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The United States opposes UN Human Rights Council focus on Israel, signaling funding tensions with the world body. In Ghana, a rainstorm at Kintampo Waterfall killed at least 19 visitors including students, as officials tallied the dead. Connecticut court rejects Beth Carpenter appeal in 1994 murder-for-hire case, keeping life imprisonment in place.
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U.N
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Human Rights Council
United States
Mark Toner
Accra
Ghana
Kintampo
Methodist
University of Energy and Natural Resources
Brong Ahafo
Siegfried Kwame Addo
Mahamudu Bawumia
Ghana News Agency
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Beth Carpenter
Carpenter
Connecticut Supreme Court
Norman Pattis
Pattis
Kevin Kane
Harman Clein
Anson
Buzz” Clinton
Clinton
East Lyme
Ledyard
Ireland
Britain votes to start two year Brexit divorce process
Britain will trigger Article 50 on March 29 signaling a two year negotiation period with the European Union. Theresa May will notify the EU and set talks on a new UK EU relationship while Scotland seeks a separate independence referendum amid uncertainty for EU citizens in Britain.
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Britain
European Union
Tim Barrow
European Council
Donald Tusk
David Davis
U.K
Europe
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Tusk
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Commission
Margaritis Schinas
10 Downing Street
House of Commons
May
European Economic Community
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Nicola Sturgeon
Sturgeon
Gorsuch pledges independence at contentious Senate hearing
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch told the Senate Judiciary Committee he would be a neutral judge, seeking to prove his independence amid Democratic criticism of favoring the wealthy in a yearlong vacancy. He stressed rulings reflected law and facts, not personal judgments, as Comey testified on Russian meddling. The hearing overlapped with FBI Director Comey’s Russia inquiry, fueling talk of a looming constitutional crisis.
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Gorsuch
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Capitol Complex
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James Comey
Bureau
Russia
Trump
U.S
Richard Blumenthal
Connecticut
Blumenthal
Sen
John Kennedy
Louisiana
Norway tops happiest list Americans drop to fourteenth
The World Happiness Report ranks 155 countries with Norway first and the United States down from 13th to 14th. It links happiness to social support and community, noting money alone does not ensure well being while Russia and Africa show lower scores.
Happiest and saddest countries ranked by wellbeing
The top happiest nations include Norway Denmark Iceland Switzerland Finland Netherlands Canada New Zealand Australia and Sweden while the saddest list shows Yemen South Sudan Liberia Guinea Togo Rwanda Syria Tanzania Burundi and the Central African Republic. The rankings draw on income life expectancy social support personal freedom corruption and generosity.
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Norway
United States
John Helliwell
University of British Columbia
Canada
National Academy of Sciences
Denmark
Iceland
Switzerland
Finland
Meik Wiking
Happiness Research Institute
Copenhagen
Viking
Helliwell
Central African Republic
Burundi
Tanzania
Syria
Rwanda
America
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Latvia
Jeffrey Sachs
Columbia University
Oslo
Sachs
University of Maryland
Carol Graham
Netherlands
New Zealand
Australia
Sweden
Yemen
South Sudan
Liberia
Guinea
Togo
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