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• Thousands march across the US for LGBTQ pride – and against Donald Trump

  11-06-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  This year’s Pride parades are more than just a symbol of support for the LGBT community: They are centres of opposition to President Donald Trump.The march drew inspiration from the hugely popular Women’s March, organised in protest of Mr Trump’s inauguration."We are here to stand and be counted," Washington march participant Daniel Dunlop told the BBC.
  
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• Le Pen's far-right surge loses momentum in France

  11-06-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front suffered a severe setback on Sunday, as her success in reaching the French presidential runoff failed to translate into support in parliamentary polls.Le Pen won 10.7 million votes as she lost to Emmanuel Macron last month, but her party's first-round result on Sunday saw it falling way short of its aim of getting a stronger voice in parliament.The anti-EU, anti-immigration National Front (FN) is on course to win between one and 10 seats in the 577-seat N
  
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• Trump Attacks Comey, Democrats On Twitter

  11-06-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  The president lashed out a number of targets on Sunday.
  
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• Macron's takeover of French politics is all but complete

  11-06-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Emmanuel Macron's takeover of French politics is all but complete. The newly elected French leader's gamble that voters wanted to throw out old faces and try something new is paying off in full — first by giving him the presidency and, on Sunday, the crucial first step toward securing the legislative power to deliver on his pledge of far-reaching change.
  
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• Amber Rose Defends Herself Against Piers Morgan

  11-06-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  
  She accused the British journalist of being a misogynist.
  
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• Winner of $447.8 Million Powerball Jackpot Will Receive 10th Largest Lottery Prize in U.S. History

  11-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  The deli that sold the ticket said they feel "blessed" to be a part of someone's good fortune.
  
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• Preliminary results: Ex-rebels win Kosovo election

  11-06-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The coalition of former ethnic Albanian rebel commanders won the most votes Sunday in Kosovo's general election, which also saw a surge in popularity for a nationalist party, according to preliminary results.
  
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• Uber board 'discussing leave of absence' for CEO Travis Kalanick

  11-06-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Sources say board members are considering a mandatory leave of absence CEO Travis Kalanick of Uber, the popular ride-sharing company that has transformed the transportation industry but has also found itself embroiled in controversy.Uber’s nine-member board will debate whether Mr Kalanick should be forced to take time off, or even be demoted to another role, sources tell Reuters.The company is also facing hundreds of complaints about its workplace culture.
  
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• Qatar says Gulf citizens can stay despite crisis

  11-06-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome to stay, while boasting of "business as usual" for vital gas exports.Iran also announced it had sent tonnes of vegetables to Qatar, which has seen food imports threatened after its neighbours cut air, sea and land links with the country.Nearly a week after Saudi Arabia and several of its allies severed ties with Qatar in an unprecedented Gulf diplomatic crisis, there were no sign
  
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• AP Explains: Qatar's ties with Iran and Islamist groups

  11-06-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The political crisis engulfing Qatar stems from accusations by its Arab neighbors that it supports terrorism. Qatar denies the allegations, but its ties with Iran and embrace of various Islamist groups have brought intense scrutiny, made it a regional outlier and created enough smoke to suggest a fire. Last week, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed ties with Qatar amid a slew of punitive measures. On Friday, the four Arab sta
  
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• LGBTQ Rally, Trump Silent

  11-06-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  The president has not made any formal reference to Pride events.
  
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• Egypt parliament in tumultuous meet over Saudi islands pact

  11-06-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — In a raucous and tense meeting, Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday began reviewing a disputed 2016 agreement to hand control over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a move critics say ignores a final ruling by a high court to annul the pact.
  
