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• At least 19 UN-affiliated personnel killed in Ethiopian crash: agency chief

  10-03-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 19 affiliated with the United Nations were among those killed in the crash Sunday of an Ethiopian Airlines jet near Addis Ababa, according to the UN migration agency chief.Authorities said all 157 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on a flight to Nairobi, where the UN conference was being held."Early indications are that 19 staff members of UN affiliated organizations perished," said International Organization for Migration hea
  
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• Nash County Sheriff's Office releases body cam footage of fatal deputy-involved shooting

  10-03-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The Nash County Sheriff's Office released body camera footage of a deputy-involved shooting that left one man dead in February.
  
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• Who is Cindy Yang and how is she connected to Trump and the spa where Patriots owner was charged?

  10-03-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The spa where the Patriots owner was charged and a firm offering foreign companies access to President Trump have one thing in common: Cindy Yang.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims capitalism is ‘irredeemable’

  10-03-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that she thinks capitalism is “irredeemable”.Ms Ocasio-Cortez made the comment during an interview at South by Southwest in Austin, where she said that the US should be “scared” that corporations had taken over the country.“Capitalism is an ideology of capital — the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximise profit,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez said during a question and answe
  
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• The jaguar who attacked a woman taking a selfie won't be put down

  10-03-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Good news everyone: The jaguar who attacked a woman taking a selfie will live. The woman reportedly crossed over a barrier near the jaguar enclosure at the Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona on Saturday to take a photo with the cats when one reached out and slashed her arm. Paramedics took her to a nearby hospital to treat the non life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from the zoo. SEE ALSO: This giraffe birth livestream is driving the internet insane"Please understand why bar
  
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• New R. Kelly sex abuse tape discovered: lawyer

  10-03-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Kelly is currently on bail after being accused of sexually abusing four women, including three teenagers, between May 1998 and January 2010.The latest discovery was announced by lawyer Gloria Allred at a press conference where she told journalists it was found by couple Gary and Sallie Dennis in a box of old VHS cassettes at their home.Neither Allred nor Dennis elaborated on how the tape came to be in the couple's possession.
  
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• Greek man saved from Ethiopia crash by being late

  10-03-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  "I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time," Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled "My lucky day" in which he includes a photo of his ticket.Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organization, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency.
  
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• Wildlife World Zoo says it won't put down jaguar that attacked a woman taking a photo

  10-03-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The attack reportedly took place about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
  
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• Ethiopian Airlines flight crashes, killing 157

  10-03-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Sunday's flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 a.m. (0538 GMT), before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8:44 a.m."There are no survivors," the airline tweeted alongside a picture of Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam holding up a piece of debris inside a large crater at the crash site."The pilot mentioned that he had difficulties and that he wanted to return," Tewolde told a news conference.Passengers from 33 countries were aboard, said Tewolde.
  
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• Ethiopian Airlines Boeing crashes killing all 157 on board

  10-03-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa Sunday, killing all eight crew and 149 passengers on board, including tourists, business travellers and UN staff.Ethiopia declared a national day of mourning for Monday amid a global stream of condolences for loved ones, many of whom gathered in tears at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
  
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• Jana Kramer to daughter: No 'drunken, one-night-stand first-time sex'

  10-03-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The "One Tree Hill" alum talked how she'll tell her daughter, now 3, about first-time sex and sharing her own first time. She also shared fertility woes.
  
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• 'We hope he learned his lesson,' Pelosi says of report Trump wants $8.6B more for wall

  10-03-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer warned the new request would suffer the same fate as the $5.7 billion demand.
  
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• Iran's Zarif in Iraq ahead of president's visit

  10-03-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in Baghdad to prepare the ground for his country's president, Hassan Rouhani, who will begin his first official visit to Iraq on Monday.Baghdad has been under pressure from Washington to limit ties with its neighbour, particularly after the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and hit Tehran with sanctions.Speaking in a joint press conference with Iraq's top diplomat Mohammed Ali al-Hakim, Zarif said Sunday they had held "very
  
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• At least five more tornadoes cause damage across South; two injuries reported

  10-03-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities were assessing storm damage after tornadoes were confirmed in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.
  
