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• Slovakia's Sagan captures world road race crown

  27-09-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Slovakia's Peter Sagan charged ahead over the last climbs and hung on at the finish to win Sunday's men's road race at the World Road Cycling Championships. Sagan completed the 261.4km (162.4 mile) course in 6hrs 14mins 37secs to defeat Australian Michael Matthews by three seconds with Lithuania's Ramunas Navardauskas third, also in 6:14:37. "I think it's the biggest victory," Sagan said.
  
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• Questions and answers about the Catalonia independence vote

  27-09-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Parties pushing for independence from Spain won a majority of seats in Catalonia's regional Parliament in a ballot Sunday, but failed to secure more than 50 percent of the popular vote in an election they had hoped would give them a clear, unequivocal mandate for secession.
  
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• Vandals deface statue of Pope Francis' new saint Junípero Serra

  27-09-2015 23:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Canonisation caused controversy among Native AmericansCarmel Mission posts picture of ‘Saint of Genocide’ scrawled on stonePolice in northern California said vandals defaced a statue of Father Junípero Serra at the Carmel Mission, where the remains of the recently canonised missionary are buried. Related: Pope Francis canonises Spanish missionary Junípero Serra amid protestsContinue reading...
  
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• Freeman assists Ryan, Jones as Falcons top Cowboys 39-28

  27-09-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Julio Jones glided over the goal line on a diving touchdown. That quieted a Dallas crowd riled up by early hopes that the Cowboys might find a way to survive without Tony Romo and Dez Bryant.
  
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• Dalton, Green lead Bengals over winless Ravens 28-24

  27-09-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Thrust into a familiar scenario, the Cincinnati Bengals performed as they had in the past.
  
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• Records show man killed by police was previously suicidal

  27-09-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Court records show that a Delaware man in a wheelchair who reportedly shot himself and refused repeated commands to drop his weapon before being killed by police had previously expressed suicidal thoughts and had a history of being combative with police.
  
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• Big Papi reflects on strong year despite Boston's woes

  27-09-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz heard the chatter early in the year, questioning what he had left, and responded with another strong season.
  
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• Shock Belt Used on Texas Man Representing Self

  27-09-2015 23:40 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A Texas capital murder trial is set to proceed Monday — but the defendant has already experienced a very small taste of how an electric chair might feel.
  
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• Sheri Goldhirsch, who nurtured young playwrights, dies

  27-09-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sheri Goldhirsch, who rose from an intern to help lead the Young Playwrights Inc., which has nurtured and developed playwrights ages 18 and under, died, according to the group. She was 55.
  
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• UK to deploy troops to help keep peace in Somalia and South Sudan

  27-09-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  David Cameron offers help in training and logistics for UN and African Union peacekeepers in attempt to foster ‘less terrorism and migration’Hundreds of British troops will be deployed to Somalia and South Sudan to train African peacekeeping forces in order to foster “less terrorism and less migration”, David Cameron has said.The prime minister said he was offering forces to United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) missions to help tackle conflicts that are facilitating
  
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• Vandals strike mission days after pope canonizes Serra

  27-09-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARMEL, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California say vandals defaced a statue of Father Junipero (hoo-NEE-perr-oh) Serra at the Carmel Mission, where the remains of the recently canonized missionary are buried.
  
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• Endometriosis often ignored as millions of American women suffer

  27-09-2015 23:21 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Research funding has neglected the disease that effects one in 10 women, fueling misunderstanding in medical community and leaving patients with huge bills A little-understood disease impacts up to one in 10 reproductive-age women in the United States – an estimated 7.6 million – causing debilitating agony, painless infertility and billions in economic losses as American women are forced to drop out of the workforce and seek expensive care for the gynecological illness. Yet federal f
  
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• Endometriosis: hidden suffering of millions of women revealed

  27-09-2015 23:17 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Often dismissed as ‘women’s troubles’, endometriosis affects one woman in 10 of reproductive age, yet a lack of research and funding means sufferers can live in severe pain, unable to work or socialise
  The hidden toll and extraordinary neglect of a disease that affects an estimated 176 million women around the globe, causing many to suffer a life of pain and debilitation and sometimes infertility, is revealed by the Guardian.
  One woman in 10 of reproductive age has endometriosi
  
