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• Affordable, High-End Headphones To Consider

  05-08-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  Planning on getting wireless headphones? You might want to check out these.
  
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• Mercosur suspends Venezuela, urges immediate transition

  05-08-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  By Silvio CascioneSAO PAULO (Reuters) - South American trade bloc Mercosur suspended Venezuela indefinitely on Saturday, adding more international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to dismantle a newly created pro-government constituent assembly and restore democracy.Foreign ministers of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil announced the decision in Sao Paulo, urging Maduro to release prisoners and immediately start a political transition.It is not possible to inflict such torture on the p
  
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• Husband Arrives to Help Wife With Overheated Car and Finds 2 Kids, Mother-in-Law Dead

  05-08-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  Police say they found open beer cans in one of the cars
  
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• Venezuela pro-government assembly fires dissident prosecutor

  05-08-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  By Corina Pons and Hugh BronsteinCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's chief prosecutor was fired on Saturday and ordered to stand trial, less than 24 hours after a newly elected legislative superbody was installed with sweeping powers to strengthen President Nicolas Maduro's grip on power.The prosecutor, Luisa Ortega, had become Maduro's main challenger from within the ruling socialist movement since the opposition started a round of protests in April.
  
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• 9-Year-Old 'Guardian of the Galaxy' Applies to NASA Job: 'I Can Learn to Think Like an Alien'

  05-08-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  The job pays more than $100,000.
  
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• Chicago police prepare to interrogate suspects in Illinois stabbing

  05-08-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Chicago police were preparing to interrogate two university officials who were arrested in California on Friday and charged with a fatal July stabbing that investigators believe stemmed from a domestic dispute.Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem and Andrew Warren, an employee of Britain's Oxford University, are in custody in California and are expected to be transported to Illinois in the coming days, Chicago police spokesman Frank Giancamilli said on Saturday.
  
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• Minnesota mosque blast

  05-08-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  A bomb was thrown through the window of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Ind., as people were preparing for morning prayers, damaging the imam's office but not injuring anyone.
  
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• Apple’s rumored smart glasses may feature 3D cameras without a dedicated display

  05-08-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  The enthralling augmented reality videos we've seen iOS developers release over the past few weeks may only be the beginning of Apple's augmented reality ambitions. According to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple is actively trying to develop a pair of AR powered smart glasses, echoing a number of previous rumors we've seen sprout up over the last few months.
  Interestingly, the report notes that Apple is exploring a number of different designs for its rumored smart glasses, with one de
  
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• Spike in migrant deaths on US-Mexico border since Donald Trump became President

  05-08-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  More people crossing the United States-Mexico border are dying, despite significantly fewer people attempting the journey according to the UN's migration agency.“Some 232 migrant fatalities have been recorded in the first seven months of 2017, an increase of 17 per cent compared with the 204 deaths recorded between January and July 2016,” said Julia Black, of the Missing Migrants Project, part of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM.The UN agency stated that the US Borde
  
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• Police Discover More Than 1000 Animals, Many Dead, in Warehouse

  05-08-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Police are investigating the case of animal cruelty.
  
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• Seven dead, 15 injured as bus plunges off a cliff in El Salvador

  05-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  At least seven people died and another 15 injured in El Salvador on Saturday after their bus lost control due to excessive speed and fell over a cliff, officials said.The speeding driver swerved to avoid a speed bump in the road but instead tumbled off the edge, said Eduardo Guevara, an official with national emergency services.
  
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• MTV's 'Siesta Keys' Receives Criticism For Shark Shooting Video

  05-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  Social media users attack MTV's 'Siesta Key' star for allegedly shooting a shark.
  
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• Turkey warns new military moves in Syria imminent

  05-08-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president reiterated Saturday that new cross-border operations into Syria are in the works as the country boosts its military presence along the border against threats from Kurdish militants in war-torn Syria.
  
