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• 'Panic mode': Witness describes aftermath of Sri Lanka bombs

  21-04-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Bhanuka Harischandra was running a little late for his meeting Sunday.
  
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• SpaceX Crew Dragon Test 'Anomaly' Sends Plumes of Smoke Over Cape Canaveral

  21-04-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX has given no word on what went wrong during the test
  
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• Black Parishioners in Louisiana Pray on Easter for Alleged Racist Who Burned Down Their Church

  21-04-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Glenna GordonOPELOUSAS, Louisiana—Decked out in vibrant pink and yellow dresses and suits and elaborate hats, the all-black congregation of the Greater Union Baptist Church packed into a plain, windowless room in a private Masonic lodge with plastic folding chairs Sunday morning to hold their Easter service. They’ve been gathering in this cramped donated space since April 2, when their historic church was burned to the ground in a series of alleged suspected hate crimes that destroye
  
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• PHOTOS: Bonnets, costumes on display in New York City's Easter Parade

  21-04-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The fancy hats and finery were out and on display for New York City's annual Easter extravaganza. Participants in the annual Easter Parade made their way along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Sunday in a procession of the wild and whimsical. The annual event is a New York City tradition that goes back well over a century, when the wealthy would get dressed in their best and go out for a stroll after Easter church services.
  
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• Comedian Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide: exit polls

  21-04-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The apparent landslide victory of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, is a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko who tried to rally Ukrainians around the flag by casting himself as a bulwark against Russian aggression and a champion of Ukrainian identity.Two national exit polls showed Zelenskiy had won 73 percent of the vote with Poroshenko winning just 25 percent.Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, is now poised to take over the leadership of a country on the frontline
  
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• Is Sri Lanka Easter Massacre a Bid to Revive Global Holy War?

  21-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  STR/GettyNEW YORK—“It’s really a shame it had to come to this,” said an NYPD counterterrorism officer who was posted Sunday morning outside a Catholic church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Inside, the pews were filled with the faithful at Easter mass.I asked her if she and her colleague were there because hundreds of people were killed hours earlier, halfway around the world, at Easter services in Sri Lanka. No, she said, this deployment in New York was scheduled m
  
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• Top Democrats leave open option of Trump impeachment after Mueller report

  21-04-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Top congressional Democrats left the door open on Sunday to theimpeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, but said they would first need to complete their own investigations into whether he obstructed justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.Some party leaders have cautioned against impeachment just 18 months before the 2020 presidential election, although prominent liberals have demanded the start of proceedings to remove Trump from office since the release on Thursday of a red
  
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• Land Rover's Unsung Heroes Hit Big Anniversaries For 2019!

  21-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Four anniversaries sure to resonate with Land Rover enthusiasts the world over will be celebrated at the upcoming 2019 Land Rover Legends show.  The event is due to take place over the weekend of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May at Bicester Heritage, a former WWII RAF station in Oxfordshire UK, which has hosted numerous historic motoring events in recent years.Is The Land Rover Freelander A Modern Classic?
  
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• Convicted Texas murderer Edward Howard Bell dies while serving murder sentence

  21-04-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A spokesperson with TDCJ said the 80-year-old convicted murderer died after collapsing at the Pack Unit facility.
  
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• Trump's 'victory' lap: Today's Toon

  21-04-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
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• Egyptians vote for second day in referendum on keeping Sisi in power

  21-04-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Egyptians voted on Sunday for a second day on whether to back constitutional amendments that could see President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stay in power until 2030.The three-day referendum was called last week, a day after Egypt's parliament overwhelmingly endorsed the proposals, which would also bolster the role of the military and expand the president's power over judicial appointments.Sisi's supporters argue that he has stabilized Egypt and needs more time to reform the economy, but critics say th
  
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• Analysis: Sri Lanka terrorists want sectarian violence, economic sabotage, and political collapse

  21-04-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The tourist trade calls it “India lite” - a laid-back paradise of perfect beaches and weather with all the culture but a softer pace of life.  But the horrific slaughter that unfolded in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter morning seemed designed to wreck that reputation, stoke sectarian tension, and destabilize an already febrile political situation.  Perhaps the most worrying thing about the attacks is that they have so little in common with the island's recent, vi
  
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• Mueller report revives Trump impeachment talk, even as Democratic leaders try to tamp it down

  21-04-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  “Damning” details found in Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election sparked impeachment talk again.
  
