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• Pompeo condemns Iran missile test

  01-12-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Amid tension between Washington and Tehran over ballistic missiles, Pompeo warned in a statement released on Twitter that Iran is increasing its "testing and proliferation" of missiles and called on the Islamic Republic to "cease these activities."President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear agreement in May and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, criticizing the deal for not including curbs on Iran's development of ballistic missiles or its support for proxies in Syria, Yemen, Leban
  
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• G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms

  01-12-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  World leaders have signed off on an agreement which reaffirms a basic commitment by the world’s biggest economies to multilateral trade and a “rules-based international order”, but bows to US demands for urgent reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).Agreement on a joint communique was by no means guaranteed at the beginning of the summit, when US negotiators took hardline positions, rejecting any mention of multilateralism, the “rules-based order” or the role
  
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• Trump argues tariffs with Xi after tense G20 summit

  01-12-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump sat down for a tariffs showdown over dinner with China's leader Saturday after upending another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change.Trump and President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires, shortly after the annual summit of the world's leading economic powers concluded with a watered-down statement described by one G20 expert as the "lowest common denominator" of international diplomacy."The relationship is very special -- the rela
  
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• Khashoggi murder: CIA 'believes Saudi crown prince sent messages to team involved in killing'

  01-12-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  The CIA believes Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to an advisor it alleges oversaw the team that killed Jamal Khashoggi in the hours surrounding the journalist’s death, according to a highly-classified assessment seen by The Wall Street Journal.Mr Khashoggi – a critic of the Saudi royal family – was killed in October shortly after entering Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul.Saudi Arabia has faced an international outcry over the killing, which
  
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• CIA 'believes Saudi crown prince sent messages to team involved in Khashoggi killing'

  01-12-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  The CIA believes Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to an advisor it alleges oversaw the team that killed Jamal Khashoggi in the hours surrounding the journalist’s death, according to a highly-classified assessment seen by The Wall Street Journal.Mr Khashoggi – a critic of the Saudi royal family – was killed in October shortly after entering Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul.Saudi Arabia has faced an international outcry over the killing, which
  
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• Putin says no talks with Ukraine about release of sailors

  01-12-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday there had been no discussion with Ukraine about the possible release of the Ukrainian sailors who were seized along with their ships by Russia last month.Putin spoke with reporters on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Buenos Aires.Russia is resisting international calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships that its border patrols fired upon and seized in the strait near Russian-annexed Crimea last weekend.
  
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• Mexico's AMLO Takes Office With Attack on Energy Overhaul

  01-12-2018 23:16 via yahoo.com
  Speaking at the lower house of Congress after taking the oath of office for a six-year term on Saturday, AMLO, as the leftist is known, said the oil market opening engineered by Enrique Pena Nieto had failed to attract significant foreign and private investment.“Neoliberal economic policies have been a disaster,” Lopez Obrador said.The 65-year-old former mayor of Mexico City frequently uses the term neoliberal to describe policies that he sees as favoring markets and investors over t
  
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• "State of insurrection" as fuel tax riots engulf central Paris

  01-12-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  The authorities were caught off guard by the escalation in violence after two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel taxes and living costs, known as the "yellow vest" movement after fluorescent jackets kept in all vehicles in France.In Paris, police said they had arrested almost 300 people while 110 were injured, including 20 members of the security forces.Police fired stun grenades, tear gas and water cannon at protesters at the top of the Champs-Elysees boulevard, at the Tuilleries Garden
  
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• Mexico new president vows to end 'rapacious' elite in first speech

  01-12-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Backed by a gigantic Mexican flag, the 65-year-old took the oath of office in the lower house of Congress, pledging to bring about a "radical" rebirth of Mexico to overturn what he called a disastrous legacy of decades of "neo-liberal" governments."The government will no longer be a committee at the service of a rapacious minority," said the new president, who is often nicknamed AMLO.Lopez Obrador repeated he was seeking to contain migration through a deal with Trump and Canadian Prime Minister
  
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• Slow-starting Man U launches latest fightback in EPL draw

  01-12-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  It seemingly needs a sleepy start to a game to jolt Manchester United's players into action these days.
  
