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• US moves to block Chinese purchase of German tech firm Aixtron

  02-12-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama on Friday moved to block a Chinese company's purchase of German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron by blocking the inclusion of Aixtron's US business in the deal. The US Treasury said a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) chaired by Obama found the risks posed by the deal, which could place sensitive technology with potential military applications in Chinese hands, were too great. "CFIUS and the president assess that the transac
  
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• Revealed: the new face of Neil Prakash, Australia's most wanted Isis member

  02-12-2016 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: new details and photographs emerge of the accused terrorist captured by security services in Turkey The first photographs have emerged of Australian senior Isis member, Neil Prakash, following his capture and imprisonment in Turkey.The photographs obtained by the Guardian show the accused terrorist with a face that has thinned noticeably since he appeared more than six months ago in publicity material as one of the extremist group’s chief recruiters. Continue reading...
  
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• Michigan Recount Process to Resume Next Week After Brief Halt

  02-12-2016 23:57
  The recount was halted after Trump representatives filed an objection.
  
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• Bodies of Colombia plane crash victims flown home

  02-12-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) - The bodies of the 71 victims killed in a plane crash in Colombia that wiped out a Brazilian football team began arriving home Friday, as mourners prepared a massive funeral. The remains of the first victim, Paraguayan crew member Gustavo Encina, were handed over to his family early Friday in a coffin draped in his country's flag. The wait is the worst," said Roberto Di Marche, a cousin of football team Chapecoense Real's late director Nilson Folle Junior.
  
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• Death Toll in Tennessee Wildfires Rises to 13

  02-12-2016 23:51
  
  Authorities released the identities of six of the deceased.
  
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• The "Two Trumps" surface in president-elect's transition

  02-12-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's skeptics hope the presidency will reveal a serious side of the brash businessman. His supporters want him to keep the freewheeling style that rattled Washington.
  
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• Maine GOP Gov. LePage claims non-citizens could have voted

  02-12-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is telling state legislators he'll rubber-stamp their election certifications despite his concerns about the accuracy of the state's official results.
  
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• Trump speaks with Taiwan's president, risking China tensions

  02-12-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has spoken with the president of Taiwan, a self-governing island the U.S. broke diplomatic ties with in 1979.
  
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• Researchers: Flint water improving, but stick with filters

  02-12-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Water in Flint, Michigan, continues to improve, researchers reported Friday after finding no detectable levels of lead in 57 percent of homes during another round of tests.
  
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• Obama blocks proposed takeover Germany's Aixtron

  02-12-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama is blocking a Chinese firm's proposed takeover of a German manufacturing company, saying the deal poses a security risk. The Treasury Department announced Friday that Obama would ...
  
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• U.S. presidential commission issues recommendations on cyber security

  02-12-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The U.S. government and the private sector must cooperate to improve the security of digital networks, a U.S. presidential commission on cyber security recommended in a wide-ranging report issued on Friday. The commission created by President Barack Obama earlier this year also recommended that the president and Congress accelerate the pace at which technology is updated in the federal sector and that the president appoint an ambassador for cyber security for efforts abroad. Obama sa
  
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• Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama tied for lead in Bahamas

  02-12-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Dustin Johnson birdied the final hole Friday for a 6-under 66 and a share of the lead with Hideki Matsuyama in the Hero World Challenge.
  
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• Trump, backers ask courts to halt or block 3 state recounts

  02-12-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's supporters moved Friday to prevent or halt election recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, involving the courts less than two weeks before the states would have to complete the tasks to meet a federal deadline to certify their election results.
  
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• Media outlets release tax arrangements made by top players

  02-12-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — A group of European media outlets has published what it claims are details of tax arrangements made by several top soccer players and coaches, including Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho and Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil.
  
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• U.S. jobless rate falls to nine-year low, payrolls rise

  02-12-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a nine-year low of 4.6 percent in November, as employers added another 178,000 jobs, making it almost certain that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this month. The unemployment rate hit its lowest level since August 2007 because more people found work but also because the labor force shrank as more people retired, lowering the number of working-age people in the labor force to 62.7 percent. Economists
  
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• US allies hope for best as they reach out to Trump

  02-12-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's closest partners are putting a brave face on Donald Trump's surprise election win while reaching out to try to shape his worldview and to preserve traditional alliances. Allies were rattled by Trump's nationalist campaign rhetoric and by the haphazard way he has approached his first round of calls with world leaders since becoming president-elect. Trump may have no foreign policy experience, but he does not appear to have any deep-rooted ideology either, and seems open to discussion.
  
