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• Economic losses from disasters counted

  18-04-2016 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Natural disasters around the globe have resulted in economic losses of roughly $7 trillion since 1900, according to a new calculation from scientists.
  
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• Royal College of Midwives supportive of Britain's EU membership

  18-04-2016 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Group made announcement citing maternity rights, working conditions and benefits to pregnant womenThe Royal College of Midwives is announcing its support for Britain’s membership of the EU, claiming that the union keeps the NHS safe and provides rights for British women during pregnancy.
  The group said the EU had also ensured better working conditions for its members, as well as maternity rights and the guarantee for pregnant women to have paid time off to attend ante natal appointments.Co
  
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• NFL's $1 billion concussion settlement upheld by U.S. appeals court

  18-04-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the National Football League's estimated $1 billion concussion settlement with thousands of retired players, calling the agreement imperfect but fair. A small group of players had objected to the deal, which was approved in April 2015 by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, because it did not cover potential victims of a degenerative brain disease that scientists have linked to repeated blows to the head. "It is the nature of a settlement that
  
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• Spain: Princess Cristina's tax fraud accuser jailed, no bail

  18-04-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge on Monday ordered the leader of the anti-corruption group that filed tax fraud charges against Princess Cristina jailed without bail amid allegations the group sought a payoff of 3 million euros ($3.4 million) to drop the case and end her ongoing trial.
  
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• Brazil's president edges closer to political abyss

  18-04-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff edged closer on Monday to being ousted as an impeachment case moved quickly through Congress, deepening a political crisis in the recession-struck country. House Speaker Eduardo Cunha handed over a slew of impeachment documents to the Senate hours after lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Sunday night for the 68-year-old leftist leader to face trial. The Senate is now expected to vote by mid-May on whether to open the proceedings, at which poi
  
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• The Latest: Plight of refugees among themes of prize winners

  18-04-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the 100th-annual Pulitzer Prizes (all times local):
  
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• With New York on the line, Sanders hits Clinton on campaign finance

  18-04-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  By Jonathan Allen and Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state's crucial primary elections. The Sanders campaign questioned whether Clinton's campaign violated legal limits on donations by paying her staffers with funds from a joint fundraising effort by Clinton and the Democratic Nationa
  
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• US stocks recover from an early slump and close higher

  18-04-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Energy companies led a broad rally in U.S. stocks Monday as investors shrugged off another slide in crude oil prices.
  
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• GOPer: Rules change would prevent 'dictatorial' convention

  18-04-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the Republican National Committee trying to revamp GOP rules for nominating a presidential candidate says without the change, party leaders could exert "almost dictatorial power" at this July's nominating convention.
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing movies filmed during Monday race

  18-04-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Hollywood film crews are in Boston shooting scenes for upcoming movies about the 2013 Boston Marathon attack as the real-life marathon is underway.
  
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• The Latest: Michigan governor to drink Flint water for month

  18-04-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the lead-tainted water emergency in Flint, Michigan (all times local):
  
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• Clinton, Trump seek to quiet critics in New York primaries

  18-04-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — From a car wash in Queens to a hockey arena in Buffalo, both parties' presidential candidates spread out across New York Monday in a final quest for votes, a surreal scene for a state that hasn't experienced contested White House primaries in decades.
  
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• Still many questions about Zika's threat to pregnant women

  18-04-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Zika may stand convicted of causing devastating birth defects but there still are lots of questions about how much of a threat the virus poses to pregnant women, and what to do about it.
  
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• Dow ends above 18,000 as market shrugs off Doha

  18-04-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Dow finished above 18,000 for the first time in nine months Monday as stocks shrugged off the failure of major oil-producing countries to strike a deal to strengthen prices.
  
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• Immigration overhaul backers sing, dance, chant at Supreme Court

  18-04-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  By Clarece Polke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dancing, singing, chanting and cheering, throngs of supporters of President Barack Obama's plan to protect millions of people in the country illegally from deportation and provide them work permits rallied on Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. More than a thousand demonstrators from around the country flooded the sidewalks and streets around the white marble courthouse as the justices heard arguments on whether to reinstate Obama's executive action, bl
  
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• Florida wakes up to climate change

  18-04-2016 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The city of Miami Beach is slowly disappearing under water. At the big high tides of the year the sea washes over the famous wide beach and floods many of the city streets and magnificent Art Deco buildings. And over the past decade the floods have been striking more frequently.Most of the city sits just a few feet above sea level, built on a foundation of porous limestone, allowing the rising seas to seep into the city’s foundations, surge up through pipes and drains, encroaching on fresh
  
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• UN battles to save Syria peace talks as opposition walks out

  18-04-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UN was struggling Monday to keep troubled Syria peace negotiations on track, as the opposition suspended its "formal participation" in the talks in protest at escalating violence on the ground. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama meanwhile agreed to help strengthen a fragile ceasefire in Syria, seen as essential to paving the way towards a lasting deal to end the bloodshed. With fighting surging around Syria's second city Aleppo and negotiations in Geneva sta
  