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• PHOTOS: Aftershocks shake Alaska after back-to-back earthquakes

  01-12-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Aftershocks on Saturday continued to fray nerves in Alaska. There have been 545 aftershocks, including the 5.7 magnitude shaker that came almost immediately after Friday's big quake measuring 7.0. Eleven have had magnitudes of 4.5 or greater.
  
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• G20 summit: World leaders reluctantly bow to Trump on trade amid showdown between US and China over tariffs

  01-12-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  After hours of tense negotiation, world leaders of the G20 have signed off on a summit-ending agreement reaffirming a commitment to multilateral trade and a "rules-based international order" – but the real winner may yet be Donald Trump.The message involved a pledge to reform the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with Mr Trump having built his campaign for the presidency on the idea that America was being treated unfairly on trade issues.The EU, and its individual members, had been looking t
  
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• War will continue so long as Ukraine government stays: Putin

  01-12-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  "The current Ukrainian authorities have no interest in resolving the conflict, especially by peaceful means," Putin told reporters at the end of the G20 summit in Argentina.The conflict pitting Russian separatists against Ukrainian government forces is estimated to have claimed more than 10,000 lives -- one-third of them civilian -- since it broke out four years ago.Heavy military spending and the loss of vital industries in the separatist regions have weighed heavily on Ukraine's economy.
  
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• Lasting effects of Alaska's magnitude 7.0 earthquake

  01-12-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  A 7.0 magnitude earthquake slammed Anchorage, Alaska, causing widespread damage. Seismologist John Vitale joins CBSN to discuss the lasting effects of the earthquakes.
  
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• Experts: Alaska quake damage could have been much worse

  01-12-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rattled Alaska's largest city cracked roads and collapsed highway ramps, but there were no reports of widespread catastrophic damage or collapsed buildings.
  
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• Artist Behind Viral Barbara Bush Cartoon Returns to Reunite Her With George H.W. Bush

  01-12-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  The cartoon follows up Ramsey's viral image, drawn in April, of Barbara Bush arriving at the gates of heaven
  
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• Putin: Russia, Saudi agree to renew oil output cuts

  01-12-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russia and OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia had agreed to renew a pact on oil production cuts, as crude prices slump on global markets.There was no immediate word from the Saudis, but financial markets have been expecting the deal to be renewed between the kingdom and non-OPEC member Russia as the cartel prepares to meet next week in Vienna.
  
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• Putin says briefed Trump on Ukraine, wants fuller talks

  01-12-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he had explained his position in the Ukraine crisis to US leader Donald Trump at a G20 summit, and remained open to proper talks.Trump had cancelled a scheduled bilateral meeting with Putin in Argentina, but White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the two did have an "informal" conversation when they crossed paths at a summit dinner Friday.Putin, briefing reporters after the summit concluded, characterised the encounter as more significant.
  
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• Parkland Dad Praises George H.W. Bush For His Rejection Of The NRA

  01-12-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  The father of a teenage girl killed in this year's mass shooting at a Florida
  
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• San Francisco Christmas lights display seen nationwide

  01-12-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  "This tree represents what America should be. This tree represents immigrants, African Americans, Us."
  
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• En el G20 de Buenos Aires comparan al Primer Ministro de India con Apu

  01-12-2018 21:13 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  Una televisora de noticias en Argentina enfrento una reaccion violenta despues
  
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• Saudi Crown Prince to visit Algeria after G20 summit

  01-12-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Before the G20 summit the heir to the throne of the world's top oil exporter visited the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia.It is his first trip abroad since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has strained Saudi Arabia's ties with the West and battered the prince's image abroad.Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge ofthe murder.
  
