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• Arctic Marines? an Inside Look at the American Marines Training in the Harshest Elements

  25-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  NBC Nightly News went to northern Norway where American marines are training with Norwegian and British troops this month in Operation Joint Viking — a show of force just a few hundred miles from Russia’s border.
  
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• Pentagon Opens Investigation Into Whether U.S. Airstrikes Killed 200 Civilians in Mosul

  25-03-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Senior military and defense officials are investigating reports that scores of civilians — potentially nearly 200 — were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week.
  
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• Former Penn State President Found Guilty of Child Endangerment

  25-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  The university’s former president Graham Spanier was convicted Friday on a misdemeanor count of child endangerment. The charges came five years after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing young boys.
  
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• After Stinging Defeat Over Healthcare Bill, White House Moves Ahead to Tax Reform

  25-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence addressed supporters in West Virginia and President Trump tweeted that Obamacare would “explode” — but both seemed ready to move to another signature campaign promise: tax reform.
  
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• Vegas Strip shooting

  25-03-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Las Vegas police say the gunman in a fatal shooting on the Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.
  
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• US acknowledges its forces were behind airstrike on Mosul

  25-03-2017 22:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — An airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul that witnesses say killed at least 100 people was in fact launched by the U.S. military, American officials said Saturday.
  
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• Microcosmic representation: Hong Kong's election committee

  25-03-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Billionaire tycoons, an Olympic cyclist and even an operatic tenor are all part of the select band who will choose Hong Kong's next leader Sunday.Representing sectors from sport and the arts to real estate and agriculture, the city's election committee comprises 1,194 members from a variety of special interest groups.Elected committee members are chosen by 246,440 voters from their sectors.
  
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• Trump, after stinging defeat, promises a 'great' health plan

  25-03-2017 22:36 via rocketnews.com
  
  Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump sought Saturday to put a good face on his most stinging political setback yet, declaring that Obamacare would collapse and vowing to develop a “great” replacement.
  “ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!” the Republican said on Twitter.
  But it was far from clear how soon Trump and fellow Republicans would be willing to wade again into the
  
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• Trump, after stinging defeat, promises a 'great' health plan

  25-03-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump sought Saturday to put a good face on his most stinging political setback yet, declaring that Obamacare would collapse and vowing to develop a "great" replacement.Do not worry!" the Republican said on Twitter.Friday's defeat was more than a small stumble: Trump had thrown his full political weight behind the measure, the first big legislative test of his nascent administration.
  
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• With asylum grant, did the US just reward hate speech?

  25-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  When Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, passed away in 2015, 16-year-old Amos Yee made an obscenity-filled YouTube video denouncing the late leader as a “tyrant.” That and other postings earned him a four-week jail sentence for “wounding religious feelings and obscenity.” Not long after, he earned another six-week sentence for derogatory comments on Islam and Christianity.On Friday, US Immigration Judge Samuel B. Cole granted asylum to Mr. Yee, now 18,
  
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• Pope in Milan region to rally for those in need

  25-03-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis went to Milan on Saturday where he met families on a working-class housing estate and visited a prison before celebrating mass for hundreds of thousands of faithful in nearby Monza.During his visit to Milan, better known for football, fashion and luxury, the Argentine pontiff put the spotlight on those less fortunate.Francis's first stop was at the Case Bianche (White Houses), a run-down collection of concrete tower blocks from the 1970s on the edge of the wealthy city.
  
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• Photos of the day – March 25, 2017

  25-03-2017 21:55 via rocketnews.com
  
  A woman dressed as “Europa” performs during a rally in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome; a woman, pushed to the ground by police, tries to defends herself as the police detain an activist during an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus; Pope Francis waves to the faithful from the Popemobile in Milan, Italy, as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, looks on, after the Angelus in Duomo Square. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reute
  
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• Photos of the day - March 25, 2017

  25-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  A woman dressed as “Europa" performs during a rally in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome; a woman, pushed to the ground by police, tries to defends herself as the police detain an activist during an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus; Pope Francis waves to the faithful from the Popemobile in Milan, Italy, as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, looks on, after the Angelus in Duomo Square. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume imports

  25-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans on its products.The three countries, which had totally closed their markets to Brazilian meat at the beginning of the week, said they would open them to all but imports from the 21 Brazilian processing plants under investigation.About 20 countries this week -- including the European Union, Japan and Mexico -- close
  
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• Erdogan urges quick EU decision on membership bid

  25-03-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday it would be "easier" if the EU blocked Ankara's bid to join the bloc, suggesting he could even hold a referendum on the matter.It was the latest barb in the bitter dispute between Turkey and Europe after Germany and The Netherlands blocked Turkish ministers from campaigning among expats for a "yes" vote in next month's referendum on boosting Erdogan's powers.If a 'yes' comes out on April 16, they would not take us into the European Union?
  
