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• Greece's Tsipras says 'strong national front' needed in talks

  05-07-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday called for 'a strong national front' to negotiate a way out of the country's debt crisis, after Greeks overwhelmingly rejected tough austerity terms set by international creditors.
  
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• Eurogroup to meet on Tuesday to prepare summit on Greece

  05-07-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers will meet on Tuesday to prepare an emergency euro zone summit on Greece later in the day, a spokesman for Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Sunday.
  
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• The Latest: Pope sends telegrams to nations not on his trip

  05-07-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:
  
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• The Latest: Japan thankful for US help after tsunami

  05-07-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The latest from the Women's World Cup final (all times local):
  
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• Pope Francis back on home turf for visit to 3 poor nations

  05-07-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Latin America's first pope returned to Spanish-speaking South America on Sunday for the first time, beginning a nine-day tour that will take him to three of the continent's poorest countries.
  
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• Deteriorating nails blamed for North Carolina deck collapse

  05-07-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say the nails holding the floor of a deck gave way, causing a family posing for a picture to fall about 10 feet at a North Carolina beachfront rental home.
  
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• Firefighters Rescue Phoenix Man Stuck in Chimney

  05-07-2015 23:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Firefighters broke a 23-year-old Arizona man out of his chimney after he got stuck there because his friends locked him out of the house as a joke.
  
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• The Latest: EU official says Greece needs humanitarian aid

  05-07-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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• Versace kicks off Paris couture week in style

  05-07-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Actress Michelle Rodriguez joined celebrity attendees Sunday at the start of Paris' fall-winter 2016 haute couture week — that headlined with Versace. Here are the highlights, including Adeline Andre and Ulyana Sergeenko:
  
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• N.Y. Prison Escapee Returns to Max Security Prison

  05-07-2015 23:38 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Captured prison escapee David Sweat is back in a maximum security prison for the first time in nearly a month, according to officials.
  
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• The Latest: Pope took time during flight to greet press

  05-07-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:
  
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• Fire that threatened homes in California is fully contained

  05-07-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that might have been started by fireworks and burned more than 320 acres while threatening homes in the California city of Vacaville was 100 percent contained Sunday, officials said.
  
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• The Latest: Eurozone summit on Greece called for Tuesday

  05-07-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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• EU's Tusk calls euro zone summit on Greece for Tuesday

  05-07-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk called a euro zone summit for Tuesday to discuss the Greek debt crisis after Greeks voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject the terms of a bailout.
  
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• Fast-moving wildfire that threatened homes fully contained

  05-07-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a wildfire that might have been started by fireworks and burned more than 320 acres while threatening homes in the California city of Vacaville is 100 percent contained.
  
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• CORRECTS: European Council president says he's called a summit Tuesday to discuss Greece.

  05-07-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — CORRECTS: European Council president says he's called a summit Tuesday to discuss Greece. (Corrects APNewsAlert that said the council president called a referendum. )
  
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• The Latest: Vancouver awash in US fans ahead of WWC final

  05-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The latest from the Women's World Cup final (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Pope Francis driving into Ecuador's capital

  05-07-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:
  
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• Greek voters reject bailout offer

  05-07-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With almost all the votes from a crucial referendum counted, Greeks overwhelmingly reject bailout terms offered by international creditors.
  
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• German calls for Grexit mount as EU stunned by 'No' vote

  05-07-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - France and Germany called for an emergency summit of euro zone leaders to discuss Greeks' stunning referendum vote on Sunday to reject bailout terms, as calls mounted in Berlin to cut Greece loose from Europe's common currency. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said Athens had wrecked any hope of compromise with its euro zone partners by overwhelmingly rejecting further austerity. Merkel and French President Francois Hollande conferred by telephone and called f
  
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• Greek PM says Athens ready to return to negotiating table

