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• ‘We are one’: Community vows to heal as police investigate motive for West Texas shootings

  02-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The West Texas rampage left seven people dead and 23 people injured, including a 17-month-old girl who suffered major facial injuries but survived.
  
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• Russia jails blogger for Tweet, charges Kremlin critics over protests

  02-09-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian court sentenced a blogger to five years in jail on Tuesday after convicting him of inciting violence against the children of police officers, and charged two Kremlin critics with organizing an illegal protest.The court action follows a summer of opposition protests demanding free elections to Moscow's city legislature on Sept. 8, the biggest sustained protest movement in the Russian capital since 2011-2013.The authorities have allowed some opposition protests, but declined to sanction
  
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• Desperate calls for help from flooded Bahamas islands

  02-09-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Port Saint Lucie (United States) (AFP) - The message was desperate, despondent and urgent.
  
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• Police detain Russian opposition activist after Moscow protest

  02-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was detained by police on Monday after a weekend protest in Moscow, Navalny's spokeswoman said on Twitter.A few thousand Russians took to the streets of Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections to the capital's city legislature on Sept. 8, defying a ban enforced by detentions during previous protests.Protesters have been calling for the release of activists detained in earlier rallies, and Sobol on Saturday de
  
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• Costco is closed for Labor Day, but here are the stores and restaurants staying open

  02-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Most major retailers and restaurant chains are open Monday, though some will have special holiday hours. Many pharmacies will be closed.
  
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• 4th time in 4 years: It's hurricane evacuation time in US

  02-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  It's become a hurricane-season ritual in the Southeast: When a storm threatens, coastal residents board up homes, load up SUVs and fill highways where the traffic lanes are reversed to offer a speedy escape inland.For some people, Hurricane Dorian is the fourth storm they have had to flee in four years.Forecasters are not sure if the core of the powerful system will ever strike the U.S. It is predicted to stay offshore as it spins north, paralleling the coasts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
  
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• As many evacuate for Dorian, a 'hurricane bar' caters to those who stay

  02-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Hunkerdown Hideaway calls itself "the hurricane bar." There locals who aren't evacuating have gathered during major storms for years.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Floridians evacuate and grumble as Hurricane Dorian slowly nears

  02-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  At a retirement community in central Florida, elderly residents waited for a bus on Monday to take them to a shelter as one of the most monstrous Atlantic hurricanes on record crawled toward the state.Mary McNiff, 92, sat in her wheelchair waiting to board at the Good Samaritan Society in Kissimmee, near Orlando, one of more than a million people under evacuation orders along the U.S. East Coast on the Labor Day holiday.Forecasters warned it could still be dangerous as it drew closer to Florida
  
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• Slow-moving Dorian floods the Bahamas

  02-09-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  With Hurricane Dorian only moving at the slow speed of 1 mile per hour, parts of the Bahamas were flooded in the aftermath of the strongest storm ever to hit the group of islands.
  
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• Mayor of Jacksonville warns residents who ignore evacuation orders: If you call 911, you're likely on your own

  02-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Lenny Curry says his city is ready for Hurricane Dorian but urges residents not to underestimate the powerful storm.
  
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• Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100

  02-09-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni medics said on Monday they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a Houthi rebel-run detention center that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.The attack was one of the deadliest in more than four years of war in Yemen that have claimed tens of thousands of lives, thrust millions to the brink of famine and spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis.The Saudi-led coalition, which has fought the Iran-backed Houthis sinc
  
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• Taliban attack Kabul as US envoy says deal almost final

  02-09-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban claimed responsibility for a large explosion in the Afghan capital Monday night, just hours after a U.S. envoy briefed the Afghan government on an agreement "in principle" with the insurgent group that would see 5,000 U.S. troops leave the country within five months.The explosion sent a plume of smoke into the night sky over Kabul and caused a nearby gasoline station to burst into flames.
  
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• Hezbollah chief says 'no more red lines' against Israel

  02-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Monday there were "no more red lines" in the Lebanese movement's confrontation with Israel, threatening attacks deep inside the country a day after the two traded cross-border fire."Yesterday, the resistance broke Israel's biggest red line in decades," he said in a televised speech."But yesterday, the response was across the frontier," within Israel's internationally recognised borders, crossing what he said Israel considers a red line.
  
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• Dorian triggers massive flooding across Bahamas; at least 5 dead

  02-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Forecasters warned that Dorian could generate a storm surge as high as 23 feet.
  
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• Bahamas officials focus on 'rescue, recovery and prayer' as Hurricane Dorian slams islands

  02-09-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The historic storm hovered over the islands after virtually grinding to a halt, pounding the islands with record winds, rain and storm surge.
  
