

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A large group of undocumented migrants, mainly from West Africa, have rushed in and occupied the Panthéon in Paris demanding the right to remain in France.

The protesters referred themselves as “the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic”, in a statement.

The incident happened around midday (11:00 GMT) on Friday. The protesters demanded talk with the prime minister Édouard Philippe on regularising their status.

The tourist were evacuated from mausoleum due to the incident. There were reportedly around 700 migrants, along with their supporters who started invading into the historic complex.

Resembling the term ‘Yellow vest protest’, these groups calls themselves ‘Black vests”. The yellow vest protest had been spreading in France earlier this year.

The protest demonstrators waved papers in the air, chanted, and demanded to hold talks with Prime Minister.

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The first shipment of a Russian-made S-400 air defense missile system has been received by Turkey, defying the opposition from US.

Turkish defence ministry said that on Friday, a an airbase carrying the shipment arrived at the capital Ankara. This is considered to be a step certain to test the country’s uneasy place in the NATO alliance.

A warning has been given by the US that Turkey cannot have both the S-400 anti-aircraft defence system and US F-35 fighter jets. The current move of Turkey will likely anger the US.

The United States and Turkey are Nato allies – but Turkey has also been establishing closer links with Russia.

The S-400 system contains advanced radar for detecting aircraft and other targets. United States has been unyielding in its opposition to the move of Turkey in obtaining the equipment.

It is expected that a second batch of shipment will be reaching Turkey in the near future, a military-diplomatic source told Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.

“It is up to allies to decide what military equipment they buy. However, we are concerned about the potential consequences of Turkey’s decision to acquire the S-400 system”, said a NATO official to CNN.

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Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has offered his son the job of US ambassador.

Eduardo Bolsonaro (35), the younger son of Jair Bolsonaro has been offered with this post amid a heated debate in the US about the role and influence of President Donald Trump’s family, particularly his daughter Ivanka.

Eduardo Bolsonaro has told reporters that he would accept the post if nominated.

“If it is a mission given by the president, I would accept” – Eduardo.

Eduardo Bolsonaro is currently serving as a congressman and advises his father on foreign affairs.

Ivanka, the daughter of Donald Trump drew widespread scorn late last month after her prominent appearance at the G20 summit in Osaka alongside her father.

Mr Bolsonaro is highly hopeful about his son that he said that Eduardo would make a good ambassador to the US with his good language skills and strong relationship with the Trump family.

The Brazil’s president said, “He is a friend of the children of Donald Trump, speaks English and Spanish and has great global experience. He would be able to convey our message perfectly”.

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A survey has been conducted by the researchers of Norway about a Soviet-era nuclear submarine that went down 30 years ago. According to them, a radiation level which is 800,000 times higher than normal is being emitted by the submarine.

The submarine had been sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989, caused by a fire on board that caused the death of 42 sailors.

In a sample, it is seen the leaking of radioactive caesium from a ventilation pipe. According to the researchers it was “not alarming”, since the Arctic water quickly diluted it.

The research team said that the device was found deep down, at 5,512 ft and there were a few fish in the area.

Reports said that the vessel is known as Komsomolets, whose hull was made of titanium, allowing it to operate at depths of more than 3,000 feet. This is a limit which is far below what U.S. submarines could achieve at the time.

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