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• Top Asian News 10:51 p.m. GMT

  17-03-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people paid tribute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims' bodies. Hundreds of flowers were piled up amid candles, balloons and notes of grief and love outside the Al Noor mosque and the city's botanic gardens. As a light rain fell, people clutched each other and wept quietly. "We wish we knew
  
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• Mourners pay tribute to New Zealand victims, await burials

  17-03-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people paid tribute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims' bodies.
  
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• Tank fire sends black smoke plume across Houston

  17-03-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A storage tank fire on the Houston Ship Channel sent a plume of black smoke across the eastern half of the city on Sunday forcing residents in the suburb of Deer Park, Texas, to remain indoors.A giant storage tank containing volatile naphtha at Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) Deer Park site continued to burn six hours after the blaze broke out at about 10:30 a.m. local time (1530 GMT).Ships were continuing to move along the ship channel which connects refineries and chemical plants in Housto
  
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• Diane Kruger, 42, flaunts abs four months after giving birth: 'The female body is AMAZING'

  17-03-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Diane Kruger proudly flaunted her chiseled abs on Instagram Saturday, four months after giving birth to her daughter with actor Norman Reedus.
  
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• Donald Trump 'ready to leave nearly 1,000 troops in Syria'

  17-03-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The US is preparing to leave nearly 1,000 troops in Syria, it was reported last night. Mr Trump announced a complete withdrawal in December, ending the US involvement in Syria, a country he described as little more than “sand and death”. It was an announcement which triggered the resignation of James Mattis, the Defence Secretary. Within weeks Mr Trump backtracked, amid pleas from both Republican and Democrats in Washington, who feared that pulling out all US forces could allow
  
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• Top Asian News 10:20 p.m. GMT

  17-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people paid tribute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims' bodies. Hundreds of flowers were piled up amid candles, balloons and notes of grief and love outside the Al Noor mosque and the city's botanic gardens. As a light rain fell, people clutched each other and wept quietly. "We wish we knew
  
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• BlackRock Sees Emerging Stocks Almost Recouping Last Year's Loss

  17-03-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In the face of slowing global growth, the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise rates this year, causing the dollar to weaken and improving the flows into emerging markets, said Fraser, global emerging-market equities fund manager.“Markets should recoup most, if not all, of their losses from last year,” Fraser, who is based in Hong Kong and helped manage the firm’s approximately $40 billion of active EM equities as of the end of 2018, said in a phone interview.
  
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• Facebook removed 1.5 million videos of New Zealand attack within 24 hours

  17-03-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook said it removed or blocked 1.5 million videos of a gunman's rampage on two New Zealand mosques that killed 50 people and wounded dozens more.
  
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• Two Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish PKK: military

  17-03-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Clashes between the Iraqi army and Kurdish PKK militia killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded five of the militants on Sunday, the Iraqi military said in a statement.The clashes took place in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq after the PKK fighters were denied passage through an army checkpoint, the statement said, adding that the militants drove a vehicle into one soldier and attacked the checkpoint.The PKK did not immediately comment.
  
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• The Latest: New Zealand's biggest gun show is canceled

  17-03-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The Latest on shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand (all times local):
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro Asks Cabinet Ministers to Offer Resignations

  17-03-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “President @NicolasMaduro has asked the entire Executive Cabinet to offer their charges for resignation for the purpose of a profound reorganization of the methods and operation of the Bolivarian government to shield the Homeland of Bolivar and Chavez from any threat,” Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a tweet.Maduro is facing international pressure to step down amid one of the worst economic and political crises in recent times.
  
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• Report: Suspected Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo was arrested, then released by Sacramento police in 1996

  17-03-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of at least 13 murders and numerous sexual assaults, was once arrested and released by Sacramento police.
  
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• Boeing 'finalizing' anti-stall update after Ethiopia crash

  17-03-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing is finalizing a software update and pilot training linked to the MCAS anti-stalling feature, under scrutiny after two 737 Max 8 crashes, the company's CEO said on Sunday."Boeing is finalizing its development of a previously-announced software update and pilot training revision that will address the MCAS flight control law's behavior in response to erroneous sensor inputs," the US-based aircraft manufacturer's president and CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, said in a statement.
  
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• Battle rages for last Islamic State Syria enclave

  17-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Falling bombs raised smoke over Islamic State's last enclave in east Syria on Sunday, obscuring the huddle of vehicles and makeshift shelters to which the group's self-declared "caliphate" has been reduced.Another 34,000 civilians were evacuated.
  
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• Dozens charged in college admissions racket

  17-03-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice calls it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted.
  
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• The Latest: Up to 500 homes damaged in 1 Nebraska county

  17-03-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• Ethiopian Airlines black boxes show similarities to Lion Air crash: ministry

  17-03-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Both planes were Boeing 737 MAX 8s, and both crashed minutes after take-off after pilots reported flight control problems.Concern over the plane's safety caused aviation authorities worldwide to ground the model, wiping billions of dollars off Boeing's market value.Investigators are trying to determine why the aircraft plunged into a field shortly after take off from Addis Ababa, searching for possible similarities to an October Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
  
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• Fox News pulls Jeanine Pirro's show one week after remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab

  17-03-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab and patriotism on the air, Fox News pulls host 'Judge Jeanine' Pirro's show.
  
