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• Get ready for a possible 'second wave' of that massive global cyberattack

  14-05-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft Windows users, brace yourselves. People are worried a second wave of cyberattacks could strike around the world on Monday as employees return to their desks and log onto their computers. Security experts say the unprecedented ransomware attack that on Friday locked up computers across the globe including UK hospital, FedEx, train systems in Germany among other institutions in exchange for payment, could cause even more trouble as the work week begins. On top of that, copycat versions o
  
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• White nationalist Richard Spencer at rally over Confederate statue's removal

  14-05-2017 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Spencer said the torch-wielding protest in Charlottesville, Virginia – which evoked memories of the KKK – was a way to communicate with the deadA small group of torch-wielding protesters, including the white nationalist “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer, descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday evening to protest the sale of a statue commemorating Confederate general Robert E Lee.
  Charlottesville’s city council voted in April to remove the statue of Lee,
  
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• White nationalist Richard Spencer at rally over Confederate statue's removal

  14-05-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  The city of Charlottesville voted to remove a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee, sparking a backlash from the so-called ‘alt-right’ community.A small group of torch-wielding protesters, including the white nationalist “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer, descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday evening to protest against the sale of a statue commemorating the Confederate general Robert E Lee.Charlottesville’s city council voted in April to rem
  
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• China wins praise for Silk Road but concerns persist

  14-05-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  China was basking in praise Monday for its new Silk Road even as some countries raised concerns over the project seen as boosting Beijing's global clout on trade and geopolitics.Almost 30 world leaders are attending a two-day summit promoting China's One Belt, One Road initiative that Beijing hopes will revive ancient trade routes from Asia to Europe and Africa -- and breathe new life into its own economy.At the opening of the meeting on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to pump an ex
  
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• One dead as mutinous I.Coast soldiers take to streets

  14-05-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Bouaké (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - One person died Sunday after mutinous soldiers took to the streets in Ivory Coast's central second city Bouake as fresh tensions gripped the world's top cocoa grower."(He), Issouf Diawara, finally died from his bullet wounds," his brother Souleymane Diawara told AFP.Diawara was hit on Saturday amid clashes between former rebels, some of whom have now been integrated into the army, and those who have disarmed but not integrated.
  
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• Opposition in Venezuela in desperate plea to military

  14-05-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's opposition Sunday urged the armed forces to consider dialogue, despite its loyalty to embattled President Nicolas Maduro in the country's deadly political crisis."I am appealing to Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez to open the doors of a sincere debate in the armed forces," said Julio Borges, the speaker of the National Assembly, the only opposition-led government body.Opposition leaders believe Maduro and some of his supporters met this week with Padrino Lopez to rally support
  
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• Gunmen attack, rob journalists in Mexico's Guerrero state

  14-05-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 100 armed men attacked a group of journalists and robbed them of their equipment in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero, authorities and media reports said Sunday.
  
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• Macron takes power as French president

  14-05-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron became France's youngest ever president on Sunday, promising at his inauguration to restore the country's lost confidence and relaunch the flagging European Union.Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, took the reins of power from Socialist Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace a week after his resounding victory over far-right leader Marine Le Pen in an election that was watched worldwide.After a private meeting with his former mentor Hollande and his first speech as president, Macron
  
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• Trump surprised at backlash

  14-05-2017 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump thought his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey would be "very popular" and was surprised at the backlash in the days that followed. CNN's Athena Jones has more.
  
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• President surprised by backlash

  14-05-2017 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump thought his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey would be "very popular" and was surprised at the backlash in the days that followed. CNN's Athena Jones has more.
  
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• Backlash: President thought Comey firing would be popular

  14-05-2017 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump thought his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey would be "very popular" and was surprised at the backlash in the days that followed. CNN's Athena Jones has more.
  
