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• France pays tribute to Veil, Holocaust survivor with Pantheon burial

  01-07-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  France paid homage on Sunday to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor best known for legalizing abortion in the 1970s as she joined the country's great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris.Veil, who died aged 89 on June 30 a year ago, was laid to rest with her husband in the crypt of the Pantheon mausoleum alongside other national icons including authors Emile Zola and Victor Hugo and the philosopher Voltaire.Hundreds of people lined sun-drenched streets in central Paris to watch the cortege c
  
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• Violence erupts after right-wing group holds Oregon march

  01-07-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Violent skirmishes erupted in Portland, Oregon, between a right-wing group and anti-fascists who have previously clashed across the Pacific Northwest, leading to injuries and arrests.
  
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• Nine wounded in stabbing at child's birthday party in Idaho

  01-07-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  A man went on a stabbing spree at a 3-year-old's birthday party at an apartment complex housing refugee families in Boise on Saturday, injuring nine people, including six children, police said on Sunday.Timmy Kinner, a 30-year-old from Los Angeles who had been staying at the complex, has been arrested, Boise police said.Kinner was being held without bail at the Ada County jail on 15 charges, including six of injury to a child and nine of aggravated battery, jail records showed.
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077: Everything We Know About CD Projekt Red's New RPG

  01-07-2018 22:31 via gamespot.com
  
  After it closed out the Xbox E3 press conference and wowed the few individuals that saw the behind-closed-doors demo, it seems like all eyes are on Cyberpunk 2077. As the new RPG from CD Projekt Red, the developer behind The Witcher series, it takes influences from the cult-favorite Cyberpunk 2020 pen-and-paper RPG, the studio's next project builds upon their pedigree of dense RPGs, while venturing out into a drastically different world.After seeing the private E3 demo and interviewing Cyberpunk
  
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• Bear Cub with Burned Feet Rescued From Colorado Fire

  01-07-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  She will eventually return to the wild.
  
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• Longest lunar eclipse of the century rises near July's end

  01-07-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  On July 27, a total lunar eclipse will rise over the night sky.At 1 hour and 43 minutes, it will be the longest lunar eclipse in the 21st century.Much of Africa, the Middle East and central Asia will be able to see the eclipse.Unfortunately, North America will miss out.
  
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• Kaley Cuoco Marries Equestrian Karl Cook In Romantic Ceremony

  01-07-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Actress Kaley Cuoco and fiance Karl Cook, a professional equestrian, tied the
  
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• Merkel's coalition on the brink over migration stand-off

  01-07-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition was at risk of collapse Sunday as her conservative allies rejected an EU-wide deal she struck last week to reduce migration, escalating a crisis that has poisoned the country's politics for weeks.Merkel's centre-right CDU and their hardline Bavarian CSU allies gathered at separate meetings in Berlin and Munich during the afternoon to mull their next moves, with CSU leader and interior minister Horst Seehofer expected to announce either a comp
  
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• French politician Simone Veil honored with Pantheon burial

  01-07-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who repeatedly broke barriers for women in French politics and spearheaded the fight to legalize abortion, was buried at the Pantheon on Sunday, an honor reserved for French heroes.
  
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• Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

  01-07-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday as the government regained more ground under Russian-brokered deals, a war monitor said.Talks involving rebels, local officials and regime ally Russia saw agreements struck for four villages and a strategic town near the border with Jordan, extending government control to some 60 percent of the southern Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Since June 19, Russia-backed regime forces have r
  
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• Teen's police killing tests long-frustrated black Pittsburgh

  01-07-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station.
  
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• Delta Apologizes to Busy Philipps for Rerouting Her Daughter on Separate Flight

  01-07-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  The company refunded her money after the mix-up.
  
