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• Barcelona attack suspect still sought as investigation expands to other countries

  20-08-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  By Angus BerwickBARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish police searched on Sunday for the man behind the wheel in the Barcelona van attack that killed 13 people, amid growing signs members of the militant group had connections elsewhere in Europe.Police said security operations were under way in Catalonia and on the French border as they searched Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, the only one of 12 suspects still at large who they believe may have crossed into France.Others implicated in the at
  
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• Protesters March To The Tune Of 'Move Trump, Get Out The Way'

  20-08-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  An estimated 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Atlanta on Saturday to peacefully protest the racism and hate on display the previous week in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Border Patrol Finds 60 People Hiding in Tractor-Trailer, Driver Arrested

  20-08-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  There were citizens from four different countries inside.
  
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• President Trump Disbanded a Federal Panel Aimed at Fighting Climate Change

  20-08-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  The panel formed in 2015
  
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• Moroccan suspect in Barcelona attack turned more conservative in past year: family

  20-08-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  By Samia ErrazzoukiMRIRT, Morocco (Reuters) - A suspect still at large after the Barcelona van attack began showing more religiously conservative behavior within the past year and refused to shake hands with women during a visit to his birthplace in Morocco in March, family members say.The relatives expressed shock and anger on Sunday after discovering the alleged involvement in the Barcelona attack of Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, as well as his brother and two cousins, all originally from the small
  
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• Millions pour into US towns in path of total eclipse

  20-08-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  On Monday, when a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States for the first time in 99 years, people gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, will be the last on the continent to experience it.Historic Charleston, with its cobblestone streets and elegant antebellum mansions, was clearly a-bustle on Sunday, in full pre-eclipse mode.Its restaurants were packed and downtown parking was at a premium as excited locals and tourists -- possessors of the prized solar glasses that make eclipse-vi
  
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• 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars

  20-08-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  By Phil StewartAL DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - It may not sound possible to "catch" an American spy plane while driving a Dodge Charger.The plane itself was designed in the 1950s to grip the lightest parts of the atmosphere some 70,000 feet above the Earth, so, in the words of one of the U-2 pilots, "it really doesn't want to stop flying."Enter the Dodge Charger, which along with another so-called "chase car" helped guide the spy plane down to the runway, speeding at about 9
  
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• Trump administration 'disbands climate change advisory committee'

  20-08-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  The administration of President Donald Trump has decided to disband a federal advisory panel on climate change - in a further sign of the White House's view on environmental policy.The panel is part of the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping officials and policy makers integrate the US Government's climate change analysis into their long-term planning.A mandate for the 15-member Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment is set to expire on Sunday, and wil
  
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• Kasich urges Trump to end staff chaos and 'settle it down'

  20-08-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop the staff chaos at the White House and "settle it down."
  
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• Liberty University Alumni To Return Diplomas Over School Official's Trump Support

  20-08-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  As of Sunday afternoon, more than 140 alumni members had expressed support for the “return your diploma” effort on Facebook after university President Jerry Falwell Jr. lauded Trump’s remarks on the recent white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “bold” and “truthful.” That praise came despite Trump laying blame for violence on both the rallying hate groups and counterprotesters.A 32-year-woman was killed Aug.12 when a white s
  
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• Spain attacks: The imam who 'ate up the brains' of youths

  20-08-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  In a little Spanish town by the Pyrenees mountains, a Moroccan imam has come under intense scrutiny, accused of creating the terror cell that allegedly launched the twin attacks in Spain.The blast likely changed the plans of the attackers, who instead used vehicles to smash into pedestrians on Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas boulevard and in the seaside resort town of Cambrils."On Tuesday morning, he left saying he was going on vacation to Morocco," said fruit-seller Nordeen El Haji, 45, who four m
  
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• You probably think your dog is cool and yet, can it even shop for groceries?

