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• Mexico mourns political activist's death while choosing new leader

  01-07-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  The murder of a political activist shortly before polls opened Sunday highlights the brutal violence and endemic corruption that have galvanized voters, with anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looking poised to sweep to power.Flora Resendiz Gonzalez, a Workers Party activist, was shot at her home shortly before polls opened.The killing darkened what was already considered to be the most violent electoral campaign in Mexican history, with at least 145 politicians killed since
  
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• The Latest: Report: German pol to resign post over migration

  01-07-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the immigration rift in the German government (all times local):
  
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• France pays tribute to Veil, Holocaust survivor with Pantheon burial

  01-07-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  France paid homage on Sunday to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor best known for legalizing abortion in the 1970s as she joined the country's great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris.Veil, who died aged 89 on June 30 a year ago, was laid to rest with her husband in the crypt of the Pantheon mausoleum alongside other national icons including authors Emile Zola and Victor Hugo and the philosopher Voltaire.Hundreds of people lined sun-drenched streets in central Paris to watch the cortege c
  
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• Violence erupts after right-wing group holds Oregon march

  01-07-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Violent skirmishes erupted in Portland, Oregon, between a right-wing group and anti-fascists who have previously clashed across the Pacific Northwest, leading to injuries and arrests.
  
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• American Woman Killed, 9 Hurt in Tour Boat Explosion in the Bahamas

  01-07-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  The boat exploded off the coast of Exuma Saturday morning
  
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• Bear Cub with Burned Feet Rescued From Colorado Fire

  01-07-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  She will eventually return to the wild.
  
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• Mexicans Go to the Polls With Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on the Brink of Historic Victory

  01-07-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  The campaign has been marred by violence, with more than 120 politicians killed, including some 40 candidates
  
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• Infamous French Thief Escapes Prison in Bold Helicopter Caper

  01-07-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Unarmed guards said they could do nothing to prevent it
  
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• Longest lunar eclipse of the century rises near July's end

  01-07-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  On July 27, a total lunar eclipse will rise over the night sky.At 1 hour and 43 minutes, it will be the longest lunar eclipse in the 21st century.Much of Africa, the Middle East and central Asia will be able to see the eclipse.Unfortunately, North America will miss out.
  
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• Kaley Cuoco Marries Equestrian Karl Cook In Romantic Ceremony

  01-07-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Actress Kaley Cuoco and fiance Karl Cook, a professional equestrian, tied the
  
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• French politician Simone Veil honored with Pantheon burial

  01-07-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who repeatedly broke barriers for women in French politics and spearheaded the fight to legalize abortion, was buried at the Pantheon on Sunday, an honor reserved for French heroes.
  
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• Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

  01-07-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday as the government regained more ground under Russian-brokered deals, a war monitor said.Talks involving rebels, local officials and regime ally Russia saw agreements struck for four villages and a strategic town near the border with Jordan, extending government control to some 60 percent of the southern Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Since June 19, Russia-backed regime forces have r
  
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• London's V&A Museum to stage 'reimagined' hit Dior expo

  01-07-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  London's Victoria and Albert Museum said Sunday it plans a reprise in 2019 of a Christian Dior retrospective that last year drew record numbers to the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris.The show, to run from February 2 to July 14, promises to be "the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior," the V&A said in a statement."Spanning 1947 to the present day, 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' will trace the history and impact of one of the 20th century&
  
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• Four hospitalized, police eye more arrests after Portland clashes

  01-07-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Police seized knives, clubs and pepper spray after running battles between members of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and counterprotesters who had initially faced off at a downtown park.Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson is running for the U.S. Senate."We seized numerous weapons early on, and interceded and separated people when necessary," Portland Deputy Police Chief Bob Day said in a statement late on Saturday.
  
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• Angela Merkel fights for survival as interior minister Seehofer says he will turn away migrants at the border

  01-07-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was on Sunday night once again fighting for her political future after her interior minister slammed the migration deal she secured with her EU counterparts last week as “ineffective”. Horst Seehofer, Germany’s Interior Minister and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), said on Sunday that he now saw “no alternative” but to turn back some migrants at the German border, a party source told Reuters news agency. Mr
  
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• Teen's police killing tests long-frustrated black Pittsburgh

  01-07-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station.
  
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• Delta Apologizes to Busy Philipps for Rerouting Her Daughter on Separate Flight

  01-07-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  The company refunded her money after the mix-up.
  
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• Notorious French gangster in spectacular helicopter jailbreak

  01-07-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Réau (France) (AFP) - A notorious gangster who said his life of crime was inspired by Hollywood films like "Scarface" pulled off a brazen jailbreak on Sunday, fleeing a prison near Paris aboard a hijacked helicopter in a commando-style operation as a massive manhunt was launched.Redoine Faid, 46, broke out of the prison with the help of two accomplices who used smoke bombs and angle grinders to make their way into the facility's visiting room where Faid was talking to a brother, who was l
  
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• Eleven family members found dead in Delhi home: police

  01-07-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  A family of 11 found dead at their home in New Delhi had been observing "spiritual, mystical practices", police said Sunday."Ten of the 11 family members were found hanging when we reached the house.The last, a 75-year-old female, was dead on the floor," a Delhi police official said.
  