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• Ukraine sentences captured Russian servicemen to 14 years

  18-04-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A Ukrainian court on Monday sentenced two Russian soldiers captured last May to 14 years in prison for their involvement in the pro-Russian separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Russia denies sending troops to help the rebels and says Alexander Alexandrov and his commander, Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev, had quit their special forces unit to take part in the fighting on their own initiative. Ahead of the court session, Yerofeyev's lawyer said the verdict was a foregone conclusion because of Ukrain
  
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• Coverage of wars, terrorism scoop Pulitzer Prizes

  18-04-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Syria, the ensuing refugee crisis and the rise of the Islamic State extremist group won a string of categories in America's Pulitzer Prizes Monday. Photographers from The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the breaking news photography award for their coverage of the unprecedented refugee crisis, fueled primarily by the war in Syria.
  
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• Turnbull looks to restore Abbott cuts to financial sector regulator

  18-04-2016 22:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Government looking to restore $120m in cuts to Australian Securities and Investments Commission in a bid to dampen popularity for the opposition’s call for a royal commissionThe Turnbull government could restore hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to the financial regulator in the Abbott government’s first budget, while boosting the regulator’s intervention powers at the same time.The changes could be announced as early as Tuesday, in a bid to dampen the popularity
  
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• Putin, Obama agree to enhance coordination on Syria: Kremlin

  18-04-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed on Monday to continue building closer coordination on Syria, including through their intelligence services and defense ministries, the Kremlin said. The White House said Obama and Putin had an "intense conversation" by telephone that covered both Syria and Ukraine. During the call, the Kremlin said Putin stressed the need for the moderate opposition to distance itself swiftly from Islamic State
  
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• Chris Colabello gets gift from Steven Wright after beaning

  18-04-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Toronto first baseman Chris Colabello showed up at his locker the morning after getting beaned by Steven Wright to find a present the Boston pitcher left for him.
  
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• Man freed in girl's 1957 murder speaks of prison, future

  18-04-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Jack McCullough awoke a few months into his life sentence for the 1957 murder of an Illinois schoolgirl as his cellmate plunged a shank fashioned from a toothbrush into his face, eventually dislodging his eye.
  
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• Split high court now holds fate of Obama immigration actions

  18-04-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama's immigration efforts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the country illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court.
  
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• Oil recoups heavy losses from Doha talks collapse

  18-04-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysts said a strike that knocked out more than 60 percent of Kuwait's production helped support the market. Crude prices fell nearly seven percent early in the day after producers came away from talks in the Qatari capital of Doha on Sunday empty-handed. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia insisted Sunday it would not agree to freeze production without the participation of fellow cartel member Iran -- which boycotted the talks.
  
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• Colorado pot report: More adults using drug, but not kids

  18-04-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado kids are not smoking more pot since the drug became legal — but their older siblings and parents certainly are, according to a long-awaited report giving the most comprehensive data yet on the effects of the state's 2012 recreational marijuana law.
  
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• Rescuers pull out survivors of deadly Ecuador quake

  18-04-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rescuers and desperate families clawed through the rubble Monday to pull out survivors of an earthquake that killed 350 people and destroyed towns in a tourist region of Ecuador. Among the stories of survival, local media said a girl was rescued from the ruins of a building after being trapped for 20 hours in the hard-hit town of Pedernales, at the center of the quake. Rebuilding the areas destroyed will probably cost billions of dollars, President Rafael Correa said during a visit to Pedernales
  
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• Ethiopians complete 1st-ever sweep of Boston Marathon

  18-04-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Ethiopians ran past the Kenyans on their way to the Boston Marathon finish line Monday and nearly swept them off the victory podium.
  
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• Lower US supply to underpin oil price despite talks failure

  18-04-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The failure by oil-rich nations to agree to freeze production sent crude prices lower Monday.
  
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• Dramatic rescue amid rubble gives Ecuador hope for survivors

  18-04-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANTA, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers in Ecuador pulled three people out alive after being trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by this weekend's powerful earthquake.
  
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• Cuba calls Obama visit 'an attack' as Communists defend ideology

  18-04-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Communist-led Cuba was an "attack" on its history and culture aimed at misleading a new business class, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday, the latest sign of blow-back after the ground-breaking trip last month. "In this visit, there was a deep attack on our ideas, our history, our culture and our symbols," Rodriguez said at the Communist Party congress. Cuban leaders have hardened language against the United States since Obama became the first
  
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• Russian fighter jet barrel-rolled over US warship, Pentagon says

  18-04-2016 21:58 via theguardian.com
  
  The ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ incident came just days after Russian aircraft repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook A Russian fighter jet that flew close to a US spy plane last week performed a barrel roll during the manoeuvre, according to a Pentagon spokesman.Pentagon spokesman Navy captain Jeff Davis said a Russian Su-27 flew less than 50ft (15 meters) from the wingtip of an RC-135 reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Baltic Sea last Thursday. Continue reading.
  
