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• Pentagon puts civilian deaths in strikes on Isis way lower than outside groups

  30-04-2017 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  US military says at least 352 civilians killed in Iraq and Syria since 2014Monitoring group Airwars puts total killed by coalition strikes at 3,164 At least 352 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the US military said on Sunday. Related: US-led coalition must do more to avoid civilian deaths in Mosul, says UNContinue reading...
  
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• North Korea: Trump keeps options open against 'smart cookie' Kim Jong-Un

  30-04-2017 23:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Nuclear tensions rise as McMaster reassures South over defence costs
  President to CBS after missile test: ‘Eventually, he’ll have good missiles’
  As tensions between the US and North Korea continued on Sunday, Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was “a pretty smart cookie” for managing to hold on to power after taking over at a young age.Related: Pope urges North Korea-US mediation as Trump hedges on military actionContinue reading...
  
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• After the Fyre Festival disaster, maybe don't trust models like Bella Hadid when they sell you things

  30-04-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Now that the complete disaster that was Fyre Festival is over, it's time for the very attractive people who promoted the event to apologize.  On Saturday, model Bella Hadid let her fans know she was sorry about what went down.  SEE ALSO: Here's the official postmortem statement from Fyre Festival organizers❤️... pic.twitter.com/5XqHXBGIn9 — Bella Hadid (@bellahadid) April 29, 2017That's an apology, sort of. I mean, maybe don't promote some totally random thing that
  
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• World Championship 2017: John Higgins leads Mark Selby in Crucible final

  30-04-2017 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four-time winner John Higgins leads 2016 champion Mark Selby 10-7 after the first day of the World Championship final.
  
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• 352 civilians killed in US-led strikes against ISIS

  30-04-2017 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Coalition strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 352 civilians since the start of the operation almost three years ago, the US military said Sunday.
  
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• French forces kill militants in Mali forest

  30-04-2017 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The operation follows the death of a French soldier in the West African country earlier this month.
  
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• Germany's Merkel presses Saudi Arabia on refugees and rights

  30-04-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman and his successors in her first visit to the kingdom in seven years, saying she pressed them on women's rights, the war in Yemen and other sensitive issues.
  
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• US tries to stop two allies mauling each other

  30-04-2017 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  The stars and stripes fluttered in the spring breeze as the column of American armored vehicles rumbled through the village. Men, women and children waved the V for victory sign. Women ululated. The soldiers on board waved back.
  
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• Analysis: Why US is on the Turkey-Syria border

  30-04-2017 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  The stars and stripes fluttered in the spring breeze as the column of American armored vehicles rumbled through the village. Men, women and children waved the V for victory sign. Women ululated. The soldiers on board waved back.
  
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• Aerials of tornado damage in Texas town

  30-04-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Houses were completely demolished by the powerful storm.
  
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• Texas officials discuss recovery efforts after tornadoes hit

  30-04-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Canton Mayor Lou Ann Gullett Everett said search and rescue efforts were underway.
  
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• 'The back of her leg was missing': woman bitten by shark in California

  30-04-2017 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Attack experts say likely involved a great white or seven-gill shark would have been life-threatening if immediate care had not been available, witness saysA shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh in the ocean off a popular southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said on Sunday.Related: Orca pod filmed hunting whale calf in 'unprecedented' California killing spreeContinue reading...
  
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• Footballer walks off after 'racist abuse'

  30-04-2017 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Portsmouth midfielder Sulley Muntari walks off the pitch in protest after being booked during Pescara's Serie A game at Cagliari.
  
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• Swimmer injured in shark attack at Southern California beach

  30-04-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A shark attacked a woman wading in the ocean with friends, tearing away part of her upper thigh off a popular Southern California beach, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.
  
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• Nine dead as tornadoes and flooding hit Texas, south and midwest

  30-04-2017 22:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Area east of Dallas hit hard by storms, sending 56 people to hospital
  At least three dead in Arkansas; fatalities in Mississippi and MissouriAt least nine people were killed by tornadoes or flooding in the south and midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday. Tornadoes hit several small towns in east Texas, killing four people. Three people were killed by flooding and winds in Arkansas, with officials saying two more people were missing. In Missou
  
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• Adelaide woman in Colombian jail accused of trafficking 5.8kg of cocaine

  30-04-2017 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Cassandra Sainsbury, 22, who says she is innocent, was detained at airport in Bogotá after drugs found concealed inside headphones in her luggageA young Adelaide woman on a working holiday in Colombia has reportedly been arrested with 5.8kg of cocaine in her luggage.Cassandra Sainsbury, 22, was detained on 11 April at El Dorado international airport in Bogotá on her way back to Australia, her family has said.Continue reading...
  
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• Middle Stone Age Man Learned To Make Serrated Edges

  30-04-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Man learned to make serrated weapons some 77,000 years ago, far earlier than previously believed.
  