  20-08-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  There's not much to this post, and yet it is perhaps the most important thing I have ever written. Here is what I know: there is a dog, somewhere (perhaps the Bay Area, California), and that dog is pushing a shopping cart around in a grocery store. The dog appears to be a German Shepherd, and the grocery store appears to be well-stocked. SEE ALSO: Extremely excited pup just can't wait to catch the bus to doggy schoolYou may be thinking, "So what? It's a fluke, the dog just happened to jump up on
  
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• Plenty To Know Before The Solar Eclipse

  20-08-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Monday's solar eclipse has generated a great deal of attention.
  
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• Trump's decision to allow plastic bottle sales in national parks slammed

  20-08-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Grand Canyon national park: selling bottled water will be allowed there again.The Trump administration’s decision to reverse a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles in some of America’s most famous national parks, such as the Grand Canyon shows “the corporate agenda is king and people and the environment are left behind”, campaigners have said.The comments come after the administration ended a policy that allowed parks to ban the sale of plastic bottled water in an eff
  
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• Turkish political refugees flock to Germany, seeking safety

  20-08-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — The Turkish judge sits in a busy cafe in a big German city. Thirteen months ago, he was a respected public servant in his homeland. Now he is heartbroken and angry over the nightmarish turn of events that brought him here.
  
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• People Need to Calm Down About Their Pets and the Solar Eclipse

  20-08-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Do your cat and dog need glasses? We asked an expert.
  
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• Iraq launches operation to take back IS-held town near Mosul

  20-08-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  ABU GHADDUR, Iraq (AP) — U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State group.
  
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• Russian court rejects Siemens' plea to seize its turbines in Crimea

  20-08-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  A Moscow court has rejected a request by Siemens to seize its gas turbines, which have turned up in Crimea contrary to EU sanctions, and to ban their installation ahead of preliminary hearings next month, the court's ruling showed on Sunday.The ruling by Moscow's Arbitration Court responded to a lawsuit filed by the German engineering firm Siemens against a Russian state firm in July after four turbines which it had sold for use in Russia turned up in the Moscow-annexed region.
  
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• 'They wear the cap': Ex-GOP congressman rips members who are silent on KKK

  20-08-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, former Rep. J.C. Wattsis criticizing the reluctance of some Republicans to confront the president.
  
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• Billionaire Carl Icahn Resigned As Trump Adviser Ahead Of Critical Story

  20-08-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who resigned as President Donald Trump’s special adviser on regulations on Friday, did so just hours before The New Yorker magazine published a critical article that detailed his potential conflict of interest and questioned whether he had acted illegally.
  
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• Three Lebanese soldiers killed in landmine on Syria border: security source

  20-08-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said.The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where Shi'ite Hezbollah militia recently forced Sunni Syrian militants to leave in a joint cross-border operation with the Syrian army, the source added.The Lebanese army had launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islam
  
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• South Africa grants Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after she allegedly attacked young model

  20-08-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe, returned home last night from South Africa after being granted diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a model with an extension cable in a Johannesburg hotel. However last night lawyers announced they would launch a legal challenge this week to the immunity which allowed Mr Mugabe to escape facing any charges of assault. The immunity, granted after she arrived in South Africa more then a week ago on private business was a political de
  
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• Deadly rocket fire hits near Damascus trade fair

  20-08-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Six people were reported dead on Sunday when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria's capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years.The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria's economic calendar but had not been held since shortly after the outbreak of the country's war in March 2011.
  
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• Elderly Swiss couple found murdered in Kenya's Mombasa city

  20-08-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  By Joseph AkwiriMOMBASA (Reuters) - The bodies of an elderly Swiss couple were found dumped by a country road in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa with severe injuries on Sunday, police said, and the caretaker of a property where they had been due to stay was being sought for questioning.Regional police chief Larry Kiyeng identified them by name and said they had flown into Kenya on Saturday and had planned to stay at a private residence in Nyali, an upmarket estate in Mombasa.The couple, who appe
  
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• The eclipse: From ancient paganism to American history, it's been a thing

