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• Build Your Dream Coaster, Then Ride It In VR

  25-03-2018 23:48
  When RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 launched in 2004, it allowed players to hop on their creations as passengers for the first time. Unfortunately, the feature was limited, as the processing power required for the first-person mode was greater than the simulation aspect of the game, and players were simply watching it from the monitor rather than actually feeling like they're inside the world. Nvizzio Creations hopes to deliver the full realization of that feature with the upcoming PlayStation VR title
  
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• 6.4 quake off eastern Indonesia, tsunami alert lifted: seismic monitors

  25-03-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, according to seismic monitoring organisations.The quake struck deep at some 171 kilometres (106 miles) below the surface of the earth in the Banda Sea, the US Geological Survey said.A tsunami alert was initially triggered by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS).
  
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• Woman Sneaks In Anti-Ted Cruz Message During Photo With Ted Cruz

  25-03-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  On Saturday, a Twitter user going by the name "Sukie," with the handle
  
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• Gaza's Hamas rulers hold large military drill amid tensions

  25-03-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Islamic militant group that rules Gaza staged a large-scale military drill in the impoverished territory on Sunday.
  
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• Donald Trump poised to expel 20 Russian diplomats from the US in wake of spy poisoning in Salisbury

  25-03-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is poised to expel more than 20 Russian diplomats from the US in the wake of the poisoning of a former spy in Salisbury. In a significant boost for Theresa May, the US President could take action as soon as Monday following the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Britain has thrown out 23 Russians that the Government says were using diplomatic cover to spy on the UK. Up to European 20 nations, including Germany, France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech
  
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• Hands On With Human Head's Hack-N-Slash Viking Adventure

  25-03-2018 22:30
  After 18 years in the drawer, Human Head Studios has dusted off its Viking-themed action adventure series Rune with a new open-world, hack-n-slash adventure.
  Rather than pick up where the original game left off, Rune: Ragnarok picks up in the midst of the Nordic apocalypse. Legends foretell the fiery death of all the gods during Ragnarok, but the cataclysmic event is not playing out as believed. The hellscape has taken hold, lasting nearly a decade. Giants, dragons, and the undead lay waste to
  
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• Waymo chief says his tech would have averted fatal Uber crash

  25-03-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  The CEO of Waymo, the Google subsidiary tasked with developing driverless cars, has said the recent death of a pedestrian in an accident involving an autonomous car would not have occurred with his company's technology."At Waymo, we have a lot of confidence that our technology would be able to handle a situation like that," John Krafcik told a car dealership conference in Las Vegas on Saturday.An autonomously-operating Uber struck and killed a pedestrian on March 18 in the US state of Arizona.
  
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• Nigeria talking to Boko Haram about possible ceasefire

  25-03-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  By Felix OnuahABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent cessation of hostilities, the country's information minister said on Sunday.It is the first time in years the government has said it is talking to Boko Haram about a ceasefire in an insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of people since 2009.President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has repeatedly said it is will
  
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• Family of 4 Found Dead While on Mexican Vacation Died of Toxic Gas Inhalation, Police Say

  25-03-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  Police are still investigating.
  
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• The Latest: Names of 2 firefighters killed in wreck released

  25-03-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  PRATT, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on two firefighters who died in an accident while responding to an interstate wreck that killed three other people in West Virginia (all times local):
  
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• EU Russia envoy holds crisis talks over spy poisoning

  25-03-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  The EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini held crisis talks with the bloc's ambassador to Moscow Sunday after he was recalled over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England.EU leaders summoned envoy Markus Ederer back to Brussels for consultations as international pressure builds on Moscow over the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury.At a summit on Friday, the bloc unanimously backed Britain's assessment that the Kremlin was
  
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• Nigerian girls reunited with families after Boko Haram kidnapping

