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• Steelers go for 2 and everything else, crush 49ers 43-18

  20-09-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The sheet and 20 years of conventional NFL wisdom said to kick. The Pittsburgh Steelers took a look at it, ripped it up and set it on fire.
  
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• Vivienne Westwood turns catwalk into austerity protest

  20-09-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British designer Vivienne Westwood transformed the catwalk into a protest march at London Fashion Week on Sunday, blending style with politics and sharp tailoring with anti-austerity placards. The long-time rebel and activist, 74, held the launch of her spring-summer 2016 runway show for her Red Line collection in the basement of the University of Westminster. A group of people took to the floodlit catwalk holding placards reading "Climate Revolution", "Austerity is a Crime" and "Fracking is a C
  
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• Left-wing Syriza wins Greek vote, will form coalition gov't

  20-09-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A jubilant Alexis Tsipras vowed to continue fighting for his country's pride and to quickly form a coalition government after his left-wing Syriza party comfortably won Greece's third national vote this year on Sunday.
  
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• Pope meets Fidel Castro, warns against ideology on Cuba trip

  20-09-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Philip Pullella and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis met Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Sunday hours after warning Cubans to beware the dangers of ideology and the lure of selfishness as their country enters a new era of closer ties with the United States. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the meeting, which included Castro's wife and other family members, was "very relaxed, fraternal and friendly." Francis gave Castro several of his official papal writ
  
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• Authorities: Gun tests tie suspect to freeway shootings

  20-09-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Soft-spoken and handcuffed, a 21-year-old landscaper insists that he is not responsible for a string of Phoenix freeway shootings and that his gun has been sitting in a pawn shop for months.
  
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• Greek leftist Tsipras returns in unexpectedly decisive vote win

  20-09-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Renee Maltezou and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek leftist Alexis Tsipras stormed back into office with an unexpectedly decisive election victory on Sunday, claiming a clear mandate to steer Greece's battered economy to recovery. The vote ensured Europe's most outspoken leftist leader would remain Greece's dominant political figure, despite having been abandoned by party radicals last month after he caved in to demands for austerity to win a bailout from the euro zone. "Today in Eur
  
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• Thousands more migrants pour into Austria as 13 drown off Turkey

  20-09-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Crowded aboard buses and trains, thousands more migrants flooded into Austria on Sunday as at least 13 desperate refugees drowned making the perilous trip to Europe in search of a better life. Six children were among those who died off the coast of Turkey after the inflatable dinghy carrying them to Greece collided with a ship, Turkish media reported. As several thousand more migrants arrived in Austria from Hungary via Croatia, Budapest abruptly decided to reopen a border crossing with Serbia w
  
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• Mediators announce deal to end Burkina coup crisis, questions remain

  20-09-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Joe Penney OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Regional mediators seeking to peacefully roll back a military coup in Burkina Faso said they negotiated a draft deal on Sunday to end the crisis though they failed to secure the immediate restoration of civilian rule. The announcement by Senegal's President Macky Sall at a news conference came after a day fraught with tensions that began with an attack by pro-coup demonstrators and elite presidential guard soldiers on the hotel hosting
  
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• BMC Racing of US wins team time trial title in Richmond

  20-09-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Taylor Phinney roared to the front for BMC Racing as the team headed toward the finish line, thousands of fans lining both sides of the downtown boulevard created a tunnel of noise.
  
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• Dennis, Phinney power BMC to world time trial repeat

  20-09-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Powered by Australian Rohan Dennis with US hero Taylor Phinney making an inspirational comeback, BMC Racing defended the men's team time trial crown Sunday at the World Road Cycling Championships. Phinney, who missed 15 months after a serious crash, joined Dennis, Italians Daniel Oss and Michael Quinziato and Swiss riders Silvan Dillier and Stefan Kueng in conquering the 38.6km (24 miles) course in 42min 7.97secs. "To win again and really put our mark on the team time trial is really big," Denni
  
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• Pope Francis and Fidel Castro have 'relaxed and friendly' meeting in Cuba

  20-09-2015 22:51
  
  Pope Francis held a “very relaxed, fraternal and friendly” meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba on Sunnday, a Vatican spokesman said.
  
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• 3 people hurt in Alabama church shooting; suspect arrested

  20-09-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after shooting his girlfriend, their baby and a clergyman at a church in Alabama, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• Greece election: Alexis Tsipras wins but needs coalition partner for Syriza

  20-09-2015 21:38
  
  The campaign was a cliffhanger, but Alexis Tsipras is celebrating a second election victory, won despite months of turbulence and a disastrous policy U-turn which saw him abandon his attempt to defy Brussels and instead sign up for another harsh Brussels bailout.
  
