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• Deadly twin bomb attack strikes police near Istanbul stadium

  10-12-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two explosions struck Saturday night outside a major soccer stadium in Istanbul after fans had gone home, in an attack that caused fatalities and wounded at least 20 police officers, Turkish authorities said. A private television channel put the wounded at nearly 70.
  
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• Dylan expresses awe over Nobel Prize, alludes to Shakespeare

  10-12-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Bob Dylan has expressed awe at receiving the Nobel Prize in literature and thanked the Swedish Academy for including him among the "giants" of writing.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says some killed in Istanbul attack -statement

  10-12-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some people were killed and others wounded in explosions outside an Istanbul soccer stadium on Saturday, an attack which targeted police and civilians and aimed to cause as many casualties as possible, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement. "A terrorist attack has been carried out against our security forces and our citizens.
  
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• Freezing rain downs trees, powerlines in Portland

  10-12-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Freezing rain downed trees and power lines and stranded some light-rail passengers in Portland for about three hours Saturday as the first winter storm of the season continued.
  
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• English, Kuchar win Franklin Templeton Shootout

  10-12-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Harris English and Matt Kuchar won the Franklin Templeton Shootout on Saturday after shooting a seven-under-par 65 in the final round of the pairs event in Florida. English and Kuchar's victory at Tiburon Golf Club continues their strong run in the event, which they won in 2013 before finishing runners-up in 2014 and 2015. The duo clinched their second win in the tournament after prevailing in a nip-and-tuck final round duel with Jerry Kelly and Steve Stricker, who had trailed by one shot at the
  
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• New Cincinnati coach: Ohio State coordinator Luke Fickell

  10-12-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cincinnati hired Ohio State defensive coordinator Luke Fickell as its head coach, turning to the Buckeye state native to re-establish a program that has slipped in recent years.
  
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• Trump cheered by fans at annual Army-Navy game

  10-12-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Donald Trump was greeted with cheers on his arrival at the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday, basking in the one of the nation's most storied football rivalries as he prepares to enter the White House.
  
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• Brazil's Temer cited 44 times in corruption testimony

  10-12-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A former executive at a mega-construction company cited Brazilian President Michel Temer 44 times during testimony to federal prosecutors in a corruption probe, making accusations of illegal campaign financing that put his embattled administration at an even bigger risk of ending within months.
  
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• Trump on track to name Exxon CEO Tillerson secretary of state: source

  10-12-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland BALTIMORE (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name the chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp as the country's top diplomat, a source familiar with the situation said on Saturday, an appointment that would put in place an official with close ties to the Russian government. Exxon chief Rex Tillerson emerged on Friday as Trump's leading candidate for U.S. secretary of state over 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and three other people. Tillerso
  
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• Blasts hit near Istanbul soccer stadium, wound 20 police

  10-12-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two explosions struck Saturday night outside a major soccer stadium in Istanbul after fans had gone home, an attack that wounded about 20 police officers, Turkish authorities said. One of the blasts was thought to be a car bomb and the second appeared to have been caused by a suicide bomber.
  
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• One of Istanbul blasts was suspected suicide bomb: Turkish interior minister

  10-12-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - One of two explosions that struck outside an Istanbul soccer stadium on Saturday night was thought to have been caused by a suicide bomber, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters in comments broadcast live on television. The suspected suicide bomber struck in Macka park, next to the Vodafone Arena, home to Istanbul's Besiktas soccer team, while the second explosion hit directly outside the stadium, Soylu said, describing the attack as a "cruel plot". (Report
  
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• Non-OPEC oil states agree to cuts in 'historic' deal

  10-12-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eleven countries agreed on Saturday to cut their oil output, teaming up with the OPEC cartel in an exceptional bid to end the world's glut of crude and reverse a dramatic fall in income. Russia and 10 other non-OPEC states will reduce their production by more than half a million barrels per day (bpd), OPEC announced. "I am happy to announce that a historic agreement has been reached," said Qatar's Energy Minister Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Orga
  
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• The Latest: Trump edges toward Tillerson for State

  10-12-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest developments on Donald Trump's transition to the presidency (all times local):
  
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• Romanian PM tries the tieless look ahead of a national vote

  10-12-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian prime minister's tieless look has become a talking point before the parliamentary election, applauded by some, but also a reason for disapproval in the conservative Eastern European country.
  
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• Trump expected to tap Exxon's Tillerson for State Dept. post

  10-12-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State Saturday, meeting privately with the business leader for the second time in a week. Trump's transition team cautioned that no announcement was expected over the weekend.
  