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• Marine Le Pen’s National Front Might Be Starting to Crack

  30-04-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  For years, the party leader has held her party together with promises of electoral victory that she might not be able to deliver.
  
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• Anthony Joshua looking to improve weaknesses as he plans his next steps

  30-04-2017 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  WBA and IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says he is "not perfect" and is looking at improving his weaknesses following his defeat of Wladimir Klitschko.
  
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• Utah Jazz's Gordon Hayward and Los Angeles Clippers' Paul Pierce in NBA playoff action and more: April 30 in photos

  30-04-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward shoots as Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul Pierce defends during the first half in Game 7 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series; Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a warehouse in Kathmandu, Nepal; A grid girl poses for a photo at the Formula One Russian Grand Prix; Kyle Busch makes a pit stop during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Toyota Owners 400.
  
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• Scientists search for Caribbean quake clues

  30-04-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  By following the flow of seawater deep into the earth’s crust, researchers hope to understand the region’s instabilityGeologically speaking the Caribbean is a lively place. Recent reminders include the 1995 volcanic eruption on Montserrat, and the devastating magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Occasionally the Caribbean produces even more powerful outbursts. Back in February 1843 the region was shaken by an estimated magnitude 8.3 quake, reducing Pointe-a-Pitre
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino: 'Victory over Arsenal gives Spurs chance to pressure Chelsea'

  30-04-2017 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham's victory over Arsenal means they can "put psychological pressure" on Chelsea, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.
  
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• Iran's leader rebuffs Rouhani's detente policy ahead of vote

  30-04-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Iranians should not thank Hassan Rouhani's policy of detente with the West for any reduction in the threat of war, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, stepping up his criticisms of the president as elections approach.In comments that appeared to favor hardline candidates in the May 19 vote, Khamenei played down the benefits of Rouhani's landmark agreement to curb Iran's nuclear activities in return for a lifting of international sancti
  
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• Comedian: Who tweets at 3 a.m. sober?

  30-04-2017 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  At the White House correspondents' dinner, "The Daily Show" correspondent Hasan Minhaj asked who tweets at 3 a.m. sober.
  
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• US coalition strikes against ISIS killed at least 352 civilians since 2014, Pentagon says

  30-04-2017 21:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Pentagon says at least 352 civilians have died in ISIS fight since August 2014.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton mystified by lack of pace at Russian Grand Prix

  30-04-2017 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton says he is mystified by his lack of pace after he finished fourth at the Russian Grand Prix.
  
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• Timothy Stanley: Trump is right about media bias

  30-04-2017 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  Two parties, two different Americas. On Saturday night, the press gathered for the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington where, traditionally, they would roast the president. But this year the punchline was in Pennsylvania, at a rally President Trump held to celebrate his first 100 days in office.
  
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• Opinion: Trump is right about media bias

  30-04-2017 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  Two parties, two different Americas. On Saturday night, the press gathered for the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington where, traditionally, they would roast the president. But this year the punchline was in Pennsylvania, at a rally President Trump held to celebrate his first 100 days in office.
  
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• Tornadoes, storms kill nine in U.S. South

  30-04-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, while high winds, falling trees and floods killed five others in neighboring states, according to news reports.Three tornadoes were confirmed by the U.S. National Weather Service in Canton, a city about 60 miles (95 kilometers) east of Dallas in Van Zandt County.The winds flipped over cars, snapped trees, destroyed houses and left roads strewn with debris and
  
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• Minhaj's best lines at correspondents' dinner

  30-04-2017 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump was a no-show at the first White House Correspondents' Association dinner of his presidency. But that didn't keep "Daily Show" comedian Hasan Minhaj from addressing "the elephant not in the room."
  
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• Israel says 300 Palestinian inmates end hunger strike

  30-04-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  An Israeli minister said Sunday that 300 Palestinians have agreed to end an almost two-week-old hunger strike launched in protest at the conditions of their detention.Three hundred hunger strikers have "agreed to take food without having obtained" any of their demands, Israel's internal security minister, Gilad Erdan, told army radio."Negotiations are out of the question," he said, adding that 920 Palestinian prisoners remained on hunger strike.
  
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• FA People's Cup: Watch the best goals compilation from day one of the finals in Birmingham

  30-04-2017 21:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch a compilation of the best goals from day one of the FA People's Cup finals in Birmingham.
  
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• Westminster terrorism suspect claimed he was approached by MI5

  30-04-2017 21:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Sources in British Muslim community say Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali had talked of ‘harassment’ by security services in 2016
  The man who was arrested in Westminster and found to be carrying knives has said that he was approached by MI5 as recently as last year, the Guardian has learned.Sources in the British Muslim community said Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, 27, described the security services attempting to contact him in 2016. The suspect, who grew up in north London, is also understood to h
  
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• Pastor admits impregnating teen, gets 3-6 year prison term

  30-04-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  
  WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia pastor accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a teenager has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to three to six years in prison after a judge rejected an earlier plea agreement as too lenient.
  
