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• Seth Ator Identified as Odessa Gunman

  01-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Department of Public SafetyODESSA, Texas—The gunman who killed seven people and injured roughly 20 others during a 20-mile trail of carnage across West Texas was identified by law enforcement on Sunday as 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator. Odessa Police refused to publicly identify Ator during a press conference on Sunday, stating that they were not going to give the gunman any notoriety for “what he did.” Police Chief Michael Gerke said the gunman’s name would be officia
  
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• Young Souls Is A Stylish Co-op Dungeon Crawl with An Amazing Sense Of Style | PAX West 2019

  01-09-2019 23:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Check out this gameplay for co-op RPG dungeon crawler, Young Souls, captured at PAX West 2019.
  
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• Young Souls Is A Co-op Dungeon Crawler With An Amazing Sense Of Style | PAX West 2019

  01-09-2019 23:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Check out this gameplay for co-op action-RPG dungeon crawler Young Souls, captured at PAX West 2019.
  
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• 7 dead, 22 injured in Odessa, Midland, Texas shooting: Here's what we know now

  01-09-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting occurred between Odessa and Midland, Texas, after a routine traffic stop turned violent around 3 p.m. local time Saturday.
  
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• Criminal justice reform turns to list of problem officers

  01-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the murder investigation.It would take years of digging and scores of public information requests from his attorneys to uncover evidence that several officers investigating the 1993 murder case were involved in criminal activity — information that wasn't shared with the defense.Defense attorneys have long run up aga
  
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• Reporter calls White House ‘unprofessional’ in cutting off his access

  01-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Suspended journalist Brian Karem accuses the Trump administration of mistreating the press.
  
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• Texas shooting toll rises to seven

  01-09-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll in a chaotic mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, the local police chief confirmed Sunday, adding that it might have been far worse had the shooter not been stopped before entering a crowded movie theater.Police had said Saturday that five people died in the frantic shootout spread out over several miles on roads between the cities of Midland and Odessa in the west of the state.At the end of the shooting spree, the assailant -- whose identity police said they were not ready
  
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• The Latest: Red Cross: 100 presumed dead in Yemen airstrike

  01-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Red Cross says more than 100 people are "presumed killed" in Yemen after airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention center run by the Houthi rebels.The head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, Franz Rauchenstein, says: "Witnessing this massive damage, seeing the bodies lying among the rubble, was a real shock.The Red Cross said the final death toll from Sunday's attack was not yet confirmed.
  
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• Trump Stumped by Category 5 Storm Bearing Down on East Coast

  01-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump expressed surprise as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and headed for the U.S. East Coast, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category Five,” Trump said during a televised briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.“I’ve seen some Category Fours, you don’t even see them that much,” he said. “But a Ca
  
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• Toddler hit in Texas shooting still wants to 'run around and play,' mother tells governor

  01-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A 17-month old toddler shot during a deadly gun rampage in West Texas suffered serious injuries to her mouth, lips and tongue, but still wants to "run around and play," the girl's mother told Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a text message on Sunday.Anderson Davis was among the 22 people wounded in a shooting on Saturday that claimed seven victims' lives, as well as that of the gunman.
  
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• Kashmiri militant calls for Pakistan military intervention in disputed region

  01-09-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send peacekeepers, after New Delhi revoked its autonomy last month."It's binding upon the armed forces of Pakistan, the first Islamic nuclear power, to enter India-occupied Kashmir to militarily help the people of the territory," Syed Salahuddin, who heads an alliance of over a dozen groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, said.
  
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• Calls to end inhumane border conditions aren’t enough. Ice must be abolished

  01-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  What is there to salvage in an agency that exists solely to hunt, catalogue and detain the most vulnerable among us? Ice’s violence is as systematic as it is cruel‘Abolitionist movements have always been discredited as impossible until they are realized.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThis summer, a coalition of award-winning authors came together with a plea to Congress: they called for an end to the inhumane conditions in detention centers, where w
  
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• Cutting it close: Florida's fate may be a matter of miles

  01-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  For Florida, just a handful of miles may make a huge difference in Hurricane Dorian's slow dance with the coast.The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.It could be within 100 miles of that point, which is why the hurricane center uses — and emphasizes — a shaded cone of uncertainty.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Netanyahu: Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah, but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles.
  