  20-08-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Nothing reminds us that we are on a celestial island surrounded by the abyss like watching our planet's energy source turn into a gaping black hole.  But don't take my word for it. From occult and pagan lore to American history and yes, Hollywood, solar eclipses have been harbingers of doom, transformation, and revolution since time immemorial.  And can't you just ... feel it? SEE ALSO: 20 questions you're too embarrassed to ask about the solar eclipse At a time when the fabric of Amer
  
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• Anti-Isil offensives: Soldiers fighting terror show solidarity with Barcelona victims as Tal Afar assault begins

  20-08-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Jubilant Lebanese forces staged a show of solidarity for the victims of the Barcelona terror attack on Sunday, waving the flags of both Spain and Lebanon over captured Isil positions on the Syrian border.  The UK and US-backed forces killed 20 militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), capturing a third of their territory from areas on the border with Syria, according to a Lebanese military spokesman. The fighting, which left three Lebanese soldiers dead, has be
  
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• Hospital officals: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides

  20-08-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had risen to nearly 500 bodies collected.
  
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• 7-Year-Old Australian Boy Who Was Missing After Barcelona Van Attack Confirmed Dead

  20-08-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  His mother was also seriously injured in the attack.
  
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• Behind olive trees, Spain terror cell's bomb factory

  20-08-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  "I should have listened to him," said Groby, who saw all the windows of her home in Spain shatter when a massive explosion detonated in the house next door on Wednesday.It turned out that house hidden behind olive trees was likely the bomb factory of suspected jihadists who used vehicles to mow down pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils hours later.
  
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• Merkel attacks Turkey's 'misuse' of Interpol warrants

  20-08-2017 18:52 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer in Spain, telling an election town hall event on Sunday that this amounted to abuse of the international police agency.Dogan Akhanli was stopped in Spain on Saturday after Ankara issued a "red notice".The German-Turkish writer was released on Sunday but must remain in Madrid while Spain assesses Turkey's extradition request.
  
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• No bond for suspect in officers' fatal shooting in Fla.

  20-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Florida will be staying in jail after a judge denied him bond Sunday, saying there was probable cause for his first-degree murder charge
  
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• Merkel stands by her 2015 decision to open German borders

  20-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday stood by her decision to open Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago, a move she has previously defended as a necessary response to a humanitarian emergency.
  
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• Balz: Judgment on Trump has been 'extremely harsh' from fellow Republicans

  20-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  The Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics on "This Week."
  
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• Couple Who Engaged In Sexual Act Aboard Southwest Airlines Flight Questioned

  20-08-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  The airline said the incident occurred on a flight from Atlanta to Las Vegas and apologized to other passengers aboard the flight.
  
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• Erasing history?: The debate over Confederate monuments

  20-08-2017 18:23 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz sits down with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, co-CEO of the American Civil War Museum Christy Coleman, and Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos to discuss the debate over Confederate monuments.
  
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• Canada's Trudeau warns against entering country 'irregularly'

  20-08-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  "Canada is an opening and welcoming society," he told reporters in Montreal following talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.Entering Canada irregularly is not an advantage.More than 3,100 people walked across the border illegally in July to file refugee claims and were arrested, up from 884 in June, the federal government said.
  
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• Falwell Jr. defends Trump's response to Charlottesville

  20-08-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  “He doesn’t say what’s politically correct — he says what’s in his heart,” Falwell said. “He does not have a racist bone in his body. I know him well.”
  
