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• NASA inflates spare room in space

  28-05-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA on Saturday successfully expanded and pressurized an add-on room at the International Space Station two days after aborting the first attempt when it ran into problems. The flexible habitat, known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), completed slowly extending 67 inches (170 centimeters) at 4:10 pm (2010 GMT) following more than seven hours during which astronaut Jeff Williams released short blasts of air into the pod's walls from the orbiting lab using a manual valve. After th
  
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• Champions League: Real Madrid breaks Atletico hearts again

  28-05-2016 23:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo fired home the winning penalty as Real Madrid won Europe's biggest prize for the 11th time in its history.
  
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• Child still critical after lightning hits 11 in Paris park

  28-05-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Eight children and three adults were struck by lightning Saturday in a Paris park after a sudden spring storm sent a bolt crashing down upon a children's birthday party, a spokesman for Paris' fire service said. He credited an off-duty firefighter with playing a critical role in getting immediate medical help to the victims, but one child remains in critical condition.
  
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• Blue Jays walk off Red Sox, 10-9, as Travis scores Martin

  28-05-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Devon Travis drove home Russell Martin with two out in the bottom of the ninth as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 10-9 on Saturday.
  
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• NBA player fatally shot

  28-05-2016 23:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New Orleans Pelicans player Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot in Dallas early Saturday, Dallas police department spokesman Demarquis Black said.
  
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• Champions League final to be decided by penalties

  28-05-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Milan (AFP) - The 2016 Champions League final will be decided by penalties at the San Siro stadium in Milan after Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid ended 1-1 following extra-time.
  
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• NASA successfully inflates new space station room

  28-05-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world's first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts.
  
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• Canada's Trudeau defends assisted suicide bill as deadline nears

  28-05-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday, predicting confusion if it is not approved. The draft legislation, introduced by Trudeau's Liberal government in April, would allow people with incurable illnesses or disabilities to end their lives with a medical professional's help, but stopped short of
  
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• Search for missing teen resumes on Northern California coast

  28-05-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — Crews resumed their search along a Northern California creek for a teenage girl who was last seen being abducted by an armed acquaintance in Vallejo, about 65 miles south from the area being searched Saturday.
  
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• Correction: Argentina-Operation Condor story

  28-05-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a story May 27 about an Argentina court ruling on human rights crimes related to the Operation Condor conspiracy in South America, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Ronni Moffitt was an aide to former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier. She was the aide's wife.
  
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• Police: Pelicans guard Dejean-Jones fatally shot in Dallas

  28-05-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — New Orleans Pelicans rookie Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Tropical Storm Bonnie forms near the Carolinas

  28-05-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on a tropical disturbance off the coast of South Carolina (all times local):
  
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• WHO rejects calls to move Olympics over Zika fears

  28-05-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization has ruled out any change in timing or the location of the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, shunning a call by doctors and scientists to shift the event over the Zika virus. An open letter addressed to the global health body signed by 150 international doctors, scientists and researchers Friday had called for the August Games to be moved or delayed to help prevent the spread of Zika virus. Holding the Games in Rio, the second worst affected city in Brazil, w
  
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• Syria rebels attacked by IS militants, government troops

  28-05-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants entered a major Syrian opposition stronghold in the country's north on Saturday, clashing with rebels on the edges of the town as the extremist group builds on its most significant advance near the Turkish border in two years — even as it loses ground elsewhere in the country and in neighboring Iraq.
  
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• Putin warns against U.S. missile system

  28-05-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia's state-run news agency TASS.
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• The Latest: Child on life support after lightning strike

  28-05-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the lightning strike that struck 11 people at a park in Paris. (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Search for missing teen resumes

  28-05-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a Northern California girl abducted at gunpoint (all times local):
  
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• US Libertarians meet to pick nominee in year when they might matter

  28-05-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Libertarian Party, usually a political midget in the quadrennial battle between Democratic and Republican leviathans as they rumble toward the presidency, is picking its own champion this weekend at a time the choice may actually matter. With many American voters seeming dismayed, or at least uninspired, by the apparent choices on the major-party menu -- Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton -- Libertarians are hoping the nominee they select Sunday at their convention in Orlando, Florida, can lure
  
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• Lightning hits children's soccer match in Germany, 3 injured

  28-05-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — More than 30 people were taken to the hospital after lightning struck Saturday at the end of a children's soccer match in western Germany, police said.
  