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• Play Disney Parks App Gamifies Your Disney Vacation

  01-07-2018 20:27 via gamespot.com
  
  When you visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World, there's a couple of things you probably expect: thousands of people standing between you and a Dole Whip, and, of course, a lot of time spent in line for various rides. Though theme park technology has advanced as far as cutting-edge visuals and over-the-top thrills go, a way to get rid of lines simply hasn't been invented yet.A new app from Disney aims to make the experience much easier to handle, though. Play Disney Parks, which will be available
  
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• Exclusive: Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources

  01-07-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters.It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time.Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
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• Heavily armed men in helicopter free notorious French inmate

  01-07-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visiting room and carried him away.
  
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• Manhunt underway after notorious French gangster Redoine Faid breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape

  01-07-2018 19:08 via yahoo.com
  France’s most famous gangster on Sunday made a spectacular jailbreak with the help of three heavily-armed accomplices who landed in his jail in a helicopter and flew out with him on board. Redoine Faid was being visited by his brother in Réau prison in the Paris region when the men burst into the room on Sunday morning and extracted him. A third man waited in the helicopter in the prison courtyard to watch over the pilot, a flying instructor whose aircraft the men hijacked in a
  
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• Syrians fleeing war will not be allowed in Israel: Netanyahu

  01-07-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Civilians fleeing Syria's war will not be allowed to enter Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday adding however that his government will continue providing them with humanitarian aid.Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled a government offensive in the country's south that started on June 19 and some have set up makeshift camps near the Israeli-held Golan Heights."Regarding southern Syria, we will continue to defend our borders," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Lopez Obrador: 'stubborn' leftist vowing to change Mexico

  01-07-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  Mexico City (AFP) - "Stubborn" is among the many insults that have been hurled at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the veteran leftist who is the heavy favorite to win Mexico's presidential election Sunday.The man known as "AMLO" kicked off his third presidential bid vowing to use his headstrong personality to fight for the change that so many Mexicans are demanding this election year."We're talking about a man whose main quality is his tenacity," Mexican writer and historian Paco Ignacio Taibo II,
  
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• Trump taunts Democrats over calls to abolish Ice: 'They'll never win another election'

  01-07-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  ‘That’s going to be their [Democrats’] platform, open borders which equals crime,’ Donald Trump said in a prerecorded interview with Fox Business that aired Sunday.After a day of mass demonstrations against Donald Trump’s family separations policy and calls by prominent Democrats to abolish the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or Ice, the president dared Democrats to pursue the issue in the run-up to midterm elections in November.“All it&rsq
  
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• Fury sparked after 11-year-old Thai girl married to Malaysian man

  01-07-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a "child predator". Malaysian Muslims below the age of 16 are allowed to marry if they obtain the permission of a religious court. But the country's women and families ministry said there was no record of religious authorities approving the union, which took place last month across the border in Thailand's largely Muslim far s
  
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• New WoW Battle For Azeroth Expansion’s PvP, War Mode, Bounties, And More Detailed

  01-07-2018 18:47 via gamespot.com
  
  There's only a little over a month and a half left until the release of World of Warcraft's forthcoming expansion, Battle for Azeroth. We've seen gameplay, collector's editions, and more, but now it's time for some nitty-gritty details on PvP and other new additions coming in the expansion.We first saw Battle for Azeroth teased in November of last year. The world has been plunged into a war between the Alliance and Horde, and we also know that the expansion will add several new continents and in
  
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• Family separation highlights immigration in Arizona midterms

  01-07-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — The outrage sparked by the sights, sounds and stories of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the outsized role immigration will play in the midterms in Arizona.
  
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• Stabbing At Apartment Complex Leaves 9 Injured, Including Refugees

  01-07-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  A stabbing spree at an Idaho apartment complex Saturday night has left nine
  
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• 6 Kids Attending Birthday Party Among 9 Stabbed At Apartment Complex

  01-07-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  Six children were attending a birthday party when they were violently stabbed
  
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• French gangster escapes from prison using a helicopter

  01-07-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Witnesses say several heavily-armed men landed a hijacked helicopter in the courtyard to free 46-year-old Redoine Faid, who was serving 25 years for murder.
  
