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• WWE Elimination Chamber: Live Updated Results, And New Women's Tag Team Champs

  17-02-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  The Kickoff Show is over, and there was an incredible Cruiserweight Championship match during the preshow, and you can see the results of it below. Now, it's onto the main card where we will see two Elimination Chamber matches during this WWE PPV.One of the most insane structures ever devised by WWE is coming to the Elimination Chamber PPV today. WWE's latest event has seven matches on the card--five of which are title matches--and two of them will take place in the Elimination Chamber.The show
  
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• WWE Elimination Chamber: Live Updated Results, And Match Card For The 2019 PPV

  17-02-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  The Kickoff Show is over, and there was an incredible Cruiserweight Championship match during the preshow, and you can see the results of it below. Now, it's onto the main card where we will see two Elimination Chamber matches during this WWE PPV.One of the most insane structures ever devised by WWE is coming to the Elimination Chamber PPV today. WWE's latest event has seven matches on the card--five of which are title matches--and two of them will take place in the Elimination Chamber.The show
  
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• WWE Elimination Chamber: Kickoff Results, Live Updates, and Match Card For The 2019 PPV

  17-02-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  One of the most insane structures ever devised by WWE is coming to the Elimination Chamber PPV today. WWE's latest event has seven matches on the card--five of which are title matches--and two of them will take place in the Elimination Chamber.The show will air on the WWE Network and on PPV, taking place at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The main card begins at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET / 12 AM GMT (February 18), with a Kickoff Show starting one hour prior.The Elimination Chamber is a giant metal
  
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• WWE Elimination Chamber 2019 PPV Final Results: Daniel Bryan And Kofi Kingston Put On A Showstopper

  17-02-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  2019's Elimination Chamber has come to a close, and you can find the full results for the WWE PPV below. While the opening and closing Elimination Chamber matches were the highlight of the evening, the matches that took place in between didn't exactly get WWE fans out of their seats. Scroll down to see the final results of all the matches.One of the most insane structures ever devised by WWE is coming to the Elimination Chamber PPV today. WWE's latest event has seven matches on the card--five of
  
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• Thousands brave freezing cold in vigil for Illinois shooting victims

  17-02-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Solemn mourners stood before five white crosses with the names of the dead that became a shrine to the victims bearingpictures and hand-written remembrances outside the factory where the shooting took place in Aurora, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago."My heart is broken again for the family members of the victims," said Mary Kay Mace, mother of the late Ryanne Mace, who was killed 11 years ago in a mass shooting at Northern Illinois University.It's a hard, difficult trek but it can be done
  
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• Yemen sides agree deal on first pullback: UN

  17-02-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's government and Huthi rebels have agreed on the first phase of a pullback of forces from the key city of Hodeida, in a deal the United Nations described Sunday as important progress.The redeployment from Hodeida is a critical part of a ceasefire deal reached in December in Sweden that calls on the government and Huthis to move forces away from ports and parts of city.The fragile truce deal marks the first step toward ending a devastating war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
  
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• Yemen's warring parties agree on initial redeployment: U.N

  17-02-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni government and Houthi representatives have reached an agreement on the first phase of their redeployment of forces under a U.N.-sponsored deal for the warring armies to leave the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, the United Nations said on Sunday."The parties reached an agreement on Phase 1 of the mutual redeployment of forces," a statement by the U.N. spokesman's office said without giving details of exactly what the Iranian-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-backed government agreed.The United N
  
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• Chicago police pursue claims Jussie Smollett attack may have been faked

  17-02-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A police source tells USA TODAY that investigators are attempting to interview Jussie Smollett again about an attack on the "Empire" actor.
  
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• Politicians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New York

  17-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Politicians bickered Sunday over who is to blame after Amazon canceled second headquarters in New York.
  
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• Chicago police seek follow-up interview with 'Empire' actor

  17-02-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police have shifted the direction of their investigation into actor Jussie Smollett's report of a hate-crime assault and are seeking to interview him again, after releasing two men detained for questioning in the probe, a police spokesman said on Saturday.According to Smollett's account, his assailants struck him in the face, draped a rope around his neck and doused him with an "unknown chemical substance" before fleeing.On Wednesday evening this week, police said they arrested two Niger
  
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• How many push-ups can you do? Study finds men who can do 40 have lower risk of heart disease

  17-02-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Active, middle-aged men who could do more than 40 push-ups in timed test had significantly lower risks for heart problems, according to a new study.
  
