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• National Chicken Wing Day: Get free wings Monday at Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop and more

  27-07-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  July 29 is National Lasagna Day and National Chicken Wing Day. We've rounded up deals and freebies at Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters, Wingstop and more.
  
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• Eric Shawn: Pres. Trump's bold plan for Middle East peace

  27-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Envoy Jason Greenblatt says 'The president wants to help the Palestinians.'
  
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• Our Former Long-Term Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Test Car Is for Sale

  27-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  We thought we'd heard the last of the somewhat problematic sports sedan after its 40,000-mile test, but here it is again.
  
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• Migration deal with US meets mixed reactions in Guatemala

  27-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump, who has pushed hard to slow the flow of migrants, said Friday that the "safe third country asylum" agreement would require would-be asylum seekers traveling through Guatemala to seek refuge there, not in the United States.Anyone failing to do so would be sent back to Guatemala.
  
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• Thousands protest in Romania over kidnapped 15-year-old girl

  27-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandra Macesanu called the European emergency number 112 three times, saying she had been kidnapped by a man while hitchhiking to her home village from the nearby southern town of Caracal.It took authorities 19 hours to locate and enter the premises where she was believed to be held, where they found what appeared to be human remains and jewelry.
  
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• Off-duty LAPD officer killed, 1 other person wounded in Lincoln Heights shooting

  27-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was killed in a Lincoln Heights shooting that left a second victim wounded, authorities said.
  
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• Journalists investigating Russia targeted by cyberattacks: ProtonMail

  27-07-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Reporters investigating Russian military intelligence have been targeted by highly sophisticated cyberattacks through their encrypted email accounts, with evidence suggesting Moscow was responsible, the email service provider ProtonMail and journalists said Saturday.The phishing attack, which sought to dupe users into sharing their ProtonMail passwords, was aimed at journalists from the award-winning website Bellingcat, which helped identify the agents who poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skri
  
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• You Might Not Get $125 From Equifax After All

  27-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  You may receive a much smaller chunk of change
  
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• Boko Haram kills 23 mourners after Nigeria funeral

  27-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Boko Haram gunmen on Saturday killed 23 mourners in Borno state in Nigeria's restive northeast after they attended a funeral, local militia and residents said.At around 1030 GMT, the attackers on three motorbikes opened fire on a group of men as they walked back from a funeral in Nganzai district near the state capital Maiduguri, local militia leader Bunu Bukar Mustapha said.
  
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• Trump Supports Labeling Antifa A ‘Major Organization Of Terror’

  27-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lent support to labeling Antifa a terrorist organization Saturday, calling the group a collection of “gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs.”“Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others),” Trump wrote. “Would make it easier for police to do their job!”It is unc
  
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• Man accidentally shot dead by own passenger in ‘failed drive-by attempt’

  27-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has died after being accidentally shot by his own passenger as he attempted to fire out of a car window, police say.Matthew Gibson, 26, was pronounced dead on 22 July after being shot in the head during the incident which prosecutors portrayed as a drive-by shooting gone bad in Park Manor, Chicago.Video footage from 21 July showed Gibson pulling alongside a white SUV that was waiting to make a left turn at around 5:40am, according to reports from the Chicago Sun-Times.As the car slowed his
  
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• Coast Guard Seizes 26,000 Pounds Of Cocaine In The Pacific Ocean

  27-07-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Coast Guard seized over 26,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $350 million from several drug busts throughout the Pacific Ocean, which it unloaded in San Diego Friday.The Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast intercepted six suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, Central and South America between late June and mid-July, according to a Coast Guard press release.“This was 26,000 of cocaine that will not make it to the main str
  
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• US soldiers now stationed inside migrant detention camp as ‘prison guards’

  27-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Soldiers are monitoring migrants at a detention centre in Texas, in what one congressman fears comes close to a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act, a cornerstone of US society.Under the 1878 federal law members of the army are prohibited from acting as a domestic police force.Active-duty troops are only allowed to help police officers under limited exceptions to the act, including when expressly authorised by law or by the constitution.But troops are currently keeping watch over detainees at a fa
  
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• France's Macron to host Putin ahead of G7 summit

  27-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed Saturday he had invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for talks on August 19, days before hosting a G7 summit.Macron said the meeting with Putin would take place at his summer retreat, the medieval fort of Bregancon near the village of Bormes-les-Mimosas on France's Mediterranean coast.
  
