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• Finns, worried by Russia, hand cautious president huge election win

  28-01-2018 23:59 via yahoo.com
  By Jussi Rosendahl and Tuomas ForsellHELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's moderate President Sauli Niinisto cruised to a rare first round election win on Sunday as his delicate balancing of ties with neighbor Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance resonated with voters.The 69-year-old Niinisto, known for cultivating good relations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, won his second six-year term with an overwhelming 62.7 percent of the vote.
  
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• All The Looks You Need To See From The 2018 Grammys Red Carpet

  28-01-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  The stars wore their best and boldest looks on the red carpet at the 2018 Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
  
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• Jeremy Piven Hit With Sexual Misconduct Allegations By 3 More Women

  28-01-2018 23:35 via yahoo.com
  Three more women are accusing actor Jeremy Piven of sexual misconduct, bringing the total number of public accusers to eight.
  
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• Fortnite Update Introduced Some Bugs: "Whoops," Dev Says

  28-01-2018 23:33 via gamespot.com
  
  The big new update for Epic's Fortnite made some welcome changes and improvements. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that the update also included new bugs. Thankfully, Epic is aware of the problems and is working on a fix."Whoops," Epic said in a tweet about the newly discovered bugs.A forum post lists off the current "known issues" in Fortnite, including character models getting stuck in aim-down-sights (ADS). Another issue pertains to the UI for building, one problem being that th
  
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• Fortnite Update Introduced Some Bugs [UPDATE: FIXED]

  28-01-2018 23:33 via gamespot.com
  
  [UPDATE] Epic Games has fixed a number of the bugs through a new patch. The full details of what's been fixed can be found here on the game's website.The original story is below.The big new update for Epic's Fortnite made some welcome changes and improvements. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that the update also included new bugs. Thankfully, Epic is aware of the problems and is working on a fix."Whoops," Epic said in a tweet about the newly discovered bugs.A forum post lists off t
  
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• Rescuers in Pakistan call off efforts to save Polish climber

  28-01-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Volunteers rescued a French mountaineer from a Himalayan peak but called off efforts to retrieve a Polish climber who was declared dead after the dramatic and treacherous rescue effort.
  
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• WWE Royal Rumble 2018: Live Match Updates, Results

  28-01-2018 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  WWE fans are hopping on the Road to Wrestlemania, and the first stop is the Royal Rumble on January 28. This year's event marks a special occasion as it's the first time there will be a women's Rumble match, alongside the men. 2017's Rumble had one of the best matches of the year with AJ Styles vs. John Cena, so hopefully, the 2018 edition will deliver something equally as exciting.This year's event takes place at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA. The 31st edition of the winter PPV wil
  
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• Report: Employees fired after delivering raw meat in shopping carts to Bay Area market

  28-01-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Officials launched a health investigation after photos posted on social media showed men delivering unwrapped meat in shopping carts to a market in San Jose.
  
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• Not just a drunken revelry: Mardi Gras for kids as well

  28-01-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A red wagon decorated as a shrimp boat with nets extending out from either side carried a waving 2-year-old dressed as a shellfish being pulled by his parents who wore white rubber shrimping boots.
  
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• Polish team rescues French climber from Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain'

  28-01-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  By Marcin GoettigWARSAW (Reuters) - After an exhausting night ascent, Polish climbers rescued French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol from the treacherous slopes of Pakistan's "Killer Mountain" but were unable to save her climbing companion, Poland's winter climbing team said.Revol and Polish climber Tomasz Mackiewicz had called for help on Friday from about 7,400 meters up Pakistan's second-highest peak, the 8,126 meter (26,660 feet) Nanga Parbat.A team of Polish climbers preparing for the first win
  
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• Watch a Man Allegedly Kidnap a Young Girl off the Street in Broad Daylight

  28-01-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  He has since been arrested.
  
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• Israel and Poland clash over proposed Holocaust law

  28-01-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  By Jeffrey Heller and Marcin GoettigJERUSALEM/WARSAW (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister and Holocaust survivors on Sunday bridled at a draft Polish law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil.The Israeli foreign ministry summoned Poland's charge d'affaires - the ambassador was abroad – to object to the bill, which is still going through parliament."We will under no circumstances accept any attempt to rewrite history,"
  
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• Mexico to send troops to stem violence after record 25,000 murders

  28-01-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Mexican officials said on Sunday the government was set to unleash a new wave of troops to crack down on criminal groups in regions where a surge in violence led to more than 25,000 murders last year.National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said federal police troops will work with local officials to round up known major criminals and bolster investigations.Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party is trailing in third place in recent polls.
  