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• Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold

  10-03-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder. The earplug in his left ear is attached to a police scanner in his pants pocket.
  
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• With 18 Canadians dead, Trudeau calls Ethiopia crash 'devastating'

  10-03-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday deplored the "devastating news" that 18 Canadian nationals were among the 157 people killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner."Devastating news from Ethiopia this morning," Trudeau said on Twitter.
  
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• Get paid for your data? California governor wants tech companies to show you the money

  10-03-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering a bill that would compensate users for their data, but critics warn it could be complicated.
  
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• Trump to seek another $8.6 billion for border wall

  10-03-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border in the 2020 budget request, likely triggering another fight with Congress, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday.The request, which is to be formally unveiled Monday, would far exceed the $5.7 billion Trump demanded last year, which led to an impasse that resulted in a 35-day partial shutdown of the US government, the longest ever.Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and
  
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• Dozens protest statue in defeated Syria cradle of uprising

  10-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of people demonstrated Sunday in the defeated cradle of Syria's uprising against a statue of the late father of the president being reinstated eight years after protesters demolished it.President Bashar al-Assad's forces secured full control of Daraa from rebels in July, in a massive blow to the country's ill-fated revolt that erupted in the southern city."We protested in a number of streets... denouncing a statue of Hafez al-Assad being erected in the centre of Daraa," a protester told A
  
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• US-backed Syrian fighters resume attack on Islamic State

  10-03-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters resumed their offensive on the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Sunday, lighting the skies over the besieged village as artillery shelling and heavy gunfire rang out in the distance.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Beto O’Rourke Steal Some Thunder From 2020 Democrats

  10-03-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight 2020 Democratic hopefuls took the stage at the annual South by Southwest cultural festival in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, attempting to broaden their appeal and test their message with a millennial-heavy audience.New York Representative Ocasio-Cortez and O’Rourke, a former Texas representative, each commanded huge crowds and dominated the conference buzz.O’Rourke made a widely expected “surprise” appearance at the premier of a documentary about his close but ul
  
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• Diver ends up in mouth of massive Bryde's whale off South Africa coast: 'I don't think I had a whale of a time'

  10-03-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  "I don't think I had a whale of a time. I now have the inside knowledge of a whale which nobody else has," Rainer Schimpf said.
  
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• Arsenal beats Man United 2-0 to go 4th in Premier League

  10-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Arsenal ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's unbeaten run in the Premier League with a 2-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday to leapfrog its rival into the top four.
  
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• Jaguar attacks woman taking a photo at Wildlife World Zoo in Arizona

  10-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The attack reportedly took place about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
  
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• California man arrested after dousing neighbor’s door in diesel

  10-03-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A California man was arrested after dousing his neighbor’s door in diesel because he ‘saw a ghost.’
  
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• A Chicago police officer is in critical condition after being shot while serving a warrant

  10-03-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The officer was shot in the shoulder while serving a warrant, a 19-year-old woman is in custody.
  
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• India to go to polls from April 11, Pakistan tension may boost Modi

  10-03-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  About 900 million citizens will be eligible to vote, 15 million of them aged between 18 and 19, in a mammoth exercise lasting more than a month, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said at a press briefing in the capital New Delhi on Sunday.Until a few weeks ago, a shortage of jobs and weak farm prices were seen denting Modi's popularity.Of the 543 parliamentary seats up for grabs, 241 could go to Modi's ruling alliance, compared with 141 to the Congress party-led opposition alliance, accord
  
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• Trump adviser: some time may pass before a third North Korea summit

  10-03-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking on ABC, John Bolton said the United States has no illusions about North Korea's capabilities, but Trump remains confident in his personal relationship with the North Korean leader.Bolton's comments came after two U.S. think tanks and Seoul's spy agency said last week that North Korea was rebuilding a rocket launch site at Sohae in the west of the country.There have also been reports from South Korea's intelligence service of new activity at a factory at Sanumdong near Pyongyang that pro
  
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• Taxes 2019: How long should I keep my tax returns?

