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• Mo Farah & Kadeena Cox win British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards awards

  18-03-2017 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Mo Farah and Kadeena Cox win sportsman and sportswoman of the year at the 2017 British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.
  
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• In Appalachia, Trump's proposed budget has people worried

  18-03-2017 23:38
  
  President Donald Trump's proposal to eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission has alarmed many throughout the region that have relied on the federal agency for a job
  
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• Chuck Berry: The man who helped lay rock music's foundations

  18-03-2017 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Musician whose guitar licks helped lay the foundations of rock music.
  
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• Paris airport attacker said he was 'ready to die for Allah'

  18-03-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  A man who said he was ready to die for Allah was shot dead on Saturday after attacking a soldier at Paris's Orly airport, triggering a major security alert that caused travel chaos.Ziyed Ben Belgacem, a 39-year-old French national, grabbed a female soldier and put a gun to her head, seizing her assault rifle, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a press conference.In any case people are going to die," the attacker told the troops in Molins's account of the attack.
  
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• Six Nations 2017: England will have more setbacks - Eddie Jones

  18-03-2017 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eddie Jones says England are "14 months into a four-year project" after hopes of a second straight Grand Slam are ended by Ireland.
  
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• Anthem Lobbyist May Head Antitrust Division

  18-03-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Report: Trump may appoint a health insurance company's former lobbyist to run the agency just as Anthem presses for approval of its merger.
  
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• Trump's budget cuts dampen 50th anniversary of public broadcasting

  18-03-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the “Public Broadcasting Act of 1967” into law, hoping it could encourage more diverse programming and non-commercial broadcasting. 
  
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• Man killed at Paris airport planned to 'die for Allah': prosecutor

  18-03-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gus Trompiz and Emmanuel JarryPARIS (Reuters) - A man shot dead by French soldiers at Paris Orly airport on Saturday shouted he was there to "die for Allah" and tried to seize a soldier's assault rifle, apparently intending to open fire on passengers, a prosecutor said.The latest in a series of attacks in France forced the evacuation of France's second-busiest airport and thrust security back to the forefront of France's presidential election campaign.The attacker, named as Ziyed Ben Belgacem
  
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• Russia orders check of American media in the country in retaliation for U.S. bill

  18-03-2017 22:35
  Russia's parliament ordered the probe to target CNN, Voice of America and others
  
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• Spicer: Secret Service stops attempted White House intrusion

  18-03-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The White House said Saturday that an individual was apprehended after jumping a low metal barrier just outside the White House fence, a week after an intrusion raised questions about lapses in security under the watch of the U.S. Secret Service.
  
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• Plan to nurture African economies unites fractious G20

  18-03-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Baden-Baden (Germany) (AFP) - Ministers from the world's top economies heralded plans to boost development in Africa on Saturday, at an otherwise fractious G20 gathering in Germany.Berlin, which holds the presidency of the powerful nations' club this year, has made a hoped-for "Compact with Africa" a top priority for 2017.Africa's future represents "a major geopolitical risk" but also a "chance", German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters Friday as the meeting got under way in the
  
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• Ireland foils England's Grand Slam bid

  18-03-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Battling Ireland wrecked England's dreams of a double Grand Slam and a new world record for consecutive Test wins with a 13-9 victory in their Six Nations finale.
  
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• Manhunt under way for missing 15-year-old Tennessee girl

  18-03-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Police say the girl may have been kidnapped by her teacher
  
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• Authorities arrest 17-year-old in his mother's death

  18-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  CARY, N.C. (AP) — A woman was strangled by her teenage son in a case that has puzzled an affluent North Carolina town for more than a year, authorities said.
  
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• Appeals court refuses to stop oil in Dakota Access pipeline

  18-03-2017 21:37
  
  Pipeline to move North Dakota oil to Illinois could be operating Monday.
  
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• Paris airport attacker had long criminal record

  18-03-2017 21:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Zied Ben Belgacem, 39, is believed to have been radicalised in prison and was on French terrorism watchlistThe Paris airport attacker who tried to take a soldier hostage before being shot dead had a long criminal record, French anti-terror officials have said.
  Zied Ben Belgacem shot and wounded a police officer in northern Paris before travelling across the city to Orly airport, where he was killed after holding a gun to the soldier’s head. He had been on a security watchlist. Continue rea
  
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• Woman Whose Best Friend Agreed To Adopt Children After She Fell Terminally Ill Has Died

  18-03-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Hankins has four children.
  
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• Investigators find three headless corpses in mass grave of 15 at Venezuela prison

  18-03-2017 21:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Grave at Guarico prison could hold as many as 100 bodies, group saysAuthorities give no explanation for deaths in lawless prison systemFifteen corpses, three of them headless, have been found in a mass grave at a Venezuelan prison and more may be discovered, investigators said on Saturday.Related: The architecture of fear: how Caracas has adapted to constant threat of violenceContinue reading...
  
