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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compares Iran to the Nazis

  16-04-2015 23:56
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Iran to the Nazis, as the nation marked its Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  
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• El Salvador transfers 31 gang members, including 2 bosses, to maximum security prison

  16-04-2015 23:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in El Salvador say they have transferred 31 gang members, including two bosses from the hyper-violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, to the country's maximum security prison.
  
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• Man admits killing Calais schoolgirl

  16-04-2015 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 38-year-old Polish man admits to kidnapping and killing a nine-year-old girl in the French town of Calais.
  
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• E-cigarette use triples in US teens

  16-04-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some two million US high school students tried e-cigarettes last year, a rate that tripled in just one year, US health authorities said Thursday. The 2014 survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 13.4 percent of high school students said they had smoked an e-cigarette in the past month, up from 4.5 percent from 2013. In middle school, some 3.9 percent of kids (about 450,000 students) said they had tried vaping in the past month according to the 2014 findings, up fro
  
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• Top seed Hawks look to recapture form after sluggish ending

  16-04-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks spent the past month doing little more than warming up for the playoffs.
  
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• Mexico implements plan to save critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Sea of Cortes

  16-04-2015 23:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has launched a plan to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.
  
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• UN chief set to nominate new special envoy to Yemen

  16-04-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday is expected to nominate the head of the U.N. Ebola mission as the new special envoy to Yemen, the country's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.
  
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• VIDEO: Calls for EU to aid migrant rescues

  16-04-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  According to survivors, the capsizing of a boat in which about 400 migrants are feared to have died off Libya this week was caused by excitement at the sight of rescuers.
  
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• Greece finance minister vows compromise in loan talks

  16-04-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is promising to compromise in negotiations over the next installment of a bailout loan that would forestall Greece's possible exit from the European currency union.
  
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• Miliband wins final TV debate of election campaign - poll

  16-04-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband won the final TV debate of the election campaign on Thursday, a snap poll showed, but Prime Minister David Cameron declined to take part and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was not included. The poll, by Survation and the Daily Mirror newspaper, said 35 percent of those asked thought Miliband won the debate, 31 percent believed Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon had triumphed, and 27 percent judged Nigel Farage, the leader
  
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• White House names deputy social secretary to top job

  16-04-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former hip-hop journalist who became a White House intern in her 30s was named on Thursday as the new White House social secretary.
  
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• "Duck Dynasty" family debuts musical in Las Vegas

  16-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — There is no shortage of beards, camo, hunting and God alongside a bit of recent real-life scandal in "Duck Commander Musical."
  
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• Mogul Suge Knight to stand trial for murder

  16-04-2015 23:34 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was ordered Thursday to stand trial for murder and other charges stemming from a deadly hit-and-run confrontation on the movie set of the biopic "Straight Outta Compton" earlier this year.
  
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• Deadly anti-immigrant wave

  16-04-2015 23:33 via edition.cnn.com
  
  2,000 immigrants wait in refugee camps after a wave of anti-immigrant mob attacks in downtown Durban. CNN's Diana Magnay reports on the rainbow nation's struggle with xenophobia.
  
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• EPA says pesticide that sickened 4 in US Virgin Islands also improperly used in Puerto Rico

  16-04-2015 23:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A federal investigation into the recent sickening with a toxic pesticide of a U.S. family vacationing in the Virgin Islands found that the chemical has also been improperly used in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
  
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• England push for West Indies victory

  16-04-2015 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Gary Ballance's century and a stunning Chris Jordan catch set up England's bid for victory over West Indies in Antigua.
  
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• Anna Kendrick has book of essays coming in 2016

  16-04-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Kendrick, already known as an actress and singer, will soon show off her literary side.
  
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• U.S. objects to Boston bomber's lawyers' call to 'look deep inside'

  16-04-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Thursday objected to what they said was a call by lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that jurors "look deep inside" themselves when considering whether they believe the testimony of foreign witnesses. In a filing in Boston federal court, prosecutors said they objected to what they said was the defense's request that U.S. District Judge George O'Toole instruct the jurors to consider whether they are na
  
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• Schlumberger cuts 11,000 more jobs as earnings fall

  16-04-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil-services giant Schlumberger said Thursday it would cut 11,000 more jobs as its first-quarter earnings tumbled after low crude prices forced it to cut drilling. Schlumberger chief executive Paal Kibsgaard said the latest round of cuts was caused by a severe decline in North American land drilling and by reduced investment by oil companies overseas. Schlumberger currently employs 115,000 around the world.
  
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• Nigerian leader to UN: Don't focus on international force

  16-04-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's outgoing president told the United Nations on Thursday not to focus on deploying an international force to fight Boko Haram but instead help victims of its terror.
  
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• Blind vendors scuffle with Mexico City police in protest over ejection from subway station

  16-04-2015 23:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Blind vendors angry about having their stalls removed from a downtown Mexico City subway station this week have clashed with police outside city hall.
  
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• In pictures: Singapore in transit

  16-04-2015 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Photographer captures Singapore in transit
  
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• Wall Street holds steady, oil rises and dollar declines

  16-04-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street equities finished modestly lower on Thursday as investors worried about coming corporate results, while European stocks fell nearly 1 percent under the weight of Greece's worsening financial predicament. Euro zone government borrowing costs hit new lows, the dollar dropped, and oil prices climbed to fresh 2015 highs on fighting in Yemen. Wall Street was down most of Thursday despite another flurry of better-than-expected profit reports, including Netflix and Goldman Sachs, and e
  
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• Grand jury indicts Kansas man in Fort Riley bomb plot

  16-04-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal grand jury handed down a three-count indictment Thursday charging a 20-year-old Kansas man with trying to carry out a suicide attack at Fort Riley.
  