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• Mike Pompeo says 'several' US citizens killed in Sri Lanka attacks

  21-04-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Thirty-six foreigners were thought to be among those killed in attacks that left nearly 300 people dead and 500 injuredSri Lanka bombings: stay up to date on our live blog A view of St Sebastian’s church damaged in blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday. Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/APSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday “several” US citizens died in a series of explosions in Sri Lanka that killed at least 290 people and left 500 injured. That tol
  
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• Mike Pompeo says 'several' US citizens killed in Sri Lanka attacks

  21-04-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Thirty-six foreigners were thought to be among those killed in attacks that left at least 207 people dead and 450 injuredA view of St Sebastian’s church damaged in blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday. Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/APSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday “several” US citizens died in a series of explosions in Sri Lanka that killed at least 207 people and left 450 injured. That toll was expected to rise.Thirty-six foreigners were r
  
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• Report: Israel Just Used In Combat Its New Rampage Missile. Here Is What It Can Do.

  21-04-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel reportedly used in combat for the first time a new kind of fast, long-range missile.According to aviation journalist Babak Taghvaee, on April 13, 2019 Israeli air force warplanes fired, for the first time, at least one Rampage air-launched ballistic missile at a missile factory and weapons warehouses in Masyaf, Syria.The Israelis chose to deploy Rampage “due to the danger of Syria Air Defense Force's S-300PM-2s,” Taghvaee tweeted. The S-300 surface-to-air missile, in theory, c
  
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• Sri Lanka bombings put Christians on frontline of religious divides

  21-04-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Easter Sunday attacks on three churches in Sri Lanka mark a devastating escalation of violence against a Christian minority that has been targeted in the past, but never to such brutal and deadly effect.Ethnic and religious violence has plagued Sri Lanka for decades, with a 37-year conflict with Tamil rebels that claimed 100,000 lives and an upswing in recent years in clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslims.The US State Department's most recent report on religious freedom said the
  
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• Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander in chief

  21-04-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A president who takes seriously his oath would be in shock to realize the astonishing level of penetration of his inner circle by agents of Russia.
  
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• Easter Carnage Threatens to Breed More Violence in Sri Lanka

  21-04-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 200 people, including as many as 30 foreigners, were killed in a series of coordinated explosions on Easter Sunday at churches and luxury hotels across the country, including the capital Colombo.Several Americans are among the dead, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said.Some of the explosions were suicide bombings, Information Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said.
  
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• Comedian Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide: exit poll

  21-04-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The apparent landslide victory of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, is a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko who tried to rally Ukrainians around the flag by casting himself as a bulwark against Russian aggression and a champion of Ukrainian identity.The national exit poll showed Zelenskiy had won 73 percent of the vote with Poroshenko winning just 25 percent.If the poll is right, Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, will now take over the leadership of a country on
  
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• President attends Easter service following slew of tweets

  21-04-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Easter morning offered condolences to the people of Sri Lanka, continued his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and attended service at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea near his Florida estate.
  
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• Comedian upsets Ukraine's president in landslide election victory

  21-04-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A comedian who plays the president on television has turned art into a real life in a landslide election against the incumbent in conflict-torn Ukraine, according to exit polls. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, had 73 per cent of the vote against 26 per cent for Petro Poroshenko, 53, who was elected after protests toppled a pro-Russian leader in 2014. The story is remarkably similar to the hit show Servant of the People, where a teacher played by Mr Zelenskiy is elected president on the strength of a vi
  
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• British woman killed, three other people kidnapped in northern Nigeria

  21-04-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Kidnappings are rampant in Nigeria, where both locals and foreigners are targeted — mostly for ransom.The British High Commission named the woman as Faye Mooney and said it was aware of the incident that happened late on Friday but added it would not speculate on the motive or nature of attack.Mooney was employed in Nigeria by a non-governmental organization called Mercy Corps.
  
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• Trump lawyer attacks Mueller report, sees nothing wrong in taking Russian info

  21-04-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's top lawyer on Sunday attacked "calumny, lies and distortions" in the Mueller investigation report, and said there is "nothing wrong" with taking hacked information from Russia.Rudy Giuliani mounted a combative defense of the president in Sunday talk show appearances that took aim at Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, the evidence they amassed and the witnesses they cited.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: There's 'Nothing Wrong' With Trump Campaign Taking Information From Russians

  21-04-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller's report detailed over 100 interactions between Trump's associates and Russians
  
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• Iran's top leader picks new Revolutionary Guard chief

  21-04-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Sunday appointed a new chief of the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard, picking a general with a history of threatening the U.S. just days after America designated the paramilitary force a terrorist organization.
  
