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• Serbia's powerful PM claims landslide presidential win

  02-04-2017 23:46
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's powerful Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed victory Sunday in the presidential election that was a test of his authoritarian rule, an outcome that could expand Russia's influence in the Balkans.
  
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• Serbia's Vucic confirms domination with presidential win

  02-04-2017 23:40
  
  By Aleksandar Vasovic and Ivana SekularacBELGRADE (Reuters) - Conservative Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic won Serbia's presidential election on Sunday by a huge margin, confirming his domination of the Balkan country as he pursues a delicate balancing act between Europe and Russia.Vucic will take on the largely ceremonial post at the end of May, but is expected to retain de facto power through his control of Serbia's ruling Progressive Party.The result marked a political humiliation for Serbia'
  
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• Sentencings not the end of New Jersey bridge case saga

  02-04-2017 23:38
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Fans of the long-running saga known as "Bridgegate," take heart: Last week's sentencing of two former associates of Republican Gov. Chris Christie wasn't the final installment.
  
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• Chicago police arrest boy, 14, seek others in Facebook rape case

  02-04-2017 23:34
  
  Police in Chicago have arrested a 14-year-old boy and are seeking a 15-year-old in connection with the gang rape of a teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live, authorities said Sunday.Police were working to identify other suspects -- the Facebook video, since taken down, showed as many as six -- but the trauma suffered by the 15-year-old victim was complicating the investigation, area commander Brendan Deenihan told a news conference."She's just having a difficult time even communicating
  
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• Gruesome scenes as Colombia mudslide death toll hits 210

  02-04-2017 23:26
  
  Survivors described gruesome scenes in the Colombian town of Mocoa Sunday after mudslides killed 210 people, as rescuers kept up a desperate search for victims in the muck and debris.Covered in mud, 38-year-old Marta Gomez told of going to search for her missing niece -- and making a chilling find instead.President Juan Manuel Santos was in the southern town personally overseeing the relief effort.
  
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• Serbian PM Vucic touted to win presidency

  02-04-2017 23:21
  
  Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed the Serbian presidency on Sunday as a poll showed him to be the clear winner despite accusations that he would steer the country toward authoritarian rule.According to the IPSOS research institute Vucic won about 55 percent of the vote, far above the 50 percent threshold required to win in the first round.Former ombudsman Sasa Jankovic was projected to come in second with about 16 percent.
  
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• Trump pressures China on North Korea before Xi talks

  02-04-2017 23:19
  
  By Valerie Volcovici and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump held out the possibility on Sunday of using trade as a lever to secure Chinese cooperation against North Korea and said Washington might deal with Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs on its own if need be.The comments, in an interview published on Sunday by the Financial Times, appeared designed to pressure Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of his visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this we
  
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• Mexican newspaper closes citing insecurity for journalists

  02-04-2017 23:14
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalists in the country have made it too dangerous to go on.
  
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• Some EpiPen, EpiPen Jr. Devices Recalled by Mylan in the U.S.

  02-04-2017 22:08
  Mylan is expanding a previously announced overseas recall to now include EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. devices distributed in the U.S. over concerns they may not function properly when needed. Like the e...
  
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• Aleksandar Vucic: Serbia's hardline hawk turned friend of West

  02-04-2017 22:07
  
  Aleksandar Vucic, who according to an estimate by pollsters was elected president of Serbia on Sunday, has undergone a remarkable political transformation from ultra-nationalist to pro-European liberal.Once banned from entering the European Union during the 1990s Balkan wars, when he was a close ally of Slobodan Milosevic, the tall 47-year-old is now spearheading Serbia's efforts to join the EU after a dramatic switch away from nationalism.In 2009, Vucic appeared on Serbia's version of the hit T
  
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• ‘Our Dishonest President’: L.A. Times editorial eviscerates Trump

  02-04-2017 21:59
  
  Since Donald Trump began his stunning ascent from real estate mogul and reality television star to wall-building, Muslim-ban-promising Republican candidate to GOP nominee to president, there have been plenty of piercing editorials about him and his policies. But perhaps none have been as scathing as the one published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times.
  
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• Unimog fire engine that served in the French Alps is available in the U.S.

