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Pentagon Ultimatum to Erdogan: No F-35s If You Buy Russian Tech

The Pentagon is getting close to slamming the door on Turkey regarding the contentious transfer of Lockheed F-35 stealth jets purchased previously by Ankara, an issue debated this week in Congressional hearings.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has now offered a stern ultimatum and warning, telling Turkey: don’t expect to receive F-35s if Russia’s anti-air defense system is bought.

Pentagon spokesman Charles Summers said Friday morning that there will be “grave consequences” if Turkey moves forward in purchasing Russia’s S-400, according to Bloomberg — this after the top US commander in Europe, Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, recommended to Congress this week that delivery to Turkey of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should ultimately be canceled, nothing that the S-400 remains “a problem to all of our aircraft, but specifically the F-35.”


The money missing from the Pentagon books is equivalent to the entire national debt.

Turkey’s currency fell 1.5 percent this week amid fears relations with Washington could worsen over the standoff. President Erdogan has further missed a “soft deadline” previously set by the US over an offer to buy $3.5 billion Raytheon Co. Patriot missile shield system, as an alternative to the Russian S-400. The Pentagon said the Patriot offer would be impossible should Turkey seek the Russian system.

Failure to receive the F-35s could further impact Turkey’s economy given that a number of Turkish defense technology companies have contracts to build and develop systems and add-ons needed for Turkey to operate the aircraft, such as cockpit displays for the multi-national fighter jet.

However, Erdogan has remained unmoved as the issue has come to a head, repeating during a Turkish TV broadcast interview this week, “this is over” in reference to continued debate. “There can never be a turning back. This would not be ethical, it would be immoral. Nobody should ask us to lick up what we spat,” he said.

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Thus far Erdogan has dismissed all Pentagon and US ultimatums. “We are an independent Turkey, we are not slaves,” he said during the interview previously this week.

The advanced Russian-made S-400 air defense system sought by Turkey has been seen as a threat by the United States, given the potential for compromising the F-35 advanced radar-evading and electronics capabilities.

The main argument for blocking the F-35 transfer is the fear that Russia would get access to the extremely advanced Joint Strike Fighter stealth aircraft, enabling Moscow to detect and exploit its vulnerabilities. Russia would ultimately learn how the S-400 could take out an F-35.

Also this week the US State Department warned that transferal of S-400 systems could result in far-reaching sanctions against Turkey under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), despite its NATO status.


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Philippine police: 4 wives of Abu Sayyaf commanders arrested

Philippine police say they have captured four wives of Abu Sayyaf commanders who take care of their financial transactions, help procure guns and bomb parts and arrange the travels of foreign militants to the country.

Police say the women were arrested Tuesday in raids on houses in southern Zamboanga city where authorities seized two grenades, a bag of suspected ammonium nitrate and electrical parts that can be used in making bombs.

Police say the women work under Abu Sayyaf leader Hajan Sawadjaan, who is the main suspect in the Jan. 27 bombing of a Roman Catholic cathedral during a Mass that killed 23 people in nearby Sulu province. The cathedral attack by two suspected suicide bombers sparked the latest military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf.

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Nashville police officer dragged by 4-wheeler in 'reckless and willful act of endangerment'

Police in Nashville, Tenn., are searching for the driver of an off-road vehicle that hit one of their officers and dragged him through downtown over the weekend.

Sgt. John Bourque, a 22-year veteran of the force, was treated for minor injuries and released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center Saturday. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) said the 4-wheeler that struck Bourque was one of "dirt bikes, motorcycles, ATVs, and four-wheelers that illegally took over Broadway."

Witnesses said the riders were running red lights, making illegal turns, popping wheelies and otherwise driving recklessly. A statement from police said the group was "weaving in and out of moving and parked vehicles, endangering motorists and pedestrians, when Sergeant Bourque was struck."

The Tennessean newspaper reported that the group sped off after striking another vehicle in addition to Sergeant Bourque.

"We are confident that the MNPD will endeavor to identify and charge all who were involved in this reckless and willful act of endangerment," the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police said.

One rider told Fox 17 their goal was to introduce at-risk kids to a hobby that would keep them off the streets and away from gangs and gun violence.