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• Jay-Z leads nods as rap-heavy Grammys open

  28-01-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  The Grammy Awards opened Sunday with hip-hop being recognized like never before as rap superstar Jay-Z, who once boycotted the gala as biased, leads the nominations.The music industry's biggest night, taking place in New York after 15 years in Los Angeles, also looks set to rally behind the #MeToo movement to end sexual harassment, with a number of A-listers wearing white roses as symbols of solidarity.Hip-hop has an uneven history with the Recording Academy, the body of 13,000 music professiona
  
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• Kabul on high alert after ambulance bomb toll tops 100

  28-01-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  Afghanistan Sunday declared a day of national mourning as the toll for those killed by a huge bomb hidden in an ambulance in Kabul topped 100 people and tensions remained high after insurgents struck in the city for the second time in a week.At least 103 people were killed and 235 wounded in Saturday's lunchtime attack claimed by the Taliban, which caused panic in the war-torn capital and overwhelmed its hospitals.Kabul remained on high alert as the presidential palace declared a national day of
  
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• Finland re-elects pragmatic president Niinisto to ease Russia worries

  28-01-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  Finns on Sunday re-elected their popular and cautious president Sauli Niinisto, who is credited with maintaining a balanced relationship with the nation's powerful neighbour Russia at a time of simmering relations between Moscow and the West."I am surprised and touched by this big support," Niinisto told reporters in Helsinki, who secured over 62 percent of the vote, significantly ahead the seven other candidates, with all the ballots counted.Finland's most popular president in more than three d
  
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• Iranian-American man imprisoned in Iran gets four days' leave

  28-01-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  An 81-year-old Iranian-American man imprisoned in Iran, Baquer Namazi, has received a four-day leave from the Iranian government until Thursday after being discharged from a hospital, his lawyer said on Sunday.Earlier this month, Namazi, who was detained in February 2016 and later convicted of espionage charges that he denied, was taken to the hospital for the fourth time in the past year after a severe drop in his blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat, depletion of energy and his coloring turn
  
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• Sen. Marco Rubio fires chief of staff for "improper conduct"

  28-01-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio announced that he fired his chief of staff after getting reports of "improper conduct" with subordinate staffers.
  
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• Nine dead in Mexico shooting: official

  28-01-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  Authorities investigating the slaying of nine men at a house in Monterrey, Mexico said Sunday small local drug-trafficking groups appeared to be involved but not major drug cartels.The men were watching a football match on television on Saturday when armed attackers burst into the house, herded women into the bathroom and then opened fire on the men, the attorney general of the state of Nuevo Leon, Bernardo Gonzalez, said.Seven men were killed on the spot and two others died of their wounds afte
  
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• Family: Dispute spurred fatal shooting at car wash; 5 dead

  28-01-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Five people were found dead early Sunday at a car wash in suburban Pennsylvania and police say they have no motive yet for the shooting, though family members of the victims say a domestic dispute spurred the violence.
  
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• Top GOP lawmakers split on need for legislation protecting Mueller

  28-01-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Amid multiple reports that President Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller last summer, a pair of top Republican lawmakers are split over if there’s a need to pass legislation to protect the special counsel.
  
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• Marco Rubio Fires Chief Of Staff Over Allegations Of 'Improper Conduct'

  28-01-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  has fired his chief of staff over allegations of “improper conduct” with a subordinate, the senator’s office announced Saturday.
  
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• Pelosi's 'make America white again' dig at Trump draws rebuke from fellow Democrat

  28-01-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi said the immigration plan holds the Dreamers ‘hostage to a hateful anti-immigrant scheme’.The West Virginia senator Joe Manchin on Sunday criticized House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi for dismissing a new White House immigration plan as a way to “make America white again”.
  
