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• Sahel jihadists claim deadly twin attacks in Burkina Faso

  03-03-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  A jihadist group allied to al-Qaeda on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly co-ordinated assault on the French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadoudou, and the country's military HQ, condemned by the prime minister as a "cowardly" terrorist attack.Eight armed forces personnel were killed in the fighting in the West African nation on Friday, the government said, while a French security source said 12 more were seriously injured.The government said the attack on the military HQ was
  
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• Ohio inmate whose execution halted dies of natural causes

  03-03-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.
  
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• Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees

  03-03-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (Reuters) - An avalanche in the French Pyrenees swept away five Spanish skiers on Saturday, killing two, local authorities said. The avalanche hit near the Aragnouet-Bielsa tunnel linking France to Spain. Three of the skiers managed to extract themselves from the snow and were unharmed. One skier was killed at the scene and the other died after being evacuated to hospital in the city of Toulouse. On Friday, an avalanche in the French Alps killed four people.. Their guide escaped unharmed a
  
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• Trump's Tariff Can't Start A Trade War Because It Started Years Ago

  03-03-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has economists cringing.Conservative Republicans are dusting off the principles they learned in Econ 101, liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning that Trump will start an economically destructive trade war, and prominent world leaders are vowing to prove Krugman right.On Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to retaliate against “unfair&rdquo
  
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• Man fatally shoots himself in front of White House

  03-03-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  A man fatally shot himself on the crowded pedestrian avenue directly in front of the White House on Saturday, officials said.The man's identity is being withheld pending notification of kin, the Secret Service said in a statement.While as many as 100 people -- mostly tourists -- were on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House at the time, no one else was reported hurt, the Secret Service said.
  
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• FBI director makes historic visit to Navajo Nation

  03-03-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray met with tribal officials of the largest Indian reservation in the U.S. this week, becoming the first head of the federal law enforcement agency to visit the Navajo Nation.
  
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• Fractured Ethiopia parliament endorses emergency decree

  03-03-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Ethiopia's parliament approved a nationwide state of emergency on Friday despite unusual opposition from some lawmakers, in the latest sign of fractures within the all-powerful ruling coalition.The council of ministers made the emergency declaration last month, one day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's surprise resignation amid a growing political crisis and divisions in the ruling party.The six-month decree, which required approval from two-thirds of lawmakers, has been condemned by s
  
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• Sheriff says students will pay up to $1,000 for making threats

  03-03-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  A Florida sheriff says students or their families will be responsible for investigative costs after more threats were made about harming people at schools.
  
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• Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture

  03-03-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An unidentified young man stabbed a prominent teacher, writer and promoter of secular values at a university in a northeastern city in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
  
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• Woman accused of dumping popcorn on 2-year-old, hitting her with container in movie theater

  03-03-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Police said a 25-year-old woman dumped popcorn on a girl, hit her in the head with an empty container and ran off.
  
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• Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more

  03-03-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
  
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• Two police officers killed in Colombia car bombing

  03-03-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Two Colombian police officers were killed Saturday when criminals bombed their car, then hurled grenades and strafed it with gunfire, local authorities said.The officers were near the town of Caldono, in southwestern Colombia, when their vehicle was "attacked with an explosive," the police said in a statement.Officers Jorge Andres Quintero, 31, and Jhoan Sebastian Rodriguez, 25, were on their way to pick up a man detained at a nearby police station.
  
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• UK police charge three men over shop blast that killed five in Leicester

  03-03-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  British police investigating a shop blast a week ago which killed five people in the central English city of Leicester, said on Saturday they had charged three men with manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life.The five died when a blast ripped through a Polish convenience store and a home last Sunday, turning the building into rubble.Police said in a statement they had charged three men over the case: Aram Kurd, 33, from Leicester, Hawkar Hassan, 32, from Coventry and Arkan Ali, 37, f
  
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• How Nintendo Won the Market With the Switch

  03-03-2018 20:00
  
  It's no secret that the Nintendo Switch has been a massive success. In fact, it's sold more units in a shorter amount of time than any other console that's ever come before it. Which begs the question: how did Nintendo win back the market with the Switch?
  Without the advantage of a holiday launch, Nintendo has sold over 4.8 million Switches in the United States, and over 14.8 million units globally - surpassing the previous sales record held by the Nintendo Wii and becoming the fastest selling c
  
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• Turkey tightens its grip on Syrian Kurdish enclave

  03-03-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  MARSAWA, SYRIA (AP) — Turkey's prime minister said Saturday that Turkish troops have captured a strategic village in the Kurdish-held enclave in northwestern Syria, tightening its grip on Kurdish militia in the sixth week of its offensive on the area.
  