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• National Weather Service appears to correct Trump on Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama

  01-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian.," wrote the NWS. "We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama."
  
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• Relief for Angela Merkel as AfD held at bay in German regional elections

  01-09-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  There was relief for Angela Merkel on Sunday as the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) failed to make a widely forecast breakthrough in key regional elections. The AfD made significant gains in elections in two states in the former communist east, but fell short of winning first place amid a late surge for the established parties. Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) held onto first place in the state of Saxony with 32 per cent according to initial projections, ahead of
  
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• Odessa Victims Include Cops, a Baby, a High Schooler and a Postal Carrier

  01-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Among the seven people killed and roughly 20 were injured on Saturday when a gunman opened fire after a random traffic stop was Odessa High School student Leilah Hernandez, age 15. Ector County Independent School District confirmed that one of their students had died in the shooting before friends posted tributes on Facebook, saying they were heartbroken at the news that the young teen died. “We still don’t want to believe it,” Joanna Levva wrote on her Facebook page. “We
  
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• Trump rips into actress Debra Messing after the 'Will & Grace' star praised signs trashing the president

  01-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took a swipe at Hollywood actress Debra Messing after the “Will & Grace” star praised an Alabama church sign that read “A black vote for Trump is mental illness.”
  
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• Chemicals used in apparent suicide at San Jose hotel force evacuations

  01-09-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fairmont San Jose reopened late Saturday afternoon after four floors of the high-end hotel were evacuated that morning.
  
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• Hurricane pounds Bahamas with record fury

  01-09-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian tied the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to come ashore.
  
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• 'Very, very powerful': Trump briefed on Hurricane Dorian as storm becomes Category 5

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Sunday described Hurricane Dorian as "one of the biggest hurricanes that we've ever seen" as he took part in a FEMA briefing.
  
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• 'Congress has a lot of thinking to do' on gun control after Midland-Odessa shooting

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The shootings and deaths have brought mixed messages from Trump on gun control, and lawmakers have split on ways for Congress to address the issue.
  
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• Rio-Paris crash relatives finger Airbus in new report

  01-09-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday.The news comes a decade into a legal wrangle and weeks after French prosecutors recommended that only Air France face trial over allegations that it had known about the instrument problem on its Airbus A330 plane.On the night of the crash it is alleged the tubes frosted over and caused the speed sen
  
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• Odessa shooting: Texas lawmaker's defiant defense of gun rights sparks sharp debate

  01-09-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  State Rep. Matt Schaefer of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, says Texans need to turn to God, not gun control measures.
  
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• Afghan killer sparks far-right criticism in France

  01-09-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Jacquet said the knifeman had been first registered in France in 2009 as a minor, but travelled to Germany, Norway, Britain and Italy before returning to France in 2016 where he was granted temporary residency rights.France has been the victim of a string of Islamist-inspired terror attacks since 2015 that have cost hundreds of lives.
  
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• 7 dead, more than a dozen injured in Odessa, Midland, Texas shooting: Here's what we know now

  01-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting occurred between Odessa and Midland after a routine traffic stop turned violent around 3 p.m. local time Saturday.
  
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• 15 years on, relatives of Beslan massacre victims demand answers

  01-09-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the Beslan massacre on Sunday said they were still waiting for answers, 15 years after the tragedy that left over 330 dead including 186 children.Sunday marks the anniversary of the school siege in the town of Beslan in the Russian Caucasus when Chechen militants stormed the school, herding over 1,100 people into a gymnasium and rigging the building with explosives.The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 that Russia's handling of the siege had "serious failings"
  
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• Rapists who target drunk women cannot be charged with rape under New York law, prosecutor says

  01-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The scenario is unfortunately common: A woman goes to a bar and chooses to have several drinks. Later that night, she becomes a victim of sexual assault.In New York, Manhattan's top prosecutor says, the assaulter can not be charged with a sex crime because of a legal loophole stipulating that someone who becomes voluntarily intoxicated is not considered "mentally incapacitated" for purposes of giving consent.
  
