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• Plane skids off Turkish runway and plunges towards sea

  14-01-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  A Pegasus Airlines flight skidded off the runway of a Turkish coastal airport and plunged down a steep slope on the edge of the Black Sea, ending up only meters from the water's edge.None of the 168 people on board was hurt in the incident, but passengers spoke of panic as the aircraft tipped nose first towards the sea.Just after the flight from Ankara landed at the Black Sea city of Trabzon there was a loud noise, Fatma Gordu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
  
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• Violent protests resume in Tunisia after two days of calm

  14-01-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  By Tarek AmaraTUNIS (Reuters) - Violent protests erupted again on Sunday in two areas of the capital Tunis and another town after a relatively calm two days, the latest protests in the country against austerity measures.After nearly a week of at times violent protests, police used tear gas against dozens of young protesters in the Ettadamen district of Tunis in renewed demonstrations over a tax hike.A Reuters witness saw youths around 20 years old throwing stones at police cars and setting fire
  
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• Damn, Super Meat Boy Is Selling Well On Nintendo Switch

  14-01-2018 23:34 via gamespot.com
  
  Super Meat Boy, the difficult platformer from developer Team Meat that originally launched in 2010, arrived for the Nintendo Switch last week. The game is off to a great start in terms of sales, it seems. The studio said on Twitter that first-day sales came "shockingly close" to matching how well the game sold on Xbox 360 when it launched in 2010. "That's nuts," the studio said.The next Super Meat Boy game, Super Meat Boy Forever, is coming to Switch (and other platforms) in the future, and the
  
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• Civil rights hero John Lewis says he thinks Trump is racist after ‘s***hole countries’ remarks

  14-01-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis says that he thinks President Donald Trump is racist after reports indicated that the President referred to Haiti and African countries as “s***hole countries”.“I think he is a racist,” Mr Lewis said during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week”.Mr Trump’s comments reportedly came during a meeting with Congressional leadership to try and determine a path forward towards immigration reform.
  
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• Major Earthquake Strikes Southern Peru

  14-01-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Peru early Sunday morning, leaving at least one dead and injuring dozens of others, authorities said.
  
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• 140 Women Have Accused Larry Nassar Of Abuse. His Victims Think We Don't Care.

  14-01-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Larry Nassar, the disgraced former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics team doctor, has been accused of sexual abuse by 140 women.
  
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• A Car Somehow Crashed Into the Second Story of a California Building

  14-01-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Officials said the driver was driving at a high speed when the crash occurred
  
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• Ford Ranger Returns for 2019: Pickup Aims to Be Commuter-Friendly Workhorse

  14-01-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  A lot has happened in the midsized-pickup market since Ford stopped selling the Ranger in the U.S. in 2011. Chevrolet scored robust sales with its second-generation Colorado. Honda reintroduced t...
  
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• Protesters Trash South African H&M Stores Over Racist Ad

  14-01-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Clothing retail chain H&M temporarily closed several of its South African stores this weekend after protests erupted over a racist image on the Swedish company’s website.
  
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• China absence looms over Canada meeting on how to pressure North Korea

  14-01-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  By David LjunggrenVANCOUVER (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from around 20 nations gather on Tuesday to discuss how to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions through diplomatic and financial pressure, but China, seen as a key player in any long-term solution, will be absent.The Vancouver meeting, co-hosted by Canada and the United States, comes amid signs that tensions on the peninsula have eased, at least temporarily.North and South Korea held talks for the first time in two years last week and Pyo
  
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• Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta Experiencing Network Issues, May Be Extended

  14-01-2018 21:29 via gamespot.com
  
  If you're trying to hop on the Dragon Ball FighterZ beta this weekend, be prepared to run into some issues. The beta is currently undergoing some network issues, which are being addressed.Bandai Namco US announced via Twitter that this weekend's beta isn't going quite as smoothly as planned. Due to some network errors that "cannot be addressed quickly," the beta may be extended past this weekend.FighterZ, the DRAGON BALL FighterZ Open Beta is experiencing network issues that cannot be addressed
  