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• Police say Central Michigan student used father's gun to kill parents

  03-03-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  Police say the gun used in a shooting at a Central Michigan University dormitory that left a student's parents dead was registered to the suspect's dad.
  
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• Roy Moore Is Now Asking For Money On Facebook To Defend Himself

  03-03-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked supporters for financial assistance to defend against a defamation lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old.In a Facebook post this week, Moore said his “resources have been depleted” and he has “struggled to make ends meet” due to legal fees and expenses.“I now face another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D. C. and San Francisco wh
  
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• Guatemala court denies attempt to block Israel embassy move

  03-03-2018 18:29 via yahoo.com
  Guatemala's Constitutional Court has rejected a local lawyer's attempt to prevent the government from moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, as the US plans to do, a court spokesman said Saturday.Spokesman Santiago Palomo told AFP that the high court's five magistrates turned down a request from lawyer Marco Vinicio Mejia, who argued in a petition filed in January that the embassy move was contrary to international law.The decision in December by President Donald Trump to transfer the US emb
  
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• A Man Who Shot Himself Near the White House Has Died, Officials Say

  03-03-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  An individual reportedly has a self-inflicted gunshot wound
  
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• Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League

  03-03-2018 18:16 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  Marcador de la vigésima novena jornada de la Premier League:
  
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• Syrian government makes Ghouta gains; Turkey steps up Afrin attack

  03-03-2018 17:51 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian government forces gained more ground in an assault on eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday as they seek to defeat the last major rebel enclave near the capital, a war monitor and a news service run by Lebanon's Hezbollah said.On another front in the multi-sided war, Turkey said it had captured a Kurdish town in the northwestern Afrin region where it has been fighting the Kurdish YPG militia since January, helped by allied Syrian fighters.The Syrian Observat
  
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• Woman accused of dumping popcorn on 2-year-old in Levittown movie theater

  03-03-2018 17:23 via yahoo.com
  Police said the 25-year-old woman dumped popcorn on the girl, hit her in the head with the empty container and ran off. The two-year-old suffered a contusion.
  
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• N. Korea lambasts US for attaching preconditions for talks

  03-03-2018 17:21 via yahoo.com
  North Korea on Saturday lambasted the US for attaching preconditions to any dialogue between the states, as Seoul prepares to send an envoy to Pyongyang to help open talks on easing the nuclear stand-off on the peninsula.A spokesperson for the North's foreign ministry said a dialogue with the US is "possible", but added that Pyongyang is open to talks only "on an equal footing" and will not give up its nuclear and missile programmes to come to the table.In the decades-long history of North-US ta
  
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• Bronze stars for an elite team of Air Force surgeons

  03-03-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  Members of the Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team can set up an operating room on the battlefield in just 15 minutes. Their skills are tested in Syria as they treat civilians, many of them children.
  
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• President Trump's 'Take the Guns First' Remark Sparks Due Process Debate

  03-03-2018 17:10 via yahoo.com
  Trump’s dismissal of due process prompted a visit by NRA officials
  
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• Parkland: Brother of Nikolas Cruz says he 'regrets' bullying Florida shooting suspect

  03-03-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Nikolas Cruz, 19, was targeted by Zachary Cruz because of resentment over his status as the “favoured” child in the family, it is claimed.Zachary, now 18, admitted to investigators from Palm Beach and Broward Counties that it was something he “now regrets ever doing”, according to a report seen by CNN.The report states that Zachary wishes he had been nicer to his brother.
  
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• Bombing continues in Syria despite U.N ceasefire

  03-03-2018 17:06 via yahoo.com
  Activists say more than 100 civilians have been killed since the ceasefire was approved, with the residents of Eastern Ghouta begging for relief after the continued bombing by the Syrian government.
  
