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• Father of slain Dallas-area teen sues officer for killing his son

  07-05-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  The father of a black teenage boy fatally shot in the head while in a car that was driving away from a policeman has sued the Dallas-area officer for excessive force over the incident that has stoked simmering debate about racial bias in U.S. policing.The lawsuit filed at a federal district court in Dallas on Friday by Odell Edwards seeks undisclosed damages from former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver for shooting his son Jordan Edwards, 15, with a rifle, court papers showed.
  
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• With Macron win secured, France and Germany look to EU future

  07-05-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Germany heaved a sigh of relief after liberal candidate Emmanuel Macron won France's presidential election comfortably on Sunday, but the two staunch allies face tough challenges over Europe's future.Chancellor Angela Merkel had emphatically thrown her support behind Macron against his far-right, anti-EU challenger Marine Le Pen, aware that the very existence of the European Union was at stake in the vote.
  
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• Bernanke Says Trump Tax Cut A Bad Idea

  07-05-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The former chairman of the Federal Reserve said the U.S. would be better off investing in infrastructure if it's going to run up the deficit anyway.
  
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• Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan confirmed killed

  07-05-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and U.S. Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Sunday.Hasib, appointed last year after his predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a U.S. drone strike, is believed to have ordered a series of high profile attacks including one in March 8 on the main military hospital in Kabul, a statement said.Last month, a Pentagon spokesman said
  
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• Nigeria president vows support for freed Chibok girls

  07-05-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday vowed to help to 82 schoolgirls who have been freed from more than three years of Boko Haram captivity after a prisoner swap.The girls -- who were among more than 200 kidnapped in 2014 from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeast Nigeria -- travelled to the capital Abuja a day after their release to meet Buhari."I cannot express in a few words how happy I am to welcome our dear girls back to freedom," Buhari said in a statement, p
  
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• Trump congratulates Emmanuel Macron on French election win

  07-05-2017 22:48 via rocketnews.com
  
  US president released statement notable primarily for its brevity, attempting to put behind him the implicit support he offered far-right leader Marine Le PenMacron’s defeat of Le Pen pricks the bubble of populism that had swept the UK with Brexit and the US with the rise of Trump. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
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  Donald Trump has congratulated the centrist Emmanuel Macron on his emphatic victory against Marine Le Pen in the French presidential run-off, attempting to put be
  
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• Nigeria's Buhari to go to London for more medical tests: spokesman

  07-05-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London on Sunday night for follow-up medical tests, handing over power to his deputy Yemi Osibanjo, his office said.Officials have refused to disclose details of his medical condition."The length of the President's stay in London will be determined by the doctors," the president's office said in a statement.
  
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• Le Pen claims 'massive' gains but plans party revamp after defeat

  07-05-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Defeated French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen claimed a "massive" result for the far right in Sunday's presidential run-off against centrist Emmanuel Macron, but said her National Front (FN) party had to undergo major change.Estimates showed Macron winning 65-66.1 percent of the vote compared with 35-33.9 percent for Le Pen.Le Pen, speaking to supporters at a post-election FN gathering in Vincennes near Paris, said the outcome was "a historic, massive result" for the FN.
  
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• Nigeria president leaves for 'follow-up medical consultation'

  07-05-2017 22:26 via rocketnews.com
  
  Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari headed to London on Sunday for what his office said was a “follow-up medical consultation” with his doctors, after weeks of mounting concern about his health.
  Presidency spokesman Femi Adesina said the 74-year-old’s doctors would determine how long he stayed in the British capital, where he spent nearly two months undergoing treatment from mid-January.
  “The president wishes to assure all Nigerians that there
  
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• Nigeria president leaves for 'follow-up medical consultation'

  07-05-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari headed to London on Sunday for what his office said was a "follow-up medical consultation" with his doctors, after weeks of mounting concern about his health.Presidency spokesman Femi Adesina said the 74-year-old's doctors would determine how long he stayed in the British capital, where he spent nearly two months undergoing treatment from mid-January."The president wishes to assure all Nigerians that there is no cause for worry," Adesina said in a statement p
  
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• Trump congratulates Macron on ‘big win’ in French election

  07-05-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. president, who favored Macron’s far-right challenger, Marine Le Pen, said on Twitter he is “very much” looking forward to working with France’s next leader.
  
