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• Is Malta now Europe's 'pirate base' for tax?

  25-05-2017 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Malta has tried to shake off claims it is the "Panama of the EU" - but the EU is worried about its tax system.
  
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• Alzheimer's Deaths Increased 55 Percent In 15 Years

  25-05-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The disease was the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
  
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• Jesse Ventura's Fight to Legalize Marijuana

  25-05-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  
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• TV show triggers Chinese virginity debate

  25-05-2017 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A popular Chinese soap gets people talking about whether chastity is still a big deal for modern women.
  
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• Scientists warn about Vietnam pig's blood delicacy

  25-05-2017 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In Vietnam, raw pig's blood is a well-known delicacy - but there are serious health risks.
  
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• Man Utd transfer targets: Jose Mourinho wants three or four signings

  25-05-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United are likely to limit their summer spending to three or four key signings, with Antoine Griezmann and Michael Keane among those linked.
  
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• For once, Trump stays silent about Nato unity – and US allies are disappointed

  25-05-2017 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s speech was scolding and ignorant, avoiding a US pledge to commit to collective security, adding force to rumors Russia has influenced himDonald Trump’s failure to make an explicit commitment to Nato’s article 5, the mutual defence obligation at the heart of the alliance, has prolonged the uncertainty among US allies about Washington’s intentions. Related: Trump rebukes Nato leaders for not paying defence billsContinue reading...
  
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• Sen. Rob Portman on 4th circuit court ruling against Trump’s travel ban

  25-05-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric spoke with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) about an appeals court upholding the decision to block President Trump’s travel ban.
  
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• Trump blasts NATO allies for not paying fair share

  25-05-2017 23:12
  
  President Trump's past criticism of NATO will hang over his attendance at the leaders' meeting in Brussels.
  
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• Trump Orders DOJ Review of Manchester Bombing Leaks

  25-05-2017 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  British counterterrorism police briefly suspended intelligence sharing with the U.S., resuming it only after President Trump made "fresh assurances."
  
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• Joe Lieberman: FBI Appointment Would Have Looked 'Terrible'

  25-05-2017 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman withdrew himself from consideration to be the next director of the FBI.
  
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• Day care worker charged with killing baby in recorded attack

  25-05-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A day care worker in Maryland was captured on video "torturing" an 8-month-old girl who later died, authorities said Thursday. She has been charged with murder.
  
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• Christian school bans 'immoral' pregnant teenager from attending her own graduation

  25-05-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A pregnant teenager - an honour student with straights As - has been branded “immoral” by her school and told she cannot attend its graduation ceremony.Officials at Heritage Academy, a private Christian school in Maryland, said Maddi Runkles, 18, was not welcome at the event because she had to be held “accountable for her immorality”.“Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” David Hobbs, the school administrat
  
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• UK hunts for bomber's network amid row over US leaks

  25-05-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Britain hunted Thursday for a Libya-linked jihadist network thought to be behind the deadly Manchester bombing as US President Donald Trump threatened to prosecute anyone leaking details from the investigation to US media.London reacted furiously after sensitive details about the probe into Monday's suicide attack, which targeted young concert goers and killed 22 people, appeared in the US press.With the row over intelligence-sharing escalating, a shellshocked Britain held a minute's silence to
  
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• Baby dies after being found in car in hot Irish weather

  25-05-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Medics unable to revive seven-month-old girl who was discovered in unresponsive state in early afternoon
  Irish police have launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to a seven-month-old baby girl dying of heatstroke after being locked for hours in a car in County Tipperary on the hottest day of the year so far in Ireland.
  The Garda Síochána found the child in “unresponsive state” following a 999 call. The car was parked in the village of Dundrum in Tippe
  
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• House speaker calls Erdogan visit violence 'indefensible'

  25-05-2017 22:54
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan says the violence against peaceful protesters by bodyguards for Turkey's president was "completely indefensible," and members of Congress are pressing the Trump administration for a more forceful U.S. response.
  
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• Turkish Foreign Ministry rejects U.S. resolution condemning street brawl in Washington

  25-05-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected a resolution by senior U.S. lawmakers condemning a street brawl between protesters and Turkish security personnel outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington.Spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said the resolution was voted and passed with "a one-sided resolution which distorts the facts" and added the incident, which took place during President Tayyip Erdogan's visit to meet President Donald Trump, was a result of negligence by U.S.
  
