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• Estonia Reform Set to Return to Power With Populists Sidelined

  03-03-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The business-friendly Reform Party had 28.8 percent of Sunday’s votes, according to results from the Estonian Electoral Commission with all precincts counted.Ratas’s Center party was in second with 23 percent, and the anti-immigrant EKRE party had 17.8 percent."EKRE isn’t an option, as we’ve ruled them out from the beginning," Reform Party Chairwoman Kaja Kallas told the state ERR broadcaster.
  
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• Uncharted Director Talks About Why Her Star Wars Game Fell Apart

  03-03-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Uncharted director Amy Henig was hired by EA to work on a new Star Wars game at Dead Space studio Visceral. It was an exciting proposition, but it wasn't meant to be. Visceral was closed and Hennig moved on. Now, Hennig is speaking about the matter.Asked to reflect on her time at EA and working on Star Wars, Hennig told VentureBeat that the game faced a number of challenges. Starting off, Visceral as a developer was "very expensive" to run in part because it was in the middle of the San Francisc
  
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• 'Pursuit of justice': Sacramento mall shut down as protests continue over Stephon Clark decision

  03-03-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A group's sit-in shut down a Sacramento mall on the 2nd day of protests after prosecutors declined to charge the officers who killed Stephon Clark.
  
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• Guaido calls for mass protests ahead of return to Venezuela Monday

  03-03-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition leader Juan Guaido called for mass protests across Venezuela against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday as he announced his return after a week touring Latin American allies.Guaido, who has been recognized by more than 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, did not say how or when he would return, though speculation is rife that a flight from the Colombian capital Bogota to Caracas is the most likely route.
  
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• Halo Infinite Will Be At E3 2019, Which Is 100 Days Away

  03-03-2019 23:13 via gamespot.com
  
  Halo Infinite, the long-awaited follow-up to 2015's Halo 5: Guardians, will be at E3 2019. 343 Industries boss Bonnie Ross told IGN that the game director Chris Lee will discuss more details on the game at the big-time June show that is now just 100 days away. Little is known about what Lee will speak about, but Ross did confirm to IGN that one of the things he'll talk about is what the franchise's new SlipSpace engine is capable of from a technical standpoint.Halo Infinite was announced at E3 2
  
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• Large tornado spotted in severe storm

  03-03-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  This large tornado was spotted from the distance on March 3 in Smiths Station, Alabama during a severe storm.It was accompanied by lightning in this video.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido urges supporters to protest on Monday

  03-03-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Juan Guaido is calling for nationwide demonstrations Monday to coincide with his planned return to Venezuela, in a challenge expected to escalate his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• The India-Pakistan Crisis Is Not Over

  03-03-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  There is a danger that India and Pakistan could get locked into a game of one-upmanship—one that could ultimately lead to their armies mobilizing for a ground war.
  
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• Ex-West Virginia staffer disputes making anti-Muslim comment

  03-03-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia Capitol staffer is disputing anti-Muslim comments a lawmaker said she made in response to an Islamophobic display outside the House of Delegates chamber.
  
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• Ebola treatment center in Congo reopens after attack: ministry

  03-03-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ebola treatment center at the epicenter of the current outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed operations after it was closed in response to an attack last week, the Congolese health ministry said on Sunday.The facility in the city of Butembo was one of two centers torched by unknown assailants in the space of a few days, prompting Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to suspend medical activities.Aid workers have faced mistrust in some areas as they work to contain the Ebola o
  
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• Presidential hopeful Booker, in Selma, says U.S. failing its people

  03-03-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Booker, 49, a black second-term senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark, also lamented that clean water and affordable healthcare are still unavailable in many communities."We live in a nation that is failing its moral obligations to its children, to its people," Booker said in a short speech at a church near the bridge in Selma, Alabama, where civil rights activists were attacked more than half a century ago.Nearly 600 activists marching for African-American voting rights were met on
  
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• 'Absolute miracle:' Rescuers find missing California sisters

  03-03-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Armed with some outdoor survival training, granola bars and pink rubber boots, 5- and 8-year-old sisters survived 44 hours in rugged Northern California wilderness before they were found dehydrated and cold but in good spirits on Sunday, authorities said.
  
