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• China stocks trader counts his losses

  02-08-2015 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How the roller coaster Chinese stock market hit one investor
  
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• Doping crisis: Russia and Kenya reject drugs claims as a smear campaign

  02-08-2015 23:59
  
  Russia and Kenya, the two nations implicated most seriously in the latest doping allegations to rock the athletics world, have both hit back over the claims.
  
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• Climate change: Obama orders steeper cuts from power plants

  02-08-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.
  
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• Balloon Released at Father's Grave Amazingly Comes Back Home

  02-08-2015 23:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A widow and daughter's "letter to heaven" followed them 25 miles home after visiting dad's grave.
  
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• Donald Trump campaign fires staffer over 'racist Facebook posts'

  02-08-2015 23:39
  The campaign behind Donald Trump’s bid to become the Republican presidential candidate has fired a member of staff who allegedly made racist Facebook posts.
  
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• Matt Kenseth stretches his fuel and steals a win at Pocono

  02-08-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Matt Kenseth stretched his fuel and zipped past the fading leaders in the final thrilling laps Sunday to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway.
  
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• Greek stock exchange to reopen after five weeks

  02-08-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All eyes will be on Greece's embattled banks on Monday when the Athens stock exchange reopens after a five-week shutdown over the country's debt crisis, with traders bracing for a volatile session. Some 40 billion euros ($44 billion) has been withdrawn from Greek banks since December, according to the country's banks association, amid fears over the fate of the Greek economy. The reopening of the stock market comes after senior EU and IMF auditors held their first meetings with Gr
  
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• Seattle continues to keep core together locking up Wagner

  02-08-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Bobby Wagner was patient to a point.
  
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• 36,000 Cases of Kraft Singles Recalled Over Choking Hazard

  02-08-2015 23:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A piece of the thin plastic wrapper surrounding the Singles has the chance of sticking to the cheese, which could cause someone to choke.
  
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• Wildfires rage across California

  02-08-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of firefighters battled raging wildfires Sunday in drought-parched California, where officials evacuated entire neighborhoods and closed miles of highway in the path of the inferno, which has claimed at least one life. Governor Jerry Brown's office said that some 9,600 people were battling the fires early Sunday. Dry lightning strikes sparked most of the fires, while the causes of others remained unknown.
  
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• New Texan Wilfork looks to learn from Watt

  02-08-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Vince Wilfork bristled when asked what he could teach J.J. Watt.
  
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• Nine Shot at Backyard Party in Brooklyn

  02-08-2015 23:08 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The NYPD said the victims — between the ages of 19 and 38 — were taken to area hospitals.
  
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• Obama's climate plan seeks to slash emissions from power plants

  02-08-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said it will launch the first ever rule on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants, a plan that opponents in the coal industry and their political allies will fight in the courts. In a fact sheet issued on Sunday, the White House said President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan will cut emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The plan cuts emissions about 9 percent deeper than a last year's draft, the White House said. But it give
  
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• Explosions Rattle Two New Mexico Churches

  02-08-2015 22:45 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating the nearly-simultaneous blasts.
  
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• Gunmen in uniform kill ally of Burundi President Nkurunziza

  02-08-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing military uniforms shot dead a former Burundian security chief and close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza on Sunday, the presidency said, heightening tensions after a disputed presidential poll. Nkurunziza called for calm after the attack, which the United States and European Union condemned. General Adolphe Nshimirimana, who was in charge of the president's personal security at the time of his death, was killed in a car alongside three
  
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• Rouhani says nuclear deal a 'third way' for Iranian foreign policy

  02-08-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sam Wilkin and Babak Dehghanpisheh DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani affirmed his confidence in Iran's nuclear deal with world powers on Sunday, tackling the criticisms of hardliners and highlighting the achievements of his two-year-old presidency. With one eye on a likely run for re-election in 2017, Rouhani used a live interview on state TV to tout the deal as a new "third way" for Iranian foreign policy, dismissing hardliners' criticism that he had capit
  
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• Balloon Released at Father's Grave Returns Home

  02-08-2015 22:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A widow and her daughter in Cement, Oklahoma, released a balloon, with a note attached, at the grave of their beloved husband and father only to find the "letter to heaven" 25 miles away at their family's home.
  
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• 'Gene drive': Scientists sound alarm over supercharged GM organisms which could spread in the wild and cause environmental disasters

  02-08-2015 22:32
  A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has caused alarm among scientists who fear that it may be misused, accidentally or deliberately, and cause a health emergency or environmental disaster.
  
