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• WWE: Becky Lynch Celebrates Her "Manniversary," Looking Back at the Biggest Year of Her Career

  13-10-2019 23:45
  While promoting WWE 2K20, as the game's (first female) cover star, WWE RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch took some time to reflect on the past year, which has been the biggest of her career. After all, this week did mark her "Manniversary."
  That's right, it was this time last year when Lynch started referring to herself as "The Man." Since then, she's flown off on a meteoric rise that saw her capture both the RAW and SmackDown Women's Championships as part of the first-ever female main event of W
  
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• Wedding attack suspect is stepson of recently slain minister

  13-10-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The man charged with wounding a clergyman and a bride during a wedding at a New Hampshire church is the stepson of a minister from the same church who was killed earlier this month, a state prosecutor said Sunday.Dale Holloway, 37, is the stepson of 60-year-old Luis Garcia who was shot to death Oct. 1 in Londonderry, Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said in an email Sunday.
  
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• Police Respond to Reports of Mall Shooting in Florida, Confirm One Person Injured

  13-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities have not yet identified the circumstances which led to the shooting
  
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• Can The U.S. Army's Latest Air Defense System Handle 21st Century Warfare?

  13-10-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A demonstration might give us hints.
  
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• Syria’s Assad Sends Troops North As Turkish Offensive Escalates

  13-10-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent troops to the northeast of the country to confront a Turkish offensive, raising risks of an escalation after Kurdish fighters turned to Damascus in the absence of U.S. support.The state-run SANA news agency said soldiers from the Syrian Arab Army had begun to move northwards. The Kurdish command for the northeast said it had reached a deal with Assad. The deployment comes after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered remaining U.S. forces in north
  
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• Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria

  13-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Syria's Kurds on Sunday announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara pressed a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry.The announcement came as the United States ordered the withdrawal of almost its entire ground force in Syria.Defence Secretary Mark Esper said the move to withdraw 1,000 US troops came after Washington learned that Turkey was pressing further into Syria than had been expected.
  
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• Family ends search for missing CEO after a body is found

  13-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a missing Utah tech executive has called off a search for her after police reported that a body was found inside a parked car in the San Francisco Bay Area. Police in San Jose said the body was discovered Saturday in an area where Erin Valenti's family had been searching. "While we were praying for a different outcome, we are so appreciative for the help and support you have given," according to a Facebook post by the group Help Find Erin Valenti.
  
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• Pentagon chief vows to cooperate with impeachment probe

  13-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday the Pentagon would cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry -- in an apparent break with President Donald Trump's policy to thwart the probe.Esper said his department would try to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats seeking records relating to the withholding of US military aid to Ukraine.Democrats are seeking information related to Trump pressing his Ukrainian counterpart to uncover dirt on 2020 US presidential contender Joe Biden
  
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• Pentagon says up to 1,000 US troops to withdraw from northern Syria

  13-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon said Sunday President Donald Trump had ordered the withdrawal of up to 1,000 troops from northern Syria -- almost the entire ground force in the war-torn country -- amid an intensifying Turkish assault on Kurdish forces.Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the move came after the US learned that Turkey was pressing further into Syria than had been expected.The Kurds -- with whom the US partnered to combat the Islamic State (IS) group -- later announced they had reached a deal with the
  
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• Destiny 2: Shadowkeep Vex Offensive Guide

  13-10-2019 21:30
  Learn where to find all those pesky Vex on the Moon to unlock the new Shadowkeep mode.
  
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• Borderlands 3 Shift Code: One Hour Left to Claim This Golden Key

  13-10-2019 21:30
  Start the weekend with a free Golden Key for Borderlands 3 - claim this Shift Code before 10PM PST!
  
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• Borderlands 3: Find Red Chests, Claptraps and More With Our Interactive Maps

  13-10-2019 21:30
  Don't miss Crew Challenge collectibles and other points of interests with maps of every planet in Borderlands 3.
  
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• India tightens security clampdown ahead of divisive temple ruling

  13-10-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities have tightened security restrictions in the northern Indian flashpoint city of Ayodhya ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling over the disputed site fiercely contested between Hindus and Muslims.Hindus and Muslims have for decades been bitterly divided over the 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, a city in Uttar Pradash state.The Supreme Court is expected to conclude on October 17 hearings into appeals against a key 2010 court ruling that both groups should split the site, with Hi
  
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• Dead Space's Isaac Clarke has more in common with Tiger Woods than you might think

  13-10-2019 21:15 via gamesradar.com
  Now don't fore-get it
  
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• In 1986, a Russian Submarine with 27 Nuclear Missiles Sank (And Exploded)

  13-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "Seawater combined with missile fuel to produce heat and toxic gases. Despite a crewman venting the tube, an explosion erupted in the silo, ejecting the missile and its warheads into the sea."
  
