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• Spanish voters deal blow to two-party politics

  20-12-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain dealt a blow to two-party politics Sunday in historic elections that saw the incumbent conservatives score an uneasy win, tailed by the long-established Socialists and upstart, far-left Syriza ally Podemos. For more than 30 years, the Popular Party (PP) and Socialists had alternated power, but they now find themselves significantly challenged by Podemos and the centrist party Ciudadanos, which came fourth in the closely fought legislative polls. While it took the largest share of the votes
  
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• 1 Killed After Avalanche Buries 3 People in Montana

  20-12-2015 23:51 via abcnews.go.com
  1 killed after avalanche buries 3 people in Montana; officials warn of likely slides
  
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• Candreva double 'ruins Christmas' for leaders Inter

  20-12-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italy international Antonio Candreva struck twice including a late winner as Lazio stunned leaders Inter Milan 2-1 on Sunday to throw the Serie A title race wide open. Inter welcomed Stefano Pioli's men to the San Siro expected to restore their four-point lead on title rivals Fiorentina and Napoli after their respective wins over Chievo and Atalanta.
  
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• Murray named Sports Personality

  20-12-2015 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray is voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the second time in three years.
  
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• Trump Tower protesters slam US candidate's 'fascism'

  20-12-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 200 protesters gathered Sunday at Donald Trump's New York City headquarters, accusing presidential hopeful of "fascism" and "racism" following his call that Muslims be barred from entering the United States. "Say no to fascism. Say no to Trump," read placards held by some of the demonstrators outside the "Trump Tower" building -- the Fifth Avenue offices for the real estate magnate's business empire, which also doubles as his campaign headquarters.
  
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• Left-wing parties take the lead in Spanish elections

  20-12-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Angus Berwick and Paul Day MADRID (Reuters) - Left-wing parties are close to winning an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in Spain's general election Sunday, preliminary results showed, likely scuppering Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's chances of winning a second term for the People's Party (PP). Despite garnering the most votes, the center-right PP had its worst result ever in a general election as Spaniards hurt by a grinding recession and yet to feel an economic recovery turned away
  
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• Slovenia votes to reject gay marriage

  20-12-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Slovenians reject in a referendum a law which would allow same-sex marriage and same-sex couples to adopt children.
  
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• Spain's Popular Party 'has won election': deputy PM

  20-12-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party won Sunday's general election with 28.7 percent of the vote, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said. "According to the information we have, with 90.39 percent of the ballots counted, the Popular Party won this general election," she said.
  
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• Steve McCurry's India is feast for eyes

  20-12-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Photographer Steve McCurry's dazzling portrait of India
  
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• No. 5 Texas Women Beat Arkansas in Big 12-SEC Challenge

  20-12-2015 22:59 via abcnews.go.com
  Taylor helps No. 5 Texas women beat Arkansas 61-50 in Big 12-SEC Challenge
  
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• Heat Rally Late, Top Trail Blazers 116-109

  20-12-2015 22:59 via abcnews.go.com
  Bosh scores 29 and Heat rally in 2nd half to top Trail Blazers, 116-109
  
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• Panthers Remain Perfect, Outlast Giants 38-35 in Nasty Game

  20-12-2015 22:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Panthers move to 14-0, outlast Giants 38-35 in nasty game; Newton throws for 5 TDs
  
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• Israel minister resigns over sex claims

  20-12-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel's Interior Minister Silvan Shalom steps down after a series of sexual harassment allegations.
  
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• The Latest: Spain's Final Election Results Nearly In

  20-12-2015 22:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Latest: Spain's ruling Popular Party could lose power after failing to win majority
  
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• Latest From the NFL: Packers Clinch Playoff Spot in NFC

  20-12-2015 22:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Latest from the NFL: Packers clinch NFC playoff spot with Giants' loss to the Panthers
  
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• Spain's ruling conservatives win elections, Socialists second: partial results

  20-12-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party won the most seats in parliament in a general election Sunday but lost its absolute majority, partial results showed with over 80 percent of votes counted. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party won 122 seats in the 350-seat assembly, the Socialists came in second with 92 seats and new anti-austerity party Podemos and its allies took 68 seats. New centre-right party Ciudadanos obtained 38 seats.
  
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• Patriots hold top spot in AFC with 33-16 win over Titans

  20-12-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots moved one step closer to a first-round bye in playoffs. The Tennessee Titans' future is very much in doubt.
  