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• Detroit auto show begins amid talk of NAFTA, tax cuts

  14-01-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  The Detroit Auto Show shifted into full gear Sunday with international trade and tax cuts dominating the conversation, even as an optimistic industry raced to meet Americans' seemingly insatiable appetite for trucks and SUVs.In a keynote address US transportation secretary Elaine Chow touted the tax cuts, which reduced the US corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, saying the move will attract more US investment.Industry insiders were taking a wait-and-see attitude toward talks to revamp the N
  
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• Qatari royal says he is being held against his will in UAE

  14-01-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  A controversial member of Qatar's royal family claimed he was being held against his will in the UAE yesterday/Sun, eight months into a crisis between the Gulf states. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani, a little-known royal, emerged as a key figure in the dispute between the Gulf states in the weeks after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi cut ties with Doha. He is seen by some as a potential challenger to the Qatari leadership. A video circulating online, also broadcast by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, s
  
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• Earthquake in Peru destroys dozens of homes, kills 1 man

  14-01-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  A powerful earthquake struck off Peru's coast early Sunday, tumbling adobe homes in small, rural towns, killing at least one person and leaving dozens injured, officials said. The earthquake destroyed ...
  
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• Strong earthquake in southern Peru leaves one dead, scores injured

  14-01-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  By Marco AquinoLIMA (Reuters) - A strong magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the coast of southern Peru on Sunday morning, killing one person, injuring scores and causing homes and roads to collapse.The quake hit offshore at 4:18 a.m. local time (0918 GMT) at a depth of around 36 km (22.4 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.Arequipa Governor Yamila Osorio said on Twitter that a 55-year-old man died in the town of Yauca after being crushed by rocks.
  
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• Death toll from California mudslides rises to 20

  14-01-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Search and rescue teams combed the aftermath of a deadly mudslide in southern California on Sunday as authorities confirmed another death, raising the number of fatalities to 20, officials said.The slide left 28 people injured and destroyed 65 homes and eight businesses in Montecito, a community just east of the city of Santa Barbara.Massive wildfires in the area forced evacuations in December, and the mudslides struck just two weeks after people returned.
  
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• Lactalis CEO breaks silence over salmonella-tainted baby milk

  14-01-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  The chief executive of France's Lactalis group on Sunday vowed compensation for victims of salmonella-tainted baby milk, as he revealed that recalls were now under way in 83 countries.Emmanuel Besnier, giving his first interview in nearly 20 years as head of the family-controlled company, told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that the recall involved more than 12 million packages of Picot, Milumel, Celia and other brands of powdered baby milk."We are going to draw the lessons from this crisis a
  
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• Tunisians call on leaders to remember 2011 revolution goals

  14-01-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — More than 2,000 Tunisians rallied Sunday for the North African nation's leaders to do away with punishing price hikes that triggered days of unrest and to respect the goals of the revolution that drove out the country's autocratic ruler seven years ago.
  
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• Trump administration forced to start renewing immigrants' legal status after court order

  14-01-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration is being forced to approve renewal requests for immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, even though President Donald Trump has said that he would let the program expire unless Congress steps up and takes action.The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to continue approving the renewal of DACA status for individuals who apply as a result of a federal court which recently ruled on the issue.“Until further notice, and unless otherwise
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 Gets First Trailer And A Huge Guest Star

  14-01-2018 20:14 via gamespot.com
  
  With the new season of The Handmaid's Tale comes a vastly expanding world for the Hulu series. The show stretch beyond Gilead to the Colonies where exiled handmaids escape to and the funeral for a handmaiden--both settings that were revealed in the first photos for the new season.Now, though, much more about the season is becoming clear. In the first-look trailer for the episodes, it's clear that a resistance against Gilead is growing and at the heart of it is Offred (Elisabeth Moss). "There is
  