  02-04-2017 21:56 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Whether you're a vehicle collector or just need a fire engine, a 1987 Mercedes-Benz Unimog Doka firetruck used in the French Alps is available. All maintenance records are available on this recently serviced vehicle.
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• Thousands march in Paris after Chinese man's death by police

  02-04-2017 21:46
  
  About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday against the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said.The rally was organised by several Chinese associations in France, and as with previous rallies held over the past week, there were sporadic skirmishes between protesters and security forces.Some of the demonstrators threw bottles, eggs and fruit, prompting the police to respond with tear gas during clashes t
  
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• Pruitt Admits Humans Contribute To Global Warming

  02-04-2017 21:46
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency chief's comments came just days after President Trump revoked Obama-era efforts to combat climate change.
  
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• Chicago teen arrested in Facebook Live sex assault, others sought

  02-04-2017 21:45
  
  (Reuters) - Chicago police have arrested a 14-year-old boy and expect to charge a second youth in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage girl by multiple young men that was seen on Facebook Livein March, officials said on Sunday."The young men responsible, they should be ashamed of themselves," Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.The mother said the girl's uncle had told her about a video on Facebook Live that showed the assault.
  
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• Venezuela opposition turns ire on Supreme Court judges

  02-04-2017 21:40
  
  By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish GuptaCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition lawmakers said on Sunday they will push for the removal of Supreme Court judges whom they accuse of acting on behalf of the ruling Socialists after the top tribunal briefly assumed control of congress last week.While the move by the opposition-led congress would only be symbolic because it remains powerless, it could add to pressure on unpopular president Nicolas Maduro as he tries to defuse the furor over what critic
  
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• Egypt's judges, Parliament at sharp odds over bill

  02-04-2017 21:34
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's judges are up in arms over a draft law expanding the president's control of the judiciary, explaining on Sunday that the bill would undermine their independence and violate the principal of separation of powers.
  
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• Dubai's sky turns black after another skyscraper bursts into flames

  02-04-2017 21:34
  
  Black smoke smothered Dubai's sky on Sunday after a fire broke out near the world's tallest building. The desert metropolis looked almost apocalyptic as dark clouds rose from a high-rise tower complex being built alongside Dubai's biggest mall.SEE ALSO: How a drone helped firefighters battle a blaze in New York CityNo one was injured in the inferno, though three workers were rescued from inside the structure and taken to the hospital for examination, authorities said.Dramatic skyscraper blazes a
  
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• 8-bit Bayonetta released free on Steam as April Fools’ surprise

  02-04-2017 21:30
  Sega has bucked the trend of lame April Fools’ pranks this year by doing something that’s actually cool. The game publisher has released an 8-bit version of the popular 3D action game Bayonetta on Steam. While the 2D game is very limited in mechanics — “Jump! Shoot! Score! Being bad never felt so retro,” the description reads — it is … Continue reading
  
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• Google Pixel vs. Samsung Galaxy S8: Which is the better Android phone?

  02-04-2017 21:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Samsung has finally taken the wraps off the forthcoming Galaxy S8, the company's latest flagship. But can the device compete with the Google Pixel when it comes to power and performance?
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• Let’s hope the next Galaxy Note 8 looks better than this

  02-04-2017 21:00
  
  Samsung is expected to launch three flagship smartphones this year, including the Galaxy S8 that’s already available for preorder, the Galaxy X that's supposed to be its first foldable smartphone, and the Galaxy Note 8 phablet that’s already confirmed to arrive in the second half of the year.
  However, Samsung does have a problem regarding the Galaxy Note 8. It already has one, and it’s hideous.Almost four years ago, Samsung started selling the device below under the name Samsun
  
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• Utah Woman Who Survived London Attack That Killed Her Husband Stands Up On Her Own

  02-04-2017 20:58
  
  She also suffered a broken rib.
  
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• Dystopian alternate history ‘We Happy Few’ will receive a film adaptation

  02-04-2017 20:41 via digitaltrends.com
  
  We Happy Few, the upcoming survival horror game revolving around government mind control and an alternate post-WW2 timeline, will receive a screen adaptation. Gold Circle Films, best known for Pitch Perfect, will produce.
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• Exit poll shows Armenia's ruling party with wide lead

  02-04-2017 20:34
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenians voted Sunday in the country's first parliamentary election since the ex-Soviet nation modified its constitution to expand the powers of parliament and the prime minister.
  