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• Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason

  25-03-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason" on Saturday.Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power.The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia's arch-enemy Iran, have progressiv
  
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• Monaco on high alert after brazen Cartier heist

  25-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Monaco police were hunting for two suspects Saturday after a daring afternoon robbery at the famous French jeweller Cartier, prompting a brief lockdown of the tiny principality and jet set haven.Three men entered the boutique toward 3:40 pm (1440 GMT) while a driver waited in a car, the Monaco prosecutor's office said, adding that no shots were fired and no one was wounded or taken hostage.Clients in the showroom as well as tourists who found themselves in the zone were confined for part of the
  
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• U.N. envoy calls on powers to salvage Syrian ceasefire

  25-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura called on Russia, Turkey and Iran on Saturday to salvage the tattered ceasefire in Syria thatwould also help keep peace talks on track.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias from nearby countries, are seeking to staunch the biggest rebel assault in months, which began this week in the capital Damascus and the Hama countryside.
  
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• 'Trump troubadour' loses trust in president over health care: 'I feel betrayed'

  25-03-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Kraig Moss followed Trump to more than 45 campaign rallies, but lost faith in the president over his push for the GOP backed health care bill.
  
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• UN Syria envoy urges foreign powers to help restore ceasefire

  25-03-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations' Syria envoy sent an urgent appeal Saturday to Russia, Iran and Turkey seeking help to restore a ceasefire, warning that escalating violence was threatening peace talks in Geneva.UN mediator Staffan de Mistura sent letters to Moscow and Tehran -- which back the Damascus regime -- as well as Ankara which supports the Syrian opposition, expressing concern over surging violence around the Syrian capital and central Hama province."Growing violations in recent days are undermining
  
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• Airstrikes across rebel-held Syria kill and wound scores

  25-03-2017 19:22 via rocketnews.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit a women’s prison and a clinic in rebel-held parts of Syria on Saturday, killing and wounding scores of people amid clashes on multiple fronts between government forces and insurgent groups in some of the country’s worst violence in weeks, opposition activists said.
  The airstrikes, of which some activists said included Russian air raids, concentrated on the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, the central province of Hama and suburbs of the ca
  
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• 3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot

  25-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fight between inmates at a northern Mexican prison left three inmates dead and one injured, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• Officer is Found Guilty in Shooting Death of 6-Year-Old Boy With Autism

  25-03-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Jeremy Mardis was shot to death while in his dad's car in 2015.
  
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• Congolese militia decapitates more than 40 police: Officials

  25-03-2017 18:51 via yahoo.com
  
  BENI, Congo (AP) — A Congolese militia group has decapitated 42 policemen after ambushing them in an increasingly violent region where the U.N. is searching for missing American and Swedish investigators, a local official said Saturday.
  
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• Belarus police arrest over 400 protesters; many are beaten

  25-03-2017 18:39 via yahoo.com
  
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Police in Belarus cracked down hard Saturday on opposition protesters who tried to hold a forbidden demonstration in the capital — a human rights group said more than 400 people were arrested and many were beaten.
  
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• Woman Stunned to Get Her Stolen Wallet Back 8 Years Later... With $141 Still Inside

  25-03-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Incredibly, Courtney Connolly desperately needed $140 to enter a competition this summer.
  
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• Airstrikes in Mosul kill civilians: Are US rules of engagement getting slacker?

  25-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul say a series of airstrikes carried out there in recent weeks by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State could have killed as many as 200 civilians, in what would be the highest civilian death toll in a US-led air campaign since the peak of the Iraq war.Iraqi rescue workers Saturday were combing through the rubble of a building where residents say as many as 137 civilians were killed in a single airstrike last week, in a part of the city now under coali
  
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• More Americans reach for a daily coffee in 2017: NCA

  25-03-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  
  More Americans are drinking a daily cup of coffee in 2017, a reversal of four years of declines, as gourmet brews gain in popularity, according to an industry group's report released on Saturday."More of us are drinking coffee, and younger consumers appear to be leading the charge," said National Coffee Association USA (NCA) Chief Executive Officer Bill Murray."A steadily growing taste for gourmet varieties is also driving a wider trend toward specialty beverages," he said.
  
