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• Twins' mistakes lead to Angels' 4-3 win in 12 innings

  19-09-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kole Calhoun's liner eluded shortstop Eduardo Escobar's glove in the 12th inning, allowing Dan Robertson to score the go-ahead run from third, and the Los Angeles Angels held on to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 to gain ground in the AL wild-card race.
  
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• Saudi blockade starves Yemen of vital supplies, as bombing raids continue

  19-09-2015 23:38
  
  Fuel and vital medical supplies will run out in a matter of weeks in some of the hardest-hit areas of Yemen, aid agencies have warned, amid a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition that has been conducting bombing raids over the country for months.
  
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• Greece elections: Whoever wins will gain the poisoned chalice of having to implement the agreed bailout terms

  19-09-2015 23:38
  
  Greeks are going to the polls, grimly aware that, whoever wins, things can only seemingly get worse.
  
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• Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe warns white farmers being asked back as advisers is a step backwards

  19-09-2015 23:37
  
  When Tracy Mutinhiri struggled to get her tobacco crop to grow, she turned to some of the country’s most experienced farmers for help. There was only one complication: they were white.
  
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• Britain accused of taking an ‘incoherent’ position on EU sugar deal that ‘will push thousands back into poverty’

  19-09-2015 23:29
  
  The livelihoods of more than 200,000 sugar cane farmers in developing countries are threatened by a decision – backed by Britain – to lift quotas on sugar production within the European Union, campaigners say.
  
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• Greeks vote on whether to give leftists another chance

  19-09-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeremy Gaunt ATHENS (Reuters) - Alexis Tsipras, the firebrand Greek leftist who lost his bitter fight with Europe's establishment to end its harsh economic austerity against his country, seeks re-election on Sunday a month after he resigned as prime minister. Opinion polls suggest Tsipras may have the edge, but so narrow a one that a win for Meimarakis would not be surprising. Neither party, however, is expected to get the roughly 38 percent of the vote generally seen as needed for a clear ma
  
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• Walker cancels twice on Michigan GOP, goes to must-win Iowa

  19-09-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker twice canceled a speech to thousands of Michigan Republicans, then met Saturday with religious conservatives in first-voting Iowa, on which the Wisconsin governor's White House hopes rely.
  
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• Mayfield sets record; No. 16 Oklahoma beats Tulsa 52-38

  19-09-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield knows how to make an impression.
  
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• The Latest: Red-carpet welcome for Pope Francis in Cuba

  19-09-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (AP) — The latest developments in Pope Francis' visit to Cuba and the United States. All times local:
  
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• Pope exhorts U.S., Cuba to push detente further

  19-09-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Cawthorne and Philip Pullella HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis told former Cold War foes Cuba and the United States on Saturday to set an example for the world by deepening their recent rapprochement that he helped broker. "I urge political leaders to persevere on this path and to develop all its potentialities ... on behalf of the peace and well-being of their peoples, of all America, and as an example of reconciliation for the entire world," he said. Better sensitized to the issue tha
  
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• Refugee crisis: UK government promises extra support to UN refugee agency

  19-09-2015 22:57
  
  Britain will ensure that the UN’s refugee agency has the resources it needs to resettle the extra 20,000 Syrians it has promised to take into the UK, International Development Secretary Justine Greening said.
  
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• Refugee Crisis: At the border of Austria and Slovenia there's a rare happy ending

  19-09-2015 22:56
  
  At the frontier of another sealed border of the European Union, all was quiet, save for some crickets chirping, riot police wearily scraping their shields on the asphalt, and the light snoring of refugees sleeping on the bridge.
  
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• Pope Francis praises US-Cuba detente as model for world

  19-09-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis hailed detente between the United States and Cuba as a model of reconciliation for the world, urging Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro to persevere in building normal ties as the pontiff launched a 10-day tour of the former Cold War foes Saturday.
  
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• Chase newcomers won't change how they approach title races

  19-09-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — When the green flag drops on the opening round of NASCAR's playoffs, Jamie McMurray and Paul Menard will be racing for a Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for the first time in their careers.
  
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• John Kerry admits US was disturbed by build up of Russian military in Syria

  19-09-2015 22:53
  
  John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has admitted that his country was “disturbed” by Russia’s military build-up in Syria. The movement of Russian fighter jets and other weaponry, including ground-to-air missiles, to Syria could pose a threat to American and allied military forces, he said.
  
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• Pope urges US, Cuba to 'persevere on path' of rapprochement

  19-09-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Havana (AFP) - Pope Francis urged US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro to continue building their nations' nascent reconciliation as he arrived in Havana Saturday at the start of a tour that will also take him to the United States.
  
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• 1961 Beatles recording contract sells for over $90,000

  19-09-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York auction house says it has sold the first recording contract ever signed by the Beatles for over $90,000.
  