"A lot of kids involved with guns nowadays, you know, not going to school," a rider told the station. "I mean, just out here on the streets for the wrong reasons."

She added that the riders did not mean to put anyone at risk, but wanted to show off their skills.

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"They battle," she said. "It's not a battle as in it's a bad thing. It's a battle as in, 'let's see your tricks and I’ll show you mine,' you know?

Authorities said many of the vehicles were not registered or street legal. Anyone with information about the driver of the 4-wheeler is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.

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Bernie's bombast now facing more rivals, more media scrutiny

Bernie Sanders, who stunned the Democratic Party three years ago, now thinks he's ready to finish the revolution.

But with many more choices awaiting them, the party's voters have to decide whether they want a 77-year-old curmudgeon with a socialist agenda who's not even a Democrat.

And as numerous pundits have observed, Sanders, who got trounced among black voters last time, will be running this time around against two black candidates and others with more proven appeal in that community.

In launching his campaign yesterday on radio and on "CBS This Morning," the Vermont senator obviously knows that the playing field has changed since he did far better than anyone expected against Hillary Clinton. The strength he brings from that primary run includes a killer mailing list and a proven ability to raise lots of money from small donors.

One weakness is that many Hillary supporters have never forgiven Sanders for the campaign he waged against her, and she has said he didn't do enough to rally his backers behind her in that fall.

But if you're a liberal Democrat and you kinda sorta liked Bernie last time, why wouldn't you prefer:

Kamala Harris, who just distanced herself from the Bern by saying she's not a democratic socialist;

Elizabeth Warren, known for her populist crusades against Wall Street and the banking industry;

Cory Booker, who has a more uplifting message;

Or Amy Klobuchar, who's proven she can work with Republicans?

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Oddly enough, Sanders just became the only major Democratic candidate who's ... a white man. He may soon lose that status if 76-year-old Joe Biden, who keeps delaying his decision, gets in. They are nominal front-runners in the polls, mainly because of name recognition.

President Trump weighed in with a dig and a compliment, saying "personally, I think he missed his time" but adding that "I like Bernie" because they agree on a tough approach to trade.

This Washington Post report on what Sanders aides say will be his platform gives you a sense that he's all in on the left-wing thing:

"'Medicare-for-all' health-care system, stave off catastrophic climate change through a 'Green New Deal' and other climate measures, and implement a $15 an hour minimum wage for all American workers ... mandate breaking up the biggest Wall Street banks; free tuition at public colleges; lower drug prices through aggressive government intervention; new labor laws to encourage union formation; curbed corporate spending on elections; paid family and medical leave; gender pay equity; and expanded Social Security benefits."

Sounds like it will cost zillions of dollars, doesn't it?

The New York Times, to underscore the independent senator's difficulties with black voters, unearthed a 2016 staff memo written after he got walloped in South Carolina:

"The margin by which we lost the African-American vote has got to be — at the very least — cut in half or there simply is no path to victory." The score in that state, according to exit polls, was Hillary 86 percent, Bernie 14 percent.

Look, you have to credit Sanders with sensing much earlier than the Democratic establishment that many party voters were hungry for full-throated liberalism that broke with incremental Clintonism. And Bernie clearly connected with those (mostly white) folks.

But he also was the repository for nearly all the votes of those who didn't like Hillary for whatever reason — personality, gender, e-mails, part of a machine, etc. But now, as far as we know, she's out of the picture.

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I said many times during 2016 that Sanders got one huge gift that year: the media never expected him to win the nomination (based on, well, math). The result was that he was never subjected to heavy-duty journalistic scrutiny: not on his policies and not on his record. He was essentially entertainment for political reporters who didn't want the primaries to end too soon (and who consistently underestimated his appeal).

Bernie won't have that luxury this time around. If he gets traction, the press will be all over him. And he'll have several big-league rivals — who are actually Democrats — crowding his "lane."

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Nunberg: Mueller Report Will Be House Impeachment 'Roadmap'

Special counsel Robert Mueller will provide the House with a "roadmap" for articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, according to ex-Trump aide Sam Nunberg.

