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Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump, asks Interpol to help

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.

Alqasimehr did not identify anyone else sought other than Trump, but stressed Iran would continue to pursue his prosecution even after his presidency ends.

Interpol, based in Lyon, France,Â said in a statement that its constitution forbade it to undertake "any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character".

"Therefore, if or when any such requests were to be sent to the General Secretariat," it added, "... Interpol would not consider requests of this nature.".

The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects' travel.

After receiving a request, Interpol meets by committee and discusses whether or not to share the information with its member states.

Interpol has no requirement for making any of the notices public, though some do get published on its website. »

White couple aims guns at St. Louis protesters

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A white couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayor's home to demand her resignation.

In the video, the unidentified couple shouted at protesters while people in the march moved the crowd forward, urging participants to ignore them.

The video was shared thousands of times on social media Sunday night, notes CBS St. Louis affiliate KMOV-TV. »

Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Tied to Employers - The New York Times

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In the decades that followed, even as officials fortified public schools, transit systems and utilities, they left health care to the private markets.

By 1960, roughly two-thirds of all Americans were insured by their employers, by 1970 health insurance had become big business, and by the 1980s health care costs were soaring.

America must create either a new health care system or offer significantly more options within the current one. »

This Woman Has Rescued 72,000 Human Trafficking Victims

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Sangma is just one among the more than 72,000 women and children who have been victims of human trafficking across India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal and now find themselves free thanks to Kharbhih.

For Kharbhih, 49, it’s a matter of empathy as she strives to put a dent in the $32 billion human trafficking industry in India and its surrounding countries.

In 2000, Impulse took on its first human trafficking case after Prerana, a Mumbai-based nongovernmental organization, rescued three northeastern girls from a red-light district in the city. »

TIL Hard pretzels were invented in the late 1600s, when a snoozing apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally overbaked his pretzels, creating crunchy, seemingly inedible, knots. His job was spared when the master baker, attempting admonishment, took an angry bite out of one--and loved it.

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He rolled out ropes of dough, twisted them to resemble hands crossed on the chest in prayer, and baked them.

Hard pretzels were "invented" in the late 1600s, when a snoozing apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally overbaked his pretzels, creating crunchy, seemingly inedible, knots.

His job was spared when the master baker, attempting admonishment, took an angry bite out of one--and loved it. »