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• Businesses bolster cyber defenses for new ransomware attacks

  13-05-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jim Finkle and Eric AuchardTORONTO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Businesses around the world scrambled on Saturday to prepare for a renewed cyber attack, convinced that a lull in a computer offensive that has stopped car factories, hospitals, schools and other organizations in around 100 countries was only temporary.The pace of the attack by a destructive virus dubbed WannaCry slowed late on Friday, after the so-called "ransomware" locked up more than 100,000 computers, demanding owners pay to $300 t
  
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• Apple may introduce new Siri speaker and edgeless 10.5-inch iPad Pro at WWDC

  13-05-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  With rumors regarding some new Apple hardware swirling overhead, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo put out a new research note reaffirming his belief that Apple will introduce a new piece of Siri-based hardware next month at WWDC. As for the design, Kuo maintains that the device will offer a premium auditory experience and will include a "touch panel", a design tidbit that Apple executive Phil Schiller seemingly suggested was in the works during an interview last week. It remains unclear, thou
  
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• Delnor Hospital hostage: Inmate reportedly shot and killed after taking nurse hostage

  13-05-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  A patient being treated at a psychiatric hospital in Illinois has reportedly been shot and killed by police after holding a nurse hostage in a stand-off that lasted for several hours.A SWAT team killed the patient, named as Tywon Salters, 21, a prison inmate who was being treated at the Delnor Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Geneva.Hostage negotiators and the SWAT team rushed to the hospital when the incident began at around 1pm local time, according to Kane County Sheriff’s spokesman Pa
  
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• Jordanian stabs Israeli officer in Jerusalem, shot dead: police

  13-05-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  A Jordanian man stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in annexed east Jerusalem on Saturday before being shot dead, police said.The officer was taken to hospital with "moderate" injuries after the attack in the walled Old City, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement.Police identified the assailant as Mohammad Skaji, a 57-year-old Jordanian who the statement said had "entered Israel a few days ago".
  
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• Mutinous soldiers cut off Ivory Coast's second city

  13-05-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane CoulibalyABIDJAN (Reuters) - Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot three people on Saturday and cut off access to the second largest city, Bouake, as a revolt escalated over demands for bonus payments.The revolt began in Bouake early on Friday before spreading quickly, following a similar pattern to a mutiny by the same group in January that paralyzed parts of Ivory Coast and marred its image as a post-war success story.Mutineers seized control of the national militar
  
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• Flags, Trump, pyrotechnics & more — it happened today: May 13 in pictures

  13-05-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Honor guard holds red flags, President Trump is awarded a doctorate and more of today’s news from around the world in pictures.
  
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• Jordanian stabber shot dead in Jerusalem

  13-05-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli police officer shot dead a Jordanian attacker who stabbed him in the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday, police said, in a rare incident that sparked tension between the two countries.
  
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• FBI chief's firing highlights Trump media team chaos

  13-05-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's shock dismissal of FBI chief James Comey this week not only unleashed a political firestorm in Washington -- it also revealed the discordant sounds emanating from his communications team.Trump then doubled down on the idea in an interview with Fox News, saying: "We just don't have them, unless I have them every two weeks and I do them myself."He needs to empower his people and spokespeople to understand what's happening and be okay to legally communicate it to the world,
  
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• West Bank votes in polls underlining Palestinian split

  13-05-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip.The West Bank and Gaza have not participated in an election together since 2006, when Hamas swept Palestinian parliamentary polls, sparking a conflict that led to near civil war in Gaza the following year.
  
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• Pope says he'll seek common ground with Trump, won't preach

  13-05-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis says he won't try to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to soften his policies on immigration and the environment when they meet this month, but wants instead to find common ground and work for peace.
  
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• Police Dog Takes A Bullet For Partner, Saves His Life

  13-05-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The dog is expected to survive.
  
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• Designer Carolina Herrera laments murder of nephew in Venezuela

  13-05-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela-born fashion designer Carolina Herrera on Saturday lamented the killing of her nephew in the crisis-torn country, in what authorities called an apparent kidnapping.State prosecutors said the bodies of businessmen Reinaldo Herrera, 34, and Fabrizio Mendoza, 31, were found late on Thursday in a vehicle abandoned along the highway connecting Caracas to the Caribbean coast."Our only hope is that the tragic assassination of our young nephew, Reinaldo and his colleague, Fabrizio will serve t
  
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• Mom of Ohio boy who killed himself vows he "will be heard"

  13-05-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The mother of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself after she says he was bullied at school pledges to speak out on his behalf.
  