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• Left bloc ahead in Spain's general election: official data

  20-12-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (Reuters) - A bloc of several left-wing parties was seen coming close to an absolute majority in Spain's general election on Sunday, official data with 90 percent of the votes counted showed. Left wing parties, including the Socialists, anti-austerity Podemos, former communists Izquierda Unida and two other regional groups would jointly total 175 seats, just below the 176 mark for an absolute majority. The ruling conservative People's Party (PP) would get 121 seats while Ciudadanos, often
  
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• The Latest: Obama family goes hiking despite windy weather

  20-12-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on President Barack Obama's annual two-week vacation in Hawaii (all times local):
  
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• Bale scores four as Real hit 10, Atletico beaten

  20-12-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gareth Bale scored four times as Real Madrid came from behind to beat nine-man Rayo Vallecano 10-2 in a wild game at the Santiago Bernabeu to close the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid to two points. Barca have a game in hand as they weren't in La Liga action this weekend after sealing the Club World Cup with a 3-0 win over River Plate in Japan earlier in the day. It is the first time in 55 years that a team has scored 10 goals in a La Liga game, however, the Madrid fans stil
  
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• Spain ruling party hurt by upstart parties' strong showing

  20-12-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — A strong showing Sunday by a pair of upstart parties in Spain's general election threatened to upend the country's traditional two-party system, with results showing the ruling Popular Party won the most votes but fell far short of a parliamentary majority and risked being booted from power.
  
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• Sudanese refugee recounts forced deportation from Jordan

  20-12-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Ahmed Doury and his wife had fled their home in Sudan's Darfur region for safety in Jordan. But after Jordanian security forces violently rounded up and deported them and other Sudanese asylum seekers, the 32-year-old says he's now more determined than ever to go to Europe.
  
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• Chiefs cruise past Ravens 34-14 for 8th straight victory

  20-12-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs capitalized on a variety of miscues by the Baltimore Ravens to earn a place in the NFL record book.
  
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• Cousins' 4 TD passes lead Skins past eliminated Bills 35-25

  20-12-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Inspiring a soundtrack of "You like that!" chants, Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins picked a perfect time to finally put together a winning streak, modest as it might be.
  
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• QB McCarron looks to help Bengals clinch AFC North

  20-12-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quarterback AJ McCarron makes his first career start for the Cincinnati Bengals as they try to clinch the AFC North and a fifth straight postseason berth against the San Francisco 49ers.
  
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• Spain's ruling conservatives win election, short of majority

  20-12-2015 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Adrian Croft and Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy won Spain's general election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but his center-right party fell short of an absolute majority and will need allies if it is to govern for another four-year term. The Spanish constitution does not set a specific deadline to form a government after the election. Despite garnering the most votes, Rajoy's People's Party (PP) got its worst result ever in a general election, polls showed,
  
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• Spain's Podemos says early election results show end of two-party politics

  20-12-2015 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's leftist newcomer Podemos said preliminary general election results showed the two-party political system that has ruled Spain's democracy since the end of dictatorship in the 1970s had come to an end. "The two-party political system is over and we are entering a new era in our country," said Podemos's number two Inigo Errejon speaking to supporters in televised remarks on Sunday. (Reporting By Jesús Aguado; edited by Sonya Dowsett)
  
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• Homes destroyed in Australia bushfires

  20-12-2015 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twelve Australian families lose their homes to bushfires near Melbourne, days ahead of Christmas.
  
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• Belgium detains 1 person as part of Paris attacks probe

  20-12-2015 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities investigating their country's links to last month's attacks in Paris have searched a house in Brussels and detained an unidentified person for questioning.
  
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• Titans QB Mariota leaves game with knee injury

  20-12-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota has left Sunday's game against the New England Patriots with an apparent injury to his right knee.
  
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• St. Louis Officer Who Fatally Shot Teen Quits Amid DWI Probe

  20-12-2015 21:23 via abcnews.go.com
  St. Louis police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old in October 2014 resigns amid DWI probe
  
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• Real Madrid hits 10 goals, booed by fans

  20-12-2015 21:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's not often a football team will be booed by its own fans during a game in which it scores 10 goals, but that was the surreal situation at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium Sunday.
  
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• Exit polls: Strong showing in Spain vote by upstart parties

  20-12-2015 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A strong showing by a pair of upstart parties in Spain's general election on Sunday is threatening to upend the country's traditional two-party system, with exit polls projecting that the ruling Popular ...
  
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• Shock jock formerly of 'Opie and Anthony' arrested in fight

  20-12-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A radio shock jock who hosted "Opie and Anthony" is facing charges over a fight with a woman at his New York home.
  