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• Rate of Alzheimer's disease deaths jumped 54 pct. in 15 years, CDC finds

  25-05-2017 22:47
  
  There were 93,541 deaths related to Alzheimer's disease in 2014.
  
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• Brand new Model 3 spy shot surfaces online

  25-05-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  It's probably fair to say that Tesla's upcoming Model 3 is the most anticipated vehicle release in years, if not decades. While new car releases from luxury car makers often drum up excitement, it's rare to see an immense level of curiosity and excitement surrounding the release of a $35,000 car designed for the mass market. And yet, Tesla has managed to create an air of intrigue for the Model 3, a feat made all the more impressive given that Tesla hasn't marketed the car at all. In fact, Elon M
  
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• Day Care Worker Arrested After Death of 8-Month-Old Girl

  25-05-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Leah Walden faces multiple charges related to the death of Reese Bowman.
  
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• The Latest: Coroner's office IDs skydiver as California man

  25-05-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  LODI, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a skydiving death in Northern California (all times local):
  
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• Trump literally pushes his way to the front of the world stage at NATO summit

  25-05-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump literally pushed his way to the front of the world stage at the Brussels NATO summit Thursday. He shoved NATO leader Prime Minister Dusko Markovic of Montenegro out of the way, which happens to be the newest alliance member.
  
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• Scientists Watch Star Collapse Into Black Hole

  25-05-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  A star suffered an epic fail when it quietly collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding in a brilliant supernova.
  
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• FBI won't give Congress Comey's notes

  25-05-2017 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  The Department of Justice declined for now to provide documents to House oversight committee chairman Jason Chaffetz related to former FBI Director James Comey's communications with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Two die from botulism. What is it?

  25-05-2017 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Two separate outbreaks this month of the rare but deadly toxin botulism have focused attention on this potentially fatal illness, which usually strikes about 150 people a year, mostly infants.
  
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• Congress ends effort to kill limits on debit card fees

  25-05-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  By Pete SchroederWashington (Reuters) - Banks were regrouping on Thursday, a day after being handed a large defeat in the U.S. House, where Republicans sided with retailers in agreeing to preserve limits on debit card fees.The financial industry insisted it was not done fighting to remove limits on the fees."We are glad this fight is over, and are happy with our victory," said Austen Jensen with the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
  
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• Barack Obama threatens to upstage Donald Trump's Europe trip as he visits Germany

  25-05-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  The Obama Foundation says the former President accepted the invitation before the US election, so the overlap with Mr Trump's first presidential trip to Europe is purely coincidental.Speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Obama pushed his vision of continued openness between nations, saying that globalisation and technology were shrinking the world.“The world is at a crossroads,” Mr Obama added.
  
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• Greece's ex-PM injured in letter bomb attack

  25-05-2017 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  Former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was injured in a letter bomb explosion while riding in a car in the country's capital Thursday evening, according to Greek police.
  
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• NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter

  25-05-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  An unmanned NASA spaceship circling Jupiter has spotted massive cyclones at the gas giant's poles, revealing stunning new details about our solar system's largest planet, researchers said Thursday.A NASA statement described the planet as "a complex, gigantic, turbulent world" that is far different than scientists previously thought.Two papers in the journal Science and 44 papers in Geophysical Research Letters describe a trove of discoveries made since Juno began orbiting Jupiter last year.
  
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• Jeff Sessions adds smoke to Trump-Russia story

  25-05-2017 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to properly disclose his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a security clearance application, CNN reported on Wednesday night.
  
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• Jeff Sessions adds more smoke to Trump-Russia story

  25-05-2017 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to properly disclose his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a security clearance application, CNN reported on Wednesday night.
  
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• Venezuela military defends protests role, backs Maduro congress

  25-05-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew CawthorneCARACAS (Reuters) - Decried by protesters as "murderers" defending a dictator, Venezuela's military insisted on Thursday it was not taking sides in the national political turmoil, though it did back socialist President Nicolas Maduro's controversial plan for a new congress.The armed forces' National Guard unit has played a pivotal role in two months of unrest rocking Venezuela, often blocking marches and using teargas and water cannons to fight youths hurling stones and Moloto
  
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• Jupiter's mysteries: First results from the Juno mission

  25-05-2017 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  Beneath its heavy cloud cover, Jupiter has been able to keep its secrets from astronomers. Now, first results from NASA's Juno mission are challenging researchers' beliefs about the gas giant.
  