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• Trump’s tariff proposal brings threats of retaliation, fears of potential job losses

  03-03-2018 17:05 via yahoo.com
  After President Trump proposed tariffs on important steel and aluminum, Europe has threatened its own taxes on some U.S. products, with experts warning there could be negative consequences for American workers.
  
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• Central Michigan University shooting suspect apprehended after manhunt

  03-03-2018 16:57 via yahoo.com
  19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr. was taken into custody by law enforcement overnight, hours after his parents were shot and killed inside a Central Michigan University dorm room.
  
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• At least eight dead after Nor’easter slams east coast

  03-03-2018 16:55 via yahoo.com
  Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, with residents along the coast battling cold, wind and flooding, and more than a million across the Northeast are without power.
  
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• Populists, far-right eye gains in Italian election

  03-03-2018 16:35 via yahoo.com
  Rival parties held their final rallies on Friday as no campaigning was allowed on Saturday, at the end of a bitter race marred by clashes between far-right and anti-fascist activists.The result could end up in a draw between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, three-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition and the ruling centre-left Democratic Party.One of the most remarkable features of the election has been the return to the political limelight of the 81-year-old Ber
  
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• U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed

  03-03-2018 16:19 via yahoo.com
  The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly kidnapped.The suspension of aid work in the town of Rann, which hosts a camp for 55,000 people displaced by the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, was announced late on Friday in a statement from the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General."At the time of the attack, ove
  
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• Celebrities Offer Support to Rick Ross Amid Hospitalization Reports

  03-03-2018 16:19 via yahoo.com
  The rapper's family has denied reports he is on life support
  
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• ‘Call it chaos’: Trump adrift after week of White House anarchy

  03-03-2018 16:15 via yahoo.com
  As high winds bore down on Washington, the president lost his closest aide and saw his son-in-law humiliated.Winds of 65mph battered Washington, uprooting trees, cutting power to nearly half a million people and forcing the federal government to close.Donald Trump had to change his travel plans and fly via Dulles airport, where one plane had such a bumpy descent that, the pilot said, pretty much everyone on board threw up.
  
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• Man convicted of murder hopeful ruling leads to freedom

  03-03-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Witnesses have recanted. Another man has confessed. Now, a man who was convicted in 2001 of killing a woman in his Missouri hometown is awaiting a decision from the state's highest court that could determine whether he will be released — and finally get to spend time outside of a prison visitors room with a college-age daughter who was just a baby when he was first arrested.
  
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• Vatican indicts ex-bank head, says embezzlement loss is $62M

  03-03-2018 16:13 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican prosecutors have indicted the former president of the Vatican bank and his lawyer on embezzlement charges, holding them responsible for losses of more than 50 million euros ($62 million) from real estate sales.
  
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• Bomb-sniffing dogs mistreated by US Army after returning from service in Afghanistan

  03-03-2018 15:42 via yahoo.com
  Bomb-sniffing dogs were mistreated by the US Army after returning from duty in Afghanistan, according to an official report.Several dogs had to be rescued by the soldiers they served with during Operation Enduring Freedom.The Army allowed one dog described as having canine PTSD and another which may have received bite training to go to families with children.
  
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• BlackRock: Investment giant threatens to pull funds from gunmakers after Florida high school shooting

  03-03-2018 14:55 via yahoo.com
  BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, will offer its clients the ability to opt out of investing in gun manufacturers in the wake of the deadly Florida high school shooting.The firm, which manages close to $6 trillion (£4.3 trillion) in assets, said on Friday the attack had “driven home the terrible toll from gun violence in America”.BlackRock said its clients will also be offered the opportunity to avoid investing in gun makers.
  
