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• Mourners pay tribute to New Zealand victims, await burials

  17-03-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people paid tribute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims' bodies.
  
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• Ethiopian official: 'Clear similarities' between catastrophic Boeing plane crashes

  17-03-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  As Ethiopians mourned those killed in last Sunday's plane crash, the transport minister said there are 'clear similarities' with an October accident.
  
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• Tank fire sends black smoke plume across Houston

  17-03-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A storage tank fire on the Houston Ship Channel sent a plume of black smoke across the eastern half of the city on Sunday forcing residents in the suburb of Deer Park, Texas, to remain indoors.A giant storage tank containing volatile naphtha at Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) Deer Park site continued to burn six hours after the blaze broke out at about 10:30 a.m. local time (1530 GMT).Ships were continuing to move along the ship channel which connects refineries and chemical plants in Housto
  
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• Halo 5 Adds Pizza Skin And More After Halo: MCC Confirmed For PC

  17-03-2019 23:35 via gamespot.com
  
  Halo developer 343 Industries has a pizza-themed gift for all Halo 5: Guardians players. Available now in the Xbox One shooter is the "Pizza Party" Req pack, which includes a pepperoni pizza-themed weapon skin, Last Slice, as well as the Hot Pie banner.Why pizza? The studio originally teased Halo: The Master Chief Collection for PC, which has now been confirmed, by referencing pepperoni pizza. When the game was officially announced for PC last, excited fans sent pizzas to 343's offices. They sen
  
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• Diane Kruger, 42, flaunts abs four months after giving birth: 'The female body is AMAZING'

  17-03-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Diane Kruger proudly flaunted her chiseled abs on Instagram Saturday, four months after giving birth to her daughter with actor Norman Reedus.
  
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• Donald Trump 'ready to leave nearly 1,000 troops in Syria'

  17-03-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The US is preparing to leave nearly 1,000 troops in Syria, it was reported last night. Mr Trump announced a complete withdrawal in December, ending the US involvement in Syria, a country he described as little more than “sand and death”. It was an announcement which triggered the resignation of James Mattis, the Defence Secretary. Within weeks Mr Trump backtracked, amid pleas from both Republican and Democrats in Washington, who feared that pulling out all US forces could allow
  
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• Trump stance on Muslims, Fox host in spotlight after mosque shootings

  17-03-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The violence against Muslims in New Zealand on Friday put a spotlight on Trump's rhetoric about Islam and revived criticism of his handling of white supremacist violence."Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro," Trump wrote in Twitter posts in which he blamed Democrats for trying to "silence a majority of our Country" and advocated supporters to "stop working soooo hard on being politically correct."At the same time, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney appeared on Sunday television news show
  
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• BlackRock Sees Emerging Stocks Almost Recouping Last Year's Loss

  17-03-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In the face of slowing global growth, the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise rates this year, causing the dollar to weaken and improving the flows into emerging markets, said Fraser, global emerging-market equities fund manager.“Markets should recoup most, if not all, of their losses from last year,” Fraser, who is based in Hong Kong and helped manage the firm’s approximately $40 billion of active EM equities as of the end of 2018, said in a phone interview.
  
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• Two Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish PKK: military

  17-03-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Clashes between the Iraqi army and Kurdish PKK militia killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded five of the militants on Sunday, the Iraqi military said in a statement.The clashes took place in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq after the PKK fighters were denied passage through an army checkpoint, the statement said, adding that the militants drove a vehicle into one soldier and attacked the checkpoint.The PKK did not immediately comment.
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro Asks Cabinet Ministers to Offer Resignations

  17-03-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “President @NicolasMaduro has asked the entire Executive Cabinet to offer their charges for resignation for the purpose of a profound reorganization of the methods and operation of the Bolivarian government to shield the Homeland of Bolivar and Chavez from any threat,” Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a tweet.Maduro is facing international pressure to step down amid one of the worst economic and political crises in recent times.
  
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• Report: Suspected Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo was arrested, then released by Sacramento police in 1996

  17-03-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of at least 13 murders and numerous sexual assaults, was once arrested and released by Sacramento police.
  