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• G7 masks, Zuckerberg, volcano and more — it happened today: May 25 in pictures

  25-05-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Protesters wear masks depicting the leaders of the G7 countries, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Harvard University commencement exercises and more of today’s news from around the world in pictures.
  
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• Pit Bull Formerly on Euthanasia List Now a Top K9 Agent With Police Department

  25-05-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  "All he needed was a chance," cops said.
  
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• What to know about Montana Republican Greg Gianforte

  25-05-2017 21:06
  
  Gianforte is making headlines for allegedly "body-slamming" a reporter.
  
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• He played on amid the chaos of protests - until cops broke violin

  25-05-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  He had become an icon, the violinist who played on as protesters and police clashed around him.
  
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• He played during protests - then cops broke violin

  25-05-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  He had become an icon, the violinist who played on as protesters and police clashed around him.
  
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• Not a little list: EU draws up Brexit bill

  25-05-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jan StrupczewskiBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will next month demand Britain agree to pay a fixed percentage of the EU's outstanding obligations on the day it leaves the bloc, in defiance of a British rejection of that logic as "preposterous".A draft EU negotiating paper, seen by Reuters, that will be put to London when Brexit talks begin following a national election in Britain on June 8 makes clear that suggestions from Prime Minister Theresa May's government that the Union might
  
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• Manchester bombing signals new ISIS strategy of targeting children

  25-05-2017 20:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Terror has hit a new low.
  
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• Court upholds block on Trump's travel ban

  25-05-2017 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  A federal appeals court upheld Thursday a ruling blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban against six Muslim-majority countries.
  
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• Greek ex-premier Lucas Papademos wounded in Athens blast

  25-05-2017 20:40
  
  Greek police say former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has been wounded in an explosion in a car in central Athens
  
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• Letter bomb wounds Greek ex-prime minister in Athens

  25-05-2017 20:37 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Greek police say former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has been wounded in an explosion in a car in central Athens.
  
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• WATCH: Hugs, tears and applause when proud British Muslim meets Manchester mayor

  25-05-2017 20:34
  
  The man said the mayor's words of inclusiveness gave him the courage to go on.
  
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• Donald Trump links mass immigration to Manchester terror attack despite bomber being British-born

  25-05-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump appeared to link large-scale immigration to the terror attack in Manchester, even though bomber Salman Abedi was born in Britain.“My travels and meetings have given me renewed hope that nations of many faiths can unite to defeat terrorism, a common threat to all of humanity,” he said in a speech during which he also berated those Nato members who had failed to contribute their fair share of the alliance’s costs.During his election campaign, Mr Trump repeatedly call
  
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• Manchester bomber called mom to say 'forgive me' hours before attack, official says

  25-05-2017 20:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The suicide bomber in Manchester called his mother to ask for forgiveness hours before he carried out the attack at an Ariana Grande concert, an anti-terror investigator in Libya revealed Thursday.
  
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• Trump scolds NATO allies on defense budget

  25-05-2017 20:21 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Thursday chided NATO member countries directly for not meeting their financial commitments to the alliance and declined to reiterate US commitment to the alliance's mutual defense pledge.
  
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• Turkey's leader confronted by France, Germany at NATO summit

  25-05-2017 20:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A senior French official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will look into the case of a French photographer who was taken into custody in Turkey and started a hunger strike to protest his detention.
  
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• ISIS training: Manchester bomber went to Syria - US officials

  25-05-2017 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  Images of what is purported to be the explosive device used in Monday night's deadly bombing of a pop concert in Manchester have been published in US media as UK officials slammed US leaks on the investigation into the attack as "irritating."
  
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• What to Watch for in Montana: Three Scenarios

  25-05-2017 20:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Any of the political impact of the alleged "body slam" will be blunted by the fact that as many as two-thirds of voters are estimated to have already cast a ballot.
  
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