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New Impeachment Witness Rocks White House

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (R), a White House National Security Council Ukraine expert, arrives at Congress to testify in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump
White House national security official Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was to testify that he witnessed improper efforts to pressure Ukraine to provide political support for President Donald Trump
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In January 2019, Austrian Post said it would delete a database of the likely political affinities of around 2.2 million customers after privacy campaigners likened the practice to the Facebook data-sharing scandal

Austrian Post Fined Over Customer Data Misuse

In January 2019, Austrian Post said it would delete a database of the likely political affinities of around 2.2 million customers after privacy campaigners likened the practice to the Facebook data-sharing scandal
More than 12,000 Islamic State group prisoners are crammed into Kurdish-run detention centres like this one in northeastern Syria, with breakouts an ever-present risk amid a three-week-old Turkish offensive

Bursting At The Seams: Inside An IS Prison In Syria

Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty -- haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space.An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are holding Islamic State group (IS) suspects.As a Turkish offensive launched against Kurdish forces earlier this month wreaks chaos in the area, just how solid such doors will be is a question keeping the world on edge.
Some 5,000 men and boys presumed to belong to Islamic State group are held in the Kurdish-run prison in northern Syria

In A Kurdish Prison, Former IS Fighters Never See The Sun

Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria.Today, they're crammed together: 5,000 presumed jihadists in an overcrowded Kurdish prison in the country's northeast.AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. They found thousands of detainees, including children, lying cheek by jowl in stifling, stench-filled rooms, orange jump suits covering emaciated frames.

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