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• The Latest: Group: 'No magic bullet' to family reunification

  24-06-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: GOP leaders hampered in immigration legislation

  24-06-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress and immigration (all times local):
  
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• Fighting moves closer to center of Yemen's main port city, missiles fired at Riyadh

  24-06-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  By Mohammed GhobariADEN (Reuters) - The Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched missiles on the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, and reinforced Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah as an Arab coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war.Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted two ballistic missiles over Riyadh, state media reported, in at least the sixth attack targeting the Saudi capital since December.The Saudi-led military alliance launched its assault on the
  
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• '1,000 migrants in boats off Libya' as Italy tells rescue ships to stop

  24-06-2018 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday told foreign charities to stop rescuing migrants off Libya even as one group said 1,000 people were on boats in distress in the Mediterranean.With Italy -- long the frontline in Europe's migration crisis -- vowing a new hardline stance, Salvini told the aid groups to back off and let the Libyan coastguard take care of rescue operations."Let the Libyan authorities do their work of rescue, recovery and return (of migrants) to their count
  
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• Erdogan declares victory in Turkish presidential poll

  24-06-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday declared victory in a tightly-contested presidential election, extending his 15-year grip on power in the face of a revitalised opposition.Turkish voters had for the first time cast ballots for both president and parliament in the snap polls, with Erdogan looking for a first round knockout and an overall majority for his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).Erdogan was on course to defeat his nearest rival Muharrem Ince with more than half t
  
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• Nearly half of Iowa crude oil spill contained, BNSF says

  24-06-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Workers have contained nearly half of the crude oil spilled near Rock River in northwest Iowa over the weekend following a freight train derailment on Friday, BNSF Railway Co said.About 100,000 gallons had been hemmed off using booms out of the estimated 230,000 gallons spilled, BNSF said in a statement on Saturday.The spill has raised concerns about drinking water downstream.
  
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• Brigitte Nielsen gives birth to 5th child at 54

  24-06-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  Brigitte Nielsen says she has given birth at age 54.
  
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• Trump's Trade Fight With Canada Highlights Two Approaches To Capitalism

  24-06-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's savaging of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
  
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• Marches across U.S. show gay pride

  24-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Parades and demonstrations across the country celebrate LGBT pride as part of a international series of events. Rough Cut (no reporter narration.)
  
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• EU papers over differences after 'frank' migration talks

  24-06-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of 16 countries survived the "frank talk" of an emergency meeting on immigration and emerged with a veneer of common purpose Sunday as the European Union enters a potentially vital week for its unity.
  
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• Cardi B Donates $8,000 to Family of 15-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed in the Bronx

  24-06-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  The murder was captured on surveillance footage.
  
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• Jogger Detained For 2 Weeks After Accidentally Crossing Into U.S. From Canada

  24-06-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  U.S. immigration officials arrested and detained for two weeks a 19-year-old
  
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• At hub for border crossings, families spread throughout US

  24-06-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Manuel Martinez, who fled Honduras because gangs were trying to recruit his 12-year-old son, was prepared to be separated from his child after paying a smuggler to cross the Rio Grande by boat and getting arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.
  
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• Walgreens Pharmacist Denies Woman Miscarriage Drug Over Personal Morals

  24-06-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  After receiving word that her unborn baby no longer had a heartbeat, it was
  
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• Libyan coast guard intercepts 450 migrants bound for Europe

  24-06-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Libya's coast guard intercepted Sunday some 460 African migrants, including dozens of children and women, in the Mediterranean Sea near its shores, a spokesman said.
  
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• DOJ gives Congress new classified documents on Russia probe

  24-06-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has given House Republicans new classified information related to the Russia investigation after lawmakers had threatened to hold officials in contempt of Congress or even impeach them.
  
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• Air strikes kill five as southern Syria assault looms

  24-06-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Air strikes on rebel towns in southern Syria killed five civilians and damaged two hospitals on Sunday, a monitor said, in fresh signs of a looming government assault.Russian-backed regime forces have for weeks been preparing an offensive to retake Syria's south, a strategic zone that borders both Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.The regime has sent military reinforcements to the area, dropped flyers demanding rebels surrender, and ramped up air strikes in recent days.
  
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• EU 'mini-summit' on migration gives Merkel and Macron no respite from domestic woes

  24-06-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, the European Union’s two most influential leaders, met yesterday with their bitterly divided counterparts for a frustrating “mini-summit” in Brussels, while facing plunging popularity at home. The German chancellor, whose political future is under threat unless she can wrest deals from her opposite numbers in Europe, had already conceded the mini-summit of 16 nations would not bridge huge splits over migration policy ahead of a full European C
  
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• Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition takes 10.02 percent of vote, surpassing threshold: TV

  24-06-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) had 10.02 percent with 69 percent of votes counted in parliamentary elections, exceeding the 10 percent threshold required to enter parliament, CNN Turk and local broadcasters said on Sunday.The HDP's entrance into parliament will translate into fewer seats for President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party and its nationalist ally in the assembly.
  