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• Pope urges Cuba, U.S. to 'persevere' in reconciliation

  19-09-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Cuba and the United States on Saturday to provide an example for the world by persisting with their diplomatic rapprochement that he played a major role in bringing about. "For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope: the process of normalizing relations," he said on arrival in Cuba. "I urge political leaders to persevere on this path ... as an example of reconciliation for the entire world." (Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing
  
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• Cuba's leader Raul Castro thanks pope for aiding U.S. detente

  19-09-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro thanked Pope Francis on Saturday for his help in fomenting a diplomatic rapprochement with the United States after more than half a century of hostilities. Castro, in a welcome speech at Havana airport after Francis touched down from Italy, also condemned the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba and occupation of the Guantanamo naval base on the eastern tip of the Caribbean island. (Reporting by Anahi Rama; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Daniel Trott
  
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• Pope encourages Cuba to provide Church with 'freedom'

  19-09-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis on Saturday applauded greatly improved cooperation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church and encouraged Cuba to continue providing freedom for the Church to fulfill its mission. "Today we renew those bonds of cooperation and friendship, so that the Church can continue to support and encourage the Cuban people in its hopes and concerns, with the freedom, the means and the space needed to bring the proclamation of the kingdom to the existential peripheries of soci
  
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• Burkina Faso: Mediators hint at post-coup breakthrough

  19-09-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — West African mediators late Saturday hinted at a breakthrough in Burkina Faso's political crisis after a military coup brought a general to power less than a month before scheduled elections.
  
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• More than 1,000 homes destroyed by 2 California fires

  19-09-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — The tally of homes destroyed by two massive Northern California wildfires topped 1,000 Saturday after authorities doing damage assessments in the Sierra Nevada foothills counted another 250 houses destroyed by flames still threatening thousands of more structures.
  
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• Beltran, McCann homer to back Pineda as Yanks beat Mets 5-0

  19-09-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Beltran hit a three-run, second-deck home run on a 100 mph fastball from Noah Syndergaard in the first inning, Michael Pineda pitched his best game in two months and the New York Yankees beat the Mets 5-0 Saturday to rebound from an opening loss in the weekend Subway Series.
  
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• Trump's latest policy paper marks departure on gun control

  19-09-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who once advocated certain gun control measures, says he is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and that gun rights should not be infringed upon.
  
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• East European leaders in war of words as migrants pour across borders

  19-09-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sasa Kavic and Ivana Sekularac BELI MANASTIR/HARMICA, Croatia (Reuters) - Hungary and Croatia traded threats on Saturday as thousands of exhausted migrants poured over their borders, deepening the disarray in Europe over how to handle the tide of humanity. More than 20,000 migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, have trekked into Croatia since Tuesday, when Hungary used a metal fence, tear gas and water cannon on its southern border with Serbia to bar their route into the Europea
  
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• Fed rate hike depends in part on global economy: Williams

  19-09-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The timing of a U.S. interest rate hike will depend on the Federal Reserve better understanding the state of the global economy and its influence on the United States, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Saturday. "Getting some more clarity around what is really happening in the global economy, how is that affecting the U.S. economy, and also seeing continued progress in the U.S. economy -- these are all things I'm watching," he told reporters when asked about a possible rate rise
  
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• Refugee crisis was caused by a careless West that allowed anarchy and fear to take root in the Middle East

  19-09-2015 22:00
  Little has been done to end the four-year civil war that is destroying Iraq and Syria and which has caused the biggest mass flight of people ever seen in the Middle East. More than half of the 23 million Syrian population have fled their homes, of which four million are refugees outside Syria. There is a growing exodus from Iraq, with three million people displaced, many of whom today see that the war is not ending and that they can never again hope to live safely in their own country.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Lebanon is doing its bit to help its neighbour Syria

  19-09-2015 22:00
  
  Enrolment for the new school term began on Monday in Lebanon. But this is no ordinary school term. This is the start of a an academic year so different from any other that I want the international community to wake up to the peril we face. By the end of this year the refugee population in our schools could exceed Lebanon’s state school numbers.
  
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• Pope Francis' plane lands in Havana at start of Cuba, U.S. tour

  19-09-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis' plane landed in Havana on Saturday at the start of a nine-day tour of Cuba and the United States whose recent diplomatic detente he helped broker. (Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Tom Brown)
  
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• Phoenix freeway shooting suspect: 'I'm the wrong guy'

  19-09-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A landscaper suspected in a series of Phoenix freeway shootings told a judge Saturday that authorities have "the wrong guy" and he hasn't even had a gun for two months.
  
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• Tiger Woods suffers new setback

  19-09-2015 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tiger Woods says he hopes to return to competitive golf in early 2016 following his second back operation in less than two years.
  