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• Jerusalem bus blast caused by explosive device, say police – video

  18-04-2016 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  A bomb explosion on a Jerusalem bus has injured several people, two of them seriously, according police. The explosion, the first in Jerusalem since the end of the second intifada a decade ago, destroyed one bus and set fire to a second passing bus, as well as a car. Most of the injuries occurred when the second bus was caught in the blast Continue reading...
  
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• The Latest: 2nd possible fatality in Houston flooding

  18-04-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on heavy rains and flooding in the Houston area (all times local):
  
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• 5 reasons Rousseff should worry

  18-04-2016 21:54 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• Argentina receives bond offers in return to debt markets: ministry

  18-04-2016 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Argentina made its return to international financial markets Monday, receiving offers from investors for its sovereign bonds in its first debt sale in 15 years, a government source said. Argentina is seeking to end 15 years of financial isolation by borrowing cash on international credit markets for the first time since a 2001 default. Now that a US court has cleared the way for Argentina to start borrowing again, the government planned to issue a reported $15 billion in medium- and long-term bo
  
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• Techies for Bernie: why are some of the best-paid workers supporting a socialist?

  18-04-2016 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Bernie Sanders is seeing a surge of support from well-off, leftwing staff at tech firms such as Apple and Google. Is it because they can see the game is rigged?For the first time in a long time, it’s fun to be a member of the American left. A socialist is within spitting distance of the White House. Bernie Sanders may not win the nomination, but his extraordinary primary run has proven the mainstream viability of leftwing politics in a country that’s spent decades drifting to the rig
  
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• Japan battles to care for 100,000 evacuees after quake

  18-04-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minami-Aso (Japan) (AFP) - Japan on Monday enlisted US help to airlift supplies to some of the 100,000 people made homeless by earthquakes in the country's south, as rescuers struggled to find those still missing in a massive landslide. The disaster-prone country's worst humanitarian challenge since 2011 -- when a quake, tsunami and then nuclear meltdown hit the northeast coast -- has left 44 dead as of early Tuesday, Jiji press reported, and more than 1,000 injured. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sa
  
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• U.S. top court appears unlikely to revive Obama immigration plan

  18-04-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  President Barack Obama's bid to save his plan to spare millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation and give them work permits ran into trouble on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case testing the limits of presidential power. The court, with four conservative justices and four liberals, seemed divided along ideological lines during 90 minutes of arguments in the case brought by 26 states led by Texas that sued to block Obama's unilateral 2014 executive action that bypas
  
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• AP wins Pulitzer for stories on enslaved fishermen in Asia

  18-04-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables — an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers.
  
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• The Latest: Warrick wins Pulitzer for general nonfiction

  18-04-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the 100th-annual Pulitzer Prizes (all times local):
  
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• U.S. oil investors rush for protection at $35 as Doha talks collapse

  18-04-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. crude oil investors piled on bearish option bets on Monday, fearing prices may retest 12-year lows as futures prices sank almost 7 percent after talks by major exporters collapsed without agreement, erasing hopes the worldwide glut in oil would be eased. "Whether it's a speculator or a hedger looking to put a floor in place, the $35 strike price makes sense," said John Saucer, vice president of research and analysis at Houston-based Mobius Risk Group. "Given the fact that prices fell as low
  
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• Google wins long US court battle on book-scanning

  18-04-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google's massive book-scanning project cleared its final legal hurdle Monday as the US Supreme Court denied an appeal contending it violates copyright law. The top US court denied without comment a petition from the Authors Guild to hear the appeal of a 2013 federal court ruling seen as a landmark copyright decision for the digital era. In a decade-long case, authors and their backers claimed Google was illegally scanning and digitizing millions of books without compensation to the copyright hol
  
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• The Latest: Cruz looks beyond NY primary

  18-04-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 a day before New Yorkers vote in their state's crucial primary (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
  
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• Boko Haram still a threat months after 'technical victory'

  18-04-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MAROUA, Cameroon (AP) — Here on the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war.
  
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• Dinosaurs struggled to survive long before asteroid hit

  18-04-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers combed through fossil records from around the world and performed a statistical analysis showing that various species of dinosaurs were going extinct at a faster pace than new ones were emerging for a period of at least 40 million years prior to the cosmic debris that smashed into what is modern-day Mexico. "We were not expecting this result," said lead author Manabu Sakamoto, a paleontologist at the University of
  
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• The Latest: Bomb survivor runs marathon on prosthetic blade

  18-04-2016 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on Monday's 120th running of the Boston Marathon (all times local):
  
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• When Times Square was sleazy

  18-04-2016 21:20 via edition.cnn.com
  
  In the 1980s, New York City's Times Square wasn't so much the "Crossroads of the World" as it was the wrong side of the tracks.
  
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• McConnell 'optimistic' convention goes to a second ballot

  18-04-2016 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is "increasingly optimistic" that voting at the Republican National Convention in July will go to a second ballot.
  
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• Cupid has breathing problem, won't run in Kentucky Derby

  18-04-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert says Cupid has a breathing problem and won't run in the Kentucky Derby.
  
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