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• Former Qatari Emir dies aged 84

  23-10-2016 23:12
  DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's former emir, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani died on Sunday, aged 84, Qatar's state news agency QNA reported. He ruled Qatar from 1972 until 1995 when he was deposed in a bloodless palace coup by his son Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the father of Qatar's current emir Sheikh Tamim. Sheikh Hamad handed power in 2013 to Sheikh Tamim in a rare abdication by a hereditary Gulf Arab ruler to try to ensure a smooth succession. The U.S.-allied state is small, with 2. ...
  
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• Sanaa air raids resume as Yemen truce expires, say residents

  23-10-2016 17:45
  Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce in Yemen's war expired, residents in the capital said. The ceasefire, agreed to allow for an increased flow of humanitarian aid, ended without renewal after a day of heavy fighting between the Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthi movement. Each side accused the other of repeatedly violating the truce and U.N. attempts to extend it before it lapsed appeared to have failed
  
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• Space station accepts 1st Virginia delivery in 2 years

  23-10-2016 14:19
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station received its first shipment from Virginia in more than two years Sunday following a sensational nighttime launch observed 250 miles up and down the East Coast.
  
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• Orbital ATK Cygnus Supply Ship Arrives at Space Station

  23-10-2016 14:00
  
  A Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday (Oct. 23), delivering science experiments and supplies for the station's six-person crew.
  
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• Algeria's ruling FLN party chief steps down

  23-10-2016 13:23
  By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - The long-standing chief of Algeria's ruling FLN party Amar Saadani has resigned just weeks after making accusations that a retired spy chief and a former prime minister had been French agents. Saadani, a close ally of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has often been critical of opponents, but analysts said he crossed a line when he openly criticised veterans of the independence war against France. Algeria is mostly still run by a generation of older politicians
  
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• Screen time guidelines for kids give parents the controls

  23-10-2016 12:00
  
  New recommendations for children’s media use are more nuanced than earlier guidelines, a change that reflects the shifting technology landscape.
  
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• U.S. presidential election uses hodge-podge of voting technology

  23-10-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Even though Americans in all 50 states will be voting for the same presidential candidates, they'll be making their choices in a variety of ways — and not all voting methods are created equal.
  
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• 'They should fess up:' Customers demand Apple find cure for iPhone 'touch disease'

  23-10-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  What's known as iPhone "touch disease" appears to be spreading and pressure is mounting for Apple to find a cure. However, the tech giant still refuses to talk about it.
  
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• One dead and three hurt in explosions in Japanese park

  23-10-2016 09:50
  The blasts - in a bicycle parking space and another in a car park - occurred just after 11.30am (3.30am BST) at Joshi Park, said the fire department in Utsunomiya, about 60 miles north of Japan's capital. Public broadcaster NHK quoted police as saying a suicide note had been found in one of the three cars that were burnt but they said the cause of the explosions was not known. According to NHK, police said one of the vehicles belonged to a 72-year-old former self defence officer who lived i
  
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• AI predicts outcomes of human rights trials

  23-10-2016 06:00
  
  (University College London) The judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have been predicted to 79 percent accuracy using an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers in UCL, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania.
  
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