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• The Latest: Rockets fired from Gaza into Israel

  30-03-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on protests at Gaza border with Israel (all times local):
  
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• 'Pitch up, pitch up': Final moments of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet before crash

  30-03-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A pilot on the Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed three weeks ago was heard saying “pitch up, pitch up” just moments before the disaster, the Wall St Journal has reported.  The conversation happened when the plane was just 450ft (137m) off the ground as the aircraft begun to point downwards, according to the paper.  The plane's radio reportedly died moments after the comment was captured. All 157 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737 Max crashed.  T
  
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• Supporters, opponents of Venezuela's government rally amid blackouts

  30-03-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas Saturday to disperse demonstrators in Caracas outraged by massive power outages that have kept much of the country in darkness since early March.AFP journalists on the scene said the security forces blocked opposition protesters from concentrating at certain points in the western side of the capital city.The latest power outage hit just after 7 pm (2310 GMT) Friday, affecting Caracas and at least 20 of the oil producing country's 23 states.
  
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• Turks vote in local elections which could see Erdogan lose in big cities

  30-03-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than 16 years thanks to strong economic growth and supreme campaigning skills, has become the country's most popular, yet also most divisive, leader in modern history.With the economy contracting following a currency crisis last year in which the lira lost more than 30 percent of its value, some voters appeared ready to punish Erdogan who has ruled with an increasingly uncompromising stance.This week, as authorities again scrambled to shore up
  
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• Possible US-Mexico border closure sparks concern

  30-03-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers and students who frequently cross the U.S. border with Mexico worried over the weekend about the impact on their lives if President Donald Trump follows through on a threat to shut entry points used by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Nathan Frandino reports.
  
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• The Latest: Trump takes steps to cut aid to 3 nations

  30-03-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on Trump administration moves on immigration through U.S. border with Mexico (all times Eastern):
  
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• Ex-vice president Biden doesn't recall inappropriate kiss alleged by activist: spokesman

  30-03-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The allegation was made in an online essay published on Friday by Lucy Flores, a party activist who was running to be Nevada's lieutenant governor.Flores said Biden also touched her shoulders and smelled her hair when they appeared at an event together, making her feel uncomfortable."He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head," Flores wrote in the essay published in The Cut, an outlet of New York Magazine.
  
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• Frequent crossers of U.S.-Mexico border fret over threatened shutdown

  30-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Faced with a surge of asylum seekers from Central American countries who travel through Mexico, Trump said on Friday there was a "good likelihood" he would close the border this coming week if Mexico does not stop unauthorized immigrants from reaching the United States.Shutting the southern frontier completely would disrupt billions of dollars in trade and millions of legal border crossings, including those made by U.S. citizen Andrea Torres.The 22-year-old student spends weekdays with her aunt
  
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• Cook County Sheriff Deputy killed, teen charged in high-speed crash

  30-03-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Off-duty Cook County Sheriff Deputy James Koch was killed in a high-speed crash in Chicago Ridge.
  
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• Why Iran Is So Afraid of a Free Iraq

  30-03-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The octogenarian Iraqi Grand Ayatollah remains an outsized political force that Iran must reckon with.
  
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• Trump: Pulitzers awarded to NYT, Washington Post should be revoked for 'fake' Russia coverage

  30-03-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump called for the Pulitzer Board to revoke the prizes awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post.
  
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• US cuts aid for some Central American countries over migrants

  30-03-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States cut off aid to several Central American countries President Donald Trump accuses of doing nothing to stop the outflow of US-bound migrants, the State Department announced Saturday.At the instruction of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, "we are carrying out the president's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle (of Central America)," a State Department spokesperson said.The 2018 budget year ended months ago, and the State Dep
  
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• UK Conservatives may try to stop any early election plan by May: Observer

  30-03-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers from British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party are threatening to vote down any attempt she makes to call a snap national election in the face of the country's Brexit impasse, the Observer newspaper said. The politicians, who come from across the party which is divided over Brexit, have warned that a push for an early election would further split the Conservatives and exacerbate the Brexit crisis, the newspaper said. ...
  
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• Ebola treatment center in Congo reopens after attack

  30-03-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ebola treatment center located at the epicenter of the current outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed operations after it was attacked last month, the country's health ministry said on Saturday.The center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the district of Katwa was set on fire on Feb. 24 by unknown attackers, forcing staff to evacuate patients."For now it is managed by the ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF," it said, refe
  
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• Number of asylum seekers sent back over border to grow

  30-03-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday.
  
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• After Joe Biden kissing allegation, 2020 candidates weigh whether he should enter race

  30-03-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  "I believe Lucy Flores," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said. "And Joe Biden needs to give an answer."
  
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• Beto O'Rourke rallies in Texas kick-off in El Paso, blocks from US-Mexico border

  30-03-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign rally in El Paso, blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border, challenged President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
  
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• Cook County Sheriff Deputy killed, teen injured in high-speed crash

  30-03-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A Cook County Sheriff Deputy was killed in a high-speed crash inside of the Chicago Ridge Saturday morning.
  
