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• Students charged in hazing death

  15-09-2015 23:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Five fraternity brothers have been charged with criminal counts ranging from hindering apprehension to providing false statements to law enforcement in connection with the 2013 hazing death of a New York City college student, police said Tuesday.
  
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• Life through a lens

  15-09-2015 23:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Brave young Yazidi women made homeless by ISIS get behind the camera to rebuild their shattered lives. Atika Shubert reports; Alex Platt, photojournalist.
  
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• ISIS chief's sex slave's life of brutality

  15-09-2015 23:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When ISIS came for Zeinat and her family, they ran, terrified, for the safety of the mountains. They had heard the horror stories and knew only too well what might happen to them if they stayed in their home.
  
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• I was sold by ISIS

  15-09-2015 23:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In the canvas expanse of the Shariya refugee camp, thousands of Yazidis live within hearing distance of one of Iraqi Kurdistan's frontlines with ISIS.
  
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• UN Refugee Agency slams claims that 1 in 50 Syrians fleeing conflict are members of Isis

  15-09-2015 23:33
  
  A warning by a Lebanese government minister that Isis fighters are hiding among refugees cannot be legitimately proven, the UN Refguee Agency has stressed.
  
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• UN Refugee Agency slams claims 1 in 50 Syrians fleeing conflict are members of Isis

  15-09-2015 23:33
  
  A warning by a Lebanese government minister that Isis fighters are hiding among refugees cannot be legitimately proven, the UN Refguee Agency has stressed.
  
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• Man Utd star suffers horrific injury

  15-09-2015 23:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It was a mixed return to his boyhood club for Memphis Depay.
  
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• Justice watchdog says prosecutor mishandled sensitive emails

  15-09-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's watchdog has found that a federal prosecutor improperly transmitted sensitive government documents to a personal email account.
  
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• Hewlett-Packard sees up to 30,000 job losses in split

  15-09-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Francisco (AFP) - Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday its upcoming corporate split will lead to job losses of 25,000 to 30,000.
  
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• California district agrees to pay $3.5B to clean up water

  15-09-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The nation's largest irrigation district agreed to spend $3.5 billion to clean up contaminated water in California's fertile Central Valley in a tentative deal announced Tuesday that will settle a decades-old dispute with the federal government.
  
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• White House opposes GOP bill to lift oil export ban

  15-09-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday it opposes a House Republican bill to lift the four-decade-old ban on crude oil exports.
  
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• VIDEO: California wildfire evacuees return

  15-09-2015 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the US state of California more than 20,000 people have been forced to flee their homes by wildfires and some are now returning to see the damage.
  
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• Man City 1-2 Juventus

  15-09-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City concede two goals in the last 20 minutes as Juventus fight back from a goal down to win at Etihad Stadium.
  
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• House chairman subpoenas uncut Planned Parenthood videos

  15-09-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of a House committee has issued a subpoena for an anti-abortion group's unedited videos about Planned Parenthood's provision of fetal tissue for research.
  
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• Bernie Sanders slams 'vicious' attack from Clinton super PAC over support for UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

  15-09-2015 23:01
  Bernie Sanders, the rising presidential hopeful, has hit back at a donor to his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton after the group launched a 'vicious attack' over his support for the new British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• School bus crash kills 2 students, seriously injures 3

  15-09-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say two students are dead and several are hurt after a school bus overturned on a highway in Houston.
  
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• Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca dies at 67

  15-09-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fred DeLuca, who parlayed a $1,000 loan from a friend into the global Subway sandwich chain, has died at 67 of leukemia, the company announced Tuesday. DeLuca had been treated for the disease since 2013 and had named his sister, Suzanne Greco, as president to run day-to-day operations. The pace of growth accelerated considerably after 1974, when DeLuca and Buck sold the right to use the Subway brand to franchisees in return for marketing and other support.
  
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• Rebel rockets 'kill 20' in Syria

  15-09-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At least 20 people are killed in rebel shelling of a government-held area of Aleppo, with further violence in the Kurdish-held city of Hassakeh.
  
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• Di Maria, Cavani strike as PSG see off Malmo

  15-09-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Angel Di Maria and Edinson Cavani were on target as Paris Saint-Germain began their Champions League campaign with an ultimately comfortable 2-0 win against Malmo at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday. Di Maria scored less than four minutes into his Champions League debut as a PSG player to set the French champions on their way, but they missed a succession of opportunities before finally extending their advantage when Cavani headed home in the 61st minute. With Real Madrid and Shakhtar Donetsk als
  
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• US stocks post solid gains a day before crucial Fed meeting

  15-09-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose sharply on Tuesday, a day before the start of a crucial Federal Reserve meeting.
  
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• Egypt sorry military strike killed tourists

  15-09-2015 22:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The death toll of Mexican tourists killed in a tragic case of mistaken identity in Egypt has climbed to eight, officials from both countries said Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Professor killed self a mile from parents' house

  15-09-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) — The latest on the college professor who is accused of killing his girlfriend and driving 300 miles to Delta State University to gun down a fellow professor in his campus office. The gunman, Shannon Lamb, took his own life Monday night as police closed in on him (all times local):
  
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• Ex-USDA official in settlement over supposedly racist video

  15-09-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department official whose supposed racist remarks on video ignited a firestorm in 2010, has reached a tentative settlement with the widow of a conservative blogger who posted the edited images, a federal judge said Tuesday.
  
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• US stocks jump as Fed decision edges closer

  15-09-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks finished with decisive gains Tuesday on modestly higher US retail sales ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later this week.
  