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• Tiger roars with bogey-free 65 in second comeback round

  02-12-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tiger Woods evoked memories of his glory days by firing a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 Friday at the Hero World Challenge in his second round after a 16-month back surgery layoff. Former world number one Woods, a 14-time major champion, shot his best sub-par round since a 10-under 62 in the second round of the 2013 edition of the elite 18-player event that benefits his charity foundation. "It was very important for me," Woods said.
  
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• Republican lawmaker defeated at 90 says he's not retiring

  02-12-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Outgoing Republican state Sen. William Doyle wants to make one thing clear when he's asked about his decision to stop pursuing a recount in his narrow election loss: Even at age 90, he's not retiring from politics.
  
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• The Latest: Officials seek public help on wildfire origin

  02-12-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the wildfires in eastern Tennessee (all times local):
  
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• Brady on Gronk: 'We've still got a lot of good players'

  02-12-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots went back to practice without Rob Gronkowski on Friday as the 2015 All-Pro tight end prepared for season-ending back surgery.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Union backed out of deal to add 26th player

  02-12-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players and owners had a deal to expand active rosters from 25 to 26 players for most of the season, but the union backed out in the final stages of collective bargaining.
  
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• The Latest: Judge allows recount to continue in Wisconsin

  02-12-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on presidential recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (all times local):
  
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• Man credited with inventing General Tso's chicken dies at 98

  02-12-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The chef who has been credited with inventing General Tso's chicken — a world-famous Chinese food staple that is not served in China — has died. He was 98.
  
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• Dean takes himself out of the race for chairman of DNC

  02-12-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Howard Dean took himself out of the race to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, warning that the race could become contentious but vowing to support whoever is elected.
  
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• Cowboys' Rolando McClain suspended indefinitely by NFL

  02-12-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys linebacker Rolando McClain's on-again, off-again career could be over this time.
  
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• Paul Ryan says he ‘patched up’ relationship with Donald Trump – video

  02-12-2016 22:59 via theguardian.com
  
  In an interview to be aired Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes, House speaker Paul Ryan says he speaks with President-elect Trump almost every day. Ryan said Trump will be ‘an unconventional president’, but he believes he is up to the job Continue reading...
  
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• Victims of Colombia crash take final flights home to Brazil

  02-12-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jaime Saldarriaga and Fredy Builes MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - Dozens of coffins carrying those killed when a plane flying Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team crashed into a Colombian mountain were loaded onto Brazilian air force planes for their final journey home on Friday. The LAMIA Bolivia BAe146 airliner apparently ran out of fuel, lost electrical power and was preparing for an emergency landing when it crashed. The tragedy plunged Latin America's largest nation, Brazil, into mourning as
  
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• European stocks slide as political fears top agenda

  02-12-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - European stocks fell Friday in nervy trading before Italy's crunch referendum and Austria's elections, amid fears both could send shockwaves reverberating across markets.
  
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• ANALYSIS: A Fiery Trump Returns to Rally Supporters

  02-12-2016 22:54
  
  The president-elect brought back his brawling campaign style last night.
  
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• Trump allies move to stop Rust Belt recount

  02-12-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump turned back to cabinet-building Friday after a victory rally in the Rust Belt, where allies of the billionaire were pushing to stop a vote recount in three states that were key to his victory. Three separate moves -- by lawyers for Trump, his supporters, and a top law enforcement official -- aim to stop recounts requested by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, and now supported by Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign. While Trump resumed interviews with pot
  
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• Rally ebbs as investors seek safety after weak wage data

  02-12-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Investors made a small move back to safer assets Friday afternoon after the government's November jobs report showed continued hiring, but weak wages. Indexes finished little changed as real estate and ...
  
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• Jury remains deadlocked in ex-South Carolina cop's murder trial

  02-12-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Jurors considering a murder charge against a white South Carolina former police officer who shot and killed a fleeing black motorist last year told a judge for a second time on Friday they were unable to reach a verdict. Jurors were deliberating for a third day in the case against ex-North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager, 35. "I cannot in good conscience consider a guilty verdict," that juror told state Judge Clifton Newman in a note, adding, "a
  
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• Nearly 2,000 Iraqi troops die in November

  02-12-2016 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly 2,000 Iraqi troops were killed across Iraq in the month of November, according to newly released UN figures, as they battle to force ISIS extremists from the country.
  
