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• Seth Ator Identified as Odessa Gunman

  01-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Department of Public SafetyODESSA, Texas—The gunman who killed seven people and injured roughly 20 others during a 20-mile trail of carnage across West Texas was identified by law enforcement on Sunday as 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator. Odessa Police refused to publicly identify Ator during a press conference on Sunday, stating that they were not going to give the gunman any notoriety for “what he did.” Police Chief Michael Gerke said the gunman’s name would be officia
  
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• Two dead, 5 missing after flash flood at Kenyan park

  01-09-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Six tourists, including a foreigner, and their guide were swept away Sunday after a flash flood at Kenya's Hell's Gate national park, the Kenya Wildlife Service said, confirming at least two dead.Two bodies were recovered but the five others remained missing, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Twitter, adding that the search and rescue operation would continue through the night."It is with deep sorrow that we announce a tragedy in Hell's Gate National Park," it said.
  
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• Death toll rises to seven in Texas shooting rampage; shooter identified

  01-09-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll rose to seven after a gunman's rampage that left many more injured following what began as a routine traffic stop in Odessa, Texas.
  
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• May God Be With You, Bahamas PM Says as Dorian Comes Ashore

  01-09-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Many residents of the Bahamas didn’t heed an urgent request to leave the low-lying islands known as the cays ahead of Hurricane Dorian, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Sunday as the massive storm touched down.Dorian, a Category 5 hurricane, tied as the strongest storm to hit anywhere in the Atlantic when it slammed into tiny Elbow Cay, part of the Bahamas’ Abaco Islands, shortly before 1 p.m. EDT with top sustained winds around 185 miles per hour and gusts over 200 m
  
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• Texas shooter who killed 7 in Odessa, Midland identified

  01-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Police refused to release the gunman's identity in the shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, so as not to give him additional notoriety.
  
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• DA: No charges against MetroPCS employee who killed robbery suspect

  01-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors say no charges will be filed against a mobile phone store clerk who shot and killed an armed man during an alleged robbery attempt in southwest Philadelphia.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. still strongly supports Ukraine's Crimea claim -Pence

  01-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reassured Ukraine on Sunday that Washington continues to back its claim for Crimea, which wasannexed by Russia in 2014, even as U.S. President Donald Trump mulls cutting aid to the European nation.Speaking ahead of a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw, Pence did not address reports that Trump is considering cutting $250 million in military assistance to the country.
  
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• Cutting it close: Florida's fate may be a matter of miles

  01-09-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  For Florida, just a handful of miles may make a huge difference in Hurricane Dorian's slow dance with the coast.The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.It could be within 100 miles of that point, which is why the hurricane center uses — and emphasizes — a shaded cone of uncertainty.
  
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• Reporter calls White House ‘unprofessional’ in cutting off his access

  01-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Suspended journalist Brian Karem accuses the Trump administration of mistreating the press.
  
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• In escalating trade war, US consumers may see higher prices

  01-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and China on Sunday put in place their latest tariff increases on each other's goods, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoes, sporting goods and other consumer items before the holiday shopping season.President Donald Trump said U.S.-China trade talks were still on for September.The 15% U.S. taxes apply to about $112 billion of Chinese imports.
  
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• Texas shooting toll rises to seven

  01-09-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll in a chaotic mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, the local police chief confirmed Sunday, adding that it might have been far worse had the shooter not been stopped before entering a crowded movie theater.Police had said Saturday that five people died in the frantic shootout spread out over several miles on roads between the cities of Midland and Odessa in the west of the state.At the end of the shooting spree, the assailant -- whose identity police said they were not ready
  
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• The Latest: Red Cross: 100 presumed dead in Yemen airstrike

  01-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Red Cross says more than 100 people are "presumed killed" in Yemen after airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention center run by the Houthi rebels.The head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, Franz Rauchenstein, says: "Witnessing this massive damage, seeing the bodies lying among the rubble, was a real shock.The Red Cross said the final death toll from Sunday's attack was not yet confirmed.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: ‘Huge damage' in Bahamas as storm becomes joint strongest ever with 220mph gusts

  01-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian has caused major damage in the Bahamas – destroying homes and ripping roofs from buildings – as it made landfall as the joint-strongest ever Atlantic storm. There were no immediate reports of deaths.Residents in places such as the Abaco Islands and Marsh Harbour took shelter in schools and churches when Dorian made landfall as a category 5 storm with gusts of up to 220mph and a sustained speed of 185mph. When it struck land twice on Sunday afternoon – first in
  
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• Seth Ator Identified as Odessa Gunman: Sources

  01-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Department of Public SafetyODESSA, Texas—The gunman who killed seven people and injured roughly 20 others on Saturday during a 20-mile trail of carnage across West Texas was identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator, two law enforcement officials told The Daily Beast. Odessa Police refused to publicly identify the name of the gunman during a press conference on Sunday, stating that they were not going to give the gunman any notoriety for “what he did.” Police Chief Michael Gerk
  
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• US and Taliban on 'threshold' of deal, says US Afghan envoy