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• Wikileaks publishes Sony documents

  16-04-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment last year.
  
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• Dreaming of Uighuristan

  16-04-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Uighurs of Xinjiang have long fled to Central Asia to escape restrictions on their freedom at home - but now even there Uighur separatism is unwelcome.
  
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• American Express tops 1Q profit forecasts

  16-04-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — American Express on Thursday said its first-quarter net income rose to $1.51 billion, but the results were held back by a stronger U.S. dollar.
  
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• Fed officials lean all ways on rate hikes, data in focus

  16-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal Reserve officials on Thursday were again at public odds over when the U.S. central bank should start raising rates, underscoring the difficult task ahead for Fed Chair Janet Yellen as she tries to build consensus for a rate hike sometime later this year. The Fed's June meeting, Yellen said last month, is the earliest date for a start to the Fed's first round of monetary policy tightening in more than a decade. On Thursday, Vice Chair Stanley Fischer emphasized the determining r
  
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• Photos: Baby Chick Hitches a Ride on Mom

  16-04-2015 22:56
  
  Absolutely adorable baby animals!
  
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• Dog flu has infected thousands of dogs in the US Midwest

  16-04-2015 22:56
  
  A new strain of dog flu has come to US shores for the first time and has infected thousands of dogs in the Midwest, killing six, according to animal health officials.
  
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• UN Security Council gets graphic briefing on suspected Syria chlorine attacks

  16-04-2015 22:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
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• Obama signs overhaul of how Medicare pays doctors

  16-04-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed legislation permanently changing how Medicare pays doctors, a rare bipartisan achievement by Democrats and Republicans.
  
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• Ex-JPMorgan banker charged with stealing $20M from clients

  16-04-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker has been arrested on charges he stole $20 million from clients over a four-year period.
  
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• Correction: Jailed For Overweight Rig story

  16-04-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a story April 14 about a Florida trucker jailed for violating a truck weight limit on a Pennsylvania road, The Associated Press misspelled the man's last name. He is Francisco Amarales-Amarales, not Amareles-Amareles.
  
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• Pelicans' Davis eagerly awaits playoff debut

  16-04-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It takes a certain self-confidence for a college freshman to embrace a potentially pejorative nickname like "The Unibrow."
  
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• Senate seeks deal on stalled human trafficking bill

  16-04-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Key lawmakers are working to resolve a dispute over abortion that has long held up Senate approval of legislation to crack down on human trafficking.
  
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• Germany warns Greece over credit

  16-04-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greece would struggle to find creditors outside of the EU and IMF, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says.
  
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• Nigerian leader to UN: No need for international force

  16-04-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's leader has told the United Nations not to focus on deploying an international force to fight Boko Haram but instead help victims of its terror.
  
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• Nigerian leader to UN: No need for international force to fight Boko Haram

  16-04-2015 22:37 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Nigeria's leader has told the United Nations not to focus on deploying an international force to fight Boko Haram but instead help victims of its terror.
  
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• Prosecutors: NY office worker posed as dentist, pulled teeth

  16-04-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An office manager was arraigned Thursday on charges she posed as a dentist when the real dentist was away and seriously injured patients after pulling their teeth, performing root canals on them and injecting their mouths, prosecutors said.
  
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• Arrest of treasurer for Brazil's governing party brings oil scandal close to president

  16-04-2015 22:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The arrest of the high-profile treasurer of Brazil's governing party has brought the unfolding corruption scandal at the country's state-owned oil company uncomfortably close to President Dilma Rousseff, analysts said Thursday.
  
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• Giving up an afternoon gain, US stocks close with tiny loss

  16-04-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix soared, big corporations turned in quarterly results, and investors welcomed new companies into the market. There was plenty of news, but major indexes finished the day just short of where they started.
  
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• Correction: Starved Toddler-Texas story

  16-04-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — In a story April 14 about a church leader accused of helping starve a 2-year-old boy, The Associated Press, relying on court documents, erroneously spelled the suspect's first name. Her name is Aracely Meza, not Araceli Meza.
  
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• Etsy shares surge 88% on debut

  16-04-2015 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in arts and crafts marketplace Etsy surge 88% in their US market debut, valuing the 10-year-old Brooklyn firm at more than $3.3bn.
  
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• Photos: Ernest Hemingway's Model Great-Granddaughter Buys Home

  16-04-2015 22:29
  
  Dree Hemingway paid $1.2 million for a three-bedroom home built in the 1940s.
  
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• Warriors? Cavs? Spurs again? No clear NBA Finals favorite

  16-04-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sweet-shooting Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have the best record, an unmatched home-court advantage, and the understanding that means nothing now.
  
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• Man 'planned to kill US soldiers'

  16-04-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Ohio man who travelled to Syria to fight with al Nusrah Front has been charged over alleged plans to carry out a terror attack in the US.
  
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• Police: 'Tree Ninja' caught chopping down tree with a hammer

  16-04-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say they have arrested a 65-year-old man they believe is the infamous "Brighton Tree Ninja."
  
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• Owner of mining claim urges armed supporters to stand down

  16-04-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A man who owns a gold-mining claim on federal land in southwestern Oregon asked for help defending it after U.S. authorities ordered him to stop work but is now telling his armed supporters to back off.
  
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• Q&A: Who is this flying mailman with a message for Congress?

  16-04-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RUSKIN, Fla. (AP) — Many questions surround the political stunt of a postal worker charged Thursday with violating national airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft by landing his gyrocopter on Capitol Hill.
  
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