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• Hollande says French air strikes will be needed in Syria

  14-09-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Francois Hollande said on Monday that French air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria would be necessary. "We are part of the coalition in Iraq (against Islamic State)," Hollande said in a news conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. "We started reconnaissance flights (in Syria) to enable us to consider air strikes if they were necessary and they will be necessary in Syria." France until now had only taken part in air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq becau
  
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• Police: Man who killed firefighter mad over traffic delay

  14-09-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A motorist accused of deliberately and fatally hitting a firefighter with his car told police he was angry with the firefighters collecting money for charity and slowing traffic, court records show.
  
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• Payet's double helps Bilic torment McClaren again

  14-09-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dimitri Payet ensured Slaven Bilic enjoyed another memorable evening at Steve McClaren's expense as West Ham cruised to a 2-0 win over struggling Newcastle on Monday. Almost eight years after Bilic's Croatia earned a 3-2 win at Wembley that ended McClaren's hopes of leading England to Euro 2008, the two coaches faced off again at Upton Park with Premier League points the prize. It was a depressingly similar script for Newcastle manager McClaren as Payet scored once in each half to lift Bilic's H
  
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• Hillary Clinton 'Very Confident' Despite Drop in Women Support

  14-09-2015 23:55
  
  Hillary Clinton said today her drop in support among women is just part of the natural "ebb and flow" of campaigns.
  
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• Syria conflict: Russia has 'positioned tanks in airfield' according to US officials

  14-09-2015 23:53
  
  Russia has positioned tanks at an airfield in Syria in what appears to be a continued show of support by the Kremlin for President Bashar Al-Assad, according to US officials.
  
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• 'Spartacus,' 'The Hobbit' actor Manu Bennett arrested

  14-09-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Actor Manu Bennett has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he was accused of punching a 29-year-old man at a party at a San Antonio hotel.
  
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• Bond denied for ex-cop on murder charge in black man's death

  14-09-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist, saying his release would "constitute an unreasonable danger to the community."
  
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• NY faces unprecedented security challenge with pope, UN: police

  14-09-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York officials said Monday that they will face an unprecedented challenge later this month when Pope Francis addresses some 170 world leaders in town for the UN General Assembly. "We believe that this event is going to be the largest security challenge that the (police) department and the city has ever faced," New York police chief Bill Bratton said at a press conference outside police headquarters Monday.
  
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• Mom of boy found dead in swing indicted: manslaughter charge

  14-09-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — A Maryland woman who was found pushing her dead son in a playground swing earlier this year has been indicted and charged with manslaughter and child abuse, authorities announced Monday.
  
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• US Virgin Islands sues oil company over shuttered refinery

  14-09-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday sued American oil company Hess Corp. for more than $1 billion, alleging that the firm abandoned a massive oil refinery it had pledged to run through the year 2022.
  
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• 5 Charged with Homicide in Baruch College Hazing Death

  14-09-2015 23:36
  
  Five people & Pi Delta Psi Fraternity Inc. were charged with criminal homicide.
  
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• China building third airstrip on disputed South China Sea islets: expert

  14-09-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China appears to be building a third airstrip in contested territory in the South China Sea, a U.S. expert said on Monday, citing satellite photographs taken last week. The photographs taken for Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank on Sept. 8 show construction on Mischief Reef, one of several artificial islands China has created in the Spratly archipelago. The images show a rectangular area with a retaining wall,
  
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• Walter Scott murder accused Michael Slager refused bail before trial over shooting of unarmed black man

  14-09-2015 23:33
  
  Michael Slager, the white former police officer accused of fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran away, will not be released before his trial.
  
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• Aussies say goodbye to ousted PM -- with onions

  14-09-2015 23:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  So after two turbulent years leading his country, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been toppled -- ousted by a man who will become Australia's fifth prime minister in five years.
  
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• Aretha Franklin, preacher's daughter, to sing for pope

  14-09-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Soul legend Aretha Franklin, the daughter of a preacher, will sing for Pope Francis during his highly anticipated visit to the United States this month, it was announced Monday. Franklin, originally a Gospel singer but best known for her feminist-tinged cover of "Respect," will perform for the reform-minded pope in Philadelphia at the September 26 "Festival of Families," organizers said. The 73-year-old Franklin, whose father was a Baptist minister, recorded her first album, 1956's "Songs of Fai
  
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• Kentucky clerk returns to work after 5-day stint in jail

  14-09-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A defiant Kentucky clerk said Monday she will not interfere with her deputies if they keep issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she declared they will not be authorized by her and questioned their validity.
  