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• Iran minister warns Saudi Arabia after 'battle' comments: Tasnim

  07-05-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Iran will hit back at most of Saudi Arabia with the exception of Islam's holiest places if the kingdom does anything "ignorant", Tehran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Sunday after a Saudi prince threatened to move the "battle" to Iran."If the Saudis do anything ignorant, we will leave no area untouched except Mecca and Medina," Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan was quoted by the semi-official Tasnim news agency as saying."They think they can do something because they have an a
  
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• Fire in Okefenokee wildlife refuge forces evacuations in Georgia

  07-05-2017 22:13 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Bernie Woodall
  (Reuters) – A wildfire in Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has forced dozens of nearby residents to leave their homes, authorities said on Sunday, adding that the blaze might not be fully contained for months.
  About 130,000 acres, or about a quarter of the refuge, have already burned, said Melanie Banton, a spokeswoman for firefighters and park officials battling the West Mims Fire, which began on April 6.
  Most of the fire is within the refuge, which s
  
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• Police: 2 doctors found dead in penthouse likely knew killer

  07-05-2017 22:09 via rocketnews.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Two engaged Boston doctors found dead this weekend inside the penthouse of a luxury condominium building most likely knew their killer, police say.
  Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field were found dead Friday night by police at the Macallen Building in South Boston and police say they believe the man suspected of their deaths knew them. Boston police have not said how the couple were killed or provided a motive in the case.
  Bolanos, 38, was a pediatric anesthesiologist at M
  
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• Israel says Palestinian hunger strike leader ate in secret

  07-05-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Prison Service released footage on Sunday that it says shows the leader of a mass Palestinian hunger strike breaking his fast, a claim dismissed by the Palestinians as an attempt to undermine the open-ended strike, now in its 21st day.
  
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• More troops deployed as Canada braces for worse flooding

  07-05-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  With heavy rains persisting and waters still rising over much of waterlogged eastern Canada, the nation's military on Sunday tripled the number of troops urgently working to evacuate thousands of residents.New evacuations were ordered in Pierrefonds, on the northwestern shore of the Island of Montreal, after three temporary dikes ruptured, quickly sending water levels higher.Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre declared a state of emergency for his city, particularly four western neighborhoods.
  
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• Macron Victory in French Presidential Elections Points to Minor Euro Gains

  07-05-2017 21:57
  In thin pre-market trading, EUR/USD is trading roughly 20-pips higher after the final round of the French presidential election.
  
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• Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin

  07-05-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ori LewisJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a bin a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group's stance toward Israel.In a document issued last Monday, Hamas said it was dropping its longstanding call for Israel's destruction, but said it still rejected the Jewish state's right to exist and continued to back "armed struggle" against it.The Israeli government has sai
  
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• Hundreds of suspected cholera cases in Yemen: MSF

  07-05-2017 20:54 via rocketnews.com
  
  Sanaa (AFP) – At least 570 suspected cases of cholera have surfaced in war-torn Yemen in the past three weeks, sparking fears of a potential epidemic, Doctors Without Borders said Sunday.
  The Shiite Huthi rebels put the number of cases at 1,681 in 12 provinces, including in the north and west of the country, according to the Sabanews.net website which cited their health minister, Mohamed bin Hafedh.
  Healthcare has dramatically deteriorated in Yemen as conflict between the Iran-backed rebe
  
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• Emmanuel Macron, the Next President of France

  07-05-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The man who championed an open and hopeful France won the battle. That doesn’t mean populism lost the war.
  
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• Researchers seek better ways to farm popular Pacific fish

  07-05-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — The dark gray fish prized for its buttery flavor live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their lab cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae.
  
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• Woman Arrested After Trying To Smuggle Heroin Strapped to Her Butt Into the U.S.

  07-05-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  She was one of four arrests.
  
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• Macron wins French presidency by emphatic margin: projections

  07-05-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sudip Kar-GuptaPARIS (Reuters) - Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain's v
  
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• Student Loan Forgiveness And 6 Ways To Have Debt For Education Paid Off

  07-05-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  If you'd like some help getting rid of your own student loan debt, consider taking part in one of these student loan forgiveness programs.
  
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• Talks begin on evacuating rebels from Syria capital

  07-05-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Negotiations were under way on Sunday on evacuating insurgents and their families from two districts in Damascus, a Syrian military source on the ground told AFP.If the talks are successful, this would be the first time rebels will have been evacuated from Syria's capital since the country's conflict broke out six years ago.Several evacuations of insurgents and their families have already taken place in towns and cities in Damascus province.
  
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• Prosecutors say uniformed police at trial could sway jury

  07-05-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors and an attorney representing a fired Pittsburgh police sergeant accused of punching a drunken man outside a football stadium are sparring over whether other officers should be allowed to wear uniforms while attending the trial.
  
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• Japanese luxury sleeper train trip a mere $10,000 — one way

  07-05-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  
  A Japanese railway company has launched a new luxury sleeper train with sky views, bathtubs and dark wood interiors, joining the race for well-heeled tourists.
  