  25-03-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  The schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram jihadist group in Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, were reunited with their families on Sunday after spending nearly five weeks in captivity.The 105 girls, covered head to toe in burkas, arrived aboard five buses in the town of Dapchi, in Yobe state, where they were greeted by their parents at the boarding school from where they were snatched on February 19.After their release on Wednesday they had spent three days in the national capital Abuja and were g
  
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• Designer Of Deadly Kansas Waterslide Has 'No Engineering Credentials': Lawsuit

  25-03-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  The Kansas water park owner who helped design the waterslide that decapitated
  
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• A timeline of key events in Egypt since the 2011 uprising

  25-03-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Here are some key events from more than seven years of turmoil and transition in Egypt leading up to presidential elections on March 26-28:
  
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• New BMW M5 Takes On Mercedes-AMG E63 S In Drag Race

  25-03-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  The BMW M5 may need that Competition Package
  
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• Palm Sunday celebrated across Southland, around the world

  25-03-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Christians around the world are celebrating Palm Sunday, and services are underway at churches in the Southland.
  
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• New Game From This War Of Mine Developer Leaves You With Difficult Choices

  25-03-2018 21:00
  Leading a society is a difficult feat. Leading a society in a dying world that's frozen over is even tougher. This is the premise of Frostpunk, an upcoming city builder and survival game from 11 Bit Studios, the creators of the indie hit This War of Mine.
  Being a leader comes with difficult choices, and your decisions will either haunt you or progress your people to better days. You manage your society by following different story-driven goals, such as tasking groups to mine for coal. In Frostp
  
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• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Gets Xbox One Release Date

  25-03-2018 21:00
  Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice will be released for Xbox One on April 11.
  Developer Ninja Theory shared the news in a post on Twitter, confirming the game will have enhancements for Xbox One X. Those who preorder the game, or purchase Hellblade during its first week of release on the Xbox Store, will get a 10 percent discount.
  News of Hellblade coming to Xbox One isn't especially surprising given the game was rated for Xbox One by Taiwan's Game Software Ratings board earlier this year.
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• U.S. gun control movement pushing Congress to act: lawmakers

  25-03-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  The youth-led U.S. gun control movement that flexed its public muscle with huge weekend rallies has already nudged Congress to enact minor firearms changes, but must remain active if it hopes to win more meaningful regulations, lawmakers said on Sunday.The movement that erupted after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has generated a national conversation about gun rights and has chipped away at legislative gridlock on the issue, they said."Th
  
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• Unafraid & Unapologetic: Student Activists Speak Out at March For Our Lives

  25-03-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Students are sending a strong message to the world: Our. Lives. Matter. On
  
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• Rick Santorum: Kids Should Learn CPR Instead Of Rallying For Gun Laws

  25-03-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested on
  
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• Friends and family attend mass in honor of French attack victims

  25-03-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  By Sybille de La HamaidePARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of people including friends, family and local officials attended a memorial service in Trebes on Sunday to honor the victims of the Islamist militant attack that killed a gendarme and three other people in southwest France last week.Gendarme Arnaud Beltrame, 44, who voluntarily took the place of a female hostage during the supermarket siege on Friday in the tranquil town near the Pyrenees mountains, received a special tribute for what French Pre
  
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• Dozens arrested as Belarus opposition marks 'Freedom Day'

  25-03-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Belarusian authorities on Sunday arrested around 30 protesters in Minsk ahead of a banned opposition march while detaining activists across the country, human rights group Viasna said.The Belarusian opposition is marking the 100th anniversary of the short-lived Belarusian People's Republic of 1918-19 that it sees as the foundation of an independent Belarus.It accuses President Alexander Lukashenko of consciously erasing Belarusian identity and "russifying" the former Soviet republic.
  
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• ABC's Karl Schmid Reveals He Is HIV Positive In Moving Facebook Post

  25-03-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Los Angeles-based ABC correspondent Karl Schmid said he struggled for nearly a
  
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• Israeli monitor: Settlements grew under Trump presidency

  25-03-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — West Bank settlement construction surged during the first year of the Trump presidency, an Israeli monitoring group said Sunday, releasing data that added to Palestinian mistrust of the American administration.
  
