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• Tourist boat explodes in southern Thailand

  14-01-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  A speedboat carrying tourists exploded off of Thailand's Phi Phi Le Island, injuring 16 people. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Plane skids off Turkish runway and plunges towards sea

  14-01-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  A Pegasus Airlines flight skidded off the runway of a Turkish coastal airport and plunged down a steep slope on the edge of the Black Sea, ending up only meters from the water's edge.None of the 168 people on board was hurt in the incident, but passengers spoke of panic as the aircraft tipped nose first towards the sea.Just after the flight from Ankara landed at the Black Sea city of Trabzon there was a loud noise, Fatma Gordu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
  
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• Violent protests resume in Tunisia after two days of calm

  14-01-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  By Tarek AmaraTUNIS (Reuters) - Violent protests erupted again on Sunday in two areas of the capital Tunis and another town after a relatively calm two days, the latest protests in the country against austerity measures.After nearly a week of at times violent protests, police used tear gas against dozens of young protesters in the Ettadamen district of Tunis in renewed demonstrations over a tax hike.A Reuters witness saw youths around 20 years old throwing stones at police cars and setting fire
  
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• Major Earthquake Strikes Southern Peru

  14-01-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Peru early Sunday morning, leaving at least one dead and injuring dozens of others, authorities said.
  
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• 140 Women Have Accused Larry Nassar Of Abuse. His Victims Think We Don't Care.

  14-01-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Larry Nassar, the disgraced former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics team doctor, has been accused of sexual abuse by 140 women.
  
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• FCC says appears Hawaii had no safeguard to stop missile scare

  14-01-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert about a missile attack that panicked residents for more than a half-hour before it was withdrawn, a federal official said on Sunday.Speaking after Saturday's errant ballistic missile warning to Hawaii residents, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said government officials must work to prevent future incidents.The FCC "will focus on what steps need to be taken to prevent a similar incid
  
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• Detroit auto show begins amid talk of NAFTA, tax cuts

  14-01-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  The Detroit Auto Show shifted into full gear Sunday with international trade and tax cuts dominating the conversation, even as an optimistic industry raced to meet Americans' seemingly insatiable appetite for trucks and SUVs.In a keynote address, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao touted the tax cuts, which reduced the US corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, saying the move will attract more US investment.Industry insiders were taking a wait-and-see attitude toward talks to revamp the
  
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• Hawaii told to fix emergency notification system after false ballistic missile warning

  14-01-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai told the state that it didn’t have proper safeguards in place to ensure that a notice like that wouldn’t be sent out, engulfing residents in panic.This was “absolutely unacceptable,” Mr Pai remarked.Residents and visitors of the island state were shocked Saturday morning when they received the notification — sent to mobile phones in the area — indicating that a ballistic missile was on-course to hit the state.
  
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• A Car Somehow Crashed Into the Second Story of a California Building

  14-01-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Officials said the driver was driving at a high speed when the crash occurred
  
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• The Debate Is Hot: Do Lobsters Feel Pain?

  14-01-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  The Swiss seem to think so.
  
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• Ford Ranger Returns for 2019: Pickup Aims to be Commuter-Friendly Workhorse

  14-01-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  A lot has happened in the midsized pickup market since Ford stopped selling the Ranger in the U.S. in 2011. Chevrolet scored robust sales with its second-generation Colorado. Honda reintroduced t...
  
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• Protesters Trash South African H&M Stores Over Racist Ad

  14-01-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Clothing retail chain H&M temporarily closed several of its South African stores this weekend after protests erupted over a racist image on the Swedish company’s website.
  