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• Santa Cruz Island boat fire: dozens of people feared dead off California coast

  02-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Up to 39 people were onboard a diving boat that caught fire in the early hours of the morning, and five have been confirmed rescuedFirefighters respond to a boat fire off the coast of southern California Monday. Photograph: APUp to 34 people have been reported missing and are feared dead off the coast of southern California after a diving boat caught fire in the early hours of Monday morning, with crew members jumping off the deck to escape, while passengers were asleep below decks.The US Coast
  
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• Thousands evacuated in Germany as WWII bomb found

  02-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 15,000 people were evacuated late Monday from the northern German city of Hanover following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb, city officials said.Residents of the capital of the state of Lower Saxony were told to leave their homes in the early evening as a precaution on the discovery of the 250 kilogram (550 pound) device, city authorities said on their website.The unearthing of World War II era bombs is a common occurrence in Hanover, home to some 500,000 people and on
  
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• Palestinian women protest after suspected honor killing

  02-09-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of Palestinian women held a demonstration in the West Bank on Monday to demand an investigation into the death of a 21-year-old woman who many suspect was the victim of a so-called honor killing.Israa Ghrayeb, a makeup artist from a village near Bethlehem, died last month after being hospitalized with severe injuries.Friends and women's rights activists suspect her male relatives assaulted her over a video shared online that purportedly showed her out with a man who had proposed to her.
  
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• Iran says views converging with France on breaking impasse

  02-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year.Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President Hassan Rouhani could meet US counterpart Donald Trump if it served Iran's interests, while cautioning there was no need to meet an "agitator" in the current circumstances.Rouhani has had a series of phone calls with French President Emmanuel Macron in recent weeks aimed at salvaging the
  
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• Floridians evacuate and grumble as Hurricane Dorian slowly nears

  02-09-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  At a retirement community in central Florida, elderly residents waited for a bus on Monday to take them to a shelter as one of the most monstrous Atlantic hurricanes on record crawled toward the state.Mary McNiff, 92, sat in her wheelchair waiting to board at the Good Samaritan Society in Kissimmee, near Orlando, one of more than a million people under evacuation orders along the U.S. East Coast on the Labor Day holiday.Forecasters warned it could still be dangerous as it drew closer to Florida
  
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• Dorian claims first life in Bahamas, US evacuates coast

  02-09-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Monster storm Dorian stalked across the Bahamas Monday as surging seawaters and ferocious winds sowed chaos in low-lying island communities, claiming at least one life and spurring mass evacuations on the US east coast.Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said the devastation was "unprecedented" in the Abaco Islands, which received the full brunt of Dorian as it came ashore Sunday as the most powerful storm ever to hit the archipelago."Our focus right now is rescue, recovery and prayer," Minnis
  
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• Johnson Threatens Oct. 14 Election Over No-Deal: Brexit Update

  02-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. Boris Johnson is planning for a general election on Oct. 14 if he loses a crucial vote over a no-deal Brexit in Parliament this week, a senior U.K. official said. The prime minister said he will not delay leaving the European Union in a speech after a short-notice meeting with his cabinet. Members of Parliament are planning to pass legislation to force the prime minister to delay Brexit until
  
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• California boat fire: Four confirmed dead as 29 remain missing near Santa Cruz Island

  02-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Four bodies have been recovered following a fire on a diving boat off Santa Cruz Island, California, that had left 33 passengers missing. The remaining 29 are still unaccounted for.Lt Cmdr Matthew Kroll of the US Coast Guard said the bodies were found close to the wreckage of the Conception, which caught fire in the early hours while 33 passengers were asleep below deck.
  
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• California boat fire: Eight confirmed dead as 25 remain missing near Santa Cruz Island

  02-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Four bodies have been recovered and a further four identified on the ocean floor following a fire on a diving boat off Santa Cruz Island, California.Lt Cmdr Matthew Kroll of the US Coast Guard said the bodies were found close to the wreckage of the Conception, which caught fire in the early hours while 33 passengers were asleep below deck.
  
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• US to start Afghan withdrawal with 5,000 troops out in 20 weeks

  02-09-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  America has agreed in principle to withdraw 5,000 troops from five military bases in 20 weeks, in a deal with the Taliban to kick start talks with the Afghan government. The accord which could be announced as early as Wednesday would see US troops begin to pull back from their longest ever conflict, in return for a reduction in Taliban attacks and the start of formal negotiations with Ashraf Ghani's government. A large blast hit Kabul on Monday evening, close to a heavily fortified compound hous
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: millions in coastal US warned to 'get out now' ahead of storm

  02-09-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday issued mandatory evacuation orders as 155mph winds batter BahamasPeople check out the waves in the ocean as Hurricane Dorian continues to make its way toward the Florida coast on Monday in West Palm Beach, Florida.Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe islands of the northern Bahamas continued to receive a pounding from Hurricane Dorian’s 155mph winds on Monday before the most powerful Atlantic cyclone of modern times set its sights
  