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• Turkey detains students after Erdogan's 'terrorist' rebuke

  25-03-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Turkish police on Sunday were holding seven students from a prestigious Istanbul university after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused them of behaving like "terrorists" for staging an action opposing his military campaign in Syria.Police stormed a students' dormitory and a house at Bogazici University around dawn Sunday and detained three students -- two men and one woman, lawyer Inayet Aksu told AFP.
  
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• Fox News poll show voters' support for gun control measures

  25-03-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  53% of voters answered that protecting citizens from guns is more important than protecting the right to own guns; 'America's News HQ' political panel reacts.
  
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• Sen. Mark Warner: Facebook Not Being Fully Forthcoming About Data Leak

  25-03-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
  
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• Apple boss Tim Cook pleads with US and China to call off trade war

  25-03-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  Apple boss Tim Cook has called for “calm heads” amid growing fears China and the US could be on the brink of a trade war.China later announced a $3bn list of US goods, including pork, apples and stainless steel pipes, which could be hit by higher tariffs in retaliation to Washington’s accusation that Beijing improperly acquired foreign technology.Speaking at the China Development Business Forum in Beijing on Saturday, Mr Cook urged businesses to keep their lines of communicatio
  
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• Apple boss Tim Cook calls for 'calm heads' amid fears of US and China trade war

  25-03-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  Apple boss Tim Cook has called for “calm heads” amid growing fears China and the US could be on the brink of a trade war.China later announced a $3bn list of US goods, including pork, apples and stainless steel pipes, which could be hit by higher tariffs in retaliation to Washington’s accusation that Beijing improperly acquired foreign technology.Speaking at the China Development Business Forum in Beijing on Saturday, Mr Cook urged businesses to keep their lines of communicatio
  
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• Insight into horrors of Nazi-occupied Poland revealed in newly discovered journal

  25-03-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  An insight into the horrors of life in Nazi-occupied Poland has been revealed in a newly discovered journal that has drawn comparison to Anne Frank’s diary.Writings kept by then teenager Renia Spiegel from 1939 until 1942 detailed what life was like as the Nazis invaded large parts of Europe.Renia, a Jewish student, had been separated from her parents and sister and was hiding in an attic in a Jewish ghetto.
  
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• Uber to sell Southeast Asia business to rival Grab - source

  25-03-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inchas agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, in what would be the U.S. company's second retreat from Asia.The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the first big consolidation in the industry in Southeast Asia, home to about 640 million people, and will put pressure on rivals such as Indonesia's Go-Jek, backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and China'
  
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• Pope Francis urges young people to speak out against elders

  25-03-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Palm Sunday urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard, even in the face of corrupt or silent elders. The Pope's message yesterday came on the heels of a meeting of young Catholics who told the Vatican they want a more transparent and authentic church, and a day after hundreds of thousands marched in youth-led rallies across the United States to demand greater gun control. "The temptation to silence young people has always existed," Francis said.
  
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• UNICEF calls on Yemen's warring sides to stop impeding aid

  25-03-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Warring sides in Yemen and their international backers must stop blocking or delaying aid deliveries, a top official in the U.N. children's agency said Sunday, warning that such practices have contributed to worsening malnutrition among children and hampered efforts to fight cholera.
  
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• Trump Says 'Many Lawyers Want To Represent Me' Even As Legal Team Shrinks

  25-03-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at suggestions that he was having
  
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• U.S. House panel to probe China military footprint in Africa: chairman

  25-03-2018 18:24 via yahoo.com
  U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said his committee will investigate China's efforts to gain military and economic power in Africa.The California Republican told “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" that China's investment in African countries would allow Beijing to strengthen its grip over world trade.The Trump administration has stepped up actions to punish China over what he says is theft of U.S. intellectual property, moving last week to impose tariffs on
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says operations begin in Iraq's Sinjar region

  25-03-2018 18:14 via yahoo.com
  President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area."We said we would go into Sinjar.Now operations have begun there.
  