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• YouTube needs your help translating video titles and descriptions

  02-04-2017 20:23 via digitaltrends.com
  
  YouTube's community-contributed subtitles are great for people who could actually find content in foreign languages. But now, "Community Contributions [can] translate your video’s titles and descriptions in addition to your captions."
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• 14-Year-Old Saves Life of 5-Year-Old Boy Who Fell off 15-foot Cliff

  02-04-2017 20:19
  
  The 5-year-old escaped without major injury.
  
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• German court: Rat out your adult children’s illegal downloads, or pay the fine yourself

  02-04-2017 20:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Late last week, Germany's top court determined that parents must either spill the beans on their adult children's wrongdoings when it comes to illegal downloads, or pay the price themselves.
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• Freedom Caucus, White House feud not dissipating

  02-04-2017 20:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top adviser to President Donald Trump has urged the defeat of a Michigan congressman and member of a conservative group of U.S. House lawmakers who derailed the White House on legislation to repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law.
  
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• SoundCloud iOS app updated with Chromecast support

  02-04-2017 20:00
  While still an underdog in the streaming music market, SoundCloud is still pushing ahead with new updates and features. Or, in the case of their iOS app, an update with an old feature that’s been on Android for some time now. The streaming service’s app for iPhone and iPad has just been updated to support Google Chromecast, allowing users to … Continue reading
  
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• Control this toy racing car without actually touching anything

  02-04-2017 19:58 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Why use a joystick when you can just use gestures? That’s the question Ultigesture is asking now that it’s debuted its new toy racing cars that promise to be “intuitively controlled by gestures from the wristband-wearing driver.”
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• Control this racing car without actually touching anything

  02-04-2017 19:58 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Why use a joystick when you can just use gestures? That’s the question Ultigesture is asking now that it’s debuted its new toy racing cars that promise to be “intuitively controlled by gestures from the wristband-wearing driver.”
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• EPA chief admits climate change is real — but ‘the real issue is how much we contribute to it’

  02-04-2017 19:41
  
  Scott Pruitt, the new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, says climate change is real, but how much humans are to blame for causing it is up for debate.
  
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• The prehistoric-themed ‘Journey to Un’Goro’ expansion for ‘Hearthstone’ arrives April 6

  02-04-2017 19:32 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Journey to Un'Goro, the latest Hearthstone card expansion, brings 135 prehistoric-themed cards to Blizzard's card-battler, including Quest cards that feature in-game objectives to complete for nice rewards.
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• Colombian police seize more than six tonnes of cocaine

  02-04-2017 19:27
  
  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police have seized more than six tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, the defense minister said on Sunday. The shipment, the third-largest seizure in the history of continental Colombia, was found on Friday and belonged to several drug gangs, among them the so-called Urabenos, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told journalists. The shipment would have been worth about 200 million euros in Spain, its final destination. Authorities have already
  
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• Create your own clothing using digital knitting machine Kniterate

  02-04-2017 19:16 via digitaltrends.com
  
  Who says knitting is for geriatrics? Thanks to a new Kickstarter project, it could be the newest hobby for millennials, too. Meet Kniterate, the digital knitting machine that promises to bring fashion fabrication back to your neighborhood.
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• Philippines ceasefire talks with rebels delayed

  02-04-2017 18:45
  
  The start of Dutch-hosted ceasefire talks to end a four-decade insurgency waged by communist rebels in the Philippines has been delayed to Monday, mediators said."The formal opening is now pushed to tomorrow," Helene Revhaug, spokeswoman for the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution (NOREF), mediating the planned discussions, told AFP on Sunday.The talks are the fourth round to date between Manila and the National Democratic Front.
  
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• Your Smart TV could be hacked a lot more easily than you might think

  02-04-2017 18:39 via digitaltrends.com
  
  As first reported by Ars Technica, there’s a new hack whose proof of concept suggests that terrestrial radio signals could be used to take control of a large swath of Smart TV sets without having actual physical access to any one of them.
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• Xbox Project Scorpio unveiling tipped with Forza 7, Red Dead Redemption 2

  02-04-2017 18:30
  Gamers eagerly anticipating news on Microsoft‘s Project Scorpio, the new, more powerful Xbox console, may not have much longer to wait. News has surfaced that the hardware will unveiled by Microsoft within the next few weeks — well ahead of this year’s E3 in June — with several big-name games used to showcase the console’s 4K capabilities, including the debut … Continue reading
  
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• North Korean official tells ABC News they want to talk only with U.S. about nuclear weapons

  02-04-2017 18:20
  ABC News' Bob Woodruff reports from inside the dictator-governed country.
  