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• Exclusive: Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources

  01-07-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters.It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time.Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
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• Heavily armed men in helicopter free notorious French inmate

  01-07-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visiting room and carried him away.
  
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• Syrians fleeing war will not be allowed in Israel: Netanyahu

  01-07-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Civilians fleeing Syria's war will not be allowed to enter Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday adding however that his government will continue providing them with humanitarian aid.Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled a government offensive in the country's south that started on June 19 and some have set up makeshift camps near the Israeli-held Golan Heights."Regarding southern Syria, we will continue to defend our borders," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Trump taunts Democrats over calls to abolish Ice: 'They'll never win another election'

  01-07-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  ‘That’s going to be their [Democrats’] platform, open borders which equals crime,’ Donald Trump said in a prerecorded interview with Fox Business that aired Sunday.After a day of mass demonstrations against Donald Trump’s family separations policy and calls by prominent Democrats to abolish the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or Ice, the president dared Democrats to pursue the issue in the run-up to midterm elections in November.“All it&rsq
  
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• Fury sparked after 11-year-old Thai girl married to Malaysian man

  01-07-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a "child predator". Malaysian Muslims below the age of 16 are allowed to marry if they obtain the permission of a religious court. But the country's women and families ministry said there was no record of religious authorities approving the union, which took place last month across the border in Thailand's largely Muslim far s
  
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• Chrissy Teigen spoke passionately at the Families Belong Together march, baby Miles in hand

  01-07-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  "We love that the American story is filled with people who come from all over the world to have a better life here." Chrissy Teigen spoke from the heart on Saturday during an appearance at the Families Belong Together march in Los Angeles. Although she couldn't resist peppering in a few Trump burns — who can? — she spent most of her time at the podium preaching the virtues of America's immigrant population. SEE ALSO: The best signs from the Families Belong Together marches "Making Am
  
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• 'Hopefully he's different': Mexico seems poised to elect Amlo as next president

  01-07-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador casts his ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Mexico City on Sunday.Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 64-year-old leader of the Movement for National Regeneration or Morena party, has cast the vote as an epoch-making opportunity to radically transform Mexico by electing a leader who will rid the country of corruption and rule for the 53 million Mexicans still stuck in poverty.“This is a historic day,”
  
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• Stabbing At Apartment Complex Leaves 9 Injured, Including Refugees

  01-07-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  A stabbing spree at an Idaho apartment complex Saturday night has left nine
  
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• 6 Kids Attending Birthday Party Among 9 Stabbed At Apartment Complex

  01-07-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  Six children were attending a birthday party when they were violently stabbed
  
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• French gangster escapes from prison using a helicopter

  01-07-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Witnesses say several heavily-armed men landed a hijacked helicopter in the courtyard to free 46-year-old Redoine Faid, who was serving 25 years for murder.
  
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• Voters in Mexico choose new president, thousands of officials in country’s largest election

  01-07-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known by his initials, AMLO, leads in the polls. The election comes amid a U.S. border crisis as thousands travel through Mexico to the United States.
  
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• One killed, nine injured in boat explosion in the Bahamas

  01-07-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  12 people were aboard a boat in the Bahamas when it exploded, killing one American woman, police say. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.
  
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• Boise stabbing: Nine wounded after suspect targeted child's birthday party

  01-07-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  The suspect injured nine, including six children, in a mass stabbing during a three-year-old girl’s birthday party at a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex that housed refugees.
  
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• Italy's League chief Salvini vows to take success Europe-wide

  01-07-2018 17:39 via yahoo.com
  By Ilaria PolleschiPONTIDA, Italy (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's right-wing League which is surging in opinion polls, said on Sunday he wanted to expand its success to create a pan-European association of like-minded, nationalist parties.In a keynote speech at the League's annual gathering in countryside north of Milan, Salvini said the League would govern Italy for the next 30 years, receiving rapturous applause from thousands of flag-waving supporters."To win we had to unite Ita
  
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• Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters defiant, but rally turnout hits a low

  01-07-2018 17:37 via yahoo.com
  Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest sees a record low turnout. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Trump: I'm told I shouldn't ask my SCOTUS nominee about Roe v. Wade

  01-07-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  President Trump said he probably won’t ask potential Supreme Court candidates about their opinions on abortion before nominating Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s replacement.In a program that aired Sunday morning, Fox News journalist Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if he would ask his nominees beforehand how they might vote on Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision affirming that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.Trump respo
  
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• The Latest: Suicide bomber kills 19 in Afghanistan

  01-07-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the war in Afghanistan (all times local):
  
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• Gay activist attacked in Ukraine ahead of pride march

  01-07-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Unidentified assailants have attacked a gay activist in central Ukraine ahead of a gay pride parade he was helping prepare, LGBT rights activists said on Sunday.Borys Zolotchenko was severely beaten by a group of around 10 men in the centre of the industrial city Kryvyi Rig late Saturday, Gay Alliance Ukraine said.As a result of the attack, Zolotchenko was hospitalised, with Gay Alliance Ukraine releasing a picture of him with scratches on his face.
  