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• Brussels police raid home, make arrest in Paris attacks probe

  20-12-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Belgian police searched a home in the centre of Brussels on Sunday and made one arrest in connection with a probe into last month's terror attacks in Paris, federal prosecutors said. Belgian media reported that the detained suspect was not however fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who is one of Europe's most wanted men over his alleged involvement in the November 13 attacks that left 130 dead in the French capital. "A search is ongoing in Brussels, one person was taken in for questioning," federal prosec
  
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• Spanish voters appear to deal blow to bi-party politics: exit poll

  20-12-2015 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain appeared to have dealt a crushing blow to bi-party politics Sunday in historic elections that saw the incumbent conservatives score a small win tailed closely by the upstart far-left Podemos, an influential exit poll said. Led by 37-year-old, pony-tailed Pablo Iglesias, Podemos was created less than two years ago on the back of exasperation over austerity and corruption. Just as voting stations closed at 1900 GMT, the opinion poll of 177,000 voters broadcast on television put the ruling Po
  
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• Preliminary results: Slovenians reject same-sex marriage law

  20-12-2015 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians rejected a same-sex marriage law by a large margin in a referendum on Sunday, according to preliminary referendum results.
  
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• Latest from the NFL: Panthers 'D' continues to flex muscle

  20-12-2015 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest from NFL games on the 15th Sunday of the regular season (all times EST):
  
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• Air France CEO Says Flight Diverted After 'False Alarm'

  20-12-2015 20:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  All 473 people on board were safely evacuated.
  
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• King Tut's wet nurse may have been his sister: expert

  20-12-2015 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king. DNA tests have proved that the pharaoh Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamun, but the identity of his mother has long been a mystery. On Sunday, Egyptian officials and French archaeologist Alain Zivie unveiled Maia's tomb to journalists ahead of its opening to the public next month.
  
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• No breakthrough in Yemen peace talks, but rivals will meet again

  20-12-2015 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yemen's warring parties on Sunday wrapped up peace talks in Switzerland with no major breakthrough, but vowed to meet again next month, even as fighting raged on the ground. The six days of closed-door meetings were strained by repeated violations of a ceasefire aimed at calming tensions between pro-government forces and the Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels who control Yemen's capital. UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed announced in Bern that a new round of talks would be held on January 1
  
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• Lawmakers consider options after Pennsylvania budget defeat

  20-12-2015 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lawmakers are considering their options amid the wreckage of a deal between Gov. Tom Wolf and top lawmakers to end Pennsylvania's nearly six-month budget stalemate.
  
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• Republicans lash out at Hillary Clinton's IS comment

  20-12-2015 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton had a nearly flawless performance at the Democratic debate, but on Sunday Republicans used one of her statements about the Islamic State jihadist group in an attack against her. "We now finally are where we need to be," Clinton said late Saturday at the debate in New Hampshire. "And we finally have a UN Security Council Resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition in Syria," she said.
  
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• Slovenians vote in marriage equality referendum

  20-12-2015 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Slovenians voted Sunday in a referendum on whether the largely Catholic EU member will become Europe's first ex-communist country to allow same-sex marriage. In March, parliament approved legislation redefining marriage as a "union of two" instead of a "union of a man and a woman", granting same-sex couples the same rights as their opposite-sex counterparts, including the right to adopt children. A group called "Children Are At Stake" managed to gather the 40,000 signatures necessary to force a
  
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• 5 bodies found in plane wreckage in California orchard

  20-12-2015 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Five bodies were recovered from the wreckage of a small plane Sunday, a day after the aircraft disappeared from radar and the crash was found in an orchard in central California, local and federal authorities said.
  
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• Titans QB Mariota leaves game with apparent knee injury

  20-12-2015 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota has left Sunday's game against the New England Patriots with an apparent injury to his right knee.
  
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• The Latest: Exit poll: Spain's ruling party wins most votes

  20-12-2015 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — The latest developments on Spain's general election. All times local.
  
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• 'Star Wars' sets N. America opening weekend record with $238 mn

  20-12-2015 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend at the US and Canadian box office with an estimated $238 million in sales, Walt Disney studios said Sunday. Globally, the latest "Star Wars" space epic raked in an estimated $517 million, Disney said, breaking records for biggest opening weekend abroad in 18 other countries, including Russia and Germany, and second biggest across four nations. The highly anticipated "Force Awakens" has blazed
  
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• Spain's conservatives ahead in election, Podemos second: exit poll

  20-12-2015 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Madrid (AFP) - Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party won the most votes, 26.8 percent, in a general election Sunday but lost its absolute majority in parliament, an exit poll showed.
  
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• Snowden to appear via video link at New Hampshire convention

  20-12-2015 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Edward Snowden will appear via video link as a featured speaker at a New Hampshire convention of libertarian activists.
  
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