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• Susan Collins Says It Wouldn't Hurt To Pass A Bill To Protect Robert Mueller

  28-01-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says she is now open to supporting legislation that would make it harder to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Department of Justice’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
  
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• Finns set to re-elect Niinisto to ease Russia concerns

  28-01-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Finland's pragmatic president Sauli Niinisto, whose skills at staving off tensions with the Nordic nation's powerful neighbour Russia have earned him popularity among voters, was poised to win another six-year term following voting Sunday.The 69-year-old, who campaigned as an independent, has skilfully shifted the EU member state closer to NATO without antagonising Russia, with whom the Nordic nation shares the longest border in the bloc.Preliminary results showed Niinisto ahead with more than 6
  
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• Brief leave from Iran jail for Iranian-American over health

  28-01-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American dual national held in Tehran was granted a brief leave from prison over health concerns, his Washington-based lawyer said Sunday.
  
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• 5 Killed In Shooting Rampage At Pennsylvania Car Wash

  28-01-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  At least five people were killed in an overnight shooting at a car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania, officials said.
  
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• 4 Killed In Shooting Rampage At Pennsylvania Car Wash

  28-01-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  At least five people were killed in an overnight shooting at a car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania, officials said.
  
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• Trump May Have Wanted Him Gone, But Top Republicans Back Mueller

  28-01-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Several top Republicans in Congress expressed their support on Sunday for special counsel Robert Mueller following reports that President Donald Trump wanted to fire him last year.
  
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• What the hell is the 'super blue blood moon' anyway?

  28-01-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  So, by now you've probably heard that a special and rare full moon will rise on Wednesday.  This so-called "super blue blood moon" sounds like a big deal. But when you break it all down, what exactly makes this moon so unusual? The answer lies in its ridiculous name.  SEE ALSO: How to see the very special 'super blue blood moon' rising next week First of all, this full moon is a "supermoon," meaning that it's at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit during full phase. 
  
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• Audio emerges of Netanyahu's wife raging over media story

  28-01-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A recording of Benjamin Netanyahu's wife raging at an aide surfaced on Sunday creating a new headache for Israel's embattled premier.
  
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• French climber rescued from Pakistan's 'killer mountain'

  28-01-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  An elite group of mountain climbers have rescued a French mountaineer from a Himalayan peak in Pakistan but had to abandon the search for her climbing partner due to fierce weather conditions. The four volunteer rescuers from a separate Polish expedition, with support from the Pakistani military, launched the attempt on Saturday to rescue stranded French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol. But they were unable to reach Polish national Tomek (Tomasz) Mackiewicz on Nanga Parbat, a peak nicknamed the "kil
  
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• Kentucky school shooting: Reporter who rushed to cover deadly attack ‘discovers suspect is her son’

  28-01-2018 18:24 via yahoo.com
  Mary Garrison Minyard, the editor of the Marshall County Daily Online, dashed to a local high school after hearing reports of shots fired.One of Ms Minyard’s colleagues told the Louisville Courier Journal that she went to comfort the editor and take over the story.Multiple people with knowledge of the incident confirmed the suspect’s identity to the Courier Journal.
  
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• I Just Had The Most Surreal -- And Profound -- Flight Attendant Experience In My Life

  28-01-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  One of my closest friends is fighting a particularly mean and supposedly merciless kind of cancer, and I have begun to make the trek from my home in Brooklyn to her home just outside Boston as often as I can.
  
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• Man Rescues Abandoned Dogs and Makes Them His Travel Buddies on Epic Road Trip

  28-01-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  They've traveled more than 35,000 miles together.
  
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• PSN Servers Are Down Again For PS4 And PS3 Players [Update 2: Issues Persist]

  28-01-2018 17:45 via gamespot.com
  
  [Update 2] After a brief period of stability gaming and social services have become disrupted again. Sony's PlayStation Network service status page once again notes that "you may have some difficulty launching games, applications or online features."[Update] Gaming and social services are slowly stabilizing. The PlayStation Network service page now lists them as online.[Original story] For the third time this week, PlayStation Network is experiencing issues for users on PS4 and PS3. Account mana
  
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• Trump's State of the Union will be answered by a cacophony of resistance voices

  28-01-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  The official Democratic response to the State of the Union will be by Rep. Joe Kennedy III. But others will join in, live and online, including celebrities and resistance groups.
  
