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• Hurricane Harvey: Texas governor warns bill could be $180bn

  03-09-2017 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Governor Greg Abbott says storm damage is worse than that caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
  
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• Chris Evans' Dog Shows Us All What True Love Looks Like

  03-09-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  Get yourself someone that misses you the way Chris Evans’ dog misses him.
  
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• Bell Pottinger chief Henderson quits over S Africa campaign

  03-09-2017 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  James Henderson's firm Bell Pottinger was accused of a "hateful" campaign to stir racial tensions.
  
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• German election: Merkel, Schulz spar over N Korea, refugees

  03-09-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been sparring with her rival Martin Schulz over her controversial refugee policy in tonight's live TV election debate.
  
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• North Korea's nuclear tests: How should Trump respond?

  03-09-2017 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The US president says that "all options are on the table" - but what will work?
  
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• White House threatened with subpoena over draft letter from Trump to Comey

  03-09-2017 23:15 via theguardian.com
  Adam Schiff of the House intelligence committee accuses Trump of being dishonest about his business interests in RussiaA leading member of a congressional intelligence committee is threatening to subpoena the White House in order to obtain a draft letter that Donald Trump reportedly wanted to send to James Comey when he fired him as FBI chief.
  The move comes amid growing questions over whether the president tried to obstruct justice and has misled people about his business interests in Russia. C
  
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• Blessed Are the Cheesemakers: Wisconsin Donating 17K Pounds to Houston

  03-09-2017 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  Twenty-six Wisconsin cheese companies are sending the donations to Houston's largest food bank.
  
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• Syrian army at edge of IS-held Deir Ezzor: monitor

  03-09-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Syrian government soldiers and allied fighters have advanced to the edge of a government enclave besieged by the Islamic State group in the country's east, a monitoring group said Sunday.Syria's army, backed by Russian military support, has been advancing towards the city of Deir Ezzor on several fronts for weeks.Late Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government soldiers had arrived at the Brigade 137 base on the city's edge and were battling to break the IS siege of the facil
  
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• James Mattis to North Korea: Any Threat Will Be Met With 'Massive Military Response'

  03-09-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  "A response both effective and overwhelming"
  
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• Greece 1-2 Belgium

  03-09-2017 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Belgium become the first European side to join hosts Russia at next summer's World Cup finals by beating Greece.
  
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• Sen. Blunt Says Harvey 'Another Reason to Keep the Government Open'

  03-09-2017 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  Republican Sen. Roy Blunt believes the aftermath of Harvey has created "another reason as to why you'd want to keep the government open."
  
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• K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in Trunk

  03-09-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  All four people, including two Americans, in the car were arrested.
  
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• Iran court upholds 10-year jail sentence of US 'spy'

  03-09-2017 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Chinese-American Xiyue Wang was imprisoned in July for "collaborating with foreign governments".
  
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• Angela Merkel under pressure but still election favourite after TV debate

  03-09-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel was forced to defend her controversial decision to open Germany’s borders to more than 1m asylum-seekers on Sunday as she come under pressure in a televised election debate. Martin Schulz, the main challenger, accused the German chancellor of a “serious mistake” with her “lone decision” and said she should have worked with European allies to find a common approach. But a defiant Mrs Merkel insisted Germany had been faced with a “very dr
  
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• Merkel clashes with Schulz in TV debate as her rival hopes to claw back support

  03-09-2017 22:05 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor forced onto defensive over migration and growing inequality but Social Democrat leader struggled to differentiate his policies from Merkel’s
  Angela Merkel clashed with her Social Democrat rival Martin Schulz on Sunday night in a lively television debate widely seen as the last opportunity for the Social Democrats (SPD) to claw back support before the general election in three weeks’ time.The latest polls show Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and her partners in Bav
  
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• Steely Dan Co-Founder and Guitarist Walter Becker Dies

  03-09-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Guitarist Walter Becker has died
  
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• North Korea's Nuke Test Reveals Terrifying Capabilities

  03-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  The Hermit Kingdom conducted its most powerful underground test yet, stoking tensions in an already very strained situation.
  