  05-07-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed a 'No' vote in Sunday's referendum on a bailout offer and said his government was ready to return immediately to negotiations with creditors in a bid to get shuttered banks open again. Dismissing talk that the referendum was effectively a vote on whether Greece stays in the euro, Tsipras said the mandate that Greeks had given him was to reach a viable solution rather than clash with Europe. "With the difficult circumstances prevailing today you made a v
  
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• The Latest: Tsipras thanks Greeks for making 'brave choice'

  05-07-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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• Greece referendum analysis: Greece has taken a terrifying leap into the unknown

  05-07-2015 22:45
  
  What did they mean by that? Did Greece’s No voters truly think the creditor nations were bluffing when they said No meant goodbye to the country’s membership of the single currency? Or did the majority of voters who marked Oxi on their ballot papers in cities and villages across Greece really want out of the eurozone? We can’t be sure. That’s the problem with referendums. Plebiscites are presented as the apotheosis of democracy – but they often leave as many questions as answers.
  
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• Greece referendum analysis: Compromise may still emerge but this is a terrifying gamble

  05-07-2015 22:45
  
  What did they mean by that? Did Greece’s No voters truly think the creditor nations were bluffing when they said No meant goodbye to the country’s membership of the single currency? Or did the majority of voters who marked Oxi on their ballot papers in cities and villages across Greece really want out of the eurozone? We can’t be sure. That’s the problem with referendums. Plebiscites are presented as the apotheosis of democracy – but they often leave as many questions as answers.
  
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• 2 Killed, 3 Missing After Boat Capsizes

  05-07-2015 22:44
  
  Nine people were on board at the time.
  
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• 17 out of hospital in N. Carolina beach house deck collapse

  05-07-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a deck to collapse as a family was taking a group photo at their rented beach house in North Carolina.
  
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• Greece referendum: Greeks say 'No' to austerity and plunge Europe into crisis

  05-07-2015 22:42
  
  The people of Greece have presented the European Union with the greatest political crisis in its history after voters decisively rejected years of further austerity and effectively challenged Brussels to throw a member state into the economic abyss.
  
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• The cartoonists' view

  05-07-2015 22:40 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Greece. A government debt of $323 billion, an economy that's dropped by a quarter and banks that have closed their doors and ATMs -- you can cry, or you can laugh. Many have opted for the latter.
  
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• Pope Francis lands in Ecuador on three-nation tour

  05-07-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis arrived in Ecuador on Sunday to kick off his first South American trip in two years that will also take him to Bolivia and Paraguay and see him highlight the plight of the poor. It is the first visit by a pontiff to Ecuador in three decades. Francis's last visit to South America was a triumphant trip to Brazil in 2013 that culminated with some three million people gathering in Rio de Janeiro along Copacabana beach for a mass at the end of a Catholic youth festival.
  
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• The Latest: German official: Tsipras tore down last bridge

  05-07-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Pope Francis arrives Ecuador for 9-day tour

  05-07-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:
  
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• Greece referendum reaction: EU mulls next steps as vote threatens biggest crisis in its history

  05-07-2015 22:36
  
  The European Union held out the chance of a fresh dialogue with Athens in the wake of crushing victory of the Greek government in Sunday's referendum on a bailout package, with officials in Brussels and elsewhere indicating they were still willing to discuss new bailout terms.
  
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• Woods goes bogey free for first time since 2013

  05-07-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tiger Woods fired his first bogey free round since 2013 on Sunday, closing with a three-under par 67 in the final round of The Greenbrier Classic. The former world number one snapped a string of 55 straight rounds with a bogey or worse -- a stretch dating back to his last bogey free round at The Barclays in August of 2013. "That is the best I have hit in a very long time," said Woods, who has plunged to 220th in the world.
  
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• Maltese PM on Greek vote: creditor countries must be protected

  05-07-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said in reaction to Greece's referendum "No" vote on Sunday that people in creditor countries now expected their representatives to protect their interests. People in creditor countries now expect their representatives to protect their interests and that of the whole European project," Muscat said.
  
