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• The Latest: London police show photos from inside fire tower

  18-06-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the London high-rise tragedy (all times local):
  
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• Gunmen attack Mali resort

  18-06-2017 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Shots have been fired at a resort near Mali's capital Bamako, according to a tweet from the UN Mission to the country.
  
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• US plane shoots down Syrian aircraft that attacked US-backed fighters

  18-06-2017 23:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Central command says plane downed in ‘collective self-defense’Syrian army says US coalition shot down plane flying against Isis militantsA US warplane shot down a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside. Washington said the jet had dropped bombs near US-backed forces. Damascus said the plane was downed while flying a mission against Islamic State militants.
  A Syrian army statement released on state television said the plane crashed and the pilot was missing. It sa
  
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• Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria

  18-06-2017 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced on Sunday that it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran on June 7.
  
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• Iran fires missiles into Syria in revenge for attacks

  18-06-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it launched a series of missiles into Syria on Sunday in revenge for deadly attacks on its capital that were claimed by the Islamic State group.It was the first missile attack by Iran outside its own territory in 30 years, since the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, media in the Islamic republic reported.It came hours after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a statement on his website, vowed Iran would "slap its enemies" in honour of the victims' families, includin
  
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• Missile launch escalates Iran's role in Syria

  18-06-2017 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Iran's military announced it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran.CNN's Lynda Kinkade covers the developments.
  
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• Syrian warplane shot down by US-led coalition

  18-06-2017 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  A Syrian warplane was shot down over Raqqa by the United States-led coalition after a Syrian regime SU-22 dropped bombs near Syrian Democratic Force, or SDF, fighters, according to a statement by the US-led coalition.
  
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• Spanish matador dies after being gored in bullfight

  18-06-2017 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Spanish matador Iván Fandiño died Saturday after being gored during a bullfight in the French department of Landes, the bullfighter's communications department said.
  
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• Woman Robs Store and Apologizes to Owners on Her Way Out: Police

  18-06-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Police are still searching for the suspect.
  
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• Raging Portugal forest fires kill dozens

  18-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Pedrógão Grande (Portugal) (AFP) - Raging forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 61 people, many burnt to death in their cars, the government said Sunday, in the country's worst such disaster in recent history.Authorities declared three days of national mourning as more than 800 firefighters and 260 vehicles battled the blaze, which also left 62 people injured, amid scenes of devastation.The fire erupted Saturday in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande in central Port
  
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• Israel goodwill Ramadan efforts cut after Palestinian attack

  18-06-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel revoked on Sunday the permits of 200,000 Palestinians to enter Israel that were approved for the holy month of Ramadan following two near simultaneous Palestinian attacks on police that killed a young female officer near Jerusalem's Old City.
  
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• Major heatwave in south-west US puts elderly and border-crossers at risk

  18-06-2017 22:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Temperatures of up to 120F (48.8C) in Arizona could pose a life threatening risk to the old, sick, homeless, and those trying to cross the desert, authorities sayTell us how you’re keeping coolAuthorities have warned that an intensifying heatwave in south-western US states could put lives in jeopardy among the elderly, the infirm and the homeless, and among migrants seeking to enter the country.Temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, are likely to peak at 120F (48.8C) on Tuesday, according to th
  
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• In Georgia, a key US House race comes down to its final days

  18-06-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  DORAVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Dr. Nadine Becker wasn't politically involved until she saw Donald Trump elected president, but the suburban Atlanta gynecologist didn't know how to engage, given her traditionally Republican surroundings.
  
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• Iran launches missiles into Syria

  18-06-2017 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced on Sunday that it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran on June 7.
  
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• Pakistan stun rival India to win cricket final

  18-06-2017 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  It's described as one of the greatest rivalries in any sport, a match that stops the nations, but few expected the latest clash to end like this.
  
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• Iran's Revolutionary Guard strikes Syria for Tehran attacks

  18-06-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Sunday it launched missiles into eastern Syria targeting Islamic State militants in response to an attack on Iran's parliament and a shrine in Tehran, warning that it would similarly retaliate on anyone else carrying out attacks in Iran.
  
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• Hawaiian canoe comes home after epic round-the-world odyssey

  18-06-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  A traditional double-hulled canoe has returned to Hawaii after concluding a three-year epic journey around the globe, the first trip of its kind by such a boat.The Hokule'a vessel and its crew entered the marina at Honolulu's Magic Island peninsula on Saturday after sailing more than 40,000 nautical miles (74,000 kilometres) since its departure from the island of Oahu in 2014.Large crowds gathered for the homecoming celebration to commemorate the end of the odyssey, which intended to "weave a le
  
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• Gunfire reported at Mali resort

  18-06-2017 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  Shots have been fired at a resort near Mali's capital Bamako, according to a tweet from the UN Mission to the country.
  