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• U.S. Voters Don’t Want Socialist or Very Old President: Poll

  03-03-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll comes as Democrats line up for a chance to take on Trump in the 2020 presidential election.The survey suggests that 41 percent of voters would definitely or probably vote for Trump in 2020, against 48 percent who said they would vote for the Democratic candidate.Early polls have shown that among front-runners for the Democratic nomination are former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, who is still deciding whether to run, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, who has announced another presi
  
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• IS fighters put up fierce resistance to defend last pocket

  03-03-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants are desperately fighting to hang on to the last tiny piece of territory they hold on the riverside in eastern Syria, deploying snipers, guided missiles and surprise tunnel attacks. The resistance prompted a fierce pounding Sunday by the U.S-led coalition and its ground allies in their final push to end the extremist group's territorial hold.
  
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• Cisco CEO Suggests Fear of Huawei 5G Dominance Is Overblown

  03-03-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  “The current infrastructure around the world is built on a combination of communication suppliers from Europe, from China, from the U.S., everywhere,” Robbins said in a CNN interview on Sunday.The U.S. is seeking to discourage purchases of equipment from Huawei and is pressing European governments to do the same, saying it’s a gateway for Chinese spying.While major western equipment manufacturers specialize in different areas of next-generation mobile gear, Shenzhen-based Huawe
  
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• White House security chief calls Trump-Kim summit 'success'

  03-03-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  US national security advisor John Bolton denied Sunday that last week's nuclear summit with North Korea was a failure, despite President Donald Trump coming home empty-handed.A high-stakes second meeting to strike a disarmament deal with the North's Kim Jong Un broke up in disarray Thursday in Hanoi, without even a joint statement.
  
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• Estonian Reform Set to Return to Power With Populists Sidelined

  03-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The business-friendly Reform Party had 30.7 percent of the vote in an partial count on Sunday.Ratas’s Center party was in second with 20.2 percent and the euroskeptic EKRE party was in third with 17.5 percent.The results were from about 81 percent of ballots counted, based on a Bloomberg calculation from Electoral Commission data.
  
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• Democrats may have votes to block Trump's border emergency in U.S. Senate

  03-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he would vote in favor of a resolution to end President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border emergency declaration, according to a media report, likely giving Democrats the votes to pass the measure in the Senate.Trump, who has promised to issue his first veto if the Senate approves the resolution, declared an emergency last month in a bid to fund a wall along the border without congressional approval.While the Senate appears unlikely to muster the two-thirds
  
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• US, South Korea end spring military drills to back diplomacy

  03-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the U.S. are eliminating their massive springtime military drills and replacing them with smaller exercises in what they call an effort to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.
  
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• Flight data recorder recovered from fatal Texas cargo plane crash

  03-03-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The NTSB also posted two photos on Twitter showing the battered bright orange recorder found in the murky waters of Trinity Bay, near the small city of Anahuac.The Amazon Prime Air cargo plane operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings was flying to Houston from Miami when it nosedived into the bay, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.After the NTSB said on Friday that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 767 cargo jetlin
  
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• US lawmakers to demand documents in sweeping Trump probe

  03-03-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  US lawmakers will demand documents from Donald Trump's eldest son and a lifelong business associate as part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged abuses of office by the president, a leading Democrat said Sunday.US House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler told ABC political show "This Week" that Donald Trump Jr. and Allen Weisselberg, the sole trustees of The Trump Organization, were among 60 people and entities being targeted by the probe.The New York congressman said the requests
  
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• 'Let's go Venezuela!': Juan Guaidó calls for nationwide protests as he announces return to the country

  03-03-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela was yesterday in a state of anxious expectation as the country braced for the return of Juan Guaidó, the self-declared president locked in a deepening leadership standoff with Nicolas Maduro. Mr Guaidó has vowed to re-enter the country after slipping out to neighbouring Colombia to lead the attempted passage of aid just over a week ago. In violation of a travel ban, he risks arrest upon his return, a move that could tip the South American nation further into chaos after w
  
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• War horses: Syria's Arabian beauties plod way to recovery

  03-03-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A shadow of her former self after years of war, 11-year-old Arabian mare Karen stands quietly as a Syrian vet gently pushes a syringe into her pale grey neck."Karen used to be the beauty queen of all horses," says the vet, Ahmad Sharida.Weak and withdrawn, Karen is unable to even whinny.
  
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• Community BBQ raises money for family of 8-year-old killed in Selma crash

  03-03-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Loved ones gathered to raise money for the family of a young boy who died in a tragic car crash in Selma.
  
