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• Republican 2016 hopeful Bobby Jindal: Barack Obama 'tries to divide us by race'

  09-05-2015 23:59
  
  Louisiana governor: president also divides on gender, age and geographyPotential 2016 GOP candidate criticises concept of ‘hyphenated Americans’ Continue reading...
  
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• Former Turkish President Evren dies

  09-05-2015 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  General Kenan Evren, the leader of Turkey's 1980 military coup and then president of the country, has died at the age of 97.
  
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• Putin voices grievances as huge parade marks 70th anniversary of victory

  09-05-2015 23:55
  
  Thousands of troops as well as tanks and jets feature in Victory Day celebrations overseen by Russian presidentThousands of troops, as well as tanks, fighter jets and intercontinental ballistic missile carriers featured in a pomp-filled parade on Red Square on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the second world war. Vladimir Putin used a speech at the event, boycotted by most western leaders, to take a swipe at the US.Victory Day, which in Russia is celebrated on 9 May, has been
  
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• Julio Iglesias receives honorary degree from Berklee

  09-05-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Julio Iglesias and three other prominent music industry figures have received honorary degrees from Boston's Berklee College of Music at its commencement.
  
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• Vatican cardinal sees no change in family teachings at synod

  09-05-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A senior Vatican cardinal predicted Saturday that there will be no change in the Catholic Church's practice and teaching about marriage, divorce and the reception of Communion at an upcoming meeting of bishops on family issues.
  
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• The Latest on 2016: Fiorina says Clinton isn't trustworthy

  09-05-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Ronaldo penalty miss costs Real

  09-05-2015 23:44 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Barcelona is on the verge of reclaiming the Spanish league title after Real Madrid could only draw 2-2 with Valencia on Saturday.
  
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• VIDEO: Moscow: Fireworks at V Day celebrations

  09-05-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Moscow celebrates the World War Two victory anniversary with a grand concert and fireworks in the evening.
  
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• Gove’s return to heart of government renews rivalry with May as Cameron picks team to redraw political map

  09-05-2015 23:36
  
  While the PM’s decision to reappoint senior Tories to top cabinet jobs was expected, the new justice role for the unpopular former education secretary hints at simmering rivalries and even a plot to influence who is his successor Continue reading...
  
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• Joanne Carson, ex-wife of former 'Tonight Show' host, dies

  09-05-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joanne Carson, the second wife of "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson, has died in Southern California. She was 83.
  
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• National Comedy Centre to bring back famous historical comedians - as holograms

  09-05-2015 23:26
  
  For most comedians, being pelted by objects while on stage would be a problem but many of the performers at a new comedy club in upstate New York won’t be offended at such treatment – because they will be a hologram.
  
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• Nepal earthquake: British doctor saved 23 lives after Everest avalanche

  09-05-2015 23:25
  
  Rachel Tullet suffered serious injuries to her leg but helped keep climbers and Sherpas alive until help arrived Continue reading...
  
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• Former Turkish president, coup leader, Evren dies at 97

  09-05-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Kenan Evren, the Turkish general who led a 1980 coup that ended years of violence but whose rule unleashed a wave of arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings, died on Saturday. He was 97.
  
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• ECB should 'hang heads in shame'

  09-05-2015 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-England captain Alec Stewart says the ECB should "hang their heads in shame" over the sacking of coach Peter Moores.
  
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• The Latest on 2016: Ben Carson says he's not a politician

  09-05-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• China firm on mass holiday to France

  09-05-2015 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Chinese company has paid for 6,400 of its employees to go on holiday to France for four days.
  
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• Famed country fiddler Johnny Gimble dies at 89

  09-05-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Renowned fiddler Johnny Gimble, whose career included a stint as a Texas Playboy with the legendary Western swing musician Bob Wills and then gained fame for his backup work with country stars from Merle Haggard to Carrie Underwood, has died.
  
