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• The Latest: Erdogan rejects call for ceasefire in Syria

  15-10-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he rejects a call from U.S. President Donald Trump to declare a ceasefire and halt Turkey's military offensive in northeastern Syria.Turkey's leader also told a group of journalists Tuesday that he is not concerned about the presence of Syrian government troops moving into the city of Manbij, but does not want Syrian Kurdish fighters to remain.
  
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• Judge says he miscalculated award by $107M in opioid case

  15-10-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday acknowledged making a nearly $107 million miscalculation in determining how much drug maker Johnson & Johnson must pay the state to help address the state's opioid crisis.Following a hearing in Cleveland County, District Judge Thad Balkman acknowledged making the error in his August judgment in which he ordered the consumer products giant to pay the state $572 million to address the opioid crisis.Balkman said the actual amount he should have included in his judgm
  
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• School suspends girls, says rape-awareness note was bullying

  15-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A 15-year-old girl was suspended for bullying after trying to draw attention to what she believed was an unaddressed problem of sexual assaults involving students at her high school.Aela Mansmann, a 15-year-old sophomore at Cape Elizabeth High School outside Portland, has been at odds with Cape Elizabeth Schools for a month after posting a note in a bathroom that said: "There's a rapist in our school and you know who it is." She and two other students who left similar notes were ordered suspende
  
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• Yahoo Could Owe You Up to $358 for Data Breaches. Here’s How to File Your Claim

  15-10-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Yahoo has reached a $117.5 million class-action settlement after data breaches that affected 3 billion users accounts
  
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• Rudy Giuliani refuses to comply with House Democrats' subpoena

  15-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani informed House Democrats on Tuesday that he will not comply with a subpoena for documents they sent him as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says alternatives to F-35 jets ready, receiving offers

  15-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's alternatives for the U.S. F-35 stealth fighter jets are ready and "offers are coming in", President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying by broadcaster NTV on Tuesday.Ankara and Washington have clashed over Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missile defenses, which the United States says are not compatible with NATO defenses and pose a threat to Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth jets.
  
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• Brazil probes whether 'ghost ship' carrying Venezuelan oil involved in spill

  15-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A huge oil spill off Brazil's northeastern coast may have involved a "ghost ship" carrying Venezuelan oil in breach of US sanctions, an expert close to the probe into the disaster said Tuesday.Brazil has accused its South American neighbor of responsibility for the leakage that began in early September and affects a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) stretch of the Atlantic coast -- charges Venezuela's state oil giant PDVSA denies.Describing the incident as "very complex and unprecedented," Brazil's n
  
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• Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro often quotes a nonexistent economist named 'Ron Vara'

  15-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump is getting two trade advisers for the price of one.On paper, Trump's top trade adviser is Peter Navarro, an unapologetic defender of Trump and critic of China. But inside Navarro's own brain is Ron Vara, an untraceable economist frequently quoted in Navarro's books whose name happens to be an anagram of Navarro, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.Vara has made appearances across Navarro's economic books for at least 20 years, often authoring an epigraph before Navarro's ch
  
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• Michigan judge blocks flavored vape ban as Juul faces wrongful death lawsuit

  15-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer had ordered the state ban in September, declaring that teenagers' use of e-cigarettes, known as vaping, was a public health emergency.Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens of the Michigan Court of Common Claims said that vaping was a public health concern, but agreed with the retailers that there was likely no basis for the governor to use her emergency powers.Whitmer's office had no immediate comment.
  
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• Atheists, Secular Groups Up in Arms Over State Department Boosting Pompeo’s ‘Christian Leader’ Speech

  15-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Raedle/GettyThe U.S. Constitution protects the separation of church and state—but evidently not church and State Department, which came under fire for promoting a “Being a Christian Leader” speech Monday on its website.The speech, delivered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting of American Association of Christian Counselors on Friday, saw Pompeo discuss the influence of his faith on his work as a U.S. official. On Monday, the State Department shared the speech at
  
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• Turkey's president pulled one over on Trump — and some of the US's most dangerous adversaries are the big winners

  15-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Islamic State, Russia, Iran, and Syria are all poised to strengthen their positions amid the chaos triggered by Trump's abrupt withdrawal.
  
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• DNA testing could exonerate man 13 years after he was executed for rape, murder

  15-10-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  After Sedley Alley's execution in 2006 for Suzanne Marie Collins' murder, a judge now heard DNA testing arguments from the Innocence Project.
  