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• Macron headed for overwhelming parliamentary majority

  11-06-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron's party is on course for an overwhelming parliamentary majority after Sunday's first round of voting for the National Assembly that left traditional parties in disarray.Forecasts based on partial results showed Macron continuing his centrist revolution, with his Republique en Marche party (Republic on the Move, REM) and its ally MoDem tipped to win between 390 and 445 seats in the 577-member National Assembly in next Sunday's second round."France is back," Prime
  
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• French Socialists face 'unprecedented' losses

  11-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The head of the French Socialists admitted his party faced "unprecedented" losses after the country's parliamentary election which could see it lose more than 200 seats.Projections after the first round of the parliamentary vote showed the party falling to 15-40 seats in the new national assembly from 277 currently.If confirmed, the party's collapse would be even worse than in 1993 when it fell to 56 seats from 278 at the latter end of Socialist president Francois Mitterrand's second term.
  
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• Bernie Sanders says Labour party shows the way to beat Donald Trump

  11-06-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Buoyed by the British Labour Party election gains this week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday urged a summit of progressive activists who propelled his presidential candidacy to ramp up efforts to win elections and help remake a Democratic Party he deemed a failure."They won those seats by standing up to the ruling class," he said, referring to the British elections and citing wins by progressive US candidates in several state and local races while writing off losses as evidence libera
  
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• UK says Trump trip invite still stands after report of delay

  11-06-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's invitation of a state visit invitation for U.S. President Donald Trump still stands, the prime minister's office said Sunday, after a newspaper reported that Trump wants to postpone the trip.
  
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• Man Freed After 17 Years in Jail When Cops Find His Doppelganger Who Shares The Same Name

  11-06-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  "When I saw that picture, it made sense to me," said Richard Anthony Jones, who spent 17 years jailed for a crime he did not commit.
  
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• Trump vs. Comey: Lawmakers turn up heat on president about contradictory claims

  11-06-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump's statements contradicting Comey's testimony about their conversations put new pressure on the president to offer proof of his charges.
  
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• British trio released after easyJet terror scare

  11-06-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Three British men overheard talking about "terrorist" activities on a London-bound easyJet flight were released on Sunday after being questioned by German police, the airline said.The Airbus A319 flying from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana was diverted to Germany's Cologne-Bonn airport on Saturday, causing a major police operation and hours of air traffic chaos.Passengers on the plane were evacuated using the emergency slides.
  
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• Alaska woman gets probation for cruelty in 3-legged dog case

  11-06-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A woman accused of not doing enough to prevent her injured and pregnant dog from suffering until it started chewing off one of its legs in 2015 has been sentenced to a suspended one-year jail sentence and a year of probation, officials said.
  
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• Qatar Airways profits $540 million, braces for Gulf crisis

  11-06-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways announced on Sunday its net profits rose to $540 million in its latest financial disclosure before the airline took a hit and was blocked from flying to major Arab states.
  
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• 1 winning Powerball ticket sold in California worth $447M

  11-06-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  MENIFEE, Calif. (AP) — A sole winning Powerball ticket worth $447.8 million and matching all six numbers was sold in Southern California and will claim the 10th largest lottery prize in U.S. history, lottery officials said Sunday.
  
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• How Cancer Could Be A Man-Made Disease

  11-06-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The steep rise of cancers across the developing world has a lot to do with the toxins, pollutants, diets and lifestyles that accompany development.
  
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• 11 dead, 900 escape after DR Congo jail attack: official

  11-06-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Eleven people were killed and more than 900 inmates escaped Sunday after unidentified assailants attacked a jail in DR Congo's restive east, an official said."The Kangwayi prison in Beni was attacked at 3:30 pm (1330 GMT) by assailants whose identity is not yet known," Julien Paluku, governor of North Kivu province, told reporters.Located in the north of the troubled North Kivu province, Beni has been the scene of a wave of violence since 2014 that has seen nearly 700 civilians killed, many of t
  
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• Prosecution Rests In Cosby Trial

  11-06-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Bill Cosby spent last week in a Pennsylvania court as attorneys argued that the famed comedian sexually assaulted Andrea Constand.
  