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• Fireballs and black smoke billow from final IS holdout in Syria

  03-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The rattle of guns, bomb blasts and black smoke -- a deluge of fire is being unleashed on the Islamic State's last Syrian stronghold by Kurdish-led and international forces."Watch out, it's coming!" Kurdish commander Hagit Qamishlo shouts to AFP journalists, from the terrace of a house that overlooks the battlefield some 800 metres away."Well played! That was a jihadist sniper position", Qamishlo relays into his walkie talkie.
  
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• The Latest: 2 young California sisters found alive

  03-03-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on two sisters who went missing from their home Friday (all times local):
  
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• Republican defections on national emergency set up Trump's 1st veto

  03-03-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says he will vote to block President Trump’s national emergency declaration — a move that likely gives the Senate enough votes to pass a resolution that would nullify the declaration.
  
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• SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully docks with ISS

  03-03-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The demonstration mission of SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked Sunday on the International Space Station, passing a key test before it can begin taking US astronauts into space.The docking of the capsule, which has only a dummy on board, was concluded at 1051 GMT, nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) over the surface of the Earth, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.A little over two hours later, the space station's three crew members -- American Anne
  
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• Roseanne Barr calls #MeToo accusers 'hoes,' slams Sen. Kamala Harris, Christine Blasey Ford

  03-03-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Roseanne Barr didn't hold back on the #MeToo movement in a new off-the-rails interview, verbally attacking Sen. Kamala Harris and many other women.
  
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• New Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid Trailer Reveals Lord Drakkon

  03-03-2019 20:03 via gamespot.com
  
  The newest Power Rangers console game, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, was announced toward the beginning of 2019. While information about the fighter has been scarce, a new trailer has revealed that a villain from the universe, Lord Drakkon, will be in the game.Lord Drakkon is an older, much crueler version of Tommy Oliver from an alternate reality. He rules over his Earth with an iron fist. Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid's take on Lord Drakkon seems to fit the description quite well. Y
  
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• Kill la Kill: IF Is Coming To Europe

  03-03-2019 19:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Kill la Kill The Game: IF was revealed at Anime Expo 2018 with an impressive yet brief trailer that showed series protagonist Ryuko Matoi going up against series antagonist Satsuki Kiryuin. Publisher Arc System Works and developer APLUS have kept relatively quiet about the game, but thanks to a new Twitter post, we've now learned that the 3D fighter is heading to Europe and will be available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.According to the official Twitter account for PQube Games--the UK-ba
  
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• The new phones are coming: The real-world impact of foldable screens and 5G

  03-03-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Foldables represent the next generation of mobile computing devices. By 2023, your current smartphone may look and feel like a technological dinosaur.
  
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• GOP Rep. Amash says he has a higher loyalty than Trump — to the Constitution

  03-03-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president doesn’t get to decide that he can override Congress simply because Congress doesn’t do what he wants,”Amash said Sunday.
  
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• Chile's Pinera slams UN's Bachelet for failure to condemn Maduro

  03-03-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Chile's President Sebastian Pinera sharply criticized his leftist predecessor and UN rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet Sunday for failing to condemn Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro for human rights violations."The high commissioner Michelle Bachelet still has not condemned the Maduro dictatorship for violating human rights in Venezuela.
  
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• Analysis: India, Pakistan de-escalate but triggers remain

  03-03-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan have pulled back from the brink of an all-out military confrontation over the contested Kashmir region.
  
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• Islamic State deploys car bombs in defense of last enclave

  03-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Capturing the besieged village in eastern Syria will be a milestone in international efforts to roll back the jihadists, whose self-styled "caliphate" covered roughly a third of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014.The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid landmines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.A Reuters witness spotted Islamic State militants ins
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido begins journey home from Ecuador

  03-03-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Guaido, who has spent the past few days touring Latin American nations to gain support, departed Salinas aboard an Ecuadorian air force plane headed for the port city of Guayaquil after meeting Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno on Saturday, Reuters witnesses said."Thank you to President Lenin for his deep support to our cause," Guaido said on Twitter.From Guayaquil it was not clear where he would fly to next.
  
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• Washington wants to know if Pakistan used U.S.-built jets to down Indian warplane

  03-03-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan and India both carried out aerial bombing missions this week, including a clash on Wednesday that saw an Indian pilot shot down over the disputed region of Kashmir in an incident that alarmed global powers and sparked fears of a war.A Pakistan military spokesman on Wednesday denied Indian claims that Pakistan used F-16 jets.Pakistan returned the captured Indian pilot on Friday in a high-profile handover Islamabad touted as a "peace gesture", which appeared to significantly dial down ten
  
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• Invectives old and new fill Trump's marathon speech at CPAC

  03-03-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of "the socialist nightmare," relitigated his crowd sizes back to the inauguration and took on "sick," ''lunatic" and "dirty" foes at every turn, earning him the unvarnished adoration of cheering conservatives.
  
