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• Vatican begins push-back against ex-ambassador over Davis

  02-09-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is starting to push back against Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, author of the bombshell accusation of sex abuse cover-up against Pope Francis, with a statement Sunday from its former spokesman about a controversial 2015 meeting Vigano organized.
  
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• Gillum tells opponent to focus on issues, not insults

  02-09-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  The man who could become Florida's first black governor called on his opponent to refrain from name-calling.
  
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• Mourners line streets to say goodbye to John McCain

  02-09-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  John McCain, the veteran senator who emerged as the most visible Republican critic of Donald Trump, was laid to rest at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after a private ceremony on Sunday. Four naval jets performed an aerial salute with a single F-18 fighter peeling off into the sun as part of the missing man formation. The funeral concluded a week of memorials for McCain, who died on August 25, at the age of 81, from brain cancer. He trained at the naval academy, graduating in 1958,
  
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• Netanyahu meets US envoy over Syria, Iran

  02-09-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with a US envoy for Syria for talks on the war-ravaged country and Iran, his office said.Netanyahu discussed "the situation in Syria and the joint effort to stop Iran's terror and aggression" with James Jeffrey, the US special representative for Syria engagement, said a statement.Ahead of the visit, the US State Department said Jeffrey, accompanied by US special envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn, would discuss "maintaining Israel's security whil
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts' Father Begs Politicians to 'Leave Us Out of Your Debate'

  02-09-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Anti-immigration forces have latched on to her suspected killer's status
  
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• Amazing drone photos of abandoned bikes in China

  02-09-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  French-born photographer Mathias Guillin, 49, lives and works in Shanghai — where he took these stunning pictures with his drone.Shared bikes have flooded the Chinese streets, with over 1.5 million bikes in Shanghai alone.Dubbed the Uber for bikes, Bluegogo has had to backpedal after going bankrupt late last year, leaving up to 700,000 bikes locked and unusable.
  
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• Pentagon decides not to release $300M in aid to Pakistan

  02-09-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it's taken final steps to cancel $300 million in planned aid to Pakistan.
  
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• Gillum: DeSantis should be 'careful' as racism rears head in Florida campaign

  02-09-2018 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Andrew Gillum “wants to turn Florida into Venezuela”, his Republican opponent claimed on Sunday, before the Democratic nominee for governor in Florida faced insistent talkshow questioning about his leftwing policies.Gillum also called on Ron DeSantis to “rise above” racist attacks on his nomination, the first of an African American for governor in Florida, and said the Republican should be “careful” in his own remarks.
  
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• Right-wing demonstrations and counterprotests follow stabbing in Chemnitz, Germany

  02-09-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Eighteen people were injured in rival demonstrations capping off a week marked by xenophobic protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz, prompting Germany’s foreign minister to urge Germans to “get off our sofas” and speak up against racism.Chemnitz has been in the spotlight after violent far-right protests erupted over the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi last Sunday.On Saturday, 8,000 people answered a joint call by far-right party AfD and
  
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• North Carolina family saved by dog after bear breaks into house

  02-09-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  A North Carolina family is mourning the loss of their beloved dog. They said the dog died a hero, as he protected them from a bear who broke into their home.
  
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• Female Physicians 'Do Not Work As Hard,' Male Doctor Tells Medical Journal

  02-09-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  A male doctor from Texas is getting backlash for comments published in the
  
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• Father-Son Duo Bikes From Canada to Coney Island to Support Autism Organizations

  02-09-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  10-year-old James Potvin and his father Chris rode over 600 miles.
  
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• Leon Panetta Says Trump's 'Failed' North Korea Summit Was 'Doomed' From The Start

  02-09-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday bashed President Donald
  
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• Family Says Missouri Woman Who Retired in Belize Was Found Dead

  02-09-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  A Blue Springs native who was missing for close to a week in Belize has been found dead, according to her family.
  