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• 30 Years After Fall of Communism, Mixed Support for Democracy

  15-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  In the early days following the revolutions that overthrew the communist regimes across Central and Eastern Europe, the public joy that coursed through the former Iron Curtain countries could best be summed up by one word: bananas.The fruit had long been largely restricted from citizens from the old Soviet bloc, thanks to the communist barriers walling off Western Europe.Suddenly available, the banana was seen by Central and Eastern Europeans as an exotic expression of their liberation from auth
  
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• Kamala Harris’s office battled payments to wrongly convicted

  15-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Jose Diaz was exonerated after serving almost nine years in a California prison for two sexual assaults he didn’t commit. But years later, the office of then-Attorney General Kamala Harris wasn’t prepared to let him off the hook.
  
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• Man and six children rescued from Netherlands basement after nine years' 'waiting for the end of time'

  15-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A man and six young adults have been discovered after apparently living for nine years in a cellar on a remote Dutch farm, waiting “for the end of time”, according to Dutch media. Police spokeswoman Nathalie Schubart confirmed to RTV Drenthe that a 58-year-old man had been arrested, and that six young adults were discovered in a “shut-off space” on the farm in Ruinerwold, Drenthe. She would not confirm the relation between the people or describe the conditions they were f
  
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• Florida girl, 1, dies in hot car, the 50th death of 2019, according to one national tracker

  15-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The death of a 1-year-old Florida girl Monday marked the 50th case of a child dying in a hot car this year, according to KidsandCars.org.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. concerned about some Hong Kong protest tactics, heavier China hand -Pentagon

  15-10-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The senior U.S. defense official for Asia said on Tuesday that the United States has some concerns about some of the tactics used by demonstrators in Hong Kong but was also concerned about the heavier hand Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have used against protests in the territory.Randall Schriver, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said the United States was "100 percent" behind those in Hong Kong who were speaking out for respect for fundamental rights guar
  
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• Amazon Pledges $1 Million More in Heated Seattle Elections

  15-10-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. is reaching into its deep pockets in an effort to make Seattle more business-friendly, pledging an additional $1 million to a corporate-backed group ahead of next month’s contentious city council elections.The contribution disclosed on Tuesday brings Amazon’s donations this election cycle to the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy (CASE) to $1.45 million, and likely cements the company’s status as th
  
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• A 75-year-old cruise ship passenger jumped overboard a Carnival-owned ship between Portugal and Spain (CCL)

  15-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Costa Cruises representative said the woman "voluntarily" jumped from the balcony in her cabin on the Costa Pacifica ship.
  
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• A new poll found the aggressive Medicare for All plan Bernie Sanders has championed is getting less popular as time goes on

  15-10-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The decline in support suggests that repeated attacks over the sweeping proposal's costs and its end of private insurance may be taking a toll.
  
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• How to eat roadkill: everything you need to know

  15-10-2019 20:10 via theguardian.com
  Some chefs and activists say animals killed on the road are the most organic and most ethical to eat – and bear meat is great in chilliOn Monday, California made it legal for people who fatally hit an animal in the road to take it home to eat. The law only applies to certain animals – deer, elk, pronghorn antelopes or wild pigs – and the perpetrator must apply for a “wildlife salvage permit” within 24 hours in order to legally move the animal. California is the 29th
  
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• Parents of teen killed in crash coming to White House

  15-10-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a British teenager killed in a car crash involving an American diplomat's wife was headed to the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with senior administration officials.A spokesman for the family announced the afternoon meeting on Twitter, and senior White House official confirmed it on condition of anonymity.It was unclear whether the Dunns would meet with the president, but family spokesman Radd Seiger said in a tweet that he was "looking forward to getting further answers" abo
  
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• Natural loss of foot muscle in rodents shares mechanisms often associated with disease and injury

  15-10-2019 20:02
  Researchers have developed new insight on how the natural loss of foot muscles occurred in rodents and other species during their evolution.
  
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• Turkey slams 'dirty deal' between Syria's Assad and Kurdish forces

  15-10-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey dismissed global opposition to its military operation in Syria on Tuesday and slammed a "dirty deal" between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and Kurdish forces as US troops began their withdrawal from the battle zone.Turkey's operation against Kurdish militants in Syria, launched a week ago, has been widely criticised by the international community, with the US, a NATO ally, slapping sanctions on Ankara."We will continue to combat all terrorist groups, including Daesh (the Islamic Stat
  
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• Texas woman killed by officer pointed gun after hearing noises

  15-10-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew around 2:30 am on Saturday when she heard sounds in her backyard, according to the warrant for former Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean's arrest for alleged murder.The noises were Dean, 34, and his partner moving around the back of her home, without announcing their presence, after they were sent to investigate why her front door was open.Dean resigned on Monday before he could be fired for breaching a string of police
  
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• CORRECTED-Texas woman shot by officer had picked up gun after hearing noises, warrant says

  15-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas woman was shot dead by a Fort Worth police officer through the window of her home after she heard noises outside late at night and picked up her handgun, the officer's arrest warrant showed on Tuesday.Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew around 2:30 am on Saturday when she heard noises in her backyard, according to the warrant for former Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean's arrest for alleged murder.The noises were Dean and his partner creeping aro
  
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• Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan quiet after Trump demands ceasefire, issues sanctions

  15-10-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey presses on with its incursions into Syria as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains quiet on the Trump’s demand for a ceasefire.
  