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• This new Apex Legends training mode will let you try out all the gear and guns without getting sniped

  13-10-2019 20:17 via gamesradar.com
  Dev promises the firing range is coming "soon"
  
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• EU Seeks to Halt U.S. Tariffs Over Airbus Aid in Last-Gasp Plea

  13-10-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The European Union made a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. to refrain from triggering retaliatory tariffs over illegal subsidies to Airbus SE, warning of economic harm to both sides and repeating a call for a negotiated solution.European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told her U.S. counterpart, Robert Lighthizer, that his plan to hit $7.5 billion of EU goods ranging from planes to whiskey with duties would compel the EU to apply countermeasures in a parallel lawsuit over market
  
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• Fortnite Season 10 Ending Event Appears to Have Destroyed the Entire Map

  13-10-2019 20:15
  
  The Fortnite season 11 event has officially happened, and it appears that the original Fortnite map - the only Fortnite map - is gone. The original map appears to have blown up after a series of rockets smashed into a central point on the map, just below the frozen-in-time meteor. Now, all that's left is a screen showing a black hole.
  Here's what the black hole looks like.The event began off much like last season's. A timer appearing above the Visitor's rocket at Dusty Depot reached 0, and the r
  
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• Disney World retesting Skyliner after malfunction grounds cable cars, reports say

  13-10-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Disney World's Skyliner system is back up and running, but without passengers, as the park begins testing the system before reopening to guests.
  
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• Democratic debate: Time for 2020 presidential candidates to get real on health care

  13-10-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Promises win elections, but how does this field plan to keep those promises once they reach the Oval Office?
  
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• Bernie Sanders differentiates himself from Warren, says he's the only candidate willing to stand up to corporate elite

  13-10-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  It looks like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is beginning to distance himself from his good friend Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) policy-wise.The two Democratic presidential candidates have always gotten along well and are generally ideological allies, especially relative to many of their primary competitors. But Sanders was pretty clear in an interview that aired on Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week that Warren has a ways to go before she's at the same point on the political spectrum. Sanders p
  
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• Harry Dunn: Parents reject apology from Anne Sacoolas as they fly to the United States

  13-10-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother of Harry Dunn has rejected an apology from the woman suspected of involvement in his fatal car accident, saying "sorry doesn't cut it". Charlotte Charles made the comments as she flew out to the United States, in a further attempt to secure justice for her son. Harry, 19, died when his motorcycle was hit by a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of an American intelligence officer based at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on August 27. Mrs Sacoolas, who claimed di
  
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• Hearthstone Player blitzchung Responds to Blizzard Reducing His Ban

  13-10-2019 19:17
  Ng Wai “blitzchung” Chung, the Hearthstone player who was banned from professional play for one year by Blizzard, has released a roughly translated statement regarding Blizzard’s decision to reduce his ban and reinstate his prize winnings. Chung thanked his fans for their support over the last week, and expressed gratitude towards Blizzard for its decision to reduce his punishment.
  “For tournament prizing, I quoted what Blizzard said on the official website, the
  
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• $20,000 worth of ride props were reportedly stolen from Walt Disney World

  13-10-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Orlando Sentinel reported on Thursday that the items were taken from a shed behind Test Track in Epcot.
  
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• Schiff Says Secret Testimony Aimed at Keeping Trump in the Dark

  13-10-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff defended holding testimony behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry he’s heading up against President Donald Trump, likening this phase of the investigation to a “grand jury.”“We want to make sure that we meet the needs of the investigation and not give the president or his legal minions the opportunity to tailor their testimony and in some cases fabricate testimony to suit their interests,” the
  
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• Water Finds Its Level as Fox News Hires Dictator-Loving, Deep State-Loathing John Solomon

  13-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyOver the weekend, Fox News announced that it had made a new hire: John Solomon, the self-proclaimed journalist at the heart of the unfolding scandal involving Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani, and the impending impeachment of Donald Trump. It’s not hard to see why Fox executives may have wanted to bring him aboard. Solomon’s work has underpinned the entire cascade of lies the White House and Trump in particular have pushed over the past few weeks.&nbs
  
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• Deadly Los Angeles wildfire burns with subdued fury after change in weather

  13-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters have tightened their grip on a deadly Los Angeles wildfire burning with subdued fury on Sunday after extremely dry desert winds that had stoked the flames gave way to moister, gentler breezes blowing in from the Pacific.The so-called Saddleridge fire, which erupted Thursday night and raced across the northern edge of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, had scorched nearly 8,000 acres (3,237 hectares) by Sunday but was mostly confined to foothills and canyons away from populated areas, fire
  