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• Caravan of 40 Salvadoran migrants sets out for US border

  30-03-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The "mother of all caravans" expected to depart from Central America has begun by looking more like the baby of all caravans, after a group of about 40 migrants left Saturday for the U.S. from the capital of El Salvador.
  
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• Palestinians mass at Gaza border to mark protest anniversary

  30-03-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli forces had massed the other side of the fortified frontier, with tensions already high after a rocket attack from Gaza and Israeli air strikes earlier in the week.Four Palestinians were killed on Saturday, Gaza medical officials said.Three were 17-year-olds shot dead by Israeli troops while protesting, they said, adding another person was killed at an overnight protest hours before the main rally.
  
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• 'This is our moment': Beto O'Rourke attacks Trump and calls for unity

  30-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Launching his White House run in El Paso, the Democrat cited the presence blocks away of migrants held behind barbed wireBeto O’Rourke speaks on the streets of El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/ReutersBeto O’Rourke, the former punk rocker from a border town in Texas, formally launched his insurgent campaign for the US presidency on Saturday by denouncing fear and division promoted by Donald Trump and calling for a revival of inclusive American democracy.Speaking to several th
  
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• As Border Crossings Rise, Migrants Held in Makeshift Detention Center Under a Texas Bridge

  30-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  In El Paso, Texas, a migrant detention center has was constructed under the Paso Del Norte Bridge.
  
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• O'Rourke holds rally near Mexican border that Trump threatens to shut

  30-03-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  O'Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, kicked off a series of three rallies in Texas in his bid to become the Democratic nominee a day after Republican Trump threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico as soon as next week.Speaking in El Paso, a few hundred yards from the border with Mexico, O'Rourke decried the Trump administration's immigration policies and the president's call for a border wall."We'll find security not through walls," he declared to cheers from several hundred suppo
  
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• Hundreds protest against Brexit at Irish border

  30-03-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people gathered at the Irish border on Saturday to protest against Brexit, fearing that it could threaten the peace agreement between the British-ruled north and the republic.Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and current leader Mary Lou McDonald were among around 300 people demonstrating on a bridge near the border town of Newry, above the motorway linking Northern Ireland capital Belfast to Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland."My commute which is currently an hour is now go
  
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• Pope in Morocco: Walls, fear-mongering won't stop migration

  30-03-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Pope Francis praised Morocco as a model of religious moderation and migrant welcome as he kicked off a trip to the kingdom Saturday, warning that border walls and fear-mongering won't stop people from exercising their rights to seek a better life elsewhere.
  
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• Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion group

  30-03-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The non-profit Obria Group says the $1.7 million award it is receiving from the Trump administration will help fund a chain of crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion and do not offer contraceptives.
  
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• University confirms death of missing student from New Jersey

  30-03-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The University of South Carolina has confirmed the death of a student.
  
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• Venezuelans rally to protest chronic power outages

  30-03-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Electricity has slowly been restored following a blackout on Monday that left most of Venezuela's 24 states without power.President Nicolas Maduro has said the situation was caused by "terrorist attacks" on the Guri hydroelectric dam that powers much of the country.Critics including opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is recognized by most Western nations as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, blame the electricity problems on corruption and mismanagement.
  
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• The F-111 Aardvark: The Strike Aircraft That Was Dumped for the F-15 Eagle

  30-03-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Time for a comeback?
  
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• Venezuelans Take to the Streets After Another Round of Blackouts

  30-03-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  “We will continue to hit the streets,” Juan Guaido, head of the National Assembly recognized as interim president by some 50 nations, told protesters Saturday in San Antonio de Los Altos.Unlike other protests since January, Guaido did not call for huge rallies in the capital of Caracas but rather urged Venezuelans to protest at key locations or in their own neighborhoods.“My food is rotting and my appliances are going haywire,¨ said Yolanda Bellorin, a retired lawyer protes
  
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• Japan waits nervously to learn new word that will define era of next emperor

  30-03-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Across Japan printers, minters and computer programmers alike are waiting. Since Emperor Akihito announced in December 2017 that he would be abdicating at the end of April this year, one question has stuck on their lips: Which two kanji characters would be chosen to define the new imperial era? In a tradition that dates back to the 7th century, each Japanese emperor's time on the throne is accompanied by a word that helps sets the tone and leaves a mark on history. The name of the current era ap
  
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• Experts: Jussie Smollett fiasco could taint Chicago prosecutors preparing to try R. Kelly

  30-03-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Reeling from the outcry over dropping the charges against Jussie Smollett this week, Chicago prosecutors prepare to try R. Kelly on multiple sex crimes.
  
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• Joe Biden accused of kissing former Nevada lawmaker, an allegation he doesn't recall

  30-03-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden’s spokesman said Friday that the former vice president does not recall kissing Nevada political candidate Lucy Flores on the back of her head during a 2014 event.
  
