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• Chris Evans' Dog Shows Us All What True Love Looks Like

  03-09-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  Get yourself someone that misses you the way Chris Evans’ dog misses him.
  
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• Houston faithful offer hope, help for Harvey amid aid appeal

  03-09-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Houston's faithful filed into Sunday church services with their hearts heavy after mega-storm Harvey's destruction, as the Texas governor led appeals for billions of dollars in aid for his battered state.Some worshippers sought succor, and others offered compassion and aid, for their devastated communities in displays of solidarity and partnership that highlighted the best of the human spirit in trying times.The nation's fourth-largest city of Houston was drying out after a week of flooding, wit
  
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• 'Seoul will be vaporised': Boris Johnson's warning as US threatens to annihilate North Korea

  03-09-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson has warned President Donald Trump that taking military action against North Korea could provoke Kim Jong-un to “vaporise” the South Korean population in response. Pyongyang announced on Sunday that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded onto a long-range missile, which Mr Johnson described as “a new order of threat”. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Credit: Victoria Jones  The Foreign Secretary condemned Pyongyang’s “
  
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• Merkel, rival Schulz spar over Turkey in TV election debate

  03-09-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-left rival, Martin Schulz, locked horns over how to deal with Turkey in their only televised debate Sunday, three weeks before the country's general election.
  
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• Angelina Jolie Confesses That She Does Not ‘Enjoy Being Single’

  03-09-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  The 42-year-old actress, who filed for divorce from Brad Pitt last year is promoting her new directorial offering, “First They Killed My Father,” and got pretty candid with the Sunday Telegraph about singlehood.
  
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• Syrian army at edge of IS-held Deir Ezzor: monitor

  03-09-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Syrian government soldiers and allied fighters have advanced to the edge of a government enclave besieged by the Islamic State group in the country's east, a monitoring group said Sunday.Syria's army, backed by Russian military support, has been advancing towards the city of Deir Ezzor on several fronts for weeks.Late Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government soldiers had arrived at the Brigade 137 base on the city's edge and were battling to break the IS siege of the facil
  
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• James Mattis to North Korea: Any Threat Will Be Met With 'Massive Military Response'

  03-09-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  "A response both effective and overwhelming"
  
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• North Korea: Facing limited options, Trump may choose sanctions

  03-09-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Despite the US warning on Sunday of a "massive military response" to any threat from North Korea, the Trump administration has few good options to force the North to rein in its nuclear and missile programs following Pyongyang's most powerful nuclear test yet.Its best hope may be to further expand its already wide-reaching economic sanctions against the North, hoping this new pain might finally bring Kim Jong-Un to show restraint.North Korea's latest nuclear test does not seem to have altered th
  
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• K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in Trunk

  03-09-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  All four people, including two Americans, in the car were arrested.
  
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• Angela Merkel under pressure but still election favourite after TV debate

  03-09-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel was forced to defend her controversial decision to open Germany’s borders to more than 1m asylum-seekers on Sunday as she come under pressure in a televised election debate. Martin Schulz, the main challenger, accused the German chancellor of a “serious mistake” with her “lone decision” and said she should have worked with European allies to find a common approach. But a defiant Mrs Merkel insisted Germany had been faced with a “very dr
  
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• Trump rebukes South Korea after North Korean bomb test

  03-09-2017 22:14 via yahoo.com
  By James OliphantWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump admonished South Korea, a key ally, for what he termed a policy of "appeasement" after North Korea claimed to have tested an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile on Sunday.On Twitter, Trump said: "South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they (North Korea) only understand one thing!"It was the latest signal that Trump is losing patience with the intern
  
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• Steely Dan Co-Founder and Guitarist Walter Becker Dies

  03-09-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Guitarist Walter Becker has died
  
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• Ex-Temple student is murder suspect in missing student case

  03-09-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Temple University student was charged Sunday with murder in the death of a current student whose remains were found over the weekend on property linked to the suspect.
  
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• The Latest: Police identify body as missing Temple student

  03-09-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the murder of a Temple University student (all times local):
  
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• North Korea's Nuke Test Reveals Terrifying Capabilities

  03-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  The Hermit Kingdom conducted its most powerful underground test yet, stoking tensions in an already very strained situation.
  
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• Man's Viral Mugshot Gets Him Booked For Fashion Week: 'His Look is Extraordinary'

  03-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  He was arrested last in April.
  
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• Receding Floodwaters Reveal Extent Of Houston Area's Post-Harvey Destruction

  03-09-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON ― Recovery and repair are going to take a long time.
  
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• Burning Man festival horror as man dodges firefighters and dives into flames

  03-09-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  Around 70,000 people attend the gathering in the Black Rock Desert and one of the main highlights of the festival is the burning of a huge wooden statue.The festival said in a statement: “At approximately 10.30pm Saturday evening, a male participant at the annual Burning Man event in northern Nevada broke through a safety perimeter and ran into a fire.
  