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• Media freedom at stake as Turkey fights rebels

  15-09-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When suspected Islamic State (IS) jihadists organised a deadly attack on Turkish activists in Suruc on the Syrian border in July, respected newspaper commentator Kadri Gursel responded with a tweet critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "It's embarrassing that foreign leaders call the person who is the number one cause of the IS terror in Turkey to present their condolences for Suruc," he tweeted. Gursel was referring to allegations -- vehemently denied by Ankara -- that Erdogan had support
  
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• Anger as Hungary seals borders, Merkel demands refugee summit

  15-09-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of desperate migrants were Tuesday trapped behind a razor-wire fence erected by Hungary, as Germany's Angela Merkel called for an EU summit on the refugee crisis. While European leaders squabbled over how to manage the continent's biggest migrant influx since World War II, the exodus from war-torn Middle Eastern countries claimed more lives. Another shipwreck off Turkey killed 22 refugees -- among them four children and 11 women -- who had tried to reach Europe, where more than half a m
  
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• VIDEO: Ai WeiWei: What it is like 'to be disappeared'

  15-09-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chinese artist and dissident Ai WeiWei gives the BBC's Will Gompertz a tour of an exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy of Arts and talks about his time in prison.
  
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• NASA astronaut hits halfway point of yearlong spaceflight

  15-09-2015 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronaut Scott Kelly is halfway home.
  
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• The Latest: Central California wildfire evacuees return home

  15-09-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — The latest on wildfires raging in drought-stricken California (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Romanian PM criticizes Hungary for fence plan

  15-09-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET):
  
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• Subway: Co-founder of sandwich chain DeLuca dead at 67

  15-09-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca, who turned a sandwich shop he started as a teenager into the world's largest fast-food chain, died Monday evening. He was 67.
  
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• U.S. flash flood: Death toll rising

  15-09-2015 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Six people died and seven others are missing after a flash flood swept through a small community on the Utah/Arizona border, the Hilldale, Utah, fire department said.
  
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• Ben Carson closes in on Donald Trump in latest poll

  15-09-2015 22:04
  
  Ben Carson has come within four points of Donald Trump in the latest New York Times/CBS News national poll.
  
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• Pentagon sidelined on discussions with Russia on Syria

  15-09-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter has so far played no role in the U.S. discussions with Russia over its military build-up in Syria and the complications that could have on coalition airstrikes against Islamic State militants there.
  
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• How operational is Yongbyon nuclear site?

  15-09-2015 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why North Korea announced reactor is 'in operation'
  
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• Troopers say 3 dead in crash of plane carrying 10 in southwest Alaska; several others injured

  15-09-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Troopers say 3 dead in crash of plane carrying 10 in southwest Alaska; several others injured.
  
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• Russia: We're helping Syria

  15-09-2015 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  What does Russia's increasing involvement in the Syrian conflict mean? CNN's Matthew Chance reports.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Thousands left stranded with the way into Hungary blocked by razor wire

  15-09-2015 21:52
  
  For the less-well informed people arriving to the Serbian border, the day started relatively well. Raffi Halabi, 42, a lift manufacturer from Damascus, accompanied by his two sons and leading a group of eight other refugees, walked up to the old train tracks in the village of Horgos which, until today, was the route most favoured by refugees entering Hungary. “I am the president here,” he said. “Everybody listens to what I say!”
  
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• Putin's bet on Syria

  15-09-2015 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The more entrenched al-Assad becomes, the more distant a solution to the Syrian war grows.
  
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• Stopped at the border

  15-09-2015 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Thousands of migrants looking to cross from Serbia into Hungary have made camp outside a fence designed to keep them from doing just that. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
  
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• Mexico wants answers from Egypt after 8 tourists killed

  15-09-2015 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's foreign minister headed for Cairo Tuesday with relatives of some of her country's eight tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, demanding an urgent enquiry into an "unjustified attack". Claudia Ruiz Massieu said she wanted answers about the strike that killed 12 people. The foreign ministry in Mexico City said Mexican diplomats "had access to the remains of victims" from the attack "and were able to confirm that they correspond to the six Mexicans who were part of the gr
  
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• The Latest: Seattle teachers deal is for 3-year contract

  15-09-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — The latest on the strike by public-school teachers in Seattle (all times local):
  
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• Searchers look for flood victims in polygamous Utah town

  15-09-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Search-and-rescue teams trudged through muddy streambeds Tuesday in a small polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border, looking for four people who were missing after a devastating flash flood that killed at least at least nine.
  
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• Football season transforming television ratings

  15-09-2015 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Television's fall season is already in full swing — the football season.
  
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• Tory Burch kicks off NY fashion week day six

  15-09-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tory Burch, who Forbes says is worth around $1 billion thanks to her fashion empire, showcased different visions of beauty in her elegant spring/summer 2016 collection in New York on Tuesday. "It was a lot about contrasts," she told AFP backstage after the show at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour guest of honor.
  
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• Amazon founder signals space intent

  15-09-2015 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces plans to build and launch rockets from Florida’s “space coast”.
  
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• Refugee crisis: The EU's deep divisions are becoming part of the problem

  15-09-2015 21:43
  What a miserable spectacle. There was never going to be an easy solution to Europe’s worst refugee crisis for 70 years. The EU has somehow contrived to make itself part of the problem. 
  
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• Kremlin denies Putin phoned Sir Elton

  15-09-2015 21:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Kremlin firmly denies that President Putin contacted Sir Elton John after the singer said he wanted to talk to the Russian leader about gay rights.
  
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• Sleazy killing captivates a nation

  15-09-2015 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Ravi Agrawal explains why India is transfixed by a murder mystery involving a TV executive.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Divisions leave Europe paralysed as borders close to refugees

  15-09-2015 21:36
  
  The razor fences, closed borders and detention of refugees have been met with a chorus of mutual recrimination among Europe’s leaders. Today, the continent is more divided than ever by the crisis, unable to agree on quotas, and unwilling to allow free movement between its member states.
  
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