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• Georgia could be ordered to use paper ballots over fears electronic voting machines vulnerable to hacking

  27-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A US state could be forced to use paper ballots at its next election over fears its electronic voting machines are vulnerable to hacking.According to district judge Amy Totenberg, Georgia allowed its election system to grow “way too old and archaic” and now has a deep hole to dig out of to ensure the constitutional right to vote is protected.Ms Totenberg is in the difficult position of having to decide whether the state, which plans to implement a new voting system next year, must im
  
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• US man allegedly wanted to kill American soldiers, arrested while trying to join Taliban

  27-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A 33-year-old man faces terror charges after his arrest at a New York airport while allegedly en route to join the Taliban.
  
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• Russian police arrest more than 1,000 in Moscow protest

  27-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police cracked down fiercely Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 who were protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council.Police also stormed into a TV station broadcasting the protest.State news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti cited police as saying 1,074 were arrested over the course of the protests, which lasted more than seven hours.
  
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• Trump signs ‘cruel and illegal’ deal with Guatemala to stop asylum seekers getting to US

  27-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has struck a highly controversial deal with Guatemala, which will prevent some migrants fleeing their home countries from submitting asylum applications to the US.Refugees travelling to the US who enter Guatemala, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, will now be required to apply for asylum protection from the Central American nation instead of at the US border.Under the deal Guatemala has been declared a so-called “safe third country”.The Central American na
  
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• Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger buried 3 bodies at Boston home now on sale for $3.5M

  27-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A house where James "Whitey" Bulger killed and buried three people is located in a South Boston neighborhood that's experiencing a real estate boom.
  
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• Epstein case: judge agrees to keep documents on 2008 plea deal secret

  27-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Court grants prosecutors’ request amid concern that releasing materials could hinder investigation of financier’s associatesJeffrey Epstein, left, looks on during a bail hearing, in a 15 July court sketch. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/ReutersA judge in New York has granted a request from prosecutors to keep secret documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 sexual abuse plea deal, on the grounds that the materials could hamper their investigation of others in the f
  
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• Moscow police arrest hundreds at rally for fair elections: monitor

  27-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested more than 800 people as they gathered in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair local elections, a protest monitor said, following the latest in a wave of demonstrations after authorities blocked opposition candidates from the ballot paper.The demonstration came a week after the capital's biggest protest in years, when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September.Since then investigators have raid
  
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• Student group says Harvard failed to address racist messages

  27-07-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An association of black students at Harvard Law School says the university "woefully failed to act" after four students received offensive emails and text messages from an anonymous sender.The Harvard Black Law Students Association issued a statement Friday criticizing the school after it was unable to determine who sent the "hateful, racist and sexist" messages, and after officials refused to share details of an investigation with students who received the messages.Harvard officials say the cas
  
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• Police Union calls on NYPD commissioner to resign amid incidents of water dousing of officers

  27-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  NYPD Sgt. Joe Imperatrice says nobody should ever be able to get in somebody's safe space like that.
  
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• Former Governor Ricardo Rossellό isn't the only weight on Puerto Rico

  27-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  For far too long, the rules have been written for Puerto Ricans, not by them. Congress must give Puerto Rico the self-determination we deserve.
  
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• US citizen says he lost 26 pounds under 'inhumane' conditions at border facility in Texas

  27-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An 18-year-old U.S. citizen from Dallas says he lost 26 pounds while being held for more than three weeks at a U.S. border detention center.
  
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• Police arrest Scottish rape suspect who may have faked death

  27-07-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Scottish man who authorities say faked his death off California's Carmel coast to avoid rape charges back home has been arrested, authorities announced Friday.Kim Vincent Avis, 55, also known as Ken Gordon-Avis, was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week and is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, Cmdr. Kathy Pallozolo with the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said.The Associated Press has identified him as Kim Gordon.
  
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• Sebastian Kurz accused of secretly destroying hard drives in oligarch far-Right scandal

  27-07-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fresh questions are being raised over former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz's bid for re-election after he was drawn back into the heart of a scandal over a fake Russian oligarch that brought his government down. Mr Kurz, who was, at 32, one of the world's youngest democratically elected leaders, lost his grip on power earlier this year when he was forced lost a no confidence vote and was forced into a snap election. At the time, he distanced himself from leaked videos showing his far-Right
  
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• Fire Emblem: Three Houses - How To Make The Most Of Your Time

  27-07-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  To be the best professor in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, you have to know how to spend your activity points effectively. Here's how to balance motivation, your professor level, and bonds with your students at the monastery.
  
