Hit News of Friday across The World

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Durham's investigation into possible FBI misconduct is now criminal probe, sources say

U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into potential FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the run-up to the 2016 election through the spring of 2017 has transitioned into a full-fledged criminal investigation, two sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News on Thursday night. (Fox News)

Trump team rips critics as ‘scum’ and witnesses as disloyal

The world is clearly spinning off its axis when Politico is questioning whether John Bolton has become a “hero of the Resistance.”

The reason is that as President Trump’s national security adviser, he “raised alarms about the politically questionable role informal actors were playing in shaping U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine.” (Fox News)

Boris Johnson's election call is an admission he's run out of Brexit options

Under normal circumstances, Boris Johnson would be celebrating. But nothing is normal in Brexit Britain.

Despite not having a parliamentary majority, his brand new legislative agenda has just been approved by the House of Commons. Instead of popping open the champagne and getting ready to crack on with governing, Johnson is gearing up for an early general election. (CNN)

China is trying to bring America to its knees, Trump trade adviser says

The US-China trade war is rocking America's manufacturing industry. It's denting profits for major companies like Hasbro and Caterpillar. And farmers are hurting badly.

Yet Peter Navarro, trade adviser to President Donald Trump, downplayed the pain from the trade war and stressed the need to stay unified against China. (CNN)

Trump suggests Kurds relocate as US considers deploying armored vehicles to protect oil fields

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the US military would continue securing oil fields in Syria while also suggesting that America's onetime allies in the fight against ISIS, the Syrian Kurds, consider moving to the region that houses those oil fields, a move that would see them relocate from their traditional homelands to a desert area hundreds of miles away. (CNN)

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Johnson seeks 12 December election after shelving 'do or die' Brexit pledge

Boris Johnson has abandoned his “do or die” pledge to leave the EU by 31 October and will plead with MPs next week to give him a pre-Christmas general election. (The Guardian)

Justice department opens criminal inquiry into origins of Russia investigation – source

A US Justice Department review of the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election is now a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. (The Guardian)

Despite warming ties, 85% of Japanese hold 'unfavorable' view of China: survey

Japanese public impressions of China remain “unfavorable,” an annual survey showed Thursday, amid a lingering territorial dispute, a U.S.-China trade war and unrest in Hong Kong. (The Japan Times)

Russian Nuclear Scientist Jailed for Mining Bitcoins at Secret Lab

An engineer accused of using one of Russia’s most powerful supercomputers at a secret nuclear laboratory to mine Bitcoins has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison.

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Andrei Rybkin is one of three scientists to be convicted of using a workplace supercomputer to mine the cryptocurrency in the closed city of Sarov. The Sarov institute, where the first Soviet nuclear weapon was made in 1949, is home to some of Russia’s most powerful supercomputers ( The Moscow Times)

Toyota Recalls More Than 900,000 Vehicles to Replace Their Airbags Again

Toyota is entering the final phase of its Takata airbag replacement efforts with the announcement of a recall involving 928,000 Toyota, Scion, and Lexus models. These vehicles previously had their high-risk airbags replaced with new Takata airbags as a stop-gap measure until the “final remedy” airbags were available. (The Consumer Reports)