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• Macedonia leader vows to press on with name change despite referendum failure

  30-09-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  The proposed name change is part of an agreement reached in June by pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Greece to resolve the dispute over the country's name, which had prevented Macedonia from joining NATO or the EU.The people who did vote overwhelmingly backed the name change -- more than 90 percent voted yes with 63 percent of polling stations reporting.The nationalist opposition holds 49 seats in the 120-seat parliament, enough to block the two-thirds majority required to change the c
  
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• The Latest: Macedonian PM says vote shows will of people

  30-09-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The Latest on Macedonia's referendum on a name change for the country (all times local):
  
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• North Carolina Has A Massive Mosquito Problem After Hurricane Florence

  30-09-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Some of the largest known mosquitoes in the world are creating a buzz across
  
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• 3 dead after car explosion on street in 'isolated incident'

  30-09-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A car exploded on a downtown street in what authorities called a "criminal incident," leaving three people dead and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents and an investigation by federal, state and local authorities.
  
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• Las Vegas pauses but looks ahead a year after mass shooting

  30-09-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  A small bouquet of dried flowers was wedged inside the padlock on Gate 5 of the killing ground that was the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
  
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• The Latest: Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami

  30-09-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia (all times local):
  
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• Donald Trump blasts Saturday Night Live after Matt Damon's Brett Kavanaugh skit and Kanye West rant

  30-09-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump condemned the American comedy show Saturday Night Live on Sunday after Matt Damon portrayed his Supreme Court nominee as an angry, beer-obsessed caricature and Kanye West was booed by the audience. “Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) - no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems,” he wrote on Twitter. “Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told &ldq
  
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• Opponents of Macedonia name change cheer low voter turnout

  30-09-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — A referendum on changing the nation of Macedonia's name to North Macedonia to pave the way for NATO membership attracted tepid voter participation Sunday, a blow to the prime minister who negotiated the deal and hoped for a strong message of support.
  
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• Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami; toll may rise

  30-09-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers struggled Sunday to reach victims in several large coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities feared that the toll of more than 800 confirmed dead would rise.
  
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• Kanye West is now Ye, but unchanged on backing Trump

  30-09-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  New York (AFP) - Kanye West has decided that he now wants to be called Ye. But on political matters, nothing has changed for the pro-Donald Trump rapper.
  
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• Aerial video shows scene of fatal Pa. car explosion

  30-09-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  A car exploded on a downtown street, killing at least one person and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, and federal authorities are helping local officials in the investigation. (Sept. 30)
  
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• Syria rebels deny withdrawing arms from north under deal

  30-09-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Syrian rebels on Sunday denied pulling any heavy arms out of a major opposition bastion in the north, as the deadline to implement a demilitarisation deal there draws closer.Regime ally Moscow and rebel backer Ankara agreed earlier in September to create a buffer zone around the opposition stronghold of Idlib that would be free of both jihadists and heavy arms.The deal has so far averted a massive assault on the region by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, but its implementation is e
  
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• Trump praises Kanye West for 'leading the charge' after anti-Democrat speech on 'SNL'

  30-09-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  President Trump praised Kanye West after he gave an impromptu pro-Trump speech while wearing his “Make America Great Again” hat on “Saturday Night Live.”
  
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• McIlroy again unreliable in Ryder Cup singles

  30-09-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Rory McIlroy stared at his ball buried deep in the French sand and held out his arms. His body language said: What am I meant to do with that?
  
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• As Brexit divisions widen, PM May challenges Brexit critics

  30-09-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  At the start of what is set to be one of the Conservative Party's stormiest annual conferences, May's plans were once again attacked by two former ministers, with her ex-foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, calling them "deranged".Just six months before Britain is due to leave the EU in the country's biggest shift in foreign and trade policy in more than 40 years, the debate over how to leave the bloc is still raging in the center-right Conservative Party, and even in government.May's already fragi
  
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• Elizabeth Warren To Consider A 2020 Presidential Run After Midterms

  30-09-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  A presidential run may soon be on the horizon for Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
  
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• Israel says ready for UN crossing with Syria to reopen

  30-09-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence, the army said.Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman "authorised the reopening of the Alpha gate of the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria, allowing the UN to resume activity via the crossing pending Syria's reopening their side," it said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• Johnson ups the pressure as UK's May gathers fractious party

  30-09-2018 19:13 via yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May and her allies called for unity Sunday after former colleague Boris Johnson hijacked the opening of their Conservative party's annual conference with another attack on the government's Brexit plan.Johnson's successor, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, warned EU leaders not to make the bloc a prison, or "we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape".
  
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• Three years of Russia strikes on Syria kill 18,000: monitor

  30-09-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian air strikes on Syria since Moscow began its game-changing intervention exactly three years ago, a monitor said Sunday.Russia, for its part, said its "accurate" strikes had killed 85,000 "terrorists".A steadfast ally of Syria's ruling regime, Russia began carrying out bombing raids in the country on September 30, 2015 -- more than four years into the devastating conflict.
  