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• U.S. and Poland Ink 5G Security Agreement Amid Anti-Huawei Campaign

  02-09-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Poland agreed Monday to a deal designed to secure 5G wireless networks in the European country, a move that could result in blocking Huawei Technologies Co. and other Chinese telecommunications firms from its networks.The deal with Poland comes as the U.S. has been courting companies to reject Chinese technology in their next generation of wireless networks, telling allies it could put their citizens’ data at risk of espionage. It was signed by U.S. Vice Preside
  
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• Brother of British woman killed by expat husband pleads with UAE judge for murder sentence

  02-09-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a murdered British woman has said Dubai will set a "dangerous" precedent if it releases her husband from prison this week, two years after he bludgeoned her to death with a hammer.  Francis Matthew, 62, will fight his murder conviction on Wednesday on the grounds that his wife, Jane, provoked him during an argument at their Dubai family home. Two years into a potential 15 year sentence, his lawyers will claim she called him a “loser”, which provoked the attack. &nb
  
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• U.S. wants Brexit that encourages stability in Ireland: Vice President Pence

  02-09-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States wants the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union to protect stability on the island of Ireland and respect Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday.A proposed clause in Britain's EU divorce deal designed to protect the peace deal by ensuring an open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland has become the key sticking point in efforts to agree a managed exit before Britain's exit date of Oct. 31, raising fears of a chaotic wit
  
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• Escalation ends, but Israel-Hezbollah tensions remain

  02-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An escalation between Israel and Hezbollah has ended after a brief exchange of fire, but tensions remained high along the Lebanese border Monday after the enemies traded accusations.Residents returned to life as normal on both sides of the border, though burnt fields could be seen and the Israeli military had established new checkpoints.In southern Lebanon, farmers returned to their fields and the United Nations force tasked with monitoring the border area resumed its patrols, an AFP journalist
  
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• Global heating: geese shift migration stop-off northwards

  02-09-2019 18:58 via theguardian.com
  Barnacle geese have begun forsaking traditional feeding stop south of Arctic circle, study finds
  Barnacle geese are shifting their migratory patterns northward in response to global heating, new research has found, in a stark indication of how wildlife is being affected by the changes in climate.In their spring journey from the UK to their breeding grounds on Svalbard, one population of the geese has been forsaking a traditional feeding stop in Norway’s Helgeland, south of the Arctic circl
  
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• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam recorded saying she 'would resign if she could'

  02-09-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said she “would resign if she could”, according to an audio recording of a speech she gave to a group of businesspeople last week. In often anguished remarks, she apologised for igniting the “unforgivable chaos” in the city and said her room to respond was “very limited” as the Chinese government now considers the protest movement a national security issue. “If I have a choice,“ she said, &rdqu
  
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• UPDATE 1-Migrants disembark from German rescue ship seized in Italy

  02-09-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 100 migrants aboard a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week were allowed to disembark in Sicily on Monday after Italian police confiscated the boat.The ship's captain had earlier set course for the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, citing an emergency because of bad weather and sparking a new standoff between rescuers and Italy's far-right interior minister just as he looks set to lose his job."The people who were aboard the Eleonore for eight days now land in Po
  
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• Fighting Over Grazing Land Is Spreading to Nigeria’s South

  02-09-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Fighting between farmers and cattle herders in Nigeria is spreading from the center to the south and fueled by a proliferation of weapons, according to a United Nations envoy. “Nigeria needs urgent action to end the pressure cooker of violence, which is claiming thousands of lives,” Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Executions, told reporters Monday in the capital, Abuja. “Poverty and climate change are adding to these issues.”The gov
  
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• Facing criticism over deportations, U.S. to look again at some deferral requests

  02-09-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration, facing criticism over deportations from lawmakers and civil rights groups, said on Monday it would reopen consideration of some deferral requests for compelling circumstances such as medical conditions.In August, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) said it was "no longer entertaining" such requests from people outside the U.S. military, but on Monday said it would reopen and complete cases that were pending on Aug. 7, the day the new policy took effe
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: ‘Extremely dangerous’ storm kills five in Bahamas as Donald Trump plays golf

  02-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people have been killed by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, the nation’s prime minister has revealed, as Donald Trump spent part of the day playing golf.As the Category 4 storm pummelled the Bahamas with 233kph (145mph) winds, triggering huge damage and massive flooding, Hubert Minnis said at least five people had been killed and that more than 20 had been injured.
  