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• Iraqi troops launch battle for last IS stronghold in Mosul

  18-06-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-backed Iraqi troops pushed into the last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul on Sunday, launching a major battle for the Old City where some 150,000 civilians are believed to be trapped and risk being used as human shields by the extremists.
  
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• Press secretly rooting for Trump impeachment?

  18-06-2017 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  Matt Schlapp says Trump faces a "massive bias" every day. Alex Conant says there's a bias toward "covering conflict." But Kaitlan Collins says "hoping for an impeachment and watching for an impeachment are two very different things."
  
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• 3-Year-Old Dies During Routine Dental Procedure, Parents Seek Answers

  18-06-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  The cause of death remains undetermined.
  
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• 'We're sort of her mum': behind the scenes at Taronga zoo | photo-essay

  18-06-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We join the keepers at Sydney’s Taronga zoo as they nurture and train their newest arrivals, including Maiya the red panda and Kamini the pygmy hippo. A photo-essay by Jonny WeeksLily and Blossom are about to be toilet trained at Taronga zoo. The two young sugar gliders are curled up together inside a wooden box within a staff bathroom while trainer Suzie Lemon is trying to coax them out with the promise of a sugary, sap-like treat. Lily eventually emerges and promptly pees all over the fl
  
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• This '4D' printing method could make packing for outer space much easier

  18-06-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  These tiny objects made with 3D printers can dramatically expand when exposed to heat. Scientists have created a pair of compact, unfurling structures that could pave the way for innovations in biomedical devices or space exploration, where payloads can cost tens of thousands of dollars per pound. SEE ALSO: Start printing your breakfast with this pancake bot A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology crafted these objects using "tensegrity" — a structural system of floating rods in comp
  
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• Large parliamentary majority leaves Macron holding all the cards

  18-06-2017 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  President has seriously limited traditional left and right parties as high abstention rate casts shadowEmmanuel Macron’s outsider bid to dynamite traditional French party politics appears to have paid off in record time. His fledgling centrist movement and its allies were on course to win a clear parliament majority as results were being counted in the legislative elections on Sunday night.Just over a year after Macron founded a political movement intended to be “neither right nor le
  
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• At least two dead after attack at Mali tourist resort near Bamako

  18-06-2017 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Malian government says ‘situation is under control’ at Le Campement resort east of capital after reports of gunshots and rising smokeAt least two people have been killed after a tourist resort near Bamako, the capital of Mali, was attacked. A spokesman for the country’s security ministry said one of the dead was a French national but the nationality of the other person killed was not known.Malian troops and soldiers from France’s Barkhane counter-terrorism force were call
  
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• GOP senator warns against rushed vote on health care bill

  18-06-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator on Sunday warned against rushing a vote on a GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, saying both parties deserve a chance to fully debate the bill and propose changes after it was drafted in secret.
  
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• 'Queer lives matter': gay teacher's message to Trump as photo goes viral

  18-06-2017 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  A Rhode Island teacher whose photo with Trump soared on social media says he wants to tell the president ‘anti-LGBTQ policies have a body count’A Rhode Island teacher who became a star on social media after displaying LGBTQ pride in a photograph taken with Donald Trump in the Oval Office also wrote that he wanted to tell the president: “Anti-LGBTQ policies have a body count.”Nikos Giannopoulos, a special education teacher at the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts in
  
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• Victories against Trump are mounting. Here's how we deal the final blow | Rebecca Solnit

  18-06-2017 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The judiciary, legislative and media have all helped keep Trump in check. But it’s the residents of the United States whose response will matter most in the end In this moment, populist intervention is everything, not as hate and attack but as an expression of popular will and power. Or as love, since we defend what we love. It is an extraordinary moment, an all-hands-on-deck emergency in which new groups and coalitions are emerging along with unforeseen capacities in many people who didn&
  
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• Attack under way at tourist resort in Mali capital

  18-06-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A tourist resort popular with Westerners in the Malian capital was under attack on Sunday, according to witnesses and an AFP journalist.Malian troops and soldiers from France's Bakhane counter-terrorist force headed to the site on the edge of Bamako, where nearby residents reported hearing shots fired while smoke billowed into the air.The west African country has been battling a jihadist insurgency for several years, with Islamist fighters roaming the north and centre of Mali.
  
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• Greece blocks EU's criticism at UN of China's human rights record

  18-06-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Veto by Athens, which has benefited from huge Chinese infrastructure investment, labelled as ‘dishonourable’ by EU diplomatGreece has vetoed a European Union condemnation of China’s human rights record at the UN, infuriating diplomats and rights organisations, who said the move undermined the EU’s position as a defender of human rights.
  In a decision described as deplorable by some, it emerged on Sunday that Athens had refused to endorse an EU statement criticising the cr
  
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• Preliminary-magnitude 3.5 quake shakes Idyllwild

  18-06-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  A preliminary-magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck near the Riverside County community of Idyllwild on Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
  
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• BIS warns rolling back globalisation would be ‘detrimental’

  18-06-2017 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  International body claims closer cross-border ties are not to blame for within-country inequality and urges cooperation with governments to manage risksThe international body that represents the world’s central banks has claimed that globalisation has been made a “scapegoat” for rising inequality, as it launched a defence of closer cross-border ties.Against the backdrop of protectionist rhetoric in many countries, including from US president Donald Trump, the Bank for Internati
  
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• UK Chancellor: Cladding on Grenfell Tower 'banned on high-rises'

  18-06-2017 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  A senior UK government minister said Sunday that he believed the cladding apparently used in a recent refurbishment of the London high-rise devastated by a blaze is banned in Britain for buildings above a certain height.
  
