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• Erdoğan clinches victory in Turkish constitutional referendum

  16-04-2017 23:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Electoral board says Turkey has backed constitutional amendments but opposition parties say they will contest some of the resultsThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has achieved victory in a historic referendum on a package of constitutional amendments that will grant him sweeping new powers.Sadi Güven, the head of Turkey’s high electoral board (YSK), confirmed the passage of the referendum on Sunday night, based on unofficial results. Continue reading...
  
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• Turkey referendum: Erdoğan wins vote amid dispute over ballots – as it happened

  16-04-2017 23:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Turks narrowly vote in favour of president’s plan for sweeping constitutional changes, but opposition parties cry foulFull report: Erdoğan clinches victory in constitutional referendum 10.37pm BSTWe’re wrapping up our live coverage of the Turkish referendum - for more read Kareem Shaheen’s full wrap here. 10.15pm BSTPresident Erdoğan will chair a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara on Monday, CNN Turk reports. Continue reading...
  
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• It's Easter so here's the Easter Bunny destroying a Teddy Roosevelt mascot

  16-04-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  
  The Easter Bunny can be a savage creature. SEE ALSO: Sean Spicer was once a terrifying White House Easter Bunny During today's presidential mascot race at the Washington Nationals game, the Easter Bunny made what's becoming a traditional appearance to lay the smack down on Teddy Roosevelt. BAH GAWD HE'S BROKEN IN HALF! pic.twitter.com/MVgQzfkvbT — Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 16, 2017Check it out from a different angle.@teddy26nats meets the Easter Bunny. Oh Teddy. #Nats A
  
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• Suspect in Facebook homicide sought

  16-04-2017 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  Cleveland Police are seeking a suspect who posted video of an apparent homicide on Facebook, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• Lawsuit accuses company of exploiting foreign workers

  16-04-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Guatemalan man and two of his former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee landscaping company, accusing the firm of trafficking immigrants for forced labor.
  
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• Easter bunnies at Coachella and more: April 16 in photos

  16-04-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Coachella Easter bunnies; Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany steers his car during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain; Men riding decorated horses are mirrored in a puddle during the traditional Easter procession of Sorbs in Klein Radden, eastern Germany. These are some of the photos of the day.
  
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• The Latest: Migrants held hostage spurs arrests in Greece

  16-04-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the unusually large number of migrants trying to reach the continent: (all times local):
  
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• Erdoğan gets backing to strengthen his autocratic grip on Turkey

  16-04-2017 23:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The Turkish president has been handed the chance to declare himself as the only fit protector of a besieged state and its vulnerable peopleOver two decades of public life, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had hinted that his vision for Turkey was at odds with the course the country was on. Sunday’s vote appears to have brought both into alignment.Related: Erdoğan claims victory in Turkish constitutional referendumContinue reading...
  
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• Arkansas governor says execution plan just part of the job

  16-04-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson comes across as a reluctant figure just carrying out the duties of his office when he discusses his extraordinary plan to execute eight inmates in 11 days.
  
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• Police urge help in finding suspects in Ohio club shootings

  16-04-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio's capital city appealed Sunday for witnesses to come forward to help them identify suspects in an early morning club shooting that wounded nine people.
  
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• New rules abolish PM role

  16-04-2017 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country's prime minister have declared victory in a referendum designed to hand Erdogan sweeping powers.CNN's Becky Anderson reports.
  
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• Adviser insists checks and balances remain

  16-04-2017 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  Gulner Aybet, Senior Adviser to President Erdogan (AK Party) gives the first reaction to the results of the Referendum in Turkey with CNN's Becky Anderson.
  
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• Win claimed for Turkey gov't referendum; critics call fraud

  16-04-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in Sunday's referendum that will grant sweeping powers to the presidency, hailing the result as a "historic decision."
  
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• 2 Sisters Killed When College Student Driving Wrong Way On Freeway Smashes Into Them

  16-04-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The wrong-way driver was killed as well.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Christians celebrate Easter around the world

  16-04-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, as Pope Francis and others expressed concern over embattled communities in the cradle of the faith following church bombings in Egypt and attacks on civilians in Syria's civil war.
  
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• New York's Easter Parade: 5th Ave lined with revelers wearing their holiday best

  16-04-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  New Yorkers showed off their festive chapeaus and garb as they promenaded along Fifth Ave. for the annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival.
  
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• Dozens of children dead in Syria evacuees bombing

  16-04-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.Saturday's blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya as they waited at a transit point in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo.At least 68 children were among the 126 people killed in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: 'SNL' goes after Spicer's biggest weakness

  16-04-2017 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  Just when you thought Sean Spicer's awful week couldn't get worse, along comes "Saturday Night Live."
  