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• Ruling party leader wants Poland to be like western Europe

  02-09-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland's conservative ruling party, whose policies have led to clashes with European Union leaders, said Sunday he wants the country to remain in the EU so it can become like western European nations "in every respect."
  
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• Dutch police question suspect in stabbings of 2 Americans

  02-09-2018 18:43 via yahoo.com
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.S. State Department offered help Sunday to investigators in the Netherlands who are treating the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam's main railway station as a possible extremist attack.
  
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• JD.com's billionaire CEO released after U.S. arrest

  02-09-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  The billionaire founder and chief executive of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc, Richard Liu, was arrested in the U.S. state of Minnesota on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released after what the company said was a false accusation.JD.com, backed by Walmart Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, and China's Tencent Holdings, said in a statement on Sunday that Liu, whose Chinese name is Liu Qiangdong, was falsely accused.
  
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• Cokie Roberts: At McCain ceremony, 'we were aware of the person who wasn't there'

  02-09-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  Chris Christie, Cokie Roberts and Cecilia Vega join Martha Raddatz to discuss the political impact of late Sen. John McCain's funeral at the National Cathedral Saturday.
  
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• Streets of Rage 4 Is the Same Great Beat 'Em Up With a Cool New Art Style

  02-09-2018 18:16
  To play Streets of Rage 4 feels pretty much exactly like I hoped it would: Like playing Streets of Rage. While the beat ‘em up genre has seen a number of variations since Streets of Rage first hit the gaming streets, it felt wonderful for a few minutes to be transported back into the flow of one of my favorite Genesis games.
  From the second I pushed forward on the D-Pad, Axel and Blaze moved, punched, kicked, and body slammed with the cadence and fury that I remembered. Axel could still gr
  
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• GOP Senator: Firing Jeff Sessions Wouldn't Be 'Politically Wise'

  02-09-2018 18:14 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) says that President Donald Trump would suffer
  
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• Philippine leader Duterte eyes arms trade on visit to Israel

  02-09-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, left for a visit to Israel and Jordan on Sunday, as his nation pivots away from a long-time reliance on American military hardware and support. The four-day visit to Israel will be the first by a Philippine leader in more than 60 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Mr Duterte, accompanied by an entourage including soldiers and police, will sit down with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and hold an event with s
  
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• Microwave weapon suspected in mystery attacks on US diplomats: report

  02-09-2018 17:44 via yahoo.com
  Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China, The New York Times reported Sunday.A medical team that examined 21 of those affected in Cuba did not mention microwave weapons as a cause in a study published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Neither the State Department nor the FBI has publicly
  
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• Afghan teen to appear in court for Amsterdam station attack

  02-09-2018 17:44 via yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old Afghan man who was shot and wounded by Dutch police after allegedly attacking bystanders at Amsterdam's Central Station will briefly appear in court on Monday, police said.The suspect, identified by authorities as "Jawed S.", "will appear before a judge and until then no further details will be released," the Amsterdam police said in a statement on Sunday.Two American citizens -- both believed to be male -- were seriously injured when a knife-wielding man attacked bystanders around
  
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• Microwave Weapons Could Be The Culprit Behind The Mysterious U.S. Embassy Attacks

  02-09-2018 17:24 via yahoo.com
  A variety of possible causes — from sonic attacks to crickets to mass hysteria — have been considered, but no culprit has been identified.
  
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• Report: US investigators sought to cultivate Russian oligarchs

  02-09-2018 17:23 via yahoo.com
  US justice officials secretly sought cooperation from a few of Russia's richest men as they investigated Russian organized crime and possible aid from Moscow to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times has reported.Nearly all the half-dozen Russian oligarchs approached between 2014 and 2016 by the US Justice Department and FBI have close links to President Vladimir Putin, the newspaper said.At one point, FBI agents reportedly appeared unannounced at a home that billionaire O
  
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• 18 injured in German rival protests over migrants

  02-09-2018 17:23 via yahoo.com
  Eighteen people were injured in rival demonstrations capping off a week marked by xenophobic protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz, prompting Germany's foreign minister to urge Germans to "get off our sofas" and speak up against racism.Chemnitz has been in the spotlight after violent far-right protests erupted over the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi last Sunday.On Saturday, 8,000 people answered a joint call by far-right party AfD and Islamophobic PEGI
  
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• Archbishop asks pope to cancel conference on youth

  02-09-2018 17:06 via yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The archbishop of Philadelphia has asked Pope Francis to cancel a bishops' conference focusing on youth in the wake of the child sex abuse crisis roiling the Catholic Church.
  
