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• Apple says debate over encryption should be decided by Congress

  19-02-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior Apple executives said on Friday that the right place to find a solution to the encryption debate was in the U.S. Congress, rebuffing the Justice Department's successful pursuit of a court order to unlock an iPhone linked to one of the San Bernardino shooters. The executives, speaking to reporters on a press call, said they were stunned that the request to write software code to disable the passcode protections on the phone was happening in the United States and not another country with le
  
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• Cameron: We've reached a deal

  19-02-2016 23:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister David Cameron announces deal with the European Union and discusses the details on how both sides will benefit.
  
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• Bologna end Juve's 15-match winning run

  19-02-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bologna held on for a scoreless draw to end champions Juventus's 15-match winning streak in Serie A on Friday. The Old Lady of Turin had not failed to win in the league since a 1-0 reverse at Sassuolo at the end of October and turned an 11-point gap to the top of the table into a one-point advantage over Napoli with a 1-0 success against their nearest rivals last weekend. Bologna were 18th then and have since risen to ninth.
  
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• Egypt moves to rein in police

  19-02-2016 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Egyptian president says police officers guilty of human rights abuses will face tougher action after protests over the shooting of a taxi driver.
  
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• Full text of EU's special status deal for Britain

  19-02-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union leaders on Friday reached a deal to help keep Britain in the bloc. Below is the full text of the agreement. ...
  
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• Turkey says Obama shares Syria concerns with Erdogan, affirms support

  19-02-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange between the two NATO allies over the role of Kurdish militants. In a phone conversation that lasted one hour and twenty minutes, Ankara said Obama had told his counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey had a right to self defense, and expressed worries over advances by Syrian Kurdish mili
  
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• Morgan Freeman endorses Clinton

  19-02-2016 23:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Morgan Freeman is backing Hillary Clinton for president, the actor told CNN's Don Lemon.
  
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• Tanaka tosses bullpen session for Yankees

  19-02-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Japanese right-handed pitcher Masahiro Tanaka threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session on Friday for the New York Yankees, a sign he will be ready for the Major League Baseball season. As the Yankees began pre-season workouts in Tampa, Florida, manager Joe Girardi said no decision has been made on who will take the mound for their April 4 season opener against Houston but that Tanaka, last year's opening day starter, would be a natural choice if fit. "We will make sure that we put him in a situatio
  
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• EU summit clinches deal to keep Britain in bloc with 'special status'

  19-02-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jan Strupczewski and Elizabeth Piper BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed unanimously on a package of measures aimed at keeping Britain in the 28-nation bloc at an extended summit on Friday night, European Council President Donald Tusk said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he had negotiated a deal to give Britain "special status in the EU" and he would recommend it to his cabinet on Saturday.
  
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• EU deal gives Britain 'special status': Cameron

  19-02-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday a European Union reform deal would give Britain special status in the bloc and that he would recommend it to his top team of ministers. Earlier, EU Council President Donald Tusk said the agreement aimed at keeping Britain in the bloc won unanimous support from all 28 EU leaders.
  
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• Cameron seals 'Brexit' deal after marathon EU summit

  19-02-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European leaders finally sealed a deal Friday on British Prime Minister David Cameron's reforms after hours of haggling at a marathon summit, paving the way for a referendum on whether Britain will stay in the EU. Cameron said the deal brokered ahead of a membership referendum would give Britain "special status" in the bloc. "I have negotiated a deal to give the UK special status in the EU," he wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Trump calls for boycott until Apple unlocks shooter's phone

  19-02-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on Friday for a boycott of Apple Inc products until the tech company agreed to help the U.S. government unlock the cellphone of one of the killers in last year's San Bernardino, California, shooting. "Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information,” Trump said at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. "It just occurred to me." Trump, front-runner for the Republi
  
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• Texas 'affluenza' teen's case sent to adult court system

  19-02-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - America's "affluenza" teen had his case transferred to the adult court system on Friday, where 18-year-old Texan Ethan Couch faces decades behind bars if he violates a probation deal that kept him out of prison for killing four people while driving drunk. Judge Tim Menikos in Fort Worth transferred probation supervision for Couch, who was convicted in juvenile court in 2013 on charges related to the crash earlier that year, when he was 16. Couch, w
  
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• US escalates fight with Apple over iPhone in attacks probe

  19-02-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US government Friday sought a court order to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone as part of the probe into last year's San Bernardino attacks, escalating a legal showdown over encryption. The motion brought by the Justice Department sought to counter Apple's claim that cooperating with the FBI probe would undermine overall security for its devices, and laid out the legal case for technical assistance. "The order does not, as Apple's public statement alleges, require Apple to create or provi
  
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• Details of new EU deal for Britain

  19-02-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHILD BENEFIT An EU-wide indexation system affecting payments of child benefit to workers whose children live in another EU state comes into force for new claimants immediately and for all claimants on Jan. 1, 2020. The system will let governments index the level of payments made for children living in another member state to the cost of living there and the level of child benefits there. It gives Britain the right to supervise financial institutions and markets to preserve financial stability.
  
