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• Fifa needs external president - IOC

  08-10-2015 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fifa needs a "credible external presidential candidate" to replace the suspended Sepp Blatter, says the IOC president.
  
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• Nigerian city in new Ebola scare

  08-10-2015 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new Ebola scare is reported in the southern Nigerian city of Calabar, a year after the country was declared free of the virus.
  
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• Russian missiles 'fell in Iran'

  08-10-2015 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea on Wednesday landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say, but Russia insists they all hit their targets.
  
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• Former NFL coach Lindy Infante dies at 75

  08-10-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Lindy Infante, the hard-luck former coach of the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts, died Thursday. He was 75.
  
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• Clashes in Guinea between opposition, ruling party supporters kill 1, injure 12 ahead of vote

  08-10-2015 23:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Clashes in Guinea's capital between opposition supporters and those of the ruling party have left at least a dozen people injured.
  
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• US actor Randy Quaid ordered released; facing deportation

  08-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTREAL (AP) — American actor Randy Quaid was ordered released Thursday by Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board but still faces being sent back to the United States next week.
  
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• Refugee crisis shows reality of globalization, says Germany's Schaeuble

  08-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe is part of the reality of globalization, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday. German authorities are struggling to cope with the roughly 10,000 refugees arriving every day, many fleeing conflict in the Middle East. IMF meetings tried to organize the forces of globalization "such that everyone can live with them," Schaeuble said.
  
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• Police raid VW headquarters as probe mounts in Germany, US

  08-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Private apartments were also raided in Volkswagen's hometown of Wolfsburg and other cities, prosecutors told AFP, as police sought to secure documents and digital data that could point to those responsible for the deception of global proportions. The raids came as Volkswagen's US chief Michael Horn faced a grilling before Congress, where he sought to distance himself from the scandal while blaming it on engineers in Germany. Horn told a committee that he had learned in early 2014 that the group'
  
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• Latin America rolls out red carpet for once-scorned IMF

  08-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — The last time the IMF held its annual meetings in Latin America, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was trying to spread Cuba's revolution throughout the hemisphere and much of the region was under the thumb of repressive dictatorships.
  
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• Collision course with a hurricane: How doomed U.S. ship met its end

  08-10-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister and David Adams NEW YORK/MIAMI (Reuters) - The ill-fated U.S.-flagged El Faro cargo ship sunk by Hurricane Joaquin was sailing at near full speed into the center of the storm before it lost propulsion amid mountainous waves and brutal winds, according to ship tracking data. The data on Thomson Reuters Eikon raises questions about the ship owner's assertion that the vessel's captain had chosen a "sound plan" to pass around Joaquin "with a margin of comfort" but was then thwar
  
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• World stocks climb after Fed minutes; oil jumps

  08-10-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock indexes climbed and the dollar dipped on Thursday as minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed policymakers view low inflation as a hurdle to raising rates. U.S. crude oil prices briefly traded above $50 for the first time since July and added to gains late after a closely watched oil forecaster predicted prices would climb to $75 over the next two years. According to minutes from the Fed's Sept. 16-17 meeting, the central ba
  
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• Correction: Family-Meat Cleaver Killings story

  08-10-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Oct. 7 about the guilty plea of a man who killed five relatives with a meat cleaver, The Associated Press erroneously transcribed a quote said during sentencing and attributed it to the wrong person. The quote was, according to a trial transcript, "The burning question is why these things happen, but in the sum total of things it really doesn't much matter," not, "The question is why he'd do these things. It really doesn't much matter." It was said by Assistant D
  
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• With drones in tow, Anderson debuts 'Junun' documentary

  08-10-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson premiered his first documentary, "Junun," on Thursday at the New York Film Festival, unveiling a sonically rich portrait of Indian musicians recording an album with Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood.
  
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• Businesses, MPs launch 'Vote Leave' campaign to push for Brexit

  08-10-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain needs to quit the European Union to reclaim its sovereignty, a group of business leaders and lawmakers said on Thursday, launching a campaign to persuade Britons to vote to leave the bloc at an upcoming referendum. The campaign, branded 'Vote Leave', draws together groups pushing for a British EU exit, or 'Brexit', from within Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, the opposition Labour Party and the business community. "We must end the supremacy of EU law over UK law," said
  
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• Republican chaos as McCarthy quits US House speaker race

  08-10-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conservative US Republicans drove frontrunner Kevin McCarthy out of the race to be the next speaker of the House Thursday, plunging their party into disarray ahead of crucial federal budget and debt ceiling battles. McCarthy, the party's number two in the House behind outgoing speaker John Boehner, appeared to have support from a majority of Republican lawmakers for the most important job in Congress -- until his withdrawal from consideration. The congenial 50-year-old Californian, who as majori
  