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• Pompeo: no intelligence directly links Saudi prince to Khashoggi killing

  01-12-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he has seen all the intelligence possessed by the United States on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and repeated that no direct evidence links Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the incident."I have read every piece of intelligence that is in the possession of United States government," Pompeo said in an interview with broadcaster CNN in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of the G20 summit."When it is done, when you complete t
  
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• What We Know About George H.W Bush's Funeral Services

  01-12-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  He will be granted a state funeral, as is customary for former Presidents
  
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• George H.W. Bush’s Loyal Service Dog Sully Is Escorting His Casket to Washington

  01-12-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  He will be granted a state funeral, as is customary for former Presidents
  
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• Saudi crown prince to head to Algeria amid outcry

  01-12-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will arrive in Algiers on Sunday,Algerian state media said, for a visit that has been roundly criticised due to the killing of a dissident journalist.The trip is meant to give "new impetus to biliteral cooperation (and) the realisation of partnerships and investment projects", the statement said.Khashoggi's killing has put mounting pressure on Riyadh and Prince Mohammed, who Turkish officials -- and reportedly the CIA -- have concluded was behind the critic
  
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• I Took A Mental Health Day At Work And Lied About It. Here’s Why.

  01-12-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  In September, I started spiraling with anxiety at work. I was having a tough
  
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• Houstonians paying their respects at the monument of George H.W. Bush

  01-12-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  The Houston community is mourning and paying their respects at the monument of Bush in Sesquicentennial Park.
  
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• Cohen Cites Cooperation With Mueller in Plea to Avoid Prison 

  01-12-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen’s lawyers made the request a day after his dramatic appearance in federal court, where he admitted he lied to Congress about the Trump Organization’s effort to build a Moscow tower.In April, after FBI agents raided his home, office and hotel suite, he appeared headed to prison in a separate tax-evasion and campaign-finance case built on what appeared to be overwhelming evidence.In court in August, he told a judge that he violated campaign-finance laws at the president&r
  
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• Lopez Obrador: Mexico's new president is 'stubborn' leftist

  01-12-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  Mexico City (AFP) - "Stubborn" is among the many insults that have been hurled at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the anti-establishment leftist who became Mexico's new president on Saturday.It is the start of a political regime change," Lopez Obrador, 65, said in his inaugural address.The man widely known by his initials AMLO is one of the most divisive figures in Mexican politics: his critics hate him as fervently as his fans love him.
  
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• Remembering George H.W. Bush: Former Pres. George H.W. Bush was proud of service dog named Sully

  01-12-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  The former president said he could not be more grateful, especially for the training and service of the organization who gave him the dog.
  
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• Louisiana gets $11M settlement in interest rate manipulation

  01-12-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is receiving $11 million as its share of a multistate settlement with Deutsche Bank over the manipulation of a key benchmark involving global interest rates.
  
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• Mattis blasts Russia's 'brazen contempt' toward Ukraine

  01-12-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday blasted Moscow following the Russian navy's "brazen" violation of a waterway treaty with Kiev and the seizure of three Ukrainian vessels.Mattis was speaking before an audience at a defense forum in California, a day after President Donald Trump went out of his way to dodge Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, citing the capture of the Ukrainian ships.Last week, US Ambassador Nikki Haley to the UN accused Russia of "outlaw ac
  
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• France's Macron says nothing can justify the violence in Paris

  01-12-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that the wave of violence and vandalism in Paris on Saturday could not be justified in any way and had nothing to do with a peaceful expression of legitimate anger."No cause justifies that security forces are attacked, shops pillaged, public or private buildings set on fire, pedestrians or journalists threatened or that the Arc de Triomphe is sullied," Macron told a news conference in Buenos Aires, where he was attending the G20 summit.Declining
  
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• G20 nations agree on trade, migration; not climate change

  01-12-2018 20:18 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  Leaders of the Group of 20 agreed today to fix the world trading system after difficult, all-night talks in the Argentine capital, but only 19 of them agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the United States the lone holdout.The official summit statement acknowledges flaws in global commerce and calls for reforming the World Trade Organization.It doesn't mention the word "protectionism," however, after negotiators said that had met resistance from the United Unite Sta
  
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• G-20 backed trade body reform ahead of Trump, Xi talks

  01-12-2018 20:18 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters).- Global leaders backed an overhaul of the world body that regulates international trade disputes at a summit on Saturday, delegates said, ahead of high-stakes talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at defusing a trade war.A consensus appeared to be emerging at the two-day gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized economies for a joint statement that would back reforms to the crisis-stricken World Trade Organization amid growing
  
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• Saudi prince was in constant touch with Khashoggi hit-squad boss: report

  01-12-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  In the hours leading up to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing, Saudi Arabia's crown prince sent at least 11 messages to his closest advisor who was charged with overseeing the murder, the Wall Street Journal said Saturday quoting a CIA assessment.The Journal said it had reviewed excerpts of the highly classified intelligence document, which relied on electronic intercepts and other clandestine information.
  