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• Google Maps Banned on Sardinia? Mayor Wants Service Blocked After Putting Tourists in Danger

  15-10-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  GettyROME–Salvatore Corrias, the mayor of the Sardinian hamlet of Baunei, is fed up. Emergency services in his island town have been called out 144 times over the last 18 months to rescue tourists who nearly followed Google map directions to their deaths. The last straw was last week when the owners of a Porsche were trying to reach a secluded white sand beach but ended up being directed to a steep cliff several hundred feet above it. “There was no way down to the beach on foot
  
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• Latest search for Amelia Earhart plane comes up empty: NYT

  15-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest hunt for the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, has turned up nothing.The New York Times reported Tuesday that an extensive search conducted by a team led by Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreckage of the Titanic, had not turned up any evidence of Earhart's aircraft.The National Geographic Channel, which sponsored the expedition, is to air a documentary about the search on Sunday.
  
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• Netanyahu asks Putin to pardon American-Israeli jailed on drug charges

  15-10-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to pardon an American-Israeli woman sentenced to 7-1/2 years in jail for a few grams of cannabis found in her luggage at a Moscow airport.Naama Issachar's case has opened up an unusually public rift between Israel and Russia.Issachar was arrested in April after Russian police discovered 9 grams (0.3 oz) of cannabis in her bags during a layover in flights from India to Israel.
  
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• Researchers solve puzzle about link between genetic mutations, mating in fruit flies

  15-10-2019 19:15
  More than a century ago, early geneticists showed that the inheritance of a single mutation by fruit flies can change the insect's body color and simultaneously disrupt its mating behavior.
  
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• Mexican president confirms Pemex union boss under investigation

  15-10-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The veteran leader of Mexico's powerful oil workers' union faces formal accusations of wrongdoing, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday, slowly turning up pressure on the labor boss to step aside.Earlier this year, sources said the attorney general's office had accused Pemex union chief Carlos Romero Deschamps and several relatives of illicit enrichment and money laundering, charges he has consistently denied."Complaints have been presented to the attorney general's office," Lop
  
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• Sperm and egg cell 'immune response' protects koala DNA

  15-10-2019 19:13
  Discovery of a type of immunity that protects koalas' DNA from viruses has importance for the survival of koalas and our fundamental understanding of evolution. A team of scientists are studying tissue samples from koalas to understand how a unique type of cell responds to retrovirus infections, which cause diseases such as chlamydia and cancer.
  
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• Florida jury spares life of man who killed law professor

  15-10-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida jury took a half hour Tuesday to spare the life of a man they convicted last week in the slaying of a Florida State University law professor who was gunned down in his garage.Instead, a Leon County judge sentenced Sigfredo Garcia to spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the killing of law professor Dan Markel five years ago.The case had riveted Florida's capital as sordid details began to emerge about a messy divorce, tensions with in-laws and child custody battles that
  
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• What's at stake for each of the 12 Democrats in Tuesday's debate

  15-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A plurality of Americans now say they believe Trump's accusations are hurting Biden's prospects of becoming the Democratic nominee. Biden’s job Tuesday night is to prove them wrong. For Pete Buttigieg, it’s all about Iowa. For Bernie Sanders, his campaign hopes the debate will mark his triumphant return to the trail.
  
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• Russia assumes mantle of supreme power broker in Middle East as US retreats from Syria

  15-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia’s status as the undisputed power-broker in the Middle East was cemented as Vladimir Putin continued a triumphant tour of capitals traditionally allied to the US and Russian troops entered a hastily evacuated US base in Syria The Russian president, who spent Monday in Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, landed in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday morning. He was met at the airport by Abu Dhabi’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nah
  
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• What the Social Security COLA for 2020 Means For You

  15-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Social Security payments will grow by 1.6% in 2020.The program will also be adjusted in several important ways that could affect the Social Security payments you receive or how much you pay into the system.-- Social Security payments will increase by 1.6%.
  