"I can't imagine that the special counsel is not going to release something that shows a roadmap for the House to investigate a conspiracy . . . for articles of impeachment," Nunberg told Katy Tur during an appearance on MSNBC.

"There is no way that in light of even what we've seen in these indictments that you've reported on, you've seen that they've gone very systematically from the private Russians to the Russian GRU to even Roger [Stone], getting to the edge of the campaign vis a vis [Steve] Bannon and [Paul] Manafort or [Rick] Gates. . . .

"I can't imagine that that information won't become public."

Nunberg, who has been interviewed by Mueller's team several times in relation to the special counsel's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, later backtracked, saying Mueller's office would likely give the House "a roadmap to their findings."

Mueller is said to be wrapping up his report, and Nunberg expects he will submit it soon, considering the imminent departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Nunberg has also been questioned by Senate intelligence committee investigators looking for collusion with Russia.

Source: NewsMax America

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Midwest bracing for more 'unprecedented' flooding that has shattered record-high river levels

Residents in Kansas and Missouri were steeling themselves Monday for the deadly and “unprecedented” flooding that's already saturated large portions of the Midwest, mangling hundreds of homes and raising the Missouri River above record water levels in many areas.

In Atchison, Kansas, a city with a population of more than 10,000, businesses are reported to be piling up sandbags as the National Weather Service is forecasting river levels to reach 30 feet there later this week – something likely to prompt major flooding.

“It’s not looking good at all,” Sara Tull, a local resident, told KCTV. “I think it’s [going to] get us this time and I hate to say that.”

Gabe Schmidt, owner of Liquid Trucking, back right, travels by air boat with Glenn Wyles, top left, Mitch Snyder, bottom right, and Juan Jacobo, bottom left, as they survey damage from the flood waters of the Platte River, in Plattsmouth, Neb., on Sunday.

Gabe Schmidt, owner of Liquid Trucking, back right, travels by air boat with Glenn Wyles, top left, Mitch Snyder, bottom right, and Juan Jacobo, bottom left, as they survey damage from the flood waters of the Platte River, in Plattsmouth, Neb., on Sunday.

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Some of the city’s residents have already left for higher ground. Other communities in states like Nebraska are still reeling Monday from floods that swept through the region in recent days. And serious flooding is expected to continue there over the next few days, despite river depths leveling off in some parts, the Associated Press is reporting.

"This area's had flooding before but not of this magnitude," said Greg London of the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office, where 500 homes are estimated to be damaged. "This is unprecedented."

The damage in Sarpy County followed breaches of levees along the Platte River on Thursday and Saturday, and a Missouri River levee break on Thursday. The two rivers converge there.

In Iowa, the Missouri River reached 30.2 feet Sunday in Fremont County in the state's far southwestern corner, two feet above the record set in 2011. Around 250 people in the towns of Bartlett and Thurman were being evacuated as levees were breached and overtopped.

County Emergency Management Director Mike Crecelius said it wasn't just the amount of the water, it was the swiftness of the current that created a danger.

"This wasn't a gradual rise," Crecelius said. "It's flowing fast and it's open country — there's nothing there to slow it down."

EXTREME FLOODING HINDERS RESCUES ACROSS MIDWEST

Lucinda Parker of Iowa Homeland Security & Emergency Management told the Associated Press that nearly 2,000 people overall have been evacuated at eight Iowa locations since flooding began late last week.

The floods were prompted by a late-season “bomb cyclone” that brought heavy rains and eventual snowmelt to the Midwest.

Hundreds of people also remain out of their homes in Nebraska, where floodwaters reached record levels at 17 locations.

The Missouri River has flooded Offutt Air Force Base, with about one-third of it underwater on Sunday. Spokeswoman Tech. Sgt. Rachelle Blake told the Omaha World-Herald that 60 buildings, mostly on the south end of the base, have been damaged, including about 30 completely inundated with as much as 8 feet of water.

At least two Nebraskans have died in the floodwaters while nearly 300 more have been rescued.

