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• Relatives proud of 3 Americans who subdued gunman on train

  22-08-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Relatives of the three Americans who tackled and disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris say they are proud of the men and relieved they weren't killed during those chaotic moments.
  
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• Djokovic struggles into Cincinnati finals, will face Federer

  22-08-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MASON, Ohio (AP) — Novak Djokovic had to rally against a lowly qualifier to get another shot at a title he's never won. Next in his way: Roger Federer, who has more Cincinnati trophies than anyone else.
  
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• Severino gets first big league win, Yankees beat Indians

  22-08-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After only four starts, Yankees manager Joe Girardi thinks it's too soon to say if Luis Severino is ready for the rigors of a playoff run.
  
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• Correction: Immigrant Birth Certificates story

  22-08-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In an Aug. 21 story about immigrant families who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children, The Associated Press reported erroneously that immigration authorities have been stopped and questioned by immigration officials about their children's immigration status. The story should have said immigrant parents have been stopped and questioned by immigration officials about their children's immigration status.
  
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• Sailing chief: Rio events could be moved from polluted bay

  22-08-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of sailing's governing body threatened Saturday to move all Olympic sailing events out of polluted Guanabara Bay unless the water is cleaner and floating rubbish is removed for next year's Rio Games.
  
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• Obama hails Americans who took down gunman on train in France

  22-08-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called two U.S. servicemen and their civilian friend on Saturday to congratulate them for overpowering a gun-wielding suspected Islamic militant on a train in France. Obama telephoned lifelong friends Airman First Class Spencer Stone of Sacramento, California, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, 22, of Roseburg, Oregon, and Anthony Sadler, 23, a student from Sacramento, in France to commend them for their heroics against the attacker, who had a Kalashnikov rifle
  
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• Castroneves wins Pocono pole; points leader Montoya 19th

  22-08-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya's bid to stretch his points lead with two races left in the IndyCar season may have suffered a blow, with the Team Penske driver qualifying 19th for the race Sunday at Pocono Raceway.
  
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• 'Crazy' comeback: One of football's best recoveries?

  22-08-2015 23:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Having conceded the fastest goal in Bundesliga history, and then given away a penalty after being reduced to 10 men, Bayern Munich's chances of avoiding a historic first defeat to one of German football's lesser lights did not seem not high.
  
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• The Latest: Jindal jousts with immigration protesters

  22-08-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The latest from the presidential candidates as they meet and greet voters on the last day of the Iowa State Fair. All times are local.
  
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• Real Madrid vs. Barcelona: Let the battle begin

  22-08-2015 23:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It is arguably sport's most intriguing two-horse race.
  
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• Koreas agree second round of conflict crisis talks

  22-08-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North and South Korea agreed to a second round of talks Sunday after marathon, night-long negotiations fell short of resolving a crisis that has pushed them to the brink of armed conflict. The two sides called a recess in the early hours of the morning after nearly 10 hours of discussions and agreed to meet again at 3:00 pm (0600 GMT) to "narrow down differences," said South Korea's presidential spokesman Min Kyung-Wook. The talks in the border truce village of Panmunjom had begun early Saturday
  
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• DeChambeau, Bard advance to US Amateur final

  22-08-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — SMU senior Bryson DeChambeau advanced to the U.S. Amateur final, putting him a victory away from becoming the fifth player to win the tournament and NCAA individual title in the same year.
  
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• Soccer team scores fastest goal - but loses

  22-08-2015 23:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Having conceded the fastest goal in Bundesliga history, and then given away a penalty after being reduced to 10 men, Bayern Munich's chances of avoiding a historic first defeat to one of German football's lesser lights did not seem not high.
  
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• Rival Koreas' high-level meeting adjourned

  22-08-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The first high-level talks in nearly a year between South Korea and North Korea were adjourned after stretching into the early hours of Sunday, as the rivals looked to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed them to the brink of a possible military confrontation.
  
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• Refugees tear through police lines at Macedonian border

  22-08-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Fatos Bytyci GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday, overwhelming security forces who threw stun grenades and lashed out with batons before apparently abandoning a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe. Some had spent days in the open with little or no food or water after Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and sealed its borders to migrants, many of them refugees from war in Syria and other c
  
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• Syrian woman gets Mackler 'courageous journalism' award

  22-08-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Syria-based journalist who has trained citizen reporters in the war-ravaged country has been named the recipient of the 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, organizers said Saturday. The prize from Reporters Without Borders and Agence France-Presse was awarded to Zaina Erhaim, who lives and works in Aleppo, Syria. Over the last two years, Erhaim has trained about 100 citizen reporters from inside Syria, approximately a third of them women, in print and TV journalism,
  
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• Biden consults with Warren as he mulls 2016 presidential bid

  22-08-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden left the seclusion of the Delaware home where he's been weighing a presidential run to meet Saturday with Elizabeth Warren — another influential Democrat who has faced calls to enter the 2016 race.
  
