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• REFILE-UPDATE 1-UK's May says greater risk of no Brexit the longer it takes to find compromise

  06-04-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Saturday that the longer it takes to find a compromise with the opposition Labour Party to secure a parliamentary majority for a Brexit deal, the less likely it is that Britain will leave the European Union.May has so far failed to secure backing for her negotiated agreement with Brussels as some Conservative lawmakers and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her minority government, have voted it down."The fact is that on Brexit
  
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• UK's May says greater risk of no Brexit the longer it takes to find compromise

  06-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Saturday that the longer it takes to find a comprise with the opposition Labour Party to secure a parliamentary majority for a Brexit deal, the less likely it is that Britain will leave the European Union.May has so far failed to secure backing for her negotiated agreement with Brussels as some Conservative lawmakers and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her minority government, have voted it down.
  
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• Theresa May Makes Another Appeal to Find Way to Brexit Blueprint

  06-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  “It would mean letting the Brexit the British people voted for slip through our fingers.May is battling to contain a backlash from within her Conservative Party over her decision to work with Labour Party leader Corbyn, someone she’s spent three years deriding.
  
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• Venezuela street rallies show deep divide in power struggle

  06-04-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rival political factions took to the streets across Venezuela on Saturday in a mounting struggle for control of the crisis-wracked nation, where U.S.- backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó is attempting to oust socialist President Nicólas Maduro.
  
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• Thieves steal hundreds from donation boxes from church in Howard Beach, Queens

  06-04-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are searching for the people who were caught on camera stealing money from donation boxes inside a Queens church.
  
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• Barr's former deputy attorney general reacts to criticism over handling of Mueller report

  06-04-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  George Terwilliger, who severed as William Barr's deputy attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration, reacts to the battle between Democrats and the DOJ over the Mueller report.
  
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• For American Jews, Trump is key figure in Israeli election

  06-04-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn't on the ballot for Israel's national election, yet he's a dominant factor for many American Jews as they assess the high stakes of Tuesday's balloting.
  
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• Libya PM accuses rival of betrayal over Tripoli offensive

  06-04-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Libya's UN-backed government Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday accused his rival Khalifa Haftar of betraying him over a military offensive against the capital Tripoli which risks plunging the country into civil war.Forces loyal to the Libyan commander have pressed on with their assault despite international calls to halt hostilities.For the first time, forces backing the GNA launched air strikes earlier Saturday on Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) -- which vowed to retal
  
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• Obama warns progressives to avoid 'circular firing squad' as Democrats prepare for 2020 showdown

  06-04-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Barack Obama has urged progressives in the US to avoid becoming part of a “circular firing squad” that takes aim at people who do not share all their views.In what will be interpreted as a comment about the nature of the rivalry between different factions within the Democratic Party, the former president stressed the need for compromise.“The way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you,” he said at an event in Berlin h
  
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• Venezuelans protest as Guaido declares 'greatest escalation of pressure'

  06-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition supporters thronged the streets of Caracas and other cities on Saturday to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government, as massive blackouts and the collapse of water supplies further exacerbated a growing political crisis.The United States meanwhile has stiffened its economic sanctions against the government, and one top US official on Saturday warned Venezuela's military that it must protect the rights of peaceful protesters.
  
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• U.N. to hold Libya conference as planned despite surge in fighting: envoy

  06-04-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  G7 foreign ministers warned eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar to halt his thrust on Tripoli, menacing the internationally recognized government based there, or face possible international action.Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) said on Friday its forces had advanced into the capital's southern outskirts and taken its former international airport.Its spokesman Ahmed Mismari said 14 LNA troops had been killed so farThe offensive by the LNA, which is allied to a parallel administr
  
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• Trump administration 'needs 2 years' to identify all the migrant children separated from families at border

  06-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration claims it needs up to two years to identity and locate an unknown number of migrant children who were separated from their families at the US border as part of the so-called “zero tolerance” policy.Federal judge Dana Sabraw last year put an end to the controversial practice of splitting children from their parents and criminally prosecuting the adults, as part of a tactic to dissuade migrants from Central America trying to enter the country. He ordered that 2
  
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• Attorney: Former OU president Boren met with investigators

  06-04-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The attorney for former University of Oklahoma President David Boren says Boren met with investigators for the university who are looking into allegations that he sexually harassed male subordinates.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Israel's Netanyahu says plans to annex settlements in West Bank if reelected

  06-04-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likely to enrage Palestinians and the Arab world.In an interview with Israeli Channel 12 News three days ahead of the April 9 poll, Netanyahu was asked why he had not extended sovereignty to large West Bank settlements, as Israel did without international recognition in east Jerusalem and the Golan Heigh
  
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• Iran's Khamenei urges Iraq to force out U.S. troops 'as soon as possible'

  06-04-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iraq on Saturday to demand U.S. troops leave "as soon as possible", during a visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi that showed off Tehran's strong influence in Baghdad despite U.S. pressure.Iran and the United States have been competing for clout in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, an enemy of both countries.
  