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• Pet Sematary Review: A Terrifying And Twisted Dark Comedy

  17-03-2019 22:25 via gamespot.com
  
  After the second trailer for the remake of Pet Sematary dropped, there were some divisive reactions. Remakes in general are not always well received, and for every good Stephen King adaptation like It, we get a Dark Tower or two. With the new Pet Sematary, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer take some major departures from the source material that made people think the marketing for the film gave away everything. But the Starry Eyes directors have more aces up their sleeves. This new
  
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• Boeing 'finalizing' anti-stall update after Ethiopia crash

  17-03-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing is finalizing a software update and pilot training linked to the MCAS anti-stalling feature, under scrutiny after two 737 Max 8 crashes, the company's CEO said on Sunday."Boeing is finalizing its development of a previously-announced software update and pilot training revision that will address the MCAS flight control law's behavior in response to erroneous sensor inputs," the US-based aircraft manufacturer's president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, said in a statement.
  
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• Battle rages for last Islamic State Syria enclave

  17-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Falling bombs raised smoke over Islamic State's last enclave in east Syria on Sunday, obscuring the huddle of vehicles and makeshift shelters to which the group's self-declared "caliphate" has been reduced.Another 34,000 civilians were evacuated.
  
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• Dozens charged in college admissions racket

  17-03-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice calls it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted.
  
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• Annabelle 3's Title Revealed In First Teaser

  17-03-2019 22:04 via gamespot.com
  
  While horror franchises aren't exactly new, James Wan's Conjuring series is more ambitious than most, and has been slowly building an MCU-style interconnected horror universe for several years. Following last year's hugely successful The Nun, 2019 sees the return of spooky Victorian doll Annabelle, for her third movie. A short teaser has now been released, which confirms the title of the new film.The teaser has no footage from the movie, but it does reveal that it is named Annabelle Comes Home.
  
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• Ethiopian Airlines black boxes show similarities to Lion Air crash: ministry

  17-03-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Both planes were Boeing 737 MAX 8s, and both crashed minutes after take-off after pilots reported flight control problems.Concern over the plane's safety caused aviation authorities worldwide to ground the model, wiping billions of dollars off Boeing's market value.Investigators are trying to determine why the aircraft plunged into a field shortly after take off from Addis Ababa, searching for possible similarities to an October Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro plans 'deep restructuring' of government: VP

  17-03-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is planning a "deep restructuring" of his government, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Sunday, as the country recovers from a prolonged blackout amid a power struggle with the opposition."President @NicolasMaduro has asked the entire executive Cabinet to put their roles up for review in a deep restructuring of the methods and functions of the Bolivarian government, to protect the fatherland of Bolivar and Chavez from any threat," Rodriguez wrote on Twitt
  
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• Middle finger protected by the constitution, court rules

  17-03-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court says a driver who showed a police officer her middle finger is protected by the First Amendment.
  
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• White House aide says 'absurd' to link mosque shooter, Trump

  17-03-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official said Sunday that President Donald Trump "is not a white supremacist" and attempts to tie him to the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter are "absurd."
  
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• Trump's 'emergency' is already doing serious harm. Courts must end it if Congress can't.

  17-03-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump failed to convince Congress that something was urgently needed. This is not an 'emergency.' The facts must at some point make a difference.
  
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• U.S. agencies have not validated Ethiopian Airlines black box data: U.S. officials

  17-03-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ethiopian Transport Ministry said the data from the black boxes was successfully recovered and teams from the United States and Ethiopia had validated it.Citing analysis of the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of the March 10 disaster, the spokesman said the crash had "clear similarities" with October's Lion Air crash.Investigators are trying to determine why the aircraft plunged into a field shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, searching for poss
  
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• The Story Behind Devil May Cry 5's Soundtrack, And The Certified Banger Devil Trigger

  17-03-2019 20:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Though Capcom's character-action game series has always had a particular sound for its gothic-horror-aesthetic, the current game, Devil May Cry 5, features music that really goes the extra mile to get players to feel something more as they're working their way up to SSS rank. GameSpot recently interviewed DMC5 composers Cody Matthew Johnson and husband-wife team Casey and Ali Edwards about the making of the action game's main tracks for its cast of characters. During this talk, they spoke about
  
