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• UN warns South Sudan rivals that it will impose sanctions if peace deal isn't implemented

  28-08-2015 23:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
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• Polish official '99% sure' Nazi train exists

  28-08-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Local media have for days been abuzz with old lore of trains full of gold and jewels stolen by the Nazis after two men -- a German and a Pole -- claimed to have found an armoured train car in the southwestern city of Walbrzych. "I saw a good quality ground-penetrating radar image showing what the train looks like," Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski told reporters, adding that he could make out platforms and gun positions on the photo. Friday's revelations elicited a response from the World
  
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• Explosion in Bahrain kills police officer, wounds 7 others

  28-08-2015 23:14 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An explosion in Bahrain has killed one police officer and wounded seven other people, among them a child, the country's Interior Ministry said late Friday.
  
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• Obama expects better US-Israel ties after Iran deal in place

  28-08-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expects quick improvements in ties between the longtime allies once the accord is implemented.
  
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• George W. Bush visits disaster zone, 10 years after Katrina

  28-08-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush enjoyed sympathetic audiences in New Orleans and Mississippi on Friday as he returned to the region where Hurricane Katrina sank his popularity 10 years ago.
  
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• Four held over Austria truck tragedy as migrant deaths mount

  28-08-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hungary said Friday it had arrested four people over the discovery of the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be Syrian, in an abandoned truck in Austria. Hungarian police said three of the suspects held over the latest grim tragedy involving migrants seeking refuge in Europe were Bulgarians and one was Afghan.
  
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• Air show pilot dies in crash

  28-08-2015 23:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A single-engine aerobatic plane practicing ahead of an upcoming New York state air show crashed Friday, killing the pilot, police said.
  
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• Mexico adoption-for-cash scheme took babies from poor mothers; official accused of involvement

  28-08-2015 23:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A child welfare official in northern Mexico took at least nine babies from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered them to adoptive parents in exchange for payments ranging from $5,000 to $9,000, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Twitter sets modest goals to diversity its workforce

  28-08-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is setting modest goals to diversify its workforce while it fights a proposed class-action lawsuit that says the online messaging service discriminates against its female employees.
  
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• The Latest: Father of slain reporter says he will buy gun

  28-08-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The latest on the on-air killing of two TV station employees in Virginia (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Defense says ex-senior's boasts were 'damning'

  28-08-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The latest on the trial of a former student at an elite prep school accused of raping a freshman as part of a tradition called Senior Salute (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Aries Merritt's sister waits to donate kidney

  28-08-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — The Latest from the IAAF world championships (all times local):
  
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• US oil prices climb again after Thursday's big jump

  28-08-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices surged again Friday, a day after recording their biggest gain in more than six years.
  
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• Migrant drama hits European screens in film 'Mediterranea'

  28-08-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Mediterranea", a first feature by US-Italian director Jonas Carpignano who was part of the shooting crew on the well-received 2012 film "Beasts of the Southern Wild", follows two Africans as they make an odyssey to Europe -- and to disillusionment. It starts in Algeria and moves to Libya, a launching-off point for some of the many perilous cross-Mediterranean boat trips being made by hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees each year. It then goes on to show the dangers and hard slog as t
  
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• US stocks close flat Friday after a volatile week

  28-08-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks ended the day little changed Friday, letting investors breathe a little easier after a week where both the highs and lows were extreme.
  
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• Explosion in Bahrain kills police officer, wounds 7 others, including a child

  28-08-2015 22:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Bahrain's interior ministry says an explosion has killed one police officer and wounded seven other people, among them a child.
  
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• APNewsBreak: 911 calls from fatal fire: 'Send somebody fast'

  28-08-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Homeowners frantically asked for help as a swiftly moving wildfire headed toward their houses, 911 audio calls show, and dispatchers tried to clear up confusion over injured firefighters from a blaze in Washington state that ultimately killed three firefighters.
  