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• Skunk saved by Detroit-area police officer _ sans spray

  02-08-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — A hungry skunk whose head was stuck in a yogurt container has a hero: a suburban Detroit police officer.
  
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• Rahal wins in Ohio, pulls within 9 points of Montoya

  02-08-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Graham Rahal won the IndyCar race Sunday in his home state of Ohio, and in the process made up considerable ground on series leader Juan Pablo Montoya with two events remaining in the season.
  
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• German Isis recruit Ebrahim B to reveal full horrors of his 'execution centre' ordeal

  02-08-2015 22:26
  
  Ebrahim B finally woke up to the horrific reality of life in Isis in August last year. Locked in a blood-smeared cell in one the terror organisation’s “execution centres” somewhere in Syria, the 26-year-old German Tunisian from Wolfsburg was forced to listen to the sound of a fellow prisoner being decapitated.
  
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• More Beach Discoveries Eyed for MH370 Clues

  02-08-2015 22:25 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  City officials confirmed to NBC News that police had collected an object from the coastline and would be examining it.
  
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• Video Shows Fatal Helicopter Crash at Russian Air Show

  02-08-2015 22:24 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The chopper went into a flat spin before crashing during aerobatics at an airshow in Russia.
  
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• Scrambling Tiger makes strides with solid week

  02-08-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tiger Woods, trying to recapture the form that won 14 major titles, says he made "big strides" in reviving his game at the PGA Quicken Loans National despite a failed Sunday charge. Tournament host Woods birdied five of the first 10 holes, including a 42-foot birdie putt at the par-3 ninth, but then made bogeys on three of the next four holes. The 39-year-old American answered with an eight-foot birdie putt at 17 but settled for a three-under par 68 final round to finish on eight-under
  
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• Monsoon Rains Kill More Than 100 People in India

  02-08-2015 22:15
  Heavy monsoon rains kill more than 100 in India, leave thousands homeless
  
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• Tom Cruise: Reporters banned from asking actor about Scientology

  02-08-2015 22:12
  
  It’s one of the risks of being a celebrity: something controversial is going on in your personal life, but it’s right around when your new film premieres. So you are contractually obligated to be interviewed on television.
  
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• Special Olympics 2015 is winding down on an emotional note

  02-08-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — After more than a week of weightlifting, horseback riding, swimming, soccer matches and dozens of other competitions, 6,500 athletes from 165 countries braced themselves Sunday for perhaps the most emotional Special Olympics World Games event on their schedule — saying goodbye to a city that has embraced them.
  
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• Kurdish villagers under fire in PKK-controlled Iraq say Turkey is 'no different from Isis'

  02-08-2015 22:08
  
  For the Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, the bombing raids, abandoned villages and innocent lives lost are all-too-familiar tragedies.
  
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• Calais migrants: French politicians want the crisis to be dumped on the UK side of the channel

  02-08-2015 21:57
  
  Politicians in Calais have called for the migrant crisis to be dumped on the UK side of the Channel.
  
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• Kerry in Qatar to ease Arab concerns about Iran nuke deal

  02-08-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Qatar talks with Arab officials whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal world powers have struck with Iran.
  
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• Kerry in Qatar to soothe Arab worries about Iran nuclear deal

  02-08-2015 21:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Qatar talks with Arab officials whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal world powers have struck with Iran.
  
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• Obama to Restore Pell Grants For Prisoners

  02-08-2015 21:57 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A three-year pilot program will make some federal and state prisoners eligible to get federal aid in the form of Pell Grants.
  
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• Calais crisis: UK urged to take in more asylum seekers as fears grow that migrants may target Belgian ports

  02-08-2015 21:54
  
  Britain has been urged to take in more asylum seekers as fears spread that heightened security in Calais could result in Belgian ports being targeted next.
  
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• Germany wrong to propose temporary 'Grexit': French minister

  02-08-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in an interview Sunday that his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble was "wrong" to propose a temporary withdrawal from the euro for debt-laden Greece, evoking "a clear disagreement". "I think Mr Schaeuble is wrong and even contradicting his own deep European commitment," the French minister said in the interview to be published Monday in the German business daily Handelsblatt, excerpts of which were broadcast Sunday. To ta
  
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• Obama rule for power plants to compel steeper emissions cuts

  02-08-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.
  
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• Man accused of decapitating wife leaves hospital for jail

  02-08-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of decapitating his wife and their pet dogs before mutilating himself has gone from a hospital bed to a jail cell.
  