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• The Latest: No decisions at 'frank and open' migration talks

  24-06-2018 19:59 via yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on immigration into Europe (all times local):
  
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• Britain's Prince William in Jordan for historic Middle East tour

  24-06-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  Prince William flew in to Jordan on Sunday at the launch of a Middle East tour that will see him become the first British royal to pay official visits to both Israel and the Palestinian territories.The 36-year-old Duke of Cambridge's Royal Air Force plane touched down at the small airport in eastern Amman, where he was given a red-carpet welcome by the heir to the Jordanian throne.
  
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• 1,000 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean as Italian ports 'remain closed'

  24-06-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Italy’s hardline interior minister said 1,000 migrants hoping for rescue off the coast of Libya should be picked up by the Libyan coast guard rather than European NGOs, as the standoff in the Mediterranean intensified. Matteo Salvini said the asylum seekers should be sent straight back to Libya, despite humanitarian organisations saying they face rape, torture, beatings and forced labour. “Another 1,000 migrants in rubber dinghies? It’s right that the Libyan authorities interve
  
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• Trump Attacks Immigration Laws, Calls For Deportations Without Trials

  24-06-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the United States' immigration
  
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• Activists: US tells rebels in Syria not to expect support

  24-06-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces advanced deeper into the southern province of Daraa Sunday under the cover of airstrikes, entering new villages amid reports that the U.S. has told rebels not to expect an American intervention to defend them from the army's offensive.
  
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• Kind 15-Year-Old Helps Deaf and Blind Man on Alaska Airlines Flight

  24-06-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  She made it easier for him to communicate.
  
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• Jeff Flake Threatens To Block Judicial Nominations Over Trump's Tariffs

  24-06-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) warned Sunday that he's prepared to oppose President
  
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• Saudi women in driver's seat as longstanding ban is lifted

  24-06-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi women steered their way through busy city streets on Sunday, driving to work, running errands and relishing a new era in which they are allowed to drive and no longer need to rely on men to move around.
  
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• Ivanka Trump: We must foster economic opportunity in Latin America

  24-06-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Ivanka Trump said she agrees with liberals and conservatives who think it’s important to help encourage stability and spark economic growth throughout Central America and South America — as the United States is engaged in a passionate debate over immigration policy.
  
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• Pakistan's Khan kicks off election campaign, pledges sweeping changes

  24-06-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan on Sunday kicked off his election campaign by staging a major rally and promising sweeping changes in the country if his party wins.Pakistan will hold a general election on July 25 and Khan is hoping to achieve a years-long dream of becoming prime minister.The polls will bring to a head political tensions that have been mounting since former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court on corruption charges last July and later ba
  
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• Second person dead, 30 arrested, after Saturday's grenade attack at Ethiopia prime minister's rally

  24-06-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  By Aaron MaashoADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Thirty people have now been arrested over alleged involvement in a grenade attack that killed two people at a rally in the Ethiopian capital attended by new prime minister Abiy Ahmed, police said on Sunday.More than 150 were wounded in Saturday's attack, which took place moments after Abiy had finished a speech in Meskel Square in the center of Addis Ababa.The rally, attended by tens of thousands, was in support of Abiy's push for radical political and econ
  
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• Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps 'Start From Scratch'

  24-06-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Congress should reconsider the nation's
  
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• Fighting moves closer to center of Yemen's main port city

  24-06-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  By Mohammed GhobariADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as a Saudi-led military coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war, raising U.N. fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched its assault on the heavily defended Red Sea city on June 12 to try to weaken the Iran-aligned Houthi movement by cutting off a key supply line for the gro
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan at 57 percent with 40 percent of the votes counted: TV

  24-06-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan had 57.02 percent of the vote with 40 percent of the votes counted in Turkey's presidential election on Sunday, broadcasters said. Muharrem Ince, the main opposition's presidential candidate, Muharrem Ince, stood at 28.3 percent nationwide, television channels showed. First results had been expected to give Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party a strong lead - one that could shorten as more votes are tallied across the nation of 81 million people.
  
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• Ni No Kuni 2 Update Adds New Items And Difficulties

  24-06-2018 18:08 via gamespot.com
  
  If you needed an excuse to hop back into Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom, its latest update may be the perfect one. The update, which is available now on PS4 and PC, fixes bugs, adds new rare loot items, and introduces two new difficulty options.Bandai Namco detailed the patch notes in a Facebook post. "It's been a few weeks since the release of Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom and we’ve been reading your feedback online," the post reads. "We'd like to thank the community for their support!"
  
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• Outraged By Kids In Cages? Look At Our Entire Juvenile Justice System.

  24-06-2018 18:05 via yahoo.com
  Last week, the nation witnessed an abrupt reversal from the White House. After
  
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• Teenage girl uses sign language to help deaf and blind man on flight

  24-06-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  As Tim Cook traveled alone, flight attendants asked if anyone knew American Sign Language to help him. 15-year-old Clara Daly volunteered, signing into his hands, keeping him company and inspiring her fellow passengers along the way.
  
