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• Oklahoma sheriff indicted, plans to resign

  30-09-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff quickly decided to resign Wednesday after being indicted by a grand jury that investigated his office following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a volunteer deputy who said he mistook his handgun for a stun gun.
  
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• Hurricane may bring 10 inches of rain to parts of East Coast

  30-09-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Steady rain drenched much of the East Coast on Wednesday, flooding roads, closing schools and forcing some people from their homes. And forecasters say the worst is yet to come.
  
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• 'It's surreal': Australia's first Indigenous minister, Ken Wyatt, on his promotion

  30-09-2015 23:26 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Wyatt should be used to making history – he was the first Indigenous MP elected to the House of Representatives in 2010. But he remains very aware of where he’s come from and the importance of taking his culture with himKen Wyatt gave his inaugural speech to parliament in 2010 wrapped in a kangaroo skin coat that was given to him by elders of the Noongar people, the traditional occupants of south-west Western Australia.The coat, Wyatt explained, was presented to him as a symbol of hi
  
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• Oklahoma governor stays execution of Richard Glossip amid drug concerns

  30-09-2015 23:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Order comes an hour after US supreme court denies last-minute appeal over new evidence Glossip’s attorneys allege show he was framed for murder of bossOklahoma governor Mary Fallin has issued a stay of execution for Richard Glossip amid concerns over one of the drugs to be used to put him to death.The order came an hour after the US supreme court denied a last-minute appeal alleging that new evidence showed Glossip was framed by the actual killer. Continue reading...
  
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• Apple removed drone-strike apps from App Store due to 'objectionable content'

  30-09-2015 23:06 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Metadata+ and Ephemeral+ provided news alerts on deaths from US drone attacks, but fell foul of Apple’s regulationsTracking the number of deaths caused by US drone strikes in countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia? There are apps for that. Or rather, there were – until Apple removed them from its app store.
  Metadata+ was launched in early 2014 by Josh Begley, a data artist and research editor for The Intercept. It used data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to send push
  
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• Tulsa sheriff resigns after indictment for handling of volunteer deputy shooting

  30-09-2015 22:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Stanley Glanz is indicted on two misdemeanor accounts over the shooting death of Eric Harris by 73-year-old Robert Bates, a longtime friend of Glanz’sAn Oklahoma sheriff quickly decided to resign on Wednesday after he was indicted by a grand jury called to investigate his office following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a volunteer deputy.Tulsa sheriff Stanley Glanz was indicted on two misdemeanor counts. The grand jury accused the longtime law enforcement officer of refusing to pe
  
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• No Labour bloodbath but row on defence opens old wounds

  30-09-2015 22:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  For Corbyn, opposition to Trident is a key issue but to his critics it is a reminder of how out of step Labour’s pacifist leader George Lansbury was in the 1930s It was a tale of two conferences over a week in which the dazzling Brighton sunshine of an Indian summer shone equally on all the delegates.To supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, their Labour conference marked the start of a healing process within the party as MPs from other camps watched the new leader begin to explain his values to the
  
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• Rio de Janeiro becomes first city in Brazil to ban Uber

  30-09-2015 22:33 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Taxi app says it is looking into legal action over ‘completely unconstitutional bill’ after Mayor Eduardo Paes signed legislation: ‘Uber is forbidden’The city that hosts next year’s Olympic Games has become the first in Brazil to ban the use of smartphone-based ride-hailing applications like Uber.Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes on Tuesday signed legislation recently passed by Rio’s city council banning Uber and similar technologies from operating in the city
  
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• Typhoon gives Taiwan a gigantic battering

  30-09-2015 22:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Taiwan faces a big clear-up after Typhoon Dujuan, which killed at least two people, injured more than 300, displaced thousands and left nearly half a million without power. On Monday night Dujuan made landfall in north Taiwan with wind speeds exceeding 150mph along the island’s east coast. It was accompanied by torrential rain triggering multiple landslides.The heaviest rain was in north-east Taiwan in the mountainous Wulai district where more than 90cm (35in) fell – nearly a third o
  
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• Russian airstrikes in Syria: Pentagon says strategy 'doomed to failure' – live

  30-09-2015 22:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Strikes targeting ‘terrorists’ reportedly hit near Homs
  Ash Carter says ‘probably’ no Isis forces in areas targeted
  Full report: Russia launches first airstrikes against targets in Syria
  At the UN: Syria safe zones will not end need for asylum in west 9.29pm BSTNato chief Jens Stoltenberg is “concerned” by Russia’s actions, Reuters reports, saying the alliance commander is particularly worried about the crowded airspace over Syria, where nearly a dozen c
  
