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• 'I will fix' inner city problems, Trump says

  27-08-2016 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that tragedies like the death of NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin are one of the reasons African-Americans will vote for the Republican nominee.
  
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• 3rd suspect in New Mexico girl's horrific death held on bail

  27-08-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The third suspect in the horrific rape and killing of a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl whose body was dismembered made her first court appearance Saturday.
  
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• Warning of 'war' on farmers, Trump seeks support in Iowa

  27-08-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump warned Saturday of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies. ...
  
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• The Latest: Activists say Syrian planes bomb city of Homs

  27-08-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
  
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• Terrorism charges for Charlie Hebdo attacker's relative

  27-08-2016 23:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  French investigators have handed preliminary terrorism charges to the brother-in-law of one of the Islamic extremists who attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last year.
  
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• Defense witnesses testify in trial of Brazil's president

  27-08-2016 23:24 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Brazilian senators on Saturday questioned the last two witnesses summoned by the defense for President Dilma Rousseff in her impeachment trial for allegedly breaking fiscal rules in the management of the federal budget.
  
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• Sanchez hits another home run, Yankees rout Orioles 13-5

  27-08-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rookie Gary Sanchez kept up a most remarkable run, homering for the third straight game as the New York Yankees routed the Baltimore Orioles 13-5 Saturday.
  
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• Jebet record alights Paris meet, Schippers wins

  27-08-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kenyan-born Olympic champion Ruth Jebet obliterated the 3000m steeplechase world record Saturday as Dafne Schippers got back to winning ways in the 200m at the Paris Diamond League. On a sultry Parisian evening, Jebet's performance was the standout, the now-Bahraini having transferred allegiance to the Gulf state in February 2013 as a 16-year-old. Jebet clocked 8min 52.78sec, smashing the previous record of 8:58.81 achieved by Russian Gulnara Galkina at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  
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• Venezuelan police jail top activist in pre-dawn transfer

  27-08-2016 23:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has been jailed again after intelligence agents picked him up at his home before dawn, a brazen move that the government said was necessary to prevent acts of violence but which has alarmed the opposition and human rights groups.
  
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• Tony Romo out with another back injury, no word on return

  27-08-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo is out with yet another back injury and it's unknown when he will return, although Dallas coach Jason Garrett says he expects his star quarterback to play this season.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says society can't tolerate violence

  27-08-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• Nate Parker talks male privilege, consent in new interview

  27-08-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Nate Parker, the actor-director dealing with a 17-year-old rape case casting a storm over his new film and career, opened up about the incident in a new interview.
  
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• Villages seized, 'terror' HQ pounded

  27-08-2016 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Turkey flexed its military muscle across the border in war-torn Syria this week by helping rebels retake the border town of Jarablus from ISIS, marking a decisive win for the Free Syrian Army.
  
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• Turkey flexes muscle in northern Syria

  27-08-2016 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Turkey flexed its military muscle across the border in war-torn Syria this week by helping rebels retake the border town of Jarablus from ISIS, marking a decisive win for the Free Syrian Army.
  
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• Politically connected Gupta family to sell S.Africa companies

  27-08-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Africa's wealthy Gupta family with influential ties to President Jacob Zuma said Saturday they plan to sell all their business interests in the country by the end of the year. "As a family, we now believe that the time is right for us to exit our shareholding of the South African businesses which we believe will benefit our existing employees, and lead to further growth in the businesses," said a statement issued by their holding company Oakbay Investments. The Gupta family companies led b
  
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• Can Murray top golden year at US Open?

  27-08-2016 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  All eyes will surely focus on Andy Murray for the US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the season.
  
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• Japan PM pledges to invest $30 bn in Africa by 2018

  27-08-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Japan will pour $30 billion (27 billion euros) in investment into Africa by 2018, including $10 billion in infrastructure development, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday at a summit in Nairobi. "When combined with the investment from the private sector I expect the total real amount to be $30 billion," Abe said at the opening of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). "This is an investment that has faith in Africa's future," he said.
  