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• The Latest on 2016: Jindal says American dream in danger

  09-05-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Saudi-led coalition launches wave of air strikes on Yemen

  09-05-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO/ADEN (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it had hit Yemen with 130 air strikes over the previous 24 hours, and a senior UN official said some attacks violated international law. The coalition of Arab states had called on civilians to evacuate Saada, the city in northern Yemen where support for Houthi rebels is strongest, before the bombing but it was unclear how they could leave. "The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in cont
  
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• Church-cum-mosque causes controversy at Venice Biennale

  09-05-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iceland sparked controversy on the opening day of the Biennale art fair in the Italian city of Venice Saturday by turning a disused church into a mosque. Entitled "La Moschea", the installation was created in the Santa-Maria della Misericordia, a former Catholic church that was rented to Iceland's national pavilion by its private owner. The installation, by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel, aims to draw attention to the absence of a mosque in the historic centre of Venice -- a city
  
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• Macedonian police in deadly clash with armed group

  09-05-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KUMANOVO, Macedonia (AP) — An armed group attacked police with automatic guns, snipers and bombs in a town in northern Macedonia on Saturday amid a political crisis that has raised concern about the stability in the Balkan nation, officials said.
  
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• Paul set to play for Clippers in Game 4 against Rockets

  09-05-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Paul's hamstring injury is showing improvement and he will start for the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 4 against the Houston Rockets.
  
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• New US fighter jet on course to becoming ‘one of history’s biggest white elephants’

  09-05-2015 22:44
  
  A plane so technologically advanced that it would give Britain and the US air superiority in any future conflict and billed as the world’s most advanced stealth fighter jet, could be one of “the biggest white elephants in history”, according to a former defence minister.
  
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• Hundreds march across Brooklyn Bridge for stricter gun laws

  09-05-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of men, women and children including fashion designer Donna Karan marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday demanding stricter gun laws and offering a litany of violent stories to show why such laws are needed.
  
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• Bulls' Gasol questionable for Game 4 against Cavaliers

  09-05-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls say forward Pau Gasol is questionable for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Cleveland Cavaliers because of a strained left hamstring.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Prison guard sexually assaulted in Arizona

  09-05-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A female guard was sexually assaulted by a male inmate at an Arizona prison last month in the second such attack on an employee in the last 18 months, corrections officials said.
  
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• Tough day for Tiger at TPC Sawgrass

  09-05-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former world number one Tiger Woods slipped further down the Players Championship leaderboard on Saturday with a third-round 75 that included double bogeys on two par-five holes. He was in a bunker with his third shot and over the green with his fourth en route to a double bogey. After a bogey and birdie at the sixth and seventh, Woods needed three chips to from about 20 feet out to reach the green for a second double bogey.
  
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• Vatican cardinal sees no change in family debate at synod

  09-05-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A senior Vatican cardinal is predicting there will be no change in the Catholic Church's practice and teaching about marriage, divorce and the reception of Communion at an upcoming meeting of bishops on family issues.
  
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• Wizards PG John Wall out for Game 3 against Atlanta Hawks

  09-05-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — All-Star point guard John Wall was inactive for Game 3 of the Washington Wizards' Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday because of an injured left hand and wrist.
  
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• Syria conflict: With the men away fighting, women take the mantle of community leaders in Lebanon's refugee camps

  09-05-2015 22:16
  Sitting cross-legged in her makeshift tent, and due to go into labour any day now, Kharieh Fares is blunt about her role as the leader of a refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
  
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• Barcelona on brink of Liga title after Real draw

  09-05-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barcelona are just one win away from a 23rd La Liga title after Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty in Real Madrid's 2-2 draw at home to Valencia on Saturday. The league leaders are four points clear with two games to play after earlier claiming a comfortable 2-0 win over David Moyes's Real Sociedad thanks to goals from Neymar and Pedro Rodriguez.
  
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• South Africa's Obama: Mmusi Maimane set to lead challenge to ANC’s rule

  09-05-2015 22:12
  
  A part-time pastor is the man tipped to become the first black leader of South Africa’s biggest opposition party on 10 May and take the fight to the African National Congress (ANC), which has governed the country since the end of apartheid.
  
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• Republican presidential hopefuls focus fire on Obama foreign policy

  09-05-2015 22:04
  
  Walker and Santorum lead charge at South Carolina Freedom SummitRubio quotes Liam Neeson on terror: ‘We will find you and we will kill you’ Continue reading...
  