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• Saudi Arabian 'honesty' app takes internet by storm

  03-09-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his "honesty" app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom's nascent tech scene.Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an anonymous messaging tool called Sarahah -- honesty in Arabic -- that subsequently topped the charts for app downloads."Sarahah is the digital equivalent of an old-school
  
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• Obama's letter to Trump: On the need to 'leave democracy strong'

  03-09-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The letter left by Barack Obama for Donald Trump, revealed some seven months after the handover of power, revolves around one central bit of advice: beyond the bitterness and brutality of political combat and power struggles, never lose sight of the importance of democratic institutions.Publication of the missive, just shy of 300 words, comes at a difficult and chaotic time in the Trump presidency that has seen intense criticism even from Trump's own Republican Party for his lack of clarity -- a
  
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• Barack Obama's Oval Office letter to Donald Trump: Congratulations coupled with a pointed civics lesson

  03-09-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  In the final minutes of his time in the Oval Office, just before he left for his successor’s inauguration, Barack Obama slipped a letter inside the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. In it he offered Donald Trump, the incoming President, his congratulations, a rather pointed guide to the American constitution and some words of advice. “Congratulations on a remarkable run,” he wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN. “Millions have placed their hopes in you,
  
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• Myanmar violence: Aung San Suu Kyi under pressure as Muslim Rohingya crisis continues

  03-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  The foreign minister of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, flew to Myanmar for emergency talks on Sunday as the Rohingya crisis continues.  The visit came as pressure mounted on leader Aung San Suu Kyi to resolve the humanitarian crisis engulfing the Muslim Rohingya minority in her country’s restive Rakhine state.   The Nobel peace prize laureate is facing severe international criticism over her government’s treatment of about 1.1 million&nb
  
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• Cambodian paper shuts with 'dictatorship' parting shot

  03-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  By Matthew Tostevin and Prak Chan ThulPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - One of Cambodia's most stridently independent newspapers, The Cambodia Daily, published its last edition on Monday with the headline "Descent Into Outright Dictatorship" as it closed amid a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen.The English-language paper had been given a deadline of one month to pay $6.3 million for years of back taxes, which the publication disputed and described as "astronomical".Its final front page led wit
  
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• North Korea bomb: Trump’s trade threat to China not seen as credible

  03-09-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The US imported $463bn worth of goods from China in 2016.Did North Korea just test a hydrogen bomb?Donald Trump, left, and Chinese president Xi Jinping arrive for a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this year.
  
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• Iran says jailed U.S. student, dual nationals lose spying appeal

  03-09-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Iran confirmed on Sunday that an appeals court had upheld 10-year jail terms against a U.S. citizen, two Iranian-Americans and a U.S. resident from Lebanon who had been convicted on spying charges.In July, U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face "new and serious consequences" unless all "unjustly detained" American citizens were released and returned.Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi identified the four as Princeton University student Xiyue Wang, Iranian-American business
  
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• Dozens of Hikers Rescued After Being Trapped By Oregon Wildfires

  03-09-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  The fires trapped hikers on a trail overnight
  
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• Hurricane Irma: Should I be worried? Where is it going?

  03-09-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  Maybe it's because Harvey was so intense.Maybe it's because some dunce tweeted a pic of one model showing the Irma hitting North Carolina.I'm not sure exactly why, but I am getting lots of emails/messages today about Irma, and if we should be worried.
  
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• Firefighters Face Largest Fire In Los Angeles History

  03-09-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  A historic brush fire ravaged almost 5,900 acres of land in California as over 1,000 firefighters continued to push back the flames, KABC, a Los Angeles-based ABC affiliate reports Sunday morning.
  
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• Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones Wedding

  03-09-2017 19:28 via yahoo.com
  The food was scheduled to be used for the couple's welcome dinner.
  
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• Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000

  03-09-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  By Tom SimsFRANKFURT (Reuters) - German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany's biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building site last week.The evacuation area included two hospitals, care ho
  
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• 'Blockbuster' WWII bomb forces evacuation of 60,000 in Frankfurt

  03-09-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  At least 60,000 Frankfurt residents were forced to leave their homes on Sunday, in Germany's biggest post-war evacuation, to allow bomb disposal experts to defuse a huge unexploded World War II bomb dubbed the "blockbuster".The operationin central Frankfurt to get residents to safety wasthe biggest evacuation of its kind in post-war Germany, the city's security chief Markus Frank said.After hours of delay as police struggled to get the area cleared, bomb disposal experts finally managed to disar
  
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• Parisians protest 'genocide' of rats as city battles rodent infestation 

  03-09-2017 19:11 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Parisians have signed a petition denouncing efforts to control a rat infestation as a rodent “genocide.” The French capital is facing its worst rat crisis in decades, and rapid proliferation of the animals has forced several parks to close temporarily amid fears that children could be bitten or infected by disease. Paris authorities are spending £14 million this year on “deratisation”. But some residents have spoken out in defence of the creatures. Infl
  
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• Bike of the Week: R50/3 Bavarian Bobber

  03-09-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  Bike of the Week: R50/3 Bavarian Bobber German-based Titan Motorcycles delivers a less than traditional BMW build, forgoing the bells and whistles in lieu of old-school simplicity and minimalism. Photographs of some motorcycles can pretty much tell the whole
  
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• NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Has Spent A Record-Breaking 665 Days In Space

  03-09-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Peggy Whitson returned to Earth on Saturday with an out-of-this-world record under her belt.
  