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• New batch of Clinton emails released as Trump stumps in New Hampshire – live

  30-09-2015 22:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Clinton: GOP admission on Benghazi ‘dishonors’ ‘four we lost’Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush hold events in Granite StateClinton emails released: dig into 6,000 additional pages 9.29pm BSTBen Carson is now in his second New Hampshire event of the day, a town hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. And it appears he’s just made a joke about police shooting African-Americans: Carson jokes about running away from cops as a kid: "That was back in the da
  
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• Palestinian flag raised at the UN: symbol of 'hope' no substitute for a state

  30-09-2015 22:25 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  There was much talk of ‘hope’ as the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time over the United Nations. Hope for what, though, was up in the airIt was barely recognisable as a flag.Clinging to the rain soaked pole, a strip of cloth with no immediately identifiable shape or national characteristics rose over the United Nations to clapping, cheers and an abundance of references to symbolism and hope.Continue reading...
  
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• Police under review after elderly man's body found in Edinburgh

  30-09-2015 22:24 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Watchdog to look at Police Scotland’s initial response to a call to an Adelphi Place address, where 88-year-old man was discovered deadPolice Scotland is facing an independent investigation into its response to a call which led to the discovery of the body of an 88-year-old man.
  Officers went to a property in Adelphi Place, in the Portobello area of Edinburgh, on Sunday after concern was raised about the welfare of the occupants. Continue reading...
  
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• Argentina warns US to cooperate in heightened search for fugitive spy chief

  30-09-2015 22:20 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  President Cristina Fernández said US must be ‘protecting’ Antonio Stiuso, who reportedly fled to Miami soon after star prosecutor’s mysterious killingArgentina’s government has stepped up efforts to track down a fugitive former spymaster who is reported to be in hiding in Miami, warning the US that it is putting its relationship with the South American country at risk.Antonio Stiuso, a former operations chief of the now-disbanded intelligence secretariat, fled Arge
  
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• Labour split on defence grows as Eagle criticises Corbyn over Trident

  30-09-2015 22:18 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Shadow defence secretary says leader’s comments ‘undermine’ Labour policy after Corbyn says he would never use nuclear weapons if prime ministerJeremy Corbyn faced a challenge to his authority on the final day of the Labour conference after the shadow defence secretary criticised the Labour leader for saying he would tell military commanders never to use Trident nuclear missiles.
  In a sign of divisions over Trident in the shadow cabinet, Maria Eagle described the Labour leader&
  
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• Arab world's first female wrestler

  30-09-2015 22:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN gets in the ring with Joelle Hunter, the Lebanese teenager who's stormed the Arab wrestling scene and has her sights set on American fame.
  
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• Shipwreck reveals lifestyle of ancient '1 percent'

  30-09-2015 22:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Researchers have unearthed new findings from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the island of Antikythera in Greece.
  
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• Coventry man arrested over alleged connection to Isis recruits

  30-09-2015 22:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  19-year-old held on suspicion of failing to disclose information about the disappearance of Ali Kalantar, Mohammed Ismail and Rashid AmaniA teenager is being questioned by counter-terrorism police in connection with three Britons who secretly went to fight alongside Islamic State (Isis) in Syria.
  The 19-year-old man from Coventry was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism in connection with the disappearance of Ali Kalantar, Mohammed Ismail
  
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• Russian airstrikes in Syria 'unlikely to have hit Islamic State targets' – video

  30-09-2015 21:53 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  US defense secretary Ash Carter says it appears Russian airstrikes in Syria were in areas where there probably are no Islamic State forces. Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin’s biggest Middle East intervention in decades, but Moscow’s assertion that it had hit the Islamic State was immediately disputed by the United States and rebels on the ground Continue reading...
  
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• Washington DC subway should be run by US government, investigators say

  30-09-2015 21:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  After Metro suffers several accidents, federal officials recommend move that has no precedent among urban mass transit systemsFederal investigators recommended Wednesday that the federal government assume oversight of Washington’s troubled subway system, an unprecedented step for an urban mass transit network.The National Transportation Safety Board said the Federal Railroad Commission should take over safety oversight of the Metro system following a fatal electrical malfunction in January
  
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• Pro-Israel groups targeting Palestinian organizations in US, report finds

  30-09-2015 21:34 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Report finds incidents of attempted suppression happen overwhelmingly at college campuses – the focus of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaignPro-Israel organizations are increasingly targeting pro-Palestinian groups in the US, according to a report released by two legal advocacy groups on Wednesday.
  In a report co-authored with the Center for Constitutional Rights, legal group Palestine Legal said it was called in to respond to nearly 300 incidents of attempted suppression of pro-Pal
  