  01-09-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The US and the Taliban are on the brink of striking a deal after 18 years of war, Washington's top negotiator said Sunday, ahead of a visit to Afghanistan where fresh violence rocked the north.The apparent progress at the latest round of talks to conclude in Doha came even as the Taliban launched a broad offensive on the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, and violence flared in a neighbouring province."We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for A
  
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• Trump Stumped by Category 5 Storm Bearing Down on East Coast

  01-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump expressed surprise as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and headed for the U.S. East Coast, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category Five,” Trump said during a televised briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.“I’ve seen some Category Fours, you don’t even see them that much,” he said. “But a Ca
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas with record fury as Category 5 storm

  01-09-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters.Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate.With
  
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• 7 dead, 22 injured in Odessa, Midland, Texas shooting: Here's what we know now

  01-09-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting occurred between Odessa and Midland after a routine traffic stop turned violent around 3 p.m. local time Saturday.
  
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• Israel, Hezbollah engage in brief, intense fighting

  01-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah militants on Sunday fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, prompting a reprisal of heavy Israeli artillery fire in a rare burst of fighting between the bitter enemies.The bitter enemies, which fought a monthlong war in 2006, have indicated they do not want to go to war but appeared on a collision course in recent days after a pair of Israeli strikes against Hezbollah.The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said it was in contact with all sides an
  
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• Toddler hit in Texas shooting still wants to 'run around and play,' mother tells governor

  01-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A 17-month old toddler shot during a deadly gun rampage in West Texas suffered serious injuries to her mouth, lips and tongue, but still wants to "run around and play," the girl's mother told Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a text message on Sunday.Anderson Davis was among the 22 people wounded in a shooting on Saturday that claimed seven victims' lives, as well as that of the gunman.
  
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• CORRECTED-Toddler hit in Texas shooting still wants to 'run around and play,' mother tells governor

  01-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A 17-month old toddler shot during a deadly gun rampage in West Texas suffered serious injuries to her mouth, lips and tongue, but still wants to "run around and play," the girl's mother told Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a text message on Sunday.Anderson Davis was among the 22 people wounded in a shooting on Saturday that claimed seven victims' lives, as well as that of the gunman.
  
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• Kashmiri militant calls for Pakistan military intervention in disputed region

  01-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send peacekeepers, after New Delhi revoked its autonomy last month."It's binding upon the armed forces of Pakistan, the first Islamic nuclear power, to enter India-occupied Kashmir to militarily help the people of the territory," Syed Salahuddin, who heads an alliance of over a dozen groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, said.Khan has so
  
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• Calls to end inhumane border conditions aren’t enough. Ice must be abolished

  01-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  What is there to salvage in an agency that exists solely to hunt, catalogue and detain the most vulnerable among us? Ice’s violence is as systematic as it is cruel‘Abolitionist movements have always been discredited as impossible until they are realized.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThis summer, a coalition of award-winning authors came together with a plea to Congress: they called for an end to the inhumane conditions in detention centers, where w
  
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• Nine killed in Philippine air-ambulance crash

  01-09-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people were killed when an air-ambulance plane crashed at a resort area near the Philippine capital on Sunday, sparking a fierce blaze and sending terrified locals fleeing, authorities said.Dramatic video on social media showed emergency vehicles rushing toward a building engulfed in roaring flames in Calamba City as authorities urged crowds to move away for their own safety.After dousing the blaze, rescuers found nine bodies in the smoking ruins -- believed to be those aboard the King Air
  
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• The Latest: Dorian's landfall strength ties record of 1935

  01-09-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Dorian made a second landfall at 2 p.m. on Great Abaco Island near Marsh Harbour at 185 mph (285 kph).The Hurricane Center said Dorian's maximum sustained winds stood at a monstrous 185 mph (295 kph), with higher gusts.Dorian is moving west at 7 mph (11 kph).
  
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• UPDATE 1-Netanyahu: Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah, but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles.
  
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• National Weather Service appears to correct Trump on Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama

  01-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian.," wrote the NWS. "We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama."
  
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• Relief for Angela Merkel as AfD held at bay in German regional elections

  01-09-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  There was relief for Angela Merkel on Sunday as the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) failed to make a widely forecast breakthrough in key regional elections. The AfD made significant gains in elections in two states in the former communist east, but fell short of winning first place amid a late surge for the established parties. Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) held onto first place in the state of Saxony with 32 per cent according to initial projections, ahead of
  
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• Odessa Victims Include Cops, a Baby, a High Schooler and a Postal Carrier

  01-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Among the seven people killed on Saturday when a gunman opened fire after a random traffic stop was Odessa High School student Leilah Hernandez, age 15. Ector County Independent School District confirmed that one of their students had died in the shooting before friends posted tributes on Facebook, saying they were heartbroken at the news that the young teen died. “We still don’t want to believe it,” Joanna Levva wrote on her Facebook page. “We are grateful to have been a
  
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• Trump rips into actress Debra Messing after the 'Will & Grace' star praised signs trashing the president

  01-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took a swipe at Hollywood actress Debra Messing after the “Will & Grace” star praised an Alabama church sign that read “A black vote for Trump is mental illness.”
  
