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• Turkey Coup: What does it mean for President Erdogan?

  17-07-2016 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fergal Keane considers what the attempted coup means for Turkey's President Erdogan.
  
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• Syrian opposition says U.S. must stand up to Russia

  17-07-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States is failing to stand up to Russia, which is committing "war crimes" in Syria, a leading Syrian opposition negotiator said on Sunday, as Russian-backed forces appeared to tighten the siege on the city of Aleppo. "What we lack here is a serious reaction to Russian behavior on the ground," said Basma Kodmani, a member of the main opposition High Negotiations Committee. "Russia is saying one thing and doing another," she told reporters on a conference
  
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• How was this man cured of HIV?

  17-07-2016 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  In 2008, one man, Timothy Ray Brown, was cured of HIV.
  
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• Cilic beats Isner to keep Croatia alive in Davis Cup

  17-07-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former US Open champion Marin Cilic kept Croatia alive in their Davis Cup World Group quarter-final tie against the United States on Sunday with a three-set win over John Isner. Cilic's 7-6 (11/9), 6-3, 6-4 victory pulled Croatia level at 2-2 in the best-of-five match hardcourt tie in Portland, Oregon. Sock rallied from two-sets-to-love down to stun Cilic 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the opening match on Friday.
  
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• Tommy Hilfiger's SUV stolen; cops in tony town warn drivers

  17-07-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Police in a wealthy Connecticut town are urging residents not to leave their keys inside their vehicles after a rash of Range Rover thefts.
  
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• The Latest: Big crowd attends rapper's anti-violence summit

  17-07-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a gang summit in Los Angeles organized by the rapper The Game (all times local):
  
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• Barack Obama: 'Attacks on police are an attack on all of us'

  17-07-2016 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Obama has been speaking about the police shootings in Baton Rouge.
  
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• Gunman kills three police officers in Louisiana; Obama condemns attack

  17-07-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital on Sunday, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen. Officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of a man carrying a gun when shots were fired at around 9 a.m. local time (10.00 a.m. ET). Two Baton Rouge police officers and one sheriff's deputy were killed.
  
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• Obama calls for national unity after Baton Rouge shooting

  17-07-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday called for national unity after the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, and warned against using the deadly event to inflame political fighting during a charged political campaign. "We have our divisions and they are not new," Obama said in a press conference. "That is why it is so important that...everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country further." "We don't need inflammatory rhetoric. ...
  
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• Baton Rouge shooter identified as Gavin Long by authorities: source

  17-07-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as an American citizen named Gavin Long, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on Sunday.
  
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• Tesla's Musk says software changes could improve Autopilot

  17-07-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says he's optimistic that a software update can improve the semi-autonomous Autopilot system in the company's cars.
  
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• Hillary Clinton calls Baton Rouge shooting 'devastating'

  17-07-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  By Ginger Gibson CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called the shooting on Sunday that killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "devastating." "There is no justification for violence, for hate, for attacks on men and women who put their lives on the line every day in service of our families and communities," Clinton said in a statement. “Today's devastating assault on police officers in Baton Rouge is an assault on all of us," she said.
  
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• Louisiana police shootings add new convention concerns

  17-07-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The day before the Republican National Convention got underway in Cleveland, the fatal shooting of three police officers in Louisiana on Sunday added new concerns about security as huge crowds were expected to protest and the city police chief prepared officers to deal with the open carrying of weapons as allowed by state law.
  
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• Fighting fit

  17-07-2016 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A profile of Asian businessman Chatri Sityodtong who made his fortune on Wall Street before setting up fast-growing televised martial arts tournament., One Championship.
  
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• 3 U.S. officers shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  17-07-2016 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Three officers are feared dead after a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officials said.
  
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• Lightning sign Alex Killorn to $31.15 million, 7-year deal

  17-07-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alex Killorn and the Lightning wanted to keep the team together, and Tampa Bay made sure he'd be part of its long-term future.
  
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• Dissident delegates seek showdown vote at GOP convention

  17-07-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Dissident delegates making a last-gasp attempt to prevent Donald Trump's nomination at the Republican National Convention say they will try forcing a state-by-state vote on the rules governing the gathering when it opens on Monday.
  