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• In New Hampshire, substance abuse at center of 2016 campaign

  30-09-2015 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — In town halls and meet-and-greets in Iowa and New Hampshire, voters are using their access to presidential hopefuls to raise painful and often deeply personal concerns about drug abuse.
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon appeals for assistance on refugee front

  30-09-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The latest developments from the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, where world leaders are grappling with a multitude of global crises, including the fight against terrorism — the Islamic State in particular — and easing the refugee crisis in the Middle East and North Africa (all times local):
  
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• Ex-coal baron readies for trial in deadly mine explosion

  30-09-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has never shied from a fight and his toughest one is just beginning, as he goes on trial in the worst U.S. mine disaster in 45 years.
  
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• US defense chief: Russia airstrikes targeted non-IS areas

  30-09-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that the Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to have targeted areas that do not include Islamic State fighters, a development which Secretary of State John Kerry said would cause "grave concern" for the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Judge calls for hearing on Virginia execution

  30-09-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The latest on the planned execution of a convicted serial killer in Virginia (all times local):
  
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• Only woman on Georgia's death row executed; 1st in 70 years

  30-09-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The only woman on Georgia's death row was executed early Wednesday, despite a flurry of last minute legal appeals and pleas for mercy from her children and the pope.
  
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• UN chief on migrant crisis: Do not 'build walls or exploit fears'

  30-09-2015 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations (United States) (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday opened a meeting on Europe's migration crisis with an appeal to keep borders open and combat xenophobia.
  
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• Prosecutors decline to charge Caitlyn Jenner in fatal crash

  30-09-2015 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors declined to charge Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday in a California car crash that killed another driver, citing insufficient evidence to support a case.
  
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• Amid Taliban gains, US military favors longer presence

  30-09-2015 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Taliban gaining new ground, U.S. military commanders are arguing for keeping at least a few thousand American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, a move that would mark a departure from President Barack Obama's current policy.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner will not be charged over fatal car crash

  30-09-2015 21:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutors say there was not enough evidence to convict reality TV star whose vehicle collided into two others in February, killing a 69-year-old womanProsecutors have declined to charge Caitlyn Jenner in fatal car crash in California.The decision was announced Wednesday in the 7 February collision in which authorities said Jenner’s sport utility vehicle crashed into two cars, pushing one into oncoming traffic. Prosecutors say they didn’t have enough evidence for a conviction. Conti
  
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• Pope met secretly in US with anti-gay marriage clerk

  30-09-2015 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kim Davis, a born-again Christian, told broadcaster ABC she met the pontiff on September 24 while he was in Washington after receiving a surprise phone call from a Vatican official. In Rome, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed the encounter with the Kentucky clerk, but declined to comment further. Davis has become a heroine to US gay marriage opponents, after she landed in jail for six days for refusing to issue licenses for gay marriage, which the US Supreme Court legalized nationwide
  
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• Moore's 'Where to Invade Next' acquired by new distributor

  30-09-2015 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Where to Invade Next," has been acquired by a newly formed distributor.
  
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• Artist shot, killed while painting anti-violence mural

  30-09-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An artist was shot and killed in Oakland while he was helping to paint a street-side mural for a group that works to spread peace and stop violence, authorities said.
  
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• US stocks gain, but still head for worst quarter in 4 years

  30-09-2015 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising across the board Wednesday following big gains in Asia and Europe, a buoyant end to the worst quarter for major indexes in four years. Many stock benchmarks around the world have also lost ground in the past three months, weighed down by weak growth in major economies and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates.
  
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• Zoo visitor claims she was bitten by spider

  30-09-2015 21:07 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Elsa Fricker says she has had fever, dizziness and migraines since visiting In With the Spiders but London Zoo says species are docile and unlikely to biteLondon zoo is investigating claims by a woman who believes she was bitten by a spider while visiting a new exhibition designed to bring visitors face to face with arachnids.Elsa Fricker, 33, was reportedly admitted to hospital where surgeons were due to remove an abscess that she says was caused by the bite. Continue reading...
  
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• EPA: Tractor Supply Co. ATVs didn't meet clean air rules

  30-09-2015 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tractor Supply Company Inc. has reached a settlement with federal regulators over the illegal sale of 28,000 off-road vehicles and small engines that failed to meet Clean Air Act requirements.
  