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• Jake Tapper Exposes Pompeo, Graham and Giuliani’s ‘Stunning’ Hypocrisy

  13-10-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s easy to forget just how different some of President Trump’s most loyal servants felt about oversight and impeachment when there were Democrats in the White House. On Sunday morning, CNN anchor Jake Tapper made sure his viewers remembered. In the final moments of his State of the Union broadcast this week, Tapper said that the White House’s outright refusal to “participate” in the House impeachment inquiry means that the president is “seemingly thumbi
  
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• Black Woman, 28, Shot and Killed by Police Officer in Her Texas Home While Watching Her 8-Year-Old Nephew

  13-10-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The white officer responded to a report that the front door of her house had been left open
  
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• California power outages highlight economic disparity

  13-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  When the nation's largest utility warned customers that it would cut power to nearly 2 million people across Northern California, many rushed out to buy portable generators, knowing the investment could help sustain them during blackouts. Others had the security of knowing they could rely on solar panels and batteries installed in their homes. Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area are already reeling from economic imbalance as the tech industry has drawn well-off workers to the region, pushi
  
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• Adam Schiff says whistleblower may not testify in impeachment probe

  13-10-2019 18:24 via politico.com
  House IntelligenceChairman Adam Schiff indicated Sunday that the whistleblower at the heart of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry againstPresident Donald Trump might not testify over concerns about the person’s safety.Schiff’s remarks come after Trumpdramatically escalated his attacks on the whistleblower and as he repeatedly calls for the official to be unmasked.Trump’s unrelenting barrage has spurred worries from Democrats that congressional Republicans might try to reveal
  
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• Police officer stabbed in the neck in latest Hong Kong clashes

  13-10-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Hong Kong police officer was stabbed in the neck on Sunday in one of the worst acts of violence against the authorities during the 19th straight weekend of civil unrest in the global financial hub. Graphic footage emerged of the policeman being stabbed in the neck from behind with a sharp object as his team retreated towards Kwun Tong metro station.  The police confirmed that two people had been arrested at the scene and the officer had been transferred to hospital “in a consci
  
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• Trump tells Pentagon to begin withdrawing remaining troops from northern Syria

  13-10-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is poised to move about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish incursion into the region, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Sunday, calling the situation "untenable" for U.S. forces. The pull-back of troops from the region dovetails with President Donald Trump's long-standing desire for the United States to extract itself from foreign conflicts. It comes after Trump a week ago withdrew some U.S. troops deployed to support Kurdish forces in the fight ag
  
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• One Doctor. 25 Deaths. How Could It Have Happened?

  13-10-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Dad was dying, the doctor told James Allen's family members as they clustered by his hospital bed.Allen's family was stunned. He had suffered a heart attack and was on a ventilator in the hushed intensive care unit of Mount Carmel West, a Catholic hospital in a working-class corner of Columbus. But Allen, 80, had been stabilized, his family said. He could squeeze his son's hand. His family still believed he would return home to his bedridden wife and his backyard tomatoes.But a
  
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• Man Convicted in Murder of Law Professor Locked in Family Feud

  13-10-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  MIAMI -- The killing shook Florida's capital and stunned the international legal community: A prominent law professor locked in a rancorous battle with his ex-wife and in-laws was gunned down in his garage, in what prosecutors depicted as a murder-for-hire plot.State prosecutors charged three people with the murder of the professor, Dan Markel, hoping to pressure them into revealing whoever may have financed the murder.Two of the accused, Sigfredo Garcia and Katherine Magbanua, maintained their
  
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• Ford Patenting a Drone You Can Deploy from Your Car's Trunk

  13-10-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The quadcopter design is customizable, it can help in accidents or other emergencies, and obviously it sounds like a lot of fun.
  
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• Meet the Army's New Airborne Trucks

  13-10-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  But only one will be selected as the service's Infantry Squad Vehicle, which get paratroopers off a landing zone in a hurry.
  
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• A Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now 'Regrets'

  13-10-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in jail, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black), politicians (Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson), Nobel laureates (Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek) and even royals (Prince Andrew).Few, though, compared in prestige and power to the world's second-richest person, a brilliant and intensely private luminary: Bill Gates. And unlike ma
  
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• China reports new African swine fever outbreak in northwest province

  13-10-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The virus, fatal to pigs but not contagious to human beings, has significantly slashed pig output in the world's largest herd since the deadly disease was first detected in August last year.China has reported such outbreaks in all its provinces on the mainland, as well as in Hong Kong and Hainan island in the south.
  