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• SKorean spokesman says high-level talks with North Korea have adjourned until Sunday afternoon

  22-08-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — SKorean spokesman says high-level talks with North Korea have adjourned until Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Obama, Hollande discuss attack on train in France: White House

  22-08-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande spoke by phone on Saturday to discuss the attack on a train in France that was thwarted by passengers, including three Americans, the White House said. Obama, who is vacationing at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, and Hollande agreed that the three Americans, along with a French and a British passenger, had "demonstrated remarkable bravery" to subdue the heavily armed gunman on Friday, the White House said in a sta
  
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• Migrant crisis: Only by working together can EU states hope to deal with refugees fleeing violence, poverty and drought

  22-08-2015 22:00
  When Angela Merkel said recently that the EU’s refugee crisis could “preoccupy” Europe “much, much more” than the issue of Greece and the stability of the euro, was she actually understating the case? Pay attention, holiday-makers: what is now happening on the EU’s external borders threatens the entire post-war European project, and it will take more than her Berlin meeting with President François Hollande tomorrow to sort it out.
  
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• Official: Islamic State ambushes, kills up to 50 Iraq troops

  22-08-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants killed up to 50 soldiers in two separate ambushes in Iraq's turbulent Anbar province west of the capital, Baghdad, a top provincial official said Saturday.
  
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• Over 50 people killed in Syrian missile strikes at rebel areas near Damascus

  22-08-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 50 bodies were retrieved from buildings leveled to the ground after Syrian army missiles hit residential areas in the rebel-held northeast of Damascus on Saturday, rescue workers said. Rescue workers said 20 bodies were identified.
  
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• Kabul car bomb kills 12 including three Americans

  22-08-2015 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 12 people including three US civilian contractors were killed Saturday when a suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy, officials said, underlining the precarious security situation in the Afghan capital. The Taliban denied responsibility for the blast, which struck outside a civilian hospital in Kabul following a wave of fatal bombings earlier this month that rattled the city. The piercing explosion in a crowded residential neighbourhood reverberated around Kabul and left a trail of dev
  
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• Gunfire, tear gas as Lebanese police fight Beirut protesters

  22-08-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons battled thousands of Lebanese protesters Saturday demonstrating against government corruption and political dysfunction amid a trash crisis, with the sound of gunfire echoing through the streets into the night.
  
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• Five who foiled an attack on a European train

  22-08-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three American friends on a European vacation found themselves hailed as heros Saturday after subduing a gunman on a train as it sped through the countryside on its way to Paris, with assists from a British businessman and a French passenger. One of the trio -- two US servicemen and a college student -- was recovering from wounds suffered in Friday's attack, as plaudits poured in from US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and others. Spencer Stone, a US Air Force member,
  
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• The Latest: French official confirms ID of train attacker

  22-08-2015 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the gunman who was subdued by passengers after opening fire at a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris (all times local Paris time):
  
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• The Latest: Cruz jokes send IRS to Mexican border

  22-08-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest on the annual summit of Americans for Prosperity, the flagship conservative political organization of the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. All times are local.
  
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• Provincial official: Islamic State militants kill up to 50 troops in ambushes west of Baghdad

  22-08-2015 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Provincial official: Islamic State militants kill up to 50 troops in ambushes west of Baghdad.
  
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• Players urge action after fan hurt by foul ball

  22-08-2015 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Major League Baseball players are urging action to improve safety after another fan was hurt at a game on Friday night. Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander took to Twitter to push for changes after a woman was hit by a foul ball in the eighth inning of the Tigers' home game against the Texas rangers. "More protective measures need to be put in place in all ball parks! Players are sick of seeing injuries that could easily be avoided!" Verlander said on the social media site after seeing medic
  
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• Macedonia allows all 1,500 migrants at border to enter from Greece

  22-08-2015 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday without any attempt by the police to stop them, an AFP reporter said. Macedonian police had earlier used stun grenades and batons in a bid to stop hundreds of refugees breaking through barbed wire fencing on its southern border with Greece, but in the evening they allowed all the migrants into the country. Police officers were seen guarding the frontier but not a single pers
  
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• Obama calls three Americans, commends 'extraordinary bravery'

  22-08-2015 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama on Saturday called the three Americans who overpowered a gunman on a Paris-bound train and congratulated them on their "extraordinary bravery," the White House said. Spencer Stone, Aleksander Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler tackled, disarmed and subdued the assailant Friday after he fired shots and burst into their railroad car with an assault rifle. Stone, who is a member of the US Air Force, was badly cut in the struggle and was still in the hospital Saturday recovering
  
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• Belgium calls on neighbors for more security on cross-border trains

  22-08-2015 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's prime minister called on Saturday for urgent talks with France, Germany and the Netherlands on increasing security on cross-border trains, after a gunman was wrestled to the ground by passengers. Two people were wounded in the struggle on Friday to subdue a suspected Islamist militant who had boarded a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris in Brussels in what Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called a terrorist attack. "The prime minister pr
  
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• The Latest: Christie criticizes Carter's foreign policy

  22-08-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The latest from the presidential candidates as they meet and greet voters on the last day of the Iowa State Fair. All times are local.
  