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• Netanyahu says Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into southern Lebanon, after a week of growing tension raised fears of a new war with long-time enemy Hezbollah.
  
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• Here are the Apple products affected by Trump's latest move in the trade war with China (AAPL)

  01-09-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's tariff on Chinese imports goes into effect on September 1, impacting Apple products like AirPods and the Apple Watch.
  
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• O’Rourke: AK-47 and AR-15 owners will ‘have to sell them to the government’ if he becomes president

  01-09-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke said he would implement a sweeping government buyback policy for two types of assault rifles, including one commonly used in mass shootings across the U.S., if he were elected president in 2020.
  
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• Texas shooting toll rises to 7: local media

  01-09-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll in a mass shooting that unfurled chaotically on highways in western Texas has risen to seven, local media reported Sunday, citing authorities.Police had said Saturday that five people died and 21 were wounded in the extended shootout on roads between the cities of Midland and Odessa.The assailant died in a shootout with police outside an Odessa movie theater.
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slams 'Straight Pride' parade

  01-09-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rebuked Boston’s “Straight Pride” parade and its apparent lack of female participants, calling it an "'I-Struggle-With-Masculinity' parade."
  
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• RPT-Merkel allies suffer double blow in German regional elections

  01-09-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners bled support to the far right in two state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, dealing a double blow to her already unstable ruling alliance.Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) remained the largest party in Saxony, but saw their share of the vote drop by 7.4 points from the last election in 2014 to 32%, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming second, an exit poll for broadcaster ARD showe
  
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• Merkel allies suffer double blow in German regional elections

  01-09-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners bled support to the far right in two state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, dealing a double blow to her already unstable ruling alliance.Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) remained the largest party in Saxony, but saw their share of the vote drop by 7.4 points from the last election in 2014 to 32%, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming second, an exit poll for broadcaster ARD showe
  
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• Ceasefire in Syria at risk of collapse after US airstrike

  01-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The tentative ceasefire in northwestern ceasefire in Syria, the second in a month, threatened to unravel on Sunday after the US launched an airstrike targeting al-Qaeda figures near the city of Idlib.  At least 40 people were killed after a missile struck a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders at a base near Idlib on Saturday, just hours after a Russia-brokered ceasefire ended months of bombardment of Syria’s last significant anti-regime holdout. A spokesman for US Central Command sa
  
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• Pope Francis trapped in Vatican lift for 25 minutes

  01-09-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  It has long been claimed by supporters of the Catholic faith that God moves in mysterious ways.  But so, apparently, does Pope Francis's personal lift in the Vatican - which broke down on Sunday, trapping the world's most powerful clergyman inside for 25 minutes.  The 82-year-old pontiff had to be freed by Vatican firefighters after an electrical fault brought his tiny private lift to a halt inside the ornate Apostolic Palace.  He arrived about 10 minutes late for his regular Sund
  
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• Hong Kong protesters clash with police in airport and shut down roads as calls grow for British protection

  01-09-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Pro-democracy protesters obstructed access to the Hong Kong airport on Sunday after police arrested dozens the night before and deployed water cannon and tear gas in response to activists lobbing petrol bombs and bricks. Activists snarled road and rail links, erecting barriers and flooding stations en route to the airport, while shouting: “Stand with Hong Kong, fight for freedom!” Others drove slowly on purposes to hinder traffic. Some built barricades outsid
  
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• Trump says background checks would not have prevented recent gun violence

  01-09-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  As the United States grappled with yet another mass shooting event on Sunday, President Donald Trump said that background checks on gun purchasers would not have prevented recent gun violence in the country.A gunman near Odessa, Texas, killed seven and wounded 21 more after fleeing a traffic stop on Saturday.Trump made the remarks to reporters at the White House after returning to Washington from Camp David.
  