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• Children of Syria's besieged Daraya discover joy of sweets

  27-08-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yazan, a four-year-old who has never known anything but deprivation, has finally discovered the joy of ice cream after being evacuated from the besieged town of Daraya near the capital of war-torn Syria. This week, under a deal between the government and rebel forces who controlled it, Daraya's thousands of civilians and rebel fighters were all evacuated from the town, devastated by constant bombardment. Yazan's family and many of the civilians were transferred to Hrajela, a village under govern
  
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• Colombia's FARC rebels to hold final conference, peace vote September 13-19

  27-08-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, said in a statement on Saturday they will hold their final conference on Sept. 13-19 to ratify a peace accord with the government. The deal between the leaders of the leftist guerilla group, referred to as FARC, and the government was announced Wednesday in Havana, after almost four years of talks. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has sent the text of the accord to Congress, where legislators have 30 days to go over it before a
  
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• Syria army moves into siege town after fighters evacuated

  27-08-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Government forces moved into the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital on Saturday after rebels and civilians were evacuated following a four-year siege by regime forces, a military source said. "The Syrian army completely controls Daraya and has entered all of the town. Earlier, a first group of hundreds of rebels and their families evacuated from the town reached opposition-held territory further north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
  
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• Cowboys quarterback Romo has broken bone in back

  27-08-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (The Sports Xchange) - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo suffered a broken bone in his back on the third play of Thursday night's preseason game and coach Jason Garrett said the injury would cost the veteran a chunk of the 2016 season. An MRI on Friday revealed Romo's back injury is much worse than anticipated, Garrett announced Saturday, two days after he was knocked out of the game against the Seattle Seahawks. "We're confident that he's going to be coming back and playing football for us t
  
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• The Latest: Trump tweet on Chicago shooting prompts backlash

  27-08-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• Nate Parker opens about rape case in new interview

  27-08-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The actor-director dealing with a 17-year-old rape case casting a storm over his new film and career has opened up about the incident in a new interview.
  
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• South Korea beats Panama in LLWS international title game

  27-08-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Youbin Choi struck out 14 and South Korea beat Panama 7-2 Saturday to reach the championship game of the Little League World Series.
  
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• Turkish soldier killed in Syria attack, Kurdish militia blamed

  27-08-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey on Saturday said the military suffered its first fatality in an unprecedented four day campaign inside Syria, blaming Kurdish militia in an increasingly combustible contest for control in the border region. The Turkish army on Wednesday launched the two-pronged cross border offensive against Islamic State (IS) jihadists but also Syrian Kurdish militia detested by Ankara, sending in dozens of tanks and hundreds of troops. Tensions between Ankara and the Kurdish militia flared Sunday, with
  
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• Bahraini Jebet smashes 3000m steeplechase world record

  27-08-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Paris (AFP) - Olympic champion Ruth Jebet of Bahrain smashed the world record in the 3,000m steeplechase, clocking 8min 52.78sec at the Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday.
  
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• One Turkish soldier killed in Syria offensive: sources

  27-08-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA (Reuters) - One Turkish soldier was killed and three others wounded in a rocket attack on a tank close to the northern Syrian town of Jarablus on Saturday, Turkish military sources said, after Turkey launched a cross-border offensive this week. The sources said the rocket was fired from territory held by the Kurdish YPG militia. Rebels opposed to the Turkish intervention had earlier on Saturday denied there were Kurdish forces in the area. Turkey has said its campaign in Syria is targetin
  
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• Cowboys QB Romo has broken bone in back

  27-08-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett says quarterback Tony Romo has a broken bone in his back, and there is no timetable for his return.
  
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• Ex-Guantanamo prisoner goes on hunger strike in Venezuela: lawyer

  27-08-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Guantanamo prisoner now held by Venezuela's intelligence agency has gone on hunger strike, his lawyer said Saturday. Jihad Diyab, who was relocated from Guantanamo to Uruguay nearly two years ago, was detained after traveling to Caracas in July in an apparent attempt to see family, his California-based lawyer Jon Eisenberg told AFP. In an email, Eisenberg said he was concerned about Diyab, a 45-year-old Syrian national, after failing to establish contact with him.
  
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• The Latest: Turkish soldier killed in Syria by rocket attack

  27-08-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
  
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• Cowboys QB Romo has small fracture in back

  27-08-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett says quarterback Tony Romo has a small fracture in his back.
  