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• China absence looms over Canada meeting on how to pressure North Korea

  14-01-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  By David LjunggrenVANCOUVER (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from around 20 nations gather on Tuesday to discuss how to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions through diplomatic and financial pressure, but China, seen as a key player in any long-term solution, will be absent.The Vancouver meeting, co-hosted by Canada and the United States, comes amid signs that tensions on the peninsula have eased, at least temporarily.North and South Korea held talks for the first time in two years last week and Pyo
  
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• Hawaii Lacked Safeguards to Prevent False Missile Alert, FCC Head Says

  14-01-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  The false missile alert sent residents into a panic
  
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• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and His Role in the Civil Rights Movement

  14-01-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  He led the movement.
  
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• Qatari royal says he is being held against his will in UAE

  14-01-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  A controversial member of Qatar's royal family claimed he was being held against his will in the UAE yesterday/Sun, eight months into a crisis between the Gulf states. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani, a little-known royal, emerged as a key figure in the dispute between the Gulf states in the weeks after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi cut ties with Doha. He is seen by some as a potential challenger to the Qatari leadership. A video circulating online, also broadcast by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, s
  
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• Earthquake in Peru destroys dozens of homes, kills 1 man

  14-01-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  A powerful earthquake struck off Peru's coast early Sunday, tumbling adobe homes in small, rural towns, killing at least one person and leaving dozens injured, officials said. The earthquake destroyed ...
  
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• Crews Recover Bodies of Missing Men from Great Salt Lake After Plane Crash

  14-01-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Dive crews have recovered the bodies of a pilot and passenger in the Great Salt Lake after a plane crash.
  
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• Strong earthquake in southern Peru leaves one dead, scores injured

  14-01-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  By Marco AquinoLIMA (Reuters) - A strong magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the coast of southern Peru on Sunday morning, killing one person, injuring scores and causing homes and roads to collapse.The quake hit offshore at 4:18 a.m. local time (0918 GMT) at a depth of around 36 km (22.4 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.Arequipa Governor Yamila Osorio said on Twitter that a 55-year-old man died in the town of Yauca after being crushed by rocks.
  
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• Death toll from California mudslides rises to 20

  14-01-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Search and rescue teams combed the aftermath of a deadly mudslide in southern California on Sunday as authorities confirmed another death, raising the number of fatalities to 20, officials said.The slide left 28 people injured and destroyed 65 homes and eight businesses in Montecito, a community just east of the city of Santa Barbara.Massive wildfires in the area forced evacuations in December, and the mudslides struck just two weeks after people returned.
  
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• Lactalis CEO breaks silence over salmonella-tainted baby milk

  14-01-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  The chief executive of France's Lactalis group on Sunday vowed compensation for victims of salmonella-tainted baby milk, as he revealed that recalls were now under way in 83 countries.Emmanuel Besnier, giving his first interview in nearly 20 years as head of the family-controlled company, told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that the recall involved more than 12 million packages of Picot, Milumel, Celia and other brands of powdered baby milk."We are going to draw the lessons from this crisis a
  
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• Tunisians call on leaders to remember 2011 revolution goals

  14-01-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — More than 2,000 Tunisians rallied Sunday for the North African nation's leaders to do away with punishing price hikes that triggered days of unrest and to respect the goals of the revolution that drove out the country's autocratic ruler seven years ago.
  
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• Trump administration forced to start renewing immigrants' legal status after court order

  14-01-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration is being forced to approve renewal requests for immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, even though President Donald Trump has said that he would let the program expire unless Congress steps up and takes action.The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to continue approving the renewal of DACA status for individuals who apply as a result of a federal court which recently ruled on the issue.“Until further notice, and unless otherwise
  
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• Donald Trump is more dangerous than Richard Nixon, says Watergate lawyer John Dean

  14-01-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s unpredictability makes him more dangerous than Richard Nixon, according to the former White House attorney who helped in the Watergate cover-up before co-operating with investigators against the only president to resign from office. John Dean said the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into the current administration could end up being more damaging to the US than the scandal that brought down Nixon in 1974. Mr Dean’s central role in the cover-up that brought down
  
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• 13-Year-Old Boy Saves Mother`s Life After Father Attacks Her with Sword

  14-01-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  Police are praising the actions taken by a 13-year-old after he stopped his father attacking his mother with a sword.
  
