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• Trump tweets, stays out of sight for hours after shootings

  04-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.Americans did not glimpse the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed at least 20 people and, hours later, one in Dayton, Ohio, that claimed at least nine lives.No
  
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• Who Won at EVO 2019? Here are the Results

  04-08-2019 23:41
  EVO 2019 is officially over, and unsurprisingly, it’s been a weekend full of knock-down drag-out fights between competitors at one of the world’s most prolific fighting game tournaments. We’ve had upsets, comebacks, and literal tears from some of the greatest fighting game players out there. We’ve rounded up each grand champion by game, plus the runner-ups, and we’ve got video of each final match to show you just how heated things can get in Vegas when EVO is in tow
  
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• Jordan Anchondo killed shielding her 2-month-old in El Paso, Texas shooting

  04-08-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Mother of 3, Jordan Anchondo, died in the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart while shielding her 2-month-old baby, according to her sister.
  
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• El Paso shooting: Texas massacre investigated as domestic terror

  04-08-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Leading Democrats demanded the Trump administration act to curb white nationalists following the worst attack on Latinos in US history. The US president was accused of stoking up the hatred with his rhetoric, including his vitriolic attack on four ethnic minority congresswomen last month. It was this climate, Democrats said, which culminated in the carnage at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas leaving 20 dead and 26 injured, of whom three are reported to be in a critical condition. Attention focu
  
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• Canadian police divers search river for missing teen murder suspects

  04-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police divers are searching a river for two missing teenagers suspected of a double murder, after finding an abandoned boat on its shores.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.Authorities announced on 31 July that they were scaling back the search, which had taken officers to the remote town of Gillam in northern Manitoba.
  
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• Talking to kids about El Paso, Dayton shootings? Use the 4 S's to discuss cruel violence

  04-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two dozen people were killed this weekend in two separate shootings. The 4 S's help parents prepare for explaining the unfathomable.
  
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• Trump Says ‘Hate Has No Place’ in U.S. After Two Mass Killings

  04-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.In his first on-camera response to the killings, which left about 30 people dead, President Donald Trump said that “hate has no place” in the U.S.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off
  
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• Majority of House Democrats back a Trump impeachment inquiry, adding pressure to Nancy Pelosi to act

  04-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to move on impeachment of Donald Trump but it may be harder to avoid now that most Democrats support it.
  
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• Five Exclusive Hours With The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel III

  04-08-2019 22:03
  Publisher: NIS AmericaDeveloper: Nihon FalcomRelease: October 22, 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4Nihon Falcom’s Trails of Cold Steel is one of those series I wish got more love. Falcom has made a name for itself with its long-running Ys franchise, which helped pave the way for action/RPGs, but its equally-fantastic Trails series, part of The Legend of Heroes brand, has never received the same recognition. After Trails of the Sky hit North America in 2011, nearly seven yea
  
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• Chicago shootings leave 40 shot, 3 fatally; Mt. Sinai Hospital closes emergency room

  04-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A West Side hospital is not accepting any more patients to its emergency room after a violent weekend in which 40 people were shot, three fatally, across the city.
  
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• You Probably Forgot All about These Great Performing '90s Cars

  04-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The '90s were great for semi-secret performance cars like these.From Car and Driver
  
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• More than 175 killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• 175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• Protesters, police play cat-and-mouse game across Hong Kong

  04-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  While past nights of protest have ended in protracted standoffs between demonstrators and riot police, rally participants this time took a different tack."We can't defend it!" was the cry that signaled to protesters it was time to move out.It meant that police had appeared and were firing tear gas.
  
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• Dayton, El Paso, Gilroy and beyond: You're right to be afraid. Mass shootings are more numerous and deadly

  04-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A survey found 41% of Americans fear random mass shootings. FBI data shows a rise in shootings – and victims – so that's not an unreasonable fear.
  
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• France, Germany condemn Russia protest crackdown

  04-08-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  France and Germany on Sunday condemneda Russian police crackdown on a banned opposition rally that saw hundreds detained, with Paris criticising an "excessive use of force" after a second weekend of protests over the exclusion of opposition candidates from local Moscow polls next month.Berlin said the police action on Saturday "violated" Russia's international obligations and undermines the right to fair elections in the country.The arrests on Saturday were "out of all proportion to the peaceful
  
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• After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight

  04-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.Trump was to travel back to Washington later Sunday and aides said he would likely address reporters, but the nation did not glimpse the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas
  
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• Respawn Developer Seemingly Teases New Apex Legends Character

  04-08-2019 20:51
  Respawn Entertainment producer Tina Sanchez appears to be teasing a new character for Apex Legends, according to Dot Esports.
  Sanchez posted two images to Twitter on August 1, showing her wearing a motion capture suit as well as holding a cane.
   Working on Apex Legends stuff @jitterbot @_moyparra pic.twitter.com/CeGxxqvldR
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• Black Republican Exiting House Says He Wants a GOP More Like Him

  04-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Texas Representative Will Hurd, the House’s lone black Republican who has announced he won’t seek re-election next year, said he wants instead to help candidates who resemble him reach office.Hurd, who has broken with President Donald Trump on some issues and whose Texas district backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that his decision not to run again wasn’t based on whether the president would hu
  
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• Man, nanny found dead in double murder at suburban New Jersey home

  04-08-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Police confirmed that they started investigating the murders of a man and a woman at a home on Walton Road near Jefferson Avenue in Maplewood around 6 a.m.
  
