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• Puerto Rico braces for wave of mosquito-borne Zika virus

  27-02-2016 21:44
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Leilani Dominicci has all the typical worries of pregnant women plus a new one spreading across Puerto Rico: the fear she will become infected with the Zika virus and put her baby at risk.
  
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• Rouhani, Rafsanjani lead Iran assembly ballot - early results

  27-02-2016 21:06
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and key ally and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani are leading the race for membership of the influential Assembly of Experts, early results released on Saturday showed. Rafsanjani was topping the ballot, with the pragmatist Rouhani second, the results showed.
  
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• Solar Impulse plane makes first maintenance flight in Hawaii

  27-02-2016 20:38
  
  The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 has made a successful test flight in Hawaii, where it has been grounded for repairs on its round-the-world trek, the Swiss-based project said Saturday.
  
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• Reformists sweep most of Tehran's parliamentary seats - early results

  27-02-2016 19:12
  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian reformists won 29 out of the 30 seats reserved for the capital Tehran in parliamentary elections, early results released on Saturday showed, with hardliners winning the single remainder. (Reporting by Samia Nakhoul, Editing by William Maclean)
  
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• Top Iran reformist leads parliament race in Tehran - early results

  27-02-2016 18:57
  Early Iranian election results show senior reformist Mohammed Reza Aref leading the race for parliamentary seats among candidates in Tehran, the interior ministry said. A ministry statement said Aref "so far based on the counted votes is at the top of the list followed by five (other) reformists." Seventh on the list was a senior conservative, it said, according to votes tallied to date. Aref, a Stanford-educated former presidential candidate and minister, who served as vice-president to the for
  
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• Rouhani: Iran election has given government more power - IRNA

  27-02-2016 18:43
  TEHRTAN (Reuters) - Iran's election has given the government more credibility and clout, President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying by official media on Saturday, after reformists allied to him made gains in a contest for parliament and a leadership body. “The competition is over. It’s time to open a new chapter in Iran’s economic development based on domestic abilities and international opportunities," the official IRNA news agency reported him as saying. He added that the
  
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• VIDEO: Rise in butterfly numbers 'inspirational'

  27-02-2016 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of Monarch butterflies travelling thousands of kilometres south for winter is 'inspirational' conservationists say.
  
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• Pick-and-pay TV is on the way: What you need to know about 'skinny' cable

  27-02-2016 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The end of big cable bills is nigh. Maybe. Here's what you need to know about the "skinny" TV offerings coming to Canada.
  
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• Rafsanjani, leading Iran assembly vote, hails end of contest - IRNA

  27-02-2016 16:22
  Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday urged all factions to work together after initial election results showed the veteran powerbroker leading polls to become one of Tehran's delegates to the influential Assembly of Experts. "The competition is over and the phase of unity and cooperation has arrived," state news agency IRNA quoted him as saying. Rafsanjani's allies, including President Hassan Rouhani, also performed well in the Assembly of Experts vote in Tehran.
  
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• Iran's Rouhani, top ally Rafsanjani lead Assembly of Experts race - IRNA

  27-02-2016 16:22
  Supporters of Rouhani, who championed the nuclear deal, are pitted against hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni, who are deeply wary of detente with Western countries. In the capital Tehran, 13 out of the top 16 Assembly of Experts candidates were on a list supported by Rafsanjani, although some of them also had the support of conservatives.
  
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• Britain too small to be effective outside EU, warns leading scientist

  27-02-2016 09:40
  
  One of the UK's leading scientists has warned against leaving the European Union, saying the country "cannot afford to be an island" in research.
  
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• Inside America's battle on wildlife trafficking

  27-02-2016 07:15
  
  Carlos Pages knows how to take precautions before he opens a crate; the last thing the wildlife inspector wants is to find a deadly cobra loose -- again -- at Miami International airport.
  
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• Monarch butterfly population surges in Mexico

  27-02-2016 01:12
  
  The monarch butterfly population has soared in its Mexican winter sanctuary this season, marking a recovery for the threatened species that migrates across North America, officials said Friday.
  
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• Angola says proposes U.N. arms embargo on South Sudan

  27-02-2016 00:52
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Angola said on Friday it has proposed that the United Nations Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, where more than 10,000 people have been killed in a two year civil war sparked by a political dispute between the country's leaders. The United Nations said last week that South Sudan's warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by President Salva Kiir and his
  
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