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• Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate

  23-04-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg urged world leaders not to follow President Donald Trump's lead on climate change and declared his intention to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
  
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• Le Pen took French party from pariah to spotlight _ and now?

  23-04-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  HENIN-BEAUMONT, France (AP) — Marine Le Pen, whose passion for far-right values was forged in the cradle, is now one step away from the French presidency, hoping this time to finish what her father could not when he ran in 2002.
  
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• On Holocaust day, Netanyahu says its lessons guide him

  23-04-2017 22:28 via rocketnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Israel’s annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews systematically killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II by saying the lessons of the Holocaust guide him daily and issuing a warning to Israel’s enemies not to test it.
  The Nazis and their collaborators wiped out a third of world Jewry and Netanyahu’s remarks illustrated how decades later the Holocaust is still a central part of Israel&rsq
  
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• US counting on French anti-terror ops in Africa: Mattis

  23-04-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday urged France to continue its African anti-terror operations under its new presidency, as he visited strategic Djibouti on the day of France's first-round election."I have no doubt that the French will continue to make their own decisions in their own best interest and that the terrorists will not enjoy these decisions," Mattis told reporters in the Horn of Africa nation, which hosts Washington's only permanent military base on the continent.The US backs
  
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• Homeland Security not targeting Dreamers: Kelly

  23-04-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security will not target immigrants brought to the United States as children for deportation, despite conflicting statements within the Trump administration, its secretary John Kelly said on Sunday.Kelly, asked on Sunday morning talk shows to clarify the department's position on the status of these illegal immigrants protected under an Obama-era program, said the agency is focused on deporting only dangerous criminals.“M
  
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• Man Sends Birthday Cards Every Year to Dog Shared With Estranged Wife

  23-04-2017 22:04 via rocketnews.com
  
  One man’s love for his dog may save his marriage.
  Juan Hernandez has been sending his dog, Apollo, birthday cards for the two years that he has been separated from his wife, Rebecca Hernandez.
  Read: Dog, Cat and Rat Are Inseparable: ‘We Really Had to See the Bond to Believe It’
  Rebecca, who married Juan in 2012, said she was shocked to receive a card from Juan for the second year in a row.
  “I was surprised he was still doing it. It’s been two years and he still car
  
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• Trump pressures Democrats on Obamacare to get border wall deal

  23-04-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump put pressure on Democrats on Sunday as U.S. lawmakers worked to avoid a government shutdown, saying Obamacare would die without a cash infusion the White House has offered in exchange for their agreement to fund his border wall.The escalated push to get Trump's priorities, which Democrats reject, into spending legislation could jeopardize prospects for an agreement to keep the government open.If talks fail, the government would shut down on Saturday, Trump's 100th day in o
  
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• American OSCE monitor killed in rebel east Ukraine

  23-04-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Sunday that one of its US monitors in Ukraine died after a mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east.It marked the first loss for the security body's Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) since Europe's only current war broke out more than three years ago.The announcement saw Kiev and the insurgents quickly trade blame over who was at fault for one of the most diplomatically sensitive episodes in a conflic
  
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• Nine killed in drug gang shootout in Mexican mountain village: prosecutors

  23-04-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Nine people were killed in what prosecutors said on Sunday was a gun battle between rival drug gangs in the mountains of Mexico's west coast state of Michoacan.The battle took place Saturday and in an isolated village of the municipality of Churumuco, which borders on Guerrero state, where eight bodies were found on the main street and another in the nearby sierra, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.The region, especially Guerrero state, is the site of the worst violence in Mexico
  
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• Awe-inspiring photos of Earth remind us just what's at stake

  23-04-2017 21:51 via rocketnews.com
  
  Millions of people came out this Earth Day to clean up and care for the planet. But space agencies and companies took a different approach, choosing to celebrate our Earth from up above.
  SpaceX on Saturday shared a breathtaking image captured during the recent launch of its SES-10 communications satellite. 
  Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company made history in late March when it reused a previously flown Falcon 9 booster to launch the satellite over Central and South America.
  NASA
  
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• Police pick up adorable intruders: A pair of pygmy goats

  23-04-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  BELFAST, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine have picked up some adorable intruders after two miniature goats escaped from their home and wandered the streets.
  