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• Man's Viral Mugshot Gets Him Booked For Fashion Week: 'His Look is Extraordinary'

  03-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  He was arrested last in April.
  
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• Receding Floodwaters Reveal Extent Of Houston Area's Post-Harvey Destruction

  03-09-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON ― Recovery and repair are going to take a long time.
  
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• Saudi Arabian 'honesty' app takes internet by storm

  03-09-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his "honesty" app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom's nascent tech scene.Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an anonymous messaging tool called Sarahah -- honesty in Arabic -- that subsequently topped the charts for app downloads."Sarahah is the digital equivalent of an old-school
  
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• US not looking at 'total annihilation' of North Korea but has 'many options', says Defence Secretary

  03-09-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Defence Secretary James Mattis has said the US is not looking for the "total annihilation" of North Korea, but stressed that there were "many options" in how to respond to Pyongyang's latest nuclear bomb test.Mr Mattis said Donald Trump met with a small group of military and defence officials at the White House after US intelligence officials confirmed that the test of a bomb that is reportedly ready to fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)."We made it clear we have the ability t
  
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• Barack Obama's Oval Office letter to Donald Trump: Congratulations coupled with a pointed civics lesson

  03-09-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  In the final minutes of his time in the Oval Office, just before he left for his successor’s inauguration, Barack Obama slipped a letter inside the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. In it he offered Donald Trump, the incoming President, his congratulations, a rather pointed guide to the American constitution and some words of advice. “Congratulations on a remarkable run,” he wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN. “Millions have placed their hopes in you,
  
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• Myanmar violence: Aung San Suu Kyi under pressure as Muslim Rohingya crisis continues

  03-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  The foreign minister of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, flew to Myanmar for emergency talks on Sunday as the Rohingya crisis continues.  The visit came as pressure mounted on leader Aung San Suu Kyi to resolve the humanitarian crisis engulfing the Muslim Rohingya minority in her country’s restive Rakhine state.   The Nobel peace prize laureate is facing severe international criticism over her government’s treatment of about 1.1 million&nb
  
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• North Korea bomb: Trump’s trade threat to China not seen as credible

  03-09-2017 20:53 via theguardian.com
  The US imported $463bn worth of goods from China in 2016. Cutting off trade with Beijing would trigger a protectionist spiral leading to a global recessionLive: full coverage of the North Korean nuclear test and reactionDid North Korea just test a hydrogen bomb?Analysis: latest nuclear test reflects failure of Trump’s rhetoricDonald Trump huddled with his national security advisers on Sunday to try to decide on a response to North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test.Pyongyan
  
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• Iran says jailed U.S. student, dual nationals lose spying appeal

  03-09-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Iran confirmed on Sunday that an appeals court had upheld 10-year jail terms against a U.S. citizen, two Iranian-Americans and a U.S. resident from Lebanon who had been convicted on spying charges.In July, U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face "new and serious consequences" unless all "unjustly detained" American citizens were released and returned.Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi identified the four as Princeton University student Xiyue Wang, Iranian-American business
  
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• Furious Moscow demands swift return of closed US facilities

  03-09-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Russia demanded Sunday that the US rethink its shuttering of Moscow's diplomatic premises, insisting that Washington bore sole responsibility for worsening ties after the "hostile act"."We consider what has happened as an openly hostile act and a gross violation of international law by Washington," the foreign ministry in Moscow said in a statement.Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov for his part accused Washington of "trampling on international law".
  
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• Frankfurt WW2 bomb defused after mass evacuation

  03-09-2017 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The news is greeted with spontaneous applause by some of the thousands evacuated for the operation.
  
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• Texas governor appeals for aid for Harvey recovery

  03-09-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  The governor of Texas said Sunday that the "long haul" of recovery from Hurricane Harvey was just beginning, appealing to Congress to provide tens of billions of dollars needed for reconstruction.In the nation's fourth-largest city of Houston, which was devastated by record-setting rainfall, many residents whose homes had flooded returned over the weekend to begin removing soggy drywall, soaked carpets and ruined possessions.A week of flooding damaged 40,000 to 50,000 homes in Houston and sent t
  
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• Hurricane Irma: Should I be worried? Where is it going?