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• US aviation agency defends its vetting of plane involved in crashes

  17-03-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The US agency that regulates civil aviation said Sunday it followed "standard" procedures in certifying the Boeing jetliner whose anti-stall systems have come under scrutiny after disastrous crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia."The 737-MAX certification program followed the FAA’s standard certification process," the Federal Aviation Administration said in an email to AFP.The 737-MAX is a relatively new plane, having entered service only in May 2017 as Boeing's answer to Airbus's medium-haul
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro plans 'deep restructuring' of government: VP

  17-03-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is planning a "deep restructuring" of his government, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Sunday, as the country recovers from a prolonged blackout amid a power struggle with the opposition."President @NicolasMaduro has asked the entire executive Cabinet to put their roles up for review in a deep restructuring of the methods and functions of the Bolivarian government, to protect the fatherland of Bolivar and Chavez from any threat," Rodriguez wrote on Twitt
  
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• 'Obama judges?' 'Trump judges?' Border emergency lawsuits could expose or defuse partisan differences

  17-03-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The judges who will hear legal challenges to President Trump's declaration of a national emergency run the political gamut from left to right.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke says nothing in his past will hinder 2020 run

  17-03-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told supporters Sunday that he's never taken LSD and there's "nothing" he hasn't already revealed about his past that could come back to hurt his run for office.
  
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• William H. Macy's best advice before Felicity Huffman's cheating scandal: 'Never lie'

  17-03-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  "Lies cost you a lot," William H. Macy told Men's Journal last month, before wife Felicity Huffman was charged in a college bribery scandal.
  
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• Graves prepared as New Zealand looks to bury mosque massacre dead

  17-03-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of graves were being dug in a Christchurch cemetery on Monday for the 50 worshippers killed in two mosque attacks, as families clamoured for the return of their dead.As New Zealand grappled to come to terms with the slaughter -- the worst attack on Muslims in a Western country -- tales of heroism, suffering and incredible grace emerged.Farid Ahmad, whose 44-year-old wife Husna was killed as she rushed back into a mosque to rescue him, refused to harbour hatred toward the alleged gunman, A
  
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• White House aide says 'absurd' to link mosque shooter, Trump

  17-03-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official said Sunday that President Donald Trump "is not a white supremacist" and attempts to tie him to the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter are "absurd."
  
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• Middle finger protected by the constitution, court rules

  17-03-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court says a driver who showed a police officer her middle finger is protected by the First Amendment.
  
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• Ethiopian official: 'Clear similarities' between catastrophic Boeing plane crashes

  17-03-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  As Ethiopians mourned those killed in last Sunday's plane crash, the transport minister said there are 'clear similarities' with an October accident.
  
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• U.S. agencies have not validated Ethiopian Airlines black box data: U.S. officials

  17-03-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ethiopian Transport Ministry said the data from the black boxes was successfully recovered and teams from the United States and Ethiopia had validated it.Citing analysis of the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of the March 10 disaster, the spokesman said the crash had "clear similarities" with October's Lion Air crash.Investigators are trying to determine why the aircraft plunged into a field shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, searching for poss
  
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• Southwest, mechanics reach tentative deal in labor dispute

  17-03-2019 20:53 via finance.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines and a union representing its mechanics could be on the verge of ending a bitter, long-running labor dispute that has triggered hundreds of flight cancellations and raised safety concerns.The two sides announced the tentative contract agreement late Saturday after six years of negotiations between Southwest and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association.The agreement, reached in a week of mediation, came after the Federal Aviation Administration warned that the deteriorating
  
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• New Zealand mosque shooter 'acted alone'; sent manifesto to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

  17-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in New Zealand said on Sunday that the right-wing terrorist behind a massacre at two mosques in Christchurch was acting alone, as it emerged the killer's manifesto had been sent to the country's prime minister minutes before the tragedy unfolded. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, sent a racist, rambling manifesto to prime minister Jacinda Ardern in which he denied being linked to any organisations and said he was acting on his own. The document, which praised President Donald
  
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• Israel's top court disqualifies far-rightist, approves Arab party for ballot

  17-03-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court rulings were widely expected and unlikely to shake Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to craft a rightist alliance that might secure him a record fifth term.The court found in favor of appellants who argued that Michael Ben-Ari of the Jewish Power party had displayed anti-Arab racism.Other members of Jewish Power, a small faction that is part of an ultra-nationalist list which last month forged an election alliance with Netanyahu's Likud party, remain eligible to run.
  
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• George Clooney defends 'kind and smart' Duchess Meghan against 'unjust' treatment by press

  17-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  George Clooney said of the former Meghan Markle: "She’s a really kind and smart, intelligent young woman..."
  
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• Attorney General Bill Barr set to decide whether or not the Mueller report will be released to the public

  17-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis says he believes AG Bill Barr will make the Mueller report public.
  