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• Bush was political patriarch to enduring American dynasty

  01-12-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Kennedys had their New England coastal hideaway in Hyannis Port, a Camelot-like mystique and a political godfather in Joseph P. Kennedy.
  
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• 'It's burning': scenes of urban warfare rock Paris

  01-12-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  As protesters spread out from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, daylong clashes between police and "yellow vest" demonstrators left dozens of cars burned out and store-fronts vandalised."It's burning!" yelled a fleeing woman as two fires gained strength along the Boulevard des Capucines in central Paris."She's panicking!" a mother said of her daughter,imploring a waiter to give them shelter at the opulent Cafe de la Paix, just next to the Opera Garnier.
  
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• Panama mourns passing of Bush, who ordered country's invasion in 1989

  01-12-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  The government of Panama expressed its "profound condolences" Saturday over the death of former US president George H.W. Bush, who ordered the US invasion of the Central American country in 1989 to overthrow its then dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.President Juan Carlos Varela, writing on Twitter, said: "I extend my condolences to the Bush family, the American people and government after the death of former president George H.W. Bush.Bush, who guided America through the end of the Cold War and l
  
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• Trump goes it alone on trade, climate at tense G20

  01-12-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump, ahead of a tariffs showdown with China, diverged with G20 partners at summit talks in refusing to back global action on climate change and by watering down past pledges to fight trade protectionism.
  
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• George H.W. Bush: Lessons from a life

  01-12-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died Friday at age 94.
  
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• Khashoggi murder: Pompeo says 'no direct evidence' implicates Saudi prince

  01-12-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  Mike Pompeo spoke to CNN on the sidelines of the G20 summit.The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, insisted on Saturday that “no direct evidence” linked the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Pompeo is a former director of the CIA, which has reportedly concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered the murder.
  
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• Bill Clinton Remembers His Unlikely Friendship With George H.W. Bush in an Emotional Op-Ed

  01-12-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  "I cherished every opportunity I had to learn and laugh with him. I just loved him"
  
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• Macron and Abe seek to avert messy Renault-Nissan breakup

  01-12-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Abe said 'the future of the alliance is up to private-sector shareholders.'
  
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• Leftist Lopez Obrador sworn in as Mexico president

  01-12-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in as Mexico’s next president Saturday, after the anti-establishment leftist won a landslide election victory promising to "transform" a country fed up with crime, poverty and corruption.The leader, widely known by his initials as "AMLO," begins his six-year term with strong majorities in both houses of Congress -- but has caused market jitters in Latin America's second-largest economy with a style that some see as authoritarian and radical."I swear to
  
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• US to keep aiding Saudis in Yemen despite furor: Pompeo

  01-12-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Saturday that the United States would continue supporting Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen, despite rising outrage over the kingdom.Speaking from a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Pompeo acknowledged that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen -- where millions are at risk of starvation -- had reached "epic proportions" but said Washington and Riyadh were offering aid."The program that we're involved in today we intend to continue," Pompeo told CNN whe
  
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• The Latest: Merkel: Russia can't block Ukraine's ports

  01-12-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Latest on the current dispute between Russia and Ukraine (all times local):
  
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• George H. W. Bush Was a Man Summoned by Events

  01-12-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593-1633).The future 41st president was descended from a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland — from financier George Herbert Walker, whose name is on golf’s Walker Cup — and from a U.S. senator — his father Prescott, of Brown Brothers Harriman, the Wall Str
  
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• George H.W. Bush: Great on experience, not as communicator

  01-12-2018 18:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — George Bush was a man with a matchless resume — combat pilot, diplomat, vice president, then president of the United States — but great communicator was not on the list. That was Ronald Reagan.
  
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