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• Afghan car bombing kills at least 12, including 3 Americans

  22-08-2015 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people, including three American civilian contractors for the international military force, authorities said.
  
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• 'Wrong place, right people': heroes of the French train shooting

  22-08-2015 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Saturday, U.S. Airman First Class Spencer Stone was recovering from knife wounds in a hospital in France, being thanked for foiling what the French government called an attempted terrorist attack. Stone was touring Europe with two friends he grew up with in California. "He was the first one to jump on him, he's the one who got cut up ... none of us are injured but Spencer took a few injuries and he just had no fear," 23-year-old student Anthony Sadler, told Reuters.
  
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• 18 killed in 2 bomb attacks in Somalia

  22-08-2015 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — At least 18 people have been killed in two separate bomb explosions in Somalia Saturday, say Somali police officials.
  
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• Gatlin faster than Bolt at worlds

  22-08-2015 20:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's being billed as the heavyweight showdown of sprinting -- but Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin were just warming up on the opening day of the 2015 World Athletic Championships in Beijing on Saturday.
  
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• Nevada Museum of Art opens unique Lake Tahoe exhibit in Reno

  22-08-2015 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The first major historical art survey of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra's infamous Donner Pass takes an ambitious trip through two centuries, highlighting the roles of Native Americans and railroad barons and the tourists and scientists trying to halt the loss of clarity in the azure waters.
  
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• The Latest: 2nd firefighter transferred to Seattle hospital

  22-08-2015 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TWISP, Wash. (AP) — The latest on wildfires in Washington state, including those that killed three firefighters (all times local):
  
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• At least 7 dead after vintage jet crash

  22-08-2015 19:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  At least seven people are dead after a vintage military aircraft crashed Saturday on a busy road in southeastern England, police said.
  
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• NATO says suicide car bombing targeting convoy in Afghanistan killed 3 American contractors

  22-08-2015 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says suicide car bombing targeting convoy in Afghanistan killed 3 American contractors.
  
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• France train gunman identified as Islamist militant

  22-08-2015 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chine Labbé and Sarah White PARIS/MADRID, France (Reuters) - A gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant if the identity he has given is correct, France's interior minister said on Saturday. The man Spanish authorities had under surveillance left Spain for France in 2014, travelled to Syria, and then back to France, a Spanish counter-terrorism source said on Saturday.
  
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• Racy fan photos spur security for Nicki Minaj wax figure

  22-08-2015 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A wax figure of rapper Nicki Minaj at a Las Vegas museum is getting more security to keep away inappropriate visitors.
  
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• New York’s terrible idea for how to get rid of topless panhandlers in Times Square

  22-08-2015 19:13
  
  Times Square, famously home to street acts of all kinds, has finally attracted a cast of characters this summer that some New Yorkers simply cannot abide. The sprawling tourist mecca in the heart of Manhattan has filled lately with desnudas, topless but patriotically painted ladies who preen in photos for tips.
  
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• Greek opposition leaders weigh coalition despite crises, poll pressure

  22-08-2015 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By George Georgiopoulos and David Stamp ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek opposition politicians embarked on Saturday on the laborious and apparently futile exercise of trying to form a new government, oblivious to pressure for rapid elections so the nation can start tackling an array of crises. The two biggest opposition parties, one of the center-right and the other of the far left, queued up to exercise their constitutional right to spend three days negotiating a new coalition, even though their effor
  
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• Seven killed as jet crashes into cars at UK airshow

  22-08-2015 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A jet aircraft ploughed into several cars on a road near an airshow in southern England on Saturday, killing seven people, police said. The Hawker Hunter fighter jet crashed onto the A27 road, close to an airport in Shoreham where the airshow was taking place, near the city of Brighton. Video footage posted online showed the plane in the process of executing an acrobatic loop before it hit the ground, causing an explosion which appeared to engulf some cars on a road.
  
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• Refugees break into Macedonia as migrant crisis escalates

  22-08-2015 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of refugees broke through barbed wire fencing bordering Macedonia despite a heavy police presence Saturday in another dramatic chapter of Europe's escalating migrant crisis. On the Macedonian border, police hurled stun grenades and used batons in a failed bid to stop the refugees from breaking through.
  
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• Teenager hailed as 'hero' for saving a woman being kidnapped - by buying her captor lunch

  22-08-2015 18:52
  
  Police have praised the quick thinking of a teenager in Canada who saved a woman being kidnapped by befriending her captor.
  
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• Dresden riots: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting 'foreigners out'

  22-08-2015 18:45
  
  Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants.
  
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• Explosion at chemical plant in eastern China, nine injured: state media

  22-08-2015 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An explosion hit a chemical plant on Saturday night in eastern China, the official Xinhua state news agency said, citing local authorities. No fatalities were reported, Xinhua said, citing local police, although nine people were injured and taken to hospital. The blast, which triggered a fire, happened around 8.50pm local time in Huantai county in Shandong province.
  
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