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A raging fire seemingly caused by fireworks set off to celebrate a Christian wedding consumed a hall packed with guests in northern Iraq, killing around 100 people and injuring 150 others as authorities warned Wednesday the death toll could still rise.Authorities said that flammable building materials also contributed to the latest disaster to hit Iraq s dwindling Christian minority. In the fire s chaotic aftermath, officials offered conflicting death tolls and security official stanley cup s said they had detained staff at the wedding hall as part of their investigation.The fire happened in the Hamdaniya area of Iraq s Nineveh province, authorities said. That s a predominantly Christian area just outside of the city of Mosul, some 205 miles northwest of Baghdad.There was no official word on the cause of the blaze, but the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw aired footage showing pyrotechnics shooting flames up from the floor of the event and setting a stanley cup chandelier aflame.Multiple witnesses, including 50-year-old wedding attendee Faten Youssef, said the fire started as the bride and groom began their slow dance. The flames raced through plastic decorations and the ceiling started collapsing, she said. Flames started falling on us, Youssef told The Associated Press. Things were falling down an stanley cup d blocked the way to the exit. She said her family found their way out through a kitchen, after the family struggled through smoke and flames and her son failed to kick through a jammed exit door.It Ckwb Attack near West Bank-Jordan crossing leaves 3 Israeli guards dead* ?, _! v8 P, B b. C3 B% X% x+ L
President Donald Trump is urging the Republican-run Senate to consider without delay his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election. Trump is making his view known in a tweet Saturday, the day after Ginsburg died. He says, We were put in this posit stanley cup ion of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us. stanley cup He says the most important decision has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay! Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87 after a battle with cancer. The court, which has seen its share of 5-4 decisions in recent years, could become a reliably conservative court for years to come if Trump is able to push through a nominee leading up to the election.Currently the court holds five Republican-appointed justices and three Democratic-appointed justice, but Chief Justice John Roberts, appointed by George W. Bush, has sometimes been a swing vote, siding with the liberals.But one person who is opposing a last-minute appointment to the bench was apparently Ginsburg herself.Dictating a statement to family that was released to NPR, Ginsburg said, My most fervent wish is that I stanley termosy will not be replaced until a new president is installed. In 2016, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia s death came nine months before the presidential election, and became a focal point of that year s el |
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