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• Serena, Djokovic march on, Thiem impresses at rainy French Open

  28-05-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams both swept into the last 16 at the French Open on a rain-hit Saturday in Paris, while Dominic Thiem confirmed his status as an outsider to win the men's title. French hopes of a first home win in 33 years, meanwhile, were dealt a heavy blow when sixth-seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired with a groin injury in the first set of his match with Ernests Gulbis. Djokovic, who can become just the eighth man to win all four Grand Slam tournaments should be emerge
  
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• The Latest: Real Madrid leading Atletico 1-0 at halftime

  28-05-2016 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — The Latest on the Champions League final (all times local):
  
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• One dead, several injured as lightning storms hit Europe

  28-05-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One man was killed and several people, including children, were injured Saturday as lightning strikes hit parts of Europe, including a park in Paris and a football pitch in Germany. In Germany, more than 30 people were taken to hospital in the western village of Hoppstaedten when lightning struck the pitch at the end of a children's football match. Most of those affected were children, who were taken to hospital as a precaution and were found to be unharmed.
  
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• The Latest: Djokovic reaches 4th round at French Open

  28-05-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local):
  
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• At least 30 sought in Brazil gang rape

  28-05-2016 21:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Brazilian police are searching for 33 people suspected in the gang rape of a 16-year-old as graphic video and images of the girl posted on social media have shocked the South American country.
  
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• Drug lord 'Chapo' Guzman's lawyers split on extradition case

  28-05-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's fight to stave off extradition to the United States has led to a schism between his own lawyers.
  
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• After 'long' coach's speech, Williams gets by at French Open

  28-05-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams was ahead, yes, but hardly at her best, when claps of thunder and a heavy downpour interrupted her third-round French Open match at a critical juncture.
  
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• Lightning hits children's soccer match in Germany

  28-05-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — More than 30 people were taken to the hospital after lighting struck Saturday at the end of a children's soccer match in western Germany, police said.
  
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• Pakistan: Light beating of wives urged

  28-05-2016 21:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Injury forces Tsonga to quit French Open

  28-05-2016 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On Friday it was Rafael Nadal, on Saturday it was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
  
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• Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director

  28-05-2016 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (AP) — Sam Mendes is finished with James Bond.
  
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• Putin visits Russian Orthodox monastic community in Greece

  28-05-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KARYES, Greece (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian Orthodox monastery Saturday on the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos as part of a two-day visit touted by the Greek government as a chance to improve ties between the two countries.
  
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• German economy minister blasts Merkel on EU-US trade treaty

  28-05-2016 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany's economy minister lashed out at Chancellor Angela Merkel for her "wrong" stance on a huge EU-US free trade pact in an interview to be published Monday, signalling a deepening rift within the government over the controversial accord. Sigmar Gabriel, also the vice chancellor, told the RND group of regional papers that his Social Democratic Party "doesn't wish to be part of a bad deal", as he warned against a hastily negotiated agreement on the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment
  
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• Teen removed from graduation for wearing African cloth

  28-05-2016 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A black teenager says he was escorted out of his high school graduation ceremony in Sacramento by three deputies for refusing to remove his kente cloth, a traditional Ghanaian silk and cotton fabric.
  
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• Honolulu schools to let kids with lice stay in class

  28-05-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu students who get lice next year can stay in schools that are included in a new education department policy.
  
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• Diame stunner sends Hull City back into Premier League

  28-05-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hull City hit the promotion jackpot as Mohamed Diame's stunning strike sent them back to the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship play-off final on Saturday. Exactly 370 days after being relegated from the Premier League, Steve Bruce's side sealed their third promotion to the top flight in nine seasons thanks to Senegal midfielder Diame's moment of magic at Wembley. Diame's majestic second-half winner means Hull will bank the huge cash windfall due to Premie
  
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• Hull City wins Premier League lottery

  28-05-2016 20:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hull City is back in the big time after winning a place in next season's Premier League.Podcast favorites: Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World | Bernie gets the Axe | Guns in America
  
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• Sanders fails to oust Clinton backers from convention roles

  28-05-2016 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic officials have rejected Bernie Sanders' request to remove two high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters from leadership positions at the party's summer convention.
  