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• US-led coalition to build 30,000-strong border force in Syria

  14-01-2018 19:59 via yahoo.com
  The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to create a 30,000-strong border security force in northern Syria, drawing sharp condemnation from Turkey.With the offensive against IS winding down, the coalition and its allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance were beginning to shift their focus to border security, coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told AFP."There is a goal of a final force of approximately 30,000," about half of whom would be ret
  
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• Israel says it destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Egyptian border

  14-01-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan LubellGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt dug by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, and that it would destroy all attack tunnels by the year's end.Residents in Gaza said Israeli jets bombed an area east of the southern town of Rafah, by the Egyptian and Israeli borders, late on Saturday night.Israel confirmed the attack immediately aft
  
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• 3 Arrested After The Wrong Woman Was Killed In Murder-For-Hire Plot

  14-01-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  She was the intended target's co-worker.
  
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• 25 killed in recent Iran unrest: judiciary

  14-01-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  A total of 25 people were killed in the recent unrest that hit several towns and cities across Iran, the judiciary said Sunday, with 465 still under arrest."Twenty-five people, ordinary citizens and our own forces, were killed during the recent troubles," said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie, according to the Mizanonline news agency."None were killed by shots from the security forces because they were ordered not to use their weapons," he added.
  
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• Qatar exile says he's held by UAE; Abu Dhabi denies claim

  14-01-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An exiled Qatari ruling family member once promoted by Saudi Arabia amid its ongoing dispute with Doha appeared in an online video Sunday claiming he's being held against his will in the United Arab Emirates, an allegation denied by Abu Dhabi.
  
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• Iranian oil tanker explodes and and sinks off coast of China with no survivors

  14-01-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  A burning Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank Sunday after more than a week listing off the coast of China, as an Iranian official acknowledged there was “no hope” of missing sailors surviving the disaster.The collision and disaster of the Sanchi, which carried 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, had transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.Families of the sailors wept and screamed at the headquarters of the Nati
  
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• Iran oil tanker explodes off coast of China with no survivors

  14-01-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  A burning Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank Sunday after more than a week listing off the coast of China, as an Iranian official acknowledged there was “no hope” of missing sailors surviving the disaster.The collision and disaster of the Sanchi, which carried 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, had transfixed an Iran still reeling from days of protests and unrest that swept the country at the start of the year.Families of the sailors wept and screamed at the headquarters of the Nati
  
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• Erdogan threatens attack on Kurd-held Afrin 'in days ahead'

  14-01-2018 19:21 via yahoo.com
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened to attack the Kurdish militia-held town of Afrin in northern Syria "in the days ahead" to clear it of "terrorists"."We will continue our operations begun with Operation Euphrates Shield to clean our southern borders of terror in Afrin (northern Syria) in the days ahead god willing," Erdogan said in a televised speech.The president referred to Turkey's previous eight-month military operation launched in August 2016 against the Islamic State (IS)
  
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• Rand Paul Says Calling Trump 'A Racist' Hurts Immigration Talks

  14-01-2018 19:12 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says politicians and members of the media who call President Donald Trump “a racist” are imperiling a potential immigration deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
  
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• Sri Lanka president restores ban on women buying alcohol

  14-01-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka's president on Sunday reimposed a four-decade-long ban on women buying liquor, just days after his finance minister had lifted the restriction.Maithripala Sirisena said he had ordered Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to revoke his decision last week to overturn the 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women."From tomorrow (Monday), the minister's order will be rescinded," Sirisena's office said in a statement, which added that the status quo will be restored but
  
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• Car soars into second floor of Santa Ana building in bizarre crash; 2 hurt

  14-01-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  Two people suffered minor injuries in a bizarre crash Sunday morning when a car went airborne and slammed into the second floor of a dental office in Santa Ana, officials said.
  