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• LA-based civil rights activist calls for arrest of Jussie Smollett, believes he lied about alleged attack

  17-02-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A Los Angeles-based civil rights activist called for the arrest of Jussie Smollett and says he believes the actor lied about being a victim of a hate crime.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers warn Trump 'emergency' sets dangerous precedent

  17-02-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats and some Republicans in the U.S. Congress condemned President Donald Trump's attempt to use a national emergency to construct a wall along the border with Mexico. Lisa Bernhad reports.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Celebrated Amazon Pulling Out of New York––But the Governor Says It Cost the City 25,000 Jobs

  17-02-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The spat between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Andrew Cuomo lays bare a growing divide over Amazon's decision to pull out of New York City.
  
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• 'Taking their last breath': IS hides among Syrian civilians

  17-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries' shared border. In that tiny patch on the banks of the Euphrates River, hundreds of militants are hiding among civilians under the shadow of a small hill — encircled by forces waiting to declare the territorial defeat of the extremist group.
  
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• Weld says six more years of Trump 'antics' would be bad for America

  17-02-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Weld said the national emergency that Trump declared on Friday to obtain funding for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border showed his readiness to divide the country."I don't think he knows how to act. He thinks he has to humiliate whoever he's dealing with or else he's half a man," Weld told ABC's "This Week" in an interview.Congress thought they had a deal. He says: 'Oh, you think you have a deal? I'm going to show you a deal. I'm going to show you who's boss,'" he added.  
  
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• Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner to register as sex offender after prison release

  17-02-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017.The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows the 54-year-old New York Democrat is currently in the custody of its Residential Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, New York.The prison bureau, federal prosecutors in New York and Weiner’s lawyer didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.
  
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• Polish PM cancels Israel visit amid new Holocaust tensions

  17-02-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki canceled his plans to attend a meeting of central European leaders in Israel starting Monday amid new tensions over how Polish behavior during the Holocaust is remembered and characterized.
  
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• Jussie Smollett attack: New evidence 'shifted the trajectory' of Jussie Smollett investigation, 2 brothers cooperating

  17-02-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police are "eager" to again speak again with "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett about his alleged attack after two brothers were arrested in connection with the attack agreed to cooperate with police, sources said Saturday evening.
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege: Burnt Horizon Operators Explained

  17-02-2019 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The new operators in Rainbow Six Siege's new Burnt Horizon update are here! Watch Jake and Jean-Luc break down how Gridlock and Mozzie work.
  
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• Watch Mike Pence gasp when no one claps at his terrible applause line

  17-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence isn't a complicated man. He likes Chili's, using his personal AOL account for official government business, and gay conversion therapy. And so, when he addressed attendees at the Middle East conference in Poland on Feb. 14, it's clear he believed that same down-home flavor that's treated him so well in Trump Country would garner rounds of applause from his European audience. That, dear reader, is where he went wrong.Speaking about the widely supported Iran nuc
  
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• Obama set for role with new African basketball league backed by NBA

  17-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Barack Obama has backed plans for a new basketball league in Africa and is set to take up a role with the project.The former US president shared his support for the collaboration between the NBA and the basketball’s global governing body FIBA to create an elite competition involving several African countries.Glad to see this expansion into Africa because for a rising continent, this can be about a lot more than what happens on the court,” he tweeted.
  
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• Beckham looks to '70s, Westwood turns catwalk into protest

  17-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Victoria Beckham looked back to the 1970s at London Fashion Week on Sunday, while Vivienne Westwood turned her catwalk into a stage to protest issues ranging from climate change to Brexit.In front of an audience including Beckham's husband David and their children, models wore dresses and skirts slim fitted over the knee, some with abstract chain patterns.In a collection rich in vibrant colors and patterns, Beckham stuck to her signature silhouette of fitted skirt suits, which were checkered, an
  
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• Indian authorities detain 23 after deadly Kashmir attack

  17-02-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian forces have detained 23 men suspected of links to the Pakistan-based militant group that masterminded the bombing of an Indian security convoy that killed 44 paramilitary police, a top police official said on Sunday. The 23 men included members and sympathisers of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the militant group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, the deadliest on Indian security forces in decades. The attack has fuelled tensions between India and Pakistan. India has demanded Pakistan
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege's New Operators, Burnt Horizon Expansion, And Year 4 Roadmap Detailed

  17-02-2019 20:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Rainbow Six Siege's big new Operation Burnt Horizon update is on the way to PS4, Xbox One, and PC soon, and publisher Ubisoft has finally revealed all the details. As revealed during at the 6 Invitational, Year 4, Season 1 will bring two new Operators, Mozzie and Gridlock, as well as a new map named Outback.Gridlock is a 3 armor, 1 speed attacker who comes equipped with three Trax Stingers--throwable, expanding spike clusters that slow and damage enemies who walk on them. Think of them as attack
  
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• Saudi crown prince begins Asia tour with $20 billion Pakistan investment pledge

  17-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Kicking off his tour of South Asia and China with a far higher Pakistan investment than expected, the crown prince said the $20 billion figure represents only the start of an economic tie-up that would bring the historic Muslim allies even closer."It’s big for phase 1, and definitely it will grow every month and every year, and it will be beneficial to both countries," said the crown prince."We have been a brotherly country, a friendly country to Pakistan.
  
