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• Pentagon Weighs More Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen

  26-03-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  As the administration debates how to confront Iran, some in the Pentagon favor ratcheting up support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign against Tehran-backed Houthi rebels.
  
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• Bahrain breaks Iran-linked 'terrorist' cell behind bus attack: report

  26-03-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Bahrain said on Sunday it had broken an Iranian-linked "terrorist cell" suspected of involvement in a bomb attack on a police bus in February and plotting to assassinate senior officials, state news agency BNA reported.The agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying that the 14-member cell was working under direct supervision from two exiled Bahrainis living in Iran, one of them recently designated by the United States as a "global terrorist".BNA said that six of the arrestees receive
  
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• Britain's May to press for strong union on Scotland visit

  26-03-2017 23:37 via yahoo.com
  
  By Elizabeth PiperLONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will press her case on Monday for a strong union in Scotland, using a visit to staff working on international aid to say "there is no limit to what we can do" when Britain works together.May is battling to keep the United Kingdom together after Britain's vote to leave the European Union revealed deep divisions, with England and Wales voting for Brexit, while Scotland and Northern Ireland supported staying in the bloc.Just da
  
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• 'Still one of us': 92-year-old gets Purple Heart from WWII

  26-03-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  
  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 92-year-old North Carolina man has finally received the Purple Heart he earned more than 70 years ago while fighting in Belgium during World War II.
  
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• Brazil anti-corruption protests draw weaker turnout

  26-03-2017 23:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Brazilians furious at corruption demonstrated Sunday in support of a politically explosive probe into high-level embezzlement and bribery, but turnout was significantly lower than at previous protests.The long-planned day of nationwide demonstrations kicked off in the capital Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, before shifting to the nation's biggest city Sao Paulo.Protesters, many wearing the yellow shirts of the country's beloved football team or draping themselves in the Brazilian flag, said a huge
  
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• 1 dead, 15 injured in Cincinnati nightclub gunfight

  26-03-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A gunfight broke out inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday, leaving one man dead and 15 others wounded after a dispute among several patrons escalated into a shootout, authorities said.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 26, 2017

  26-03-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  A man waves traditional daggers, or jambiyas, as he attends with supporters of the Houthi movement and Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a rally to mark the two-year anniversary since the military intervention by a Saudi-led coalition, in Sanaa, Yemen; police officers detain an opposition supporter during a rally in Vladivostok, Russia; Balinese people carry giant effigies in the form of the devil, whose local name is “Ogoh-ogoh,” during a parade before Nyepi Day, t
  
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• Apple's Claims That Hacking Tools Are Outdated Are False, Whistleblower Site Says

  26-03-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  WikiLeaks has been slowly releasing the CIA hacking tools, created to spy on people through smart televisions, smartphones and other household technological devices.
  
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• The Latest: Police: 'No apparent reason' for Vegas shooting

  26-03-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting on a bus along the Las Vegas Strip (all times local):
  
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• Conflicting casualty figures a week after Iraq Mosul blast

  26-03-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  By Hamuda Hassan and John DavisonMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Conflicting accounts emerged on Sunday about an explosion in Iraq's Mosul a week ago after a U.S.-led coalition strike against Islamic State that local officials say collapsed buildings, killing and burying many people.Iraq's military said 61 bodies had been recovered from a destroyed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but that there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike."Civil defense ha
  
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• After United Airlines incident, women share stories of being shamed for their clothing

  26-03-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  In response to United Airline's legging-gate, women are speaking out.  Two young girls wearing leggings were banned from a flight on Sunday morning due to a violation of the airline's internal dress code. The situation, which was live-tweeted by activist Shannon Watts, sparked outrage from thousands on social media who called out the company for policing the girls' attire.   Author Dana Schwartz was one of those that spoke out against United Airlines, and asked women on Twitter to shar
  
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• Protests nationwide bring thousands to Russia's streets

  26-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia’s opposition, often written off by critics as a small and irrelevant coterie of privileged urbanites, put on an impressive nationwide show of strength Sunday with scores of protest rallies spanning the vast country. Hundreds were arrested, including Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic.
  