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• Trump fires adviser after racially charged Facebook posts

  02-08-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has fired a campaign aide after racially charged Facebook posts surfaced on the aide's account.
  
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• UN warns Myanmar flood toll to rise as rains lash region

  02-08-2015 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The toll from flash floods and landslides in Myanmar caused by days of torrential rain is likely to rise, the UN warned Sunday, as monsoon downpours heaped misery on thousands across the region. At least 27 people have been killed and more than 150,000 affected by flooding in Myanmar in recent days, with the government declaring the four worst-hit areas in central and western Myanmar "national disaster-affected regions". Scores have also perished in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam f
  
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• IOC to order tests for viruses at Rio's Olympic water venues

  02-08-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee said Sunday it will order testing for disease-causing viruses in the sewage-polluted waters where athletes will compete in next year's Rio de Janeiro Games.
  
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• Monsoon rains kill more than 90 people in India

  02-08-2015 21:23 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  India's Home Ministry says heavy monsoon rains have killed more than 90 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in state-run relief camps.
  
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• Egypt president signs elections law: official gazette

  02-08-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed into law election-related legislation, the official gazette said on Sunday, opening the way to setting a date for long-delayed parliamentary polls. The election law allocates 448 seats to individual candidates and 120 seats to winner-takes-all lists with quotas for women, youth and Christians. Egypt's parliamentary poll was due in March, but was delayed after the Constitutional Court ruled part of an election law unconstitutional.
  
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• Zimbabwe claim another lion killed by an American with a bow and arrow

  02-08-2015 21:10
  
  The furore over the death of Cecil the lion has threatened to escalate after Zimbabwe claimed that there had been a second illegal killing of a lion by an American hunter armed with a bow and arrow.
  
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• Africa's leaders are taking a major step toward making a difference to the conservation crisis

  02-08-2015 21:08
  
  The plight of African elephants is well documented and there is little doubt that at current rates of decline an animal that has existed for four million years could be gone in the wild in a few decades. I have spent more occasions than I care to remember standing over the putrid remains of a butchered elephant carcass, asking the question: how can this stop?
  
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• Boy, 3, Found in Lake After Boat-Watching Trip With Dad

  02-08-2015 21:06
  Body of boy, 3, found in Georgia lake; he had disappeared during boat-watching trip with dad
  
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• World 100m butterfly record falls, Ledecky, Sun retain titles

  02-08-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom broke the women's 100m butterfly record on Sunday as Sun Yang and Katie Ledecky retained their 400m freestyle titles at the world championships. China's Sun, the reigning 400, 800 and 1500m world champion and record holder over the mile, clocked three minutes 42.58 seconds to win his final by more than a second as Britain's James Guy took silver. The Chinese giant is still nearly three seconds from Paul Biedermann's world record, set by the German
  
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• Yemen Houthi boss tells men to fight on, dismisses loss of Aden

  02-08-2015 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The leader of Yemen's Houthis urged his militia on Sunday to fight on against Yemen's Gulf Arab-backed government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a 'limited' achievement made possible by Ramadan. In a speech live on television apparently aimed at shoring up the morale of his men, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi accused his foes of resorting to alliances with both the Islamic State militant group and Israel in their assault on the southern port city. Houthi said Aden
  
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• Heavy monsoon rains kill more than 90 in India, leave thousands homeless

  02-08-2015 20:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  India's Home Ministry says heavy monsoon rains have killed more than 90 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in state-run relief camps.
  
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• Journalist slain in Mexico City had signs of torture

  02-08-2015 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group advocating for journalistic freedom says a photographer who was found slain in Mexico City had been tortured before his death.
  
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• Giants Club: We must unite to fight the elephant poachers – and we must win

  02-08-2015 20:54
  
  The extraordinary global reaction to the killing of Cecil, the African lion, over the last week reminds me that it is not just the British who love animals. Although a strong sense of solidarity with the continent’s conservationists emerged, the limits as well as the strengths of social media reaction were again on show.
  
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• Iran wants to buy 90 planes a year to renovate fleet

  02-08-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran plans on buying 80 to 90 Airbus and Boeing passenger planes per year until 300 are in place to replace its ageing fleet, media reported Sunday quoting a civil aviation official. Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO) deputy chief Mohammad Khodakarami said the July 14 nuclear deal struck with Western powers lifts a ban preventing Iran from purchasing new planes and spare parts.
  
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