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• New Zealand mosque shooter 'acted alone'; sent manifesto to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

  17-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in New Zealand said on Sunday that the right-wing terrorist behind a massacre at two mosques in Christchurch was acting alone, as it emerged the killer's manifesto had been sent to the country's prime minister minutes before the tragedy unfolded. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, sent a racist, rambling manifesto to prime minister Jacinda Ardern in which he denied being linked to any organisations and said he was acting on his own. The document, which praised President Donald
  
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• Graves prepared as New Zealand looks to bury mosque massacre dead

  17-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of graves were being dug in a Christchurch cemetary on Monday for the 50 worshippers killed in two mosque attacks, as families clamoured for the return of their dead.As New Zealand grappled to come to terms with the slaughter -- the worst attack on Muslims in a Western country -- tales of heroism, suffering and incredible grace emerged.Farid Ahmad, whose 44-year-old wife Husna was killed as she rushed back into a mosque to rescue him, refused to harbour hatred toward the alleged gunman, A
  
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• Israel's top court disqualifies far-rightist, approves Arab party for ballot

  17-03-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court rulings were widely expected and unlikely to shake Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to craft a rightist alliance that might secure him a record fifth term.The court found in favor of appellants who argued that Michael Ben-Ari of the Jewish Power party had displayed anti-Arab racism.Other members of Jewish Power, a small faction that is part of an ultra-nationalist list which last month forged an election alliance with Netanyahu's Likud party, remain eligible to run.
  
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• George Clooney defends 'kind and smart' Duchess Meghan against 'unjust' treatment by press

  17-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  George Clooney said of the former Meghan Markle: "She’s a really kind and smart, intelligent young woman..."
  
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• Attorney General Bill Barr set to decide whether or not the Mueller report will be released to the public

  17-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis says he believes AG Bill Barr will make the Mueller report public.
  
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• Meet the Patton: Why the M60 Tank Is Still A Killer After Decades on the Battlefield

  17-03-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The M60 Patton was the mainstay of the U.S tank fleet in the 1960s and 1970s, before being replaced by the M1 Abrams tank currently in service. However, more than five thousand Pattons remain in service in the armies of nineteen countries
  
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• North Korea—Now What After Hanoi?

  17-03-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington must double down on alliances and not offer more concessions.
  
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• Ethiopian Airlines crash: What is the MCAS system on the Boeing 737 Max 8?

  17-03-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, confirmed by black box data, have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is an automated safety feature on the 737 Max 8 designed to prevent the plane from entering into a stall, or losing lift.Both the Lion Air jet, which crashed in October, killing 189 people, and the Ethiopian Airlines aircraft, which went down a week ago
  
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• New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shows resolve, empathy after mosque massacre

  17-03-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  "You may have chosen us," Jacinda Ardern said to the mosque massacre suspect. "We utterly reject and condemn you."
  
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• Kroger ends its unmanned-vehicle grocery delivery pilot program in Arizona

  17-03-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Kroger ends its unmanned-vehicle grocery delivery pilot program in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week. It was said to be the first of its kind in the U.S.
  
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• What will the Mueller report say?

  17-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn says he does not believe the Mueller report will show any signs of Trump-Russia collusion.
  
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• Rep. Doug Collins: Loretta Lynch has some explaining to do

  17-03-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins says that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told former FBI Director James Comey to consider Hillary Clinton email scandal a ‘matter’ not an investigation.
  
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• NASA administrator Bridenstine wants everyone to know he still has faith in the SLS

  17-03-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Well, that certainly didn't take long! Just a day after NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine alluded to the possibility of flying the new Orion crew capsule's first experimental trip around the Moon using a pair of commercial rockets instead of NASA's own Space Launch System which is still in development, he's issued a new statement assuring everyone that the SLS is still a major part of NASA's future.In a new memo sent to all NASA employees and contractors, Bridenstine clarifies his statement and
  
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• O'Rourke candidacy asks: Can a moderate white male win the 2020 Democratic primary?