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• The Latest: Bulgaria's Socialist leader concedes election

  26-03-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The Latest on Bulgaria's election Sunday: (all times local):
  
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• France's Le Pen says the EU 'will die', globalists to be defeated

  26-03-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  By Michaela CabreraLILLE, France (Reuters) - The European Union will disappear, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen told a rally on Sunday, promising to shield France from globalisation as she sought to fire up her supporters in the final four weeks before voting gets underway.Buoyed by the unexpected election of Donald Trump in the United States and by Britain's vote to leave the EU, the leader of the eurosceptic and anti-immigrant National Front (FN) party, told the rally in Lille that
  
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• Syrian opposition 'fed up with terrorists', seeks help against Assad

  26-03-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tom MilesGENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition rejects terrorism and is "fed up" with banned militants but they cannot be stopped if Syria continues evicting populations of besieged areas, opposition negotiator Basma Kodmani said on Sunday.Syria's government has always cited the fight against terrorism to justify its part in a six-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands, and brands all its opponents and their backers as terrorists and sponsors of terror.The opposition's chief negoti
  
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• Ted Koppel to Sean Hannity: You’re bad for America

  26-03-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Ted Koppel says Fox News host Sean Hannity is bad for America.On “CBS Sunday Morning,” the veteran newsman told Hannity that the audience he attracts is unable to distinguish between the divisive political rhetoric that marked the 2016 presidential campaign and the truth.“You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts,” Koppel told Hannity.
  
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• New arrest over London attack as govt eyes WhatsApp

  26-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  British police investigating a deadly attack on parliament made a new arrest Sunday as officials set their sights on accessing WhatsApp, the heavily-encrypted messaging service that was used by the killer.The latest arrest was a 30-year-old man who was detained in the central city of Birmingham on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, London's Metropolitan Police said.A dozen people have been arrested since Wednesday's attack by 52-year-old Khalid Masood who deliberately ran down pedestrians on
  
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• Britain's May to set out plans to reclaim legislative sovereignty

  26-03-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May will set out how her government plans to restore sovereignty over Britain's laws on Thursday, publishing a detailed paper on ending "the supremacy of EU lawmakers".A day after the British leader is due to launch formal divorce negotiations with the European Union by triggering Article 50 of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, May's government will publish a formal policy document on its "Great Repeal Bill".The repeal bill will convert EU law into British law, a process the gover
  
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• Syria US-backed fighters take IS-held airport: spokesman

  26-03-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, on Sunday seized a military airport from the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria, a spokesman said.The capture of Tabqa airbase comes as the alliance prepares an attack on IS's de facto Syrian capital Raqa, seeking to effectively surround the city before launching its assault.SDF forces are also battling for the nearby Tabqa dam, held by IS, which was forced out of service on Sunday after its power station
  
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• Egypt sentences 56 in migrant boat disaster case to prison

  26-03-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court sentenced 56 defendants Sunday in the case of a boat carrying migrants that capsized off the coastal city of Rosetta in September, killing more than 200 people.
  
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• Judge says Pulse lawsuit may be tossed out of federal court

  26-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge says a lawsuit brought by victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre against the gunman's employer and wife may be tossed out of federal court.
  
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• Biden regrets not being president, but stands behind decision not to run

  26-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden admits that when he looks at the White House, he can’t help but wonder what could have been.
  
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• Fresh election or direct rule looms as Northern Ireland talks fall apart

  26-03-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ian GrahamBELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland could be set for a fresh election or a return to direct British rule of the province after the two main parties in negotiations to form a new government said on Sunday that talks had run their course without success.The British province's nationalist and unionist parties have until Monday to form a new power-sharing government after snap elections this month or risk decision-making being taken back to London for the first time since 2007.Sinn Fei
  
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• Merkel's party easily beats centre-left in state poll

  26-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party easily won a regional election Sunday, dealing an early blow to centre-left hopes of ending her more than decade-long reign.In the Saarland state vote held six months before a general election, Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) won 40 percent against 30 percent for the Social Democrats (SPD), according to early results by public broadcasters.The result spelt a five-point boost for the CDU over the SPD, which has served as the unhappy junior partner to the
  
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• Galaxy S7 Just Hit Lowest Price Yet

  26-03-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The Galaxy S8 is almost here, and you know what that means. The deals are starting to roll in for the Galaxy S7, which is still a great smartphone pick.The Galaxy S7 is still an awesome Android phone. Credit: Sam Rutherford
  