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• Man released from prison after 17 years when police find his doppelganger

  11-06-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Richard Anthony Jones, from Kansas City in Missouri, was convicted of aggravated robbery in 1999, based largely on eyewitness evidence.Johnson County District Judge Kevin Moriarty ordered Jones's release on Thursday, reported the Kansas City Star.Mr Jones, who had unsuccessfully tried to appeal his case numerous times, learned of the existence of his look-alike from fellow inmates.
  
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• Exit poll: Ex-rebel coalition wins Kosovo's general election

  11-06-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The coalition of former ethnic Albanian rebel commanders won the most votes in Kosovo's general election Sunday, according to an exit poll, in a campaign dominated by a border demarcation deal with Montenegro that brought down the previous government.
  
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• Trump administration takes a 'drastic' step to stop youth climate lawsuit

  11-06-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to quash a climate change lawsuit brought by 21 young people. Trump's legal team on Friday took an unusual step that shows just how determined the Justice Department is to keepJuliana v. United States from going to trial. Lawyers filed a "writ of mandamus" petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a federal judge's decision from November, which denied the government's motion to dismiss the precedent-setting lawsuit.  SEE ALSO:
  
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• Video: Richard Hammond miraculously survives a harrowing accident involving a $1 million supercar

  11-06-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  In a harrowing incident that thankfully resulted in no fatalities, former Top Gear host Richard Hammond recently lost control of a $1 million Rimac Concept One supercar and crashed into a house while driving in Switzerland. Hammond was driving the car for a segment that was set to air on The Grand Tour, a car-enthusiast show on Amazon Video. Jeremy Clarkson, a co-host on the show who you might also recognize from Top Gear, took to Twitter this weekend and said that the incident wa
  
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• Pakistan PM to appear before anti-graft probe team

  11-06-2017 19:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Pakistan's prime minister will appear before an anti-corruption investigation commission over allegations against his family, a government minister said Sunday.Nawaz Sharif and his children are accused of graft in an ongoing case which has gripped Pakistan and threatened to topple the prime minister after the Panama Papers leak last year linked the family to offshore businesses."Yes, the government has received a letter by the Joint Investigation Team in which he has been directed to appear befo
  
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• Pope to Nigerian priests: you'll be fired if you don't obey

  11-06-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has laid down an ultimatum to defiant Nigerian priests: lose your job if you don't obey me and your bishop.
  
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• US partners vow to pursue climate fight without Trump

  11-06-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States' partners in the G7 club of wealthy democracies vowed Sunday to press ahead with efforts to contain devastating climate change despite a rift caused by the American withdrawal from the Paris accord on cutting carbon emissions."Italy and the overwhelming majority of countries regard Paris as irreversible and non-negotiable," Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said after the first day of a two-day gathering of G7 environmental chiefs in Italy.
  
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• Gadhafi's son released after more than 5 years of detention

  11-06-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  
  BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Seif al-Islam, the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has been released after more than five years in detention, his captors said on Saturday.
  
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• Tunisians protest for right not to fast during Ramadan

  11-06-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday to demand the right to eat and drink in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and to protest against non-fasters being arrested.There is no law against eating or drinking in public during Ramadan, but every year the issue comes to the fore in the North African country.Tunisia's constitution guarantees "freedom of belief and conscience", but the state is also the "guardian of religion".
  
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• China's ‘Friday Night Lights’: Chinese youth tackle American football

  11-06-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  American football lags far behind soccer and basketball in China, but the huge potential market of 1.4 billion people has caught the attention of the NFL.
  
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• China's ‘Friday Night Lights’: Chinese kids tackle American football

  11-06-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  A pint-sized running back takes a handoff and scrambles across the goal line, spiking the football for a last-minute win. It could be any school field in America, but on a warm spring night in Beijing the star of the game is nine-year-old Lisa Li, one of the best players in China’s first American football youth league.
  
