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• Gulf deadline to resolve Qatar rift approaches

  02-07-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sylvia Westall and Tom FinnDUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar faces possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept their demands is expected to expire on Sunday night.Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said the demands were made to be rejected, adding that the Arab ultimatum was aimed not at tackling terrorism but at curtailing his country's sovereignty.State news agency QNA rep
  
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• Vandals post anti-Jewish banner at Holocaust memorial

  02-07-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  
  LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Vandals posted a banner containing an anti-Jewish slur on a Holocaust memorial in front of a New Jersey shore town synagogue where several residents were recently accused of misrepresenting their incomes to improperly obtain public welfare benefits.
  
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• Italy urges EU ports to take migrants as pressure builds

  02-07-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  The French and German interior ministers met with their Italian counterpart Marco Minniti in Paris on Sunday to discuss a "coordinated response" to Italy's migrant crisis, hours after Minniti had called on other European countries to open their ports to rescue ships.The working dinner at the French interior ministry -- also attended by EU Commissioner for Refugees Dimitris Avramopoulos -- was aimed at finding "a coordinated and concerted response to the migrant flux in the central Mediterranean
  
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• Poland 1st: Why Trump visits ex-communist nation before UK

  02-07-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Donald Trump is breaking with tradition by visiting Poland, an ex-communist country in central Europe, before making a presidential visit to longtime allies Britain, France or Germany.
  
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• 2 die in separate officer-involved shootings in Colorado

  02-07-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Two people have died after separate officer-involved shootings in Larimer County in north-central Colorado, marking four fatal officer-involved shootings in the state in 48 hours.
  
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• Oh boy, Florida residents can now challenge the science taught in public schools

  02-07-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Parents have fought successfully over the years to ban books like theHarry Potter series andCatcher and the Rye from public schools. Now in Florida, residents could possibly do the same with textbooks about the science behind climate change and evolution. Last week, Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation that makes it easier for any Florida resident to object to classroom materials they don't like.  SEE ALSO: Climate researchers shot down Trump's EPA administrator in the nerdiest way
  
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• Rapper arrested after Arkansas club shooting on warrants unrelated to melee

  02-07-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Ricky Hampton, 25, from Memphis, Tennessee, who performs under the name Finesse 2 Tymes, is a "person of interest" in the shooting at Little Rock's Power Ultra Lounge, Lieutenant Steven McClanahan, a spokesman for the Little Rock police, said.Hampton was arrested on Sunday outside the Side Effects club in Birmingham, Alabama, on charges of aggravated assault with a gun, Cliff LaBarge, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman, said in an email.
  
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• Britain says will move to control EU fishing in its waters

  02-07-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Britain will withdraw from an agreement that allows some other European countries to fish between six and 12 miles from its coast in a move to "take back control" of fishing policy, Environment Secretary Michael Gove said on Sunday.The British government said it would begin on Monday a two-year process to leave the London Fisheries Convention, an agreement dating from 1964, before Britain joined the European Union, that allows vessels from France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands to fish in
  
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• Russian anti-virus CEO offers up code for US govt scrutiny

  02-07-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The chief executive of Russia's Kaspersky Lab says he's ready to have his company's source code examined by U.S. government officials to help dispel long-lingering suspicions about his company's ties to the Kremlin.
  
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• Airstrikes propel Mosul gains, despite toll on civilians

  02-07-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi forces say their recent territorial gains against the Islamic State group in Mosul's Old City have largely been propelled by airstrikes, despite a spike in allegations of civilian casualties and warnings from human rights groups of the dangers of using large munitions in the dense, highly-populated area.
  
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• Here's How To Mail Your Ashes To The GOP If You Die From Losing Health Insurance

  02-07-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  A website is helping people get their papers in order so they can mail their ashes to a GOP congress member if they become uninsured and die.
  
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• Mexico state sees spike in violence: 30 dead in a weekend

  02-07-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Culiacán (Mexico) (AFP) - Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.Sinaloa, on Mexico's northern Pacific coast, is home to the country's topnarco-traffickers.The Sinaloa state government convened an urgent meeting of security officials on Saturday to discuss the upsurge in violence and to chart a response.
  
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• Assad appears on Syrian currency for first time

  02-07-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  
  President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday.Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the decision to put it into circulation was delayed "due to the circumstances of the war and exchange rate fluctuations".The currency has plunged in value since the conflict began in 2011, from 47 pounds to the dolla
  
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• CNN to Trump: Do your job

  02-07-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  
  After a Sunday morning tweet from President Donald Trump that featured a violent anti-CNN clip, the news network is pushing back on Trump's "juvenile behavior."  Theirs is the latest example of a news organization pushing back on Trump's "fake news" narrative. SEE ALSO: Trump posts body slam video after defending his "modern presidential" Twitter claimCNN statement responding to the president: "We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his." pic.twitter.com/Gn1YRA2DRG — Brian
  
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• Rapper held on unrelated charges after Little Rock shooting

  02-07-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club where he was performing just 24 hours later, and authorities said several firearms were recovered during the arrest.
  