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• Tesla’s Model 3 dashboard won’t be as futuristic as we hoped

  26-03-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  
  This past Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk dashed the hopes and dreams of prospective Model 3 owners with just a few simple tweets. Tempering expectations, Musk emphasized that Tesla's upcoming Model 3 will not be more advanced -- in any capacity -- than the company's flagship Model S.
  "Model 3 is just a smaller, more affordable version of Model S [with] less range & power & fewer features," Musk said. "Model S has more advanced technology." Musk later added that the Model 3 will not fea
  
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• Le Pen plan to jettison euro spooks French business

  26-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  The euro -- and her fervent wish to withdraw from it -- is a central theme of every stump speech by French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, topping her list of 144 election pledges.Le Pen calls the single European currency a "a knife that you stick in a country's ribs to force it to do what its people don't want to do".The leader of the National Front (FN) blames the euro for driving up prices, hurting exports and adding to France's already colossal trade deficit.
  
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• EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming

  26-03-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump in the coming days will sign a new executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to curb global warming, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday.
  
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• Rewriting the Rules of Presidential Succession

  26-03-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  A project begun after 9/11 assumes new urgency after the 2016 election—creating a more sensible plan for what happens when a chief executive steps aside.
  
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• United Airlines bans 2 girls with leggings from flight because they weren't 'properly clothed'

  26-03-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  
  United Airlines is in hot water after a dress code incident on Sunday morning.  In a series of live tweets, activist Shannon Watts explained that two girls who were wearing leggings were asked by the United Airlines gate agent to either change clothing or not board their flight to Minneapolis. SEE ALSO: Teenagers spot fire on plane flying overhead, avert major disaster 1) A @united gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight from Denver to Minneapolis because spandex is no
  
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• One killed, 15 wounded in Ohio nightclub shooting

  26-03-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Gunfire erupted in a crowded Ohio nightclub early Sunday after a personal dispute boiled over, killing one person and wounding at least 15 as partygoers scattered into the night, authorities said.The gunmen remained at large following the shooting at the Cameo nightclub in Cincinnati that Police Chief Eliot Isaac said was packed with revelers."Several local men got into some type of dispute inside the bar and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals," Isaac told reporters.
  
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• Watch the US Navy test its ultra-powerful electromagnetic railgun

  26-03-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Anyone who's played a futuristic shooter since the dawn of video games knows that when you see something called a "railgun" you're in for a real treat. Well, the US Navy built a railgun of its very own, and it just showed off its remarkably powerful creation in a new video of its test firing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=106&v=Pi-BDIu_umo
  Railguns like the one the Navy has built trade chemical propellants like gunpowder for the sheer power of electricity, generating e
  
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• Berkeley killing renews debate over gender pronouns

  26-03-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Pablo Gomez Jr. was a University of California, Berkeley, senior majoring in Latino studies and a prominent campus activist when authorities say he stabbed to death a popular elementary-school teacher.
  
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• Boko Haram raids stoke fear of fresh attacks

  26-03-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Boko Haram Islamists raided a village in northeast Nigeria, in the latest rampage to steal food and medical supplies, as fears grew of more attacks, locals and security personnel said on Sunday.Scores of fighters loyal to the faction headed by Abu Musab Al-Barnawi stormed Sabon Garin Kimba, some 140 kilometres (88 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.The Islamic State group last year announced Barnawi was in charge of Boko Haram instead of its long-time leader Abubakar Shekau.
  
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• Kagame hails Rwanda-Israel bond at Washington forum

  26-03-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Rwanda's President Paul Kagame became the first African leader to address Washington's biggest pro-Israel forum Sunday, hailing the Jewish state as an inspiration for his own country's rebirth after genocide.Kagame was commander of the rebel force that put an end to the 1994 slaughter of Rwandan Tutsis by Hutu extremists and has led the country since 2000, as it recovers from the conflict and becomes a regional economic success story.In Washington to attend the annual policy conference of the Am
  
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• Iran strikes back at US with 'reciprocal' sanctions

  26-03-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday sanctioned what it described as 15 American companies, alleging they support terrorism, repression and Israel's occupation of land Palestinians want for a future state, likely in retaliation for sanctions earlier announced by the U.S.
  