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• Family gets kicked off of a JetBlue flight for a birthday cake

  14-05-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Footage of a family getting kicked off of a JetBlue flight over the placement of a birthday cake surfaced on Saturday.  Minta and Cameron Burke were heading to Las Vegas from JFK Airport in New York on Flight 611 on May 3 to celebrate Minta's 40th birthday with their children when an incident between the family and the airline caused the entire family to be kicked off the plane, despite the NYPD admitting to the family that they did nothing wrong. According to ABC 7, the incident started wh
  
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• School nickname change divides Vermont community

  14-05-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A move to change a high school team name to be more inclusive has sparked death threats, a stalking charge and likely contributed to the defeat of the school budget twice in a Vermont community that has long supported education.
  
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• Wallace on why WH officials were not on 'Fox News Sunday'

  14-05-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Officials were sought to explain the firing of James Comey
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: President Trump, please don't fire Spicer

  14-05-2017 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  There's been one silver lining to the Trump administration so far: It has given us some great comedy.
  
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• Military Wife Finally Finishes Degree on Mother's Day After 15 Years Of Constant Relocation

  14-05-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  She'd been working towards her degree for years.
  
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• Putin performs unexpected piano recital

  14-05-2017 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  Vladimir Putin, Russia's leading Renaissance man, has just shown off yet another hidden talent: He's a trained pianist.
  
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• Turkey-US: strained relations

  14-05-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  From the 2003 US invasion of Iraq to Washington's latest decision to arm Kurdish groups in Syria, relations between Turkey and the US have been tested repeatedly.The two NATO allies often have conflicting goals in the Middle East, and Ankara is now cultivating closer ties with Moscow and Tehran.In September 2011, six months after peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were harshly repressed, Ankara cut the Syrian regime loose and began to back selected opposition groups.
  
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• Israel dismisses US concern over embassy move to Jerusalem

  14-05-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday challenged US concerns over moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, in what Haaretz newspaper called his "first public dispute" with the Trump administration.US President Donald Trump had promised during his campaign to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, whose status is one of the thorniest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Trump was sti
  
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• The Latest: Top Senate Dem may try to stall FBI confirmation

  14-05-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the search for an FBI director (all times local):
  
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• France's new president vows to fortify EU, revamp politics

  14-05-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — In ceremonies marked by youthful optimism and old-world Napoleonic pomp, Emmanuel Macron swept into office Sunday as France's new president pledging to fortify the European Union, redesign French politics and glue together his divided nation.
  
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• New York eyes 'textalyzer' to combat distracted driving

  14-05-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Ben Lieberman just wanted to find out what may have caused the head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old son, Evan, on a highway north of New York City. It took a lawsuit and six months in court to get the cellphone records showing the driver of the car his son was in had been texting behind the wheel.
  
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• Merkel's party bags key victory in bellwether state vote

  14-05-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Düsseldorf (Germany) (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel dealt a devastating blow to her main rival on Sunday, four months before national elections, when early results showed her party securing a strong win in a regional vote in Germany's biggest state.The SPD only managed to garner 30.6 percent, its worst score in history in the state and sharply down from its 2012 showing of 39.1 percent, in a serious hit to confidence ahead of general elections in September.
  
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• If Trump’s Comey ‘tapes’ exist, top Democrats want them ‘preserved’

  14-05-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  “We have got to make sure that these tapes, if they exist, don’t mysteriously disappear.”
  
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• Merkel's Christian Democrats set to beat rivals in German state election

  14-05-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  North Rhine-Westphalia vote is blow to Social Democrats’ Martin Schulz, Merkel’s rival in upcoming national pollAngela Merkel’s main challenger in the upcoming German election has conceded his party has suffered a “really stinging defeat” in North Rhine-Westphalia in what will be its third consecutive loss in a state vote.Martin Schulz said the poll in the state, Germany’s most populous and regarded as a centre-left stronghold, represented “a difficult d
  
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• At LAX's new private terminal, the rich are pampered while normal people suffer

  14-05-2017 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  LA airport’s mega-exclusive terminal is a whole new way for the wealthy to separate themselves from others. But the manager denies it’s about inequality
  The guiltiest pleasure at Los Angeles international airport’s (LAX) new private terminal for the mega-rich is not the plush, hushed privacy, or the beds with comforters, or the massages, or the coriander-scented soap, or the Willy Wonka-style array of chocolates and jelly beans, or the Napa Valley cabernet.It is the iPad that s
  
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• ISIS fighters had 'pills in their pockets'

  14-05-2017 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Flies buzz around the drying rivulets of blood seeping from the heads of two corpses draped over the hood of a Humvee.
  