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• Falcom President Talks The Future Of Legend Of Heroes, And Localizing Trails Of Cold Steel 3

  27-07-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Coming from Nihon Falcom, The Legend of Heroes has always embraced the traditional formula that embodies a classic JRPG. While the series has never quite reached the heights of Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, it's still cultivated a passionate fanbase in Japan, and even managed to carve out a niche in western markets. It's seen many stories and casts of characters come and go over the years. However, it's always stuck close to its group of young heroes as they face more significant challenges, gr
  
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• US drug busts in Pacific net cocaine worth $350 mn

  27-07-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Coast Guard have seized $350 million worth of cocaine in a series of operations in the Pacific Ocean, captured in a dramatic video showing suspected drug smugglers frantically tossing their cargo from a speeding boat.The Coast Guard released images late Friday of the high-speed chase by one of its cutters, one of six recent interdictions in international waters of the Pacific Ocean, off the Mexican and Latin American coasts.The Coast Guard did not specify how many arrests were made in the
  
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• Russian police crack down hard on Moscow election protest

  27-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police cracked down hard Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting hundreds of others protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council.OVD-Info, an organization that monitors political arrests in Russia, said 638 people were detained.Moscow police earlier said 295 people had been taken in, but did not immediately give a final figure.
  
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• Tamarin Seeks To Rekindle The Spirit Of Classic 3D Platformers

  27-07-2019 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  When looking at Tamarin's debut trailer, fans of classic 3D platformers from the Nintendo 64 will know the type of game they're in for. Coming from Chameleon Games, the self-published throwback platformer is a tribute made in collaboration with former developers from Rare. Aiming to recapture the same stylings of games from yesteryear, Tamarin channels the same vibe found from games like Donkey Kong Country 64 and Jet Force Gemini, the latter of which showed somewhat of a darker edge to Rare's 3
  
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• Paris Digs in on Digital Tax as Trump Floats Wine Tariffs

  27-07-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- France stuck to its plan to tax big multinational tech companies, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might impose tariffs on French wine.“It’s in all of our interest to move toward a just taxation worldwide for digital companies,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in Paris. Wine tariffs and the digital tax are “completely different issues” and shouldn’t be lumped together, he told reporters on Saturday.It&rs
  
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• Moscow police arrest hundreds at rally for fair elections

  27-07-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested more than 500 people as they gathered in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair local elections, the latest in a wave of protests after authorities blocked opposition candidates from the ballot paper.The demonstration came a week after the capital's biggest protest in years, when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September.Since then investigators have raided the homes and headquarters of several
  
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• Donald Trump says he has 'safe third country' deal with Guatemala

  27-07-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The agreement is designed to reduce asylum claims in the United States.
  
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• The Latest: 2 American teens jailed in Italian cop killing

  27-07-2019 16:34 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian detention order says two American teenagers from California are being held in jail for investigation of murder in the fatal stabbing of a police officer.The detention order was displayed on Italian state broadcaster RAI and it named the two suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder.Police confirmed that the detention order shown on state TV was authentic.
  
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• Trump attacks Elijah Cummings' Baltimore district as 'far worse' than southern border

  27-07-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump also called Cummings "a brutal bully" while slamming his Baltimore district as "far worse" than the southern border.
  
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• AP Explains: How big a threat is an electromagnetic attack?

  27-07-2019 16:29 via news.yahoo.com
  When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power outage on an "electromagnetic attack" carried out by the U.S.Blackouts are a regrettably frequent part of life in Venezuela, where the electric grid has fallen into serious disrepair."In Venezuela, it's a lot easier for him to say we did something to him than he did it to himself," said Sharon Burke, senior adviser at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, and for
  
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• The Latest: Hong Kong police warn protesters of arrest

  27-07-2019 16:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Hong Kong have warned protesters that they may be arrested if they refuse to leave a gathering around a train station.Police said in a statement Saturday evening that most protesters who participated in a rally in the city's Yuen Long area earlier in the day had already left, but that some remained near the mass transit station.The station was the site of a brutal mob attack last Sunday night, when unknown white-clad man beat up protesters and other commuters.
  