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• Greece election: Alexis Tsipras wins but needs coalition partner

  20-09-2015 21:38
  
  The campaign was a cliffhanger, but Alexis Tsipras celebrated a second election victory, won despite months of turbulence and a disastrous policy U-turn which saw him abandon his attempt to defy Brussels and instead sign up for another harsh Brussels bailout.
  
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• Greece election: Alexis Tsipras is the clear winner but still needs coalition partner for Syriza

  20-09-2015 21:38
  
  The campaign was a cliffhanger, but Alexis Tsipras is celebrating a second election victory, won despite months of turbulence and a disastrous policy U-turn which saw him abandon his attempt to defy Brussels and instead sign up for another harsh Brussels bailout.
  
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• Global separatist groups meet up in Moscow - but no one criticises Russia

  20-09-2015 21:08
  
  There were the Hawaiians, the Irish, the Puerto Ricans, the Catalans and the Ukrainians. Comrades all. But the Scottish, potential stars of the world’s first separatist conference, were a no-show.
  
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• Syriza’s victory shows that Greece wants a permanent break from its past | Nick Malkoutzis

  20-09-2015 20:56 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Since agreeing the bailout in July, prime minister Alexis Tsipras’s judgment has come under severe scrutiny. But the older parties could offer no alternative plan for the futureThe initial results from Greece’s second general election this year, and its fifth since October 2009, suggest that the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has a level of political durability that few could have predicted – and that a large section of Greek society is willing to be incredibly patient with hi
  
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• Alabama church shooting: Man arrested after woman, child and pastor shot in church

  20-09-2015 20:56
  
  A man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot a woman, and infant and a pastor at a church in Alabama, according to a state prosecutor.
  
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• Greek election live: Syriza on course for "clear victory" as New Democracy concedes

  20-09-2015 20:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Alexis Tsipras is on track to secure another dramatic victory in Greece’s snap general election, and could land 145 seatsAnother coalition with Independent Greeks?New Democracy concedes defeatLatest seat projectionsCelebration and relief at Syriza’s big tentNeo-nazi Golden Dawn do well againTrack the results as they come in 7.55pm BSTThe results also show that Greece’s young people, who have suffered so much since the crisis in 2010, kept their faith in Tsipras.How did young Gr
  
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• Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash

  20-09-2015 20:52 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Evolutionary biologist says boy’s arrest was wrong, but questions whether he really invented an alarm clockThe evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins found himself at the centre of controversy on Sunday when he questioned the motives of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested and detained in Texas when a teacher thought a clock he had made was a bomb. Related: Ahmed Mohamed is tired, excited to meet Obama – and wants his clock backContinue reading...
  
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• Pope meets Fidel Castro in 'intimate and familial' encounter

  20-09-2015 20:46 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Radically different men finally meet and exchange books
  Meeting came shortly after the pope’s mass in Revolution SquarePope Francis has met with the Fidel Castro, in an encounter that was described as “intimate and familial”, despite the radically different paths the Argentine pontiff and Cuban revolutionary leader had taken in life. Related: Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro – live updatesContinue reading...
  
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• Madrid bans blacked-up actors from Three Kings Christmas parade

  20-09-2015 20:46
  
  Wanted: one black actor to play a king. Must be able to throw sweets convincingly.
  
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• Greeks 'feel nothing will change’ after the election

  20-09-2015 20:41
  
  In a mood of resignation, most Greeks put on their Sunday best and trudged to the polling stations to vote in a new government for the fifth time in six years. But quite a lot didn’t bother.
  
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• Syriza set to return to power in Greek general election

  20-09-2015 20:33 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Conservative rival New Democracy concedes defeat to leftwing party led by Alexis TsiprasThe leftwing Syriza party is set to return to power in Greece after its closest rival conceded defeat in the general election.The leader of the centre-right New Democracy party said Syriza, led by former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, had come first in the poll with early results showing that it had taken about 35% of the vote. “The election result seems shows that the first party is Syriza and Tsipras.
  