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• The Latest: Gaza officials say 2nd teen killed in protests

  30-03-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on protests at Gaza border with Israel (all times local):
  
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• Taipei's goes dark for Earth Hour

  30-03-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Taiwan's tallest building joined cities around the world to mark Earth Hour by turning off its lights on Saturday in a call for global action on climate change. (March 30)
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez says Green New Deal critics are making 'fools of themselves'

  30-03-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Congresswoman hit back at Republicans who claim her resolution would cause ‘genocide’ and the end of hamburgers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the media after a televised town hall in New York on 29 March.Photograph: Jeenah Moon/ReutersAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rounded on her Republican opponents, accusing them of making “total fools of themselves” in criticising her Green New Deal proposals. The Democratic congresswoman from New York has come under increasing atta
  
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• Armed police raid home after parents refuse to take unvaccinated boy with high fever to hospital

  30-03-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  With guns drawn, the police officers broke down the door of the suburban Phoenix home in the early hours of a February morning.“Come out with your hands up!” an officer yelled, with the dark front porch and foyer inside suddenly flooded with light from the officers’ flashlights.The target of the raid: an unvaccinated 2-year-old boy with a high fever.Video from the officers’ body cameras that was released on Thursday shows that moments later, the child’s father emerg
  
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• Justin Trudeau facing renewed calls to resign as secret tape escalates SNC-Lavalin corruption scandal

  30-03-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls to resign after a secretly recorded telephone call between two senior figures in his administration was made public, escalating claims he tried to shield an allegedly corrupt firm from prosecution.  The 17-minute call took place in December between Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the attorney general, and Michael Wernick, then Canada’s most senior civil servant, about the engineering company SNC-Lavalin, which was accused of pa
  
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• No foolin! Nor'easter to bring rain, wind and maybe snow to East Coast next week

  30-03-2019 16:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful early April nor'easter storm is forecast to wallop the East Coast with rain, wind, pounding surf, and maybe even some unwelcome snow next week.
  
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• UK's May under pressure to rule out long Brexit delay

  30-03-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a new push by members of her Conservative Party to lead Britain out of the European Union in the next few months, even if it means a potentially damaging no-deal Brexit.Conservative lawmakers urged May against a long extension of the Brexit process in a letter sent after her exit deal was rejected for a third time by the House of Commons on Friday, a lawmaker said.The Sun newspaper said the letter was signed by 170 of the 314 Conservative lawmakers in
  
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• Morocco institute trains imams to counter extremism

  30-03-2019 16:34 via news.yahoo.com
  With its watchwords of dialogue and coexistence, the Mohammed VI Institute that trains Muslim prayer leaders to serve in Morocco and abroad was Saturday one of the first stops on Pope Francis's visit to the kingdom.Since 2015, the institute has received trainee imams from Morocco as well as several other African states and France.Under the patronage of King Mohammed, its mission is to counter "radical speech", its director Abdeslam Lazaar said.
  
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• Tens of thousands of Gaza protesters join anniversary march

  30-03-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians on Saturday rallied at points near the Israeli border to mark the first anniversary of weekly protests in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli troops shot tear gas and opened fire at small crowds of activists who approached the perimeter fence. At least one Palestinian was killed and 46 protesters were wounded by live fire, according to Palestinian medical officials.
  
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• Smollett case tests relationship between police, prosecutors

  30-03-2019 16:22 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — When prosecutors dropped the charges that accused Jussie Smollett of orchestrating a fake attack, the outrage was swift and overwhelming. Smollett saw his record wiped clean without offering so much as an apology.
  
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• UK's May under pressure to rule out long Brexit delay: report

  30-03-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is under growing pressure from within her Conservative Party to lead Britain out of the European Union in the next few months, even if it means a no-deal Brexit, The Sun newspaper reported.A letter signed by 170 of the 314 Conservative lawmakers in parliament, including 10 cabinet ministers, was sent to May after her Brexit deal was rejected for a third time by the House of Commons on Friday, the newspaper reported.The vote left Britain's withdrawal from the EU
  
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• Tens of thousands protest at Gaza-Israel border as truce holds

  30-03-2019 16:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of Gazans gathered at the Israeli border Saturday to mark a year since protests and clashes erupted there, but fears of mass bloodshed were averted after late Egyptian-led negotiations.Israel deployed several thousand troops along the border, with the anniversary coming at a sensitive time ahead of its April 9 elections.Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, one during an overnight demonstration and a 17-year-old in clashes later Saturday, the health ministry in Gaza Cit
  
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• Man runs towards motorcade in Morocco carrying king, Pope Francis

  30-03-2019 16:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A man was seen running towards the car carrying the King of Morocco Saturday as the motorcade with the king and Pope Francis drove down a main road in Rabat.(March 30)
  
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• 'That's unacceptable': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stops person who insulted Republican

  30-03-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down an audience member at an MSNBC town hall after someone called former Rep. Bob Inglis a "moron."
  
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