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• Federal trial pulls back curtain on basketball recruiting

  07-10-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  The curtain to college basketball's worst-kept secret pulled back even more in a New York federal court last week, revealing a shady world of bagmen, secret payments and bags of cash.
  
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• The Fraudulence Of Susan Collins

  07-10-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  People who expected Sen. Susan Collins, allegedly one of two remaining
  
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• Aftershock sows panic after Haitian quake kills at least 12

  07-10-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  Gros-Morne (Haiti) (AFP) - A strong aftershock sent panicked residents fleeing into the streets on Sunday -- hours after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 12 people along Haiti's northwest coast.Saturday's quake, centered 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of Port-de-Paix, injured more than 188 people, damaging or leveling several homes and public buildings.President Jovenel Moise and Prime Minister Jean-Henry Ceant traveled to the affected area to view the damage and coordinate relief
  
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• Wife says Interpol officer sent knife image as danger signal

  07-10-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  LYON, France (AP) — The wife of Interpol's president made an impassioned plea Sunday for help in bringing her missing husband to safety, saying she thinks he sent an image of a knife before he disappeared in China as a way to warn her he was in danger.
  
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• Here Are The Best Costumes From 2018's New York Comic Con

  07-10-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  Fans of film, TV, comics, anime and general pop culture descended on the East
  
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• Missing Interpol President Resigns From the Agency While Under Investigation in China

  07-10-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  His whereabouts have been a mystery since his wife reported him missing Friday
  
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• Worried Your Facebook Account Has Been Cloned? Here's What to Know About This New Hoax

  07-10-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Users are being duped into thinking that their accounts have been cloned
  
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• Nigerian ex-minister and Chibok girls champion to run for president

  07-10-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Ezekwesili, 55, a former vice president for Africa at the World Bank, said she would run as the candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN).Nigeria's presidential election is scheduled to take place in February 2019.President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in 2015, has been selected by the ruling party as its candidate while the main opposition People's Democratic Party selected former vice president Atiku Abubakar at its convention on Sunday.[L8N1WN0G8]"I want to run for, and wi
  
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• Italy threatens to shut airports over migrant 'charter flights'

  07-10-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened Sunday to shut the country's airports after media reported that Germany planned to send charter flights of rejected asylum-seekers to Italy."If someone in Berlin or Brussels thinks of dropping dozens of migrants via non-authorised charter flights in Italy, they should know that there is not and there will be no airport available," Salvini said on Twitter.
  
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• Haiti hit with 5.9 magnitude earthquake

  07-10-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Emergency teams worked to provide relief in Haiti on Sunday after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake killed 11 people and left 135 injured.
  
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• Saudi controversies under Prince Mohammed

  07-10-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia has been engulfed by several controversies since Mohammed bin Salman was named crown prince and heir to the throne in June 2017.Saudi Arabia has since March 2015 spearheaded a regional military intervention in Yemen, in support of a government that is fighting rebels backed by Riyadh's arch-rival Iran.
  
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• Canada concerned over reports Saudi journalist killed

  07-10-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Canada expressed concern Sunday over reports that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in his country's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.Khashoggi has been missing since Tuesday when he had an appointment at the Saudi consulate to get papers needed to marry his Turkish fiancee.Turkish police believe he was killed at the consulate by a special team sent to Istanbul, a Turkish government source told AFP.
  
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• Interpol says China's Meng resigns as president of organization

  07-10-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Interpol said on Sunday that Meng Hongwei - whom China says is being investigated over suspected violations of the law - had resigned as president of the international police organization."Today, Sunday 7 October, (at) the Interpol General Secretariat in Lyon, France received the resignation of Mr Meng Hongwei as President of Interpol with immediate effect," Interpol said in a statement.Interpol said South Korean national Kim Jong Yang would becomes its acting president, while it would appoint a
  
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• Syrian president says Russia-Turkey Idlib deal 'temporary'

  07-10-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday that the Russian-Turkish deal to avert a military offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib is a "temporary one" that prevented bloodshed but that his government's goal is to restore control over all of Syria.
  
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• Mahrez penalty miss costs City victory at Liverpool

  07-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Riyad Mahrez missed an 85th-minute penalty as Manchester City wasted a chance to move clear of Premier League title rival Liverpool following a 0-0 draw at Anfield on Sunday.
  