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• Trump: Mexico will pay for the border wall — ‘eventually’ and ‘in some form’

  23-04-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The president says he may not approve a government funding bill this week if it does not include funding for a “badly needed border wall” that he claims Mexico, “in some form,” will “eventually” pay for.
  
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• Euro Gaps Sharply Higher as Le Pen, Macron Advance in French Vote

  23-04-2017 21:33
  The Euro gapped sharply higher at the weekly trading open as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen advanced to the second round of the French presidential election.
  
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• Euro jumps 2 percent as Macron-Le Pen set to contest French runoff

  23-04-2017 21:32 via rocketnews.com
  
  LONDON (Reuters) – The euro jumped to its highest since mid-November in early trading on Sunday, after early projections indicated that centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen had made it to the second round of the French presidential election.
  Markets had been worried that the far-left, eurosceptic Jean-Luc Melenchon, who had surged in the polls in recent weeks, could jump ahead of Macron to make it into the final runoff against Le Pen, giving voters a choice between two rad
  
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• Western Iraq ambush on military convoy kills 10

  23-04-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  
  An ambush by the Islamic State group killed 10 members of the security forces Sunday in western Iraq, where federal and other forces recently ramped up an anti-jihadist offensive.A local commander said the attackers were disguised as military and took advantage of a sandstorm to ambush a convoy near the town of Rutba, a remote outpost on the road to Jordan."Daesh (IS) members armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers attacked civilian and military vehicles carrying soldiers near Rutba," an
  
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• Trump says Mexico 'eventually' will pay for border wall

  23-04-2017 21:23 via rocketnews.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Sunday he expected Mexico to pay for the wall he has promised to build along the southern border, resuscitating a campaign promise that roiled U.S. relations with Mexico in the first week of his presidency.
  “Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
  Trump returned to his Mexico demand on a morning in whic
  
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• Florida evacuation orders lifted as rain quells wildfires

  23-04-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Florida officials on Sunday lifted evacuation orders for about 2,000 homes threatened by wildfires in drought-stricken central and southwestern parts of the state, after rainfall helped firefighters battle the blazes.As of Sunday morning, a 5,500-acre wildfire in Collier County in southwest Florida that has destroyed nine homes was 50 percent contained, according to officials.In Polk County in central Florida, a wildfire that charred 700 acres was 75 percent contained.
  
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• Melenchon, France's failed hard-left presidential candidate

  23-04-2017 21:04 via rocketnews.com
  
  Paris (AFP) – Jean-Luc Melenchon, who crashed out of France’s unpredictable presidential election Sunday, is a fiery Communist-backed eurosceptic who had vowed to return “power to the people”.
  Melenchon had enjoyed a late surge ahead of the first-round vote in an election marked by widespread disillusionment with the political class.
  But initial projections put the head of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) trailing in fourth place behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen
  
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• McDonald's braces for the apocalypse with chic new uniforms

  23-04-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Hey — if the world's going to end, McDonald's at least wants its employees to look good. The fast food chain has officially chosen some dark, dismal, soul sucking new employee uniforms that really just scream: "Ba da ba ba bah, we're doomed!"  SEE ALSO: Instagram bait: Why Starbucks put a unicorn meme on its menu According to a press release, McDonald's is collaborating with designers Waraire Boswell and Bindu Rivas to develop the new collections, which are set to appear behind counte
  
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• CNN anchor alleges Fox News ex-CEO Roger Ailes also harassed her