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• Japanese luxury sleeper train a mere $10,000 — one way

  07-05-2017 19:40 via rocketnews.com
  
  A Japanese railway company has launched a new luxury sleeper train with sky views, bathtubs and dark wood interiors, joining the race for well-heeled tourists.
  The top suite on the 10-car Train Suite Shiki-Shima sells for $10,000 per person for a four-day trip from Tokyo to Hokkaido, East Japan Railway Co. said.
  The train, which left with 33 passengers on its maiden voyage from Tokyo, features traditional tatami rice straw mats and bathtubs made from Hinoki cypress wood in its executive suites.
  
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• The Latest: Idaho lawmaker booed, jeered on health care quip

  07-05-2017 19:30 via rocketnews.com
  
  BRANCHBURG, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on health care legislation (all times local):
  1:20 p.m.
  House Republicans are already feeling some backlash from American voters resulting from last Thursday’s vote.
  Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho drew sharp criticism and booing at a town hall Friday for his response to an attendee who expressed worry that the House bill would hurt Medicaid recipients.
  The woman in Lewiston said: “You are mandating people on Medicaid to accept dying.”
  Labr
  
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• Israel moves to downgrade status of Arabic language

  07-05-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Israeli ministers approved a controversial bill on Sunday that would define the country as the "national home of the Jewish people" while downgrading Arabic as an official language, officials and reports said.If the bill eventually becomes law, Arabic would be defined as having special status, while "its speakers have the right to language-accessible state services," though it would not be an official language, Haaretz newspaper reported.Hebrew is defined as the "national language" in the bill,
  
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• Euro Set to Gap Open Again after Final Round of French Elections

  07-05-2017 19:00
  Polls suggest that Emmanuel Macron will be the next president of France by the time FX markets open up on Sunday in New York, which should lead to another gap open higher in EUR-crosses.
  
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• Donald Trump impeachment probe resolution passed by Los Angeles council

  07-05-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  A major US city has passed a resolution calling on Congress to investigate if any of Donald Trump’s actions warrant impeachment.Los Angeles Council member Bob Blumenfield spearheaded the move, which the council backed by 10 votes to zero.It is alleged that Mr Trump may have breached the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from accepting financial benefits including monetary payments and purchase of goods and services, from a foreign power.
  
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• The tiny box that gives you free home phone service for life is Amazon’s deal of the day

  07-05-2017 18:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Since pretty much everyone over the age of 12 has a smartphone these days, home phone service has become less and less important. In fact, many people only have home phone service because it gets them a discount on pay TV and internet. If you really think about it though, it is pretty nice to have an option with high-quality voice service that doesn't have any dead spots. VoIP over a broadband connection will always sound better than cellular voice, after all.
  Well, today is your lucky day becau
  
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• Eric Trump said family golf courses attracted Russian funding, author claims

  07-05-2017 18:57 via rocketnews.com
  
  Three years ago he allegedly said the Trump Organization had ‘all the funding we need’ from Russia and Donald Trump ‘tossed off that he had access to $100m’Donald Trump on one of his golf courses. Photograph: Michael McGurk/Rex/Shutterstock
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  Eric Trump said three years ago the Trump Organization had “all the funding we need out of Russia” for its golf course projects, according to an author recounting the story of a 2014 meeting with Donald Trump and his s
  
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• Brazil judge calls for calm ahead of Lula questioning

  07-05-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  
  The Brazilian judge planning to question former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week in the vast Petrobras corruption scandal urged protesters to stay away from the courthouse where the two are due to meet.Judge Sergio Moro is leading the "Car Wash" investigation of embezzlement and bribery at the highest levels of Brazilian politics.A former Petrobras director said Friday that Lula was "fully aware" of the state oil company's bribery network.
  
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• Wisconsin Republicans worry about crowded Senate primary

  07-05-2017 18:37 via rocketnews.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are growing increasingly worried about the high number of candidates running in a primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, fearing a repeat of the crowded 2012 race that put her in office.
  Baldwin is seeking a second term in 2018 and Republicans nationally are targeting her as vulnerable, given huge GOP wins in Wisconsin in November. Donald Trump became the first GOP presidential candidate to carry the state since 1984, Republican S
  
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• Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission

  07-05-2017 18:34 via yahoo.com
  
  By Irene KlotzCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email.The Boeing-built space plane blasted off in
  
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• Two Engaged Doctors Found In Penthouse With Throats Slit: 'Why Did This Happen?'