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• Trump: Kim Jong-un is a ‘pretty smart cookie’ – video

  30-04-2017 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  US president Donald Trump calls North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ‘a pretty smart cookie’ for being able to hold on to power after taking over the reclusive Asian nation at a young age. Speaking to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Trump addressed tensions with North Korea. Asked about the chance of a US strike on North Korea, Trump said he didn’t want people to know his thinking as ‘it is a chess game’North Korea: Trump keeps options open against ‘smart co
  
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• Trump Not Ruling Out Pre-Emptive North Korea Strike

  30-04-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump says he won't be happy if North Korea conducts a sixth nuclear test, and he's not ruling out a pre-emptive strike.
  
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• Donald Trump: N Korea's Kim Jong-un a 'smart cookie'

  30-04-2017 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president reflects on the young leader's rise and says "we'll see" about US military options.
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Arsenal

  30-04-2017 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham keep up their pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea as goals from Dele Alli and Harry Kane see off rivals Arsenal.
  
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• Trump invites Duterte to the White House

  30-04-2017 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump invited his polarizing Philippines counterpart to the White House during a phone call in which the two leaders discussed North Korea.
  
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• Trump's promise for healthcare act contradicts Republicans' proposal

  30-04-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump appears on stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Saturday.In a wide-ranging interview that aired as he passed his 100th day in office, Donald Trump blamed a wide array of domestic setbacks on Democratic obstruction and the media but promised to pursue policies that would make the US “a very wealthy country again”.Among such policies, he said, would be a popular replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would “guarantee” insurance coverage for
  
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• Slavery’s echoes in Bristol and beyond | Letters

  30-04-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  A distant relative of Edward Colston responds to the debate over whether his ancestor should any longer be commemorated in Bristol, where he made his fortune out of slaveryAs a distant descendant of Edward Colston I have followed with interest the debate (Report, 26 April) about how or whether he should be commemorated. Slavery was an abomination and a stain on many nations’ histories. In Britain’s case the profits from slavery created a commercial and financial system that supported
  
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• Second of 2 missing Arkansas children dead, suspect held

  30-04-2017 20:08 via abcnews.go.com
  The second of two missing children has been found dead in western Arkansas
  
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• Gay vicar quits and attacks ‘institutional homophobia’

  30-04-2017 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew Foreshew-Cain, the first C of E vicar in a same-sex marriage, leaves his London parish and says he is blacklistedThe first Church of England vicar in a same-sex marriage is leaving his parish and claims “institutional homophobia” in the church means he is blacklisted from getting another job.
  Andrew Foreshew-Cain, 53, a member of the General Synod, resigned from his London parish on Sunday, telling parishioners it was a “relief” because his ministry, and that of ot
  
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• Samantha Bee brings biting satire, star power to D.C. on Trump’s 100th day

  30-04-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  When comedian Samantha Bee announced in late January that she would be holding an alternative White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it was not yet clear that President Trump would not attend the actual dinner itself.By the time the weekend rolled around, though, Trump’s decision not to attend the official event — coupled with the White House Correspondents’ Association’s aggressive reorientation of their dinner around the group’s role as a defender of the First
  
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• How to become a ‘hedgehog hero’ | Letters

  30-04-2017 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Fay Vass of the Hedgehog Preservation Society on protecting the animalsIt’s Hedgehog Awareness Week. This year efforts are focused on our “Hedgehog Heroes” campaign. We are asking councils, tool-hire companies etc to place waterproof stickers on to their cutting machines that remind the operators to check for hedgehogs before starting work. Stickers are free of charge to such groups, and we will add those sending photographs of the stickers “in action” to the Hedgeh
  
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• Vote for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year

  30-04-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who do you want to see win BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017? Vote here now.
  
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• Eike Batista: Brazilian ex-billionaire leaves jail

  30-04-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eike Batista, who is accused of bribery and tax evasion, is released from jail ahead of his trial.
  
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• BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Melanie Behringer profile

  30-04-2017 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport profiles German midfielder Melanie Behringer, a nominee for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 award.
  
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• Melania Trump ‘should have NYPD paid protection taken away’

  30-04-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  The mayor of New York should refuse to pay for Melania Trump’s security, a leading Democrat senator has said.Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, who represents New York state, said the Trump administration should foot the bill to protect the First Lady if she continues to live in the city rather than Washington DC.During an interview with BuzzFeed News to mark Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, Mr Schumer said Mayor Bill de Blasio “ought to tell Congress if we [the federal
  
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• U.S.-led fight on ISIS have killed 352 civilians: Pentagon

  30-04-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  
  At least 352 civilians have been killed in U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.The Combined Joint Task Force, in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties from the U.S. coalition's operations against the militant group, said it was still assessing 42 reports of civilian deaths.It reported 80 civilian deaths from August 2014 to the present that had not previously been announced.
  
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