“See” reviews hits of news across the world on Saturday.
Climate protesters block stores, disrupt Black Friday shopping
Protesters around the world disrupted Black Friday shopping in order to draw attention to climate change days before the United Nations met to discuss the issue in Madrid (Fox News)
Ilhan Omar's GOP challenger blasts Twitter after account suspended over 'treason' tweet
A Republican challenging U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in 2020 blasted Twitter on Friday after having her accounts permanently suspended this week following a tweet suggesting that the incumbent congresswoman should be hanged if found guilty of treason. (Fox News)
Release of London Bridge terror suspect was 'mistake,' PM Boris Johnson says
Friday's stabbing attack on the London Bridge that left two people dead and three others wounded had British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arguing afterward that it had been a "mistake" to grant an early release to the suspect, an ex-convict who was shot and killed by police.
Germany is closing all its nuclear power plants. Now it must find a place to bury the deadly waste for 1 million years
When it comes to the big questions plaguing the world's scientists, they don't get much larger than this.
Where do you safely bury more than 28,000 cubic meters -- roughly six Big Ben clock towers -- of deadly radioactive waste for the next million years? (CNN)
House GOP members are 'absolutely disgusted and exhausted' by Trump's behavior, former GOP congressman says
Former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said Thursday some of his former colleagues in the House of Representatives have privately told him they are "absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the President's behavior." (CNN)
Suspect in deadly stabbing near London Bridge identified
British police identified the man suspected of killing two people in a terrorist attack near London Bridge on Friday as 28-year-old Usman Khan.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-reduce-nato-aid-215515120.html
Khan was convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses and had been living in the Staffordshire area after he was released from prison last year with an ankle monitor, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said in a statement. (CNN)
Nadler asks Trump if he 'intends to participate' in impeachment hearings
House judiciary committee chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to Donald Trump on Friday, asking if the president “intends to participate” in impeachment inquiry hearings due to begin next week. (The Guardian
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Brazil’s president claims DiCaprio paid for Amazon fires
Brazil’s president has falsely accused the actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling the deliberate incineration of the Amazon rainforest. (The Guardian)
Tens of thousands rally in Europe, Asia before UN climate summit
Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit. ( Yahoo News)
The China Challenge Continues to Mount
While aware that China suppresses freedom of expression within its borders and territories, we are rarely privy to how Beijing’s propaganda keeps its citizenry acquiescent. Adopting Orwell’s 1984’s Newspeak the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-run media projects an image of a superior society with even greater safety and freedoms than in the west. (Yahoo News)
Trump administration to reduce NATO aid days before European summit with allies
President Donald Trump's administration will pay less to NATO under an agreement reached days before the president is set to travel to London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 29-member trans-Atlantic alliance. (US Today)