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• Portland antifa activist killed in hit and run, police say

  13-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  City’s antifascist group says death of Sean D Kealiher, 23, was not ‘related to fascist activity’ and police did not specify a motiveThe Multnomah county medical examiner determined the cause of death to be homicide, caused by blunt force trauma. Photograph: Jonathan Bachman/ReutersA Portland antifascist activist was killed in the early hours of Saturday in an apparent hit-and-run near Cider Riot, a cidery and taproom popular with the city’s anarchist left that has been t
  
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• 'Be water': Police swoop as Hong Kong protests shift tactics

  13-10-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Taking a page from ancient Chinese military philosophy, black-clad protesters in Hong Kong changed tactics and wreaked havoc by popping up in small groups in multiple locations across the city Sunday, pursued by but also often eluding police who made scores of muscular arrests.Violence spiraled as protests stretched from Sunday afternoon into the night, with police struggling to restore order.Video broadcast on Hong Kong television also showed a masked, black-clad protester dropping a riot offic
  
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• Hunter Biden is stepping down from the board of a Chinese private equity firm as Trump alleges corruption

  13-10-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  In a statement posted online, Biden's lawyer said he would also avoid all foreign business dealings.
  
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• U.S. ‘Withdraws’ as Kurds Strike Deal to Let Assad’s Forces Into Region

  13-10-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Khalil Ashawi/ReutersAmid a Turkish assault, the Kurds, or Syrian Democratic Forces, have struck a deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that will bring forces loyal to Assad back into areas that have been under Kurdish control for years.“An agreement has been reached with the Syrian government—whose duty it is to protect the country’s borders and preserve Syrian sovereignty—for the Syrian Army to enter and deploy alo
  
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• Kellyanne Conway: Joe Biden is now seen in the news as Hunter Biden's father, not Obama's vice president

  13-10-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Counselor to President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, weighs in on Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings, the Democrats impeachment push and Trump's phase one deal with China.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Israel asks Putin to pardon U.S.-Israeli jailed for Moscow airport transit drugs

  13-10-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to pardon a U.S.-Israeli woman given a 7-1/2 year jail sentence for drugs found in her luggage as she transited through a Moscow airport.Naama Issachar's case has opened up an unusually public rift between Israel and Russia.Issachar was arrested in April during a layover in flights from India to Israel.
  
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• The Latest: Typhoon leaves up to 33 dead in Japan

  13-10-2019 16:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescuers in Japan are continuing to help people in the aftermath of a ferocious typhoon, as the death toll from the storm climbed to as high as 33.The government's Fire and Disaster Management Agency, which tends to be conservative in its counts, said late Sunday that 14 people died and 11 were missing as a result of Typhoon Hagibis, while 187 suffered injuries.Japan's Kyodo News agency said 33 people died and 19 were missing.
  
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• Multiple arrests in Hong Kong as "flashmob" protests hit pro-Bejing targets

  13-10-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police clashed with anti-government protesters across Hong Kong Sunday as masked activists vandalised businesses deemed sympathetic to Beijing in another weekend of chaos in the financial hub.Local television networks also broadcast footage of a man beaten bloody by protesters after they found a baton in his bag and suspected him of being an undercover officer.During cat-and-mouse encounters on Sunday officers made dozens of arrests, but there were fewer protesters than have taken to the st
  
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• German police investigate bitcoin transfer to synagogue killer

  13-10-2019 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  German police are investigating a bitcoin transfer made to the far-Right extremist behind Wednesday’s terror attack in Halle to determine if the man possessed a broader support network. German media outlet Spiegel reports that a transfer of 0.1 bitcoin – approximately €750 (£660) – was made to alleged attacker Stephan Balliet in the lead up to the attack. Police said the transfer came from an unknown source. Balliet told police interrogators that he had rec
  
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• Mattis: Trump's troop pullout will lead to 'disarray' in Syria and Isis resurgence

  13-10-2019 15:44 via news.yahoo.com
  * Ex-defense secretary calls resurgence of Isis ‘a given’ * Kurds say 785 Isis affiliates escape camp after Turkish shellingJames Mattis declined the opportunity to directly criticise his former boss, Donald Trump. Photograph: Leah Millis/ReutersThe former defense secretary James Mattis has said Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of US troops from the Syria-Turkey border has increased the chances of a resurgence of Islamic State. But the retired general passed up an opportunity t
  
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• Serial killer's victim portraits could help crack cold cases

  13-10-2019 15:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Most of the women in Samuel Little's hand-drawn portraits seem to be frowning. Little, whom the FBI identified this month as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, produced startlingly detailed likenesses of dozens of women he says he strangled over the course of more than three decades. Now the FBI is publicizing his portraits — hoping that someone, somewhere, will recognize the face of a long-lost loved one in an image drawn by the killer himself.
  
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