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• Tesla offers huge savings on the Model S and Model X if you’re okay with buying a showroom model

  03-09-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  According to a report from Electrek, Tesla just a few days ago began emailing interested buyers about the potential to save big if they opt to purchase a showroom car. Presumably, Tesla's motivation here is to boost sales before the September quarter draws to a close. The move is altogether not that surprising because even though Tesla has managed to turn the auto industry on its head, investors at the end of the day remain preoccupied with how many cars Tesla manages to deliver each and every q
  
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• Vote ruling by chief justice surprises Kenyans, but not his colleagues

  03-09-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  By Katharine Houreld and Maggie FickNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Supreme Court ruling to scrap last month's presidential election was shaped by a new chief justice who proved a staunch defender of judicial independence on a continent where judges are often seen as being under the thumb of executive powers.David Maraga's declaration that the Aug. 8 election was void and demand for a new poll with 60 days shocked many in the East African nation and abroad."We knew this case was coming and he was th
  
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• Teen's bar mitzvah gives Houston chance to commiserate, heal

  03-09-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) — It wasn't a typical bar mitzvah, but then nothing has been typical in the Houston area since Harvey came ashore as a powerful hurricane and left whole sections of the city underwater, including its predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
  
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• Massive WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt

  03-09-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes.About 60,000 people were ordered to leave in what was Germany's biggest evacuation since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building site last week.More than 2,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions are found each year in Germany, even un
  
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• 'We'll See,' Donald Trump Says On Attacking North Korea Following Latest Nuclear Test

  03-09-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Hours after North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, President Donald Trump on Sunday said the military option against Pyongyang remains on the table.
  
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• Justice Department Confirms There is No Evidence Barack Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower

  03-09-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  "Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps"
  
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• Inland Empire brush fire, caused by fireworks, now 3,300 acres

  03-09-2017 18:23 via yahoo.com
  At least 100 evacuations were ordered in the Redlands-Beaumont area as a brush fire threatened homes.
  
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• Sara Netanyahu undergoes lie detector test in bid to deflect fraud investigation 

  03-09-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, has undergone a lie-detector test in an attempt to deflect allegations she misused public funds.  Police are investigating her on fraud and breach of trust charges after the former caretaker of her official residence made claims she had told him to inflate the number of guests at dinners and to record their purpose as state instead of private in order to receive more money for them.  She has denied the charges. Avi Hadad, the owne
  
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• Steely Dan Guitarist Walter Becker Dies At 67

  03-09-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  Walter Becker, who co-founded the legendary jazz-rock band Steely Dan with Donald Fagen, died on Sunday at the age of 67.
  
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• 'Duck Dynasty' Star And 'Dancing With The Stars' Alum Reveals Struggle With Eating Disorder

  03-09-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  Sadie Robinson, known for appearing on 'Duck Dynasty' and 'Dancing With The Stars,' says she suffered from an eating disorder
  
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• Africa's opposition leaders take heart in Kenya election ruling

  03-09-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  Opposition leaders across Africa, long frustrated in their campaigns to topple firmly entrenched leaders, are hailing the shock overturn of last month's presidential vote in Kenya, calling it an example for their own countries to emulate."If it happened in Kenya, it can happen in Zimbabwe as well," Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told thousands of supporters at a rally on Saturday.Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has made three failed attempts at
  
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• 4-Year-Old Waves Flag For National Guardsmen Who Helped During Hurricane Harvey

  03-09-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  His parents have taught him the importance of military.
  
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• North Korea nuclear test: When asked whether US will attack, Donald Trump replied 'we'll see'

  03-09-2017 17:55 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has added to fears of war between the US and North Korea, saying simply "we'll see" when asked if he was planning to sanction a military attack.
  
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• Taylor Swift Just Dropped Another Song, Proving That She's Very Much Alive

  03-09-2017 17:51 via yahoo.com
  We weren’t ready for the teaser, so soon after the release of her first single “Look At What You Made Me Do.”
  
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• Harvey: Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of West Houston Homes

  03-09-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  The order came Saturday for 4,600 homes in West Houston, where some residents were told by officials that they could not return to their homes for nine days.
  
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• Gloves come off in Kenya ahead of new presidential vote

  03-09-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  Sparks were flying in Kenya on Sunday as the main rival of President Uhuru Kenyatta called for the ousting of members of the country's election commission, likening them to "hyenas", while judges slammed "veiled threats" by the president after the shock annulment of his re-election victory.Raila Odinga, who will now get another shot against Kenyatta in an election to be held within two months, said he had no faith in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), and called for its
  
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