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• Iraqis close in on Mosul, display dead ISIS fighters on hood

  14-05-2017 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Flies buzz around the drying rivulets of blood seeping from the heads of two corpses draped over the hood of a Humvee.
  
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• Wal-Mart pushing hard to catch Amazon in e-commerce

  14-05-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Wal-Mart Stores, the 800-pound gorilla of retail, is running hard to catch up in an increasingly crucial segment where it is neither the biggest nor the best: e-commerce.The company, founded in 1962 by Sam Walton, has been gobbling up smaller and niche players in e-commerce in an effort to reach online shopping market leader Amazon.Whether those efforts are paying off will be a focal point when Wal-Mart Stores reports quarterly earnings on Thursday.
  
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• Man Sets Himself On Fire While Recording on Facebook Live, Later Dies

  14-05-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  His ex-girlfriend was present during the entire ordeal that took place at her job.
  
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• French president Macron's top quotes at inauguration

  14-05-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron took over as French president on Sunday, promising to heal the country's divisions and breathe new life into the European Union."The time has come for France to meet the challenges of our time.
  
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• Paris Sevens: 'Blitzboks' seal overall title

  14-05-2017 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  The South Africa 'Blitzboks' were crowned HSBC World Rugby Sevens champions Sunday as they claimed the Paris title with a 15-5 victory over Scotland in the final.
  
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• No 'clean slate' between the US and Russia, Tillerson says

  14-05-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart "with a clean slate," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.The former ExxonMobil CEO, who was decorated in 2013 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, had said previously that the relationship between the two nuclear powers had hit its lowest point since the Soviet collapse in 1991.
  
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• James Clapper: democratic institutions are 'under assault' by Trump

  14-05-2017 18:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Former national intelligence director hammers the president’s actions, calling James Comey’s firing ‘another victory for Russia’Former director of national intelligence James Clapper has accused Donald Trump of placing American democratic institutions “under assault” following the sacking of James Comey and cautioned that the former FBI director’s removal is “another victory” for Russia.
  The forceful criticism comes as the justice department
  
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• Plan to curb panhandling takes people from begging to work

  14-05-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Cleaning trash and landscaping public parks might not be glamorous work, but Derek Cote says it beats begging for change in a traffic median at rush hour, and he's looking forward to his hometown giving him a chance to do it.
  
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• Karl on new FBI director: President knows he needs someone that's 'politically bulletproof'

  14-05-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The "This Week" Powerhouse Panel weighs in on former FBI Director James Comey's firing.
  
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• New Jersey governor refuses to ban child marriage because 'it would conflict with religious customs'

  14-05-2017 18:06 via yahoo.com
  
  A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception.Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and someone who has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said such a ban would conflict with religious customs.
  
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• This online tool lets you check if your iPhone is stolen

  14-05-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The best way to avoid buying a stolen iPhone is getting it from Apple, an electronics store, or a carrier. But because the iPhone comes with a rather high price tag, some people choose to purchase second-hand iPhone. These are still expensive, but the price is lower than what you’d pay in stores. In many cases, you can score a great iPhone deal, if you know what to look for. But there’s always the risk that seller stole the phone and it’s now looking to flip it. Thankfully, the
  
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• Protests in Moscow at plan to tear down Soviet-era housing in affluent areas

  14-05-2017 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents fear redevelopment plan will expel them from low-rise buildings in quiet neighbourhoods and force them to live in high-rise blocksThousands of protesters took to the streets of Moscow on Sunday in a rally against a bill to tear down Soviet-era low-rise apartment buildings.People, mostly young and middle-aged couples, gathered on a central street to protest against arguably Russia’s largest redevelopment project to pull down entire neighbourhoods of Soviet-era prefabricated buildi
  
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• Clapper: Russia poses external threat, Trump an internal one

  14-05-2017 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a stern warning Sunday about the state of the US government after President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey last week, saying he thinks US institutions are "under assault."
  