Aleido Rojas Galan, 52, of Norfolk, was swept away Friday night in southwestern Iowa, when the vehicle he was in went around a barricade. Two others in the vehicle survived — one by clinging to a tree. On Thursday, Nebraska farmer James Wilke, 50, died when a bridge collapsed as he used a tractor to try and reach stranded motorists.

Two men remained missing Monday. A Norfolk man was seen on top of his flooded car late Thursday before being swept away. Water also swept away a man after a dam collapse.

Downstream in St. Joseph, Missouri, home to 76,000 people, volunteers are helping to fill sandbags to help secure a levee protecting an industrial area. Calls were out for even more volunteers in hopes of filling 150,000 sandbags by Tuesday, when the Missouri River is expected to climb to 27 feet — 10 feet above technical flood stage.

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The rising Mississippi River also was creating concern. The Mississippi was already at major flood level along the Iowa-Illinois border, closing roads and highways and swamping thousands of acres of farmland. Moderate Mississippi River flooding was expected at several Missouri cities, including St. Louis.

Flooding has also been reported in Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, officials said residents who evacuated their homes could return now that floodwaters have receded there.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Formula One celebrates 1,000th race, give or take a few

F1 Formula One - Austrian Grand Prix
F1 Formula One - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - July 1, 2018 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas lead the field at the start of the race REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

April 9, 2019

By Alan Baldwin

LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One celebrates its 1,000th world championship race this weekend at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, one of the sport’s newer tracks, but the milestone requires careful wording.

The sport has often had a problem with anniversaries, with statisticians quibbling over how many starts teams and drivers have made according to different definitions, and this one is no exception.

The fact is that some of the 999 championship races thus far have been questionable grands prix and several past race winners never even drove a Formula One car.

From 1950 to 1960 — 11 races in all — the Indianapolis 500 was included as part of the championship even if very few Formula One drivers crossed the Atlantic to compete in it and homegrown racers took all the points and raced to their own rules.

Bill Vukovich finished seventh in the 1953 Formula One championship, and sixth in 1954, after winning the Indy 500 in those years but racing in no other rounds.

His death in the 1955 Indy technically made him the first driver to be killed while competing in a Formula One championship race.

Yet Vukovich never drove a Formula One car even if his F1 record stands at a remarkable two wins, one pole position, three fastest laps and 19 points from five races — all of them in Indiana.

By the time Britain’s Jim Clark won at The Brickyard in 1965, followed by compatriot and fellow F1 champion Graham Hill in 1966, the Indy 500 was no longer part of the F1 calendar.

In 1952 and 1953 the world championship was run to Formula Two rules due to there not being enough Formula One cars to fill the grid after Alfa Romeo pulled out.

That means, therefore, that 26 races included in the championship tally since the first at Silverstone in 1950 did not actually feature Formula One cars.

The sport cannot truly say China is the 1,000th grand prix either, since there have been such events since the early 20th century when France set the terms and language of automobile racing.

Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz is generally regarded as the first winner of a grand prix, at Le Mans in 1906, while the Monaco Grand Prix, glamour race of the current calendar, dates back to 1929.

Silverstone, a former World War Two airfield in central England, hosted grands prix in 1948 and 1949 before Giuseppe ‘Nino’ Farina won the first Formula One world championship race there on May 13, 1950.

Calling China the 1,000th Formula One race would be similarly inaccurate since there have been numerous non-championship Formula One races staged down the decades.

The last was at Brands Hatch in 1983 when reigning world champion Keke Rosberg stood on top of a podium that also featured American Danny Sullivan and Australia’s 1980 F1 champion Alan Jones.

Nigel Mansell, Formula One world champion in 1992, was a non-finisher that day.

While it is often stated that only two women have raced in the Formula One world championship, South African Desire Wilson won a round of the British Formula One championship in a Wolf at Brands Hatch in 1980.

South Africa also had its own local Formula One championship in the 1960s and up until 1975.

The 1,000th race to count toward the official FIA drivers’ world championship standings? More accurate perhaps, if not exactly catchy.

(Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives at an extraordinary European Union leaders summit to discuss Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Friday he had assured China’s Huawei Technologies that it would not face discrimination in the rollout of Italy’s 5G telecoms network.