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• Venezuelan attorney general fired by newly-installed constituent assembly as her office surrounded by troops in 'siege'

  05-08-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela's contested new assembly fired the country's dissident attorney general, Luisa Ortega, on Saturday, and ordered she stand trial, in a move certain to provoke greater international criticism. The body, which made the sacking its first order of business, also said it planned to operate as Venezuela's supreme power for up to two years. Troops surrounded the office of Ms Ortega on Saturday ahead of the move, as the newly installed constituent assembly began the session aimed at removi
  
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• Iran's Rouhani, embarking on second term, accuses Trump over nuclear deal

  05-08-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  By Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who was sworn-in for a second term on Saturday, has accused the United States of trying to undermine Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, telling President Donald Trump that it will be his political suicide.Rouhani, who was decisively re-elected in May after promising to open Iran to the world, took the oath of office before parliament in Tehran in the presence of foreign dignitaries including senior European figure
  
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• Interior Department watchdog to investigate threat to Alaska senator on healthcare

  05-08-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  The Interior Department's inspector general said it would investigate a reported threat by the agency's head, Ryan Zinke, against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski's state of Alaska last week over her opposition to her party's efforts to repeal Obamacare.
  
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• The Need To Use Free Wi-Fi While Risking Private Data

  05-08-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  Consumers don't think twice about using free Wi-Fi and are putting their personal data at risk, survey finds.
  
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• Mass grave found in northern Mexico, authorities say

  05-08-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  A mass grave with the bodies of 14 people has been uncovered in a mountainous region of the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, state prosecutors said.Zacatecas Attorney General Francisco Murillo said authorities have so far found the bodies of 11 men and three women, but there could be more at the site in the municipality of Valparaiso.Federal and state security forces have been pursuing a criminal gang in the area where the mass grave was found.
  
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• Man arrested over British model kidnapped in Italy

  05-08-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of abducting a British model in Milan and threatening to auction her online unless a ransom of $300,000 was paid.Police said in a statement the 20-year-old Briton had arrived in Milan on July 10 for an alleged photo shooting arranged through her agent.Herba freed her on July 17 and accompanied her to the British consulate in Milan where, according to newspaper Corriere della Sera, he was arrested by police who had been
  
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• UPDATE 5-U.S. military searches for 3 Marines in sea after aircraft crashes off Australia

  05-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Search-and-rescue operation under way(Trump briefed by Kelly on mishap)
  The post UPDATE 5-U.S. military searches for 3 Marines in sea after aircraft crashes off Australia appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• Brazil’s president expects weaker pension bill to pass -paper

  05-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  BRASILIA, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temerexpects Congress to water down his proposal to overhaul pensionrules and approve the new legislation by a slim majority thisyear, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.
  The post Brazil’s president expects weaker pension bill to pass -paper appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• BMW urges foreign carmakers to pay into German transport fund -FAS

  05-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  FRANKFURT, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Foreign carmakers shouldcontribute to a proposed German fund set up to improve urbantransport infrastructure, BMW CEO Harald Krueger hastold a German newspaper, only days after a deal was reached tocut pollution and avert a ban on diesel engines.
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• No coordination between Lebanon and Syrian armies against IS: Lebanese military source

  05-08-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  The Lebanese army will not coordinate with the Syrian army to fight against Islamic State in the Lebanese-Syrian border zone, a military source told Reuters on Saturday, rejecting a local media report of direct military cooperation between the two.The source said the Lebanese army had the military capability to confront and defeat the group without any regional or international support.The presence of Islamic State and Nusra Front militants in pockets on Lebanon's border is the biggest military
  
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• Rouhani warns Trump he 'risks his political life' over Iran nuclear deal as he implores Europe to defend agreement

  05-08-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  It was always going to be a state ceremony of grandeur and pomp, but the current turbulence in Middle East politics ensured that Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration as President of Iran became an occasion of significant resonance.Iran, its adversaries Saudi Arabia and the Donald Trump administration have demanded, should once again be shunned as a pariah state.The US has imposed tough new sanctions and President Trump is threatening to pull the plug on the nuclear deal between the country and in
  
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• Afghan official: Taliban seize control of key northern area

  05-08-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban insurgents launched coordinated attacks form three different directions on Sayad district in northern Sari Pul province killing at least seven security forces, said a provincial official.
  