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• Saudi says Qatar blocks planes from transporting pilgrims

  20-08-2017 17:46 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia on Sunday said Qatar had refused to allow its planes to land in Doha to transport Qatari Muslims to Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage."Saudi Arabian Airlines director general Saleh al-Jasser has said that the airline has thus far been unable to schedule flights to transport Qatari pilgrims from Hamad International Airport in Doha," read a report on the SPA news agency."Qatari authorities have not allowed the aircraft to land as it did not have the right paperwork, although the pa
  
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• WW2 cruiser USS Indianapolis finally recovered after failing to return from secret mission in 1945

  20-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  For decades survivors of the USS Indianapolis, sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the end of World War Two, believed the remains of the heavy cruiser and their ship mates would never be found. But as news emerged that an underwater expedition had discovered the wreck 18,000 feet below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, they described a mix of emotions as they remembered the hundreds of sailors and marines who died in one of America’s worst naval disasters. Arthur Leenerman, a 93-year-old s
  
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• Survivors hail discovery of the USS Indianapolis, 72 years after it was torpedoed with the loss of 880 lives

  20-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  For decades survivors of the USS Indianapolis, sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the end of World War Two, believed the remains of the heavy cruiser and resting place of their shipmates would never be found. But as news emerged that an underwater expedition had discovered the wreck 18,000 feet below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, they described a mix of emotions as they remembered the hundreds of sailors and marines who died in one of America’s worst naval disasters. Arthur Leene
  
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• Community Helps Man Arrested After Leaving Kids Home Alone to Go to Work

  20-08-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  His wife reportedly has stage four cancer.
  
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• The Latest: No bond for suspect in officers' death in Fla.

  20-08-2017 17:36 via yahoo.com
  KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on police officers fatally shot in Florida (all times local):
  
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• Crowds rally in Hong Kong after activists jailed

  20-08-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of supporters of three jailed young democracy activists took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest their sentences.Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement rallies, were sentenced to six to eight months in jail Thursday for their role in a protest that sparked the months-long demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.People took on the scorching summer heat to stream from the district of Wan Chai to the Court of Final Appeal in the heart
  
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• Iran reformist leader calls for politicians' release

  20-08-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  Iran's ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday asked supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene in the case of two reformist politicians under house arrest without trial for the past six years.The two high-profile reformists -- Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi -- have been under house arrest since 2011 for their part inmass protests that rocked the regime two years earlier."I want to request the supreme leader to intervene to ensure that the house arrest is resolved," said Khatami,
  
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• 'Mother of Satan' TATP found in Spain bomb factory

  20-08-2017 17:16 via yahoo.com
  Traces of the easy-to-make but deadly explosive TATP -- known as the "mother of Satan" -- have been found in a house where the alleged attackers in the twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs, police said Sunday.Used by jihadists everywhere from Paris and Brussels to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, the dangerously unstable TATP has become the explosive of choice for the Islamic State group, which claimed the attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils.Investigat
  
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• Hell Hath No Fury Like a Bannon Scorned

  20-08-2017 17:15 via yahoo.com
  Stephen Bannon urged the GOP to get behind the president's populist agenda.
  
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• New Polls Show Trump's Popularity Down In Key States

  20-08-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  The president found support in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but voters there are concerned after Charlottesville.
  
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• Police uncover gas arsenal at bomb factory as Barcelona mourns

  20-08-2017 17:05 via yahoo.com
  Spanish police said Sunday they had uncovered a cache of 120 gas canisters at a house believed to be the bomb-making factory of suspects in terror attacks that claimed 14 lives, as Barcelona mourned victims of the rampage.The suspected jihadists had been preparing bombs for "one or more attacks in Barcelona", regional police chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters, revealing that traces of TATP explosive had also been found.
  
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• VW gives green light for electric version of classic Microbus camper van

  20-08-2017 17:00 via yahoo.com
  Volkswagenhas decided to go ahead with production of an electric version of its classic Microbus camper van as it seeks to boost its electric vehicle credentials.The potential battery-powered revamp of the van, known as the Bulli in Germany, was first announced at the Detroit auto show in January."After the presentations at the global motor shows in Detroit and Geneva, we received a large number of letters and emails from customers who said, 'please build this car'," Volkswagen brand chief Herbe
  
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• Grace Mugabe gets diplomatic immunity, returns to Zimbabwe

  20-08-2017 16:51 via yahoo.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa, the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home from Johannesburg on Sunday despite calls that she be prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a young model at a luxury hotel there.
  
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