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• David Harbour agrees to officiate a wedding as Hellboy for 666,000 retweets

  07-10-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  David Harbour is back into the retweet game. TheHellboy star promised to officiate film reporter Spencer Perry's wedding in full Hellboy costume — that is, if Perry gets 666,000 retweets. 666kOf this tweet.Big Red officiates. Full Gear. In his saintly best.Impossible number?Think of how difficult it will be for me to get this character ordained by a Christian church????????????(P.S. - I’ll knock off 500k if you can get @artofmmignola to read a poem at the service) https://t.co/c
  
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• Missing Interpol chief 'submits resignation' after China admits to holding him for questioning 

  07-10-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  The Interpol chief who went missing last week has resigned his post after it emerged he is being questioned by Chinese authorities, the international police agency said.  The announcement came shortly after China confirmed it is holding Meng Hongwei, who has been missing for days, and his wife revealed he sent her an image of a knife before he disappeared as a sign that he was in danger. "Today, Sunday 7 October, (at) the Interpol General Secretariat in Lyon, France received the r
  
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• Palestinian kills two Israelis in West Bank shooting: army

  07-10-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian shot dead two Israelis and wounded another at a West Bank settlement's industrial zone on Sunday, sparking a manhunt for the suspect who worked at the site, the army said.Since the attack was allegedly carried out by a Palestinian employed at the Barkan industrial zone in the occupied West Bank, questions were raised over whether he knew the victims and over the motivation behind the shooting.Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus called it a "terrorist attack" but added that oth
  
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• No Columbus Day in Columbus: City to honor veterans instead

  07-10-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The largest city named for Christopher Columbus has called off its observance of the divisive holiday that honors the explorer, making a savvy move to tie the switch to a politically safe demographic: veterans.
  
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• 20 people killed in limousine crash in New York

  07-10-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  The accident, which involved two vehicles, occurred in Schoharie, which is about 40 miles away from Albany, police said.
  
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• Mitch McConnell Refuses To Say He Wouldn't Confirm A Supreme Court Nominee In 2020

  07-10-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been peddling a new story
  
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• Goleadores y marcador de la 8ª jornada de la Premier League

  07-10-2018 19:31 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  Goleadores y marcador de la octava jornada de la Premier League:
  
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• Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu to meet for first time since Russian aircraft shot down in Syria

  07-10-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is to meet with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, for the first time since July in a sign of thawing relations between two of Syria’s key power brokers. Russia-Israel relations deteriorated sharply after the 17 September downing of a Russian IL-20 spy plane, which saw 15 Russian crewmen killed by Syrian air defences during an Israeli strike. Mr Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that he had spoken with Mr Putin and
  
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• Wife of missing Interpol chief says received knife emoji

  07-10-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  The wife of missing Chinese Interpol president Meng Hongwei on Sunday said she received a message from his phone containing an image of a knife before his disappearance.Grace Meng urged national governments to intervene, saying she feared that her husband's life was in danger.Speaking in Lyon, the southeast French city where the international police organisation is based, she said the last social media message she received from her husband came on September 25, depicting a single knife emoji.
  
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• Poland sees first anti-paedophilia rally against Catholic Church

  07-10-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Some 200 people took to the streets of Warsaw on Sunday to protest child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, in the first major such rally in staunchly Catholic Poland.There are no official statistics on the number of Polish priests convicted of child sex abuse, but a Polish association that helps victims estimates there were around 56 over nearly two decades, including clergy convicted of possessing child pornography.The protesters stopped in front of four churches in Warsaw to read out victims'
  
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• 20 People Are Dead After a Wedding Party Limousine Crash in Upstate New York

  07-10-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  The cause of the crash is still unknown
  
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• Vatican defends pope against 'blasphemous' cover-up claims

  07-10-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A top Vatican cardinal issued a scathing rebuke Sunday of the ambassador who accused Pope Francis of covering up the sexual misconduct of a prominent American cardinal, saying his claims were a "blasphemous" political hit job.
  
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• Matteo Salvini threatens to close Italy's airports to prevent repatriation of migrants from Germany

  07-10-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  Matteo Salvini, Italy’s far-Right interior minister, has threatened to close the country’s airports to block the rumoured repatriation of migrants on charter flights from Germany. In a move likely to anger Berlin, Mr Salvini, the head of the anti-immigrant League Party and deputy prime minister, on Sunday said he would shut the airports in the same way he defied EU laws and closed Italy’s ports to prevent migrant arrivals. The minister was responding to reports that Angela
  
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• China slashes banks' reserve requirements as trade war imperils growth

  07-10-2018 18:32 via yahoo.com
  The reserve requirement cut, the fourth by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) this year, comes as Beijing has pledged to expedite plans to invest billions of dollars in infrastructure projects as the economy shows signs of cooling further, with investment growth slowing to a record low.Reserve requirement ratios (RRRs) - currently 15.5 percent for large commercial lenders and 13.5 percent for smaller banks - would be cut by 100 basis points effective Oct. 15, the PBOC said, matching a similar-siz
  
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• Indonesian officials fear 5,000 missing as Christians pray

  07-10-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death toll from the twin disasters breached 1,700 and officials said they feared more than 5,000 others could be missing.
  
