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• Trump Tweets About Boston

  19-08-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  "Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, & we will heal, & be stronger than ever before!" he tweeted at one point.
  
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• Trump applauds protesters 'speaking out against bigotry'

  19-08-2017 23:49 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump tweeted his support for the Boston Police Department's handling of a self-described free speech rally and counterprotest march that brought thousands to the city's downtown Saturday, adding that he applauded "the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate."
  
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• Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos

  19-08-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston on Saturday to protest a "free speech" rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration.Rally organizers had invited several far-right speakers who were confined to a small pen that police set up in the historic Boston Common park to keep the two sides separate.The city avoided a repeat of last weekend's bloody street battles in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one woman was
  
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• Nigeria's ailing president returns after 3 months away

  19-08-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country Saturday after more than three months in London for medical treatment but the government gave no details on what has been ailing him.
  
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• Farewell to the ECJ? We may end up obeying laws but having no say in them | Catherine Barnard

  19-08-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  The UK has punched above its weight in court decisions. Such influence will be surrendered as Brexit becomes a realityWhy exactly is the European court of justice (ECJ) the subject of such unrelenting vilification by the Brexiters? To lawyers familiar with the court’s judgments, this has always been something of a mystery.This is, after all, the court that ruled that the European Central Bank was wrong to insist that euro clearing houses should be based in the eurozone. A triumph for the C
  
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• An Oregon Wildfire is Blazing in the Eclipse's Path of Totality

  19-08-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  About 600 residents in the area were already evacuated
  
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• Boston 'free speech' rally abandoned by right-wing demonstrators outnumbered by 15,000 counter-protesters

  19-08-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  As the official start time of the contentious “Free Speech Rally” in Boston approached, the winner in the battle of words between organisers and counter demonstrators had already been determined.If hateful speech aimed at Jewish people or minorities was chanted at Boston Common park, it was not audible at one of the largest rallies being held just one week after the deadly demonstrations in Charleston, Virginia, where neo-Nazis marched bearing torches, and where one woman was killed.
  
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• UK and US play 'crucial role' in creating conditions for spread of cholera in Yemen, say researchers

  19-08-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  Britain and the US have played “a crucial role” in creating conditions conducive to the catastrophic spread of cholera in Yemen, according to authors of a letter published in The Lancet.An analysis by the researchers at London’s Queen Mary University, found that eight of ten of Yemen’s cholera deaths occur in rebel-controlled areas.Combining the latest data from the World Health Organisation and mapping that on to areas under government and revel control, the three resear
  
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• What You Should Negotiate On When Buying A Car

  19-08-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Here's what you should focus on when getting a car loan.
  
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• Syrian army pounds rebel areas near Damascus after Russian brokered truce

  19-08-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets and artillery struck rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs on Saturday a day after a Russian sponsored ceasefire with a rebel group agreed a halt of fighting in the last opposition enclave in the capital, rebels and witnesses said.The Russian defense ministry said on Friday it had reached a ceasefire that took effect at 21.00 hrs Moscow time (1800 GMT) with Failaq al Rahman, the main Free Syrian Army (FSA) group fending off a two-month widescale
  
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• GOP doubts and anxieties about Trump burst into the open

  19-08-2017 22:18
  Republicans across the country are expressing deep doubts about President Donald Trump's competency and temperament
  
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• Venezuela 'congress in resistance' rejects new super-assembly

  19-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  By Hugh Bronstein and Diego OréCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-controlled congress on Saturday rejected the self-proclaimed lawmaking authority of a new legislative body elected last month at the behest of President Nicolas Maduro, widening the political divide in the crisis-hit country.Congress's declaration of resistance followed statements from a group of 12 regional nations plus the United States on Friday, saying they would continue to regard congress, not the new constitu
  
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• Trump Phoenix rally to highlight feisty feud with senator

  19-08-2017 21:55
  Trump's rally in Phoenix to highlight escalating feud with Arizona's junior senator
  
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• WATCH: Crowds clash during Boston march after free speech rally

  19-08-2017 21:51
  Black-clad counterprotesters also grabbed an American flag out of an elderly woman's hands, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
  
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• German writer critical of Turkey's Erdogan arrested in Spain

  19-08-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  By Thomas EscrittBERLIN (Reuters) - German-Turkish author Dogan Akhanli was arrested in Spain on Saturday after Turkey issued an Interpol warrant for the writer, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, fanning an already fierce row between the NATO allies.The arrest of the German national in Granada was part of a "targeted hunt against critics of the Turkish government living abroad in Europe," Akhanli's lawyer Ilias Uyar told magazine Der Spiegel, which first reported Akhanli's
  
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• Spanish police believe they may have body of missing boy Julian Cadman

  19-08-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Hopes were fading for seven-year-old British boy Julian Cadman on Saturday as Spanish authorities revealed they were no longer searching for any missing youngsters. His father Andrew made the long flight from Australia and landed on Saturday afternoon to comfort his seriously injured wife, Jumarie, who had been in the area to attend a family wedding when she and her son were struck by the terrorist's van which killed 13 people and left more than 100 injured. Despite a major appeal by his lo
  
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• Confirmed! VW Electric Microbus Coming in 2022

  19-08-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  It's finally happening. We can't believe it either.
  