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• Jeff Flake Slams Trump’s Attacks On Press As Stalinist

  14-01-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) says President Donald Trump’s attacks against the press are reminiscent of similar tactics employed by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
  
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• Turkey vows imminent assault on Kurdish enclave in Syria

  14-01-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president said Sunday the country will launch a military assault on a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria "in the coming days" and urged the U.S. to support its efforts.
  
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• Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport

  14-01-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  A plane with 168 people aboard skidded off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at an airport in northern Turkey at the weekend, but no one was injured in what one passenger called a “miracle”.The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off smoothly from the capital Ankara bound for Trabzon, where the accident occurred as the plane was landing late Saturday.“There was panic, people shouting, screaming,” one of the passengers, Fatma Gordu, told state-run Anadolu news agen
  
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• Trump: Program protecting young illegal immigrants 'probably' dead

  14-01-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  By Lucia Mutikani and Pete SchroederWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a program that protects illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children from being deported would "probably" be discontinued.Trump has said he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and his Twitter comments on Sunday came as lawmakers worked on a bipartisan compromise on immigration policy.
  
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• Wrong woman killed in botched murder-for-hire plot

  14-01-2018 18:43 via yahoo.com
  Authorities in Florida say the wrong person was killed last Sunday in a botched murder-for-hire plot set up by a scorned woman.
  
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• 'Sit down and shut up': The best of Chris Christie's 8 years

  14-01-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves center stage this week, but don't expect him to sit down and shut up any time soon.
  
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• Protests mark Tunisia uprising anniversary

  14-01-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  Tunisians on Sunday marked seven years since the uprising that launched the Arab Spring, with fresh protests and some people expressing pride but others anger over persistent economic problems.The North African country is seen as having had a relatively smooth democratic transition since the January 14, 2011 toppling of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years in power.On Sunday, several hundred people took part in rallies in the capital Tunis, responding to calls to demonstrate from a p
  
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• Trump inflammatory comments on 's---hole countries' in Oval Office immigration meeting

  14-01-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on the president's comment amid a history of racially divisive actions.
  
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• Hawaiians demand answers after missile alert sparks 38 minutes of panic

  14-01-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  It took just three minutes for officials on Hawaii to realise that the text alert warning residents of an incoming missile strike had been sent in error. There was no missile. Yet it took another 35 minutes for panicking families – holed up in garages, cowering under tables or frantically saying their goodbyes - to be sent a second message with the comforting news that annihilation was no longer imminent. A day later the island chain’s public officials say they have instituted a new
  
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• UK party suspends leader's girlfriend over Markle remarks

  14-01-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Independence Party on Sunday suspended the membership of the girlfriend of the party's leader after she reportedly made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee, American actress Meghan Markle.
  
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• Hawaii's False Missile Alert Caused by Employee Who Pushed the Wrong Button

  14-01-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Residents went into a panic.
  
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• U.S.-led coalition helps to build new Syrian force, angering Turkey

  14-01-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  By Tom Perry and Orhan CoskunBEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition is working with its Syrian militia allies to set up a new border force of 30,000 personnel, the coalition said on Sunday, a move that has added to Turkish anger over U.S. support for Kurdish-dominated forces in Syria.A senior Turkish official told Reuters the U.S. training of the new "Border Security Force" was the reason that the U.S. charge d'affaires was summoned in Ankara last week, and President Tayyip Erdogan's
  
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• Bomb placed in car wounds Palestinian in southern Lebanon

  14-01-2018 17:49 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A Palestinian member of the militant group Hamas survived an attempt on his life Sunday after a bomb planted in his car in southern Lebanon on Sunday detonated, wounding him, the Lebanese military and the group said.
  
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• Egypt: 2 presidential hopefuls take aim at el-Sissi's rule

  14-01-2018 17:48 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Barely a week after authorities set a date for Egypt's presidential elections, two hopefuls have launched their campaigns with criticism of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's rule, with one promising to end "repression" if elected and the other claiming the incumbent is establishing a dictatorship.
  
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