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• Cuban same-sex couples 'wed' in march for LGBT rights led by Castro's daughter

  09-05-2015 22:03
  
  Activist Mariela Castro, daughter of president Raúl, sponsors event at which 20 couples are blessed by American and Canadian clergy members Continue reading...
  
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• Woods goes wrong direction at Sawgrass

  09-05-2015 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods felt he needed one good round to close the gap on the leaders at The Players Championship.
  
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• Last great regions of pristine wilderness from Asia to Amazon under threat from massive road-building projects, scientist warns

  09-05-2015 21:58
  The last great regions of pristine wilderness – from Asia to the Amazon – are threatened by an unprecedented road-building programme financed by aggressive development banks with little interest in protecting the natural world, a leading environmental scientist has warned.
  
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• Saudi-led strikes in Yemen break international law: U.N. coordinator

  09-05-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GENEVA (Reuters) - Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on Saada city in Yemen, where many civilians are trapped, are in breach of international law, despite calls for civilians to leave the area, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen said on Saturday. "The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is in contravention of international humanitarian law," Johannes van der Klaauw said in a statement. (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
  
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• Castro's daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban gay couples

  09-05-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (AP) — The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro sponsored a blessing ceremony Saturday for gay couples on an island where gay marriage remains illegal.
  
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• 'Million Mom March' protests police killings at Justice Department – in pictures

  09-05-2015 21:48
  
  Protester estimates 1,000 in crowd marching in Washington in event organised by campaign group Mothers for Justice UnitedPrince releases Baltimore, song recorded in tribute to Freddie GrayContinue reading...
  
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• The Latest on 2016: Cruz touts his actions as a conservative

  09-05-2015 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Saudi coalition airstrikes hit rebel stronghold in Yemen

  09-05-2015 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Dozens of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit the rebel stronghold Saada in northern Yemen, forcing hundreds of families to flee the area, security officials and Shiite Houthi rebels said Saturday.
  
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• London protesters scuffle with police at anti-Cameron rally

  09-05-2015 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters threw bottles, cans and smoke bombs at riot police in central London on Saturday in a demonstration against the re-election of Britain's Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. A Reuters photographer estimated that a couple of hundred people took part in the protest, including a group of about 25 black-clad youths with sunglasses and face masks.
  
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• Tiger Woods fails to reach women's tee

  09-05-2015 21:25 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Tiger Woods has had a really bad week -- from his split with Lindsey Vonn on the anniversary of his dad's death to an embarrassing performance at one of golf's most prestigious events.
  
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• The Latest on 2016: Rubio tells story of family's move to US

  09-05-2015 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• In South Carolina, a campaign pitch for every GOP preference

  09-05-2015 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader.
  
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• Andrew Whitworth talks to Bengals owners about future

  09-05-2015 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals captain Andrew Whitworth got permission to attend rookie camp on Saturday and mentor the linemen who were taken in the draft. He also spent some time on the sideline clarifying his remarks to ownership.
  
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• Plains states brace for more severe weather, heavy rain

  09-05-2015 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Storms brought heavy rain and quarter-sized hail to parts of southwest Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon, but the greatest chance of potentially dangerous weather in the Great Plains loomed later in the day.
  
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• Searching the cosmos in Carl Sagan's name at Cornell

  09-05-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — The Cornell University institute searching for signs of life among the billions and billions of stars in the sky is being named for — who else? — Carl Sagan.
  
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• Macedonia: 3 police killed in clashes with armed group

  09-05-2015 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KUMANOVO, Macedonia (AP) — Three police officers were killed and at least 20 others were injured in clashes early Saturday between security forces and an armed group in the town Kumanovo in northern Macedonia, local media reported.
  
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• Pedro stunner moves Barca closer to Liga title

  09-05-2015 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pedro Rodriguez scored a stunning overhead kick as Barcelona took another step closer to a 23rd La Liga title with a 2-0 win over Real Sociedad to move five points clear of Real Madrid at the top of the table. Sociedad goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli kept the visitors in the game during the first-half, but he was finally beaten when Neymar headed home the opener early in the second-half. Madrid can close back to within two points of the league leaders with victory over fourth-placed Valencia at the Sa
  
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