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• Polish PM cancels trip to Israel in wake of comments on Poles in Holocaust

  17-02-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's prime minister has canceled a trip to Israel in the wake of reported remarks made by his Israeli counterpart suggesting Polish complicity during the Holocaust, an aide in his office told Polish media on Sunday.A government spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki would not attend the summit and would send Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz instead.Morawiecki informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his decision to cancel his visit in a telepho
  
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• Saudi crown prince arrives in Pakistan for regional visit

  17-02-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began his four-day regional visit on Sunday, arriving in Pakistan where Saudi officials signed agreements worth $20 billion to help the Islamic nation overcome its financial crisis.
  
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• Donald Trump's emergency declaration is an attack on democracy

  17-02-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Invoking a bogus emergency to build a wall Congress rejected will have long-term impacts on the rule of law.
  
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• Donald Trump demands Britain puts jihadists on trial as Isil makes desperate last stand

  17-02-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has demanded Britain and its continental neighbours repatriate their captured Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters and put them on trial - or face the terrorists being set free to "permeate Europe." In a strongly-worded message tweeted late on Saturday night, the US president warned he would have little choice but to release approximately 800 "jihadists" currently held by American-backed Kurdish forces in Syria. He said now was the time for the ant-Isil coalition partners t
  
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• Sex abuse survivors say Vatican summit must deliver action

  17-02-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholics who were sexually abused by clergy are insisting that decisive actions to confront the decades-long problem of pedophile priests and church cover-ups must come out of an upcoming Vatican summit.
  
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• Average tax refunds fall for second straight week, creating political flashpoint

  17-02-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The average refund in the second week of the filing season was $1,949, down 8.7 percent from $2,135 a year earlier.
  
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• Israel to withhold $138 mln from Palestinians over prisoner payments

  17-02-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said its security cabinet on Sunday decided to withhold $138 million (122 million euros) in tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to prisoners jailed for attacks on Israelis.A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the withheld cash would be equal to that paid by the PA last year to "terrorists imprisoned in Israel, to their families and to released prisoners".Israel alleges the payments encourage further violence.
  
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• Israel trims funds to Palestinians over militant stipends

  17-02-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Under interim peace deals, Israel collects taxes on behalf the Palestinians, who put the current sums at $222 million a month.With negotiations stalled since 2014, Israel has at times withheld money as a measure of protest or pressure.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, though facing steep aid cuts by Donald Trump's administration that he has boycotted over perceived bias, has held to paying stipends to the families of Palestinians jailed as security offenders or killed by Israel.
  
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• Toy Fair 2019: Tons Of Overwatch Collectibles Revealed By Hasbro

  17-02-2019 19:08 via gamespot.com
  
  New York's Toy Fair is wrapping up, but there are still plenty of reveals coming from the show. Hasbro announced a bunch of Overwatch-related collectibles at the show, which is currently taking place at the Javits Center.From action figures to Nerf blasters to a game of Monopoly, Hasbro has plenty of Overwatch product, all hitting stores this spring. Back in January, we got our hands on some full-sized Overwatch blasters that were incredibly cool-looking as Hasbro tried to recreate weaponry fro
  
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• Inmate saves infant from locked SUV using his car theft skills

  17-02-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The sheriff admits it was a unique situation, allowing an inmate to use his skill set to break into a car for the right reasons.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido calls for 'million volunteers' in aid standoff

  17-02-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido set a goal Sunday of enlisting a million volunteers within a week to confront a government blockade that has kept tons of humanitarian aid, most of it from the United States, from flowing into the country.Guaido has given February 23 -- one month to the day after he proclaimed himself acting president -- as the date for a showdown over the aid with the government of President Nicolas Maduro.Food supplies, hygiene kits and nutritional supplements have been
  
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• Assad warns Syria's Kurds that US will not protect them

  17-02-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Bashar al-Assad warned Syria's Kurds Sunday that their ally the United States would not protect them against any Turkish offensive as Washington looks to withdraw it troops.The US is set to pull out its soldiers from Syria after allied Kurdish-led forces capture the Islamic State group's last holdout in the war-torn country.Any withdrawal risks leaving the Kurds exposed to a long threatened attack by neighbouring Turkey, which views Kurdish fighters as "terrorists".
  