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• US-led coalition to build 30,000-strong border force in Syria

  14-01-2018 19:59 via yahoo.com
  The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to create a 30,000-strong border security force in northern Syria, drawing sharp condemnation from Turkey.With the offensive against IS winding down, the coalition and its allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance were beginning to shift their focus to border security, coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told AFP."There is a goal of a final force of approximately 30,000," about half of whom would be ret
  
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• Israel says it destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Egyptian border

  14-01-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan LubellGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt dug by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, and that it would destroy all attack tunnels by the year's end.Residents in Gaza said Israeli jets bombed an area east of the southern town of Rafah, by the Egyptian and Israeli borders, late on Saturday night.Israel confirmed the attack immediately aft
  
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• Chelsea Manning announces a run for Senate

  14-01-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  Former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking classified documents announces she's running for Maryland Senate seat.
  
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• 3 Arrested After The Wrong Woman Was Killed In Murder-For-Hire Plot

  14-01-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  She was the intended target's co-worker.
  
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• 25 killed in recent Iran unrest: judiciary

  14-01-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  A total of 25 people were killed in the recent unrest that hit several towns and cities across Iran, the judiciary said Sunday, with 465 still under arrest."Twenty-five people, ordinary citizens and our own forces, were killed during the recent troubles," said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie, according to the Mizanonline news agency."None were killed by shots from the security forces because they were ordered not to use their weapons," he added.
  
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• Qatar exile says he's held by UAE; Abu Dhabi denies claim

  14-01-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An exiled Qatari ruling family member once promoted by Saudi Arabia amid its ongoing dispute with Doha appeared in an online video Sunday claiming he's being held against his will in the United Arab Emirates, an allegation denied by Abu Dhabi.
  
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• Iranian oil tanker explodes and and sinks off coast of China with no survivors

  14-01-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  A burning Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank Sunday after more than a week listing off the coast of China, as an Iranian official acknowledged there was “no hope” of missing sailors surviving the disaster.The collision and disaster of the Sanchi, which carried 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, had transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.Families of the sailors wept and screamed at the headquarters of the Nati
  
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• Iran oil tanker explodes off coast of China with no survivors

  14-01-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  A burning Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank Sunday after more than a week listing off the coast of China, as an Iranian official acknowledged there was “no hope” of missing sailors surviving the disaster.The collision and disaster of the Sanchi, which carried 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, had transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.Families of the sailors wept and screamed at the headquarters of the Nati
  
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• Rand Paul Says Calling Trump 'A Racist' Hurts Immigration Talks

  14-01-2018 19:12 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says politicians and members of the media who call President Donald Trump “a racist” are imperiling a potential immigration deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
  
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• Car soars into second floor of Santa Ana building in bizarre crash; 2 hurt

  14-01-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  Two people suffered minor injuries in a bizarre crash Sunday morning when a car went airborne and slammed into the second floor of a dental office in Santa Ana, officials said.
  
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• Jeff Flake Slams Trump’s Attacks On Press As Stalinist

  14-01-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) says President Donald Trump’s attacks against the press are reminiscent of similar tactics employed by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
  
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• Turkey vows imminent assault on Kurdish enclave in Syria

  14-01-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president said Sunday the country will launch a military assault on a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria "in the coming days" and urged the U.S. to support its efforts.
  
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• Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport

  14-01-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  A plane with 168 people aboard skidded off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at an airport in northern Turkey at the weekend, but no one was injured in what one passenger called a “miracle”.The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off smoothly from the capital Ankara bound for Trabzon, where the accident occurred as the plane was landing late Saturday.“There was panic, people shouting, screaming,” one of the passengers, Fatma Gordu, told state-run Anadolu news agen
  
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• Trump: Program protecting young illegal immigrants 'probably' dead

  14-01-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  By Lucia Mutikani and Pete SchroederWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a program that protects illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children from being deported would "probably" be discontinued.Trump has said he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and his Twitter comments on Sunday came as lawmakers worked on a bipartisan compromise on immigration policy.
  