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• Palestinians demand women's protection after suspicious death

  02-09-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Social media posts have alleged that Israa Ghrayeb, 21, died following beatings by her family members in a supposed "honour killing".The family denies the claims and insists Ghrayeb, from Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, had a stroke.The death has caused anger in the occupied West Bank, with the hashtag "We are all Israa Ghrayeb" trending on Palestinian social media.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian Is Barely Moving at All. Here's Why That Makes it Especially Dangerous

  02-09-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian packs winds of over 150 miles an hour, but the storm itself is crawling along
  
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• This might be the lowest price we’ve ever seen for a top-rated 75-inch 4K TV

  02-09-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  You can always find great deals on Labor Day, but you don't typically expect them to rival massive sales events like Black Friday and Prime Day. That's why Amazon's current sale on the top-rated TCL 75R617 75-Inch 4K Ultra HD Roku Smart LED TV is such a fantastic surprise. This massive 75-inch television has a gorgeous display along with built-in Roku software so you can stream anything you want. It's already a killer value at $1,400, but the sale price of $1,152.48 may very well be the lowest p
  
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• Revealed: How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran

  02-09-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  For years, an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran’s nuclear program: How did the U.S. and Israel get their malware onto computer systems at the highly secured uranium-enrichment plant?
  
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• Ask the Captain: What airline dispatchers do; plus, how ground crews know when to move in

  02-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Captain John Cox explains why the dispatcher is the most important team member after the pilot and how ground crew members know when to move in.
  
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• The worst-behaved people on a plane? Hint: It's not babies

  02-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  When adult passengers are acting like kids when they fly, maybe they're the problem.
  
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• Not so easy to prevent the spread of mass shooters' names

  02-09-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  When law enforcement authorities gathered to discuss details of a mass shooting in West Texas that left seven people dead, there was one bit of information they refused to provide on live television: the name of the gunman.The Odessa Police Department has fewer than 25,000 followers of its Facebook page, but the social media platform easily reaches millions of Facebook's members around the globe and the post was shared hundreds of times.In this era of a saturation of social media and around-the-
  
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• Iranian tanker blacklisted by US off Lebanon, Syria coasts

  02-09-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 blacklisted by the United States has been off the coast of Lebanon and Syria for the past 24 hours, maritime monitors said on Monday.The vessel has been zigzagging in the eastern Mediterranean since it was released from the British overseas territory of Gibraltar on August 18, after being held for six weeks on suspicion it was delivering oil for Tehran's ally Damascus."The Adrian Darya 1 has stopped just 45 nautical miles (83km/52 miles) west of Tripoli, Lebanon
  
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• Hurricane Dorian pummels Bahamas with Category 4 assault

  02-09-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian hovered over the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with a fearsome Category 4 assault that shredded roofs, hurled cars and forced even rescue crews to take shelter until the onslaught passes.The system crawled along Grand Bahama Island at just 1 mph (2 kph) and was expected to generate a storm surge of 18 to 23 feet (6 to 7 meters)."We need you to bunker down," Kwasi Thompson, minister of state for Grand Bahama, warned people.
  
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• Trump travels to Trump National Golf Course as Hurricane Dorian crawls toward US

  02-09-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump spent his Labor Day morning at the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Va., as Hurricane Dorian continued its slow crawl toward the United States.
  
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• View Photos of Aston Martin Vanquish 25 by Callum

  02-09-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  See photos of the former Aston designer's modernization of the Vanquish.From Car and Driver
  
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• The Latest: Iran, France race to save nuclear deal

  02-09-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  French and Iranian experts were huddling in Paris as the clock ticks on an end-of-the-week deadline for Europe to come up with a way for Iran to sell its oil despite U.S. sanctions — or face a new scaling back of the 2015 nuclear accord.A visit on Monday by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and a team of economists was wrapped in discretion.The meeting coincided with a Moscow visit by Iran's foreign minister, who made an exceptional appearance in Biarritz last week on the side
  
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• UPDATE 2-Lithuania raps Chinese diplomats for role at pro-Hong Kong protest

  02-09-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Lithuania said on Monday it had lodged a protest to the Chinese embassy after some of its diplomats were involved in disruptions at a pro-Hong Kong protest in the capital Vilnius last month.Lithuania's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Chinese diplomats acted "in violation of public order" at the Aug. 23 event, which was organised to show solidarity with anti-Beijing protesters in Hong Kong.A police spokesman told Reuters that two Chinese citizens were detained and fined 15 euros ($17) e
  
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• Over 30 trapped on burning boat off California, many feared dead

  02-09-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescuers scrambled Monday to reach as many as 34 people trapped below the deck of a burning commercial scuba-dive boat off the coast of California, US Coast Guard officials said.Firefighters converged on the scene near Santa Cruz Island but the blaze and intense heat prevented them from breaching the hull of the 75-foot (23-meter) vessel to see if there were survivors, they said."I'm unaware of any survivors at this time," Coast Guard Petty Officer Aaron Bemis told CNN, adding that it was too ea
  
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