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• Le Canard enchaîné celebrates 100 years of mischief-making

  10-12-2016 22:35 via theguardian.com
  
  The French satirical newspaper holds public figures to account – but doesn’t touch their private livesSince it was founded 100 years ago as an antidote to French government propaganda during the first world war, Le Canard enchaîné has remained a thorn in the side of France’s great but not-so-good. Related: Bad hair days for François Hollande over €10,000 coiffeur billContinue reading...
  
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• ISIS regains ground in ancient city

  10-12-2016 22:34 via cnn.com
  
  ISIS is reportedly making inroads in the central Syrian city of Palmyra -- nearly a year after government forces recaptured the ancient city from the terror group, according to the activist-run Palmyra Coordination Committee.
  
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• KKK, other racist groups disavow the white supremacist label

  10-12-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In today's racially charged environment, there's a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carolina-Virginia border, masked ...
  
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• Official: 20 injured in 2 blasts near football stadium

  10-12-2016 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  At least 20 people were wounded on Saturday evening after twin explosions rocked Istanbul near Besiktas Vodafone Arena football stadium, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.
  
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• Schenn's hat trick leads Flyers to 8th straight win

  10-12-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brayden Schenn scored three power-play goals to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to their eighth straight victory, a 4-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Saturday.
  
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• Oil exec in the lead for US secretary of state

  10-12-2016 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is the leading candidate for Secretary of State in a Donald Trump administration, multiple sources familiar with the transition process tell CNN on Saturday.
  
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• Twins minor league pitcher Yorman Landa dies in Venezuela

  10-12-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Yorman Landa, a minor league pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, has died in Venezuela.
  
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• Greece passes austerity 2017 budget, eyes 2.7 percent growth

  10-12-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Parliament has passed a budget of continued austerity as mandated by the country's creditors, but which forecasts robust growth for 2017.
  
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• Video captures sound of explosion

  10-12-2016 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  A CNN crew captured the sound of one of the explosions that rocked Istanbul.CNN's Natalie Allen reports.
  
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• Syrian army tightens grip on Aleppo but IS back in Palmyra

  10-12-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Syrian army tightened its grip Saturday on rebels besieged in Aleppo with thousands of civilians but suffered a setback as jihadists retook much of the ancient city of Palmyra. Air strikes pummelled the shrinking rebel enclave in east Aleppo as US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Syrian regime's "indiscriminate bombing" amounted to crimes against humanity. Western powers meeting in Paris called for peace talks to resume and for civilians to be allowed to leave Aleppo, where tens of tho
  
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• Bristol Palin announces she is expecting her third child

  10-12-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bristol Palin is expecting her third child.
  
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• Aleppo’s terrified residents flee rebel districts, death and hunger

  10-12-2016 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Syrians at a way station describe the attacks that swept them from their homesTwo-year-old Yasser, his woolly hat pulled down to his eyes, stared, silent and unsmiling, in his pram. His 20-day-old sister, Sana, slept beside him, unaware that the entirety of her short life has been spent amid the worst fighting her neighbourhood in east Aleppo has ever seen. Related: Syria: Assad loyalists take Aleppo's Old City as rebels plead for ceasefireContinue reading...
  
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• Far-right party still leading in Dutch polls, despite leader’s criminal guilt

  10-12-2016 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Geert Wilders has held on to his supporters in the Netherlands, despite a discrimination convictionVolendam is a village of clogs, canals, cheese – and anger. A former fishing village-turned-tourist-haven north-east of Amsterdam on the Markermeer lake, it offered one of the country’s strongest turnouts for far-right populist Geert Wilders the last time the country went to the polls.Wilders was found guilty of inciting discrimination at a rally where he called for “fewer Morocca
  
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• Turkish soccer team Bursaspor says none of its fans injured in blast

  10-12-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish soccer team Bursaspor said none of its fans appeared to have been injured in an explosion outside one of Istanbul's main stadiums hours after the end of a match on Saturday. "We have contacted our fan groups. There appear to be no injuries among our fans. We wish injured citizens a quick recovery," Bursaspor said in a statement on its Twitter account. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker and Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by David Dolan)
  
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• Suspected car bomb wounds around 20 outside Istanbul soccer stadium

  10-12-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey's top teams, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around 20 people had been wounded following the match between Besiktas and Bursaspor and that initial indications were that the blast was caused by a car bomb targeting a riot police bus. A Reuters photographer said many riot police
  
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• Vardy shreds Guardiola's City, Arsenal go top

  10-12-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jamie Vardy broke his three-month goal drought with a hat-trick as Premier League champions Leicester City sensationally inflicted a humiliating 4-2 defeat on Pep Guardiola's Manchester City on Saturday. At a rain-sodden King Power Stadium, Vardy hit his first top-flight treble and Andy King also found the net to ensure Leicester atoned for their 5-0 Champions League mauling by Porto.
  