  23-04-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Television journalist Alisyn Camerota said on Sunday she was a target of sexual harassment by Roger Ailes when she worked at Fox News, joining other former colleagues at the cable channel who have accused their ex-boss of inappropriate behavior.Camerota, now co-host of CNN's "New Day," told that network's Brian Stelter in an interview that Ailes suggested they might have to get to "know each other better" at a hotel if she wanted to succeed at Fox News."I remembe
  
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• Brain-Damaged Woman Grins as Future Sister-in-Law Asks Her to Be a Bridesmaid

  23-04-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  "There's no reason not to include her," said Nichole Sullivan of her sister-in-law to be, who suffered a traumatic brain injury.
  
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• Grand Canyon tram project stalls before Navajo council vote

  23-04-2017 20:35 via rocketnews.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A project to build a 1.6-mile tram that would take visitors into the Grand Canyon is on hold for a few months after failing to gain enough support from Navajo Nation lawmakers.
  The proposal must go through four committees before the tribal council votes. Two committees voted it down, a third wanted to table it and another, in which the whole council will debate the project, had not yet considered it before the spring session ended last week, The Arizona Republic reported (h
  
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• Afghan Taliban's brazen attack eclipses Trump's 'mother of all bombs'

  23-04-2017 20:35 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Josh Smith and Hamid Shalizi
  KABUL (Reuters) – Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.
  To Afghan and other critics of President Donald Trump’s apparent indecision over how to win a seemingly intractable war, Friday’s assault – the worse of its kind since the Taliban we
  
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• Afghan Taliban's brazen attack eclipses Trump's 'mother of all bombs'

  23-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Josh Smith and Hamid ShaliziKABUL (Reuters) - Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.To Afghan and other critics of President Donald Trump's apparent indecision over how to win a seemingly intractable war, Friday's assault - the worse of its kind since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 - was evi
  
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• Member of security watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine

  23-04-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A member of European security watchdog OSCE's monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and two others injured on Sunday after their vehicle drove over a mine near Luhansk, prompting calls for an investigation into the incident.The unarmed, civilian OSCE mission with more than 700 international observers was deployed in 2014.The role of the monitors includes verifying the withdrawal of heavy weapons as agreed under the 2015 ceasefire agreement.
  
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• Even penguins marched (well, waddled) for science

  23-04-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  What's better than clever protest signs? Protest penguins. On Saturday, as thousands of people joined the March for Science worldwide, a group of penguins waddled in solidarity at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. The aquarium shared the "March of the Penguins for Science" via Facebook Live. The post had nearly 1.7 million views by mid-afternoon on Sunday.The March for Science movement was born in response to President Donald Trump's "clear anti-science actions," organizers said in Januar
  
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• These ‘Married At First Sight’ Couples Are Still Together

  23-04-2017 20:20 via rocketnews.com
  
  Those who join “Married at First Sight” are taking a big risk. After all, many of the show’s couples—who were married as soon as they met—have gotten divorced. However, sometimes the experts really do find the perfect match. These couples are still together after wedding on the reality show.
  Tom Wilson and Lillian Vilchez — This is the latest “Married at First Sight” success story. Tom was a free spirit living in a bus and Lillian was a more struct
  
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• U.S. watching piracy increase off Somalia, sees ties to famine

  23-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  By Idrees AliDJIBOUTI (Reuters) - The United States is closely watching a recent increase in piracy off the coast of Somalia, a senior U.S. military official said on Sunday as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited an important military base in Djibouti.The rise in piracy attacks has at least partially been driven by famine and drought in the region, the top U.S. military commander overseeing troops in Africa said during Mattis' visit as part of a week-long trip to the Middle East and Africa.The U
  
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• CNN’s Camerota: ‘Roger Ailes did sexually harass me’

  23-04-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The “New Day” host revealed Sunday that the former Fox News chief propositioned her early in her career at the top-rated cable news network. Ailes, through his attorney, called the claims “unsubstantiated and false.”
  