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• Explosives Found Aboard Passenger Ferry Near Cancun Beach Resort

  03-03-2018 14:35 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. issued a security alert after explosives were found aboard a passenger ferry near the beach resort of Cancun in Mexico
  
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• Iran says no missile talks unless West gives up its nuclear weapons

  03-03-2018 14:22 via yahoo.com
  Iran's armed forces spokesman said on Saturday that there can be no talks on the country's missile programme without the West's destruction of its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles."What Americans say out of desperation with regards to limiting the Islamic republic of Iran's missile capability is an unattainable dream," Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri told the official IRNA news agency.US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear up a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers u
  
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• Porsche could build flying taxis, says sales chief

  03-03-2018 14:06 via yahoo.com
  Volkswagen's sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services, Porsche sales chief Detlev von Platen told a German magazine.If I drive from (the Porsche plant in) Zuffenhausen to Stuttgart airport, I need at least half an hour, if I'm lucky.Flying would take only three and a half minutes," Automobilwoche quoted von Platen as saying.
  
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• Tanks vs. AK-47s, and Other Aspects of the Gun Debate

  03-03-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  Previously in this series: “A Gun Holdup Victim on Whether He Wishes He Had Been Armed” “White Male Privilege” “A Case Against Gun Control” “The Cultural Roots of a Gun-Massacre Society” “A Veteran on the Need to Control Civilian Arms” “‘Show Us the Carnage,’ Continued” “Only in America” “Show Us the Carnage” “The Empty Rituals of an American Massacre” and before that: “W
  
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• Plainfield parents killed in Central Michigan University shooting remembered

  03-03-2018 13:53 via yahoo.com
  The Central Michigan University Police Department has identified the victims in the campus shooting as Bellwood police officer James Eric Davis, Sr., and his wife Diva Jeneen Davis.
  
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• Russia is Developing a Supersonic Missile-Firing Drone

  03-03-2018 13:31 via yahoo.com
  Russia says it is developing a supersonic, missile-armed drone."Development work is currently underway on a long-range unmanned system capable of carrying out unmanned low-altitude supersonic flights, and striking both stationary and mobile targets at operational-strategic depth," Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, told Russian military television channel Zvezda.Developing such an drone is a logical development.
  
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• White House placed on lockdown after man fatally shoots himself next to fence

  03-03-2018 13:11 via yahoo.com
  The White House was placed on lockdown as Secret Service agents responded to an incident in which a man shot himself to death close to the perimeter fence of the building.With President Donald Trump at his estate in Florida, the Secret Service said it was “responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound” along the north fence line of the building.The man was identified by the Secret Service and the city's Metropolitan Police Department, but hi
  
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• Little Girl Awestruck By Michelle Obama's Portrait Goes Viral For The Best Reasons

  03-03-2018 12:04 via yahoo.com
  Like this photograph of a 2-year-old girl called Parker gazing awestruck at artist Amy Sherald’s portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama.Ben Hines, 37, from North Carolina, captured the inspiring moment while visiting the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.“It was so touching and uplifting for me to see this beautiful child looking at a beautiful portrait of a powerful woman,” Hines told BuzzFeed.
  
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• Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma

  03-03-2018 12:00 via yahoo.com
  What do we leave behind in space?
  
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• Slovakia releases suspects detained over journalist's murder: police

  03-03-2018 11:31 via yahoo.com
  Slovak authorities released all seven people detained in connection with the murder of an investigative journalist, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday.Police detained the suspects on Thursday in an investigation into the murder of Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, who were found shot dead in their home last weekend."During the legal timeframe - 48 hours - (police) checked and searched for facts needed for an indictment.
  
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• Saudi crown prince sets off on maiden foreign tour

  03-03-2018 11:29 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's crown prince lands in Egypt Sunday on the first leg of his maiden foreign tour as heir to the throne, a diplomatic charm offensive that follows his stunning rise to power.Prince Mohammed bin Salman's two-day visit to Cairo comes ahead of a scheduled trip to Britain on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and the United States from March 19-22.The son of Saudi King Salman is already seen as the country's de facto ruler controlling the major levers of government.
  
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• In the Philippines, dogs run for a cause

  03-03-2018 11:18 via yahoo.com
  A chorus of dog barks filled the grounds of the Philippine Mall of Asia in Manila on Saturday as thousands of canines ran with their owners in this year's Pet Express Doggie Run to raise funds for charity.Wearing yellow bandanas around their neck, tiny chihuahuas, labradors, shih tzu, great danes, beagles and their owners racedto win trophies, bottles of dog shampoo and sacks of dog food.The entry fees will help raise funds for the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), a non-government organ
  
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