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• OnePlus 5 leak shows specs and price that would make it crazy to buy a Galaxy S8 instead

  13-05-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  If any Android phone is going to topple the Galaxy S8 this year, it's the OnePlus 5. Despite the fact that we're likely months out from an official unveiling of the phone from OnePlus, leaks have been springing from all around the internet for the past several weeks. This week is no different, as a listing for the OnePlus 5 at online reseller Geekbuying's site appears to confirm price and specification rumors.According to the listing, the OnePlus 5 will feature a 5.5-inch QHD display,
  
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• Trump finally tweets (and promptly deletes) a unifying message

  13-05-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is all about togetherness this weekend. POTUS woke up, skipped his usual vicious Saturday morning tweetstorm, and instead, waited until the afternoon to tweet a simple, yet powerfully unifying two letters in the form of the word: "We."Image: screengrab/twitterNow, we're assuming this was an accidental tweet — which Trump, along with his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, are very familiar with — because the message was promptly deleted. President Trump has already p
  
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• Woman admits to defacing property on Hawaii mountain

  13-05-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A woman has confessed to writing graffiti on a Hawaii mountain area considered sacred by some natives.
  
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• Ransomware, the weapon wielded in cyber attacks

  13-05-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  A software that demands a ransom was the weapon of choice used in a wave of unprecedented global cyber attacks Friday that affected 130,000 systems in more than 100 countries.The attacks have raised questions about how this so-called ransomware works, and how to guard against it.- What is ransomware?
  
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• Trump gives himself a pep talk at Liberty University commencement

  13-05-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump got a badly needed boost of support from a friendly audience Saturday as gave the commencement address at Liberty University.
  
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• France's Macron meets supporters ahead of inauguration

  13-05-2017 19:56 via yahoo.com
  
  French president-elect Emmanuel Macron met party supporters Saturday on the eve of his inauguration and told candidates contesting key parliamentary elections next month that they had an "immense responsibility".The 39-year-old, who beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in a second round vote last week, was received "triumphantly" according to tweets by those attending the meeting."You are the new faces of French politics," they quoted him as saying.
  
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• Hunger and fear in Syria's Tabqa after IS defeat

  13-05-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were distributing food, she began to run, desperate for any scraps.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, seized the town of Tabqa and the nearby dam on Wednesday after fierce fighting.The city has been ravaged by the clashes, and trash and dead bodies were visible on the streets 48 hours after the SDF announced Tabqa's capture.
  
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• Records show violent history for Ohio nursing home gunman

  13-05-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  
  KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Court records show the man authorities say gunned down an Ohio village police chief and two nursing home employees had a history of violence, including against the nurse who was among the slain.
  
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• MacMall’s new sale slashes up to 30% off everything you can think of… except Macs

  13-05-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  The name "MacMall" obviously hearkens back to the retailer's origins, when it primarily sold... you guessed it... Macs. Apple computers and other Apple products are still a core part of the company's business, of course, and you'll always find prices on Apple gear that are lower than what you would pay even if you buy directly from Apple. But MacMall has grown a lot in the past few years, and the company's weekend-long sale on new arrivals is a perfect reminder of the wide range of products MacM
  
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• Trump sees 'fast' decision over new FBI director

  13-05-2017 19:09 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey -- a move that was still reverberating around Washington.Trump's administration -- embroiled in a deepening crisis over the sacking and its shifting explanation of events -- is interviewing the first candidates for the post on Saturday, US media reported."We can make a fast decision," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One before flying
  
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• James Comey agrees to testify in public Senate hearing

  13-05-2017 18:50 via yahoo.com
  
  James Comey has agreed to testify in a public Senate hearing regarding the investigation into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign team.Mr Comey had initially declined to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed-door hearing.The announcement comes the same day Mr Trump said he could name a new FBI Director as early as next week.
  