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• Voters in Mexico choose new president, thousands of officials in country’s largest election

  01-07-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known by his initials, AMLO, leads in the polls. The election comes amid a U.S. border crisis as thousands travel through Mexico to the United States.
  
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• One killed, nine injured in boat explosion in the Bahamas

  01-07-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  12 people were aboard a boat in the Bahamas when it exploded, killing one American woman, police say. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.
  
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• Boise stabbing: Nine wounded after suspect targeted child's birthday party

  01-07-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  The suspect injured nine, including six children, in a mass stabbing during a three-year-old girl’s birthday party at a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex that housed refugees.
  
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• Trump: I'm told I shouldn't ask my SCOTUS nominee about Roe v. Wade

  01-07-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  President Trump said he probably won’t ask potential Supreme Court candidates about their opinions on abortion before nominating Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s replacement.In a program that aired Sunday morning, Fox News journalist Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if he would ask his nominees beforehand how they might vote on Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision affirming that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.Trump respo
  
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• The Latest: Suicide bomber kills 19 in Afghanistan

  01-07-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the war in Afghanistan (all times local):
  
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• Gay activist attacked in Ukraine ahead of pride march

  01-07-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Unidentified assailants have attacked a gay activist in central Ukraine ahead of a gay pride parade he was helping prepare, LGBT rights activists said on Sunday.Borys Zolotchenko was severely beaten by a group of around 10 men in the centre of the industrial city Kryvyi Rig late Saturday, Gay Alliance Ukraine said.As a result of the attack, Zolotchenko was hospitalised, with Gay Alliance Ukraine releasing a picture of him with scratches on his face.
  
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• 11 bodies, 10 of them hanging, found at New Delhi home

  01-07-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India's capital said they found 11 bodies at a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging.
  
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• Several injured during Iran water protests

  01-07-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  Several people were injured in the southwestern Iranian city of Khorramshahr late Saturday during a demonstration against water pollution, Iranian state media reported.The protesters set fire to rubbish bins and damaged public property, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse them, state-run IRNA news agency said Sunday.Officials gave different accounts of those injured during the protest, with Deputy Interior Minister Hossein Zolfaghari saying 11 people were hurt when someone opened fire.
  
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• 10 Bodies Found Blindfolded and Hanging at New Delhi Home

  01-07-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  The victims were all from the same family
  
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• Eleven members of same family found dead in house in India

  01-07-2018 16:07 via yahoo.com
  By Suvashree Choudhury and Nigam PrustiMUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Eleven members of a family were found dead in India's capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded, gagged and with hands tied behind the back, with police unable to offer any concrete explanation about what happened.A police statement said some handwritten notes were found in the house "which point towards observance of some definite spiritual/mystical practices by the whole family".The ho
  
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• More Syrians leave Lebanon for home

  01-07-2018 15:42 via yahoo.com
  Several dozen Syrian refugees left Lebanon for neighbouring Syria on Sunday as part of returns coordinated between both countries, an AFP reporter and authorities said.A total of 42 Syrians returned voluntarily from Lebanon through the Masnaa crossing to areas in Syria, Lebanese authorities said.A Lebanese coordinator said they were headed for areas including Moadmiyet al-Sham, a suburb of Damascus where the regime retook control from rebels in October 2016.
  
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• Iran calls for calm after water protests, clashes

  01-07-2018 15:41 via yahoo.com
  Iran called for calm on Sunday after protests in a southern city over water shortages turned violent overnight with reports of police shooting at demonstrators who attacked banks and public buildings."No one has been killed in the unrest and just one person has been wounded in a shooting," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, quoted by the state news agency IRNA."Our effort is to bring these protests to an end as soon as possible with restraint from police and the cooperation ofauthor
  
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• Idaho stabbings: Nine injured after 'unprovoked' knife attack at apartments housing refugees

  01-07-2018 15:29 via yahoo.com
  Idaho police have arrested a man after a mass stabbing at a Boise apartment complex housing many refugee families.Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said nine individuals were taken to area hospitals, some with life-threatening injuries, following the Saturday night attack."At this point we haven't lost anybody, but as I said the injuries are very serious," Bones said.
  