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• Charlotte makes second public appearance

  05-07-2015 22:28 via edition.cnn.com
  Princess Charlotte made her second public appearance with the Royal Family en route to being christened at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham, England.
  
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• Brewers extend win streak to 8 games with 6-1 victory

  05-07-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Rookie Taylor Jungmann allowed four hits in eight innings and the Milwaukee Brewers extended their winning streak to eight games with a 6-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.
  
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• Eurogroup ministers to meet this week to discuss Greek vote: spokesman

  05-07-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The finance ministers of the Eurogroup will meet this week to discuss the outcome of the Greek referendum, a spokesman for group chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Sunday.
  
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• Merkel, Hollande want euro zone leaders' summit on Tuesday

  05-07-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in a phone call with French President Francois Hollande on Sunday night that a euro zone leaders' summit should be held on Tuesday after Greeks rejected bailout terms in a referendum, a German government spokesman said.
  
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• Greek conservative opposition leader Samaras steps down

  05-07-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced he was stepping down as leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy opposition party after a strong vote for the 'No' position backed by the leftwing government in Sunday's referendum.
  
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• Ball is now in Greeks' court, German foreign minister says

  05-07-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday that the outcome of Greece's referendum had to be accepted, and that the ball was now in the Greeks' court. "First of all we have to accept such a result," Steinmeier told reporters as he arrived in Vienna to join the Iran nuclear talks.
  
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• Leaders of Germany, France call for an EU summit on Tuesday to discuss Greek financial crisis

  05-07-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Leaders of Germany, France call for an EU summit on Tuesday to discuss Greek financial crisis.
  
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• Greece's main opposition leader has resigned after 'yes' side loses referendum

  05-07-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's main opposition leader has resigned after 'yes' side loses referendum.
  
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• The Latest: Poland: If 'no' wins, Greece must exit eurozone

  05-07-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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• Greeks reject demands for more austerity in key referendum

  05-07-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks overwhelmingly rejected creditors' demands for more austerity in return for rescue loans in a critical referendum Sunday, backing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who insisted the vote would give him a stronger hand to reach a better deal.
  
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• Greece 'No' in referendum sends euro into tailspin

  05-07-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greece's government on Sunday looked to have won a 'No' it had been seeking in a referendum on bailout terms, but the euro immediately plummeted on fears the result could splinter the eurozone. An official tally of over half the ballots cast showed a resounding 61 percent of Greek voters had backed the government's 'No' in the plebiscite. France's President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to meet in Paris the same day to assess the re
  
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• Greece referendum: Greeks don't want to leave Europe, but Europe wants revenge on the Greeks

  05-07-2015 21:49
  
  At the voting booth in Kipseli Street in the heart of Athens, I met the finest Greeks. The first has to be Angelika Dimitriades who is 96 – she doesn’t look it for a moment, with her carefully combed white hair – but who had ticked the Yes box because, she told me, “I am a European”.
  
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• Two dead after lightning strikes

  05-07-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two people are dead, and two others are in hospital, following separate lightning strikes in the Brecon Beacons in Powys.
  
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• War with Isis: The 'international brigade' of foreign fighters joining up to help Kurdish Peshmerga tackle Islamists

  05-07-2015 21:47
  On Iraq’s northern front, a marksman with the Kurdish Peshmerga looked down at the body of the dead Isis fighter, examining his weapon with keen interest. It was not just an unusual find on these front lines, a submachine gun dating from the Second World War, but it had also been curiously decorated by its previous owner, with pieces of what looked like human bone.
  
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• Pope's focus on poor hits home in Quito

  05-07-2015 21:45 via edition.cnn.com
  
  In the outskirts of the Ecuadorian capital, Pope Francis' planned visit brought much excitement -- especially among the poorest of believers.
  
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• The Latest: Varoufakis: Greeks say 'no more' to austerity

  05-07-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest from the bailout referendum in Greece (all times local):
  
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