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• F1: Vettel wins Bahrain Grand Prix

  16-04-2017 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after a commanding drive in Sakhir on Sunday.
  
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• On Easter, Pope denounces 'oppressive regimes' but urges restraint

  16-04-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis denounced "oppressive regimes" in his Easter message on Sunday but in an apparent call for restraint urged world leaders to prevent the spread of conflicts, as tensions rose in North Korea and Syria.Francis, marking the fifth Easter season of his pontificate, said Mass before tens of thousands of people under exceptional security measures in St. Peter's Square following recent vehicle attacks against pedestrians in London and Stockholm.In h
  
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• Death toll in Sri Lanka garbage mound collapse rises to 26

  16-04-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a massive garbage mound near Sri Lanka's capital rose to 26 on Sunday, and activists said 20 more people could still be buried underneath the debris.
  
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• Syrian army regains key town in north Hama province

  16-04-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The Syrian army regained the strategic town of Soran near the city of Hama in the central part of western Syria on Sunday with an assault backed by heavy Russian air strikes, rebels and residents said."There was hysterical bombing that targeted the town and the whole area and rebels fought fierce battles until they were forced to pull out," said one rebel, a member of the Jaish al Izza group, which has a strong presence in Hama province who requested anonymity.The stronghold of Soran is the army
  
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• Man Arrested After Allegedly Breaking Into Home and Cooking Fried Chicken

  16-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  He also drank some of the homeowner's vodka.
  
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• A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32

  16-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  In one of America’s worst school attacks, a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life, April 16, 2007.College senior Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus.The shooting at Virginia Tech was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
  
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• Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver added to Oxford Dictionary

  16-04-2017 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  A door-opening, mine-detonating, metal-cutting, fictional pen-like tool called the "sonic screwdriver" is about to make it's debut in the Oxford English Dictionary.
  
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• Julian Zelizer: Democratic hypocrisy on war power

  16-04-2017 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  Julian Zelizer says Democrats who protest the administration's actions in Syria should remember that presidents of their party also acted unilaterally
  
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• In Afghanistan, Trump aide promises coordinated response to enemies

  16-04-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  By Hamid ShaliziKABUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing diplomatic, military and economic responses to its Taliban and Islamic State enemies in Afghanistan.The adviser, H.R. McMaster, was making the first high-level visit by a Trump official.
  
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• Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126: Observatory

  16-04-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  
  By John DavisonBEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday.The Observatory and the United Nations cited reports that more than 60 children were among the dead.Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defence said that they had taken away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday's blast, which hit
  
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• Rescuers try to save stranded migrants

  16-04-2017 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  Rescue workers have been battling for more than 24 hours in a bid to save as many as 1,800 migrants stranded on boats off the coast of Libya, according to charities leading the operation.
  
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• Rescuers try to save hundreds of stranded migrants

  16-04-2017 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  Rescue workers have been battling for more than 24 hours in a bid to save as many as 1,800 migrants stranded on boats off the coast of Libya, according to charities leading the operation.
  
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• AP Explains: Who are Egypt's Coptic Christians?

  16-04-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Copts, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, marked a solemn Easter this year, a week after suicide bombers struck churches in two cities, killing dozens of worshippers.
  
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• Tackling racism and working-class insults | Letters

  16-04-2017 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  As a season ticket-holding Evertonian, born and bred in Liverpool, I read with particular interest the article about the Sun’s latest outrage (Kelvin MacKenzie suspended by Sun over racism row, 15 April). It is shocking to me that ignorance of Ross Barkley’s racial heritage is presented as some sort of extenuation. Are we to assume that likening a supremely gifted working-class man to a gorilla would be acceptable in the absence of a Nigerian grandfather? I deplore racism, but I
  
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• Millicent Fawcett is the right feminist, by the wrong sculptor | Letters

  16-04-2017 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Rachel Holmes (A feminist statue is welcome. Shame it’s the wrong feminist, 15 April) is disappointed that Millicent Fawcett has been chosen as “the first woman to warrant a likeness” in Parliament Square. Holmes writes that this is part of the “airbrushing of history that makes the fight for women’s suffrage palatable in a contemporary context”. She also implies that the contribution of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, of which Millicen
  
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• Trump aide McMaster: Time for tough talks with Russia

  16-04-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  White House national security adviser H. R. McMaster said on Sunday it was time for tough talks with Russia over its support for Syria's government and its "subversive" actions in Europe.Speaking on ABC News' "This Week" program, McMaster said Russia's backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government has perpetuated a civil war and created a crisis that has bled over into Iraq, neighboring countries and Europe.
  