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• Macron, Le Pen leading French vote: initial projections

  23-04-2017 20:12 via rocketnews.com
  
  Paris (AFP) – Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen will contest the second round of the French presidential election, initial projections suggested Sunday, after a nailbiting vote seen as vital for the future of the EU.
  Macron was projected to win between 23 and 24 percent in Sunday’s first round, slightly ahead of National Front leader Le Pen with between 21.6 and 23 percent, according to estimates on public television.
  The outcome capped an extraordinary few
  
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• Bill Gates didn’t let his kids use cell phones until they turned 14

  23-04-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  While most young kids and teenagers spend hours upon hours glued to tablets and smartphones, Bill Gates' children had a markedly different experience growing up. During a recent interview with the Mirror, the former Microsoft CEO said that when his children were growing up, he limited their exposure to the addicting glow of digital screens.
  "We often set a time after which there is no screen time and in their case that helps them get to sleep at a reasonable hour," Gates said. Also interesting i
  
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• Saudi Arabia restores perks to state employees, boosting markets

  23-04-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia reinstated financial allowances for civil servants and military personnel on Saturday after better-than-expected budget figures, ending unpopular cuts to a key perk triggered by low oil prices and cheering the stock market.The Saudi share indexgained 1.0 percent on Sunday, buoyed by expectations of a positive impact from higher disposable incomes on consumer sectors like retail and food.In September, Saudi Arabia cut ministers' salaries by 20 percent and scaled back perks for public
  
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• Aaron Hernandez Left Multiple Suicide Notes: Report

  23-04-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The notes were written to his fiancée, his daughter and a close prison friend.
  
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• Gunmen wound celebrated conservationist Gallmann in Kenya

  23-04-2017 18:56 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Katharine Houreld
  NAIROBI (Reuters) – Gunmen wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park on Sunday in the latest of a string of attacks during land invasions in drought-stricken northern Kenya, which residents say are intensifying as August polls approach.
  The 73-year-old author of the memoir “I Dreamed of Africa” was shot in the stomach after the vehicle she was driving in was ambushed by a group of gunmen, a family friend said.
  Gallmann, wh
  
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• French election will be 'major test' for populism

  23-04-2017 18:42 via rocketnews.com
  
  Rich M: Between ’75 and ’82, Uncle Ted released nine of the most epic albums in rock history and demolished the Texxas Jam twice. David Crosby did jail time on drug and weapons charges and couldn’t fill the corner bar, even if he could still play. GONZO forever!
  The post French election will be 'major test' for populism appeared first on RocketNews |Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• French election will be 'major test' for populism

  23-04-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Foreign Correspondent Alexander Marquardt reports about the French election.
  
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• Dowd: New poll is 'good news, bad news, really bad news' for Trump

  23-04-2017 18:40 via rocketnews.com
  
  Rich M: Between ’75 and ’82, Uncle Ted released nine of the most epic albums in rock history and demolished the Texxas Jam twice. David Crosby did jail time on drug and weapons charges and couldn’t fill the corner bar, even if he could still play. GONZO forever!
  The post Dowd: New poll is 'good news, bad news, really bad news' for Trump appeared first on RocketNews |Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• Dowd: New poll is 'good news, bad news, really bad news' for Trump

  23-04-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The Powerhouse Roundtable debates President Trump's progress as we approach 100 days in office.
  
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• N. Korea detains US citizen: Yonhap news agency

  23-04-2017 18:39 via yahoo.com
  
  A US citizen has reportedly been arrested as he tried to fly out of North Korea, becoming the third American to be detained there, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Sunday.The US State Department said it was aware of the reports, but there was no official confirmation of the arrest, which would come at a tense time in relations between Pyongyang and Washington.Yonhap quoted sources as saying the man, identified only by his surname Kim, was arrested on Friday at Pyongyang International Airpor
  
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• Remembering ‘Happy Days’ Star Erin Moran, an Icon from the 70s Generation

  23-04-2017 18:21 via yahoo.com
  
  For nearly a decade, millions watched little Joanie Cunningham grow up on “Happy Days.” She died Saturday afternoon at just 56 years old.
  