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• Cutting penalty rates would hit most vulnerable, unions warn

  27-09-2015 23:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg have indicated a cut to Sunday rates is being considered, but ACTU says it would exacerbate inequalityCutting penalty rates would exacerbate inequality and disadvantage, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has warned, as a cabinet minister reopened the controversial debate by urging a rethink on the existing penalty system.
  The energy and resources minister, Josh Frydenberg, told Channel 10’s The Bolt Report on Sunday that the government was re-exami
  
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• Bundle of marijuana worth $10,000 falls from the sky and crushes dog house

  27-09-2015 23:01 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Police: 26lb-package likely dropped from smuggler’s aircraft or droneArizona couple who handed drugs in must rehouse German Shepherd, HulkMaya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep. Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, near the US-Mexico border, and saw pieces of wood on the ground.Related: I tried recipes from the Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook, then I needed a
  
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• Fashion crowd applauds US open winner Pennetta at Ferragamo

  27-09-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — A calm is permeating many Milan runways, as designers tone down the colors and focus on form, creating quieter moments that nonetheless have much to contemplate.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg tells India's visiting leader of his spiritual trip to country

  27-09-2015 22:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Narendra Modi and CEO both get emotional at event at Facebook headquarters in California, as pair discuss the role of internet and technology in IndiaThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi seemed at home at Facebook headquarters on Sunday, in a town hall event seen by many as an attempt by Facebook to gain much-needed support for its expansive ambitions in India.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was certainly in a welcoming mood, changing his profile picture to include an Indian flag and writing: &l
  
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• Pope Francis joins hundreds of thousands for Mass

  27-09-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope Francis led hundreds of thousands of the faithful Sunday at the last and biggest event of his joyful, six-day U.S. visit — a Mass on Philadelphia's grandest boulevard — after consoling victims of the church sex abuse scandal and offering words of hope to jail inmates.
  
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• Catalan leader claims win for pro-secession parties

  27-09-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Catalonia leader Artur Mas claimed victory in a parliamentary election for pro-secession parties pushing for independence from Spain.
  
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• Catalan elections: secessionists claim victory – live

  27-09-2015 22:54 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  With a majority of the votes counted, the pro-independence parties are on course to win a majority in local elections described as a quasi-referendum on independence 9.54pm BSTThe Guardian’s Spain correspondent Ashifa Kassam sends more from Artur Mas’ speech, in which the Catalan leader claimed victory for the pro-independence parties. She writes:“We won,” Mas, tells a jubilant crowd at a rally in Barcelona. “Today was a double victory - the yes side won, as did dem
  
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• Leaders pledge money, clout to achieve women's equality

  27-09-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders pledged money and political clout to achieve equality for women by 2030 at a U.N. meeting Sunday co-chaired by China's President Xi Jinping who has faced strong criticism for cracking down on women's rights activists.
  
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• 300 evacuated after sinkhole swallows car and caravan at campsite

  27-09-2015 22:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Park rangers warn people to stay away from area in case 200 metre-long hole expands, but no injuries reported so farAbout 300 people have been evacuated from a camping ground on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast after a sinkhole swallowed a car, caravan and camping trailer.
  Following further assessment it is now estimated the sinkhole, which opened at Inskip Point near Rainbow Beach at about 11pm on Saturday, is 200m long.Continue reading...
  