Conte was speaking on a visit to China where he said he met Huawei’s chief executive, Ren Zhengfei. The prime minister’s comments were carried in Italy by TV broadcaster Sky Italia.

“I told him that we have adopted some precautions, some measures to protect our interests that demand very high levels of security … not only from Huawei but any company entering into the 5G arena,” he said.

Huawei, the world’s biggest producer of telecoms equipment, is under intense scrutiny after the United States told allies not to use its technology because of fears it could be a vehicle for Chinese spying. Huawei has categorically denied this.

(Writing by by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Angelo Amante)

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U.S. President Trump departs for travel to Indianapolis from the White House in Washington
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs for travel to Indianapolis, Indiana from the White House in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

April 26, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday was expected to announce his intention to revoke the United States’ status as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which was signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but never ratified by Congress, two U.S. officials said.

Trump was expected to announce the decision in a speech in Indianapolis, to the National Rifle Association, the officials said. The NRA, a powerful gun lobby group, has long been opposed to the treaty, which was negotiated at the United Nations.

(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Bill Trott)

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A remote controlled robot for the 'Isotopium: Chernobyl' game is seen at the game's location in Brovary
A remote controlled robot for the ‘Isotopium: Chernobyl’ game is seen at the game’s location in Brovary, Ukraine April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

April 26, 2019

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko

KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian computer game that brings to life a town abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster may not sound like everyone’s idea of fun but has attracted 60,000 people globally since its launch in October.

Players of “Isotopium: Chernobyl” drive tanks around the ghost town of Prypyat near Chernobyl, knocking out competitors as they search for an energy source called isotopium and collecting points every time they find some.

While the game takes its theme from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine, which marked its 33rd anniversary on Friday, it was also inspired by the 2009 science fiction film “Avatar”.

Newcomers to the game think they have entered a virtual world when in fact they are controlling a real robot, equipped with a camera and computer, which makes its way around a model of the town rendered down to the tiniest detail.

“When playing our game, for the first 5-10 minutes many players don’t understand that it is not fictional,” said the game’s co-founder Sergey Beskrestnov. “They message us saying: ‘You have cool texture, you have good graphics, your designer is good, well done. You have a cool operating system.’

“People then reply: ‘It is not an operating system, it is real,’ and the player can’t believe it is real,” said Beskrestnov, speaking mid-game from Prypyat city square as he towers over surrounding five-storey buildings.

Kiev-born Beskrestnov was just 12 years old when on April 26, 1986 a botched test at the nuclear plant in the then Soviet Union sent clouds of smoldering nuclear material across large swathes of Europe, forced over 50,000 people, including Beskrestnov’s family, to evacuate and poisoned unknown numbers of workers involved in its clean-up.

Beskrestnov and his partner Alexey Fateyev used Google maps and hundreds of pictures from the Chernobyl area to recreate Prypyat landmarks, including residential buildings, a hotel, concert hall, amusement park and a stadium.

The game’s real-scale model occupies a 180 square meter (1,938 sq. ft) basement of a residential building in the Ukraine city of Brovary, just 150 km (93 miles) from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and 30 km east of Kiev.

Miniature radioactivity warning signs, graffiti on the walls of abandoned buildings and tables and chairs left scattered inside a small cafe all add to the creepy atmosphere of a once lively town.

“It’s a really neat concept …,” Shaun Prescott wrote in a review of the game published by PC Gamer magazine in January. “Controlling the tanks is kinda cumbersome, but they are tanks, after all.”

An attentive player will notice at least one inaccuracy – the real Chernobyl nuclear power plant is not located in town as it is in the game.

It costs $9 to immerse in the atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic town for an hour but only 20 people at a time can play simultaneously. Beskrestnov’s company, Remote Games, said 62,615 people around the world have registered to play the game, including around 15,000 in France and 10,000 in the United States.

A camera fixed on top of a moving tank broadcasts high quality signal in real time, allowing players from as far apart as Australia and Canada enjoy the game without facing any time delay in delivering video signals.

Its creators next ambition is to devise a game featuring the colonization of Mars in which 1,000 people will be able to simultaneously control robots on different missions involved in the operation.