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• Security for Trump's summer visit ruffles tranquil New Jersey town

  05-08-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  By Joseph AxBEDMINSTER, N.J. (Reuters) - Three military helicopters hovered over Anne Choi's backyard, engaged in what appeared to be a drill ahead of President Donald Trump's visit three weeks ago to this tranquil town of farmland and horse barns in rural New Jersey."My sheep were terrified," Choi, 44, said on Thursday inside her two-story barn a mile east of Trump National Golf Club, as half a dozen Shetland sheep grazed outside.On Wednesday, the U.S. Secret Service said safety measures would
  
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• US 'disturbed by irregularities' in Rwanda landslide vote

  05-08-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The United States said Saturday it was "disturbed by irregularities observed during voting" in Rwanda's election, which longtime President Paul Kagame won with nearly 99 percent of the vote.
  
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• Iran vows 'unified' response to breach of nuclear deal

  05-08-2017 18:36 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that his administration and country will show a "unified" response to a breach of the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers.
  
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• Rockets, gunfire test new Russia-backed truce near Syria's Homs: monitor

  05-08-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  Warring sides exchanged rocket and gunfire north of the Syrian city of Homs overnight, hours after a Russia-backed truce took effect, a war monitor said on Friday, while heavy rocket fire also marred a similar deal east of the capital Damascus.Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, said on Thursday its defense ministry and Syria's opposition had agreed to set up a "de-escalation" zone in the rebel-held countryside north of government-held Homs.After an initial few hours of calm, the rebels an
  
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• Venezuela constitutional assembly removes chief prosecutor

  05-08-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A newly installed constitutional assembly ousted Venezuela's defiant chief prosecutor Saturday, a sign that President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government intends to move swiftly against critics and consolidate power amid a fast-moving political crisis.
  
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• Chinese tourists arrested after Hitler salutes in Germany

  05-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  German police on Saturday arrested two Chinese tourists for making illegal "Heil Hitler" salutes in front of the historic Reichstag building that houses the German parliament.Berlin police officers say they detained the two men, aged 36 and 49, after they were seen striking the Nazi-era pose and photographing each other with their mobile phones.Germany has strict laws on hate speech and symbols linked toHitler and the Nazis, who ruled between 1933 and 1945.
  
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• After sanctions, Tillerson may find Russia talks an uphill climb

  05-08-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan LandayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has the unenviable task of exploring U.S.-Russian cooperation following Washington's latest sanctions on Russia and Moscow's expulsion of U.S. diplomats.Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet this weekend at a regional forum in Manila, their first face-to-face talks since President Donald Trump reluctantly signed into law sanctions that Russia said amounted to a full-scale trade
  
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• Factbox: What do the new U.S. sanctions on Russia target?

  05-08-2017 18:07 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed into law a sweeping sanctions bill against Russia, Iran and North Korea this week.As U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet this weekend at a regional forum in Manila, here is a look at new Russia sanctions :* The law establishes a review process that allows Congress to block any effort by Trump to ease or lift sanctions on Russia.Lawmakers passed the bill to punish Russia over its alleged interference
  
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• U.S. military searches for three Marines in sea after aircraft crashes off Australia

  05-08-2017 17:59 via yahoo.com
  By Tom WestbrookSYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescue teams were searching for three U.S. Marines missing after their aircraft crashed into the sea off Australia's east coast on Saturday, the U.S. Marine Corps said.Twenty-three other personnel aboard the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft had been rescued, the III Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Okinawa, Japan, said in a statement.In past years, Ospreys have been involved in incidents resulting in deaths or injuries.
  
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• Hangry Woman Stabs Ex-Boyfriend In The Back For Refusing to Make Her Food

  05-08-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  In case you need another reason not to cook dinner with ex-boyfriends.
  
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• Kansas Grandmother Deported for Voter Fraud Leaves U.S. in Tears

  05-08-2017 17:41 via yahoo.com
  Margarita Fitzpatrick, who left her family in Kansas and returned to her native Peru, says that she registered to vote by accident because of what she says is a flaw in the law.
  
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• Pole detained over abduction of British model in Italy

  05-08-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  A British model was drugged and abducted for a week in Italy last month by a British-based Pole who allegedly tried to auction her off as a sex slave on the dark web, Italian police said Saturday.The unidentified 20-year-old was injected in the arm with the tranquiliser ketamine after going to what was a fake photo shoot at a venue near Milan's central station on July 11.Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, has been charged with orchestrating the kidnapping and given a version of events which the prosecutor
  
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• Chicago Murder Manhunt Ends as Suspects Surrender to Police in California

  05-08-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor at Northwestern University and Andrew Warren, an employee at Oxford University in the UK, surrendered separately to authorities in California on Friday, ending a nationwide manhunt, a U.S. Marshals official said.
  