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• Dow down for the day but US stocks have best week yet in 2016

  19-02-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street finished its best week of 2016 on a muted note Friday with the Dow and S&P 500 slightly negative and the Nasdaq pushing higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 21.44 points (0.13 percent) to 16,391.99. The broad-based S&P 500 was essentially flat at 1,917.78, down 0.05 point, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 16.89 (0.38 percent) to 4,504.43.
  
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• EU's Tusk says unanimous support for deal to keep Britain in the EU

  19-02-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union Council President Donald Tusk said on Friday an agreement to keep Britain in the bloc won unanimous support from all of the EU states 28 leaders. "Deal. Unanimous support for new settlement for #UKinEU," Tusk wrote on Twitter. (Reporting by Tom Koerkemeier)
  
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• UK source says EU draft agreement has 'makings of a deal'

  19-02-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A draft agreement to keep Britain in the European Union has the "makings of a deal", a UK source said on Friday. EU leaders said the two sides had reached agreement on a package of measures to reform Britain's ties with the European Union at a summit in Brussels.
  
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• Veteran Museveni leads count in chaotic Uganda election

  19-02-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Partial results in Uganda's chaotic election on Friday gave veteran president Yoweri Museveni a solid lead as the US urged him to "rein in" the police after his main challenger was detained for the third time this week. The police raid came as people continued to vote at dozens of polling stations in the wider Kampala area, where voting was extended in 36 sites for a second day after delays on Thursday that Commonwealth election observers called "inexcusable". While Museveni maintained his lead
  
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• Czech prime minister says deal to keep Britain in EU is 'decent compromise'

  19-02-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A deal agreed by European Union leaders on Friday to keep Britain in the 28-natrion bloc is a "decent compromise", Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Twitter. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska)
  
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• Obama, justices pay respects to Scalia

  19-02-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court's eight remaining members, former law clerks and thousands of ordinary Americans paid respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday as his body lay in repose in the stately, white-marble courthouse. The president and first lady Michelle Obama were greeted by Chief Justice John Roberts, spoke with some Scalia family members and briefly stood in silence, heads bowed, in front of Scalia's casket during an afternoon visit. Scalia, a staunch cons
  
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• EU leaders reach deal for Britain to stay in EU - Lithuanian president

  19-02-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Friday on a deal to keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said in a tweet on Friday. "Agreement #UKinEU done. Drama over," she said on Twitter. Two EU officials said, however, that the deal had yet to be approved by all leaders at the meeting in Brussels. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska, Jan Strupczewski, Alastair Macdonald)
  
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• EU summit reconvenes with new draft text on Britain deal: officials

  19-02-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders reconvened an extended summit late on Friday to examine a new draft deal intended to keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc, with diplomats optimistic that an agreement was at hand. The summit was forced into extra time due to wrangling over welfare benefits for migrants workers from other EU countries and safeguards for Britain's financial services sector from euro zone regulation, but officials said fixes had been found for both issues. ...
  
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• France rejects Russian UN text on Syria, slams 'dangerous' escalation

  19-02-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France on Friday rejected a Russian draft UN resolution aimed at halting Turkey's military actions in Syria, and said Moscow's backing of Syrian forces had led to a dangerous escalation in the war. "We are facing a dangerous military escalation that could easily get out of control and lead us to uncharted territory," French Ambassador Francois Delattre said ahead of a Security Council meeting. Russia called the emergency council meeting to present a draft text that "strongly demands" an immediat
  
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• Ex-Black Panther freed after 43 years in solitary confinement

  19-02-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Black Panther activist who spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement was freed from a US prison Friday after decades of legal battles to prove his innocence. Albert Woodfox is the last of the "Angola Three" activists to taste freedom in a case which provoked outrage among rights groups.
  
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• Best heli-ski spots around the world

  19-02-2016 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Heli-skiing is the ultimate challenge for the powder-hungry skier or boarder. For intermediate to expert skiers, these spots do it best.
  
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• Cameron closes in on deal at marathon 'Brexit' talks

  19-02-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday appeared to close in on a reform deal to keep his country in the EU after two days and nights of haggling with European leaders at a Brussels summit. Cameron's 27 counterparts have dug in their heels at the meeting, leading to marathon negotiations over changes that he wants to put before the British public in a referendum in June. "The main points of the draft are a compromise, so everyone has to have given a little something," Muscat told reporter
  
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• What causes this mesmerizing 'firefall?'

  19-02-2016 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  No, that is not lava flowing over a cliff. The illusion of fire falling over Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park is a yearly phenomenon.
  
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• Canadian ex-diplomat's son sentenced to boot camp in US murder case

  19-02-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Canadian ex-diplomat's teenage son who was charged with murder over a Miami drug shootout, has been sentenced to boot camp, according to a plea deal released Friday. Under the agreement, Marc Wabafiyebazu, who was charged with first-degree murder after his older brother and one other person died in the episode, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for six months of boot camp and two years of house arrest. "Today, it's the mother who is the happiest in the world because I get to have my
  
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• Escaped lions roam Nairobi residential areas

  19-02-2016 21:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Six lions escaped from a park in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, leaving residents on edge and officials scrambling to find them, authorities said.
  