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• Planned Parenthood goes to court to fight funding cuts in Alabama

  28-08-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Planned Parenthood filed a complaint in Alabama federal on Friday seeking to stop the state from defunding its health clinics after the release of covertly recorded videos attacking the organization's handling of aborted fetal tissue. The reproductive-health organization took similar legal action earlier this week in Louisiana, which also plans to terminate its contract with Planned Parenthood to provide medical services to low-income residents. Planned Parenthood, joined in the suit by the Amer
  
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• Bolt back in relay, chases 3rd gold at worlds in Beijing

  28-08-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Usain Bolt handed his shoes to a volunteer after the 200 meters and the person took off with them.
  
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• Wild week for markets ends quietly

  28-08-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - A volatile ride for global markets this week ended calmly on Friday even as lingering worries over Chinese economic growth and the Federal Reserve's plans to raise interest rates weighed on stocks, but oil rebounded sharply for a second day. U.S. crude jumped more than 6 percent as a rally in gasoline prices and air raids in Yemen forced traders to scramble to cover short positions. The Fed is waiting to see how data and markets unfold over the coming weeks b
  
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• New York Air Show pilot crashes

  28-08-2015 22:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A single-engine aerobatic plane practicing ahead of an upcoming New York state air show crashed Friday, killing the pilot, police said.
  
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• Lebanon garbage protests highlight a country rotting from the inside

  28-08-2015 22:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  To the casual visitor, Lebanon may seem like a tiny slice of Mediterranean modernity and coexistence in a turbulent region plagued by violence and extremism.
  
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• Travers time for American Pharoah on long trek by hoof, air

  28-08-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — American Pharoah can run. But can he fly?
  
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• Fed vice chair in spotlight as markets seek rate hike clues

  28-08-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — What once seemed a sure bet — that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in September — suddenly appears less certain following a wild week of stock market turbulence.
  
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• Former New Hampshire prep school student not guilty of rape

  28-08-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Owen Labrie, 19, was found not guilty of three felony counts of sexually assaulting a fellow student at St. Paul's School in Concord. Labrie closed his eyes and began to sob as the first verdict, finding him guilty of computer-related seduction, was read but regained his composure as the jury forewoman read out the three not guilty verdicts.
  
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• The Latest: Sanders says party needs huge voter turnout

  28-08-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Here are the latest developments Friday from the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis, where four Democratic presidential candidates are addressing the party.
  
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• Dow ends choppy day slightly lower; Nasdaq gains

  28-08-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US stocks ended a rocky week on a muted note Friday, with the Dow dipping and Nasdaq advancing as fears about a global economic slowdown due to China tested sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 11.76 points (0.07 percent) at 16,643.01. The broad-based S&P 500 added 1.21 (0.06 percent) at 1,988.87, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 15.62 (0.32 percent) at 4,828.32.
  
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• Manufacturers in Argentina starved of dollars ahead of election, hurting output

  28-08-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's central bank is reducing the supply of scarce dollars to manufacturers two months ahead of a presidential election to ensure more are available for the nation’s savers, hampering the import of parts and disrupting factory production lines. Tough capital controls mean importers operating in Latin America's No. 3 economy are restricted to how many dollars they can buy each month, while savers have to apply to the tax agency to purchase
  
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• Survey: Generation LOL most irked by grammar, spelling slips

  28-08-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It's the LOL generation that appears most annoyed by bad grammar and spelling slips, according to a survey by Dictionary.com.
  
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• Clerk asks US Supreme Court to intervene in marriage case

  28-08-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Two months after it legalized gay marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked by a Kentucky county clerk for permission to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
  
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• Walker: More Iraq combat, but no more boots on ground, yet

  28-08-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is calling for U.S. forces in Iraq to engage in direct combat to defeat "radical Islamic terrorists" in the Middle East.
  
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• Feds win fight for access to indicted Paul aide's Gmail

  28-08-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors prevailed Friday in their yearlong fight to force Google Inc. to turn over the emails of an indicted Republican consultant with close ties to Ron and Rand Paul.
  
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• Former PM Tsipras' popularity tanks ahead of Greek elections

  28-08-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's former governing radical-left party is unlikely to win an outright majority in a crucial national election next month, and its lead over the opposition conservatives has narrowed, early opinion polls showed Friday.
  