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• Actor Tyler Blackburn opens up about being bisexual: 'I just want to feel powerful in my own skin'

  21-04-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  "I just want to live my truth and feel okay with experiencing love and experiencing self-love," actor Tyler Blackburn, 32, said in a recent interview.
  
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• Cardi B rejects plea deal in strip club brawl case, facing up to one year in jail

  21-04-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Cardi B rejected a deal to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count in strip club brawl, even though it would keep her out of jail.
  
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• Khamenei names new chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guards

  21-04-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The TV station did not give a reason for the change when it announced the appointment of Brigadier General Hossein Salami to the position and his promotion to the rank of Major General."The Supreme Leader has appointed Salami as the new commander-in-chief of the Guards, who will replace Mohammad Ali Jafari," it said.Major General Jafari had held the post since September 2007.
  
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• Iran leader appoints new head of revolutionary guards

  21-04-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed a new head of the Revolutionary Guards, the country's ideological military force, Khamenei's official website reported late Sunday.Major General Hossein Salami, 58, replaces Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, who had headed the Guards since September 2007.The move comes less than two weeks after the United States branded Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a "foreign terrorist organisation", adding it to a blacklist.
  
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• Sudanese protesters to suspend contacts with military rulers: protest leader

  21-04-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Representatives of Sudan's protesters and main opposition groups said on Sunday they were suspending contacts with the political committee of the ruling military council, accusing it of being composed of "remnants" of the ousted regime."Our dealings with the political committee had been positive but it deals with us in the same old manner, which prompted us to suspend dealings with it," a leader of the group known asForces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change.The military council's political
  
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• Managing North Korea

  21-04-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  We are in the eye of the storm of U.S.-North Korea relations. Both sides are assessing the Hanoi summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un and its aftermath, and we await a significant public pronouncement by Kim. Despite the drama of Kim’s emergence on the world stage, North Korea has established predictable patterns of behavior that can simplify and facilitate U.S. decision-making about the difficult challenges the North is about to pose.North Korea adopted a typical
  
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• Last laugh: Ukraine comedian who became president

  21-04-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected president of Ukraine twice -- first as a character in the popular TV show "Servant of the People", now for real.Supporters see the political novice as a breath of fresh air but critics say he is a puppet of powerful rivals to Ukraine's outgoing leader Petro Poroshenko.As a candidate, Zelensky has blurred the line between politics and entertainment.
  
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• Facebook Signals Softer Stance on Ad Rules for EU Elections

  21-04-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Executive Nick Clegg made the offer in a letter to the president of the European Parliament, the FT reported, citing a document it reviewed.The comments are a response to a backlash created by Facebook’s new transparency rules that would require people or groups posting political ads to register in each EU state where the ads appear, the FT said.Clegg identified 19 EU institutions that the platform could exempt from the rules for a month leading up to the European elections, which run from
  
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• ‘Nothing wrong with taking information from Russians’, Giuliani says as Democrats keep Trump impeachment options open

  21-04-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has claimed there was “nothing wrong” with his campaign taking information from Russia, as the fallout and toxicity triggered by the publication of Robert Mueller’s report grew.As Democrats said they were keeping open their options of seeking to impeach Mr Trump for his alleged efforts to obstruct Mr Mueller’s probe, Rudy Giuliani went on the offensive, saying “any politician” in the US would have sought damaging informatio
  
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• Giuliani rails against Mueller report as Democrats mull Trump impeachment

  21-04-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump lawyer: ‘Nothing wrong with information from Russians’Teflon Don: how Trump the mafia boss fought the law … and wonOpinion: Moral squalor, not impeachment, will remove Trump Donald and Melania Trump arrive at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea church for Easter services in Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesAs the White House mounted a furious assault on the Mueller report and critics of a president not found to have conspired with Russia but not cleared
  
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• Comedian Zelensky wins Ukraine presidency in landslide

  21-04-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election Sunday, exit polls showed, dealing a stunning rebuke to the country's political establishment.Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president on television, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko by taking 73 percent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by several think tanks.Poroshenko lost to the television star across all regions of the country, including
  
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• Ukrainian TV Comic Wins Presidency in Landslide, Exit Poll Shows

  21-04-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old TV comic who’s tapped into fury at the political class, got 73 percent of ballots compared with 25 percent for incumbent Petro Poroshenko, according to the survey by three pollsters.“People are disillusioned with the old elite, which hasn’t proved itself after the revolution,” Yuriy Yakymenko, an analyst at the Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies in Kiev, said by phone.“Zelenskiy positioned himself as a populist poli
  
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• Nadler on impeachment: 'We may get to that, we may not'

  21-04-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler called President Trump’s repeated efforts to thwart the investigation as outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report potential grounds for impeachment.
  