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• Billions at stake in Apple encryption case

  19-02-2016 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two important principles are clashing in the dispute, but the technology companies have the winning argument, says Peter Bergen
  
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• Can Man Utd coach survive?

  19-02-2016 21:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Injuries, journalists -- even Paul Scholes -- have all, according to Louis van Gaal, played a role in Manchester United's struggles this season.
  
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• Police urge Beyonce boycott

  19-02-2016 21:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Miami police union is urging a nationwide boycott by law enforcement labor organizations of Beyonce's forthcoming world tour, which is scheduled to begin in the city on April 27 at Marlins Park.
  
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• Chewbacca reveals original 'Star Wars' script

  19-02-2016 21:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's been much discussed in "Star Wars" fan circles, but the world at large has finally gotten a rare look at an original draft of the movie's script.
  
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• Clinton vs Sanders in Nevada: Urban vs rural

  19-02-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — It was shortly after midnight when Hillary Clinton descended into the basement of an enormous Las Vegas casino to shake the hands of about a half-dozen housekeepers folding linens. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders jetted off to the remote, conservative northeastern Nevada town of Elko, population 20,000, to rally the few Democrats there.
  
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• France says won't give in on finance, welfare at summit on Britain's EU future

  19-02-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande stuck to a firm line on Friday on limiting concessions to London on financial sector reforms and welfare at a European Union summit struggling to work out a deal to keep Britain in the bloc. Hollande said he would feel regret if Britons voted to leave the EU in a planned referendum, but that there were limits to what Paris could agree to satisfy British Prime Minister David Cameron's push for EU reforms and persuade voters t
  
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• EU leaders gather for joint session which could be decisive

  19-02-2016 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron pushed a summit into overtime Friday after a second day of tense talks with weary European Union leaders unwilling to fully meet his demands for a less intrusive EU.
  
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• The Latest: Kerry remains hopeful on Syria peace talks

  19-02-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on the civil war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Last prisoner of 'Angola Three' released

  19-02-2016 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — The Latest on an inmate who was part of a group known as the "Angola Three" because they spent decades in isolation in prison (all times local):
  
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• Rangers guarantee manager Banister's contract through 2018

  19-02-2016 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Jeff Banister's contract to manage the Texas Rangers has been guaranteed through 2018.
  
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• Minor agrees to $7.25 million, 2-year deal with Royals

  19-02-2016 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals agreed to a $7.25 million, two-year contract with Mike Minor, adding another left-hander to what is becoming a crowded competition for two spots in their starting rotation.
  
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• Justice secretary Michael Gove to push for Brexit - BBC

  19-02-2016 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Justice Secretary Michael Gove has made up his mind to campaign for Britons to vote to leave the European Union in an upcoming referendum, the BBC reported on Friday, citing sources in Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office. If confirmed, news that Gove will campaign for a "Brexit" will come as a blow to Cameron. The two men are political allies and Gove is considered one of the policy heavyweights in the cabinet.
  
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• Republican 2016 hopefuls get emotional on eve of SC primary

  19-02-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The Republican battle for South Carolina turned deeply personal on the eve of Saturday's high-stakes presidential primary, as New York businessman Donald Trump eyed a delegate sweep and his Republican rivals fought for a southern surprise.
  
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• US air strike kills dozens at IS camp in Libya

  19-02-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US air strike on a jihadist training camp in Libya killed dozens of people Friday, probably including a senior Islamic State group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, officials said. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said Noureddine Chouchane, also known as "Sabir," and other jihadists had been planning attacks against American and other Western interests. "We took this action against Sabir in the training camp after determining that both he and the ISIL fighters at these facilities were pl
  
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• Ugandan forces crack down on protesters amid vote counting

  19-02-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — As election returns showed a strong, early lead Friday for incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, the longtime leader's security forces briefly detained the main opposition candidate and cracked down on protesters with beatings, tear gas and stun grenades.
  
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• Lawyer: Last of 'Angola Three' inmates to be released

  19-02-2016 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last inmate of a group known as the "Angola Three" has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a lesser offense in the 1972 death of a prison guard and is expected to be released Friday after more than four decades in prison.
  
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• St. Louis archbishop seeks to cut ties with Girl Scouts

  19-02-2016 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson is urging priests to sever ties with the Girl Scouts, saying the organization promotes values "incompatible" with Catholic teachings.
  
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• Alabama hometown was refuge of privacy for author Harper Lee

  19-02-2016 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — This south Alabama town with a domed courthouse and tree-lined streets served as both a literary inspiration and a place of refuge for "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee.
  
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• 'Friends,' 'Taxi' stars toast pre-eminent sitcom director

  19-02-2016 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — You don't have to thank James Burrows, given that Jennifer Aniston, Ted Danson and Jim Parsons are lavishing him with praise and gratitude.
  
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• Father dies after carrying daughter, 8, out of burning home

  19-02-2016 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a man who carried one of his children out of a burning western New York apartment house and went back inside to rescue others was one of two people to die in the fire.
  
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