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• Pope Francis in Philadelphia: church must not be so quick to be scandalised – live

  27-09-2015 22:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Francis makes unscheduled visit to Jesuit university before mass for conclusion of World Meeting of FamiliesPope emphasizes importance of “rehabilitation” at Philadelphia prison‘God weeps’: Pope Francis meets with victims of clerical sexual abuse, but words ring hollow for some survivors.Saturday: Pope ditches speech for improvised address on family 9.37pm BSTExcite children to overcome evil – that’s what should earn the church’s approval:Pointedly, yet
  
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• Catalan separatists claim victory in regional vote

  27-09-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Separatists in Catalonia claimed victory Sunday in a regional election that they have vowed will lead to them declaring the region independent from Spain. "We have won," bellowed nationalist regional president Artur Mas before a crowd of supporters yelling and waving flags at an open-air rally in Barcelona. Official results with 80 percent of the votes counted indicated Mas's pro-independence alliance will hold an absolute majority in the regional parliament if it teams up with the radical left-
  
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• Kanye West to perform at festival where crowed rushed stage

  27-09-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona music festival is set to resume for a Kanye West performance after as many as 12 people were injured when a crowd rushed a stage, officials said Sunday.
  
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• Sproles, defense help Eagles beat Jets for 1st win, 24-17

  27-09-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — So much for those sluggish, winless Philadelphia Eagles.
  
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• Brady notches 400th TD pass in Patriots' 51-17 win over Jags

  27-09-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady and Stephen Gostkowksi picked up some more milestones. The New England Patriots picked up another lopsided win.
  
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• The Latest: Kaepernick's start: 2 interceptions for TDs

  27-09-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest from NFL stadiums around the country on the third Sunday of the season (all times EDT):
  
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• Ghoulish 'Hotel Transylvania 2' haunts top of N. America box office

  27-09-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The animated monsters from "Hotel Transylvania 2" scared up an estimated $47.5 million in their debut weekend, landing a solid lead at the top of the North American box office, industry estimates showed Sunday. The all-star sequel, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez, among others, follows Dracula and his ghoulish pals as they attempt to bring out the monster side of the count's half-human grandson. Landing in distant second was "The Intern," starring Robert De Ni
  
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• Peterson, Vikings trample banged-up Chargers 31-14

  27-09-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson looks like he's in mid-career form for Minnesota.
  
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• TSA finds record number of guns in US airplane carry on luggage

  27-09-2015 22:37 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  67 firearms found in week ending 17 September – 56 of them loadedRecord comes after Congress opens hearing on security test failuresUS airport security agents discovered a record 67 firearms in luggage passengers intended to carry on to airplanes during one week in September, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).Related: US airport screenings fail to detect mock weapons in 95% of testsContinue reading...
  
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• The Latest: Hollande announces $4 billion more climate aid

  27-09-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Developments from the final day of a record U.N. gathering of world leaders to launch sweeping development goals:
  
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• Catalonia leader Artur Mas claims victory for pro-secession parties in parliamentary election

  27-09-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Catalonia leader Artur Mas claims victory for pro-secession parties in parliamentary election.
  
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• Pope celebrates final mass of US tour in Philadelphia

  27-09-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the final mass of his US tour with an enormous crowd in Philadelphia, after meeting victims of child sex abuse saying "God weeps" for their suffering. Babies and disabled children were handed over to security agents to be hoisted up for a kiss from the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics before being passed back to overjoyed parents. Catholics from across the world, around America and members of the wider public poured onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway fo
  
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• Falcons beat Cowboys 39-28 behind Ryan-Jones combo, Freeman

  27-09-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Matt Ryan and Julio Jones kept Atlanta rolling with help from fill-in running back Devonta Freeman.
  
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• 'Breaking Bad' actor helping co-star in New Mexico election

  27-09-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two "Breaking Bad" stars who tried to nab drug lords in the fictional AMC-TV series are trying to shake up the New Mexico political scene in real life.
  
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• Slovakia's Sagan captures World Road Cycling race crown

  27-09-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Slovakia's Peter Sagan charged ahead over the final climbs and hung on at the finish to win Sunday's men's road race at the World Road Cycling Championships. The 25-year-old completed the 261.4km (162.4 mile) course in 6hrs 14mins 37secs to defeat Australian Michael Matthews by three seconds with Lithuania's Ramunas Navardauskas third, also in 6:14:37. "I think it's the biggest victory," Sagan said.
  