“Many people advise us to contact Elon Musk directly because it resonates his dreams and ideas,” Beskrestnov jokes.    

(Editing by Susan Fenton)

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FILE PHOTO: A Starbucks sign is show on one of the companies stores in Los Angeles, California
FILE PHOTO: A Starbucks sign is show on one of the companies stores in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 19,2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Initial optimism over first-quarter results from Starbucks Corp was waning fast on Wall Street on Friday, as analysts questioned the longer-term prospects of its new sales push given subdued overall customer traffic numbers especially in China.

The company on Thursday beat brokerage estimates for quarterly same-store sales on the back of demand for its new Cloud Macchiato, Matcha tea and cold brews in the United States.

However, BTIG’s Peter Saleh was one of a number of sector analysts who said while customers forking out for higher-priced new drinks had helped drive growth in same-store sales, “anemic” traffic at cafes remained a concern.

He and others pointed to a 1 percent decline in footfall at cafes in the Chinese market, viewed as crucial to the chain’s growth for the foreseeable future.

More broadly, transaction numbers, the substitute analysts use for customer traffic, were unchanged in all three of the company’s global regions.

Shares in the company, which hit a record high after the results on Thursday, fell 1 percent in morning trade.

“We remain cautious given near-term headwinds surrounding China, including cannibalization, increasing competition (and) a slowing economy,” Wedbush analyst Nick Setyan said.

Starbucks has also poured money into beefing up its delivery network in China as it battles with local startup Luckin Coffee, whose speedy growth led it to file for an IPO in the United States earlier this week.

New menu items and partnerships with delivery services, the heart of the company’s strategy to win back customers lost to artisanal coffee shops and cheaper fast-food rivals, did help Starbucks’ sales in its home market.

However, analysts said growth in China may continue to be subdued.

Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog said she expects store expansion in China to take priority over comparable sales growth.

She downgraded her rating on Starbucks’ to “market perform” from “outperform”, arguing that the company facing tough sales comparisons later on in 2019 from last year and the current rich valuation of shares meant the stock had limited room to rise.

“Investors will be hesitant to invest new money in a stock with a topline that, while still strong, is unlikely to meaningfully accelerate,” Herzog said.

Still, the company’s solid same-store growth in the United States, improving profit margins and a lower tax rate for the rest of the year led at least 6 Wall Street brokerages to raise their price targets on the stock to as high as $81.

11 of 29 brokerages rate Starbucks “buy” or higher, 17 “hold” and 1 “sell” or lower. Their median price target is $75.

(Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru)

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A man accused of fatally beating a 4-month-old boy after finding out the infant wasn’t his son had been previously deported from the United States five times, most recently in late 2016, immigration officials said.

Carlos Zuniga-Aviles, a 33-year-old Honduran national, has used multiple aliases, including the fake name of Jose Agurcia-Avila he gave police in Memphis, Tennessee, following his arrest in the boy’s death earlier this month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told WMC-TV.

ICE officials have since filed an immigration detainer against Zuniga-Aviles, who was initially deported back to Honduras in February 2010. He was also returned to the Central American country in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016.

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“ICE will seek to take him into custody to reinstate his removal order following the resolution of the criminal charges he currently faces,” the statement reads. “Mr. Zuniga-Aviles has been removed from the US five prior times: his most recent removal by ICE to Honduras took place in December 2016.”

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH CRIMINAL HISTORY ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA WOMAN’S MURDER

Zuniga-Aviles later returned to the U.S. following his removal, a felony under federal law, immigration officials said. It’s unclear exactly when he returned, but he was living with his girlfriend and the woman’s 4-month-old son in Memphis at the time of his arrest, WREG reports.

DAD OF MAN KILLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BLASTS CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM’S TRIP TO CENTRAL AMERICA: ‘IT’S DISGUSTING’

The infant, Alexander Lizondro-Chacon, was pronounced dead at a hospital from blunt force trauma to the head after his mother, Mercy Lizondro-Chacon, called police on April 12 to report that the boy was having trouble breathing, according to an affidavit of complaint obtained by the Commercial Appeal.

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