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• 30 Mother’s Day Quotes

  13-05-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
  
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• Trump tells Liberty graduates: follow your dreams and ignore 'pathetic' critics

  13-05-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump gave career advice to university graduates on Saturday and offered himself as a blueprint, lavishing praise on “outsiders” who know they are right and denouncing “pathetic” critics.Trump left the controversies besieging him in Washington behind to fly to Lynchburg, Virginia, and present himself as a man of God to a supportive crowd at Liberty University, the biggest Christian college in America.
  
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• FBI: Tad Cummins Had Sex With Elizabeth Thomas 'Most Nights'

  13-05-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The 50-year-old teacher said the two began having a sexual relationship the night they disappeared.
  
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• Officer Buys Groceries For Mom Caught Stealing Food For Infant: 'I Felt So Grateful'

  13-05-2017 18:21 via yahoo.com
  
  The pair now talk daily.
  
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• IS downs Iraqi helicopter west of Mosul

  13-05-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi air force helicopter has been downed west of Mosul Saturday afternoon after coming under fire from the Islamic State group, according to Iraq's joint operations command.
  
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• Kurdish-led forces advance on IS-held Raqqa, say activists

  13-05-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish-led forces were closing in Saturday on the de-facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, seizing a cotton mill only a couple of miles north of the city and clashing with the militant group on a number of fronts, activists and Kurdish media reported.
  
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• Microsoft re-releases security update after cyberattacks

  13-05-2017 18:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft has taken the unusual step of re-releasing security updates for some older versions of its Windows platforms to counter a massive global wave of cyber ransomware attacks.In a blog post, the US tech giant recalled that it had published an update in March to address the weakness exploited in Friday's attacks, a security flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency."Those who have Windows Update enabled are protected against attacks on this vulnerability," the com
  
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• Scientists finally have a decent guess as to why Earth exists

  13-05-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Earth is a pretty nifty place. I mean, I've spent my entire life here and I'm guessing you have, too, and there's plenty to see and do, but why is it here at all? For a long time, researchers have tried to answer that question with varying degrees of success, but a new theory of how Earth formed is gaining traction, and it might be the explanation we've been looking for.The most widely-accepted explanation for how Earth and most terrestrial plants formed hinges on materials orbiting a newborn st
  
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• Future Robots As Mothers And Fathers Depend On The Future Of Humans

  13-05-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  There is an assumption that humans can be automatically conceived, survive gestation in a machine, and be born and raised to live an independent life.
  
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• EU could pay Brexit bill to Britain: Johnson

  13-05-2017 17:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The European Union could end up paying a Brexit bill to Britain instead of the other way round, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told The Daily Telegraph in an interview on Saturday.Asked if he believed that Britain might end up receiving a payment, Johnson replied: "I do, I think there are very good arguments"."There are assets that we share, that we have paid for over the years and there will need to be a proper computation of the value of those assets," said Johnson, one of the leading
  
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• Cyberattack: major cyber attacks over the past 10 years

  13-05-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  
  A huge range of organisations and companies around the world have been affected by the WannaCry ransomware cyberattack, described by the EU's law enforcement agency as "unprecedented".One of the first massive cyberattacks to hit a state occurred in spring 2007 in the Baltic nation of Estonia, when a spate of intrusions forced the closure of government websites and disrupted leading businesses.Estonia, which was in the midst of a diplomatic dispute with Russia, blamed Moscow for the attacks, whic
  
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• How a security researcher miraculously and accidentally killed the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware

  13-05-2017 17:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The massive ransomware hack targeting Windows machines across the globe was stopped dead in its tracks by a security expert who inadvertently activated a "kill switch" built into the malware's code. The ransomware, dubbed "WannaCry", made headlines on Friday after infecting computers in nearly 100 countries across the world, with Russia and England reportedly seeing the highest number of infections. The ransomware effectively locks users out of their machines, encrypts their files, and inst
  
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• Special spotlight: SC Republicans vie to replace Mulvaney

  13-05-2017 17:06 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The special election spotlight has rolled on to South Carolina, where two Republicans are vying to be the party's candidate in the race for the seat vacated by GOP Rep. Mick Mulvaney.
  
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• Geraldo on press briefings: Trump wouldn't cancel hit show

  13-05-2017 16:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Fox News roaming correspondent-at-large weighs in on 'Fox & Friends'
  
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• Mom Arrested After Allegedly Hitting Child For Making Grandma A Mother's Day Card And Not Her

  13-05-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  
  She also allegedly ripped up the card.
  
