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• Murder arrest over torso in suitcase

  07-06-2015 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 57-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman whose torso was found in a suitcase.
  
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• VIDEO: Obama urges UK not to leave EU

  07-06-2015 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barack Obama adds his voice to calls for Britain to remain in the EU, as the two leaders meet for talks at the G7 summit in Germany.
  
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• Saudis uphold blogger's 1,000 lashes

  07-06-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upholds a sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.
  
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• Bikers' continued jailing sparks Waco protest 3 weeks later

  07-06-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Several hundred bikers have protested outside a courthouse in Waco over the continued jailing of more than 100 bikers, friends and family members three weeks after a deadly shootout at a restaurant.
  
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• VIDEO: S Korea starts Mers containment strategy

  07-06-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fourteen more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) have been confirmed in South Korea and a fifth person has died, according to health officials.
  
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• Stars rock Malaysia at Bollywood's Oscars

  07-06-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was a night of Bollywood glamour and energy in Malaysia on Sunday at the International Indian Film Academy's (IIFA) annual awards ceremony. India's biggest stars descended on the Malaysian capital for the event -- dubbed Bollywood's Oscars -- dazzling the audience with the colourful musical dance numbers that India's cinema is famous for. Almost 4,000 fans gathered at the Putra Indoor stadium, just south of Kuala Lumpur, to see screen idols like Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapo
  
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• VIDEO: On board HMS Bulwark as migrants rescued

  07-06-2015 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Royal Navy warship HMS Bulwark has rescued at least 500 migrants off the coast of Libya.
  
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• Manhunt on for two convicted killers after New York escape

  07-06-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police backed by K-9 units and helicopters staged a manhunt Sunday for two convicted murderers who escaped from New York state's biggest maximum security prison by cutting through cell walls with power tools and escaping along tunnels. The pair, who lived in adjoining cells, used power tools to drill through walls and pipes and left behind sweatshirts and other clothing in their beds as decoys to make it appear they were still in their cells, officials said. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo t
  
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• F1 leader Lewis Hamilton wins Canadian Grand Prix

  07-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTREAL (AP) — Lewis Hamilton quickly put his Monaco pit stop blunder — and everyone else in the Formula One field — behind him.
  
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• Apologies issued for abuse lawsuit filed vs. Hollywood execs

  07-06-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two attorneys have issued apologies for lawsuits filed against two Hollywood executives who the attorneys claimed sexually abused a former aspiring actor in 1999.
  
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• Turkish PM says AK Party clear winner in parliament election

  07-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that the AK Party was the clear winner in a parliamentary election and vowed to take all necessary measures to prevent harm to Turkey's political stability. "Everyone should see that the AKP is the winner and leader of these elections," Davutoglu said in a speech to supporters from the balcony of the AKP headquarters in Ankara.
  
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• Soldier who killed 16 Afghans says he was 'consumed by war'

  07-06-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers in 2012 says he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans over the course of his four combat deployments.
  
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• Midwest Braces for Severe Storms, Flash Floods

  07-06-2015 22:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for parts of south central Colorado on Sunday and warned of more severe weather for the Great Lakes and Plains.
  
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• Shark Bites 10-Year-Old Boy's Leg at Florida Beach

  07-06-2015 22:46 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The 10-year-old, who has not been identified, was bitten on his right calf while in the water at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach.
  
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• Pregnant Woman Vanishes on Delivery Date

  07-06-2015 22:45 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Carrie Bradshaw-Crowther, 49, disappeared at about 5 a.m. ET Tuesday from her Salisbury, North Carolina, home, an hour before a scheduled C-section.
  
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• Diamondbacks weighing options for top pick in draft

  07-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks have the first pick in the draft after finishing with baseball's worst record last season.
  
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• Truex breaks through at Pocono for 1st win since 2013

  07-06-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. led the most laps for the fourth straight race, only this time he was in front on the one that mattered most, breaking through Sunday at Pocono Raceway for his first Sprint Cup victory since 2013.
  
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• Kate Moss escorted off Easyjet flight

  07-06-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Supermodel Kate Moss is escorted off a plane at Luton airport after reportedly being disruptive.
  