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• United Constitutional Patriots civilian border militia member Larry Mitchell Hopkins arrested

  21-04-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  "This country was built on three things: God, guns and guts," Larry Hopkins said a month before he was accused of being a felon in possession of firearms.
  
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• Turkish opposition leader safe after attack at soldier's funeral

  21-04-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) that pulled off victories in the March 31 vote, had attended a funeral for one of four Turkish soldiers killed on Friday in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party wants the election results annulled in Istanbul, had repeatedly warned during last month's campaign that PKK members were among the CHP's list of candidates.The PKK clashes in the country's southe
  
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• Several Americans killed in Sri Lanka attacks: Pompeo

  21-04-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Several Americans were among the more than 200 people killed Sunday in a series of bombings of hotels and churches in Sri Lanka, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.The attacks, which police said left more than 450 people wounded in addition to at least 207 dead, constituted the worst act of violence since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war a decade ago.Earlier reports citing Sri Lankan officials said the number of dead foreigners as between 27 and 35, including Americans, British and Dutch.
  
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• Leader of US border vigilante group arrested by FBI

  21-04-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of a right-wing militia group which has been detaining migrant families at gunpoint on the US-Mexico border has been arrested by the FBI. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who runs the United Constitutional Patriots, was detained by the FBI on Saturday night, charged with being in possession of firearms despite being a convicted felon. The move comes amid mounting concern over the activities of the vigilante group in recent months as the migration crisis on the US border intensifies. Larry Mitc
  
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• India's Modi condemns Sri Lanka attacks, says he can defeat the 'terrorists'

  21-04-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  After condemning the series of deadly bomb attacks on Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels on Sunday that killed more than 200 people, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told voters that they needed to elect him to a second term as only he can beat the "terrorists" threatening India.Can you think of any name aside from Modi?Can anybody else do this?"Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have promoted the government's national security record as a vote winner in India's staggered gen
  
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• Islamic State behind attack on Saudi security north of Riyadh: Arabiya TV

  21-04-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The assailants who attacked a state security building northwest of Riyadh on Sunday are Saudi militants who belong to Islamic State, Saudi-owned Arabiya TV said in a tweet, citing its own correspondent.Saudi state media said authorities thwarted the attack by four militants targeting the Mabaheth (domestic intelligence) station in Zulfi, a small city about 250 km (155 miles) northwest of the capital Riyadh.There has been no Islamic State claim of responsibility for the attack so far, and the aut
  
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• Duke and Duchess of Sussex 'to work in Africa' as they map out new life as a family

  21-04-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are considering a major move to work in Africa after the birth of their first child, as the Duke and his older brother map out their separate working lives. The Duke and Duchess, who are already president and vice-president of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, have been in discussions with advisers over a “bespoke” international role for the next phase of their work in the Royal Family. Planning is in its earliest stages, as the couple await the bir
  
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• Incident on SpaceX pad could delay its first manned flight

  21-04-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A mysterious but apparently serious incident occurred Saturday in Cape Canaveral, Florida involving the SpaceX capsule intended to carry American astronauts into space late this year, the private company and NASA announced.“Earlier today, SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Florida," a SpaceX spokesman said in a statement.
  
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• Trump lawyer Giuliani says 'there's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians'

  21-04-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Defending President Trump’s campaign for its willingness to accept help from Russia in the 2016 presidential election, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said there was “nothing wrong” with a campaign taking information from foreign sources.
  
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• Khamenei appoints new chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guards

  21-04-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has replaced the chief commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, state TV reported on Sunday, days after the United States designated the group a foreign terrorist organization.The TV station did not give a reason for the change when it announced the appointment of Brigadier General Hossein Salami."The Supreme Leader has appointed Salami as the new commander-in-chief of the Guards, who will replace Mohammad Ali Jafari," it said.
  
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• At Easter mass, Parisians pray for Notre-Dame's swift restoration

  21-04-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, began the service by drawing a parallel between the planned reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, celebrated every year by Christians at Easter."We will rise up again and our cathedral will rise up again," he told the congregation, which included the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the head of the Paris fire service, General Jean-Claude Gallet.The mass had originally been scheduled to be held at Not
  
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