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• Kenseth pulls away late to win Cup race at New Hampshire

  17-07-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Matt Kenseth pulled away down the stretch to win the Sprint Cup race Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
  
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• Nice attack: what we know

  17-07-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eighty-four people were killed after a truck ploughed through crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice. Here is what we know so far about last Thursday's attack that the Islamic State group claims was carried out by one of its "soldiers". A Bastille Day firework display watched by some 30,000 people from the glitzy beachfront avenue, the Promenade des Anglais, had just ended and spectators were beginning to drift away at around 10:45 pm (2045 GMT) when three
  
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• Saltalamacchia's HR in 9th gives Tigers 4-2 win over Royals

  17-07-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Jarrod Saltalamacchia's drive to right field sailed toward the wall, and the Detroit catcher immediately raised his right arm in celebration.
  
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• The Latest: 149 Turkish police detained in Ankara

  17-07-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on Turkey's failed military coup. (all times local):
  
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• The Open 2016: Henrik Stenson says Phil Mickelson pushed him to victory

  17-07-2016 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Open champion Henrik Stenson says knowing Phil Mickelson was not going to back down helped push him to win his first major.
  
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• 'The violence and hatred has to stop'

  17-07-2016 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards attends speaks at a press conference.
  
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• Russia doping: Wada to publish Sochi 2014 doping findings

  17-07-2016 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia could face calls for a complete Olympic ban if allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics are proven.
  
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• Turkey widens crackdown on military and judiciary after failed coup

  17-07-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup on Sunday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000, and the government said it was in control of the country and economy. Supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan gathered in front of his Istanbul home to call for the plotters to face the death penalty, which Turkey outlawed in 2004 as part of its efforts to joi
  
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• The Open: Swede breaks 145-year duck

  17-07-2016 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  They slugged it out all afternoon with no sign of yielding, but Henrik Stenson landed two huge blows late on to clinch his first major title inmagnificent joust for the Claret Jug.
  
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• Open: Stenson edges Mickelson

  17-07-2016 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  They slugged it out all afternoon with no sign of yielding, but Henrik Stenson landed two huge blows late on to clinch his first major title inmagnificent joust for the Claret Jug.
  
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• 8-year-old boy fatally shoots self

  17-07-2016 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  An eight-year-old boy shot himself in the chest with a handgun. He died later at the hospital.
  
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• Security concerns mount ahead of Republican convention

  17-07-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland's police union called for the suspension of a state law that allows people to carry firearms during the Republican National Convention but Ohio's governor said he was powerless to act despite heightened security concerns with the killing on Sunday of three police officers in Louisiana. Republican Donald Trump seized on the shooting deaths in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to bolster his case the United States is leaderless and he is the
  
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• Baton Rouge gunman dead, no active shooter: police

  17-07-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The gunman who shot dead three police officers and wounded three others in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday was killed and there are no suspects at large, officials said. "We believe the person that shot and killed our officers, that he is a person that was shot and killed at the scene," Louisiana State Police Superintendent Colonel Mike Edmonson told reporters.
  
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• Turkey coup arrests hit 6,000 as Erdogan roots out 'virus'

  17-07-2016 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arrests in Turkey after Friday's failed coup rise to around 6,000, as President Erdogan vows to cleanse state bodies of the "virus" that caused it.
  
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• Three US police officers killed, 3 wounded in Baton Rouge

  17-07-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three police officers were killed and three wounded in a shooting in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday, with at least two suspects at large, amid a resurgence of violence involving law enforcement. The shooting took place in a city scarred by high racial tensions and numerous protests against police brutality since the death earlier this month of Alton Sterling, a black man shot at point-blank range by an officer. "One suspect is dead, law enforcement believes two others may be at l
  
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• Few hundred attend rapper's gang summit in Los Angeles

  17-07-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An overflow crowd has gathered Sunday at a community center in south Los Angeles for an anti-gang summit organized by the rapper The Game.
  
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• Global AIDS conference exposes South Africa's dramatic turn

  17-07-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first time the world came to South Africa for a conference on AIDS, the country's leader shocked attendees by questioning whether HIV really caused the disease.
  
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• Police union: Open carry of guns should be suspended at Republican convention in Cleveland

  17-07-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of the Cleveland police union on Sunday urged Ohio's governor to declare a state of emergency and to suspend laws allowing the open carrying of firearms during the Republican National Convention, after the shooting of six police officers in Louisiana. "I don't care what the legal precedent is, I feel strongly that leadership needs to stand up and defend these police officers," Steve Loomis, the head of the police union, told Reuters in an interview at the union's headquarters on Sunday.
  