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• Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro – live updates

  20-09-2015 20:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Pontiff meets former Cuban president Fidel Castro following historic mass in HavanaPope calls on US and Cuba to set ‘global example of reconciliation’Pope lands in Havana – in pictures 7.28pm BSTMeanwhile, in the US ... 7.10pm BSTMy colleague Angela Bruno has been reading a article on the pope’s outspoken views on capitalism by the Miami Herald/Nuevo Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer: Oppenheimer cites the work of the economist Ricardo Hausmann, the director of the Cent
  
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• Pope Francis says failure not an option in Colombia peace process

  20-09-2015 20:09 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Pontiff issues pleas to warring factions during mass in Cuba, where talks have been ongoing for more than two years between Farc and Colombian governmentPope Francis has begged Colombia’s government and leftist rebels to end Latin America’s longest-running war, warning that failure is not an option in ongoing negotiations to stop the country’s bloodshed.A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement, Francis issued his
  
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• More than 100,000 gather for pro-Erdoğan rally in Istanbul

  20-09-2015 20:09 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘Anti-terrorism demonstration’ seen as test of president’s popularity in runup to November’s general electionMore than 100,000 people – many waving Turkish flags – attended an “anti-terrorism” rally in Istanbul on Sunday, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conducted a major offensive against Kurdish rebels elsewhere in the country. Related: Turkey on the verge of civil war, says Kurdish leaderContinue reading...
  
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• Central Europe gives up on holding refugees back from Austria

  20-09-2015 20:07 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia abandon attempts to block passage of migrants to Austria while EU to struggles to find lasting political solution The countries of central Europe suspended their resistance this weekend to Europe’s largest refugee exodus since the second world war, as Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia all shunted tens of thousands of people towards Austria, reversing most recent attempts to block their passage.
  At least 15,000 refugees mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq were
  
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• US to accept extra 30,000 refugees over two years, says John Kerry

  20-09-2015 20:03 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hillary Clinton urges US to ‘lead world’ in crisis response, as current secretary of state Kerry says US will accept 100,000 refugees in 2017 Related: Rescued boat refugees held in Turkey 'threatened with deportation to Syria' The US will accept an extra 30,000 refugees from around the world over the next two years, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, as the Obama administration came under further pressure to take in more victims of the Syrian civil war. Continue reading...
  
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• Hillary Clinton: US should take 65,000 refugees – video

  20-09-2015 19:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hillary Clinton discusses the refugee crisis in Europe with John Dickerson on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. The Democrat presidential hopeful says that while the Obama administration has made a ‘good start’ by pledging to accept 10,000 refugees, the US should do more to ‘lead the world’ on this issue by taking 65,000. Clinton also wants the UN secretary-general to call an international meeting on the crisis at the upcoming general assemblyThis footage was origina
  
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• Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull signals change as he appoints five women to his '21st-century cabinet'

  20-09-2015 19:57
  Less than a week after toppling Tony Abbott, Australia’s new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has signalled a radical change of direction, appointing five women to his cabinet – five times the number Mr Abbott had in his initial line-up – and hinting at plans to scrap knighthoods and damehoods from the honours system.
  
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• One Briton and five other hostages released by Houthi rebels

  20-09-2015 19:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Three Americans, two Saudis and British national were detained earlier this year, after ‘entering the country illegally’Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels have released six foreigners they were holding hostage, according to airport officials and Houthi officials.The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity on Sunday because they were not authorised to speak to reporters, said the six were flying out of the country’s capital, Sana’a, to the Gulf nation of Oman, which ne
  
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• Kerry: U.S. to accept more refugees

  20-09-2015 19:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Austrian shepherd who drives refugees across border to safety

  20-09-2015 19:44 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hans Breuer among dozens of people who have secretly taken hundreds of refugees through Hungary to AustriaHurtling through the darkness, a mile north of Hungary’s border with Serbia, Hans Breuer duelled with his satellite navigation system. In pristine German, the satnav insisted he head west, along the most direct route to his home in Austria. But Breuer had other ideas, swerving down a dirt track that the GPS didn’t recognise.Amid gentle chides from the satnav, the 61-year-old swit
  
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• Great Britain reaches Davis Cup final

  20-09-2015 19:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An Andy Murray-inspired Great Britain reached the final of the Davis Cup for the first time since 1978 by clinching victory against Australia in their semifinal in Glasgow Sunday.
  
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• China's economic problems should be put in perspective, says Osborne

  20-09-2015 19:32 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  UK chancellor says country must continue programme of economic reform, which will ‘lay the foundation for Chinese prosperity for decades to come’George Osborne has urged Chinese leaders to press on with economic reforms as he played down fears that China’s recent stock market turmoil and economic slowdown will endanger the global economy.Last month’s stock market meltdown and disappointing economic data from China have fuelled concerns that the world’s second larges
  
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• Derbyshire house fire: bodies of husband and wife found, police say

  20-09-2015 19:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Emergency services say two people, believed to be a husband and wife, were killed in a severe house fire in Riddings, near AlfretonThe bodies of a couple have been found after a devastating house fire tore through a residential property in Derbyshire.The severely damaged house in Riddings, near Alfreton, was captured in images on social media, which showed the walls and roof of the charred property have collapsed. Continue reading...
  