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• Israel unveils prototype 'tanks of the future'

  04-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel unveiled options Sunday for its "combat vehicle of the future" -- a tank with large touchscreens, 360-degree vision and, in one prototype, a video game-style controller.The ministry of defence wants to procure an armoured vehicle that can be operated by two soldiers instead of four with the hatch closed, something officials involved in the project say would be a unique achievement.The ministry tasked three Israeli companies -- state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced De
  
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• Republican officials point to video games after El Paso mass shooting

  04-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  After a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 20 people dead, Republican officials partially blamed the attacks of terror on violent video games.
  
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• Police: Shooter killed 9 in Ohio, including his sister

  04-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people, including his sister, and wounded dozens of others before he was quickly slain by police, city officials said.Connor Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of Dayton's historic Oregon District about 1 a.m. in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said the shooter wa
  
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• Iran seizes third tanker and seven sailors in Persian Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran yesterday said it had captured an oil tanker and seven sailors it accused of “smuggling” fuel through the Persian Gulf to Arab states – the third such seizure in recent months.   Iranian state television reported that the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp detained the tanker, its crew and 700,000 litres of fuel on Wednesday. "The seizure of the oil tanker was in coordination with Iran's judiciary authorities and based on their order
  
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• Brazil gang leader dresses up as daughter in jail escape bid

  04-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him behind bars and walking out the penitentiary's main door in her place, authorities said Sunday.Rio's State Secretary of Prison Administration released photos showing da Silva in a silicon girl's mask and long dark-haired wig, wearing tight jeans and a pink shirt with a cartoon image of donuts.Authorities say da Silva was part of the leadership of the Red Command, one of the most powerful crimi
  
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• Alert for Pakistan villagers amid tension with India

  04-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities on Sunday asked villagers along the heavily militarised de facto Kashmir border to remain alert as tensions rose with India.The advisory came after Pakistani officials evacuated more than 50 Chinese nationals working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers.Pakistan on Sunday accused India of using cluster bombs against civilians in the same area, in Noseri sector.
  
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• Trump tweets as gun violence and white nationalist terrorism stalk America

  04-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Domestic terrorism now results in more deaths than the foreign kind but the president shows no sign of toning down his rhetoricDonald Trump takes part in a listening session on 21 February 2018 on gun violence with teachers and students after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo menaces have stalked America throughout its history. One is gun violence. The other is white supremacy. In El Paso, Texas, on Saturday they collided.A 21-year
  
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• Trump smirked at idea of shooting migrants at rally three months before El Paso massacre

  04-08-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump laughed and joked after a supporter suggested shooting Mexican migrants at a rally in May 2019.The clip of the interaction is once again spreading across social media, as the US reels from the El Paso massacre.“When you have 15,000 people marching up, and you have hundreds and hundreds of [immigrants], and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great – and don’t forget we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons,”
  
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• Wife of Syria's Assad says she is free of cancer

  04-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife of Syria's president said she is "completely" free of breast cancer a year after her diagnosis, in an interview with state TV.The half-hour interview, aired late Saturday, was Asma Assad's first since she was diagnosed — a rare declaration in the Arab world, where prominent figures often conceal their ailments.It was also designed to portray a modern attitude in a region where cancer remains a taboo, and many view it as an affliction.
  
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• Twin Mass Shootings Turn U.S. Focus to Gun Control, Racism

  04-08-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off as a lost cause after years of violent incidents with little policy response from lawmakers or others.The topic dominated Sunday political talk shows, with p
  
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• Trial for priests accused of abusing deaf Argentine students

  04-08-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Ezequiel Villalonga signs frantically with his hands to express the power he feels after years of suffering now that the priests whom he and other former students at an Argentine institute for the deaf accuse of abuse are finally going to trial.Villalonga, 18, is one of about 20 ex-students of the Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in Mendoza province who say they were sexually abused, including cases of rape, between 2004 and 2016.The complaints at the insti
  
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• Ex-Republican on Dayton, El Paso shooting tragedies: Guns should be much harder to get

  04-08-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  It's time to put safety over the false idea that regulating guns compromises the Second Amendment. Defending easy access misreads the Constitution.
  