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• Irving, Love key to Cleveland resurgence, says LeBron

  28-05-2016 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LeBron James believes the return to form and fitness of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love is responsible for powering the Cleveland Cavaliers into their second consecutive appearance in the NBA Finals. A year ago, the Cavaliers stumbled into the championship series to face the Golden State Warriors with Irving hobbling on one leg and Love already ruled out of the finals following a serious shoulder injury.
  
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• Champions League final: Real Madrid, Atletico resume rivalry

  28-05-2016 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are resuming their intense city rivalry in the Champions League final on a hot and humid Saturday evening at San Siro Stadium.
  
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• Hometown hero Piller grabs share of lead at Colonial

  28-05-2016 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - Hometown hero Martin Piller completed a four-under par 66 second round Saturday to match fellow American Webb Simpson for the 36-hole lead at the US PGA Dean and Deluca Invitational.
  
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• NASA tries again to inflate spare room in space

  28-05-2016 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA tried again Saturday to inflate an add-on room at the International Space Station, after the first attempt ran into problems due to too much friction. Efforts to inflate the flexible habitat, known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), got under way at about 9 am (1300 GMT). Space scientists monitoring the expansion at mission control in Houston, Texas early Saturday expressed optimism that they were having early success this time around, as images on NASA television showed the
  
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• WHO seeks to allay Zika Olympics fears

  28-05-2016 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The World Health Organization plays down concerns that the Rio Olympics will spread the Zika virus, amid calls for the Games to be postponed.
  
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• Italian, Irish, German ships save more than 650 migrants

  28-05-2016 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Italian coast guard and navy ships, aided by Irish and German vessels as well as humanitarian organizations, saved 668 migrants from smugglers' boats in distress in the Mediterranean off Libya on Saturday, Italian and Irish officials said.
  
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• Serena Williams holds back Mladenovic at French Open

  28-05-2016 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Defending champion Serena Williams needed five match points after waiting out a rain delay of more than 2 1/2 hours, but she eventually moved into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-4, 7-6 (10) victory over 26th-seeded Kristina Mladenovic of France.
  
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• Park Service considers visitor caps, expects record crowds

  28-05-2016 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — As the National Park Service kicks off a centennial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country's most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day.
  
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• Children fight to live after lightning hits 11 in Paris park

  28-05-2016 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Eight children and three adults in Paris were struck by lightning Saturday after a sudden spring storm sent bolts crashing down upon a children's birthday party in a city park, a fire official said.
  
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• Champions League final 2016: LIVE updates

  28-05-2016 18:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Piller, Simpson share lead after 2nd round at Colonial

  28-05-2016 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Martin Piller had the most holes to play to complete the suspended second round at Colonial. He took a share of the lead with his last putt.
  
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• Russia says 8 athletes in 2012 Olympics positive after retests

  28-05-2016 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia's Olympic Committee (ROC) said on Saturday that eight of its athletes in the 2012 London Olympics were positive for doping following new tests of their samples given during the Games. "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially informed the Russian Olympic Committee that the results of new samples taken during the London Olympic Games have returned positive results for eight Russian athletes in three disciplines," the ROC said in a statement after the IOC on Friday reported 23 n
  
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• Fears for trapped civilians in strife-hit Iraq, Syria

  28-05-2016 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraq's elite forces deployed around Fallujah on Saturday, marking a new phase in efforts to retake the jihadist bastion, as concern grew for trapped civilians there and in Syria. After almost a week of shaping operations around Fallujah, the arrival of the counter-terrorism service (CTS) signalled that an assault on the Islamic State group inside the city proper may be imminent. The deployment of Iraq's best-trained and most battle-tested fighting unit came as US-backed forces pressed simultaneo
  
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