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• Raw video: Grasshoppers swarm Las Vegas strip

  27-07-2019 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts say an invasion like this is tied to recent wet weather and has occurred five or six times over the past 30 years.
  
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• Woman dead, another in critical condition after violent crash into tree

  27-07-2019 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Police believe the driver was speeding, causing her to lose control.
  
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• Young asylum seekers in US easy prey for gangs

  27-07-2019 16:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Young Central American asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries are increasingly falling prey to the notorious MS-13 gang in the United States, authorities say.The youngsters, most of them from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, are proving to be easy targets for the gang which takes advantage of their vulnerability as immigrants."They are young victims who very likely left their countries in the hope that they would find security and prosperity in the United States,
  
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• Everything You Wanted to Know About the New Sniper Rifles the Military Is Getting

  27-07-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  While a handful of lucky Marines with 1st Marine Expeditionary Force units are already rocking the Mk 13 Mod 7 (the Corps’ first new sniper system since the adoption of the M40 during the Vietnam War) in their kits, there are plans to field the rifle to II MEF and II MEF units through 2019 — and Marines already love it. With the fiscal year 2019 defense budget put to bed without a bloody fight among lawmakers for the first time in recent memory, there are plenty of goodies for rank-a
  
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• Polish rights campaigners gather in Warsaw to condemn homophobic violence

  27-07-2019 15:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Over 1,000 people gathered in Warsaw on Saturday in support of LGBT rights a week after the first pride march in the city of Bialystok was marred by violence.Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has made LGBT rights a campaign issue ahead of parliamentary elections expected in October, with many politicians arguing pride marches promote unnecessary public displays of sexuality.Disapproval over displays of LGBT rights spilled over on the streets of Bialystok last Saturday.
  
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• Iran ships stranded in Brazil to depart this weekend: officials

  27-07-2019 15:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Iranian ships stranded off the coast of Brazil for weeks will set sail this weekend, officials said Saturday, after a court ordered state oil giant Petrobras to fill up the vessels.The bulk carriers have been stuck at Paranagua port in the southern state of Parana since early last month after Petrobras refused to provide fuel for fear of breaching US sanctions.Petrobras would not confirm if it was complying with the Supreme Court order handed down Thursday for it to refuel the ships.
  
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• Attacks on security forces in Pakistan kill 10 soldiers

  27-07-2019 15:21 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 10 soldiers have been killed in separate attacks within hours on Pakistan security forces.A military vehicle was ambushed and six soldiers killed in the country's mountainous northern areas bordering Afghanistan on Saturday.The attack came after four paramilitary officials patrolling in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province were killed on Friday in an ambush by unidentified militants, the military said.
  
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• Disney World guest's angry rant about 'childless' millennials flooding the park goes viral

  27-07-2019 15:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The anonymous mom says people without children should be banned from the parks.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Mueller's words twisted by Trump and more

  27-07-2019 15:07 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump listened to Robert Mueller testify to Congress this past week, then misrepresented what the former special counsel said.Trump seized on Mueller's testimony to claim anew that he was exonerated by the Russia investigation, which the president wasn't.Let's subpoena all of the records having to do with Hillary Clinton and all of the nonsense that went on with Clinton and her foundation and everything else.
  
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• Watch Today's QuakeCon Live Streams Here: Fallout 76, Doom, ESO, And More

  27-07-2019 14:59 via gamespot.com
  
  QuakeCon is now in Day 2 continues the "Year of Doom," both to celebrate the groundbreaking FPS classic's 25th anniversary and to look ahead to the coming release of Doom Eternal. A series of panels include a few looks at Doom, along with fellow Bethesda-published games Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online.GameSpot will be streaming the show as it all goes down, so make sure to bookmark this page and check back to watch the panels live. The first livestreams will begin today, Friday, July 26, wit
  
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• Climate change warning as Arctic Circle burning at record rate

  27-07-2019 14:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An unprecedented outbreak of wildfires in the Arctic has sent smoke across Eurasia and released more carbon dioxide in two months than the Czech Republic or Belgium does in a year. As 44C heatwaves struck Europe, scientists observed more than 100 long-lasting, intense fires in the Arctic in June, the hottest month on record, and are seeing even more in July, according to Mark Parrington of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Mostly in Alaska and Russia, the infernos have coll
  
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