  17-03-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Outside, some waited in the cold, hoping to catch a glimpse of him. By that measure, his tour across eastern Iowa last week was largely a success.O'Rourke, a former three-term U.S. congressman from Texas, became a celebrity last year when his longshot bid to unseat U.S. Senator Ted Cruz drew national attention and a torrent of money.O'Rourke, 46, is a wealthy, white man from a conservative-leaning state who is more moderate on several key issues than many of his competitors.
  
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• Trump slammed for 'silence' on white supremacist threat

  17-03-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats led by an Arab-American lawmaker attacked President Donald Trump's "silence" on the rise of white supremacy Sunday as reaction to the New Zealand mosque massacre spilled into a heated US debate over religious and racial bigotry.With controversy swirling over Trump's tepid response to the massacre, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was forced to deny any affinity between the president's anti-immigration rhetoric and the accused Christchurch shooter's extremist views."The presiden
  
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• Syria force says 'thousands' still inside last IS pocket

  17-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  US-backed forces said Sunday thousands of people were believed to still be inside the last Islamic State group enclave in eastern Syria, as they sought to flush out die-hard fighters with airstrikes and shelling.Tens of thousands of dishevelled women, children and men have streamed out of a small pocket in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border in recent weeks -- and they still keep coming.The huge numbers have flummoxed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and slowed down their offensive ai
  
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• Stacey Abrams considers 2020 presidential campaign on race and voter suppression as Democratic field grows

  17-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her bid to become governor of Georgia last autumn, has a series of decisions to make.Losing campaigns are not the normal launching pad for a run for the White House.Ms Abrams, who was the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, sat down last week with Steven Ginsberg, The Washington Post's national editor, and talked about the choices, the timetable and what kind of presidential campaign she would run.
  
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• Pirro show off the air Saturday night

  17-03-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump tweets in defense of Judge Jeanine.
  
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• The Latest: Flooding damages 60 buildings at Air Force base

  17-03-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• Whoa. Pi has been calculated out to 31.4 trillion decimals, Google announces on Pi Day

  17-03-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao, with the help of the company's cloud computing platform, set a world record calculating Pi to 31.4 trillion digits.
  
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• 24-year-old man in custody in murder of Gambino crime family boss Frank Cali

  17-03-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Anthony Comello, 24 was taken into custody for the shooting death earlier this week in Staten Island of reputed Gambino boss Francesco "Frankie Boy" Cali, police say.
  
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• Trump renews attacks on late senator John McCain

  17-03-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out at the late war hero John McCain for a second straight day on Sunday, amid reports an aide to the US senator had shared a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia back in 2016.A day earlier, the president drew a stern rebuke from McCain's daughter Meghan after he attacked McCain -- a fellow Republican who remained one of Trump's toughest critics right up until his death of brain cancer last August.In a tweet, Trump quoted the independent counsel Ken Starr
  
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• UK government warns it might not hold pivotal Brexit vote

  17-03-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  British leader Theresa May's government warned Sunday it might not hold a planned Brexit vote this week unless it feels it can secure a win that avoids a lengthy delay to pulling out of the EU.A delay of 21 months could give Britain time to decide to either keep much closer EU ties or have Brexit reversed in a new national poll -- two possibilities welcomed by a range of European officials.
  
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• President Trump urges Fox News to bring back Jeanine Pirro, 'keep fighting' for Tucker Carlson

  17-03-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  "We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” the Fox News statement read. But Trump urged Fox News to reinstate Pirro, whom he’s personally known for years.
  
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• Germany's Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank to hold talks on merger

  17-03-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, and domestic rival Commerzbank have decided to open talks on a possible merger, the lenders said Sunday in an announcement that followed months of speculation about such a combination.
  
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• US-backed forces admit to 'difficulties' beating IS in Syria

  17-03-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed forces fighting to recapture the last Islamic State group outpost in Syria admitted on Sunday they were facing "difficulties" defeating the extremists, saying they were being slowed by mines, tunnels and concerns over harming women and children among the militants.
  
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• Ethiopians Mourn 157 Plane Crash Victims in Mass Funeral

  17-03-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopians Mourn 157 Plane Crash Victims in Mass Funeral
  
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