  10-03-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  How long you should keep tax returns and supporting documents depends on your tax situation and when the audit period of limitations runs out.
  
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• Timeline of the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash

  10-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The news shattered more than two years of relative calm in Africa's skies. As millions on the continent headed to church on Sunday morning, an Ethiopian Airlines plane took off on a routine flight from Addis Ababa for Nairobi and quickly lost control. Six minutes later, all contact was lost. All 157 people aboard were killed, representing a staggering 35 countries. Here is a timeline of how the day unfolded. All times local.
  
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• 'A cop on the beat': Elizabeth Warren defends plan to break up tech giants

  10-03-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  In echo of 2020 attacks from Trump, Massachusetts senator faces question about being ‘labeled as a socialist’ Elizabeth Warren speaks at the South by Southwest conference and festivals in Austin, Texas. Photograph: Sergio Flores/ReutersPresidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, who called this week for the break-up of America’s biggest tech companies, was challenged on her capitalist credentials on Sunday. The exchange offered a preview of how Democratic presidential candidates mig
  
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• Google sifting through one billion health questions each day

  10-03-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Google wants to harness the billion health-related questions people ask it every day to provide better healthcare, despite criticism that the Search giant has played a role in spreading dangerous misinformation about measles vaccinations. Google Health boss David Feinberg said that around 7 per cent of Google’s daily searches were health related, equivalent to 70,000 every minute. “People are asking us about conditions, medication, symptoms and insurance questions,” he sai
  
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• Trump to Seek $8.6 Billion for Wall, Set Up New Budget Fight

  10-03-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s proposal asks for an additional $5 billion in funding for the Department of Homeland Security and $3.6 billion in new military construction funds, plus an additional $3.6 billion to replace previously appropriated funding that Trump wants to use for the wall, according to a senior administration official, who requested anonymity to discuss the plan ahead of its release.The request is in addition to the funds that Trump is hoping to allocate through executive action after de
  
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• US-backed Syrian forces resume assault on last IS redoubt

  10-03-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  US-backed forces said Sunday time was up for Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in their eastern Syrian holdout and resumed their assault on the pocket.The extremists once ruled over millions in a swathe of Syria and Iraq, but they have since lost all that land except for a riverside encampment in the village of Baghouz.The Syrian Democratic Forces has slowed down its months-long campaign against IS in recent weeks to allow civilians and surrendering jihadists out from their shrinking
  
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• Trump to demand extra $3bn for border wall from congress, White House officials reveal

  10-03-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump plans on asking congress for $8.6bn (£6.6bn) to build a wall on the US southern border in 2020, a figure that far surpasses previous allocations for the project, according to reports.The president’s new demand is six times what was allocated earlier this year for the wall, and six per cent more than what he has sought to reallocate with his emergency declaration.“It gives the president the ability to say he has fulfilled his commitment to gain operational control o
  
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• Factbox: Deal, no deal or delay - How will UK parliament decide on Brexit?

  10-03-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers will this week decide how and when Britain should leave the European Union in a series of votes that could determine the country's prosperity for decades to come.With Britain due to leave the EU on March 29, and no agreed direction for the world's fifth-largest economy to take, Prime Minister Theresa May will ask lawmakers to vote on up to three possible outcomes.If the deal is rejected, lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on whether the government should pursue a no-deal exit.
  
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• Range of patriotic sarees released as Indian election date set

  10-03-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The saree is being deployed as the latest political weapon in India’s elections as the world’s largest democracy prepares to go to the polls. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled a collection of “political sarees”, hoping the women’s garments will act as mobile billboards for voters making up their minds in coming weeks. India’s election commission announced on Sunday that the country’s electorate, numbering over 900 million, w
  
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• NRA targets Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in scathing attack, labelling her a 'self-absorbed socialist darling'

  10-03-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Rifle Association has launched a scathing attack on Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, branding the congresswoman a “self-absorbed socialist darling”.Grant Stinchfield, who is a host on the TV channel of the largest gun lobbying group in America, said Ms Ocasio-Cortez made him “sick”.Mr Stinchfield, a self-described “firearms enthusiast”, hit out at the Democrat for criticising the war in Afghanistan.
  