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• A 2016 hangover: Some Bernie Sanders supporters still upset

  06-04-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It was hard to miss Cheri Pichone's excitement about Bernie Sanders' second presidential run. She showed up to a recent Iowa rally decked out in Sanders gear, complete with a figurine of the Vermont senator and progressive icon.
  
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• Iran to blacklist U.S. military if Washington designates Guards as terrorists: MP

  06-04-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran may put the U.S. military on its terror list if Washington designates the Iranian elite Revolutionary Guards as terrorists, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday.The United States is expected to designate the Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organization, three U.S. officials told Reuters, marking the first time Washington has formally labeled another country's military a terrorist group."If the Revolutionary Guards are placed on America's list of terrorist groups, we will put
  
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• New Jersey high school opens every Friday night to keep students off streets

  06-04-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  "I haven't lost any more kids to gun violence since the start of the school year," said the school's principal.
  
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• Lori Loughlin's daughter 'very frustrated with her parents' in wake of admissions scandal: Report

  06-04-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Olivia Jade is blaming her parents for her bad PR as she works to rebuild her own brand, according to People magazine.
  
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• Try this $19 Crock-Pot before you buy a $100 slow cooker

  06-04-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Multi-cookers like the ones made by Instant Pot are fantastic, but they're also definitely overkill if you only plan to use them as slow cookers. So many people do that, and it's a huge waste of money! Check out the Crock-Pot 6-Quart Cook & Carry Oval Manual Portable Slow Cooker instead. It's a fantastic 6-quart Crock-Pot that has amassed hundreds of 5-star ratings on Amazon, and it's on sale right now for just $19 and change!Here are the key details from the product page:* 6-quart portable
  
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• Britain's courts are open to abuse by wealthy men, says woman sued for Facebook defamation

  06-04-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  When Nicola Coates was pushed against a sofa by her husband who put his hands on her throat and "tried to strangle" her she thought it would be one of the most terrifying experiences of her life. In fact, those fleeting moments in which she feared that she might die were just the beginning of a much bigger ordeal. Her description of the attack on Facebook, written in the heat of the moment as she struggled to come to terms with spending Christmas apart from her son, was later dissected
  
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• UK opposition leader: I'm waiting for May to move Brexit 'red lines'

  06-04-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  With Britain due to leave the bloc on April 12 and no sign of her minority government being able to pass a deal through parliament on its own, May turned to Labour Party leader Corbyn in recent days in the hope of securing a bi-partisan agreement.A deal with Corbyn could be May's last chance to deliver Brexit without either a long delay or leaving with no deal at all."I'm waiting to see the red lines move," he told the BBC.
  
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• Barack Obama warns progressives to avoid 'circular firing squad'

  06-04-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  * Remarks come as Democrats battle for 2020 nomination* Former president was addressing young Europeans in GermanyBarack Obama addresses a town hall of young leaders from across Europe at an Obama Foundation event in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/ReutersBarack Obama warned on Saturday that US progressives risk creating a “circular firing squad” at a time when prospective presidential candidates are competing fiercely against each other to run against Donal
  
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• Telltale Devs Open Up About Finishing The Walking Dead And Leaving A Legacy Behind

  06-04-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The sudden closure of Telltale Games was one of the most shocking stories of the games industry in 2018. But in the time after the closure, publisher Skybound Games worked with key members of Telltale Games to finish The Final Season for The Walking Dead. Following the completion of the series, which will be the final game for all existing developers at Telltale Games, the studio's creative director Kent Mudle and Skybound Games CEO Ian Howe spoke with GameSpot about finishing the long-running a
  
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• Afghanistan summons Pakistan diplomat yet again over PM's comments

  06-04-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The Afghan government summoned a Pakistan diplomat to explain Prime Minister Imran Khan's latest remarks on ongoing Afghan peace talks, as tensions flared between the neighboring countries once again.Afghanistan's ministry of foreign affairs summoned the diplomat to object about remarks that it deemed "explicit interference" in Afghan affairs, the ministry's spokesman, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, said on Twitter.It marks the fourth time in about a month and a half that Kabul has demanded an explanation
  
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• President Trump says has not read Mueller report

  06-04-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had not read Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report investigating contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia that his Democratic opponents say should be released in full."I have not read the Mueller Report yet, even though I have every right to do so," Trump wrote on Twitter."Only know the conclusions, and on the big one, No Collusion."U.S. Attorney General William Barr has said he plans to make public a redacted copy of the nearly 400-page inv
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. President Trump says has not read Mueller report

  06-04-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had not read Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report investigating contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia that his Democratic opponents say should be released in full."I have not read the Mueller Report yet, even though I have every right to do so," Trump wrote on Twitter.U.S. Attorney General William Barr has said he plans to make public a redacted copy of the nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 electi
  
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• 25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? 6 villages try

  06-04-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  MBYO, Rwanda (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbor with a machete.
  