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• Tearful mourners line up to bid farewell to east Ukraine rebel chief

  02-09-2018 16:55 via yahoo.com
  The funeral in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk of a pro-Russian rebel leader killed in an explosion last week drew vast crowds of mourners on Sunday, Reuters footage from the breakaway region showed.Alexander Zakharchenko was fatally injured in an explosion in a cafe in Donetsk on Friday.Russia's foreign ministry accused Ukraine of his murder, while Kiev blamed his death on separatist infighting.
  
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• Private Annapolis Burial Marks End of John McCain's Journey After All-Star Day of Public Eulogies

  02-09-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  The Arizona statesman will rest permanently among friends at the U.S. Naval Academy.
  
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• Trump tweets in defence of Tiger Woods and cites low unemployment rates for African-Americans

  02-09-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has tweeted in defence of golfer Tiger Woods after his comments about respecting the office of the presidency and tied it to unemployment rates for African-Americans.Mr Trump wrote Woods showed “great class” when answering a question about his friendship with the president after the Northern Trust golf tournament last week.Woods had said “you have to respect the office [of the US president].
  
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• Russians protest pension reform despite Putin concessions

  02-09-2018 16:19 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people across Russia protested Sunday against a deeply unpopular pension reform despite President Vladimir Putin's announcement of several concessions this week.Moscow plans to gradually raise the state pension age as the economy struggles under Western sanctions, in the first such hike in nearly 90 years.Igor Sirotkin, one of several thousand protesters who joined a Moscow rally organised by the Communist Party Sunday, accused the government of seeking to rob ordinary people of the
  
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• Did a Russian Made Anti-Aircraft Missile Really Hit an F-35?

  02-09-2018 16:16 via yahoo.com
  Did a Russian built anti-aircraft missile hit one of Israel’s new F-35 stealth fighters?
  
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• This Picture Is the Air Force's Worst Nightmare

  02-09-2018 15:57 via yahoo.com
  The introduction of the Su-35 significantly boosts Chinese capability and increases the headaches for U.S. forces in the event of a war.
  
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• Why the Navy Misses the Old F-14 Tomcat (Despite All of the Problems)

  02-09-2018 15:53 via yahoo.com
  The United States Navy retired the venerable Grumman F-14 Tomcat in 2006 after more than three decades in service. However, the Tomcat’s demise has left gaps in the carrier air wing that are only now being felt.
  
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• Indonesia to work with Alibaba's Jack Ma to increase exports: minister

  02-09-2018 15:39 via yahoo.com
  Indonesia will partner with Alibaba's CEO Jack Ma to look into ways to use Alibaba's ecosystem to increase its exports, particularly to China, its communications minister told Reuters on Sunday."We are also discussing how to work together to develop tech talents to meet the needs of Indonesia and the region," Indonesian minister Rudiantara said after meeting Ma and Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Saturday.
  
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• Duterte visit showcases Netanyahu's roster of tough-guy pals

  02-09-2018 15:30 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The first-ever visit of a leader of the Philippines is sure to be touted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as another success in his campaign to enhance Israel's relations across the globe. But critics say this outreach has come at a cost, with Netanyahu cozying up to authoritarian leaders, some of whom are guilty of human rights abuses.
  
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• The Latest: Turkey brands al-Qaida group in Syria terrorists

  02-09-2018 15:20 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
  
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• Georgia Police Rescue Woman From Burning Home in Dramatic Bodycam Video

  02-09-2018 15:19 via yahoo.com
  Her Savannah home was ablaze.
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts Case: Father Lashes Out at 'Profoundly Racist' Politicians Invoking His Daughter's Name

  02-09-2018 13:57 via yahoo.com
  Some have inserted the 20-year-old college student's name into the immigration debate.
  