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• Trump’s tweet attacking CNN is ‘un-American’, top media ethicist says

  02-07-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Experts: Trump’s CNN tweet not only undermined the principle of the media being free but could also ‘embolden autocratic leaders around the world’.Donald Trump’s decision to tweet a video showing him body-slamming the wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, with the clip doctored to show McMahon’s head as a CNN logo, was “un-American”, a leading media ethicist said on Sunday.“It’s definitely un-American,” Kelly McBride, vice-president of the
  
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• Pope reverses Vatican stand on British sick baby case

  02-07-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called Sunday for the parents of a terminally ill British baby to be allowed to do everything possible to treat their 10-month-old son, amending the Vatican's previous position after conservatives complained.
  
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• Hong Kong’s uneasy deal with China

  02-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong is part of China, now and forever.Mr. Xi himself visited Hong Kong over the weekend to make the point.A military parade that featured thousands of Chinese government troops, the largest yet staged on the island, added an exclamation point.
  
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• CNN Responds After Trump Wrestles Network in 'Juvenile' Tweet: 'It Is A Sad Day'

  02-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The president has apparently escalated his beef with the news network.
  
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• Five North Koreans Found In Boat Are Latest Defection Attempt

  02-07-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  North Korea has had many defections over the year, five more were found on a South Korea-bound boat.
  
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• Three car bombs target Damascus, 20 killed

  02-07-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 20 people in Damascus on Sunday and wounded dozens more, the Syrian foreign ministry said, the first such bombing in the Syrian capital since a series of jihadist suicide attacks in March.The authorities said it was one of three car bombs that were meant to be blown up in crowded areas of the capital on Sunday, the first day back to work from the Eid al-Fitr holiday.Security forces pursued and destroyed the other two.
  
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• Teen Bitten by a Shark While Boogie Boarding in South Carolina

  02-07-2017 20:11 via yahoo.com
  
  “I felt a terrible sting and didn’t know what it was”
  
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• Man Who Allegedly Crawled Into Woman's Bed, Asked To Spend The Night Is Arrested: Cops

  02-07-2017 20:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Sungjae Song, 26, is a South Korean citizen who lives in Palisades Park, New Jersey.
  
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• Fire rips through Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon

  02-07-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  With at least 1 dead and 6 wounded, the fire leaves an estimated 700 refugees homeless again.
  
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• Wife: Police didn't act fast enough to save husband

  02-07-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Sometime between Andrew Kearse's arrest and the 3.2-mile (5.15-kilometer) ride to the police station, officers say, he complained of dizziness and difficulty breathing, and lost consciousness. He was later pronounced dead.
  
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• Damascus rocked by suicide blast, 2 others foiled

  02-07-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Security forces chased three explosive-laden vehicles through Damascus Sunday, intercepting two of them at checkpoints but failing to stop the third before it exploded in the city center, killing at least eight people, state media and others reported.
  
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• Man facing murder charges in road-rage slaying of woman, 18

  02-07-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was in custody Sunday for what a prosecutor called the "savage" and "senseless" death of a recent high school graduate shot in the head during a road-rage confrontation as the two tried to merge in a single lane.
  
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• Pakistan official angry over ex-CIA contractor's memoir

  02-07-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan intelligence and security officials reacted angrily Sunday to the release of a memoir by an ex-CIA contractor, saying his 2011 acquittal in a high-profile murder case and subsequent return to the U.S. was an arrangement between Pakistan and the U.S., not among individuals.
  
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• Mystery of nun's unsolved murder is latest US documentary hit

  02-07-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  
  A documentary about the mysterious killing of a beloved young Catholic nun half a century ago is the latest smash hit on Netflix, highlighting the popularity of true crime stories in America these days.The series called "The Keepers," which began last month, is a suspenseful examination of the crime committed in 1969.The nun, a cheerful, buoyant woman known as Sister Cathy, was 26 when she died.
  
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• US warship sails close to S. China Sea island occupied by Beijing

  02-07-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  An American warship on Sunday sailed close to a disputed island in the South China Sea occupied by Beijing, a US official said, a provocative move that could further strain relations between the superpowers.The USS Stethem destroyer passed less than 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) from tiny Triton Island in the Paracel Islands archipelago, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam, theofficial told AFP.The operation, meant to demonstratefreedom of navigation in disputed waters, came just hou
  
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• Senate ‘close’ to final health bill amid cries that Trump's tweets getting in way

  02-07-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Protesters against the US Senate Republicans’ healthcare bill hold a rally outside the US Capitol.As Donald Trump’s health secretary fended off questions about whether the president is too distracted by Twitter to focus on healthcare reform, the White House’s top legislative liaison official said the Senate was “getting close” to agreement on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement.
  