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• US aid worker cleared in child abuse case

  16-04-2017 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  A Cairo court on Sunday acquitted Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi of child abuse and human trafficking charges after she had spent nearly three years behind bars.
  
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• Aftermath of Syrian bus bombing which killed 126 people – video

  16-04-2017 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  WARNING: some people may find the following footage distressingVehicles burn in the aftermath of a suicide car bombing which left 126 people dead in Syria on Saturday. Nearly 70 children are said to have been killed in the blast, which targeted a convoy transporting evacuees from two besieged government-held towns in the north of the country
  ‘Sixty-eight children among dead’ of suicide bombing attack in SyriaContinue reading...
  
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• U.S., allies weigh options after North Korea's missile test - adviser

  16-04-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lucia Mutikani and Sue-Lin WongWASHINGTON/PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States, its allies and China are working together on a range of responses to North Korea's latest attempted ballistic missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said on Sunday, citing what he called an international consensus to act."We are working together with our allies and partners and with the Chinese leadership to develop a range of options," national security adviser H.R. McMaster said
  
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• This movie has best opening weekend ever

  16-04-2017 18:11 via money.cnn.com
  
  "The Fate of the Furious" crossed the finish line on Sunday as the biggest global opening in movie history.
  
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• 'Fate of the Furious' races to biggest global opening ever

  16-04-2017 18:11 via money.cnn.com
  
  "The Fate of the Furious" crossed the finish line on Sunday as the biggest global opening in movie history.
  
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• 'Fate of the Furious' dominates opening

  16-04-2017 18:11 via money.cnn.com
  
  "The Fate of the Furious" crossed the finish line on Sunday as the biggest global opening in movie history.
  
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• The 8 inmates Arkansas was planning to execute this month

  16-04-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite several court rulings that put its plans in jeopardy, Arkansas hopes to go ahead with the executions of six men between Monday and April 27, which would be a pace exceeded only by Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976.
  
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• Hassan Rouhani faces tough re-election race as candidate list closes

  16-04-2017 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Iran’s moderate president will have to see off various heavyweight conservative critics of his nuclear deal with the westHassan Rouhani, Iran’s moderate president who is seeking re-election, faces a boisterous race after heavyweight conservative figures critical of his landmark nuclear agreement with the west put themselves up to challenge him.Registration for candidates in Iran’s presidential elections next month ended on Saturday, with a record number of 1,636 people putting
  
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• Family Friends Identify Boy, 5, Killed After Getting Stuck Between Wall And Table At Rotating Restaurant

  16-04-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  He wandered off from his parents, according to reports.
  
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• The world's greenest island

  16-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  At the outset of an interview with a Dutch journalist, Søren Hermansen apologizes for being tired.The reporter asks Mr. Hermansen how the Australians discovered him, a community leader on a Danish island half the size of Martha’s Vineyard that’s home to just 3,750 people and a few shaggy sheep.“I’m famous,” says Hermansen, adding that he isn’t boasting, it’s just a statement of fact.
  
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• Is War With North Korea Imminent?

  16-04-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence is in Seoul and said North Korea's failed missile test is a reminder of the risk to freedom.
  
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• Turkish opposition complains of 'illegal acts' in referendum

  16-04-2017 17:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The deputy chairman of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said illegal acts were being carried out in favor of the government in Sunday's referendum on expanding the powers of the presidency."Many illegal acts are being carried out in favor of the government right now, but 'No' will win in the end," Erdal Aksunger told reporters at his party headquarters, referring to an election board decision to accept unstamped ballots.A statement on the High Electoral Board's (YSK) webs
  
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• Border wall could leave some Americans on 'Mexican side'

  16-04-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The border wall President Donald Trump has imagined could seal some Americans on the "Mexican side" — technically on U.S. soil, but outside of a barrier built north of the river separating the two countries.
  
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• Trump wonders why protesters want to see his tax returns after day of marches

  16-04-2017 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  President responds to nationwide rallies by claiming they were ‘paid for’ and tweeting about his election win againA day after thousands marched in cities across the US to demand the president release his tax returns, Donald Trump used Twitter to say “someone should look into who paid” for the rallies. Related: Arrests at violent Berkeley Trump protests while tax marches stay calmContinue reading...
  
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• Polls close

  16-04-2017 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  Millions of Turks will vote Sunday on a controversial new draft constitution that would give sweeping new powers to the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  
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• Kind-Hearted Man Spends $1300 on Ice Cream for Strangers and Tips for Employees

  16-04-2017 17:19 via yahoo.com
  
  He was originally only planning to spend $300.
  
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