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• North Korea Mulls Ways To 'Conceal' Nuclear Weapons From U.S.: Reports

  01-07-2018 15:28 via yahoo.com
  North Korea has no intention of giving up its entire nuclear stockpile and is
  
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• Rebels, Russia pursue talks over battered south Syria: monitor

  01-07-2018 15:14 via yahoo.com
  Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia on Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based monitor said.The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.A "ceasefire has largely held since Saturday at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) to facilitate the ongoing negotiations," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said
  
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• Do 'abolish ICE' protesters understand what ICE does?

  01-07-2018 14:56 via yahoo.com
  Insight from Jerry Robinette, former special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's homeland security investigations in San Antonio.
  
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• What's the difference between socialism and democratic socialism?

  01-07-2018 14:29 via yahoo.com
  After 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning upset against congressman Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic congressional primary on Tuesday, the word "socialist" was repeatedly used to describe her.Ms Ocasio-Cortez is a registered member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and is a self-described socialist.In other words, it's a state-controlled economy in which the state controls the means of production: factories, offices, resources, and firms.
  
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• Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters defiant, but rally turnout hits a low

  01-07-2018 14:23 via yahoo.com
  By Venus WuHONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest saw one of the lowest turnouts in history, as thousands braved sweltering heat to protest against Beijing's tightening grip over the city on Sunday, the 21st anniversary of its return to Chinese rule.Hong Kong's opposition has lost much steam in the past year, which saw elected pro-democracy legislators disqualified and some of the most prominent activists jailed.Against the fall of Hong Kong.""Now the government is alread
  
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• One dead, nine injured after boat explosion in the Bahamas

  01-07-2018 14:04 via yahoo.com
  An explosion and fire on a small tour boat in the Bahamas has killed one person and injured nine others.
  
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• North Korea Kidnapped Her 13-Year-Old Daughter. She Spent Decades Trying To Get Her Back.

  01-07-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  NIIGATA, Japan ― Megumi Yokota was just 13 when she disappeared. On her way
  
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• North Korea appeals to China for economic help as it reopens radio channel with the South

  01-07-2018 13:29 via yahoo.com
  North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea's Defence Ministry said in a statement. A North Korean patrol boat responded immediately when the South Korean Navy contacted it via an international radio channel at 9 am Sunday in the western sea, normalizing the maritime communication channel for the first time in 10 years, accord
  
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• Thousands march in Hong Kong as restrictions grow

  01-07-2018 13:21 via yahoo.com
  Protesters marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday in one of the city's major annual pro-democracy rallies as organisers said the event was coming under unprecedented pressure from authorities.Beijing has become increasingly intolerant of signs of dissent in semi-autonomous Hong Kong since massive pro-democracy rallies in 2014 brought parts of the city to a standstill and led to the emergence of activists demanding independence from China.Hong Kong has rights unseen on the mainland, includin
  
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• Rescuers clear hurdle in cave search for missing Thai boys

  01-07-2018 13:15 via yahoo.com
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Rescue divers cleared a key hurdle Sunday in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing in a cave in northern Thailand more than a week ago, officials said.
  
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• Israel reinforces troops, steps up humanitarian aid to Syria

  01-07-2018 12:58 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it would be reinforcing troops along the frontier with Syria and stepping up its humanitarian efforts in the area amid a fierce Syrian government offensive that has displaced thousands of people.
  
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• The Latest: Memorial services set for 2 slain journalists

  01-07-2018 12:10 via yahoo.com
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the Annapolis newspaper shooting (all times local):
  
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