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• NASA Is Researching Ways To Bounce Asteroids Away From Earth

  02-07-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  
  NASA's DART project is researching ways to prevent an asteroid from potentially hitting Earth in the future.
  
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• Man Charged With Murder in Road Rage Slaying of Teen Girl: Cops

  02-07-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  David Desper turned himself in Sunday.
  
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• Trump's Relationship With The 'Morning Joe' Hosts Has Mixed History

  02-07-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has attacked many media organizations on Twitter but has been particularly vicious towards MSNBC's Brzezinski and Scarborough.
  
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• Taliban kill 13 pro-government fighters in north Afghanistan

  02-07-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  
  The Taliban have killed 13 pro-government fighters in northern Afghanistan, ambushing them as they were on their way to take part in an operation against the insurgency, officials said Sunday.The attack on the fighters, part of a local militia working with the government, took place Saturday afternoon in the volatile Chimtal district of northern Balkh province, some 40 kilometres from the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif.It underscored rising insecurity in the war-torn country as the resurgent
  
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• The Price Of Oil Is On The Rise, But It's Still Low

  02-07-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Oil has had its best winning streak in 10 months.
  
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• Oculus VR Founder Backs Project Bringing Exclusive Oculus Games To The HTC Vive

  02-07-2017 18:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey is lending substantial support to a crowdfunding project that wants to bring exclusive Oculus Rift games to the HTC Vive.
  
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• Huge crowds flock to world's largest LGBT festival in Madrid

  02-07-2017 18:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Since its inception in 2000, World Pride is held once every several years in major cities across the world to promote rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)communities.Over 10 days, the Madrid festival has hosted events ranging from a global human rights conference to a race in which men sprinted along a central street in towering three-inch heels.
  
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• Martha Raddatz Traveled to Ohio to Talk Health Care with Voters

  02-07-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz takes the pulse of Ohio voters and their feelings on health care reform on "This Week."
  
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• The Latest: Bashar Assad face of new Syria bank note

  02-07-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Kinzinger: President Trump must 'be tough' meeting with Putin at G20 Summit

  02-07-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The guest panel sat down with Martha Raddatz to discuss President Trump's upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin on "This Week."
  
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• Trump's tweet on CNN 'is an incitement to violence,' Ana Navarro says

  02-07-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Ana Navarro expressed her outrage over the president spreading a video she believes will incite violence against the press.
  
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• Tokyo governor's party heads for big win in city election

  02-07-2017 17:50 via yahoo.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — The new party of the Japanese capital's populist governor appeared headed for a thumping victory Sunday over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's scandal-laden ruling party in a Tokyo assembly election that could alter national politics, with Abe's historic defeat likely making it difficult for him to achieve his agenda.
  
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• Doctor Killed in New York Hospital Wasn't Scheduled To Work Day of Shooting

  02-07-2017 17:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Tracy Tam was covering another doctor's shift when she was gunned down by a former hospital employee identified as Dr. Henry Bello.
  
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• Poll shows Fernandez bloc tied in Argentina congressional elections

  02-07-2017 17:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Candidates aligned with Argentina's center-right government and those aligned with leftist ex-President Cristina Fernandez are in a technical tie in a key province ahead of October's congressional elections, according to a poll published by newspaper Clarin on Sunday.In Buenos Aires province, Argentina's most populous, government-aligned candidates would take 28.5 percent of the vote, while Fernandez-aligned candidates would take 27.8 percent, according to the poll, which was carried out by the
  
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• U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reinforce front lines in Raqqa

  02-07-2017 17:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deployed around a thousand additional fighters to the front lines with Islamic State in Raqqa on Sunday, the SDF media office said.The fighters were sent to the east and west of the city, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria.The SDF launched its U.S.-backed assault to capture Raqqa last month.
  
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• NBC News Investigation: Sexual Assault On Cruises

  02-07-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  In one case, the alleged victim — who asked that NBC News not share her name — said she was raped by a bartender aboard the cruise.
  
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• Minimum Wage Increases Take Effect in Major Cities

  02-07-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  
  In Washington, D.C., pay went up one dollar to $12.50 an hour. In Chicago, it went up to $11 an hour. And in San Francisco and Los Angeles, pay went up to $14 and $12 an hour, respectively.
  
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• Indian woman attacked with acid for fifth time: police

  02-07-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, Indian police said Sunday.The 35-year-old mother, who was allegedly gangraped in 2008 over a property dispute, was at a women's hostel in Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow when a man scaled the walls and poured the chemical onto her.The attacker fled from the spot," Vivek Tripathi, local police chief told AFP.
  
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• Road Rage Suspect Who Killed Recent High School Graduate Turns Himself

  02-07-2017 17:34 via yahoo.com
  
  David Desper, 28, faces multiple charges, including first-degree murder and reckless endangerment, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said.
  
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