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• With shrouded faces, Islamic State fighters stand guard over final enclave

  10-03-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of people - many of them the wives of Islamic State fighters and their children - have been streaming out of the besieged enclave at Baghouz for weeks, forcing the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to delay an assault on the last vestige of the jihadists' territorial rule.Reuters TV footage of the Islamic State-controlled frontline shows armed militants, most with only their eyes visible, supervising the evacuations from a scrubby patch of agricultural land scattered with vehi
  
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• Paul Manafort did not live 'an otherwise blameless life': Terry Moran on sentencing

  10-03-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas and Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran discuss the latest in the Mueller probe, including Paul Manafort's sentence of less than four years.
  
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• Tibet supporters in India mark 60 years since uprising

  10-03-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Huge crowds gathered at the Dalai Lama's temple in India Sunday to commemorate 60 years since the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that drove the spiritual leader into exile.Supporters of the 83-year-old peace icon chanted and prayed at the Buddhist shrine in mountainous Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama established a government-in-exile after fleeing a deadly Chinese crackdown in Tibet in 1959.Devotees in the Indian hill station the Dalai Lama has called home for six decades waved Ti
  
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• Palestinian president meets Israeli left-wing leader

  10-03-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met the leader of Israel's left-wing Meretz party in Ramallah on Sunday and both called for peace efforts to resume.Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg made the trip to the occupied West Bank as she campaigns ahead of Israel's April 9 elections.While Israeli politics has moved firmly to the right in recent years, Meretz has doubled down on left-wing policies, including a two-state solution with the Palestinians and progressive social policies.
  
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• Rouhani seeks to shore up Iran's influence on Baghdad trip

  10-03-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The first Iranian presidential visit to Iraq since 2013 is also meant to signal to President Donald Trump's administration that Tehran retains its influence in much of the region despite U.S. sanctions."Iran and Iraq are neighbors and no country can interfere in their relations," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said after arriving in Baghdad to prepare for the visit.Rouhani's three-day trip starting on Monday includes meetings with Iraq's president and prime minister, tours of Shi'ite Musl
  
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• The Latest: Italian aid group says founder among crash dead

  10-03-2019 17:48 via news.yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local):
  
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• India to hold mega-election from April 11 - May 19

  10-03-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  India announced Sunday a general election to be held over nearly six weeks starting on April 11, when hundreds of millions of voters will cast ballots in the world's biggest democracy.The poll will see right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi run for a second term against Rahul Gandhi of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty to lead the world's second-most populous nation.From April 11 to May 19 voters will elect 543 lawmakers to India's lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, which governs the Asian nation
  
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• U.S. presses India to stop buying oil from Venezuela's Maduro: envoy

  10-03-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  You should be on the side of the Venezuelan people," Elliott Abrams told Reuters in an interview.The Trump administration has given the same message to other governments, Abrams said, and has made a similar argument to foreign banks and companies doing business with Maduro.Abrams described the U.S. approach as "arguing, cajoling, urging."The talks with India come as the United States and its regional allies, who back Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, threaten more sanctions to cut off re
  
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• Attack on Syrian IS enclave to begin, U.S.-backed SDF says

  10-03-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday that their frontline troops had received orders to attack the final Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria, and the assault could begin at any moment.The advance on the besieged enclave at Baghouz, near the Iraqi border, has stalled repeatedly to allow for the evacuation of civilians.Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office, said no more civilians had come out of the enclave since Saturday, an
  
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• US-backed Syria force says time up for IS 'to surrender'

  10-03-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  US-backed forces said Sunday time was up for Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in their eastern Syrian holdout and an assault was imminent."The timeline (we gave) ISIS to surrender themselves is over," Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Mustefa Bali said on Twitter, using another acronym for IS."Our forces have received orders for military action to finish off what is left of the terrorists in Baghouz," a village near the Iraqi border, he said.
  
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• The Latest: UK confirms 7 British victims in plane crash

  10-03-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local):
  
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