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• Egyptian forces mistake Mexicans for militants, kill 12 in air raid

  14-09-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Army aircraft hunting for militants in the desert mistakenly bombed a convoy of mostly Mexican tourists, killing 12 people and wounding 10, authorities said on Monday. As members of the tourist convoy tried to flee, additional forces on the ground fired on them, Egyptian security sources said. Egypt's interior ministry described the attack in the country's western desert as an accident.
  
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• Wildfires wreak havoc across northern California, killing one

  14-09-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Firefighters on Monday battled devastating blazes in northern California that have reduced hundreds of homes to smoldering ruins and killed an elderly disabled woman unable to flee the flames. Officials said the victim, who was not identified, died in the Cobb area of Lake County that has been especially hard hit by the wildfires. This marks the first civilian fatality in the wildfires that have devastated the western United States in recent months.
  
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• Border-free Europe unravels as migrant crisis hits record day

  14-09-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Krisztina Than and Francois Murphy ROSZKE, Hungary/VIENNA (Reuters) - Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unraveled on Monday as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day. Germany's surprise decision to restore border controls on Sunday had a swift domino effect, prompting neighbors to impose checks at their own frontiers as thousands of refugees pressed north
  
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• Arizona man convicted of murder in deaths of brother, nephew

  14-09-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A jury convicted an Arizona man of murder Monday for killing his brother in a drug dispute and then gunning down his 6-year-old nephew, who witnessed the death.
  
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• What to Know About the White House College Scorecard

  14-09-2015 23:12
  
  WH takes a bite out of America's ever-growing student debt crisis.
  
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• As election looms, Myanmar trials target dissent

  14-09-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Aubrey Belford and Minzayar Oo THARRAWADDY, Myanmar (Reuters) - Every Tuesday, the moss-covered redbrick courthouse in Tharrawaddy erupts into activity for a weekly ritual: the mass trial of student protesters. Under heavy guard at a session in late August, 81 students faced charges related to protests that were crushed by baton-wielding police in March. Suu Kyi has called for international vigilance during this period.
  
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• Deposed Miss America gets nude pix apology

  14-09-2015 23:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Better late than never.
  
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• Navy to limit some training that harms whales in Pacific

  14-09-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy agreed to limit its use of sonar and other training that inadvertently harms whales, dolphins and other marine mammals off Hawaii and California in a settlement with environmental groups approved Monday.
  
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• EU ministers agree to relocate 120,000 more migrants

  14-09-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU interior ministers agreed on Monday to relocate a further 120,000 asylum-seekers around the bloc following an earlier accord to redistribute 40,000 from Italy and Greece, the Luxembourg government said. "Agreement in principle on relocation of 120,000 additional persons," it tweeted, adding "adoption foreseen" at the next meeting of interior ministers on Oct. 8. Luxembourg holds the rotating presidency of EU ministerial councils. It gave no detail on how the asylum-seeker
  
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• Appeals court clears way for trial over dancing baby video

  14-09-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court Monday cleared the way for a trial in a copyright lawsuit over a YouTube video showing a baby dancing to the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy."
  
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• Shannon Lamb: Delta State social sciences teacher being hunted in connection with two killings

  14-09-2015 22:56
  
  Shannon Lamb, the man being hunted by police in connection with the shooting at Delta State University, is also considered a suspect in the shooting of a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
  
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• A rose period for Herrera, a splash at Hilfiger

  14-09-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is all over New York Fashion Week, from the runways to celebrities as eight days of spring previews entered their fifth day Monday.
  
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• Box Office Top 20: 'Perfect Guy' narrowly beats 'The Visit'

  14-09-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thrillers "The Perfect Guy" and "The Visit" both blew past expectations in their opening weekend in theaters by about $10 million each.
  
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• Mexico slams Egypt 'air strike' after tourists killed

  14-09-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico called on Egypt Monday to swiftly investigate why tourists were mistakenly targeted in what witnesses described as an air strike that left at least two Mexicans dead and six unaccounted for. President Enrique Pena Nieto said 14 Mexicans were among those involved in Sunday's "grave incident" in the Western Desert. Egyptian authorities said security forces mistakenly killed 12 people and wounded 10 others when they struck their convoy while chasing jihadists, but they have not given details
  
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• Auto industry veteran hired to rev up Google car

  14-09-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google announced Monday it hired auto industry veteran John Krafcik to head up its self-driving car project, as it eyes expanded road tests for autonomous vehicles. "This technology can save thousands of lives, give millions of people greater mobility and free us from a lot of the things we find frustrating about driving today," he said. Krafcik previously spent 10 years at Hyundai Motor America, including five as president and chief executive of the US arm of the South Korean auto giant.
  