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• Malaysia Could Soon Analyze Its Own Black Boxes

  25-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi announced Thursday that Malaysia intended to create a laboratory with the capability to analyze flight recorders.
  
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• Ex-CIA chief: Flynn's firm discussed removing cleric from US

  25-03-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director James Woolsey has accused the Trump administration's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, of participating in a discussion with Turkish officials about possibly subverting the U.S. extradition process to remove a Turkish cleric from the United States.
  
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• Walking on frozen bubbles

  25-03-2017 17:15 via rocketnews.com
  
  These gorgeous photos show air bubbles frozen under ice. Paul Zizka, from Alberta, Canada, visits this lake every year — but this is the first time he photographed the magical bubbles at sunrise.
  The 37-year-old Zizka said there were thousands of bubbles trapped under the ice and he was lucky to see them. The bubbles form as air rises from the bottom of the lake but freeze as they get close to the surface. (Caters News)
  Photography by Paul Zizka/Caters News
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• China lifts ban on Brazilian meat imports

  25-03-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Brazil, trying to recover from a rotten meat scandal that has pummeled its agribusiness industry, said Saturday that major trading partner China had lifted a ban on imports of its products."China announced today it has fully reopened its market to Brazilian meat," Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said in a statement.Maggi did not say when the resumption of Brazilian meat imports, suspended Monday by China, would take effect.
  
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• One Killed, Another Injured in Deadly Las Vegas Standoff

  25-03-2017 16:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Police say the gunman barricaded himself inside a bus before finally surrendering peacefully — the terrifying scene came just hours after a high-stakes burglary less than a half-mile away.
  
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• London attacker: 'Jack the lad' turned killer

  25-03-2017 16:31 via rocketnews.com
  
  London (AFP) – Khalid Masood, the Briton behind this week’s terror attack on parliament, was a Muslim convert with a history of violence who was known to security services but only as a “peripheral” figure.
  Police said the 52-year-old father, who also used the names Adrian Elms and Adrian Russell Ajao, was not under investigation when he went on the rampage in Westminster on Wednesday, killing four people.
  They believe he was acting alone, but described the attack as &ld
  
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• Gunman Wearing a Pig Mask Robs Jewelry Store in Las Vegas' Iconic Bellagio Casino: Reports

  25-03-2017 15:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Multiple suspects were involved in the robbery, police said.
  
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• Hundreds detained as Belarus struggles to quell protests

  25-03-2017 15:34 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Andrei Makhovsky
  MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus authorities detained hundreds of people on Saturday during an attempt to hold a street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed.
  Protesters shouting slogans and waving signs were taken away, many of them beaten, along with passersby and at least 10 journalists.
  A Reuters reporter saw hundreds of police deployed to block off access points to the square where the
  
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• Ex-guerrilla leader vows to keep fight for East Timor unity

  25-03-2017 15:08 via yahoo.com
  
  DILI, East Timor (AP) — A former guerrilla fighter vowed Saturday to keep peace and unity as East Timor's new president, delivering a victory speech after the final tally showed he was on course to win the election.
  
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• Thousands demonstrate in London against leaving the EU

  25-03-2017 14:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday to protest against Britain leaving the European Union, just four days before Prime Minister Theresa May launches the start of the formal divorce process from the bloc it joined 44 years ago.The Unite for Europe march was due to end with a rally in Parliament Square, scene of this week's attack by British-born Islam convert Khalid Masood in which four people died.One banner from a marcher in Hastings on the south coast - scene of England's ep
  
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• Congo must help search for missing UN experts: Rights group

  25-03-2017 14:27 via yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo's government must cooperate with United Nations efforts to locate experts who have been missing in the violent Kasai region for nearly two weeks, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
  
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• Evacuation of Syrian Homs rebels delayed: governor

  25-03-2017 14:21 via yahoo.com
  
  The second phase of an evacuation of Syrian rebels in Homs as part of a deal to surrender the city's last insurgent pocket of al-Waer to the government has been delayed until Monday, a senior official and a war monitor said on Saturday.Homs Province governor Talal Barazi was cited by city officials in a message to Reuters as saying the operation would continue on Monday after having earlier said it would go ahead as planned on Saturday.The war monitor said the evacuation was being postponed beca
  