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• Boris Johnson's plane in unscheduled landing outside London

  17-07-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's foreign ministry says a plane carrying Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Brussels has made an unscheduled landing because of a "technical issue."
  
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• 'Ghostbusters' holds its own, but 'Life of Pets' still No. 1

  17-07-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After months of prerelease debate, Sony Picture's female-led "Ghostbusters" reboot arrived in theaters as neither a massive success nor the bomb some predicted, as the much-scrutinized film opened with an estimated $46 million in North American theaters, second to the holdover hit "The Secret Life of Pets."
  
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• England v Pakistan: Alastair Cook blames 'naive' batting for Lord's defeat

  17-07-2016 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Alastair Cook says England's batsmen were "confused" in the 75-run defeat by Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's.
  
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• Obama condemns attack on Baton Rouge officers

  17-07-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday the attacks on public servants and the rule of law "have to stop," after a second shooting spree targeting police officers in less than two weeks killed three officers in Baton Rouge and wounded three others.
  
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• Turkey coup: Soldier attacked by 'baying' crowd

  17-07-2016 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Footage shows the moment a soldier surrenders and is pulled from his tank by a police officer, after being attacked by a crowd.
  
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• Mourners mark second anniversary of Eric Garner's death

  17-07-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of people have gathered in New Jersey to mark the second anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, whose chokehold death became a rallying cry for protests over police killings of black men.
  
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• Baton Rouge shooting kills 3 officers, wounds 3 others

  17-07-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide.
  
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• The Latest: Turkey expects US to extradite Gulen

  17-07-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on Turkey's failed military coup. (all times local):
  
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• Syrian regime besieges rebel parts of Aleppo

  17-07-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian government forces Sunday besieged rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo after severing the last supply route into eastern areas, sparking concern for tens of thousands of civilians. The United Nations says an estimated 300,00 people live in the rebel-controlled neighbourhoods of Syria's second city, and fears are mounting that they could face starvation. After weeks of fierce fighting, government forces seized the strategic Castello Road, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Brit
  
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• The Latest: Overflow crowd attends rapper's gang summit

  17-07-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a gang summit in Los Angeles organized by the rapper The Game (all times local):
  
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• Chief: Taking steps in Cleveland to thwart terrorist attack

  17-07-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland's chief of police said Sunday barricades have been placed at key streets and intersections in the city's downtown before the start of the Republican National Convention to thwart the type of attack that occurred in France when a man drove a large truck into crowds, killing 84 people.
  
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• Ohio governor lacks power to suspend open carry law: spokeswoman

  17-07-2016 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio Governor John Kasich lacks the power to suspend a state law allowing citizens to openly carry guns, his office said on Sunday, after a police union official called for a suspension ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. "Ohio governors do not have the power to arbitrarily suspend federal and state constitutional rights or state laws as suggested. The bonds between our communities and police must be reset and rebuilt - as we're doing in Ohio - so our communities and office
  
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• I couldn't have done much more: Mickelson

  17-07-2016 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Phil Mickelson admitted there was not much more he could have done after being denied British Open glory by Henrik Stenson at Royal Troon on Sunday. The American left-hander shot a final-round 65 without a single bogey to finish on 17-under for the week, but still ended up losing by three shots to an inspired Stenson. Mickelson's round featured four birdies as well as an eagle at the par-five fourth hole.
  
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• Trump condemns killings of police overshadowing convention

  17-07-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Donald Trump condemned the killings on Sunday of three Louisiana police officers as the fresh spasm of violence put a somber note on the opening of the Republican National Convention due this week to formally nominate him for the White House. Trump seized on the shooting deaths of the officers in Baton Rouge to bolster his case that he is the better candidate in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election to restore law and order than his rival,
  
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• Obama condemns shootings of police officers in Baton Rouge

  17-07-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday strongly condemned the shootings in Baton Rouge that killed three police officers and wounded three others, saying there was "no justification" for the violence. "We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: There is no justification for violence against law enforcement. Obama added that he has offered the "full support of the federal government" to Louisiana's governor, Baton Rouge's mayor and
  
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