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• State funeral for Pakistan's 'Mother Teresa'

  19-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Ruth Pfau, a German nun who devoted her life to combatting leprosy in Pakistan, was buried with full state honours on Saturday, in an unprecedented service for a foreign Christian in the Muslim-majority country.Pfau, who died at the age of 87 on August 10 was known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa.Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain attended the state funeral service at St Patrick's Cathedral in the city, where hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects.
  
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• Muslims fear anti-Islam backlash in tolerant Barcelona

  19-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout.Since the twin attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils claimed by the Islamic State group, the Muslim community in central Barcelona's neighbourhood of Raval fears an anti-Islam backlash."People are very scared," said Miah, 23, as he sat in a small room at the mosque in Raval as a small group of children in an adjoining room studied the Koran.
  
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• Solar Eclipse To Cost US Nearly $700M In Lost Productivity

  19-08-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Research says the time loss could be a good way to boost company morale.
  
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• Live updates: Protesters face off in Boston

  19-08-2017 21:16 via cnn.com
  A free speech rally is planned Saturday on Boston Common, a week after protests over race and national identity in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly.
  
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• White supremacist rally ends early in Boston as counter-protesters show up in huge numbers

  19-08-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  A few dozen attendees showed up for Saturday's planned "free speech" rally in Boston. But counter-protesters showed up in the thousands. Per local news reports, over 10,000 people gathered at Boston Commons to protest the right-wing gathering, which quickly fell apart after it became clear the planned speaking schedule would not come to fruition.  In fact, police were seen taking down rally flags and decor before 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. (The rally was scheduled for 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.)
  
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• Barcelona attack: Police raid home of imam linked to cell behind twin terror attacks 

  19-08-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Moussa Oukabir confirmed shot dead in Cambrils ​Cambrils shoot out ' was like a horror movie'  Who are the victims? British boy, seven, among the missing Who are the suspects in the Spanish terror attacks? Everything we know about first attack on Spain in 13 years Catalan investigators on Saturday raided the house of an imam in the town of Ripoll they believe may have overseen the cell which killed 14 people in twin terrorist attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort
  
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• 'A lot of years and not enough change': Protesters in New York rally against white supremacy

  19-08-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, right-wing groups have cancelled rallies around the country.In New York, dozens of people took part in a rally outside Google’s corporate campus.The protest organisers, however, cancelled the rally days before, citing “alt left terrorist threats”.
  
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• President Trump cheers Steve Bannon's return to Breitbart News

  19-08-2017 20:38
  He was one of Trump's top advisers.
  
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• Bannon Returns to Breitbart, Vows to 'Crush the Opposition'

  19-08-2017 20:21 via nbcnews.com
  Bannon returned as the executive chairman for Breitbart News Friday, a spokesman for the site confirmed to NBC News.
  
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• Far-right group sees anti-migrant sea mission as a success

  19-08-2017 20:20 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A far-right European group has hailed as a success its bid to stop humanitarian organizations from rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, but ended its trouble-plagued voyage stranded at sea.
  
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• Palestinian in West Bank attack bid killed: Israel police

  19-08-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian teenager who tried to attack an Israeli border guard in the occupied West Bank with a knife on Saturday was shot dead, an Israeli police spokeswoman said.The Palestinian health ministry identified the teenager as Qoteiba Yussef Zahran from the Tulkarm region in the northern West Bank.The Israeli spokeswoman said one of the border guards suffered a slight leg injury during the incident, but did not say clearly if he had been stabbed by the Palestinian.
  
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• At least 23 dead, dozens hurt as train derails in India

  19-08-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured after an express train derailed in north India Saturday, officials said, as rescuers clambered across mangled carriages to pull passengers from the wreckage.Rescue and relief operations are continuing," G S Priyadarshi, Muzaffarnagar district magistrate, told AFP.A police officer at the accident spot said 50 people had been taken to hospital.
  
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• Train Derails in India, About 20 Killed, Dozens Injured

  19-08-2017 20:01 via nbcnews.com
  A train came off the tracks in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens more as carriages slammed into each other, a local official said.
  
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• Grace Mugabe absent from S.Africa summit as assault claim lingers

  19-08-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe failed to appear Saturday at a summit in South Africa attended by her husband, an event overshadowed by her effort to obtain diplomatic immunity over assault allegations.The wife of President Robert Mugabe has not been seen since being accused of attacking a 20-year-old model with a electrical extension cord last weekend in a Johannesburg hotel where the couple's two sons were staying.The alleged assault is a political headache for South Africa and Zimbabwe, cl
  
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• Train derails in northern India, killing at least 23

  19-08-2017 19:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Six coaches of a passenger train derailed in northern India on Saturday, killing 23 people and injuring at least 81, officials said.
  
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• Man Caught Smuggling 13 Pounds of Meth Into US Via Drone

  19-08-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Drones generally haven't appealed to smugglers because their noise attracts attention.
  