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• Russia seizes initiative in Syria crisis; France bombs Islamic State

  27-09-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Arshad Mohammed and John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia appeared to seize the initiative in international efforts to end the conflict in Syria on Sunday as Washington scrambled to devise a new strategy for the war-ravaged country and France sent warplanes to bomb Islamic State targets. As leaders gathered in New York at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed Syria with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. U.S. officials said Kerry was wor
  
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• Pope Francis's message to sex abuse survivors: ‘I am deeply sorry'

  27-09-2015 22:27 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The pontiff uses 90-minute meeting with victims to express sorrow for those who were abused by a member of the clergyThis is the message Pope Francis delivered to a group of sex abuse victims during a private, 90-minute meeting on Sunday morning in Philadelphia, provided and translated into English by the Vatican:“My dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, I am grateful for this opportunity to meet you. I am blessed by your presence. Thank you for coming here today. Words cannot fully expr
  
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• Pope Francis's message to sex abuse survivors in full: ‘I am deeply sorry'

  27-09-2015 22:27 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The pontiff uses 90-minute meeting with victims to express sorrow for those who were abused by a member of the clergyThis is the message Pope Francis delivered to a group of sex abuse victims during a private, 90-minute meeting on Sunday morning in Philadelphia, provided and translated into English by the Vatican:“My dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, I am grateful for this opportunity to meet you. I am blessed by your presence. Thank you for coming here today. Words cannot fully expr
  
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• Steelers top Rams 12-6; Roethlisberger injured

  27-09-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger was carted off the field with a knee injury in the second half and Pittsburgh's defense came through to give the Steelers a 12-6 victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.
  
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• Obama makes forceful defense of new development goals

  27-09-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is "not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future."
  
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• Nationals teammates Harper, Papelbon get into dugout fight

  27-09-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals teammates Bryce Harper and Jonathan Papelbon got into a fight in the dugout during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies and were separated by others on the bench.
  
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• House conservatives vie for clout over Boehner successor

  27-09-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers jockeyed for position on Sunday in the race to replace House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner as conservatives sought to exert influence over the election and push their party's leadership further to the right. The House Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative Republicans, hope to form a voting bloc of up to 60 members to rally around a single candidate for Boehner's job and other leadership positions that open up. While
  
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• Record number of guns found in U.S. airport searches: TSA

  27-09-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. airport security agents discovered a record 67 firearms in luggage passengers intended to carry on to airplanes during one week in September, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Of the 67 firearms found during the week ended Sept. 17, 56 were loaded and 26 had a round in the chamber, the TSA reported. The prior record was 65 firearms found during a week in May 2013, TSA said.
  
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• Marijuana bundle drops from sky, slams into family's carport

  27-09-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.
  
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• KC's Young, Duffy hold Indians to no hits through 6 innings

  27-09-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City's Chris Young and Danny Duffy have combined to hold the Cleveland Indians hitless through six innings, and the Royals lead the Indians 2-0.
  
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• Israel shells Syrian army posts in retaliation for stray rockets

  27-09-2015 22:01 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Two bases hit by artillery as Israeli military says it holds Damascus responsible for ‘any aggression emanating from Syria’
  The Israeli military said it struck two Syrian army posts with artillery fire after rockets from the war-torn country landed in Israeli-controlled territory.The military said the two rockets, which landed over the last two days, were errant fire from the Syrian conflict. They caused no damage or injuries. Continue reading...
  
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• 'God weeps,' pope says, after meeting clergy sex abuse victims

  27-09-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone and Philip Pullella PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Pope Francis confronted the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy on the final day of his U.S. visit on Sunday, meeting with five adults abused as children and vowing to hold accountable those involved in the crimes and cover-ups. "I have in my heart the stories of suffering and the pain of the minors who were sexually abused by priests," the 78-year-old Argentine pope, speaking in his native Spanish, told bishops in Philad
  
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• Israeli strikes hit Syrian army on Golan: rebel sources, monitor

  27-09-2015 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least three Israeli air strikes hit Syrian army targets on the Golan Heights on Sunday, rebel sources and a monitoring group said. The raids struck near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied part of the strategic plateau. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rebel sources in southern Syria confirmed the account. (Reporting by John Davison; editing by Andrew Roche)
  
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