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• Michael Flynn May Be Cooperating With Robert Mueller's Russia Probe: Report

  23-11-2017 23:37 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, may be moving to cooperate with the special counsel investigating ties between the Trump campaign and efforts by Russia to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times reported Thursday.
  
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• Man freed decades after double killing that rocked LA suburb

  23-11-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Simi Valley was a sleepy Southern California suburb in 1979, one frequently ranked near the top of surveys of America's safest cities — in large part because hundreds of police officers from nearby Los Angeles lived there.
  
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• Robert Mugabe 'guaranteed immunity' according to sources in Zimbabwe

  23-11-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety will be protected in his home country under a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday. Mr Mugabe, who had led Zimbabwe from independence in 1980, stepped down on Tuesday after the army seized power and the ruling party turned against him. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the former vice president sacked by Mr Mugabe earlier this month, is set to be sworn in
  
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• Grief, anger as relatives learn of Argentine sub blast

  23-11-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  Relatives of the 44 crewmembers aboard Argentina's missing submarine erupted in a welter of anger and grief Thursday after the navy released news of an explosion onboard, effectively ending hopes of survival.Itati Leguizamon, wife of sonar operator German Suarez, said that days of false hopes had left the families feeling manipulated by the navy which had repeatedly retained information about the crew's fate.Around 100 family members had been waiting hopefully inside the Mar del Plata naval base
  
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• Anti-Pipeline Activist Found Guilty After Being Barred From Mentioning Climate Change

  23-11-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  After a short trial lasting just a day and a half, climate activist and retiree Leonard Higgins was found guilty on Wednesday of a serious felony charge for his role in the “valve turner” protest last year that resulted in the brief shutdown of a tar sands pipeline in Montana.
  
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• Trump's bizarre comments about 'invisible planes' to the Coastguard: Read them in full

  23-11-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump: It is an honour to be here. I have to tell you, you know. The Coast Guard always respected, but if you're looking at it as a brand, there's no brand that went up more than the Coast Guard with what happened in Texas, and I would say in particular, Texas has been incredible. You saved 16,000 lives. Nobody knows that. 16,000 lives. In fact when I first heard the number, I said, you mean like 600? 500? 16,000 lives in Texas.
  
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• Chewbacca Smacks A Porg In The Latest Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer

  23-11-2017 21:47 via gamespot.com
  
  Teaser and promos for Star Wars: The Last Jedi seem to be arriving at a rate of several a week now. Hot the heels of this recent TV spot, we have an even shorter promo, which you can watch above. We've seen much of the footage before, but it's worth checking out for a funny moment between Chewie and a Porg in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon.The Last Jedi is directed by Rian Johnson and stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, A
  
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• Republican lawmaker on Roy Moore abuse allegations: 'I'd break his face'

  23-11-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Roy Moore has refused to drop out of the Senate race despite allegations of sexual misconduct.A Republican congressman has said he would have beaten up Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for a US Senate seat in Alabama, if any of the women who have made sexual misconduct allegations against the judge had been his daughter.
  
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• US intelligence official told Israel Russia had 'leverage' over Trump, says report

  23-11-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Russia had “leverages of pressure” over Donald Trump, Israeli intelligence officials were reportedly told earlier this year by their US counterparts.Members of Mossad, the nation’s foreign espionage agency, and other Israeli intelligence officials, attended a meeting at the CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia, shortly before Mr Trump’s inauguration on January 20.There, they were told by a senior US intelligence official he believed Moscow had leverage about the man set
  
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• After DNA test, California man freed from prison in 1978 double-murder

  23-11-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man wrongfully convicted in California of the 1978 double-murder of a woman and her child is spending his first Thanksgiving Day as a free man in 39 years, after being released on the basis of DNA evidence.California Governor Jerry Brown pardoned 70-year-old Craig Coley on Wednesday and prison officials quickly set him free, according to prosecutors and police in Simi Valley, where the double-slaying occurred.Local authorities in Simi Valley, a commun
  
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• Tensions down after 'coup' in Ukraine's separatist region