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• Hamilton wins in Canada to end Rosberg's resurgence

  07-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton bounced back and increased his lead in the drivers world championship Sunday when he drove to a well-measured victory ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the Canadian Grand Prix. The two-time champion made the most of the 44th pole position of his career to lead from the lights to the chequered flag, finishing the 70 laps contest at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 2.2 seconds clear of the 29-year-old German. It was Hamilton's fourth win in Canad
  
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• Kurdish party thwarts Erdogan's ambitions with Turkish election advance

  07-06-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow on Sunday when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, preliminary results showed. With 97 percent of ballots counted, the AKP had taken 40.8 percent of the vote, according to broadcaster CNN Turk, a result which will leave it struggling to form a stable government for the first time since it came to power more than a deca
  
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• Why Virat Kohli has to rid Indian cricket of bad habits

  07-06-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why Virat Kohli has to learn the waiting game
  
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• Newly crowned Pharoah to race again: owner

  07-06-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American Pharoah's scintillating Triple Crown triumph at the Belmont Stakes won't be his last race, the colt's owner declared on Sunday. The bay colt became just the 12th horse -- and the first in 37 years -- to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont, providing an energizing jolt to a sport long struggling to stay relevant in the United States.
  
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• Scattered violence as Mexico holds midterm elections

  07-06-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Protesters burned ballot boxes in several restive states of southern Mexico on Sunday in an attempt to disrupt elections seen as a litmus test for President Enrique Pena Nieto's government, while officials said the vote was proceeding satisfactorily despite "isolated incidents."
  
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• Governor: 2 inmates must have taken days to pull off escape

  07-06-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday as a $100,000 reward was posted for information leading to their capture.
  
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• Turkey party loses majority in blow for Erdogan

  07-06-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party lost its absolute parliamentary majority in legislative elections on Sunday, dealing a severe blow to strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ambition to expand his powers. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the biggest share of the vote in the elections, but well down on the almost 50 percent it recorded in the previous 2011 polls. In a sensational result that shakes-up Turkey's political landscape, the pro-Kurdish People's De
  
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• LightSail Wakes Up in Orbit and Spreads Its Solar Sail

  07-06-2015 22:08 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  LightSail's handlers re-established contact with the experimental spacecraft and quickly sent up the commands to unfurl its solar sail on Sunday.
  
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• Richard Matt and David Sweat: A Look at the 2 Escaped Murderers

  07-06-2015 21:56
  
  Richard Matt and David Sweat are both considered dangerous.
  
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• Deutsche task to test Cryan's strategic credentials

  07-06-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ZURICH/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - John Cryan has spent years of his life advising banks on strategy. Now as the new CEO of Germany's Deutsche Bank he'll have just days to put his ideas into practice. Cryan, a 54-year-old Briton, was head of the global financial institutions advisory group at UBS before he was elevated to the role of chief financial officer of the Swiss bank in September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis.
  
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• To the Dogs: China's New Passion for Pets Is Big Business

  07-06-2015 21:55 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Once banned as a bourgeois pastime, having a pet has now become a symbol of financial success in China,
  
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• Obama uses G7 to press UK's Cameron on defense spending

  07-06-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister David Cameron he hoped Britain would keep military spending at 2 percent of national output, despite London's need to cut a sizeable budget deficit, a British source said on Sunday. Obama pressed Cameron on the sensitive subject in a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of Seven industrial nations in Germany amid concern in the United States that defense spending in its closest ally could be poised to fall below the NATO targ
  
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• G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at Alpine summit

  07-06-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason and Noah Barkin KRUEN, Germany (Reuters) - Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine. The Ukraine conflict and a long-running debt standoff between Greece and its European partners dominated the first day of the annual meeting hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel at Schloss Elmau, a luxury Alpin
  
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• Kentucky begins party planning for new racing king

  07-06-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police escorts guided American Pharoah and his entourage back home to Churchill Downs Sunday, hours after his stunningly smooth run into Triple Crown history.
  
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• Orange boss plans Israel trip after 'boycott' row

  07-06-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Paris (AFP) - Orange boss Stephane Richard has accepted an invitation by the Israeli government to visit the country after a boycott row, a spokesman for the French telecoms firm told AFP, adding that the trip would allow the CEO to "clarify the misunderstanding".
  