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• Colombian rebels announce final conference of peace talks

  27-08-2016 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are announcing a final conference of its guerrillas to ratify peace accord reached this week with the government and prepare to make the transition to an unarmed ...
  
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• Chelsea takes three from three

  27-08-2016 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  Chelsea has taken an early lead at the top of the English Premiership after an emphatic win over Burnley.
  
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• The Latest: Friend says slain nun committed to helping poor

  27-08-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of two nuns in Mississippi (all times local):
  
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• Hope Solo takes indefinite leave from Seattle Reign

  27-08-2016 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hope Solo has taken an indefinite leave from the Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League, less than a week after being suspended for six months by the U.S. national team for disparaging remarks about Sweden.
  
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• Grief erupts in Italy as nation honors, buries quake dead

  27-08-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ASCOLI PICENO, Italy (AP) — Mourners in Italy prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying victims of the country's devastating earthquake passed by at a state funeral Saturday, grieving as one nation after three desperate days of trying to save as many people as possible.
  
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• Woman admits crickets, worms spilling on subway was a stunt

  27-08-2016 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who caused chaos aboard a subway train by releasing a container of crickets and worms says it was all a prank.
  
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• Clinton receives intelligence briefing

  27-08-2016 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton received her first intelligence briefing as the Democratic presidential candidate Saturday, attending the 90-minute meeting without aides. Traditionally, the top two contenders for the White House are given the briefings to prepare them for the responsibilities that await the next occupant of the Oval Office. Republican candidate Donald Trump attended a similar briefing August 17 in New York, accompanied by two key advisers, retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn and New Jersey
  
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• Man arrested in shocking killings of 2 Mississippi nuns

  27-08-2016 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DURANT, Miss. (AP) — A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shocking killing that rocked the small town communities where the women served, authorities said.
  
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• Kurdish-led Syria forces face off with Turkish-backed rebels

  27-08-2016 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Backed by Turkish tanks and reports of airstrikes, Turkey-allied Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria in a new escalation that further complicates the already protracted ...
  
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• Arrest made in nuns' murders

  27-08-2016 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been arrested in the stabbing deaths of two nuns whose bodies were found this week in their home in rural Mississippi, authorities said.
  
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• Death Penalty Sought in Ambush That Killed 5, Unborn Child

  27-08-2016 20:06 via abcnews.go.com
  Prosecutors in Pennsylvania say they plan to seek the death penalty against two men charged in an ambush at a cookout that killed five adults and an unborn child
  
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• Turkey extradites 5 Macedonians planning to join IS

  27-08-2016 20:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Macedonian police say Turkey has extradited five Macedonians arrested in Istanbul in an operation to crack down on recruitment for the Islamic State group.
  
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• Spanish police arrest 57 in illegal Chinese immigration ring

  27-08-2016 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 57 people and dismantled an illegal immigration ring giving Chinese citizens Spanish residency permits through fake job contracts as domestic staff.
  
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• The Latest: Iowa governor says Trump can win on agriculture

  27-08-2016 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• Kaine Tells Florida Politicians to Stop 'Me First' Trump

  27-08-2016 19:54 via abcnews.go.com
  Tim Kaine describes presidential race in Florida as "so close."
  
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• NASA probe set to make closest approach yet to Jupiter

  27-08-2016 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA's Juno space probe on Saturday was set to pass the closest it will get to the planet Jupiter during the main phase of its planned mission to the gas giant, the US space agency's officials said. Juno was to swing within some 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) of the solar system's largest planet, the closest any spacecraft has passed, traveling at 130,000 miles per hour (208,000 kilometers per hour) at around 5:51 am (12:51 GMT). It was the first time Juno’s eight scientific instruments an
  
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• Report: Black Men, Boys Shot Most by Chicago Police

  27-08-2016 19:49 via abcnews.go.com
  After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city's police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years
  
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• Venezuelan police jail prominent activist in pre-dawn raid

  27-08-2016 19:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A prominent opposition leader has been jailed again after being picked up by intelligence agents before dawn at the Caracas home where he was held under house arrest on civil rebellion charges.
  
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• Clinton Receives 1st Classified Briefing as Democratic Nominee

  27-08-2016 19:40 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Donald Trump had his first briefing earlier this month.
  
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