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• You Don’t Have To Go To War To Fire A Machine Gun From A Helicopter Anymore

  06-04-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  We have the video to prove it.
  
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• Trump struggles with a growing problem on the border

  06-04-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions are rising, fingers are pointing and the search for solutions is becoming increasingly fraught.
  
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• Pet Sematary (2019) - Book To Movie Differences

  06-04-2019 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The new Pet Sematary movie makes some pretty significant changes to Stephen King's original book. But what exactly does it do differently? We break down the new remake and analyse the major differences to the novel.
  
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• Timmothy Pitzen: Ex-convict charged with pretending to be long-missing boy

  06-04-2019 16:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A former convict accused of pulling a cruel hoax by pretending pretended to be a missing boy from Illinois has been charged with making false statements.Brian Rini, 23, had claimed he was 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen, who went missing in 2011 after his mother killed herself when he was six-years-old. He said he had escaped from an eight-year ordeal at the hands of sex traffickers.But Mr Rini’s claims were debunked earlier this week after DNA tests confirmed he was not the long-lost boy.The
  
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• Can Libya's strongman Hafter capture Tripoli?

  06-04-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The sudden offensive against Tripoli by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has taken pro-government forces and the international community by surprise.Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army launched the assault on Thursday as UN chief Antonio Guterres visited Tripoli ahead of a planned conference later this month to hammer out a roadmap for delayed parliamentary and presidential elections.Haftar believes that "a national conference is a forum in which all the actors must... show they are wil
  
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• Erdogan's ruling AKP ready to accept election recount results

  06-04-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP will accept the results of local election recounts in Ankara and Istanbul no matter which party is declared the winner, a party spokesman said on Saturday.The AKP won most votes nationwide in last Sunday's election, but results showed the ruling party lost Ankara and was also narrowly defeated in Istanbul in what would be one of their worst setbacks in a decade and a half in power.Electoral authorities are conducting a recount in scores of dist
  
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• The Latest: Russia FM opposes attempts to lay blame in Libya

  06-04-2019 16:37 via news.yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — The Latest on developments in Libya (all times local):
  
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• Ilhan Omar: New York man charged with threatening to kill Muslim congresswoman

  06-04-2019 16:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been charged with threatening to kill one of the first Muslim women to serve in the US Congress. Patrick Carlineo Jr was arrested after placing a call to Ilhan Omar's office in which he allegedly called the Democrat a “terrorist” before threatening to shoot her, federal prosecutors said. The FBI said that the 55-year-old sounded angry during the call to the Washington DC office of the of Minnesota representative, but he “spelled his name correctly and provided contact
  
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• When a Ferrari 488 Spider Becomes an Ambulance

  06-04-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A crosstown adventure featuring a friend with peanut (and Ferrari) envy.
  
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• How does President Trump really feel about Joe Biden?

  06-04-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump tells Griff Jenkins in an exclusive interview at the southern border that if Obama and Biden had done a good job, then he wouldn’t be president.
  
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• Philips Hue white LED bulbs are somehow down to $10 on Amazon, today only

  06-04-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Have you been toying with the idea of a Philips Hue smart lighting setup in your home? Well today is definitely the day you should pull the trigger because Amazon is running a crazy one-day sale on all sorts of different refurbished Philips Hue LED bulbs. You'll find pretty much everything you might be looking for among Saturday's one-day deals, but the star of the show here has to be the Philips Hue White A19 LED Bulb 4-Pack for just $39.99 -- that's only $10 a bulb, which is unheard of! You ca
  
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• Turkish opposition says it's leading after half Istanbul ballots recounted

  06-04-2019 16:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's main opposition party said on Saturday its candidate for mayor of Istanbul retained his narrow lead over President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party candidate after recounts in nearly half of the city's ballot boxes.The AKP, hurt by a slowing economy, is reeling from its apparent loss of Istanbul, Turkey's commercial hub, and the capital Ankara, in Sunday's local elections.In power nationally since 2002, the AKP and its Islamist predecessors have dominated Turkey's two biggest cities for a quar
  