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• Classmates mourn boy shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza border

  30-09-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  The school friends of Nassir al-Mosabeh sat tearfully in their classroom in Khan Younis on Sunday and mourned their 12-year-old friend who was killed in a protest on the Gaza-Israel border.Gaza health officials said Israeli soldiers on Friday shot dead seven Palestinians, who were among thousands who thronged to the fortified border as part of weekly protests launched six months ago.Mosabeh's classmates in the school in the southern Gaza Strip decorated his chair with his picture ringed by red a
  
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• Hailie Deegan, 17, becomes 1st female winner in NASCAR K&N

  30-09-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Hailie Deegan used a bump-and-run on her teammate to become the first female winner of a NASCAR K&N West Series race. Her last-lap shove of Cole Rouse at Meridian Speedway in Idaho gave her the victory.
  
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• Sen. Grassley Asks FBI To Investigate Retracted Kavanaugh Allegations

  30-09-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the FBI to
  
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• Halep retires from China Open 1st round with back injury

  30-09-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — Top-ranked Simona Halep retired Sunday from her first-round match at the China Open.
  
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• Sexual Assault Survivor Poignantly Explains Why She Confronted Jeff Flake

  30-09-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Ana Maria Archila, one of two sexual assault survivors who confronted Sen.
  
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• Lindsey Graham Wants To Investigate Whether Someone Leaked Kavanaugh Accuser's Name

  30-09-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he's going to call for an investigation to
  
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• White House: President Trump Didn't Set Limits on FBI Kavanaugh Probe

  30-09-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  “The president very much respects the independence of the FBI"
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Reveals Own Sexual Assault While Defending Brett Kavanaugh

  30-09-2018 17:12 via yahoo.com
  Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway disclosed on Sunday that she is a
  
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• Musk escapes the worst, but Tesla still faces a bumpy road

  30-09-2018 17:02 via yahoo.com
  Tesla has promised to revolutionize the automobile, but the high-end electric car maker keeps hitting road blocks created by its founder Elon Musk's erratic behavior and considerable ego.The settlement, which will leave the 47-year-old overseeing Tesla's daily operations, provides at least a momentary reprieve from the company's many challenges -- including Musk's own sometimes counterproductive instincts.Tesla is at something of a turning point.
  
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• Las Vegas Shooting: Retired Carpenter Builds New Memorial of 58 Crosses Ahead of Anniversary

  30-09-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  Greg Zanis erected the same somber tribute just after the October 2017 massacre.
  
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• Hamilton wins Russian GP after teammate lets him through

  30-09-2018 16:29 via yahoo.com
  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Lewis Hamilton won the Russian Grand Prix and closed in on his fifth Formula One title, but he's not happy.
  
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• Israel frees French-Palestinian after 13 months without trial

  30-09-2018 16:20 via yahoo.com
  Israel on Sunday released a French-Palestinian lawyer held without charge for the past 13 months over unspecified allegations, his lawyer said.Salah Hamouri, 33, was freed at Jerusalem police headquarters after being brought from his cell in a prison in southern Israel's Negev desert.Attorney Mahmud Hassan told AFP that Hamouri was forbidden to take part in demonstrations, protests or celebrations of his release for a period of 30 days and required to post a bond of 3,000 shekels ($825, 710 euro
  
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• All the most beautiful places in the world are in Illinois, according to this Twitter account

  30-09-2018 16:00 via yahoo.com
  This is One Good Thing
  , a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week. It's been an exhausting few days, so let's take a moment to appreciate Beautiful Illinois.  I'm not talking about the state of Illinois, though I'm sure it's great. I'm talking about @IllinoisViews, a Twitter account dedicated to posting the most breathtaking photos of their beloved Prairie State. Kind of.  SEE ALSO: Glowing snow is falling thousands of feet under the se
  
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• President Trump Says He and Kim Jong-Un 'Fell in Love'

  30-09-2018 15:53 via yahoo.com
  Pyongyang’s top diplomat said earlier there was “no way” the country would disarm
  
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• Jeff Flake: I’ll Back Kavanaugh Unless FBI ‘Turns Up Something — And They Might’

  30-09-2018 15:52 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) says he intends to support Brett Kavanaugh's
  
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• Group tied to literature prize still under Nobel glare

  30-09-2018 15:47 via yahoo.com
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — There won't be a Nobel Prize in Literature this year but the Swedish Academy that awards the prestigious prize is still in the limelight.
  
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• Nobel Prizes still struggle with wide gender disparity

  30-09-2018 15:40 via yahoo.com
  STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year's announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences.
  