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• Cost of medical marijuana in Minnesota leads some to return to illegal sources

  20-09-2015 19:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  State launched medical cannabis programme two months ago, but patients are struggling with prices up to thousands of dollars per monthJust two months after Minnesota launched its medical marijuana programme, some patients turned off by high costs say they are back to buying the drug illegally – because it’s the only way they can afford it. State officials and the companies hired to make marijuana products trumpeted the programme’s medical approach of pills and oils and no leaf
  
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• Corbyn under pressure to reconsider Labour’s policy on Syria airstrikes

  20-09-2015 19:21 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Lord Falconer signals he would back bombing campaign against Isis, amid reports that up to half of shadow cabinet may support government at a voteJeremy Corbyn faced pressure over Labour’s policy on airstrikes in Syria after senior shadow cabinet ministers signalled they could support military action under the right conditions.Lord Falconer, the shadow justice secretary, said he would be prepared to back a bombing campaign in Syria with the proper military and legal justification, despite
  
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• Palestinians face new uncertainty over President Mahmoud Abbas succession

  20-09-2015 19:20
  
  With more than two decades of trying to secure an independent Palestinian state through negotiations at a hopeless dead end, the aging Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas now hopes to begin scaling down his responsibilities, with a view towards an orderly succession of power.
  
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• Jackie Collins, novelist of Hollywood glamour and sex, dies aged 77

  20-09-2015 19:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  British-born author of Hollywood Wives and The Stud dies in Los Angeles of breast cancer which she had kept secret for more than six years Related: Jackie Collins: Queen of the bonkbuster | interview Jackie Collins, queen of the “bonkbuster” novel for more than four decades, has died aged 77 of breast cancer having kept her illness secret from all but her closest family and friends. Continue reading...
  
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• 'He’s a pope for the world': Francis's Cuba mass seeks audience beyond the faithful

  20-09-2015 19:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Revolution Square mass continues theme of reconciliation as pontiff avoids any overt politics – some Cubans find comfort in being a communist and Catholic Under the gaze of a giant mural of the guerrilla leader Che Guevara, Pope Francis has delivered a gospel of peace, humility and neighbourly commitment at a mass in Havana’s iconic Revolution Square.
  In the plaza where Fidel Castro once thundered out lengthy denunciations of capitalism and “fascist priests”, the pontiff
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hundreds of Syrian refugees 'threatened with deportation back to Syria'

  20-09-2015 18:37
  
  Hundreds of Syrian refugees fear they could be sent back by Turkish authorities after they were rescued by the country’s coastguard.
  
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• Nepal formally adopts new constitution amid protests from minorities

  20-09-2015 18:35 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Security stepped up as smaller political parties and ethnic groups opposed to charter issue fresh threats of violenceNepal has formally adopted a much anticipated and long-delayed constitution that took more than seven years to complete following a decade of political infighting.Security was stepped up across the nation, with smaller political parties and ethnic groups opposed to the new charter issuing fresh threats of violence. Continue reading...
  
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• Refugee crisis: Six children among 13 dead after ferry hits inflatable dinghy

  20-09-2015 18:34
  
  Thirteen refugees, including six children, have died after their inflatable dinghy collided with a cargo ship.
  
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• California wildfires destroy at least 1,400 homes

  20-09-2015 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — At least 1,400 homes have been destroyed by two Northern California wildfires and thousands more remain threatened, fire officials said Sunday.
  
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• Woman pulled from a burning vehicle in extraordinary video

  20-09-2015 18:21
  
  A woman was rescued from her burning camper van which then set alight at least two other vehicles in Pennsylvania, US.
  
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• Peanut executive in salmonella case faces prison for life

  20-09-2015 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A year after a federal jury convicted him of crimes behind a salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and sickening hundreds more, former peanut executive Stewart Parnell returns to court facing possible imprisonment for the rest of his life.
  
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• Exit poll shows left-wing Syriza likely winning Greek vote

  20-09-2015 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Exit polls in Greece's early election show the left-wing Syriza party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras likely winning, but falling short of an absolute majority needed to form a government.
  
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• Man dies at music festival after falling from statue

  20-09-2015 18:18
  
  A man has reportedly died at a music festival in Paris after he fell from the top of a famous monument.
  
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