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• Dayton Shooting Lasted Just 32 Seconds and Left 9 Dead: Here's the Latest on the Tragedy

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• Dayton Shooter Was Trying to Enter Bar With Assault Rifle and 100-Round Magazine When He Was Killed

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• 9 killed in Ohio in second US mass shooting within 24 hours

  04-08-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooter in body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire early Sunday in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens before being slain by police, authorities say, in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.Police patrolling the area responded in less than a minute to the shooting, which unfolded around 1 a.m. on the streets of downtown Dayton's Oregon District, Mayor Nan Whaley said.Had police not responded so quickly, "hundreds of people in th
  
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• Not Even ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ From NRA—Just Boasts About Its Legislative Wins

  04-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At times like this, I pay a visit to the NRA’s website. If you’ve never looked at it, do so. As you’d expect, it’s a slick and professionally produced affair, nearly all of it devoted to boasting about the group’s successes and legislative wins. There wasn’t a word, Sunday morning, about the weekend’s carnage in El Paso and Dayton. There was, however, one piece of content that the weekend’s events turned into a macabre joke. The lead story, so
  
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• El Paso, Dayton make 251 mass shootings in the US in 216 days, more shootings than days in the year

  04-08-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  As gunfire ripped through America in an unprecedented 24 hours, a bleak milestone was marked: There have been 251 mass shootings in 2019.
  
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• Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than month

  04-08-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Gulf, state media said Sunday, in what would be the third such seizure in a month amid heightened tensions with its foe the United States.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "seized this ship around Farsi Island which was carrying around 700,000 litres of smuggled fuel", said a Guards statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA.Seven foreign crew were arrested in the operation carried out on Wednesday night, said Fars news agency, which is consider
  
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• Dayton Shooter Murdered Sister in Attack, Officials Say

  04-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Bryan Woolston/ReutersThe gunman who attacked a bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday morning killed his sister in the massacre, officials said.Connor Betts, 24, of Ohio was identified as the deceased gunman by authorities during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Betts killed his sister, 22-year-old Megan, and eight other people, officials added. At least 26 other people were injured.Betts drove to the site of the shooting with his sister and an unidentified male companion, according to Police Chief
  
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• Iran seizes another foreign oil tanker, state media says

  04-08-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the vessel, the third detained by Iran amid U.S. tensions, of trying to smuggle oil from Iran.
  
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• Suspect sought after woman stabbed in stomach at Brooklyn subway station

  04-08-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police released video of the suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing on a subway platform in Brooklyn.
  
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• 25-Year-Old Mother 'Gave Her Life': What to Know About the El Paso Shooting Victims

  04-08-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At least seven of the victims were Mexican nationals
  
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• 25-Year-Old Mom 'Gave Her Life' to Shield Her 2-Month-Old: These Are the El Paso Shooting Victims

  04-08-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At least seven of the victims were Mexican nationals
  
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• President Trump on Dayton shooting: 'God bless the people of Dayton, Ohio'

  04-08-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lent his support to the city of Dayton after an early Sunday morning mass shooting there.
  
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• Floating nuclear power plant to be towed across Russian Arctic despite 'Chernobyl on ice' concerns

  04-08-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The wind and rain whipped by at several feet per second as crew members stepped outside for a quick smoke, but the world's only floating nuclear power plant barely shifted in the choppy waves of the Kola bay. The length of one-and-a-half football pitches, the Academic Lomonosov looks the part as the vanguard of Russia's “nuclearification” of the Arctic, at least now that its rusty hull has been repainted in the white, red and blue of the national flag.  Later this month it
  
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• Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria: Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• UPDATE 3-Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria -Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• Thousands take to Hong Kong streets as Beijing says protests must stop

  04-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands again took to the streets on Sunday in Hong Kong to call for broad political changes as Beijing warned that it would not let protests persist.  A commentary run by Xinhua, China's official state news agency said the central government “will not sit idly by and let this situation continue." Two demonstrations snaked through Hong Kong, one close to China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, now heavily guarded after it was vandalised by protesters a few weeks ago.  Demons
  
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• 25-year-old mother died shielding her baby from El Paso gunman

  04-08-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A 25-year-old mother was shot dead as she shielded her baby during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. Jordan Anchondo had been shopping at Walmart for back-to-school supplies when suspected white supremacist Patrick Crusius is reported to have opened fire in the supermarket, killing 20 people and injuring dozens of others. Her sister, Leta Jamrowski, 19, told US media that Ms Anchondo appeared to have thrown herself on top of her two-month-old baby, which survive
  
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• Poll shows Germany still divided 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall

  04-08-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new poll has exposed the enduring political divisions in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has surged to first place in the former communist east, with 23 per cent support. But it has failed to make a similar breakthrough in the former west, where it is in fourth place with just 12 per cent. The figures for the Green Party, which is in second place in the national polls, are almost a mirror image of the AfD&rsqu
  
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