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• Democrats target Trump Jr, Weisselberg and more as investigations grow

  03-03-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump hugs an American flag at CPAC.Democrats in the House of Representatives are stepping up investigations into Donald Trump’s potentially impeachable acts of corruption, obstruction of justice and abuse of power.On Monday the House judiciary committee, which is on the frontline of renewed Democratic efforts to hold the president accountable, will issue demands for documents from more than 60 people and entities.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido says he will return home after Ecuador visit

  03-03-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Guaido has spent the past few days touring between Latin American countries to muster support for his campaign to form a transition government and oust Maduro, whom he denounces as an illegitimate usurper."As for the next steps for Venezuelans, I announce my return home from Ecuador," Guaido told a news conference in the coastal town of Salinas alongside Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno.Guaido did not say when exactly or how he would return to Venezuela.
  
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• SpaceX's Crew Dragon test flight gets through the toughest bit without issue

  03-03-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX sent its Crew Dragon capsule skyward on Saturday for a crucial test of its ability to carry human passengers. Now, slightly more than 24 hours later, the next phase of the test has played out. It went well. The Crew Dragon capsule, designated Demo-1, was able to successfully dock with the International Space Station at roughly 3:00 a.m. ET. Although there was no crew aboard this time, SpaceX's reusable capsule is designed to carry up to seven astronauts to and from Earth's orbit.SEE ALSO:
  
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• Jesse Jackson says Trump would probably have been 'with the stormtroopers' on 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma

  03-03-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Jackson was attending the annual Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast, which also hosted several current Democratic presidential candidates.
  
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• Trump investigation: US House panel launches probe into possible obstruction by president

  03-03-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The US House Judiciary Committee will launch a probe into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by Donald Trump.Jerry Nadler, who chairs the committee, told ABC that the panel wanted to obtain documents from more than 60 people and entities as part of the investigation.Documents from Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son and Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, are among those wanted by the panel.
  
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• 'SNL' sends up Jussie Smollett, Patriots owner Robert Kraft in 'Shark Tank' spoof

  03-03-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  'Shark Tank: Lawyer Edition' helps celebrities like Jussie Smollett and Robert Kraft find the perfect lawyers on 'Saturday Night Live.'
  
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• 'Kim knew': top Republican contradicts Trump over Otto Warmbier's death

  03-03-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin McCarthy contradicted Trump who said he believes North Korean leader knew nothing about treatment of US studentA senior Republican has contradicted Donald Trump about whether Kim Jong-un is to blame for the death of an American citizen, saying: “North Korea murdered Otto [Warmbier] … I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong.” The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, spoke on Sunday, a day after Trump, without withdrawing his support for Kim’s denial of kno
  
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• 'Kim knew': top Republican contradicts Trump over Otto Warmbier's death

  03-03-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin McCarthy contradicted Trump who said he believes North Korean leader knew nothing about treatment of US studentA senior Republican has contradicted Donald Trump about whether Kim Jong-un is to blame for the death of an American citizen, saying: “North Korea murdered Otto [Warmbier] … I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong.”The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, spoke on Sunday, a day after Trump, without withdrawing his support for Kim’s denial of know
  
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• 800 Palestinians allowed to exit Gaza for Mecca pilgrimage

  03-03-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Some 800 Palestinians crossed Sunda from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on their initial stage of a pilgrimage to Mecca, the first time since 2014 Egyptian authorities have granted visas for such a trip.The pilgrims left at around dawn and were to be met by buses on the Egyptian side to bring them to Cairo's airport, from where they would fly to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, said a Palestinian official at the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip.Fifteen Gazans among the 800 were not authorised to cross, accordi
  
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• On brink of Syria defeat, Islamic State unleashes car bombs

  03-03-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Capturing the village in eastern Syria will be a milestone in international efforts to roll back the jihadists, whose self-styled "caliphate" covered roughly one third of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014.The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid land mines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.By midday, however, there was no sign of the battle being o
  
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• U.S. House panel begins probe of possible Trump obstruction

  03-03-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Sunday the panel would seek documents from more than 60 people and entities
  
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