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• Iranian oil tanker pursued by US off the coast of Syria

  01-09-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. across the Mediterranean Sea slowed to a near-stop Sunday off the coast of Syria, where America's top diplomat alleges it will be unloaded despite denials from Tehran. The ongoing saga of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, comes as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers. Tehran is set to send a deputy foreign minister and a team of economists to Paris on Monday for talks over ways
  
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• Death toll in West Texas shooting rampage rises to 7

  01-09-2019 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The gunman has been identified as a white male in his 30s, but police have not released a name or possible motive.
  
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• West Texas gunman killed seven and wounded 22, including toddler

  01-09-2019 16:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said the second mass shooting in Texas in four weeks began on Saturday afternoon with a routine traffic stop and ended when the suspect, a white male in his 30s, was cornered by officers in the parking lot of a cinema complex.Police, motorists and shoppers were all caught up in the chaos that unfolded between the cities of Odessa and Midlandduring a busy Labor Day holiday weekend."There are no definitive answers as to motive or reasons at this point, but we are fairly certain that the sub
  
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• Simone Biles' brother charged in connection with triple murder in Ohio

  01-09-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The brother of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has been arrested in connection with a triple murder in Ohio.
  
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• US police fire pepper spray after pro-Trump 'Straight Pride' parade

  01-09-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  US police fired pepper spray Saturday after counter-demonstrators accused them of protecting "Straight Pride" advocates who support President Donald Trump, and refused to let officers re-open a road. The unrest came after the counter-protesters and "Straight Pride" group -- considered homophobic extremists by their opponents -- staged dueling rallies in Boston. Officers fired pepper spray and made several arrests.
  
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• Best PAX West 2019 Cosplay -- Cyberpunk 2077, Borderlands, Overwatch, More (Day 2)

  01-09-2019 16:34 via gamespot.com
  
  The Standout Cosplayers from Day 2 of PAX West 2019
  As PAX West continues, more attendees are showing their talent for crafting and presenting their cosplay creations. Our roundup of cosplayers from day 1 of PAX West 2019 saw several visitors showing off their passion for games like Warframe, Borderlands, and Overwatch. It was an eventful day, but things were just getting started for the convention.On the second day of PAX West 2019, we saw even more cosplayers at the show who paid tribute to th
  
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• Jacksonville, Florida experiencing large surf ahead of Hurricane Dorian

  01-09-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue Lt. Mikey Atkins on how his team is preparing for the Category 5 hurricane.
  
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• 1 dead, 8 sick in hazmat incident at San Jose hotel

  01-09-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say one woman has died and eight people have been sickened in a hazmat incident Saturday at a Northern California hotel. KTVU reports Saturday that guests of the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose reported smelling a chemical odor — similar to a rotten egg —and feeling faint, light-headed and short of breath. San Jose police Officer Gina Tepoorten says authorities are investigating the death as a suicide.
  
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• Israel fires across border after anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon

  01-09-2019 16:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said it was returning fire Sunday after anti-tank missiles were launched at its territory from Lebanon, raising fears of a serious escalation with Hizbollah after a week of rising tensions. "A number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards an (Israeli military) base and military vehicles," an Israeli army statement said. "A number of hits have been confirmed. (Israel's military) is responding with fire towards the sources of fire and targets in southern Lebanon." A
  
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• AFL-CIO president on impact of Trump administration's trade war with China

  01-09-2019 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Richard Trumka joins Chris Wallace on 'Fox News Sunday.'
  
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• UPDATE 1-Israel, Hezbollah exchange fire along Lebanon border

  01-09-2019 16:10 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Sunday anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into southern Lebanon.Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said its fighters destroyed an Israeli military vehicle, killing or wounding those inside.There was no immediate word from the Israeli military on any casualties.
  
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