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• Taliban attack 2nd Afghan city as US envoy says deal is near

  01-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban attacked a second Afghan city in as many days on Sunday, killing several civilians and security forces, officials said, even as Washington's peace envoy said the U.S. and the militant group are "at the threshold of an agreement" to end America's longest war.The attack on the capital of Baghlan province came hours after U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said he warned the Taliban during talks in Qatar that "violence like this must stop." But he appeared determined to move forward on a deal
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez criticizes ‘Straight Pride’ parade

  01-09-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., rebuked Boston’s “Straight Pride” parade and its apparent lack of female participants, calling it “a ‘I-Struggle-With-Masculinity’ parade.”
  
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• Chemicals used in apparent suicide at San Jose hotel force evacuations

  01-09-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fairmont San Jose reopened late Saturday afternoon after four floors of the high-end hotel were evacuated that morning.
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas as dangerous Category 5 storm

  01-09-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters.The second-strongest Atlantic hurricane since 1950, Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate.Millions from Florida to the Carolinas kept a wary eye on t
  
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• Hurricane pounds Bahamas with record fury

  01-09-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian tied the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to come ashore.
  
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• Inspired by teen climate activist Thunberg, Latin American activists converge in Chile

  01-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Inspired by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, a group of young activists from several Latin American countries have converged in Chile to exchange ideas on how to battle climate change.In a mountainous area on the outskirts of Santiago, representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay exchanged ideas for actions to pressure changes in their countries' policies."Our goal here is to enable them so that they have more too
  
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• 'Very, very powerful': Trump briefed on Hurricane Dorian as storm becomes Category 5

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Sunday described Hurricane Dorian as "one of the biggest hurricanes that we've ever seen" as he took part in a FEMA briefing.
  
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• 'Congress has a lot of thinking to do' on gun control after Midland-Odessa shooting

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The shootings and deaths have brought mixed messages from Trump on gun control, and lawmakers have split on ways for Congress to address the issue.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Daytona Beach and Orlando International Airport to close on Labor Day

  01-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  As Hurricane Dorian approaches, Daytona Beach International Airport and Orlando International Airport will be shutting down on Labor Day.
  
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• Rio-Paris crash relatives finger Airbus in new report

  01-09-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday.The news comes a decade into a legal wrangle and weeks after French prosecutors recommended that only Air France face trial over allegations that it had known about the instrument problem on its Airbus A330 plane.On the night of the crash it is alleged the tubes frosted over and caused the speed sen
  
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• Odessa shooting: Texas lawmaker's defiant defense of gun rights sparks sharp debate

  01-09-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  State Rep. Matt Schaefer of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, says Texans need to turn to God, not gun control measures.
  
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• Flying in or out of Orlando on Labor Day? The airport won't be closed after all

  01-09-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The airport planned to cease operations early on Labor Day but changed those plans after the path of Hurricane Dorian shifted.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian is set to wreak havoc on air travel — here's what you need to know about flights

  01-09-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  With Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Bahamas on Sunday and its eventual track to the US uncertain, here's what you need to know about flights.
  
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• Afghan killer sparks far-right criticism in France

  01-09-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Jacquet said the knifeman had been first registered in France in 2009 as a minor, but travelled to Germany, Norway, Britain and Italy before returning to France in 2016 where he was granted temporary residency rights.France has been the victim of a string of Islamist-inspired terror attacks since 2015 that have cost hundreds of lives.
  
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• Israel, Hezbollah Exchange Fire on Lebanese Border

  01-09-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah exchanged fire with the Israeli army along the volatile border Sunday, fulfilling a vow to avenge Israeli strikes but stopping short of a major escalation.The shelling had subsided within hours with no casualties and the threat of immediate escalation into full-blown war appeared to have subsided by nightfall.The Iranian-backed Hezbollah said it destroyed a military vehicle, according to Al Manar, the group’s official television chann
  
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• Here's What We Know About the Victims of the Odessa Mass Shooting

  01-09-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Mary Granados, a 29-year-old mail carrier, is among the victims
  
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• Netanyahu: Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah, but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles.It responded with fire into southern Lebanon, after a week of growing tension raised fears of a new war with long-time enemy Hezbollah.
  
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• 15 years on, relatives of Beslan massacre victims demand answers

  01-09-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the Beslan massacre on Sunday said they were still waiting for answers, 15 years after the tragedy that left over 330 dead including 186 children.Sunday marks the anniversary of the school siege in the town of Beslan in the Russian Caucasus when Chechen militants stormed the school, herding over 1,100 people into a gymnasium and rigging the building with explosives.The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 that Russia's handling of the siege had "serious failings"
  
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• Netanyahu says Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into southern Lebanon, after a week of growing tension raised fears of a new war with long-time enemy Hezbollah.
  
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• Here are the Apple products affected by Trump's latest move in the trade war with China (AAPL)

  01-09-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's tariff on Chinese imports goes into effect on September 1, impacting Apple products like AirPods and the Apple Watch.
  
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