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• Libyan strongman's forces say targeted by air strike

  06-04-2019 16:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said Saturday they had been targeted by an air strike, as fresh fighting flared south of Tripoli."We strongly condemn the air raid... in the Al-Aziziya region" by a plane, which had taken off from western Misrata, said the media office of Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).Forces in Misrata are mostly loyal to Libya's internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), which has been battling Haftar for control of the war-t
  
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• France says G7 mostly agreed except on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian issue

  06-04-2019 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations broadly agreed on issues during a two-day meeting, but were unable to bridge differences on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how to deal with Iran, France's top diplomat said on Saturday."Despite the crisp air of Dinard, we couldn't overcome some of our differences," Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said at the end of a two-day meeting in western France."I think the talks were constructive and pleasant both in tone and in the fundamentals."L
  
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• Last flight leaves Ataturk as Istanbul switches airports

  06-04-2019 15:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The mammoth transfer between the two hubs, described by Turkish authorities as unprecedented in scale and speed, was already largely complete a little more than 24 hours after it began before dawn on Friday.The new Istanbul Airport, costing some $8 billion and one of several mega-projects championed by President Tayyip Erdogan, will initially be able to handle 90 million passengers a year, close to the world's largest existing airport capacity.Overnight hundreds of trucks carried equipment such
  
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• WWE 2K19's Million Dollar Challenge Was Weird, Wonderful, And Hilarious

  06-04-2019 15:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Prior to NXT Takeover: New York on Friday, April 6, 2K Games held the Million Dollar Championship tournament for WWE 2K19, with the semi-finals taking place at WWE Axxess and the finals at the Takeover preshow during Wrestlemania week. What we expected was a standard, run-of-the-mill tournament. What we got was the most entertaining non-PPV event of the entire week.At Axxess, semifinalists Gregory Davis from Jacksonville, Florida; Stephan T. Benson from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; David Hoey fro
  
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• Will Jussie Smollett be forced to pay back the $130,000 he owes the city of Chicago for their investigation?

  06-04-2019 15:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Deroy Murdock says if Jussie Smollett was smart he would pay back the $130,000 the city of Chicago has requested before the city sues him for triple that amount.
  
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• The biggest thing Apple needs to improve for the iPhone 11 to keep pace with Android

  06-04-2019 15:01 via news.yahoo.com
  No matter how you try to spin it, there's no getting around the fact that iPhone sales have been stagnant over the past few years. Despite some respectable upgrades over the past few years -- the introduction of Face ID and a brand new form factor with the iPhone X being two prime examples -- the simple reality is that consumers are holding onto their devices for longer. Suffice it to say, the 2-year upgrade cycle that helped transform Apple into the most profitable company on the planet is now
  
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• MeToo founder Tarana Burke condemns Joe Biden’s ‘inexcusable’ responses to unwanted touching allegations

  06-04-2019 14:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The founder of the MeToo movement has hit out at Joe Biden for jokingly referring to complaints made against him by women about unwanted physical contact. Tarana Burke, who founded the movement against sexual harassment and assault, said the former vice president’s light-hearted response was “disrespectful and inexcusable”.Ms Burke, who first started using the phrase “MeToo” to raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual misconduct in 2006, said the women were ri
  
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• Rwanda's post-genocide guide keeps the memories alive

  06-04-2019 14:17 via news.yahoo.com
  (This version of the April 5th story corrects date in paragraph 2 to April 6 not April 7)By Clement UwiringiyimanaKIGALI (Reuters) - Every weekday, Aline Uwase Turatsinze gets up, washes her face and rides a motorbike to the site where more than 60 members of her family were buried after being murdered.The quiet woman with the long braids is a guide at Rwanda's genocide museum, a memorial to the killing that claimed 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu lives after the then-president's plane was shot
  
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• Penn State hazing sentence sends a message to frat boys, college students: Grow up

  06-04-2019 14:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity didn't invent the ritual that killed Timothy Piazza. It's a rite of passage we've tolerated for far too long.
  
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• Crises Intensify on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Weekend Reads

  06-04-2019 14:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Spiking avocado prices wouldn’t be the worst of it. Giuliani Earns Millions Telling Countries to Boost Police ForcesWhile he represents the president for free, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani travels the world consulting, giving speeches, and building his brand, Stephanie Baker reports.How Has Maduro Survived?With Lots of Help From Cuban OperativesThe men who ripped Carlos Guillen’s toenails out and tightened a plastic bag over his face at counterintelligence headq
  
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