  23-11-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Tensions appeared to abate Thursday in Lugansk, a stronghold of Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, two days after infighting erupted in the war-scarred region, culminating in accusations of a coup attempt.The so-called Lugansk People's Republic, one of two regions controlled by the rebels, has for years been blighted by leadership squabbles and several senior leaders have been assassinated.The current conflict escalated on Tuesday, when hundreds of armed men in military fatigues with
  
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• Donald Trump talks about 'invisible' fighter jets like 'on the movies'

  23-11-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said he asked Air Force officials whether new aircraft they have ordered will perform like those he sees “on the movies”.Speaking to members of the US Coast Guard on Thanksgiving Day, he claimed his administration was “building up wealth” to spend more on national defence and the military.Mr Trump said he asked “the Air Force guys” about the abilities of the plane.
  
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• Suicide attack kills at least eight in Afghanistan's east: officials

  23-11-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  A suicide bomber struck in a crowd of people in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Thursday killing at least eight, officials said, in an attack that underscored worsening security.The bomber approached the crowd of dozens on foot in provincial capital Jalalabad as they were demonstrating in support of a local police commander who had been sacked and calling for his reinstatement, provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said.Both IS and the Taliban are active in Nangarhar province.
  
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• President Trump Challenged a Coast Guard Member to an Arm Wrestle

  23-11-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump joked about beating a member of the U.S. Coast Guard in an arm wrestle during a Thanksgiving visit to a station in Riviera Beach, Florida, near the President’s Mar-a-Lago club
  
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• Drug-maker Teva set for major layoffs in Israel, US: report

  23-11-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  Pharmaceutical giant Teva is preparing to sack thousands of employees in Israel and the United States, including one quarter of its Israeli workforce, a business newspaper said Thursday.Israel-based Teva, the world's biggest manufacturer of generic drugs, will sack 25 percent of its 6,860 employees in Israel and more than 10 percent of its 10,000-strong workforce in the US, Calcalist daily said.Teva shares in the United States have taken a plunge this year as the company has faced harsh financia
  
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• Black Friday 2017 PSN UK: All The PS4, PSVR, PS3, And PS Vita Games On Sale On The PlayStation Store

  23-11-2017 18:57 via gamespot.com
  
  Thanksgiving is upon us, and no matter where you are in the world that of course means one thing: cheap video games. We've already rounded up the best Black Friday 2017 game and tech deals and lots more--including, for those in the UK, Game's Black Friday 2017 lineup and Amazon UK's cheap deals--and now Sony has set its own sale live.On PS4, some huge games are currently on offer via the PlayStation Store. FIFA 18 is available for £36 / €42, for example, while Call of Duty: WWII is do
  
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• China's Okay Airways orders five Boeing Dreamliners for $1.4 bn

  23-11-2017 18:48 via yahoo.com
  Boeing and China's first privately owned airline, Okay Airways, have finalised a $1.4-billion order for five Dreamliner jets, the two companies said on Thursday.The purchase of the five 787-9 long-haul aircraft by the Beijing-based airline was signed off in the United States on Wednesday and announced on Thursday via the companies' official accounts on Chinese microblogging site, Weibo.Okay Airways currently has a fleet of 26 single-corridor Boeing 737 planes, which fly to 70 destinations in Chi
  
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• Chef José Andrés Prepares 40,000 Thanksgiving Meals In Puerto Rico

  23-11-2017 18:37 via yahoo.com
  As Americans give thanks this Thanksgiving, celebrity chef José Andrés is busy giving back, by preparing what he estimated as 40,000 Thanksgiving meals for Puerto Ricans.
  
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• The Latest: General: Russia likely to scale down in Syria

  23-11-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):
  
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• North Korean defector recovering after daring escape

  23-11-2017 18:21 via yahoo.com
  As the North Korean soldier who made a daring escape across the DMZ recovers, six servicemen, including three Americans, were honored for their bravery in facing North Korean fire.
  