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• Trump ally Stone offers to testify in Russian meddling probe

  26-03-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  
  By Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said on Sunday he has offered to testify before a congressional committee investigating possible Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and ties to the Trump campaign.Stone, an informal adviser to Trump, told ABC's "This Week" he had not received a reply from the House of Representatives intelligence committee on his offer of public testimony.Along with former Trump campaign manager Paul Man
  
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• Turkey summons Swiss envoy over Kurdish rally

  26-03-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to protest at a Kurdish rally in Bern which Ankara dubbed a "terrorist gathering", a diplomatic source said."Walter Haffner has been summoned to our (foreign) ministry where he has been made aware of our displeasure... The ambassador has been told those responsable must face justice," the source said.Several thousand people attended Saturday's rally called by Kurdish associations and Swiss political parties in Bern.
  
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• Trump and the question of truth

  26-03-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Just three months after Time magazine chose Donald Trump as 2016 Person of the Year, it has published a cover story – with the headline “Is Truth Dead?” – that charges the president is a “strategic misleader.” The article details many of Mr. Trump’s unproven accusations but then concludes his strategy will decline.News outlets now fact-check other media.
  
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• White House threatens to bypass hardline conservatives on tax reform

  26-03-2017 19:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh off a defeat on U.S. healthcare legislation, the White House warned rebellious conservative lawmakers that they should get behind President Donald Trump's agenda or he may bypass them on future legislative fights, including tax reform.The threat by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to build a broad coalition on tax reform that could include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the H
  
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• Gunfire in crowded Ohio nightclub kills one, wounds 15

  26-03-2017 18:51 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joe WesselsCINCINNATI (Reuters) - Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring 15 others, as an apparent argument that may have started earlier in the day turned violent, authorities said.Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley said there was no evidence of "a terrorist attack," as with last year's Pulse nightclub slaughter in Orlando, Florida that killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history."However to the vict
  
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• GOP health care bill fails before vote

  26-03-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  George Stephanopoulos reports the latest on President Donald Trump's monumental week.
  
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• Dowd: Democrats would be smart to call 'the president's bluff' on Obamacare

  26-03-2017 18:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics on "This Week."
  
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• This Week Fast Forward 03.26.2017

  26-03-2017 18:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Speed through the highlights from the latest "This Week."
  
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• Former Teacher, 50, And 15-Year-Old Teen He Disappeared With Allegedly Wrote Love Letters to Each Other

  26-03-2017 18:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Police are still searching for the pair.
  
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• UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack

  26-03-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the service was used by the man behind the parliament attack.Khalid Masood, the 52-year-old Briton who killed four people in a rampage in Westminster on Wednesday before being shot dead, reportedly used the Facebook-owned service moments before the assault.Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News it was "completely unacceptable" that police and s
  
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• What if Apple already told us what it’s going to call the iPhone 8?

  26-03-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple will release three new iPhones this year, including the iPhone 7s, the iPhone 7s Plus, and the iPhone 8. The last one will be the iPhone everybody wants, thanks to a fresh new design and a bunch of features never seen before in an iPhone. There are various leaks that seem to be in agreement on what the iPhone 8 will have to offer, but not all of them agree on the product’s commercial name. iPhone 8 is the most popular moniker people use, but we’ve also seen a bun
  
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• Russian police detain opposition leader, hundreds of protesters

  26-03-2017 18:19 via yahoo.com
  
  By Denis Pinchuk and Natalia ShurminaMOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG (Reuters) - Police detained hundreds of protesters across Russia on Sunday, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against corruption and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.The protests, reckoned to be the biggest since a wave of anti-Kremlin demonstrations in 2011/2012, come a year before a presidential election which Vladimir Putin is expected to contest, runn
  
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• Trump Blames Democrats, Far Right For Health Care Defeat

  26-03-2017 18:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Ted Poe resigned from the Freedom Caucus, saying just refusing to pass legislation is no way to move the country forward.
  
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• Tel Aviv's trash is being turned into fuel

  26-03-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Residents of Tel Aviv can start feeling a little less guilty about the amount of garbage they throw away.Just a short drive from the city, a new waste collection plant has begun processing the trash from an endless stream of garbage trucks, turning much of it into fuel for a nearby factory.The terminal creates what is known as Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), handling about 1,500 tonnes of trash a day, or about half the trash produced by 1.5 million residents of Tel Aviv and its suburbs.
  
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