  07-05-2017 18:27 via rocketnews.com
  
  Two doctors were found dead in their Boston penthouse with their throats cut on Friday night, according to multiple reports.
  Dr. Richard Field, 49, and Dr. Lina Bolanos, 38, who were engaged, were found with their hands bound and there was “a message of retribution” allegedly written by the killer on the walls, according to the Boston Globe.
  According to the paper, Field sent out a final text, a plea for help, to one of his friends but by the time police arrived around 8:45 p.m., th
  
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• North Korea detains another American citizen, KCNA reports

  07-05-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ju-min ParkSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it has detained another U.S. citizen on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state, which would make him the fourth American to be held by the isolated country amid heightened diplomatic tensions with Washington.Kim Hak Song, who worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was detained on Saturday, the North's KCNA news agency said."A relevant institution of the DPRK detained American citizen Kim Hak Song on May 6 u
  
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• Republicans Defend Obamacare Replacement

  07-05-2017 18:22 via yahoo.com
  
  HHS Secretary Tom Price and House Speaker Paul Ryan insist cutting $880 billion from Medicaid won't be detrimental, and people with pre-existing conditions won't lose coverage.
  
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• How would the new health care bill passed by the House affect real Americans?

  07-05-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  
  George Stephanopoulos sits down with Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon, professor and New Yorker staff writer, for a closer analysis of the American Health Care Act.
  
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• Macron favorite as France votes for new president, turnout low

  07-05-2017 18:14 via rocketnews.com
  
  By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Jan Strupczewski
  PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – French voters were choosing on Sunday between a young, pro-European Union centrist and a eurosceptic, anti-immigration far-rightist for their next president, with official figures and estimates indicating a low turnout.
  Opinion polls predicted that the 39-year-old former economy minister Emmanuel Macron would win the five-year presidency, seeing off the National Front’s Marine Le Pen after an election campaign full o
  
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• Tense France picks new president in landmark vote

  07-05-2017 17:52 via rocketnews.com
  
  Paris (AFP) – France went to the polls Sunday to choose between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen for president, in a watershed election marked by falling turnout after an extremely divisive campaign.
  The vote, seen as crucial for Europe’s future, caps a rollercoaster race marked by mudslinging, scandals and a last-minute hacking attack targeting Macron, a 39-year-old former banker who has never held elected office.
  The run-off vote pits the pro-Europe, pro
  
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• Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts

  07-05-2017 17:49 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists and conservation experts met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the safe transportation of King Tutankhamun's throne, chests and bed from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo to a new one being built on the other side of the Egyptian capital.
  
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• Southwest Airline Captain Surprises One Millionth Passenger With Champagne, Pays For Her Ticket

  07-05-2017 17:46 via yahoo.com
  
  He'd been waiting for the moment for quite some time.
  
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• Starbucks Is Being Sued Over the Unicorn Drink

  07-05-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  A post shared by Starbucks Coffee ☕ (@starbucks) on Apr 19, 2017 at 6:05am PDT Before there was the shockingly sweet, super colorful, social media–friendly Starbucks' limited-edition Unicorn Frappuccino, there was the healthy version, known as the Unicorn Latte, and the creators aren't so keen on the copy.Served up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by The End cafe, the drink doesn't contain coffee or artificial colors, but it does contain “cold-pressed ginger, lemon juice, dates, cashe
  
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• Alligator bites girl in shallow lake waters at Florida park

  07-05-2017 17:28 via yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An alligator bit a 10-year-old girl on the leg as she sat in shallow lake waters at a Florida park, authorities said.
  
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• North Korea detains another US citizen: state media

  07-05-2017 17:25 via yahoo.com
  
  North Korea has detained another US citizen for committing "hostile acts," it said Sunday, its second arrest of an American in a fortnight with tensions high between Pyongyang and Washington.The arrest of Kim Hak-Song means that the North now is holding four US citizens, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile ambitions.Kim was detained on Saturday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
  
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• North Korea says it has detained another US citizen for 'hostile' acts

  07-05-2017 17:16 via yahoo.com
  
  North Korea said on Sunday it had detained another US citizen over unspecified hostile acts.The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim Hak Song had worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology before he was held on Saturday.“A relevant institution is now conducting detailed investigation into his crimes,” the KCNA said.
  
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• Syrian refugees in Canada name their baby Justin Trudeau

  07-05-2017 17:01 via yahoo.com
  
  A Syrian couple who fled war-ravaged Damascus to start a new life in Canada have named their newborn son Justin Trudeau in honour of the Prime Minister’s open refugee policy.Muhammad and Afraa Bilan arrived in Montreal in February of last year in the midst of Canada’s bitterly cold winter accompanied by their daughter Naya, who is 4, and their son Nael who is 3.The parents expressed their tremendous gratitude to Mr Trudeau’s refugee initiative which has seen over 40,000 Syrian
  
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