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• Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is Now Available To Watch On Netflix UK

  23-11-2017 18:12 via gamespot.com
  
  With Star Wars: The Last Jedi now only a few weeks from release, many Star Wars fans will be looking to get up-to-date with the unfolding adventures of Rey, Finn, BB-8, and the rest of the saga's characters. UK viewers can now do that on Netflix.JJ Abrams's 2015 blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been added to the streaming service in the UK from today, November 23. Unfortunately for US fans, the film is not available on Netflix in the States. The deal between Disney and Netflix only c
  
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• Man freed from North Korean prison by Jimmy Carter found burned to death in California

  23-11-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  An American whose release from a North Korean prison was negotiated by former president Jimmy Carter has burned to death in California.Police have confirmed that a body found engulfed in flames in a dirt field in San Diego is that of Aijalon Mahil Gomes.An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer found the former teacher on fire on Friday night and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
  
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• The Mysterious Disappearance Of An Argentine Navy Sub Just Got Even Stranger

  23-11-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  As the desperate, multinational search for a missing Argentine submarine continues, the country’s navy said on Thursday that a sound “consistent with an explosion” had been detected near the site where the vessel disappeared last week with 44 crew members on board.
  
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• The Latest: Zimbabwe opposition not invited to inauguration

  23-11-2017 17:44 via yahoo.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The Latest on Zimbabwe's political turmoil (all times local):
  
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• Trump Celebrates Thanksgiving With 100th Day At One Of His Properties As President

  23-11-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is celebrating his first Thanksgiving as president at his members-only resort in Florida, marking the 100th day he’s spent at a Trump-owned property since his inauguration.Wednesday and Thursday were the president’s 27th and 28th days at his Palm Beach resort, according to a New York Times tracker. He also visited the Trump International Golf Club on Wednesday, where the White House said he handled “a full schedule of meetings and phone calls.&r
  
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• Richard Spencer Reportedly Banned From 26 European Countries

  23-11-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  More than two dozen European countries reportedly banned white supremacist Richard Spencer from entry, The Associated Press reported.
  
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• Cows rain down on drivers after crash in Utah

  23-11-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  Drivers in Riverdale, Utah experienced some unexpected bumps on their morning commute when cows began raining down on them from the road above.The freeway ramp was temporarily closed in the aftermath, as crews attempted to clear the scene of cattle.The driver was speeding in the 45-mph (72-kph) area, Riverdale Police Lieutenant Mike Loveland told The Independent.
  
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• Baltimore Detective Sean Suiter killed day before testimony in police corruption case

  23-11-2017 17:15 via yahoo.com
  When Suiter was killed with his own weapon, he was set to testify before a federal grand jury the next day against eight elite officers already indicted in a police corruption investigation.
  
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• Black Friday Deals: PS4 Pro Destiny 2 Bundle Now $350 At Amazon

  23-11-2017 16:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Black Friday 2017 has offered a number of PS4 deals and cheap Xbox consoles and games, and now there's another to add to the pile. Amazon is offering a PS4 Pro Destiny 2 bundle for $350 in the US right now.Currently, this is your best bet for getting a PS4 Pro at a discount. Your only other options are the regular $400 retail price at other stores or $450 for the same bundle as Amazon but with Star Wars Battlefront II included. GameStop's ad did reveal the store will selling the console for $350
  
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• Group Lobbying To End Trophy Hunting Ban Is Alarmingly Close With Ryan Zinke

  23-11-2017 16:28 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — Along with receiving thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Safari Club International while running for Congress, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke at the hunting advocacy group’s 2016 veterans breakfast, had a notable photo-op with its director of litigation on his first day as head of the Interior Department, and dined with its vice president in Alaska earlier this year.
  
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• DC's Batgirl Movie Is Still Happening With Joss Whedon, Sources Say

  23-11-2017 16:28 via gamespot.com
  
  When Zack Snyder left the production of DC's Justice League earlier this year, he was replaced by Avengers director Joss Whedon. Soon after it was announced that Whedon would also helm a Batgirl movie for the studio. However, a new rumor emerged earlier this week that DC's parent company Warner was reconsidering the project, following the commercial disappointment of Justice League.Now sources for Den of Geek, who are "close to both Whedon and the project", have confirmed that the movie is still
  
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• Donald Trump posts bizarre reply to tweet accusing him of stoking racism

  23-11-2017 16:10 via yahoo.com
  "Trump's rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern," Greg Sargent, the author of the opinion piece tweeted.Ten minutes later, he sent another "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" tweet, this time as a post to all his followers rather than a reply.
  