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• 11 bodies, 10 of them hanging, found at New Delhi home

  01-07-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India's capital said they found 11 bodies at a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging.
  
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• Several injured during Iran water protests

  01-07-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  Several people were injured in the southwestern Iranian city of Khorramshahr late Saturday during a demonstration against water pollution, Iranian state media reported.The protesters set fire to rubbish bins and damaged public property, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse them, state-run IRNA news agency said Sunday.Officials gave different accounts of those injured during the protest, with Deputy Interior Minister Hossein Zolfaghari saying 11 people were hurt when someone opened fire.
  
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• Mexico elections: Who is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing rebel tipped to take power?

  01-07-2018 16:50 via yahoo.com
  Commentators say the former Mexico City mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – known as ‘Amlo’ – would inject a new dose of nationalism into government – something that could heighten tensions in already testy US-Mexican relations.Mr Lopez Obrador has led opinion polls throughout the campaign in an election marred by violence, with 130 candidates and political workers killed since September.If he ousts the ruling centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he wo
  
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• 10 Bodies Found Blindfolded and Hanging at New Delhi Home

  01-07-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  The victims were all from the same family
  
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• White House's Bolton: North Korea nuclear program can be dismantled in year

  01-07-2018 16:24 via yahoo.com
  White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs could be dismantled within a year.Bolton told CBS's "Face the Nation" that Washington has devised a program to dismantle North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a year."Physically we would be able to dismantle the overwhelming bulk of their programs within a year."He said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will li
  
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• Rescuers clear hurdle in cave search for missing Thai boys

  01-07-2018 15:44 via yahoo.com
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Rescue divers cleared a key hurdle Sunday in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing in a cave in northern Thailand more than a week ago, officials said.
  
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• More Syrians leave Lebanon for home

  01-07-2018 15:42 via yahoo.com
  Several dozen Syrian refugees left Lebanon for neighbouring Syria on Sunday as part of returns coordinated between both countries, an AFP reporter and authorities said.A total of 42 Syrians returned voluntarily from Lebanon through the Masnaa crossing to areas in Syria, Lebanese authorities said.A Lebanese coordinator said they were headed for areas including Moadmiyet al-Sham, a suburb of Damascus where the regime retook control from rebels in October 2016.
  
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• Iran calls for calm after water protests, clashes

  01-07-2018 15:41 via yahoo.com
  Iran called for calm on Sunday after protests in a southern city over water shortages turned violent overnight with reports of police shooting at demonstrators who attacked banks and public buildings."No one has been killed in the unrest and just one person has been wounded in a shooting," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, quoted by the state news agency IRNA."Our effort is to bring these protests to an end as soon as possible with restraint from police and the cooperation ofauthor
  
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• Idaho stabbings: Nine injured after 'unprovoked' knife attack at apartments housing refugees

  01-07-2018 15:29 via yahoo.com
  Idaho police have arrested a man after a mass stabbing at a Boise apartment complex housing many refugee families.Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said nine individuals were taken to area hospitals, some with life-threatening injuries, following the Saturday night attack."At this point we haven't lost anybody, but as I said the injuries are very serious," Bones said.
  
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• North Korea Mulls Ways To 'Conceal' Nuclear Weapons From U.S.: Reports

  01-07-2018 15:28 via yahoo.com
  North Korea has no intention of giving up its entire nuclear stockpile and is
  
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• Rebels, Russia pursue talks over battered south Syria: monitor

  01-07-2018 15:14 via yahoo.com
  Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia on Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based monitor said.The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.A "ceasefire has largely held since Saturday at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) to facilitate the ongoing negotiations," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said
  
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• What's the difference between socialism and democratic socialism?

  01-07-2018 14:29 via yahoo.com
  After 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning upset against congressman Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic congressional primary on Tuesday, the word "socialist" was repeatedly used to describe her.Ms Ocasio-Cortez is a registered member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and is a self-described socialist.In other words, it's a state-controlled economy in which the state controls the means of production: factories, offices, resources, and firms.
  
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• North Korea Kidnapped Her 13-Year-Old Daughter. She Spent Decades Trying To Get Her Back.

  01-07-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  NIIGATA, Japan ― Megumi Yokota was just 13 when she disappeared. On her way
  
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