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• Illinois fires coach Tim Beckman 1 week before season opener

  28-08-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois abruptly fired coach Tim Beckman one week before the start of the season Friday after an investigation of player mistreatment allegations revealed he had meddled in medical issues and inappropriately treated athletes who remained on scholarship after leaving the team.
  
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• The Latest: UN chief 'horrified' by latest refugee deaths

  28-08-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Here are the latest developments Friday regarding the tens of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe.
  
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• Greece's Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show

  28-08-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month's election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday. One found that almost two thirds of voters felt Tsipras should not have sought a fresh mandate, while three surveys showed that his favored coalition ally, the Independent Greeks party, would not make it into
  
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• Verdict in prep school rape case

  28-08-2015 21:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A New Hampshire jury Friday convicted Owen Labrie of five counts -- including statutory rape -- in connection with the sexual assault of another student at a prestigious boarding school, but it acquitted him of more serious charges.
  
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• EU migrant crisis: The 71 people found dead in a lorry should have reached sanctuary

  28-08-2015 21:46
  
  The summer dying season is now well under way in the Mediterranean, with news of yet another tragedy at sea as desperate people try to reach Europe still able to shock, if not surprise.
  
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• Migrant crisis: The world looks on as details emerge following the discovery of the bodies of 71 migrants in a lorry in Austria

  28-08-2015 21:42
  They were running from one of the world’s ugliest conflicts hoping to forge a new life in Europe’s most welcoming country – but ended their lives in a heap of decomposing bodies in the back of a Bulgarian-owned refrigerated lorry.
  
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• Ex-archbishop in child abuse case dies

  28-08-2015 21:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jozef Wesolowski, a papal ambassador who was on trial for child abuse charges, died early Friday.
  
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• Italy migrant crisis: Suspected people smugglers 'threatened migrants with knives' as 'they came out of cramped ship's hold to breathe'

  28-08-2015 21:23
  Police in Italy have detained a group of suspected people smugglers after they allegedly used knives to threaten migrants who had come up from the ship's packed hold to breathe.
  
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• L.A. preparing for its own mega-disaster

  28-08-2015 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina reminded us that when it comes to natural disasters, you can prepare for the worst, but it's also crucial to plan for the chaos that comes afterward.
  
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• New Orleans rebuilds as 'Hollywood South'

  28-08-2015 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With its historic architecture, lush greenery and dedication to open-air entertainment, New Orleans often seems like a real-life movie set.
  
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• Now, Church questions Trump

  28-08-2015 21:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he attends a church in Manhattan, but the church released a statement saying the real estate developer is not an "active member."
  
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• Migrant crisis: Anger mounts in Libya after migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean

  28-08-2015 21:10
  
  The Libyan coastguard was searching on Friday for survivors of a boat packed with migrants that sank in the Mediterranean, with up to 180 people feared drowned.
  
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• Clinton jokes over Trump's hair

  28-08-2015 21:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton reassured Democrats on Friday: "The hair is real."
  
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• Republican presidential candidate contest: Legal rows? They're this tough-talking tycoon's Trump card

  28-08-2015 21:05
  
  If you care to be President, better not to have legal dramas in your life. But to Donald Trump, litigation can seem like cream to a cat. Sometimes people sue him, as in a continuing case about the late, lamented Trump University, but more often he is going after those he thinks have slighted or mistreated him.
  
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• Republican leadership contest: Legal rows? They're this tough-talking tycoon's Trump card

  28-08-2015 21:05
  
  If you care to be President, better not to have legal dramas in your life. But to Donald Trump, litigation can seem like cream to a cat. Sometimes people sue him, as in a continuing case about the late, lamented Trump University, but more often he is going after those he thinks have slighted or mistreated him.
  
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• Prep school student guilty of teen's rape

  28-08-2015 20:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A New Hampshire jury Friday convicted Owen Labrie of five counts -- including statutory rape -- in connection with the sexual assault of another student at a prestigious boarding school, but it acquitted him of more serious charges.
  
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• Gunman's porn sites

  28-08-2015 20:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The man who murdered a television reporter and cameraman on live television set up websites that featured gay porn, according to records obtained by CNN.
  
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