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• Factbox: Don't click - What is the 'ransomware' WannaCry worm?

  13-05-2017 16:31 via yahoo.com
  By Jamillah KnowlesLONDON (Reuters) - Malicious software called 'ransomware' has forced British hospitals to turn away patients and affected Spanish companies such as Telefonica as part of a global outbreak that has affected tens of thousands of computers.WannaCry is a form of "ransomware" that locks up the files on your computer and encrypts them in a way that you cannot access them anymore.Ransomware is a program that gets into your computer, either by clicking on the wrong thing or downloadin
  
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• Today is the last day you can get the Amazon Echo at its lowest price of 2017

  13-05-2017 16:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Amazon is now a key player in the consumer electronics industry, with products spanning eBook readers, tablets, set-top boxes, and of course, smart speakers. That last category is the latest one that Amazon is solely responsible for popularizing, and the smart speaker that started it all is on sale right now at its lowest price of the year so far. The bad news is that the Amazon Echo discount you can enjoy right now is part of a Mother's Day sale, and tomorrow is Mother's Day 2017. That means to
  
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• Pope canonises shepherd children Francsico and Jacinta

  13-05-2017 16:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis gives the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints as he canonises shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Madonna in Portugal 100 years ago. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• A 'Gilmore Girls' lego set might be coming and my wallet is so ready

  13-05-2017 16:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Oy with the completely perfect Lego sets already! The company that enhanced everyone's childhood could be creating a product that will makeGilmore Girlsfans of all ages weep with joy: a Luke's Diner Lego set.*passes out* SEE ALSO: 'Lego Movie's' Unikitty is getting an animated show and everything is awesome Now hold up — before you gettoo excited and down five cups of coffee in celebration, as of right now theGilmore Girls set is just an idea. The company allows adorkable fans to submit or
  
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• India, Pakistan army trade fire in Kashmir; 2 civilians dead

  13-05-2017 16:03 via yahoo.com
  
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Saturday, killing two civilians and wounding six others, officials said.
  
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• Carmaker Nissan says UK plant hit by cyber attack

  13-05-2017 15:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Nissan's manufacturing plant in Sunderland, northeast England, has been affected by a cyber attack that has hit nearly 100 countries, a spokesman for the Japanese carmaker said on Saturday."Like many organizations around the world, some Nissan entities were recently targeted by a ransomware attack.
  
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• Man Contracts Gut Parasite After Eating Sushi

  13-05-2017 15:37 via yahoo.com
  
  A 32-year-old man in Portugal went to the hospital after experiencing stomach pain, vomiting and fever.A parasitic worm called Anisakis in the sushi he had just eaten.The incident highlights an increasing number of infections from a parasite found in raw fish that doctors are seeing in Western countries, as sushi dishes rise in popularity, according to a new report.
  
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• Famed Tree-Climbing Lions Running Low on Prey

  13-05-2017 15:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The research discovered that the lions of the country's Ishasha district have expanded their ranges and shrunk the size of their prides since the 1970s.Poaching in the park has slashed the biomass, or total weight, of prey animals for the lions, like antelope, down from 50,7000 lbs. per 0.6 square miles (23,000 kilograms per square kilometer) in the 1970s to just 17,750 lbs. per 0.6 square miles (8,050 kg per square km) today, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society wrote in the Journ
  
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• Romanian carmaker Dacia halts production after global cyber attack

  13-05-2017 15:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Romanian carmaker Dacia, owned by France's Renault, said on Saturday some of its production had been hit by what appeared to be the global ransomware cyber attack that has infected computers in nearly 100 countries.Renault stopped production at several sites earlier on Saturday to prevent the spread of the cyber attack."Part of Dacia's production in Mioveni has been affected by disfunctionalities of IT systems and some employees were sent back home," Dacia said in a statement.
  
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• At least one dead in new Ebola outbreak in Congo

  13-05-2017 15:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Aaron RossKINSHASA (Reuters) - At least one person has died from the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo, the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, signaling a new outbreak of the disease which killed thousands in West Africa.The case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country on or after April 22, a ministry statement said."Our country must confront an outbreak o
  
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• Genes Play An Integral Role In Aging Process

  13-05-2017 15:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Genes are important in a person’s aging process, just as in the case of 117-year-old Emma Morano, who was the world’s oldest living person.
  
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