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• Turkey to target new town in Syria operation: Erdogan 

  25-03-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  Turkey on Sunday said the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat would be the next target of its cross-border campaign after the capture of Afrin from Syrian Kurdish militia."God willing, we will ensure this operation achieves its goal after taking control of Tal Rifaat in a short period of time," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.Ankara launched an air and ground offensive in the enclave of Afrin in Syria in January to root out the Kurdish People's Protection Unit
  
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• Mnuchin Touts Trump's Call For Unconstitutional Line-Item Veto

  25-03-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Congress should somehow reinstate the line-item veto even though
  
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• Students March For Their Lives As Trump Chills At Golf Course, Largely Ignores Them

  25-03-2018 17:58 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of protesters nationwide took to the streets Saturday to
  
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• Austin Bomber Calls Himself a 'Psychopath' and Shows No Remorse in Taped Confession

  25-03-2018 17:35 via yahoo.com
  Police said they found the confession on his cell phone.
  
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• Trolley cars abandoned in graveyard

  25-03-2018 17:26 via yahoo.com
  Tucked away in these spooky woodlands, one man has amassed a huge collection of decaying trolley cars.Once a novel mode of public transport in the likes early 20th Century New York, the hauntingly beautiful trolleys are now at one with nature – a scene that abandoned location photographer Matthew Christopher was able to discover in a location not disclosed to the public.Matthew, of Abandoned America, has shot the roughly 40 trolleys at various stages throughout the years – his images
  
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• Pope urges young people not to remain silent

  25-03-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Sunday urged young people not to allow themselves to be silenced and to stand up for what they believe in, a day after more than a million people in the United States took part in student-led protests demanding tighter gun control."It is up to you not to keep quiet," Francis told young people.
  
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• Killer Mike Defended Gun Ownership on NRA TV and Some Of His Fans Are Not Happy

  25-03-2018 17:10 via yahoo.com
  "You can't continue to be the lackey"
  
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• Iran: Naming John Bolton national security adviser shameful

  25-03-2018 17:05 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States shameful, Iranian media reported on Sunday, citing his involvement with an opposition group once named a terrorist organization.
  
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• These Photos Show How Big the March For Our Lives Crowds Were Across The Country

  25-03-2018 17:01 via yahoo.com
  Americans showed up to march from coast to coast
  
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• Elon Musk's father has baby with step-daughter he has known since she was four

  25-03-2018 16:49 via yahoo.com
  The father of Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, says it was “God’s plan” for him to have a baby with his own stepdaughter. Errol Musk, 72, described the 10-month-old baby boy he had with Jana Bezuidenhout, 30, as “exquisite”. He married her mother Heide when Jana was four but told The Sunday Times he did not consider her to be his stepdaughter because she had been raised away from the family for long periods of time. Jana Bezuidenhout, 30, who had a chil
  
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• Trump's best defense team for the Mueller investigation? Fox News

  25-03-2018 16:48 via yahoo.com
  The president has doubled down on his strategy of undermining the Mueller investigation.If his tweets last weekend attacking Mueller by name didn’t make that clear enough, now comes the news of the resignation of John Dowd, the president’s lawyer who had urged cooperation with the special counsel.
  
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• Keep shouting, don't become anesthetized, pope tells young people

  25-03-2018 16:24 via yahoo.com
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anesthetize their idealism.Francis spoke a day after hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters answered a call to action from survivors of last month's Florida high school massacre and rallied across the United States to demand tighter gun laws.Catholic News Service
  
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• Pope Francis Tells Young People to Raise Their Voices in Palm Sunday Address

  25-03-2018 16:23 via yahoo.com
  "You have it in you to shout"
  
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