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• US finds Kuwait airline discriminates against Israelis

  30-09-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say Kuwait Airways unlawfully discriminated against a passenger traveling on an Israeli passport by refusing to sell him a ticket for travel from New York to London.
  
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• Principal wounded in US school shooting

  30-09-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The principal of a school in the state of South Dakota was slightly injured on Wednesday after a student burst into his office and opened fire, police and media reports said. Police spokesman Todd Baldwin in the city of Harrisburg told AFP that officers rushed to Harrisburg High School after reports of shots being fired. Local press reports said the shooter was a student who entered principal Kevin Lein's office at about 10:00 a.m. and shot him in the arm after a struggle.
  
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• Police: Officer killed in mall shooting; suspect in custody

  30-09-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOREST ACRES, S.C. (AP) — A police officer responding to a report of a suspicious person was fatally shot at a suburban South Carolina mall on Wednesday, and police say a suspect is in custody.
  
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• Europe's migrant crisis in the UN spotlight

  30-09-2015 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Europe's migrant crisis took center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seeking to muster a global response to the worst refugee crisis since World War II. The UN chief opened the UN General Assembly in New York this week with a call to Europe "to do more" amid sharp divisions between the continent's leaders on how to respond to the migrant flow. Europe's handling of the crisis has come into focus amid an intense diplomatic debate over the way forward to e
  
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• Federal judge temporarily halts Virginia execution over drug concerns

  30-09-2015 21:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Provenance of pentobarbital acquired from Texas called into questionHearing scheduled for 2pm ET on Thursday ahead of original 9pm executionA federal judge has temporarily halted Thursday’s execution of a serial killer in Virginia to hear concerns over one of the drugs the state plans to use to kill him.
  Attorneys for Alfredo Prieto are challenging the state’s use of pentobarbital that was supplied by Texas department of criminal justice last week. A US district court in Alexandria,
  
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• Police: New Hampshire woman was slaying victim found in 1981

  30-09-2015 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A slaying victim discovered more than three decades ago in Arizona has been identified as a New Hampshire woman and police are investigating her connection to a man convicted of killing his estranged wife.
  
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• Man who killed 5 in Denver bar sentenced to life in prison

  30-09-2015 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — A man convicted of stabbing five people to death during a Denver bar robbery that netted $170 was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
  
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• Russia's defence ministry release aerial footage of airstrikes in Syria – video

  30-09-2015 20:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Russian defence ministry footage purports to show airstrikes hitting eight Islamic State (Isis) targets on Wednesday. The ministry has said Russian jets destroyed an Isis command post and an operations centre. Russia has also said the strikes did not hit civilian infrastructure or areas nearby. US officials have questioned whether all the targets were in fact in areas held by Isis Continue reading...
  
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• Hurricane Joaquin gains force near the Bahamas

  30-09-2015 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Joaquin intensified Wednesday as it approached the small, sparsely populated islands of the eastern Bahamas on a projected track that would take it near the East Coast of the U.S. early next week.
  
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• The Guardian view on Britain’s slavery inheritance: reflect and atone | Editorial

  30-09-2015 20:53 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  David Cameron would rather talk about the future than the past in Jamaica. But slavery bequeathed prosperity to Britain and penury elsewhereThe cutting of cane in the Caribbean sun proved crueller than any bonded toil in the US. American slaves would generally live long enough to reproduce, but British slaves on British islands often would not, necessitating continual replenishment from British ships which brought their chained cargo from British outposts in West Africa. Every reflective America
  
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• Woman charged with tossing newborn had 2nd child die in 2008

  30-09-2015 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York say a woman charged this week with tossing her newborn daughter to her death from a seventh-story window had another child die seven years ago.
  
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• Russian military buildup hints at wider war in Syria

  30-09-2015 20:52 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Russia’s entry to Syrian conflict draws suspicion, amid evidence its military capability is designed to combat threats far beyond those posed by IsisThe warning flags that Russian forces were about to intervene in Syria’s multi-layered war have been visible for weeks – both in terms of the rapid buildup of military capability and the diplomatic choreography between Damascus and Moscow.Now that Russian jets have carried out their first airstrikes, the key questions are over the
  
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• Kim Davis meeting aligns with Pope Francis's message of religious freedom

  30-09-2015 20:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Liberals disappointed by pope’s meeting with clerk who denied gay marriage licenses should note the theme of religious freedom throughout his US visitThe pope’s hitherto clandestine meeting with Kim Davis, the current heroine of conservative Christianity in the US, has come as a surprise – and a blow – to those who would claim Francis as a standard-bearer of liberalism.
  But the 15-minute meeting between the leader of the world’s Catholics and the county clerk from K
  
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