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• Turkey's lira hits record low after election jolt for ruling AKP

  07-06-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Turkish lira hit a record low in weekend-thinned trade on Sunday, after the governing AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, raising the prospect of a minority or coalition government. "Turkish political risk has been a focal point for market concern for some time.  It has now been taken to a whole new level," said Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Sovereign Strategy. "We expect a minority government and an early election," a senior AKP official told Reuters on condi
  
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• Search for 'Dangerous' Prison Escapees Enters Second Day

  07-06-2015 21:46 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  More than 200 officers from numerous law enforcement agencies were monitoring checkpoints and searching mountainous upstate New York terrain Sunday.
  
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• Italian leaders vow not to shelter any more rescued migrants

  07-06-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Heartened by recent election successes by an anti-immigrant party, Italian politicians based in the north vowed Sunday not to shelter any more migrants saved at sea, even as thousands more were being rescued in the Mediterranean from smugglers' boats in distress.
  
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• Wiggins smashes world cycling record

  07-06-2015 21:38 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Bradley Wiggins added the world hour record to his impressive list of cycling achievements as he covered a distance of 54.526 kilometers at the Olympic velodrome in London Sunday.
  
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• Mediterranean migrant crisis: British warship HMS Bulwark rescues over 1,000 refugees

  07-06-2015 21:34
  
  A British warship rescued more than 1,000 desperate migrants making the perilous journey from Libya to Italy, in the Royal Navy’s biggest Mediterranean rescue mission.
  
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• Turkey elections: President Recep Erdogan's party loses majority in poll triumph for country's Kurds

  07-06-2015 21:33
  
  Thousands of Kurds took to the streets in Turkey on Sunday night after the main pro-Kurdish party won enough votes to enter parliament for the first time.
  
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• Turkey elections: President Recep Erdogan's party keeps control but loses seats in Turkish vote

  07-06-2015 21:33
  
  Turkish voters appeared on course to return the ruling Justice and Development Party to power, but without the strong showing it needed to change the constitutional powers of the President.
  
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• France Arrests Two More in Church-Attack Terror Plot

  07-06-2015 21:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Two men were arrested Sunday by French authorities in connection with a thwarted terror plot to attack a church near Paris in April.
  
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• The Latest: $100K reward for 2 escaped convicted killers

  07-06-2015 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• David Cameron warns President Obama: I can't promise to maintain defence spending

  07-06-2015 21:28
  
  David Cameron has warned President Obama that he can no longer promise the Government will keep its commitment to maintain Britain's defence budget in the face of futher austerity.
  
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• David Cameron warns President Obama he cannot promise to maintain defence spending

  07-06-2015 21:28
  
  David Cameron has warned President Obama that he can no longer promise the Government will keep its commitment to maintain Britain's defence budget in the face of further austerity.
  
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• The Latest: Wawrinka jokes about his shorts at French Open

  07-06-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest from the final day of the French Open:
  
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• Joy and pistol fire in Turkey's Kurdish southeast after vote

  07-06-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Thousands of jubilant Kurds flooded the streets of Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Sunday, setting off fireworks and waving flags as the pro-Kurdish opposition looked likely to enter parliament as a party for the first time. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said initial results from Sunday's election showed it would take 80 of 550 seats, a stunning result for a party that pollsters had said would struggle to cross the required 10 per
  
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• Obama uses G7 to press Cameron on defence spending

  07-06-2015 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister David Cameron he hoped Britain would keep military spending at 2 percent of national output, despite London's need to cut a sizeable budget deficit, a British source said on Sunday. Obama pressed Cameron on the sensitive subject in a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of Seven industrial nations in Germany amid concern in the United States that defence spending in its closest ally could be poised to fall below the NATO
  
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• Storm in a teacup? French envoy denies turning up nose at Labour's tea and biscuits during meeting with Hilary Benn

  07-06-2015 21:19
  
  French diplomats have reportedly expressed dissatisfaction about being offered tea and biscuits during a meeting with Hilary Benn.
  
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• French diplomats unhappy after being offered tea and biscuits during Hilary Benn meeting

  07-06-2015 21:19
  
  French diplomats have reportedly expressed dissatisfaction about being offered tea and biscuits during a meeting with Hilary Benn.
  
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• Turkish election deals blow to Erdogan's ambitions

  07-06-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow on Sunday when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, partial results showed. With 94 percent of ballots counted, the AKP had taken 41 percent of the vote, according to broadcaster CNN Turk, a result which will leave it struggling to form a stable government for the first time since it came to power more than a decade ago
  
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