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• Pope warns of 'humanitarian catastrophe' in Syrian rebel bastion

  02-09-2018 13:54 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Sunday warned of a "human catastrophe" in the Syria's Idlib province, the last major rebel bastion which is being shelled by government forces.President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been amassing along Idlib's borders for weeks and shelling rebel-held territory on a daily basis, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
  
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• Germans told to 'get off the sofa' and stand against far-Right violence

  02-09-2018 13:23 via yahoo.com
  The German foreign minister on Sunday called on the country’s “silent majority” to “get up off the sofa" and take a stand against the far-Right in the wake of neo-Nazi riots. “The vast majority of Germans are cosmopolitan and tolerant,” Heiko Maas told Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “If decent people remain silent, the racists are much louder. We have to show the world that we democrats are the majority and the racists are a minority. The sile
  
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• Netanyahu lauds US funding halt to UN Palestinian agency

  02-09-2018 11:47 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday lauded the US decision to halt funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, arguing the body perpetuates the problem instead of solving it."The US has done a very important thing by halting the financing for the refugee perpetuation agency known as UNRWA," Netanyahu said while visiting a school for the start of the academic year.The United States announced Friday it was ending funding to UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agen
  
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• Russia’s Massive Vostok Military Exercise Was Intended to Prepare for War With China. So What Happened?

  02-09-2018 11:00 via yahoo.com
  Why is Beijing playing war with Moscow?
  
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• S. Korea team to fly North to discuss summit details

  02-09-2018 09:58 via yahoo.com
  A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang.The South's President Moon Jae-in Sunday named his top security adviser as a special envoy to the North to discuss details before Moon's planned meeting in Pyongyang with Kim Jong-Un.Chung Eui-yong, head of the presidential National Security Office, will lead a five-member delegation to the North's ca
  
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• Authorities identify 5 of 8 killed in New Mexico crash

  02-09-2018 05:39 via yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have identified five of the eight people who were killed when a semi-trailer veered across a median and smashed into a Greyhound bus, The Albuquerque Journal reported.
  
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• The Latest: 5 of 8 killed in New Mexico crash identified

  02-09-2018 05:23 via yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation of a crash between a semi-trailer and a bus in New Mexico that killed eight people (all times local):
  
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• Japan PM Abe says relations with China back on 'normal track': paper

  02-09-2018 04:19 via yahoo.com
  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed confidence in improving ties with China and said the countries' relationship had returned to a "normal track", in a newspaper interview published on Sunday.Abe, who is expected to visit China at the end of October, was also quoted as saying he hoped to invite President Xi Jinping to Japan in the future."Premier Li Keqiang visited Japan in May and the Japan-China relationship has completely returned to a normal track," Abe told the Sankei newspaper.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke's Path To Victory Runs Along The Border

  02-09-2018 03:16 via yahoo.com
  McALLEN, Texas -- By the time Beto O'Rourke arrived at the historic Cine El
  
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• Teen from New Mexico compound says he was trained for jihad: FBI

  02-09-2018 03:10 via yahoo.com
  A 13-year-old boy told FBI agents that his mother's boyfriend wanted to "get an army together," court documents show.
  
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• Spelunky 2 Doesn’t Break the Formula of an Already Amazing Game

  02-09-2018 03:01
  I got a chance to try out Spelunky 2 on the show floor of PAX West 2018, and it’s pretty much exactly what I was hoping for: More Spelunky.
  The earlier levels I was able to play both solo and co-op don’t do much to radically change the formula of the first game, but it’s a formula that was already as close to perfectly tuned as you can potentially get. More of that is by no means a bad thing.
  Watch the first gameplay video of Spelunky 2 here:Spelunky 2 isn’t exactly the s
  
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