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• 11-Year-Old Doused With Hot Water at Sleepover Makes Extraordinary Recovery: 'She is so Amazing'

  19-08-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  She suffered burns on 85 percent of her face.
  
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• Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian after stabbing attack

  19-08-2017 19:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian after he attacked Israeli policemen at a West Bank checkpoint, stabbing one of the officers.
  
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• Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441

  19-08-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  The death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said on Saturday.A tally of deaths, issued on Friday by the Red Cross, stood at more than 400, with around 600 others listed as missing.At Connaught Hospital, morgue worker Mohamed Sinneh Kamara gave a slightly higher toll than the minister's.
  
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• Nigeria's Buhari home after 100-day treatment in London

  19-08-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned home on Saturday after spending more than 100 days in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.An enthusiastic crowd of supporters were at the airport and lined the roads to welcome Buhari back.Buhari, a retired general who headed a military regime in the 1980s, has been dogged by speculation about his health since June last year when he first went to London for treatment of what his aides said was a persistent ear infection.
  
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• Thousands take to streets in Boston protest against hate speech

  19-08-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people in Boston protested a "Free Speech" rally featuring right-wing speakers on Saturday, with hundreds of police mobilized to prevent a recurrence of violence that left a woman dead at a Virginia white-supremacist protest last week.In historic Boston Common park alone, hundreds of protesters who believe the event could become a platform for racist propaganda dwarfed the few dozen rally participants.The number of protesters was poised to swell exponentially as a march with thousan
  
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• WATCH: The signs held up by the counterprotesters

  19-08-2017 18:37
  Counterprotesters gathered and marched through the streets of Boston, Massachusetts, before the planned free speech rally.
  
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• Boston 'free speech' rally dwarfed by thousands of counter-protesters

  19-08-2017 18:36 via yahoo.com
  Eight people were arrested at a "Free Speech Rally" in Boston that organisers said "fell  apart" after it as dwarfed by a counter-protest against white nationalism. About 30 people attending the rally huddled on Boston Common's bandstand, their words drowned out by more than 10,000 counter-protesters. The two sides were kept more than 50 metres apart by fencing and police.  Trouble flared only briefly. At the end of the hour-long rally when the speakers were hustled into a police van t
  
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• Father jumps car over open drawbridge in terrifying stunt to save family

  19-08-2017 18:19 via yahoo.com
  A father drove his car over an opening drawbridge in a death-defying stunt to avoid plunging into the water below.Terence Naphys was crossing New Jersey's Middle Thorofare Bridge with his family when its steel ramp began to lift beneath them.Mr Naphys was reportedly already near the centre of the bridge and was forced to accelerate his Toyota RAV 4 to jump the 6ft gap out of fear the car would fall 65ft into the deep bay below.
  
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• President Trump, First Lady Back out of Kennedy Honors

  19-08-2017 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  The decision came after multiple honorees said they would boycott the 40th annual gala that is traditionally hosted by the President and First Lady.
  
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• President Trump Thanks Steve Bannon for His Service in Campaign Against 'Crooked Hillary'

  19-08-2017 18:12 via yahoo.com
  It was Trump's first public comment on Bannon's firing
  
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• The UK is out there first in Sierra Leone | Priti Patel

  19-08-2017 18:01 via theguardian.com
  In this piece by the international development secretary, she says in giving £5m to the flood response, Britain is at the forefront of helping a nation in needSierra Leone is a country once more in need of urgent humanitarian assistance following the devastating floods that have taken hundreds of lives, and destroyed many more. It is unfair to say that the UK government has had little to say on the devastating loss of life, as claimed in the Guardian on Thursday.Related: A visão das
  
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• Boston free speech protests: Far-right demonstrators 'outnumbered 10 to 1 by anti-fascists'

  19-08-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Far-right demonstrators in Boston appeared to be greatly outnumbered by their opponents - perhaps as much as ten to one - as the city braced for two competing rallies.The Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued an appeal to the many thousands of people taking part in the two events to be peaceful and show respect.The events were taking place a week after clashes at a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in more than 20 people being injured and one young woman, Heath
  
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• Live Updates: Protests Unfold in Boston

  19-08-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  The event was set to start at noon.
  
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• Spain hunts suspect over Barcelona carnage

  19-08-2017 17:53 via yahoo.com
  Spanish police on Saturday hunted for a Moroccan man suspected to have carried out one of two terror attacks that killed 14 people, injured 120 more and and plunged the country into shock and grief.Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the cell behind the carnage in the holiday cities of Barcelona and Cambrils had been "dismantled," although local authorities took a more cautious tone.Police said they had cast a dragnet for 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub.
  
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• 6 Officers Shot in Florida and Pennsylvania, 2 Killed and 4 Wounded

  19-08-2017 17:39 via yahoo.com
  Three police departments are reeling from a violent night that has left two officers dead.
  
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• Serena Williams' Fiancé Is A Little Shocked By Her Pregnancy Cravings

  19-08-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  He knew there would be cravings, but not quite like this.
  
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• Trump struggles with presidential duties as uniter-in-chief

  19-08-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For Susan Bro, mother of the woman killed at a rally organized by white supremacists, the president of the United States can offer no healing words.
  
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