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• Somalia asks Saudi coalition to investigate refugee boat attack

  18-03-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  By Abdi SheikhMOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali government condemned a helicopter attack on a boatload of Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen and called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate, officials said on Saturday.At least 40 Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter attacked the boat they were traveling in late on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said."The prime minister condemns the unfair killing of the Somalis who were sailing on the shores o
  
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• The Latest: Orly attacker used revolver to detain soldier

  18-03-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier's weapon (all times local):
  
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• Brazil president calls emergency meeting over tainted meat scandal

  18-03-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Michel Temer called an emergency ministerial meeting for Sunday to deal with a growing scandal over the safety of meat and poultry sold at home and abroad by the world's leading supplier.A two-year police investigation revealed Friday the existence of a corrupt scheme in which dozens of health inspectors were allegedly bribed to certify tainted food as fit for consumption.It comes at a sensitive time, as Brazil and other members of South America's Merc
  
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• Contentious G20 shows US needs time to 'adapt': Lagarde

  18-03-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Baden-Baden (Germany) (AFP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde sought to play down fears over the US weakening international commitments to free trade and climate change Saturday, saying the new White House needed time to "adapt and learn"."Whenever there's a new member at a G20 meeting, there is a process of learning and adaptation," Lagarde told AFP after a finance ministers' gathering in Baden Baden, western Germany.
  
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• Man Breaks Leg Allegedly Escaping From Burglary and Then Calls Cops For Help

  18-03-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Police said he'll be charged when he is released from the hospital.
  
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• Ireland end England's Grand Slam dream

  18-03-2017 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gutsy Ireland end England's bid for a second Grand Slam in a row and a world record 19th straight Test win.
  
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• Plane that landed at NYC airport gets stuck in snowdrift

  18-03-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A plane from Chicago that landed at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday got stuck in a snowdrift while turning off the runway and had to be pulled out by a tug.
  
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• Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student

  18-03-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Tad Cummins, 50, who is believed to be armed with two hand guns, was placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's top 10 "most wanted" list on Friday on charges of aggravate kidnapping and having sexual contact with a minor.Cummings, who is married, was fired from his Maurey County high school teaching job on Tuesday after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with student Beth Thomas, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.Thomas was last seen on Monday j
  
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• Person detained after hopping bike-rack barrier along White House fence

  18-03-2017 19:33
  
  The suspect is being interviewed.
  
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• What's spooking the Florida golfers?

  18-03-2017 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Professional golfer Smylie Kaufman and his caddie were in for a surprise at the sixth hole in Florida.
  
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• Pope to visit Egypt to meet imam, persecuted Copts

  18-03-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis is to visit Cairo next month for talks with the grand imam of the capital's famed Al-Azhar mosque, but also to show solidarity with Coptic Christians targeted by violence in Egypt.The pontiff, co-invited by Egypt's president for the April 28-29 visit, had hosted Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb at the Vatican last May, in a landmark meeting with one of Islam's top clerics.The current pope has made interfaith dialogue and reconciliation a leading theme of his pontificate and has also overse
  
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• President Trump's approval rating drops in Fox News poll

  18-03-2017 19:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Political panel weighs in on 'America's News HQ'
  
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• Germany owes NATO 'vast sums': Trump

  18-03-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump unleashed a diatribe against Germany on Saturday, saying Berlin owes NATO "vast sums of money" and must pay the United States more for security."Germany owes vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!" Trump tweeted on Saturday morning.
  
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• Man arrested for strobe-light tweet that caused reporter's seizure

  18-03-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  A Maryland man has been arrested on federal charges that he intentionally used an animated tweet to trigger an epileptic seizure in a Newsweek reporter who had been critical of President Donald Trump.The reporter, Kurt Eichenwald, was at his home office in Dallas on December 15 when he clicked on a Twitter message sent him by a man using the pseudonym "@jew_goldstein." A blinding strobe light began flashing on his screen, sending Eichenwald -- who has openly discussed his epilepsy -- into a seiz
  
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• In Beijing, Tillerson urges China-US cooperation on N. Korea

  18-03-2017 18:40
  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is pushing for closer China-U.S. cooperation on dealing with North Korea's nuclear program in his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders
  
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• WATCH: Will Trump's wiretapping claims be politically damaging?

  18-03-2017 18:33
  
  ABC News political analyst Kristen Soltis-Anderson breaks down the president's week.
  