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• Helping Kalimantan at the heart of the haze

  08-10-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Helping Kalimantan amid forest fires
  
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• Bavaria wants to send refugees back to Austria, Merkel says no

  08-10-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The German state of Bavaria plans "emergency measures" to slow arrivals of asylum seekers, including sending some back to neighboring Austria, state premier Horst Seehofer said, directly challenging Chancellor Angela Merkel over the crisis. "On top of that will come specific self-defensive measures to limit migration, such as sending back people to the border with Austria and the immediate transfer of newly arrived asylum seekers within Germany," he said. Vienna warned of the risk of violence if
  
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• New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme dies at 75

  08-10-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Paul Prudhomme, one of America's best-known chefs who was credited with popularizing Louisiana's spicy Cajun cuisine, died on Thursday at age 75. The star chef was in New Orleans when he died after a brief illness, a spokeswoman for his restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen, told AFP. The rotund, bearded Prudhomme became a household name in the 1980s through countless television appearances -- including his own cooking shows -- in which he encouraged viewers to spice up their lives and expand t
  
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• Gun found during drifters' arrest in tantra teacher's death

  08-10-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they recovered the gun thought to be the one used to kill a popular tantra yoga teacher when they arrested three drifters in Oregon traveling in the victim's car.
  
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• Analysts say court ruling fuels movement to impeach Brazil's president

  08-10-2015 23:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  President Dilma Rousseff's ability to govern Brazil has been dealt a serious blow by a federal audit court ruling that her government violated accounting practices and financial laws last year, a decision that could fuel efforts to impeach her, analysts said Thursday.
  
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• The Latest: Video shows knife fight that injured US airman

  08-10-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the stabbing of a U.S. airman who helped stop a gunman on a French passenger train (all times local):
  
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• Jury deliberating in trial of Atlanta Hawks' Thabo Sefolosha

  08-10-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A jury is deliberating in the New York City trial of a professional basketball player charged with resisting arrest and other crimes.
  
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• Snyder supports switching Flint water system back to Detroit

  08-10-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday called for Flint to switch back to Detroit's water system to address a public health emergency and grapple with broader concerns about the effects of the aging pipes distributing the city's water supply.
  
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• New report says 2014 marked peak of violence in Brazil, with more than 58,000 violent deaths

  08-10-2015 22:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Brazil reached a new peak of violence last year with more than 58,000 violent deaths, a watchdog group said Thursday.
  
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• The Latest: Palestinians meet UN official to protest attacks

  08-10-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in ongoing tensions between Palestinians and Israelis following days of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank (all times local).
  
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• Westmoreland running for House speaker: Daily Caller

  08-10-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Representative Lynn Westmoreland on Thursday threw his hat into the ring to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives, the Daily Caller reported. "I don't think this thing will be won by people out-campaigning and calling people and talking to people," the six-term representative from Georgia told the news website, adding that factions within the Republican Party need to come together and unite behind one candidate. "We've been getting a lot of go
  
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• Rangers' Beltre leaves playoff game with stiff back

  08-10-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre left Thursday's AL Division Series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays in the third inning after hurting his back on a slide.
  
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• Idaho nuclear lab director eyes new generation of scientists

  08-10-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's federal nuclear facility can become the nation's premier energy security lab while also bolstering the region's economy, the new director says.
  
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• Russian missiles 'fell on Iran'

  08-10-2015 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea on Wednesday landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say, but Russia insists they all hit their targets.
  
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• 'Bond king' Gross sues Pimco over his ouster

  08-10-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global bond guru Bill Gross sued Pimco on Thursday, accusing a "cabal" at the bond firm he co-founded of forcing him out to grab a bigger slice of its profits. Gross, in a California lawsuit that also targets Pimco's German parent Allianz, is seeking a jury trial over his complaint that he was dismissed unfairly in 2014 and cheated of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. "Driven by a lust for power, greed, and a desire to improve their own financial position and reputation at the exp
  
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• Fed awaiting evidence global chill not knocking U.S. off track

  08-10-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Reserve thought the economy was close to warranting an interest rate hike in September but policymakers wanted firmer evidence a global economic slowdown was not knocking America off course. The minutes from the Sept. 16-17 meeting released on Thursday pointed to a deeply cautious Fed even before subsequent economic data showed a sharp slowdown in hiring by U.S. employers. "Most" policymakers, according to the minutes, thought the Fed's first rate hike in a decade should still c
  
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• Bill Gross sues Pimco for $200 million over forced ouster

  08-10-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jennifer Ablan and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire bond investor Bill Gross sued his former employer Pacific Investment Management Co and its parent Allianz SE for $200 million, saying a greedy "cabal" of executives drove him out of the bond fund giant he helped found because they wanted his huge bonus for themselves. The lawsuit ratchets up the vitriol between Gross, 71, who now works at Janus Capital Group Inc , and Pimco, which he built over four decades into a $2 trillio
  
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• US stocks rise on dovish Fed minutes

  08-10-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks rose Thursday after Federal Reserve meeting minutes lifted confidence the US central bank would not move quickly to hike interest rates.
  