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• Britain, Argentina edge closer to Davis Cup final

  19-09-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andy and Jamie Murray edged Great Britain closer to a first Davis Cup final in 37 years on Saturday while Argentina were within sight of their fourth final spot since 2006. The Murray brothers thrilled their home Glasgow crowd by defeating Australia's Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4 in a gruelling four-hour rubber. Victory gave the home side a 2-1 lead and it means Andy Murray can now clinch the tie for Great Britain in Sunday's first reverse singles as they attempt to
  
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• Migrant child dies off Greece, others paddle across from Turkey

  19-09-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Marina Depetris LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - A girl believed to be five years died on Saturday and 13 other migrants were feared lost overboard after their boat sank in choppy seas off the Greek island of Lesbos, the Greek coastguard said. A second, exhausted group of around 40 people reached the island in a small boat following a traumatic journey from Turkey, having paddled through the night with their hands across 10 kilometers (six miles) of ocean after their engine failed. "When we were on
  
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• Nearly 4,700 migrants rescued off Libya coast: Italian coastguard

  19-09-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 4,700 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Saturday as they tried to reach Europe but one woman was found dead, Italy's coastguard said. The coastguard said in a statement it had coordinated 20 rescue operations involving numerous vessels which picked up 4,343 migrants from rubber boats and barges. In one of the inflatable boats a woman's body was found, the coastguard said, without specifying the possible cause of death.
  
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• Burbridge leads No. 4 Michigan State over Air Force 35-21

  19-09-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Connor Cook threw three touchdown passes in the first half — including one hauled in by Aaron Burbridge with a spectacular catch in the end zone — and No. 4 Michigan State beat Air Force 35-21 on Saturday.
  
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• Chinese computer hack attacks slow ahead of Obama summit: experts

  19-09-2015 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Menn and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major intrusions by Chinese hackers of U.S. companies' computer systems appear to have slowed in recent months, private-sector experts say, ahead of a meeting between China's president and President Barack Obama with cyber security on the agenda. "The pace of new breaches feels like it’s tempering," said Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant, a prominent company that investigates sophisticated corporate breaches. A point of friction in U.S
  
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• Fed's Williams little worried about rate-hike hit to EMs

  19-09-2015 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARMONK, NY (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is aware of the risk that a U.S. interest rate rise could sharply influence some emerging market economies but that alone will not delay a move to tighten, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Saturday.
  
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• Emmy nominees share plans for big day

  19-09-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Mayim Bialik will be at a cemetery. Denis O'Hare will be trying to figure out what to do with his 4-year old son. And Sarah Paulson will be in a state of terror and anxiety.
  
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• Bells to toll for pope's US arrival

  19-09-2015 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis is set to arrive in Cuba on Saturday for a trip that will take him next week to the United States for the first time. Fifty-six bells will toll when Pope Francis touches down at Andrews Air Force base outside the US capital Tuesday to begin his first-ever US visit. The basilica, Byzantine-Romanesque in style and topped by a golden and blue dome, is dedicated to the patroness of the United States, the Virgin Mary.
  
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• 'Baby Doe' dad says he believes mother not to blame in death

  19-09-2015 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The father of a 2-year-old girl identified almost three months after her remains were found in a trash bag that washed up on a Boston-area beach says he doesn't believe the toddler's mother caused her death.
  
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• Chelsea sink nine-man Arsenal, West Ham stun leaders City

  19-09-2015 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kurt Zouma and Eden Hazard gave Chelsea a controversial 2-0 win over nine-man Arsenal on Saturday while leaders Manchester City crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat against West Ham. The acrimonious relationship between Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger seeped through to both teams at Stamford Bridge in a tetchy London derby featuring even more flashpoints than usual.
  
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• Son of Dubai ruler dies

  19-09-2015 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The son of the ruler of Dubai died of a heart attack Saturday morning, state-run WAM news agency reported. Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was 33.
  
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• The Latest: Far-right Hungarian mayor warns migrants away

  19-09-2015 21:02 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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• The Latest: Freeway shootings suspect says he's 'wrong guy'

  19-09-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The latest on the investigation and arrest in a series of freeway shootings in the Phoenix area (all times local):
  
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• Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen's capital kill 29

  19-09-2015 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Airstrikes carried out by a Saudi-led coalition against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed 29 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa, security and medical officials in the city said Saturday.
  
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• Japan stuns S. Africa at World Cup

  19-09-2015 20:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Japan caused one of the greatest upsets in Rugby World Cup history by beating two-time champion South Africa 34-32 in the opening Pool B match on Saturday.
  
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• Kabul rejects claim that Afghanistan behind Peshawar attack

  19-09-2015 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The government of Afghanistan has rejected Pakistan's claim that a militant attack on a military base near Peshawar was planned and controlled from Afghanistan.
  
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• Venezuelan film flourishing as society becomes more censored

  19-09-2015 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A new wave of cinema is emerging from the chaos and violence of modern Venezuela that focuses on highly personal tales of gay love affairs and little boys who want to wear party dresses.
  
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• Clinton tries to rally unsure Democrats with partisan fire

  19-09-2015 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton attempted to rally thousands of influential New Hampshire Democrats on Saturday with a fiercely partisan message, as she struggled to regain her footing in the primary contest.
  
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• Polish film director Marcin Wrona dies unexpectedly

  19-09-2015 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's film authorities say director Marcin Wrona, whose horror movie "Demon" made its world premiere last week in Toronto, has died unexpectedly at age 42.
  
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