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• Trump Vacation: Bedminster Prepares for Long 17-Day ‘Working Vacation’

  05-08-2017 17:36 via yahoo.com
  The sleepy New Jersey town has become a household name with the president’s many visits to his own golf club in his first six months on the job. Residents have mixed feelings about the attention.
  
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• U.S. Marine Osprey Crashes off Australian Coast

  05-08-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  A search-and-rescue operation was underway Saturday after three Marines went missing when their aircraft crashed into the sea off the eastern coast of Australia during landing, the Marine Corps said.
  
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• 2 huge Trump murals appear on West Bank barrier

  05-08-2017 17:28 via yahoo.com
  Two murals showing an oversized President Donald Trump have appeared on Israel's West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where the elusive artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year.
  
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• Woman Died at the Bottom of Grand Canyon After She Ran Out of Water

  05-08-2017 17:14 via yahoo.com
  She was hiking with two school-aged children
  
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• Swiss demand same treatment as Germans in diesel compensation

  05-08-2017 17:14 via rocketnews.com
  ZURICH, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Switzerland will demand thatGerman automakers treat Swiss customers the same as Germanbuyers of diesel cars being fixed to cut pollution, the head ofthe Swiss road transport agency said.
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• Democratic Campaign Chief Suggests Party Back Anti-Abortion Candidates

  05-08-2017 16:57 via yahoo.com
  The basic message: Don't go there
  
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• Suspect Makes Throat-Slashing Motion Before Fatal Shootings at Florida Resort

  05-08-2017 16:54 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are still looking for the suspect and have set an $18,000 reward
  
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• ASEAN communique stalls amid disagreement on South China Sea stance

  05-08-2017 16:43 via yahoo.com
  By Manuel MogatoMANILA (Reuters) - Southeast Asian foreign ministers failed to release a customary communique at the end of a high-level meeting on Saturday after what diplomats said was a lack of consensus about how to refer to disputes in the South China Sea.The South China Sea has long been the most thorny issue for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with different opinions among its 10 members on how to address China's assertiveness and its building and heavy arming of its a
  
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• Southeast Asia issues strong rebuke, warning to North Korea

  05-08-2017 16:33 via yahoo.com
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Southeast Asia's top diplomats slammed North Korea with a sharp rebuke Saturday over its intercontinental ballistic missile tests and admonished Pyongyang to comply with its duty of helping avert conflicts as a member of Asia's biggest security forum.
  
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• Iran's Rouhani sworn in as tensions simmer over nuclear deal

  05-08-2017 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned the US against tearing up the nuclear deal as he was inaugurated for a second term Saturday, but he also faces challenges closer to home amid accusations he is rolling over to conservatives.Rouhani met with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini before the ceremony and called for greater efforts to safeguard the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers in the face of new US sanctions."Iran will not be the first to violate the nuclear deal... bu
  
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• Putin cultivates strongman persona with holiday adventures

  05-08-2017 15:57 via yahoo.com
  Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who loves to cultivate a virile man-of-action image, was shown on Russian TV Saturday spear-fishing in a camouflage wetsuit, piloting a powerboat and catching some rays while on a Siberian holiday.Putin's affinity for the tough guy pose has been documented with shots of him bare-chested on horseback, diving in a submarine in Lake Baikal -- the world's deepest -- and flipping a Judo opponent.Putin "fished in a waterfall near a mountain lake, indulged in underwat
  
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• Afghan warlord backs elections, rejects US troop increase

  05-08-2017 15:57 via yahoo.com
  Infamous Afghan warlord and ex-prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rejected any increase in US troops Saturday as he said elections were the only way to bring stability to the war-torn country.The 70-year-old, known widely in the international press as the "Butcher of Kabul", told reporters that Afghanistan desperately needed "a strong central government led by a powerful president"."Without this it is impossible to bring peace and stability to the country," he said, in his first press conference
  
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