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• Buttigieg Claims Warren and Sanders’s Medicare for All Is ‘Infringing on Freedom’ in New Ad

  15-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a campaign ad Monday evening taking aim at Medicare for All, the public health insurance proposal favored by several rival 2020 candidates, and proposing his alternative, "Medicare for All Who Want It."The South Bend, Ind., mayor's minute-long video, titled "Makes More Sense," features several political reporters and analysts praising his plan and juxtaposing it with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All, which wo
  
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• 'Barbaric' tests on monkeys lead to calls for closure of German lab

  15-10-2019 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Shocking footage shows conditions ‘clearly breach’ EU standards on animal welfare, say campaignersAn animal testing laboratory in Germany that subjected monkeys to “barbaric” treatment and kept unwell dogs in squalid conditions is under investigation amid calls for its closure.Undercover footage at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) near Hamburg published by Cruelty Free International and Soko Tierschutz shows technicians with metal prongs grabbing macaqu
  
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• Angela Merkel Intervenes to Allow Huawei Access to German Networks

  15-10-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany will allow Huawei access to its 5G networks despite a U.S. pressure campaign, spearheaded by FCC chairman Ajit Pai, to block the Chinese tech giant from interacting with allies' data networks.“Essentially our approach is as follows: We are not taking a pre-emptive decision to ban any actor, or any company,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference Monday, as Germany’s Federal Network Agency plans to release an in-depth “security catalogue”
  
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• Warren's New Campaign Finance Plan Is Putting Rivals Like Biden and Buttigieg on the Spot

  15-10-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  In a new campaign finance plan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that she will continue to reject big donors and corporate funding
  
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• 'Chrisley Knows Best' stars sue Georgia tax official

  15-10-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Reality television personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley on Tuesday accused a Georgia tax official of abusing his office to pursue "bogus tax evasion claims" against them.The "Chrisley Knows Best" stars filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Joshua Waites, the director of the Georgia Department of Revenue's office of special investigations, according to an emailed statement from a spokesman for the couple.Waites targeted Todd Chrisley's estranged daughter, Lindsie Chrisley Campbell, and imprope
  
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• Russian troll freed in Belarus after arrest for US election tampering

  15-10-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Anna Bogacheva was detained and briefly threatened with extradition to the US after being named in Mueller reportRobert Mueller alleges that Anna Bogacheva and others posed as US citizens to set up social media accounts aimed at swaying the 2016 presidential vote. Photograph: Tom Brenner/ReutersA Russian national charged with attempting to meddle in the 2016 American presidential elections was briefly threatened with extradition to the United States after being arrested in Belarus, before she wa
  
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• Dutch family found in cellar 'waiting for end of time'

  15-10-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police found a father and six adult children hidden in the basement of a remote farmhouse where they had reportedly spent years "waiting for the end of time", officials said Tuesday. Local media said the family were found after one of the sons went to a nearby pub in a confused state, drank five beers and then asked for help, saying he had not been outside for nine years. "I have never come across anything like this before," local mayor Roger de Groot told a press conference.
  
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• America's “Dauntless” Dive-Bomber Was a World War II Classic

  15-10-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An excellent plane.
  
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• IMF welcomes attempt to resolve dispute in Ecuador

  15-10-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it welcomes the decision by Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno to cancel an austerity package following more than a week of protests.Moreno and leaders of Ecuador's indigenous groups struck a deal late Sunday to cancel an IMF-backed package that included a sharp rise in fuel prices after protests that left seven people dead and 1,152 arrested.Gopinath did not address the status of the $4.2 billion loan Ecuador received in March during a press co
  
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• Dutch police discover family locked away for years in isolated farmhouse

  15-10-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police acting on a tip-off discovered six young adult siblings who had apparently spent years locked away in a secret room in an isolated farmhouse "waiting for the end of time," local broadcasters reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Wildfires spread through parts of Lebanon, Syria

  15-10-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Wildfires spread through parts of Lebanon on Tuesday after forcing some residents to flee their homes in the middle of the night, while others were stuck inside as the flames reached villages south of Beirut, authorities said.There were no reports of fatalities from the fires — among the worst to hit Lebanon in years.Fire crews were overwhelmed by the flames in the Mount Lebanon region early Tuesday, forcing the Interior Ministry to send riot police with engines equipped with water cannons
  
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• Boris Johnson is reportedly very close to agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU

  15-10-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  EU sources told Bloomberg that a deal could be concluded as early as Tuesday, with the UK set to agree a new compromise deal.
  
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• Booze run from behind bars: Inmates escape from Texas federal prison, return with whiskey

  15-10-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The men left the prison grounds and cut through a neighboring ranch before getting caught by authorities.
  
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