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• Black Friday 2017 UK PSN: All The PS4, PSVR, PS3, And PS Vita Games On Sale On The PlayStation Store

  23-11-2017 16:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Thanksgiving is upon us, and no matter where you are in the world that of course means one thing: cheap video games. We've already rounded up the best Black Friday 2017 game and tech deals and lots more--including, for those in the UK, Game's Black Friday 2017 lineup and Amazon UK's cheap deals--and now Sony has set its own sale live.On PS4, some huge games are currently on offer via the PlayStation Store. FIFA 18 is available for £36 / €42, for example, while Call of Duty: WWII is do
  
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• Hurricane Irma: Deaths of 12 people in sweltering nursing home ruled as homicide, police say

  23-11-2017 16:06 via yahoo.com
  The deaths of 12 people in a sweltering Florida nursing home after Hurricane Irma wiped out power to the building have been ruled as homicides, police say.The Rehabilitation Center in Miami was evacuated on 13 September when three residents died after the home’s air conditioning stopped working.Five more died later that day before another six passed away during the weeks after the evacuation, reports the Sun Sentinel.
  
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• Thanksgiving: Tribe whose ancestors ate with Pilgrims revives lost language after prophetic dreams

  23-11-2017 15:59 via yahoo.com
  A native American tribe whose ancestors famously ate a Thanksgiving meal with the US’s first European colonisers, are working to revive a forgotten language after one of their members had a series of prophetic dreams.The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which is based in and around Cape Cod in Massachusetts, have started immersion classes for youngsters to teach them the language that was lost for decades.It’s more than I could have ever expected in my lifetime,” Jessie “Little D
  
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• President Trump Touts His Accomplishments in Thanksgiving Message

  23-11-2017 15:51 via yahoo.com
  He didn't waste much time before boasting about his track record
  
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• Event 'consistent with an explosion' detected where Argentinian submarine went missing

  23-11-2017 15:35 via yahoo.com
  Hopes for the survival of 44 crew members of the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan all but vanished on Thursday as the country’s navy said a “violent event consistent with an explosion” had been detected three hours after the vessel disappeared in the South Atlantic.  Search vessels were combing an area with a 80-mile radius close to the submarine’s last known position, after analysis from the US and Austria revealed a “hydroacoustic anoma
  
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• In Russia, Sudan's Bashir asks Putin for 'protection' from US

  23-11-2017 14:17 via yahoo.com
  Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and war crimes, on Thursday asked Russia's Vladimir Putin to protect his country from the United States.Speaking during his first visit to Russia as president, Bashir also said he wanted to ramp up military ties and praised Moscow's military campaign in Syria.
  
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• US woman raises more than $100,000 for homeless man who used last $20 to buy her petrol when she ran out

  23-11-2017 14:11 via yahoo.com
  Kate McClure, 27, was driving on the I-95 interstate motorway in Philadelphia when she noticed she had an empty tank.Ms McClure promised to return to pay Johnny back and later set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for him."That’s when I met Johnny.
  
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• India outraged at release of Mumbai attack suspect

  23-11-2017 14:06 via yahoo.com
  India said Thursday it was outraged at Pakistan's release of an Islamist leader accused of organising the 2008 deadly Mumbai attacks that nearly brought the nuclear-armed nations to the brink of war.A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered the release of firebrand cleric Hafiz Saeed, who carries a $10 million US bounty, after Islamabad failed to back the charges of terrorism with evidence.Saeed, who heads the banned charity group Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), was put under house arrest in January followin
  
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• First House Dem Calls On Rep. Conyers To Resign

  23-11-2017 13:59 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) became the first Democrat in Congress to call on Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to resign from Congress in light of recent sexual harassment allegations.
  