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• People pack meeting of panel eyeing expansion of whale tanks

  08-10-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Protesters and supporters filled a meeting room Thursday where a California commission was considering a vast expansion to the tanks that SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego.
  
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• After the flood, a rush to preserve drinking water

  08-10-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's capital city had too much water. Now, officials are racing to make sure it has enough.
  
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• Molina on Cardinals' roster, will play wearing splint

  08-10-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — All-Star catcher Yadier Molina is on the St. Louis Cardinals' roster for the NL Division Series against the Chicago Cubs and will play wearing a splint to protect a strained ligament in his left thumb.
  
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• Clinton takes aim at Wall Street abuse

  08-10-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has outlined her plan to curb Wall Street abuses.
  
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• Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto

  08-10-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July. Never before has Pluto -- a resident of the distant Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of the solar system beyond Neptune that is home to many comets and asteroids -- been observed in such detail. "Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt?
  
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• Northern Ireland 3-1 Greece

  08-10-2015 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland qualify for the Euro 2016 finals by beating Greece 3-1 on a brilliant night at Windsor Park.
  
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• Syria's war: How we got here

  08-10-2015 22:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It began with the arrests of a handful of children in 2011. Since then it's exploded into the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
  
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• By the numbers: Flint's water emergency

  08-10-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Flint left the Detroit water system last year, it was after years of frustration over the cost and with the anticipation that the city had a cheaper, independent solution. On Thursday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder called for Flint to switch back to Detroit's system to address a public health emergency over lead in the water supply. By the numbers, a look at what happened:
  
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• 'Straight Outta Compton' director set for 'Fast & Furious'

  08-10-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — F. Gary Gray, who made waves this summer with his profitable and critically acclaimed N.W.A biopic "Straight Outta Compton," has been set to direct the eighth film in the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
  
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• Court: Hot yoga's sequence of poses can't be copyrighted

  08-10-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The founder of a popular form of yoga that is performed in a room heated to more than 100 degrees lost a court appeal Thursday to copyright a sequence of 26 poses and two breathing exercises.
  
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• Texas sues Volkswagen over marketing of diesel vehicles

  08-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The state of Texas sued Volkswagen AG on Thursday over the marketing of supposedly clean diesel vehicles that the German automaker has since admitted cheated emissions tests. The lawsuit was filed in a Travis County court by the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and alleges that Volkswagen violated a state law prohibiting deceptive trade practices. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against Volkswagen as well as restitution and civil penalties. (Reporting by David Ingram in Ne
  
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• Stocks gain as signs point to Fed keeping interest rates low

  08-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Signs that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates low for several more months pushed stocks broadly higher on Thursday, adding to what has been a near eight-day rally. Energy stocks advanced with the price of oil.
  
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• Merkel warns against pillorying German car industry after Volkswagen scandal

  08-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Thursday against using the scandal at Volkswagen to pillory the country's entire motor industry. Speaking in the western city of Wuppertal, she said VW must give details on its misconduct quickly and openly, adding that many jobs across the industry had to be protected. "What happened at VW, ... is wrong and it needs to be tackled and clarified in the fastest manner possible," she said at a meeting of her Christian Democrat (CDU) party.
  
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• Boehner asks Ryan to run to for House speaker: Washington Post

  08-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday asked Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican party's 2012 vice presidential nominee, to run to succeed him in the top House job, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post, citing two sources familiar with the exchanges, said Boehner had engaged Ryan in two long telephone conversations and told him he was the only one who could unite House Republicans. Ryan said earlier on Thursday he was not interested in becoming speaker.
  
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• Klopp confirmed as Liverpool manager

  08-10-2015 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp signs a three-year deal to succeed Brendan Rodgers as Liverpool manager.
  
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• McCarthy out of race to be US Speaker

  08-10-2015 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republican Kevin McCarthy is dropping out of the race for Speaker of the US House of Representatives, surprising many who favoured him to win.
  
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• Syria's soccer team play, despite war

  08-10-2015 22:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A brutal civil war, bombed-out towns and hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing in terror.
  
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