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• Colombia plane crash victims repatriated – video

  02-12-2016 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The bodies of those who died in the Colombia plane crash on Monday, were repatriated to Brazil on Friday. The plane, which apparently ran out of fuel, killed 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team on its way to a regional cup final.Chapecoense plane crash: what we know so far about the flightContinue reading...
  
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• The Latest: McKnight's Jets teammates remember him fondly

  02-12-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the fatal shooting of former NFL player Joe McKnight (all times local):
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. standards council to investigate New Oriental after Reuters report

  02-12-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. standards-setting body said it would investigate New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc in the wake of a Reuters report that detailed allegations of academic fraud at the company. The American International Recruitment Council, which certifies agencies that recruit foreign students on behalf of U.S. colleges, will investigate the company in response to the report, said Jeet Joshee, AIRC’s president-elect. Shares of New Oriental plunged after Reuters reported the council&r
  
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• A Cabinet of generals? Trump's choices get mixed reviews

  02-12-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's move to pack his administration with military brass is getting mixed reviews, as Congress and others struggle to balance their personal regard for the individuals he's choosing with a broader ...
  
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• Job deals like Carrier's often fall short of political hype

  02-12-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When President-elect Donald Trump announced a deal to save hundreds of jobs at a Carrier plant in Indiana, it came with a cost to state taxpayers of about $7 million in tax breaks and grants. Similar jobs-for-subsidies ...
  
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• Factbox: When and how Italy votes in Sunday's reform referendum

  02-12-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italians will vote on Dec. 4 in a referendum on constitutional reform being pushed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. -Polls will open at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) and close at 11 p.m. -The result of exit polls will be announced on Italian television as soon as polls close. -State-owned RAI will announce the result of a joint poll by the Piepoli Institute and IPR Marketing, Mediaset will use the Tecne Institute, Sky Italia will use the Quorum agency and La 7 will use EMG Acqua.
  
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• Sheriff: McKnight shooting was 'road rage'; defends case

  02-12-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARVEY, La. (AP) — The shooting death of an ex-NFL player in a New Orleans suburb was a "road rage" incident that started on a nearby bridge, a sheriff said Friday, as he urged against a rush to judgment and defended his handling of the case.
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh concedes defeat, congratulates opponent Barrow

  02-12-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh conceded defeat to opposition leader Adama Barrow on Friday night, accepting that Gambians had "decided that I should take the backseat". Official results earlier showed Barrow, a businessman and political unknown until six months ago, comfortably winning Thursday's poll with 45.54 percent, capping a remarkable rise to prominence. "I have always made it very clear that I will never rule this country without your mandate, since we started elections," Jammeh told Ga
  
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• Sarah Smith: Taking Trump literally and seriously

  02-12-2016 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump made a successful campaign with big promises. But if his supporters didn't even believe him, how should the press handle him now?
  
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• US jury ordered to deliberate more over S. Carolina shooting

  02-12-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge in the murder trial of a white former South Carolina policeman accused of shooting an unarmed black suspect in the back sent the jury back for more deliberations Friday after they said they could not reach a consensus. Michael Slager -- who is facing murder and voluntary manslaughter charges -- stands accused of shooting and killing motorist Walter Scott after Scott fled a traffic stop and struggled with the officer on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston. Slager's lawyers argue that Sco
  
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• More than cookie sellers, Girl Scouts enter music industry

  02-12-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Girls Scouts of the USA are used to making you smile with sweet cookies, but now they're hoping to soothe your ears with sweet music.
  
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• Cowboys' Rolando McClain indefinitely suspended by NFL

  02-12-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys linebacker Rolando McClain has been suspended indefinitely for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy.
  
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• The Latest: Trump preference for military men raises concern

  02-12-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Tiger avoids mistakes and posts 65 in 2nd round back

  02-12-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods saved par from the dunes with a shot so good that two spectators ran over and scooped up sand for a souvenir.
  
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• Gunman 'on loose' in Paris after police respond to robbery

  02-12-2016 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hostages released after operation on Boulevard Masséna to stop reported hold-up at travel agent’s officeA gunman is thought to be on the loose in Paris after police raided the travel agent’s office he was believed to be trying to rob. They released six hostages - but found no one else inside.The city’s police force said it carried out the operation on the Boulevard Masséna, in the south-east of the city, at about 6.30pm on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Memo: Trump backs pipeline based on policy, not investments

  02-12-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump supports completion of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline in the Midwest, based on policy and not the billionaire businessman's investments in a partnership building the ...
  
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• Famously cold N. Dakota winter menaces pipeline protest camp

  02-12-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands.
  
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