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• Watch The First Footage From Jurassic World 2

  23-11-2017 13:12 via gamespot.com
  
  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the sequel to 2015's blockbuster Jurassic World, and it is set to hit theaters in June next year. There hasn't been much news about the movie since the title was revealed, but now we have some first footage.The clip has been tweeted by Colin Trevorrow, who directed the first movie and has produced and co-written Fallen Kingdom. It doesn't reveal much--it's basically star Chris Pratt with a baby Raptor. The creature resembles Baby Blue, the Raptor that Pratt form
  
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• This real-time Black Friday tracker shows just how much we shop online

  23-11-2017 13:10 via yahoo.com
  Shopping season is upon us — even if Thanksgiving is just getting started.  To really see how much everyone's dropping on deals, online shopping platform Shopify has a real-time dashboard showing how much and what (and from where) people are buying online.  SEE ALSO: Black Friday 2017 deals from all over the internet, compiled just for you in one handy spreadsheet With over 500,000 online merchants, Shopify's dashboard this year will track shopping habits as the purchases happen.
  
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• Syria congress to go ahead despite Turkey 'reservations' over Kurds: Kremlin

  23-11-2017 12:45 via yahoo.com
  The Kremlin said Thursday Turkey's opposition to the participation of Kurdish militias in Syria's political process would not stand in the way of a peace "congress" Moscow is seeking to organise in the near future."We know that there are certain reservations on the part of our Turkish partners with regards to the forces they believe pose a threat to their national security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
  
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• Woman who stole 'Make America Great Again' cap from fellow student could be jailed for up to a year

  23-11-2017 12:41 via yahoo.com
  Riverside Country District Attorney's Office has filed a charge of theft against University of California student Edith Macias, after she was allegedly filmed brandishing the red hat and condemning racism.Ms Macias said the message on the hat represented genocide.It was never f****** great, never," she says in the footage captured by fellow student Matthew Vitale.
  
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• Mother charged after putting recording device in daughter's backpack to catch 'bullying' 

  23-11-2017 12:30 via yahoo.com
  A mother has been charged by police in the US after putting a recording device in her daughter’s backpack to catch alleged bullying. Sarah Sims, from Virginia, admitted to local news website WAVY she placed the electronic recorder in her nine-year-old daughter’s bag to record classroom conversations after suspecting she was being bullied. She claims her emails and calls to Ocean View Elementary school, Norfolk, about the alleged bullying in September went unanswered and so she decide
  
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• Xbox One And Xbox 360's Free Games With Gold For December 2017 Revealed

  23-11-2017 12:28 via gamespot.com
  
  The end of the month is in sight, so Microsoft has revealed the next batch of games that will be available for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. As usual, December's Games With Gold lineup consists of four games spread across Xbox One and Xbox 360.Xbox One's free games for the month will be Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide and Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition. The former is a co-op first person shooter that you can download for free from December 1 to December 31. The l
  
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• Need For Speed Payback Black Friday 2017 Game Deals: All The Sales For PS4, Xbox One, And PC

  23-11-2017 12:19 via gamespot.com
  
  A ton of games and consoles will be on sale for Black Friday 2017, including some of the biggest titles from the past year. Among the more recent releases you'll be able to find at a discount is Need for Speed Payback, which, despite only launching earlier this month, will be on sale at various retailers.If you're looking to pick up EA's latest racing game at stores, you can find some good deals on the PS4 and Xbox One versions. Best Buy and Target will have it on sale for the cheapest price thi
  
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• U.S. Afghanistan General: We've Reached Stalemate Against Taliban

  23-11-2017 12:00 via yahoo.com
  In an exclusive interview with NBC News, General John Nicholson discusses the U.S. strategy against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why he's confident he maintains Trump's trust.
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi signs agreement to take Rohingya back after atrocities

  23-11-2017 11:55 via yahoo.com
  Burma and Bangladesh signed an accord on Thursday over terms for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh, a government official said, amid concern that Burma’s powerful army could prove obstructive. Rights groups have accused the military in mostly Buddhist Burma of carrying out mass rape and other atrocities during a counter-insurgency operation launched in late August in retaliation for attacks by Rohingya militants in Rakhine State. On Wednesd
  
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