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• Wrong woman killed in botched murder-for-hire plot

  14-01-2018 18:43 via yahoo.com
  Authorities in Florida say the wrong person was killed last Sunday in a botched murder-for-hire plot set up by a scorned woman.
  
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• 'Sit down and shut up': The best of Chris Christie's 8 years

  14-01-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves center stage this week, but don't expect him to sit down and shut up any time soon.
  
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• Trump inflammatory comments on 's---hole countries' in Oval Office immigration meeting

  14-01-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on the president's comment amid a history of racially divisive actions.
  
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• Hawaiians demand answers after missile alert sparks 38 minutes of panic

  14-01-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  It took just three minutes for officials on Hawaii to realise that the text alert warning residents of an incoming missile strike had been sent in error. There was no missile. Yet it took another 35 minutes for panicking families – holed up in garages, cowering under tables or frantically saying their goodbyes - to be sent a second message with the comforting news that annihilation was no longer imminent. A day later the island chain’s public officials say they have instituted a new
  
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• UK party suspends leader's girlfriend over Markle remarks

  14-01-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Independence Party on Sunday suspended the membership of the girlfriend of the party's leader after she reportedly made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle.
  
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• Hawaii's False Missile Alert Caused by Employee Who Pushed the Wrong Button

  14-01-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Residents went into a panic.
  
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• Texas Man Charged With Capital Murder In Adopted Daughter's Death

  14-01-2018 17:46 via yahoo.com
  A Texas man has been charged with capital murder in the death of his 3-year-old adoptive daughter, who was found to have died from “homicidal violence.”
  
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• New Multiplayer Details Surface For Attack On Titan 2

  14-01-2018 17:22 via gamespot.com
  
  Koei Techmo's Attack on Titan 2 is just a few months away, but some fresh gameplay details for its visceral titan-slaying action have arrived. New multiplayer details have surfaced, which include more information on the title's online co-op and competitive modes.From what we know about the game itself, it seems to be a bit more involved than its predecessor. It takes place during the anime's second season, which aired last summer. New RPG elements have been added to allow you to build relationsh
  
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• A Holocaust museum in Brooklyn focuses on faith, survival

  14-01-2018 17:14 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Faith and survival, not the machinery of death, are the central themes at an atypical Holocaust museum in Brooklyn.
  
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• Philippine volcano rumbles back to life, thousands evacuated

  14-01-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines' most active volcano rumbled back to life Sunday with lava rising to its crater in a gentle eruption that has prompted authorities to evacuate thousands of villagers.
  
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• Georgia senator now says Trump 'did not use that word'

  14-01-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said that President Trump never used crass language referring to Haiti and African nations during a closed-door meeting earlier this week.
  
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• California mudslides: Death toll increases

  14-01-2018 17:07 via yahoo.com
  Six days after the disaster, crews continue to search for survivors among the homes washed away in a river of mud and rocks.
  
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• Chelsea Manning confirms US Senate run

  14-01-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  NORTH BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Chelsea Manning on Sunday confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate.
  
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• Trump denies saying he probably had good relationship with Kim

  14-01-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday disputed a newspaper's account of an interview with him last week in which he was quoted as saying he probably has a very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Trump said in tweets that in the Wall Street Journal interview on Thursday, he said "I'd probably" have a good relationship with Kim, using a conditional tense.The White House released a portion of the audio from the interview that it said showed Trump said "I'd." The Wall Street Jour
  
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• Shelter Makes Tinder Profile for 3-Year-Old Dog Struggling to Get Adopted

  14-01-2018 16:44 via yahoo.com
  He has been at the shelter for more than two years.
  
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• President Trump Says DACA Program is 'Probably Dead'

  14-01-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Trump tweeted that the "Democrats don't really want it"
  
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