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• General Motors slashes more than 1,400 jobs in Ohio

  17-03-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  United Auto Workers 1112 President David Green says many workers have moved their families out of Ohio to find work elsewhere.
  
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• Trump Says He Asked GM CEO to Sell Ohio Plant or ‘Do Something’

  17-03-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  “Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce,” Trump tweeted on Sunday.In an interview on Sunday, Green, the president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, responded, “We have produced and my act is together.Green, who’s been an outspoken critic of the president in the past, said Trump had pledged to preserve jobs in Trumbull County, where GM’s Lordstown plant is located, but the unemployment rate there was 7.7 percent in Ja
  
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• Trump stance on Muslims, Fox host in spotlight after mosque shootings

  17-03-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The violence against Muslims in New Zealand on Friday put a spotlight on Trump's rhetoric about Islam and revived criticism of his handling of white supremacist violence."Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro," Trump wrote in Twitter posts in which he blamed Democrats for trying to "silence a majority of our Country" and advocated supporters to "stop working soooo hard on being politically correct."At the same time, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney appeared on Sunday television news show
  
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• Meet the Patton: Why the M60 Tank Is Still A Killer After Decades on the Battlefield

  17-03-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The M60 Patton was the mainstay of the U.S tank fleet in the 1960s and 1970s, before being replaced by the M1 Abrams tank currently in service. However, more than five thousand Pattons remain in service in the armies of nineteen countries
  
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• North Korea—Now What After Hanoi?

  17-03-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington must double down on alliances and not offer more concessions.
  
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• The Latest: Flooding impacting Amtrak service in Missouri

  17-03-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shows resolve, empathy after mosque massacre

  17-03-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  "You may have chosen us," Jacinda Ardern said to the mosque massacre suspect. "We utterly reject and condemn you."
  
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• Fox News pulls Jeanine Pirro's show after controversial remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab

  17-03-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab and patriotism on the air, Fox News pulls host 'Judge Jeanine' Pirro's show.
  
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• Kroger ends its unmanned-vehicle grocery delivery pilot program in Arizona

  17-03-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Kroger ends its unmanned-vehicle grocery delivery pilot program in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week. It was said to be the first of its kind in the U.S.
  
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• Famous landmarks around the world turn green for St. Patrick's Day

  17-03-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The greenest day of the year will always be St. Patrick's Day.Cities around the world celebrated the Irish holiday on Sunday by turning their most famous landmarks green. It's amazing what a quick dye job can do to your standard government building.SEE ALSO: Pornhub reveals what people are searching for to celebrate St. Patrick's DaySt. Patrick's Day commemorates St. Patrick and the first appearance of Christianity in Ireland. While there's so much more to the holiday than the color green, it's
  
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• What will the Mueller report say?

  17-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn says he does not believe the Mueller report will show any signs of Trump-Russia collusion.
  
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• Rep. Doug Collins: Loretta Lynch has some explaining to do

  17-03-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins says that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told former FBI Director James Comey to consider Hillary Clinton email scandal a ‘matter’ not an investigation.
  
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• NASA administrator Bridenstine wants everyone to know he still has faith in the SLS

  17-03-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Well, that certainly didn't take long! Just a day after NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine alluded to the possibility of flying the new Orion crew capsule's first experimental trip around the Moon using a pair of commercial rockets instead of NASA's own Space Launch System which is still in development, he's issued a new statement assuring everyone that the SLS is still a major part of NASA's future.In a new memo sent to all NASA employees and contractors, Bridenstine clarifies his statement and
  
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• Trump slammed for 'silence' on white supremacist threat

  17-03-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats led by an Arab-American lawmaker attacked President Donald Trump's "silence" on the rise of white supremacy Sunday as reaction to the New Zealand mosque massacre spilled into a heated US debate over religious and racial bigotry.With controversy swirling over Trump's tepid response to the massacre, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was forced to deny any affinity between the president's anti-immigration rhetoric and the accused Christchurch shooter's extremist views."The presiden
  
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• Syria force says 'thousands' still inside last IS pocket

  17-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  US-backed forces said Sunday thousands of people were believed to still be inside the last Islamic State group enclave in eastern Syria, as they sought to flush out die-hard fighters with airstrikes and shelling.Tens of thousands of dishevelled women, children and men have streamed out of a small pocket in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border in recent weeks -- and they still keep coming.The huge numbers have flummoxed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and slowed down their offensive ai
  
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• Stacey Abrams considers 2020 presidential campaign on race and voter suppression as Democratic field grows

  17-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her bid to become governor of Georgia last autumn, has a series of decisions to make.Losing campaigns are not the normal launching pad for a run for the White House.Ms Abrams, who was the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, sat down last week with Steven Ginsberg, The Washington Post's national editor, and talked about the choices, the timetable and what kind of presidential campaign she would run.
  
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• Black boxes show 'clear similarities' with Indonesian crash, Ethiopia says

  17-03-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week shows "clear similarities" with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same type of aircraft, Ethiopia's transport minister said on Sunday.The announcement came a week after Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 plummeted into a field southeast of Addis Ababa minutes into its flight to Nairobi, killing all 157 people onboard.The disaster caused the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft involved after aviation reg
  
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