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• Trump Jr. appears to contradict father’s claim he never told Comey he hoped FBI director would end Flynn probe

  11-06-2017 18:58 via yahoo.com
  
  In an appearance on Fox News, the president’s son seems to confirm Comey’s version account of a conversation his dad had with the ex-FBI director about the federal investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
  
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• Peru's leader calls for arbitration in Venezuela crisis

  11-06-2017 18:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called for international arbitration in the Venezuelan crisis but only once political prisoners have been freed, according to an interview published Sunday in a Spanish newspaper."The fundamental issue is that all political prisoners be released," he told El Pais daily.Once that condition was met then three nations friendly to the Venezuela regime could join three more critical countries to provide international arbitration on the crisis, he added.
  
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• Texas officer to appeal excessive-force ruling at hearing

  11-06-2017 18:44 via yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A white Fort Worth police officer's appeal of his 10-day suspension for using excessive force in the arrest of a black woman and her daughters is set for this week.
  
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• Three US Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan

  11-06-2017 18:13 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. soldiers were ambushed by an ally on Saturday.
  
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• Comey fired by President Trump fires back in history-making hearing

  11-06-2017 18:12 via yahoo.com
  
  George Stephanopoulos reports on ousted FBI director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
  
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• The story of prisoner 5770102414

  11-06-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  When she was inmate 5770102414 in a Thai prison, Prontip Mankong had ample opportunity for despair. Each night she slept with 70 to 80 other women, mostly drug offenders, on the linoleum floor of her cell. Her sleeping space was just over a foot wide; not enough room to lie on her back, so she slept on her side. For bedding, she had three sackcloths: one for a pillow, one for a blanket, and one to cover the floor. The fluorescent lights stayed on all night. 
  
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• Women Need To Pack A Gun To Avoid Rape, Says GOP Indiana Lawmaker

  11-06-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Rape occurs in part because victims aren’t “empowering themselves” by packing guns.
  
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• Millions of Americans Struggling With Soaring Cancer Drug Costs

  11-06-2017 17:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Nationwide, drug costs are expected to rise as much as 11 percent this year, after climbing 11 percent last year. Specialty drugs are expected to increase by 18 percent.
  
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• Afghan soldier turns gun on U.S. troops: 3 killed

  11-06-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  
  The killing of three American soldiers by an Afghan counterpart comes as the Trump administration discusses whether to send thousands of additional U.S. and coalition troops to the country. Matthew Larotonda reports.
  
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• A Look at One of Russia’s Thousands of ‘Ghost Villages’

  11-06-2017 17:39 via yahoo.com
  
  The Russian countryside was once a symbol of the Soviet Union’s agricultural might. Today, according to the latest census, 20,000 villages are completely abandoned. Another 36,000 have fewer than 10 residents.
  
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• Ex-cop goes on trial in killing that ignited Milwaukee riots

  11-06-2017 17:36 via yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former Milwaukee police officer whose fatal shooting of a black man last year ignited riots on the city's north side goes on trial this week.
  
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• US forces conduct strike against Somalia's Al-Shabaab: Pentagon 

  11-06-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  US forces carried out a strike in conjunction with Somali special forces Sunday against Al-Shabaab approximately 185 miles (300 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu, according to the Pentagon.Somalia's president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said Somalian special forces participated in the raid against a training center for the extremist group's militants near Sakow, a district in the Middle Juba region.
  
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• Stunning Video Shows Rescue of Kala Brown from Alleged South Carolina Serial Killer

  11-06-2017 17:34 via yahoo.com
  
  In a video — taken last November — released by prosecutors in South Carolina late Friday, officers enter a sealed shipping container to find Kala Brown. Brown had been held hostage by alleged serial killer Todd Kohlhepp.
  
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• Texas mulls non-jail options for those who can't pay fines

  11-06-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Ernesto Cardoza has gone to jail three times because he couldn't afford to pay his traffic tickets, and it cost him dearly.
  
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