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• Victoria Beckham goes 'retro' at London Fashion Week show

  17-02-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Exaggerated collars, leopard print and a strong colour palette: British designer Victoria Beckham turned to "pinches of the '70s" as she showcased her latest collection Sunday at London Fashion Week.The former Spice Girl chose the rarified galleries of the Tate Britain museum, a neoclassical building home to some of the country's most treasured art, for only her second catwalk show in the British capital."I have been thinking about what women want, about modern femininity," she told audiences in
  
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• Hirscher skis to Austria's rescue with slalom gold at worlds

  17-02-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  ARE, Sweden (AP) — A proud and storied Alpine skiing nation, Austria headed into the final event of the world championships in danger of finishing without a gold medal for the first time in a generation.
  
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• Lawmakers Expect Vote to Block Trump's Order, Then Face a Veto

  17-02-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump on Friday issued the emergency to divert certain military funding for wall construction, after Congress approved only $1.375 billion of the $5.7 billion he sought in a bipartisan budget bill to avoid a second partial government shutdown.House Democrats may soon pass a resolution opposing the declaration, and Democrats in the Senate, while in the minority, could force a vote on it.Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio both said on AB
  
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• Bill De Blasio Slams Amazon’s ‘Abuse of Corporate Power’

  17-02-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  “They couldn’t handle the heat in the kitchen,” de Blasio said.Separately, de Blasio said he had not ruled out a 2020 presidential run, but would take his message about corporations nationwide regardless of his decision.Amazon’s announcement has sparked a furious debate over whether local officials and activists should be blamed for losing New York an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 high-paying tech jobs, or whether the firm had reacted too rashly to public concerns.
  
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• Trump policies unite allies against him at European security forum

  17-02-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Promising that "America will be back" once Donald Trump leaves office, Biden won a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference from delegates who find the president's brusque foreign policy stance hard to like.Biden's successor, Mike Pence, was met with silence at a reception in the palatial Bavarian parliament on Friday evening after he delivered his signature line: "I bring you greetings from the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump."His four-day trip to Europe su
  
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• The Latest: Hirscher says he's likely skied in last worlds

  17-02-2019 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  ARE, Sweden (AP) — The Latest on skiing world championships (all times local):
  
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• Trump to veto Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez resolution blocking national emergency unless Republicans lend support

  17-02-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his presidency over a national emergency declaration his critics have slammed as an unconstitutional power grab, a senior White House official said on Sunday.White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday that “the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration”.The president declared the emergency Friday in an effort to go around Congress to fund his border wall.
  
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• How tough will President Trump be on China?

  17-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Hudson Institute director for the Center for Chinese Strategy Michael Pillsbury says Trump’s tariffs have brought the Chinese to the negotiating table.
  
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• The media spent more than 100 minutes covering Jussie Smollett’s attack claims, the left rushed to judgement

  17-02-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The Chicago police have revealed the story is starting to fall apart.
  
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• NASA posts image of ghostly blue objects, deep in the cosmos

  17-02-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  When a star is born, a chaotic light show ensues.  NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope captured vivid bright clumps moving through the cosmos at some 1,000 light years from Earth. The space agency called these objects clear "smoking gun" evidence of a newly formed star — as new stars blast colossal amounts of energy-rich matter into space, known as plasma.  Seen as the vivid blue, ephemeral clumps in the top center of the new image below, these are telltale signs of an energ
  
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• Polish PM nixes trip to Israel after Netanyahu Holocaust 'comment': govt

  17-02-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a visit to Israel for a high-level summit, a government spokesperson told AFP on Sunday, after uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust.Netanyahu -- who was initially quoted in Haaretz newspaper as saying that "The Poles collaborated with the Nazis" -- has been condemned in Poland for appearing to accuse all Polish people of cooperating with Germany during World War II.War
  
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• UK teen who joined IS gives birth in Syrian refugee camp

  17-02-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to return to Britain on Sunday gave birth in a refugee camp, as European governments grapple with what to do with returning jihadists ahead of a US troop pullout.Shamima Begum, whose fate has stirred controversy ever since she and two friends fled London to join the terror network in 2015 aged just 15, told Sky News she had delivered a boy."I just gave birth so I'm really tired," the 19-year-old said as she made a renewed appea
  
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