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• Britain's Prince William arrives in Jordan

  24-06-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  The Duke of Cambridge arrived in Jordan on Sunday (June 24) as he began a five-day visit to the Middle East. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Women hit the road after Saudi Arabia’s driving ban comes to an end

  24-06-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  In a historic change, Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers has come to an end, meaning women in the country no longer need to rely on drivers or male relatives for transportation.
  
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• The Challenges Of Remaking A Classic Like Resident Evil 2

  24-06-2018 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  We've known about the Resident Evil 2 remake for a long time. Although it was announced in late 2015 by producer Yoshiaki "H" Hirabayashi, the survival horror remake was kept under wraps until E3 2018. During Sony's press conference, Capcom debuted the first gameplay trailer, finally giving us a glimpse at how it'll look and play. And better yet, we got a release date: January 29, 2019.The excitement of seeing familiar characters and locales recreated with modern visuals was only elevated after
  
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• 15-year-old boy ran away from Texas shelter for migrant children

  24-06-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  As protests continue over the treatment of migrant families, there are new questions about the safety of children held in shelters as they await reunification with their families.
  
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• Woman Seen Allegedly Calling Cops on 8-Year-Old Selling Water in Viral Video

  24-06-2018 17:53 via yahoo.com
  The woman said she is "against unlawful behavior."
  
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• New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Leaves Hospital 3 Days After Giving Birth

  24-06-2018 17:38 via yahoo.com
  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made her first public appearance since giving birth to her daughter
  
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• Police: 25 injured in building explosion in Germany

  24-06-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Twenty-five people were injured, four of them severely, when an explosion destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, police said Sunday.
  
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• Saudi women take victory lap as driving ban ends

  24-06-2018 16:56 via yahoo.com
  By Stephen Kalin and Sarah DadouchRIYADH (Reuters) - Women in Saudi Arabia hit the roads on Sunday, ushering in the end of the world's last ban on female drivers, long seen as an emblem of women's repression in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom."Yesterday we sat there," she added, pointing to the back.    The ban's end, ordered last September by King Salman, is part of sweeping reforms pushed by his powerful son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a bid to transform the eco
  
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• Erdogan on course for victory in Turkish election, state media reports

  24-06-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked on course to win re-election in Turkey last night, according to state media, but the Turkish opposition claimed the results were being manipulated in the president’s favour. Mr Erdogan needed to win more than 50 per cent of the vote in order to win the election in one round and avoid going into a run-off against his main challenger Muharrem Ince, the candidate of the centre-left Republican People’s Party (CHP). The state-run Andalou Agency news agency repo
  
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• Zimbabwe blast won't halt election, says Mnangagwa

  24-06-2018 16:41 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's presidential spokesman is ruling out an election delay or a state of emergency after an explosion at the president's campaign rally on Saturday that state media called an assassination attempt. George Charamba told the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper that the historic July 30 vote will go ahead as planned despite the blast that occurred shortly after Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of Zimbabwe, addressed a stadium crowd in Bulawayo, an opposition stronghold. At least 49 people, incl
  
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• Turkey votes in pivotal test for Erdogan

  24-06-2018 16:38 via yahoo.com
  Turkey on Sunday awaited the outcome of its most tightly-fought elections in recent years, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking a new mandate and control over parliament in the face of a revitalised opposition and weakening economy.Over 56 million eligible voters were for the first time casting ballots for both president and parliament, with Erdogan looking for a first round knockout and an overall majority for his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to extend his 15 year grip on p
  
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• Suspect dead, 2 officers injured after shooting in San Diego

  24-06-2018 16:36 via yahoo.com
  Two police officers in San Diego were shot Saturday night while responding to a disturbance call at an apartment complex.
  
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• Police search for motive after 49 hurt in Zimbabwe election blast

  24-06-2018 16:30 via yahoo.com
  By MacDonald DzirutweHARARE (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday 49 people were hurt in the explosion at Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend election rally, with the number expected to rise, but they were still searching for a motive for the blast.Mnangagwa came to power in November after a de facto army coup forced his longtime mentor Robert Mugabe to resign.Mugabe later said he felt betrayed by his former protege, calling his presidency illegal.
  
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• How a discarded restaurant napkin led to an arrest in the 32-year-old cold case of a murdered US schoolgirl

  24-06-2018 16:17 via yahoo.com
  For over three decades the disappearance and vicious murder of Michella Welch had left police at a loss. The 12-year-old had disappeared in March 1986 from a park in the city of Tacoma, in Washington State. At the time, she had been babysitting her two younger sisters in Puget Park and had rode off on her bike to pick up some sandwiches. When she returned her sisters were in a nearby business using the lavatory, and Michella is believed to have gone looking for them. When Michella’s s
  
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