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• Tump's Brags Don't Add Up

  18-06-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump misses the mark in latest tweet hailing his poll numbers.
  
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• Deadly wildfires around the world

  18-06-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Portuguese firefighters kept up the battle Sunday after one of the worst wildfire disasters in recent history killed more than 60 people.It is one of the worst fires ever recorded in Australia.In 2007, 77 people die at the end of August in unprecedented forest fires that ravaged 250,000 hectares (2,500 square kilometres) in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Evia, northeast of Athens.
  
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• Milwaukee County sheriff not joining DHS, after all

  18-06-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is no longer a candidate for a position in the agency.
  
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• Portugal wildfire: Victims burned in cars as they fled

  18-06-2017 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  Twenty-four people were killed in Portugal in what officials are calling the country's 'greatest wildfire tragedy of recent years'.
  
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• Democrats fume over 'secret' Republican healthcare bill

  18-06-2017 18:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Democrats gearing up for a new round of battles against Republican efforts to do away with Barack Obama's signature health care law are condemning a US Senate replacement bill being crafted by Republicans behind closed doors.Senator Bernie Sanders urged Democrats on Sunday to do "everything they can" to oppose a Republican bill that for weeks has been drafted by party leaders in secret.This is completely unacceptable," Sanders, an independent who is a member of the Democratic party leadership, t
  
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• IS threat in Southeast Asia raises alarm in Washington

  18-06-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Southeast Asia's jihadis who fought by the hundreds for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in the southern Philippines. It's a scenario raising significant alarm in Washington.
  
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• Jeff Bezos is $5B from being world's richest man

  18-06-2017 18:46 via money.cnn.com
  
  Watch out, Bill Gates: Jeff Bezos is gunning for your title.
  
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• Q&A: Taliban infiltrate Afghan army to target foreign troops

  18-06-2017 18:37 via yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An uptick in attacks by Afghan National army soldiers against foreign troops would seem a worrisome trend ahead of the deployment of another 4,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan in the latest attempt by Washington to turn around the protracted war against insurgents.
  
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• Beyoncé's dad tweeted about the twins and is probably having a great Father's Day

  18-06-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Matthew Knowles is the first member of the Carter-Knowles dynasty to speak out on the birth of the twins.  Beyoncé's dad tweeted (and Instagrammed) a happy birthday card to the twins on this very special Father's Day for him. "They're here," he wrote, but kept all other details private. He will presumably make soldiers out of the twins.  SEE ALSO: The wait is over to find out the sexes of Beyoncé's twinsThey're here!#beyonce #twins #jayz #happybirthday pic.twitter.com/woF
  
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• What happens next after President Trump says 'I am being investigated'

  18-06-2017 18:23 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports the latest on the GOP baseball shooting and the president's tweets.
  
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• Will Donald Trump's base stand by the president?

  18-06-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz traveled to Pennsylvania to talk with Trump supporters about his first months in office.
  
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• Justices could take up high-stakes fight over electoral maps

  18-06-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political.
  
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• Trump lawyer: President’s tweet about ‘being investigated’ did not confirm probe

  18-06-2017 18:06 via yahoo.com
  
  In interviews Sunday, attorney Jay Sekulow contradicts the president’s own tweet.
  
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• Retooling the workforce

  18-06-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Koldo Mentxaka was always considered the “brains” in the family.After working at IBM and later as a computer consultant in his hometown of Bilbao, on Spain’s northern coast, he lost his job in 2013 in the wake of the global financial crisis.After 2-1/2 years of unemployment – and at age 40 – he made a decision.
  
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• Meet the Father’s Eve Club: a Group Raising Money for Those in Need

  18-06-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Every year, fathers from all over the country celebrate Father’s Eve on the night before Father’s Day. The gathering, which began in Minnesota and this year took place in 42 cities, raises money for local charities that help fathers.
  
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• Search for 7 Navy sailors ends after bodies found on ship

  18-06-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  
  The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
  
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• Conservationists: Imperiled Atlantic salmon decline worsens

  18-06-2017 17:54 via yahoo.com
  
  BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Fewer of North America's Atlantic salmon are making it back to rivers to spawn, which bodes poorly for the future of the imperiled fish, an international conservation group says.
  
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