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• London anti-racism march draws tens of thousands of protesters

  18-03-2017 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Speakers at rally berate populism behind the rise of the far-right in Europe, Britain’s vote to leave the EU, and Donald TrumpAs many as 30,000 people have joined a march against racism in London during which campaigners voiced their opposition to the wave of populism they say elected Donald Trump, saw Britain vote to leave the EU and fuelled the rise of far-right politics around Europe.The former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg, one of the speakers at the Saturday protest, sai
  
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• College Student's Boyfriend Charged With Her Murder A Month After Her Body is Found

  18-03-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Police found her body last month.
  
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• Stressing free trade, Mnuchin shrugs off G20 outcry

  18-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  "The historical language was not relevant," he told journalists after the gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Baden Baden, western Germany.After a two-day meeting, ministers from G20 developed and emerging nations said they were "working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies" but failed to spell out a pledge to reject protectionism in a closing statement.The G20 has in the past pledged support to the existing multilateral trade system, including the World Tra
  
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• Secret Service laptop stolen: Can the agency shake its scandals?

  18-03-2017 18:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A Secret Service laptop with details about floor plans and evacuation protocol for Trump Tower was stolen from a car parked in the driveway of an agent’s Brooklyn home on Thursday.A Secret Service press release said that agency laptops have “multiple layers of security including full disk encryption” and were not permitted to contain classified information – though it could be used to access a server which does, according to the New York Daily News.A backpack and oth
  
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• Italy arrests Ghanaian for trafficking, torturing migrants

  18-03-2017 18:11 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gavin JonesROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a Ghanaian man for alleged murder, rape, kidnapping and people-smuggling after migrants he is accused of mistreating attacked him at a reception center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.According to the arrest warrant, the African migrants turned on 20-year-old Sam Eric Ackom, known to his assailants as Fanti, when they recognized him as one of a gang that had kidnapped and tortured them in Libya during their
  
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• Six Nations 2017: France 20-18 Wales

  18-03-2017 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France seal a dramatic and controversial win over Wales in their Six Nations finale in Paris.
  
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• WATCH: Paralyzed boy, 7, dances again after 2016 car accident

  18-03-2017 18:02
  
  With the help of Project Walk, a paralysis recovery center in Walnut Creek, California, Bruce Mansy is dancing again.
  
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• Two pharaohs, one statue: A tale of mistaken identity?

  18-03-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A colossus recently found in Matariya, a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, has proven tricky to identify.Shortly after the 26-foot tall statue was unearthed on March 7, it was identified as Pharaoh Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt’s best-known rulers, but now Cairo officials say it likely portrays Psamtik I, a lesser-known pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty.Recommended:How much do you know about Egypt?
  
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• G20 finance ministers drop anti-protectionist pledge

  18-03-2017 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Finance ministers drop a commitment to free trade because of opposition from the Trump administration.
  
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• Modi party picks firebrand to head India's biggest state

  18-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party Saturday picked a controversial firebrand leader to head India's most populous state, where it won a landslide victory last week.Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won an absolute majority in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people and seen as a bellwether of national politics, in a massive vote of confidence for the premier halfway into his first term.After an hours-long meeting with local BJP legislators on Sa
  
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• G20 drops pledge to fight protectionism

  18-03-2017 17:34 via money.cnn.com
  
  The world's biggest economies have dropped a long-standing public endorsement of free trade at their first meeting with the Trump administration.
  
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• German Foreign Minister: Turkey 'further away from EU membership than ever'

  18-03-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey has never been less likely to join the European Union than now and the bloc should seek a special relationship with Britain, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said as relations between Ankara and Berlin hit a low point."Today Turkey is definitely further away from becoming a member of the European Union than ever before," Gabriel said in an interview with news magazine Der Spiegel published on Saturday.Before taking power in Germany in 2005, Chancellor Angela Merkel was an outspoken
  
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• Man killed after trying to grab soldier’s gun at Paris airport

  18-03-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Airport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said.Police did not immediately provide a motive or identify the attacker, though the Paris prosecutor’s office said he was 39 and had a record of robbery and drug offenses.Earlier Saturday, he fired birdshot at officers during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb, wounding one in the face.
  
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• Higher heart risk seen with Abbott dissolving stent after two years: study

  18-03-2017 17:26 via yahoo.com
  
  By Bill BerkrotWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients who received Abbott Laboratories' novel dissolving vascular stent had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse heart events than those treated with the company's widely used Xience drug-coated metal stent two years after implantation, according to data presented on Saturday.New guidelines for blood vessel size and proper implantation techniques put in place for the new Absorb stent since the study began, however, should lead to better results,
  
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• Arsene Wenger: Arsenal boss will announce future plans 'very soon'

  18-03-2017 17:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he will announce his plans "very soon" after reaching a decision over his future.
  
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• Debunking Trump's tweets

  18-03-2017 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Victor Blackwell looks back at five claims President Trump made via Twitter that were proven to be false.
  
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