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• No. 1 Villanova beats No. 23 Notre Dame 74-66

  10-12-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jay Wright doesn't follow who is in the running for national player of the year. However, the Villanova coach thinks he has the best player in the country in senior guard Josh Hart.
  
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• 2 explosions heard near Istanbul soccer stadium; 20 wounded

  10-12-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two explosions hit Saturday night near a major soccer stadium in Istanbul, and Turkish authorities say about 20 police have been wounded.
  
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• Many Turkish riot police wounded in Istanbul blast: witness

  10-12-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Many Turkish riot police officers were seriously wounded in a blast outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a car bomb targeting a riot police bus. The blast came two hours after the end of a match between Besiktas and Bursaspor, among two of Turkey's top teams. (Reporting by Murad Sezer; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by David Dolan)
  
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• Explosions happened near Taksim Square

  10-12-2016 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Muhammad Lila reports on two explosions near Istanbul's Taksim Square.
  
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• Defendant in murder trial insists drunken Will Smith had gun

  10-12-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who fatally shot retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith insisted Saturday that he did so only after a drunken, irate Smith retrieved a gun from his damaged SUV following an April 9 car crash.
  
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• Sri Lanka fires warning shots to halt dock workers' protest

  10-12-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sri Lankan naval troops fired warning shots on Saturday to break up a protest by striking dock workers who have held up a Japanese vessel for four days at the island's southern international port. Navy ...
  
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• Russia intervened to help Trump win election: intelligence officials

  10-12-2016 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that as the 2016 presidential campaign progressed, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Trump's effort to win the election, the U.S. off
  
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• France opens new Lascaux prehistoric art cave replica

  10-12-2016 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new replica of the stunning Lascaux cave paintings was unveiled Saturday in the Dordogne region of southwest France, more than seven decades after the prehistoric art was first discovered. "This is more than a copy, it's a work of art!" said French President Francois Hollande as he visited the centre in Montignac, the village at the foot of the hills where the original cave complex is located. The last of the boys still alive is Simon Coencas, now 89, who was a special guest at Saturday's even
  
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• Glencore, Qatari fund finalize deal to acquire Rosneft stake

  10-12-2016 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Rosneft oil giant says commodities company Glencore and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund are investing $3 billion of their own funds to acquire a 19.5 percent stake in Rosneft.
  
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• Two loud explosions heard near sports stadium in Istanbul, witnesses say police have been deployed

  10-12-2016 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Two loud explosions heard near sports stadium in Istanbul, witnesses say police have been deployed.
  
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• Radio journalist shot dead outside home in northern Mexico

  10-12-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A radio station in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua says one of its reporters has been shot dead outside his home.
  
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• Atomic agency leader warns of disaster if Trump tears up Iran deal

  10-12-2016 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Hans Blix of the International Atomic Energy Agency says UK is unlikely to be able to sway Trump on nuclear dealHans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has claimed it would be disastrous for the world if the US tore up the Iran nuclear agreement, but warned that the president-elect, Donald Trump, would be unlikely to heed advice from the British government on the benefits of the deal.In the wake of Theresa May’s insistence last week that the agreement “n
  
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• Turkey shifts closer to expanding powers for Erdogan

  10-12-2016 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's ruling party on Saturday submitted proposed constitutional amendments that could greatly expand the powers and extend the mandate of the country's president.
  
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• 50 worshipers killed in church collapse

  10-12-2016 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  As many as 50 people were killed after a church in Uyo, Nigeria, collapsed on worshippers, officials said.
  
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• Venezuela seizes 4m toys to distribute to poor children as Christmas gifts

  10-12-2016 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Government authorities detained two executives from Kreisel, the country’s largest toy distributor, on suspicion of hoarding and price gougingThe Venezuelan government has seized nearly 4m toys from a private company and says it will hand them out as Christmas gifts for poor children.The country’s fair pricing authority seized the toys on Friday from three warehouses run by Kreisel, Venezuela’s largest toy distributor. Two company executives were detained on suspicion of promot
  
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• No second term for controversial Hong Kong leader

  10-12-2016 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  A cheer went up from the crowd as the bottles of champagne were popped.
  
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• No second term for controversial HK leader

  10-12-2016 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  A cheer went up from the crowd as the bottles of champagne were popped.
  
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• No 2nd term for controversial HK leader

  10-12-2016 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  A cheer went up from the crowd as the bottles of champagne were popped.
  
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• Champagne pops as no second term for controversial HK leader

  10-12-2016 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  A cheer went up from the crowd as the bottles of champagne were popped.
  
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