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• Thai activist flees royal insult charge for posting BBC article

  28-01-2018 17:29 via yahoo.com
  A Thai pro-democracy activist said on Sunday she had fled Thailand after learning she would be prosecuted for defaming the monarchy for sharing on Facebook a 2016 BBC article deemed offensive to Thailand's king.Chanoknan Ruamsap said in a post on her Facebook account on Sunday that she received a summons earlier this month to hear a royal insult charge under Article 112 for posting a profile of the king from the BBC's Thai-language service, which some deemed offensive.Reuters could not immediate
  
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• Lindsey Graham Urges RNC To Consider Returning Funds Steve Wynn Raised

  28-01-2018 17:23 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the Republican National Committee should donate or return any money raised by Steve Wynn if the sexual misconduct allegations against the billionaire casino mogul “have merit.”
  
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• IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dead at age 91

  28-01-2018 17:10 via yahoo.com
  Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the world's largest furniture retailer, IKEA, died at his home in Smaland, Sweden, on Saturday. He was 91 years old. The company shared news of Kamprad's death on Sunday morning via an online statement, calling him "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century."The founder of IKEA and one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has passed away at the age of 91. A post shared byIKEA Today (@ikeatoday) on Jan 28, 2018 at 2:26am PSTSEE
  
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• Trump hits back at Jay-Z after rapper dismissed his claims about black unemployment

  28-01-2018 16:57 via yahoo.com
  President Trump fired back at Jay-Z on Sunday morning after the hip-hop star dismissed his taking credit for a record low number of unemployed African-Americans.
  
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• Poland's president promises to review Holocaust bill

  28-01-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  Poland's president on Sunday vowed to review a new bill regarding the Holocaust and the definition of Nazi death camps, after the measure sparked a diplomatic row with Israel.Poland's rightwing-dominated parliament on Friday adopted legislation that sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as being Polish.
  
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• Four-month-old puppy hanged, beaten and shot in 'worst case of animal abuse officials have seen'

  28-01-2018 16:29 via yahoo.com
  The city of Sacramento is offering a $12,000 reward for information about the person or people who beat, shot, and hanged a puppy, in what animal control officers are calling the worst case of animal abuse they’ve ever seen.Chief Animal Control Officer Jase Huggins told KTXL that the puppy had sustained fractures “from nose to tail” before being shot with a BB gun and hanged from her leash.It's probably the worst one I've seen since I've been here working for the city," Mr Hugg
  
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• Body Found in Pond is Believed to be Missing 4-Year-Old Boy: Police

  28-01-2018 16:25 via yahoo.com
  He went missing while his grandfather was watching him.
  
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• Body found in North Carolina pond believed to be missing 4-year-old boy, FBI says

  28-01-2018 16:15 via yahoo.com
  Investigators believe they have found the body of a missing 4-year-old boy in North Carolina.
  
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• China declares intention to improve ties with Japan

  28-01-2018 15:52 via yahoo.com
  By Ben BlanchardBEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes to work with Japan to establish more cordial relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart on Sunday, aiming to move on from a series of disputes, some dating back to before World War Two.China and Japan have sparred frequently about their painful history, with Beijing often accusing Tokyo of not properly atoning for Japan's invasion of China before and during the war.Ties between China and Japan, the world's second and
  
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• Russian Opposition Leader Arrested Amid Election Protests

  28-01-2018 15:42 via yahoo.com
  Alexei Navalny, a prominent Putin foe, is urging a boycott of the March election
  
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• Cambodia charges foreigners after pornographic dance arrests

  28-01-2018 15:31 via yahoo.com
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian prosecutors charged 10 foreigners Sunday with producing pornographic pictures after they were arrested at a party in Siem Reap town, near the country's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.
  
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• Czechs look East as pro-Russian Zeman wins re-election

  28-01-2018 15:29 via yahoo.com
  The Czech Republic was looking east on Sunday after the Kremlin and Beijing were among the first to congratulate populist President Milos Zeman on his re-election in a cliffhanger vote.The former communist scored 51.36 percent of the vote, edging out his liberal pro-European challenger Jiri Drahos with 48.63 percent.Analysts saw the election as a tug-of-war between East and West in Czech society, which is also rather eurosceptic with fewer than one in five Czechs happy with EU membership 13 year
  
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• Jordan king calls for Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem

  28-01-2018 15:27 via yahoo.com
  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's king affirmed his support Sunday for establishing a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem, highlighting his differences with the Trump administration on a central issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
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