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• The Latest: 3 killed Mexicans identified in Egypt attack

  14-09-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest developments after Egyptian troops mistakenly opened fire on a group of Mexican tourists on a safari in the country's western desert. All times local:
  
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• Legal wrangling slows lawsuit over Newtown school shooting

  14-09-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Newtown and its schools are putting up a stiff fight against a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, questioning whether the lawsuit was filed on time and objecting to information requests by the parents' attorney.
  
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• iPhone 6s Orders On Pace to Beat Last Year's 1st Weekend Record

  14-09-2015 22:38
  
  Apple said iPhone pre-orders were "very strong around the world."
  
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• Ex-airline manager linked to 9/11 pleads not guilty to sex

  14-09-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former American Airlines operations manager who learned of the first 9/11 hijacking before the jet struck the World Trade Center pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal interstate child-sex charge.
  
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• Taking aim at Boeing, Airbus opens first US plant

  14-09-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European jetmaker Airbus inaugurated its first US plant Monday in a move to wrest away a chunk of rival Boeing's domination of the domestic aircraft market, including lucrative Pentagon contracts. Airbus plans to assemble 40-50 of its single-aisle A320 family every year beginning in 2018 from the plant, built on the site of a World War II bomber support base in Mobile, Alabama. Decking out the location with US flags, the European industrial giant hopes the "Made In America" stamp on its aircraft
  
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• 4 Things That Took Scott Walker From Frontrunner to Longshot

  14-09-2015 22:23
  
  What happened to the Wisconsin governor's lead in the GOP presidential race?
  
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• Nude photos lose their shock value

  14-09-2015 22:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When nude photos of a celebrity surface nowadays, it's often rumored that the star may have "leaked" them.
  
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• What It Was Like Inside California's Raging Valley Fire

  14-09-2015 22:13
  
  A former firefighter was in Middletown when blaze was at it's worst.
  
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• U.S.: Russia wrong to back Assad

  14-09-2015 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russia's military deployment in Syria to back Bashar al-Assad "is not a winning strategy," America's ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hungary deploys soldiers to its border as door slams shut on asylum seekers

  14-09-2015 21:49
  
  Almost 26 years since the day, in 1989, when Hungary opened its borders to citizens of East Germany, heralding the collapse of the Iron Curtain, those same barriers are being closed. In a desperate effort to stem the flow of asylum seekers fleeing war zones in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, the Hungarian government deployed flanks of police and soldiers wielding automatic weapons to patrol its border with Serbia, assisted by a 110-mile long newly constructed barbed-wire fence.
  
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• Why these soldiers are breastfeeding

  14-09-2015 21:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  There were no lactation rooms or dedicated spaces for breastfeeding mothers when Tara Ruby was on active duty in the Air Force from 1997 to 2001.
  
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• Why future is full of eerie orbs

  14-09-2015 21:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Paris Design Week, which ended Saturday, invited industry insiders and the general public to experience the most impressive creations of the year.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Redistribution plan will be finalised by next meeting, say EU ministers

  14-09-2015 21:42
  
  European interior ministers meeting in Brussels have struggled to keep a coherent response to the migrant crisis as they rallied around plans to redistribute 120,000 more refugees around Europe, but rejected demands for binding relocation quotas.
  
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• Man who shot Kentucky police officer dead is killed after manhunt

  14-09-2015 21:37
  
  The man accused of shooting dead a Kentucky police officer was himself killed after an eight-hour man hunt in the west of the state, officials have revealed.
  
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• David Cameron's flying visit to Lebanon was nothing more than an exercise in being seen

  14-09-2015 21:33
  
  Well, PR Dave took quite a trip – all the way to Lebanon. He even discovered some refugees in the Bekaa Valley.
  
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• Flying Korea's farmed dogs to safety

  14-09-2015 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Flying Korea's farmed dogs half way round the world to safety
  
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• Richrath, Former REO Speedwagon Guitarist, Songwriter, Dies

  14-09-2015 21:02
  Gary Richrath, former REO Speedwagon guitarist who wrote band's hit 'Take It on the Run,' dies
  
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• Miss America gets nude pix apology

  14-09-2015 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Better late than never.
  
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• Anti-gay marriage clerk back at work

  14-09-2015 20:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  America's highest-profile county clerk, Kim Davis, returned to work Monday vowing to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
  
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