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• Elon Musk Steps Down as Tesla Chairman in $40 Million SEC Settlement

  30-09-2018 15:40 via yahoo.com
  Musk will get to keep his job as chief executive officer and remain on the company’s board
  
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• Trump says FBI has 'free rein' in Kavanaugh investigation

  30-09-2018 15:04 via yahoo.com
  As one accuser agrees to cooperate with FBI, Trump says agents have 'free rein' in Kavanaugh investigation.
  
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• Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh donates $10,000 to campaign supporting Christine Blasey Ford

  30-09-2018 14:57 via yahoo.com
  Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has reportedly contributed $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign in support of Dr Christine Blasey Ford and her family.Mr Lesh is said to have made the donation to the campaign “Help Christine Blasey Ford” on Sunday 23 September, before Ms Ford testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee over allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party when she was 15 years old.Lesh did not initially publicise his donation.
  
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• San Diego Zoo Surprised By 281-Pound Elephant Calf's Early Arrival (And Heft!)

  30-09-2018 14:51 via yahoo.com
  The big baby girl is the zoo's second calf in as many months.
  
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• Macedonians vote in referendum on whether to change country's name

  30-09-2018 14:50 via yahoo.com
  Greece, which has a province called Macedonia, maintains that its northern neighbor's name represents a claim on its territory and has vetoed its entrance into NATO and the EU.The two governments struck a deal in June based on the proposed new name, but nationalist opponents argue the change would undermine the ethnic identity of Macedonia's Slavic majority population.The question on the referendum ballot read: "Are you for NATO and EU membership with acceptance of the agreement with Greece".
  
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• Top Dem: Kavanaugh's 'evident animus' toward Democrats 'should be disqualifying'

  30-09-2018 14:39 via yahoo.com
  Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerry Nadler is interviewed on "This Week."
  
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• Man says he was fired by Catholic diocese for gay marriage posts

  30-09-2018 14:30 via yahoo.com
  Keith Kozak says he was fired by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland for "liking" a post about a friend's gay marriage on Facebook.
  
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• U.S. warship sails near disputed South China Sea islands: U.S. official

  30-09-2018 13:51 via yahoo.com
  Beijing and Washington are locked in a trade war that has seen them impose increasingly severe rounds of tariffs on each other's imports.The operation was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing’s efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, where Chinese, Japanese and some Southeast Asian navies operate.China’s claims in the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes each year, are contested by Brunei, Malaysi
  
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• Teenage boy in critical condition after '11 foot shark' attack off California coast

  30-09-2018 13:45 via yahoo.com
  A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured after being attacked by an 11-foot shark while diving for lobsters in southern California.Bystanders rushed to save the boy after he was heard shouting “I got bit!” while swimming at Beacon's Beach, north of San Diego, on Saturday morning - the first day of the area’s lobster season.The victim, who has not been named, suffered traumatic upper torso injuries, Encinitas Lifeguard Captain Larry Giles said, but is expected to survive the atta
  
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• Security services in Syria's Raqqa uncover Islamic State cell

  30-09-2018 13:37 via yahoo.com
  Security forces in northern Syria’s Raqqa city said on Sunday they had uncovered an Islamic State sleeper cell which was plotting series of large attacks across the devastated city.Raqqa served as the de facto capital of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate until it was retaken by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia alliance last October.A spokesman for the Raqqa Internal Security Forces set up by the SDF said it had killed two members of an Islamic State cell and d
  
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• California Shark Attack: Boy, 13, Bitten While Lobster Diving With Church Group

  30-09-2018 13:08 via yahoo.com
  The freak incident occurred outside San Diego on Saturday.
  
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• Crumpled hotel becomes focus in Indonesia rescue effort

  30-09-2018 12:54 via yahoo.com
  Squads of orange-clad rescue workers clambered over the tangled remains of an Indonesian hotel Sunday, hoping to dig out 50 to 60 guests still feared trapped by an earthquake-tsunami disaster."It is assumed there are still 50 to 60 people trapped under the rubble," said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.Rescue workers are making the hotel a focus of their efforts to save lives.
  
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• Cameroon president hits campaign trail ahead of vote

  30-09-2018 12:47 via yahoo.com
  Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) - "It was as if time stood still," said an exuberant announcer as Cameroon's President Paul Biya landed in the country's north to kick-off campaigning ahead of next week's polls.The polls will be held to an unprecedented backdrop of violence, as clashes continue in the country's separatist anglophone regions and Boko Haram fighters continue to threaten Cameroon's northeast -- including Maroua.
  
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• Indonesia tsunami: Desperate rescue efforts in Palu as death toll doubles in race to find survivors

  30-09-2018 12:36 via yahoo.com
  Residents of Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, turned to looting on Sunday as they struggled to survive in the aftermath of a deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that has so far killed 832 people. Looters were spotted taking items from the badly damaged Ramayana shopping mall and plundering fuel stations. One earthquake survivor told the Telegraph that he had been woken by a noisy crowd ransacking his local mini-market. “Without justifying it, I understand why they d
  
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