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• Polls: Trump approaches 100 days with lowest job approval rating in more than 70 years

  23-04-2017 18:11 via yahoo.com
  
  The president has the lowest approval rating of any commander in chief at this point since at least 1945, a pair of new surveys published Sunday found.
  
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• North Korea Detains Third American Citizen, Officials Say

  23-04-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The Associated Press reported that Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk, was detained on Saturday as he was trying to leave the country from Pyongyang's international airport.
  
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• The iPhone 8 should be the biggest phone launch ever, thanks to Apple’s user base

  23-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  With the iPhone 8 release steadily approaching, a new research report from comScore reveals that iPhone ownership in the United States is at an all-time high. This bodes well for Apple, as it suggests that the number of iPhone owners in the market for an upgrade is larger today than it's ever been before.
  According to the report, there are currently 85.8 million iPhone owners in the U.S. above the age of 12. Broken down across specific devices, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus accou
  
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• U.S. Homeland Security not targeting Dreamers: Kelly

  23-04-2017 17:54 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Valerie Volcovici
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security will not target immigrants brought to the United States as children for deportation, despite conflicting statements within the Trump administration, its secretary John Kelly said on Sunday.
  Kelly, asked on Sunday morning talk shows to clarify the department’s position on the status of these illegal immigrants protected under an Obama-era program, said the agency is focused on deporting only dangerous cri
  
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• First OSCE staff member killed in rebel east Ukraine

  23-04-2017 17:44 via rocketnews.com
  
  Kiev (AFP) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Sunday one of its staff was killed after an observer mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east.
  It marked the first loss for the security body’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine since Europe’s only war began more than three years ago.
  The announcement saw Kiev and the insurgents quickly trade blame over who was at fault for one of the most diplomatically sensi
  
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• Tips For Paying Off Credit Cards

  23-04-2017 17:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Here's an overview of some of the best balance-transfer credit cards that can help you save money and pay off your debt fast.
  
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• Egypt's Sisi visits Saudi Arabia as tensions ease

  23-04-2017 16:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a royal welcome from King Salman as he landed Sunday in Saudi Arabia for a visit to boost ties after months of tension.Salman, surrounded by key Saudi officials, greeted Sisi as he stepped off the plane in the capital Riyadh and hosted him for lunch, the official Saudi Press Agency said.The two Arab leaders then had talks during which they "reviewed the strong and brotherly relations as well as cooperation between their two countries" and regional
  
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• 4-Year-Old Marks Seventh Child To Die From Drug Overdose In One County

  23-04-2017 16:42 via yahoo.com
  
  His death was likely caused by heroine or prescription pain medication, according to authorities.
  
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• How to ensure you never get another ‘not enough storage’ error on your iPhone again

  23-04-2017 16:30 via yahoo.com
  
  You pull out your phone with just enough time to pop open the camera and frame the perfect photo before it's too late. Time is always of the essence when you're shooting real-life scenes and another second or two would have been too late. Your iPhone focuses, you snap the shutter button and boom... the dreaded "not enough storage" message pops up on your screen just as your subject vanishes. That's right, your iPhone was already full of photos and videos, and you didn't have enough storage to sa
  
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• Palestinian wounds four in Tel Aviv stabbing attack: Israeli police

  23-04-2017 15:52 via yahoo.com
  
  A Palestinian stabbed and slightly wounded four people along Tel Aviv's beachfront on Sunday and was arrested, police said, describing the attack as terrorism-related.A wave of street attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the occupied West Bank since October 2015 has previously killed 37 Israelis, two American tourists and a British student.At least 242 Palestinians have died during the period of sporadic violence.
  
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