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• Putin, friend or foe? Russia looms over French election

  02-04-2017 18:19
  
  Russia looms large over France's presidential election, with candidates on the hard left, right and far right all promising to improve ties with the Kremlin, accused by some of meddling in the vote.As US authorities press their investigation into alleged Russian interference in favour of Donald Trump in America's election, officials on both sides of the Atlantic are warning of possible attempts by Russia to also sway the French vote.This week, the chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on In
  
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• Cross the globe while cutting costs with these affordable long-haul airlines

  02-04-2017 18:15 via digitaltrends.com
  
  International air travel isn't cheap, but several low-cost carriers are crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific to the U.S. Are these budget, no-frills airlines the beginning of affordable foreign travel? We take a look at five airlines.
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• Atlanta traffic horror: Crews razing fallen highway overpass

  02-04-2017 18:11
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — As crews rushed to clear debris from a major Atlanta interstate span that collapsed in a raging fire, commuters in the Southeast's largest city braced for the first full workweek without the key link to some of the city's biggest suburbs.
  
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• You can now search for Snapchat Stories thanks to advanced machine learning

  02-04-2017 18:08 via digitaltrends.com
  
  On Friday, Snapchat announced "a new way to understand what's happening in Snaps that are submitted to Our Story." All that to say that as of now (in select cities), you can search more than one million unique Stories on Snapchat.
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• Samsung is spending $9 billion on the iPhone

  02-04-2017 18:00
  
  Samsung is pretty upbeat about the Galaxy S8, its first major mobile test after the massive Galaxy Note 7 debacle. While the Galaxy S8 will bring in a ton of cash, Samsung is also be pretty excited about the iPhone 8’s arrival this year, which will be the first Apple smartphone to sport an OLED screen.A new report from South Korean news site The Investor says Samsung Display is going forward with its plans to expand its OLED production. The company will spend 10 trillion won ($8.
  
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• Lawmakers Say Too Early To Consider Immunity For Flynn Testimony

  02-04-2017 17:47
  
  “Every time we turn around, another shoe drops from this centipede," Sen. John McCain said of the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
  
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• U.N. calls on Gulf countries to do more to help Syrian refugees

  02-04-2017 17:41
  
  By Ahmed HagagyKUWAIT (Reuters) - A senior United Nations refugee official on Sunday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of civil war, saying she saw little sign that the crisis would end any time soon.Speaking during a visit to Kuwait to sign a $10 million aid agreement for Syrian refugees in Iraq, Kelly T. Clements, deputy commissioner for the United Nations High Commision for Refugees (UNHCR), also said the U.N. body lamented the "sad" fact that the
  
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• Grim search resumes in Colombia after deadly flood

  02-04-2017 17:29
  
  MOCOA, Colombia (AP) — A grim search for the missing resumed at dawn Sunday in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a city, killing at least 200 people and leaving many more injured and homeless.
  
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• Trump insists GOP talks on replacing Obamacare are ongoing

  02-04-2017 17:12
  
  A little more than a week after telling reporters he was moving on after failing to rally enough Republican support to repeal and replace Obamacare — and vowing to let former President Barack Obama’s health care law “explode” — President Trump lashed out at the “fake news media” for casting the negotiations as dead.“Anybody (especially Fake News media) who thinks that Repeal & Replace of ObamaCare is dead does not know the love and strength in
  
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• Israel PM warns enemies at missile defense ceremony

  02-04-2017 17:07
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A joint U.S.-Israeli missile interceptor meant to counter the type of medium-range missiles possessed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants became operational Sunday, completing Israel's multi-layer defense system amid tensions on its frontiers with Syria and Gaza.
  
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• Rick and Morty S3 premiere debuts on Adult Swim

  02-04-2017 17:00
  Rick and Morty fans, the day you’ve been long awaiting is finally here! Adult Swim began broadcasting the first episode of the animated show’s much anticipate third season on Saturday, and before you ask, no, it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. Not only did the first new episode in over a year and half run during Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim … Continue reading
  
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