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• Six wounded as mutinous I.Coast soldiers cut off key city

  14-05-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Bouaké (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - Mutinous soldiers wounded six people in Ivory Coast's second city Bouake on Sunday as fresh tensions gripped the world's top cocoa grower.Five men and a mother of three children were brought to hospital in the central city of Bouake after being struck by warning shots fired to keep residents inside their homes, an AFP photographer saw.The soldiers took to the streets Friday in a revolt over bonus payments and blocked access to Bouake, which served as the rebel
  
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• Donald Trump should stop tweeting about Russia investigation, senior Republican senator warns

  14-05-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  A senior Republican senator has urged Donald Trump to “back off” and stop tweeting about the ongoing investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia’s purported efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.Days after Mr Trump fired James Comey as FBI Director, Senator Lindsey Graham said it was essential to get to the bottom of what was said between the President and the former top federal investigator.Mr Graham spoke after Mr Trump claimed Mr Comey had told
  
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• Worldwide ransomware cyberattacks: What we know

  14-05-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Computers in more than 150 countries have been hit by what experts are calling an unprecedented mass cyberattack using ransomware.Experts were scrambling to determine who was behind the attack, which exploited a security flaw in older versions of Microsoft's Windows operating software.Computers around the globe were hacked beginning on Friday using a security flaw in Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, an older version that was no longer given mainstream tech support by the US giant.
  
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• Quake kills two, injures hundreds in Iran: state media

  14-05-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported Sunday, citing the country's seismological centre.The quake, which struck at 1800 GMT Saturday in and around the city of Bojnurd, North Khorasan province, killed a 54-year-old woman and a teenage girl, ISNA news agency reported.The US Geological Survey put the strength of the quake at 5.8 magnitude, and said it occurred at a depth of 12.5 kilometr
  
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• Iranian film director Farhadi endorses Rouhani for president

  14-05-2017 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi throws his weight behind moderate incumbent before Friday’s pollIranian double Oscar-winning film director Asghar Farhadi has endorsed Hassan Rouhani for president, bolstering his campaign before Friday’s vote.Farhadi, who won his second Oscar in February for The Salesman, threw his weight behind the moderate incumbent on Sunday, saying in a statement carried by the Isna news agency: “I will vote for Dr Rouhani and I hope that those who rem
  
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• Hamilton edges Vettel in Spanish GP thriller

  14-05-2017 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton came out on top in a head-to-head duel with title leader Sebastian Vettel to win the Spanish Grand Prix Sunday.
  
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• Fifth person dies after Massachusetts auto auction crash

  14-05-2017 16:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Ruben Espaillat, 55, died at a local hospital on Saturday, 10 days after the crash at the Lynnway Auto Auction in Billerica, about 20 miles northwest of Boston, on May 3, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement."Our thoughts our with his family and friends," said Ryan, whose office is investigating the collision.Elliott Rowlands Jr., 50, died on Wednesday, and was the fourth fatality, Ryan said..
  
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• Christian militias renew attack on U.N. base in Central African Republic

  14-05-2017 16:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Militia fighters from Central African Republic's (CAR) Christian minority attacked a U.N. base for the second consecutive night, a U.N. official said on Sunday, after a week of violence that has killed six peacekeepers at the southeastern border.Access to the town center of Bangassou to recover the wounded and the dead has been impeded by fighting although 24 injured people had been treated at a nearby hospital, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said.Fighting in and around B
  
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• Mother Arrested After Allegedly Starving Children To Raise Money For Fake Illnesses

  14-05-2017 16:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Police later determined the children did not have the conditions the mother claimed.
  
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• Sen. Mark Warner on Comey's firing, Russia investigation

  14-05-2017 16:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee weighs in on 'Fox News Sunday'
  
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