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• Germany denies it plans to fly migrants back to Italy

  07-10-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Sunday denied an Italian newspaper report that it planned to fly migrants back to Italy, after the allegation drew a threat from Italy's Interior Minister to refuse landing permission to unauthorised planes carrying asylum seekers.La Repubblica reported on Saturday that Germany's refugee agency had sent "dozens of letters" to migrants advising them of a planned transfer back to Italy, possibly via charter flights.Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday
  
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• Nigeria's Buhari to face political heavyweight in re-election bid

  07-10-2018 17:38 via yahoo.com
  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will run for re-election in February 2019 against former vice president Atiku Abubakar, a Muslim from the country's north who was nominated on Sunday as the main opposition party's poll contender.Buhari, a 75-year-old former military ruler, was the sole candidate for his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, so his confirmation by some 7,000 delegates gathered in the capital Abuja was a mere formality on Saturday.The APC swept to power in 2015 with the
  
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• German far-right AfD sparks outcry with new Jewish group

  07-10-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Germany's far-right party AfD on Sunday launched a "Jewish" group within its ranks which it says will battle against mass immigration of Muslim men with anti-Semitic views, sparking an outcry.The party said a group of 19 have formed "Jews in the AfD", and that anyone joining must be a card-carrying member of the party who is either ethnically or religiously Jewish.The move drew a backlash from Germany's Jewish community, which blasted the AfD as a "racist and anti-Semitic party".
  
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• Sen. Hirono Slams Susan Collins For ‘Insulting’ Comments About Christine Blasey Ford

  07-10-2018 17:16 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) insulted
  
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• At Least 11 Dead in Haiti Earthquake

  07-10-2018 17:15 via yahoo.com
  The country's civil protection agency said several people were injured
  
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• 'No fire': Ailing Del Potro suffers shock Beijing final loss

  07-10-2018 17:15 via yahoo.com
  Juan Martin del Potro said that he was battling illness after he suffered a shock defeat in the China Open final on Sunday, losing 6-4, 6-4 to unseeded Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia.In the women's final, world number two Caroline Wozniacki defeated Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-3 for her 30th WTA singles title.Argentine top seed Del Potro was far from his best and has been fighting flu or a cold for several days in the Chinese capital.
  
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• Susan Collins: Ford's Testimony Made Me Wonder If Kavanaugh Should Withdraw

  07-10-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday said Christine Blasey Ford's testimony
  
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• Israel PM's wife goes on trial in delivery meals case

  07-10-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on trial Sunday for allegedly using state funds to fraudulently pay for hundreds of meals, part of a list of legal troubles facing the family.The start of Sara Netanyahu's trial was the latest chapter in a saga intensely scrutinised in Israel but dismissed by the Netanyahus as another "absurd" attempt to discredit them.
  
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• Palestinian kills 2 Israelis in West Bank industrial zone

  07-10-2018 16:56 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker opened fire inside a West Bank industrial zone Sunday morning where Israelis and Palestinians work together, killing two Israelis and seriously wounding a third, the military said.
  
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• Former Yale Law School Dean: Kavanaugh's Confirmation Is An 'American Tragedy'

  07-10-2018 16:56 via yahoo.com
  Robert Post, the former dean of Yale Law School, minced no words in
  
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• Mother Speaks Out After 21-Year-Old Daughter Fatally Shot in Brooklyn

  07-10-2018 16:47 via yahoo.com
  Investigators are still trying to determine what happened when 21-year old Sabrina Moreno was shot to death on Friday night.
  
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• The Latest: Indonesia disaster death toll climbs to 1,763

  07-10-2018 16:43 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia (all times local):
  
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• Wozniacki wins 2nd China Open title, Del Potro stumbles

  07-10-2018 16:33 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — Caroline Wozniacki defeated Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-3 to win the China Open and her third WTA title of the year on Sunday, while Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia beat top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-4 in the men's final.
  
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• Woman Who Accused Clarence Thomas Of Groping Her Reflects On Kavanaugh Vote

  07-10-2018 16:26 via yahoo.com
  Moira Smith was one of the thousands of women who came to Washington last week
  
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• Stealth F-22s, F-35s and B-2s vs. North Korea: Who Wins in a War?

  07-10-2018 16:26 via yahoo.com
  Stealth vs. Kim. 
  
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• Trump Lambasts Democrats As 'Angry Left-Wing Mob,' 'Party Of Crime' At Kansas Rally

  07-10-2018 16:23 via yahoo.com
  Hours after the Senate confirmed embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett
  
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• Death Toll for Recent Indonesian Natural Disasters Reaches 1,700, Officials Say

  07-10-2018 16:18 via yahoo.com
  The government targets to end search operations for hundreds missing by Thursday
  
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• Israeli PM's wife goes on trial for fraud

  07-10-2018 16:04 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife appeared in court Sunday for the start of her trial over alleged fraud and breach of trust, drawing renewed attention to the many scandals plaguing the prime minister and his family.
  
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• Prominent Saudi Arabian Journalist Killed at Saudi Consulate, Friend Says

  07-10-2018 16:01 via yahoo.com
  The growing dispute over his fate threatens Saudi Arabia-Turkey relations
  
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• Missing toll soars to 5,000 in engulfed Indonesia quake neighbourhoods

  07-10-2018 15:49 via yahoo.com
  The number of people believed missing from the quake and tsunami that struck Indonesia's Palu city has soared to 5,000, an official said.
  
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