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• Showing common touch, Pope visits Muslim, elderly families in Milan

  25-03-2017 14:20 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Philip Pullella
  MILAN (Reuters) – Pope Francis showed the common touch during a trip to Italy’s business capital on Saturday, visiting the homes of working-class families, including a Muslim one, and using an outdoor portable toilet.
  Instead of making his entry into the northern city via its grand center, site of a gothic cathedral, top fashion labels and the famed La Scala opera house, he started his one-day visit at a bleak public housing project on the outskirts.
  He stopped at
  
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• Health care law works in some ways, comes up short in others

  25-03-2017 13:30 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, "Obamacare" has survived a near-death experience. It won't be the end of the political debate, but House Speaker Paul Ryan acknowledges, "We're going to be living with 'Obamacare' for the foreseeable future."
  
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• Gorsuch hearings show him as careful, folksy, testy at times

  25-03-2017 13:24 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nominees appearing before the Senate all have one goal in mind: Win confirmation. And when one party controls the Senate and the White House, the strategy of saying as little as possible doesn't vary much. But because Supreme Court nominees spend several long days in televised hearings, they still manage to reveal a few things about themselves, professionally and personally.
  
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• U.S. judge grants Singaporean blogger's asylum request

  25-03-2017 13:01 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. immigration judge in Chicago on Friday granted asylum to a Singaporean blogger, saying he was persecuted for his political opinions in the Southeast Asian city-state.Amos Yee, 18, who had been jailed twice in Singapore, qualifies as a political refugee, according to a 13-page opinion by the U.S. immigration judge.Yee is immediately eligible for release after having been held in U.S. immigration detention since Dec. 16, 2016, according to his attorney, Sandra Grossman, who is based in Beth
  
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• North Korea Threatens US Over Preemptive Strike

  25-03-2017 13:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Kim Jong Un's regime said the U.S. should be prepared for “catastrophic consequences” if it attempts to engage Pyongyang.
  
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• Air strike kills 16 civilians near Damascus

  25-03-2017 12:47 via yahoo.com
  
  At least 16 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike on a rebel-held area outside Syria's capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.It said it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strike on the town Hammuriyeh in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta."Sixteen civilians, including a child, were killed and around 50 others wounded in an air strike on the main street in the town of Hammuriyeh," Observatory director Rami A
  
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• Two charged over supplying gun to French airport attacker

  25-03-2017 12:25 via yahoo.com
  
  French anti-terrorism judges have charged two men suspected of involvement in supplying a weapon to the gunman killed at Paris's Orly airport after attacking soldiers, a judicial source said Saturday.The suspects, aged 30 and 43, were charged Friday for "association with terrorist criminals" over the March 18 incident, the latest in France which remains on a state of emergency after a series of deadly jihadist attacks.The 30-year-old detained Friday is suspected of having given Ben Belgacem a re
  
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• Weary flyers shrug as Middle East laptop ban takes off

  25-03-2017 12:18 via yahoo.com
  
  A controversial ban on carry-on laptops and tablets on flights from the Middle East to the United States and Britain went into effect Saturday -- with less fanfare and frustration than expected.At Dubai International, one of the world's busiest hubs, flag carrier Emirates dispatched staff to guide passengers through one of the most intense travel weekends of the year.
  
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• Major nations responsible for keeping world peace: China vice premier

  25-03-2017 11:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The world's major nations are responsible for maintaining global peace, and all countries should remain committed to a road of stable and peaceful development, China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Saturday.Earlier this month, Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles in response to joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises, which it regards as preparation to war."Large countries have the responsibility to maintain global peace, should increase strategic dialogue, increase mutual trust, and
  
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• 'Prove you are leaders of Europe,' Tusk tells Rome summit

  25-03-2017 11:20 via yahoo.com
  
  EU President Donald Tusk called for leadership to steer Europe out of crisis at a special summit in Rome on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc's founding treaties."Prove today that you are the leaders of Europe, that you can care for this great legacy we inherited from the heroes of European integration 60 years ago," former Polish prime minister Tusk said in a speech.Twenty-seven leaders are meeting without British Prime Minister Theresa May to celebrate the signing of the Europe
  
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