  03-09-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  Maybe it's because Harvey was so intense.Maybe it's because some dunce tweeted a pic of one model showing the Irma hitting North Carolina.I'm not sure exactly why, but I am getting lots of emails/messages today about Irma, and if we should be worried.
  
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• Firefighters Face Largest Fire In Los Angeles History

  03-09-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  A historic brush fire ravaged almost 5,900 acres of land in California as over 1,000 firefighters continued to push back the flames, KABC, a Los Angeles-based ABC affiliate reports Sunday morning.
  
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• Explosives experts defuse second world war bomb in Frankfurt

  03-09-2017 19:50 via theguardian.com
  Discovery of unexploded bomb in German financial capital forces evacuation of thousands of residentsGerman explosives experts defused a massive second world war bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes.About 60,000 people were ordered to leave in what was Germany’s biggest evacuation since the war, with more than 1,000 emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building s
  
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• Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker dies

  03-09-2017 19:46 via cnn.com
  Walter Becker, the guitarist who co-founded the popular 1970s band Steely Dan, has died. He was 67.
  
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• Michel Temer is a legitimate president – and he’s putting Brazil back on its feet | Letters

  03-09-2017 19:37 via theguardian.com
  Critics of Brazil’s president are wrong, writes Eduardo dos Santos, Brazilian ambassador to the UK. He is overseeing a social and economic renaissanceIn 2014, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer were elected together, respectively, as president and vice-president of Brazil. As a result of the constitutional process that led to the impeachment of Rousseff, approved by the national congress with the scrutiny of the federal supreme court, Temer took over as president. To say, therefore, that his
  
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• Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones Wedding

  03-09-2017 19:28 via yahoo.com
  The food was scheduled to be used for the couple's welcome dinner.
  
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• Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000

  03-09-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  By Tom SimsFRANKFURT (Reuters) - German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany's biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building site last week.The evacuation area included two hospitals, care ho
  
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• Parisians protest 'genocide' of rats as city battles rodent infestation 

  03-09-2017 19:11 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Parisians have signed a petition denouncing efforts to control a rat infestation as a rodent “genocide.” The French capital is facing its worst rat crisis in decades, and rapid proliferation of the animals has forced several parks to close temporarily amid fears that children could be bitten or infected by disease. Paris authorities are spending £14 million this year on “deratisation”. But some residents have spoken out in defence of the creatures. Infl
  
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• Gareth Southgate wants England to excite Wembley

  03-09-2017 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Gareth Southgate is keen for his England players to excite the Wembley crowd during Monday's 2018 World Cup qualifier with Slovakia.
  
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• Bike of the Week: R50/3 Bavarian Bobber

  03-09-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  Bike of the Week: R50/3 Bavarian Bobber German-based Titan Motorcycles delivers a less than traditional BMW build, forgoing the bells and whistles in lieu of old-school simplicity and minimalism. Photographs of some motorcycles can pretty much tell the whole
  
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• Pollution levels in Bolivia plummet on nationwide car-free day

  03-09-2017 19:06 via theguardian.com
  Country wants to reclaim physical activity in age when young people are focused on computers, says government spokeswomanAir pollution levels have plunged in cities across Bolivia as the country marked a nationwide car-free day in which all non-emergency vehicles were banned from city streets.As Bolivia’s middle-class population has increased over the past 10 years so has the number of cars clogging city streets. The car-free event started 18 years ago in Cochabamba, one of Latin America&r
  
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• NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Has Spent A Record-Breaking 665 Days In Space

  03-09-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Peggy Whitson returned to Earth on Saturday with an out-of-this-world record under her belt.
  
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• Tesla offers huge savings on the Model S and Model X if you’re okay with buying a showroom model

  03-09-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  According to a report from Electrek, Tesla just a few days ago began emailing interested buyers about the potential to save big if they opt to purchase a showroom car. Presumably, Tesla's motivation here is to boost sales before the September quarter draws to a close. The move is altogether not that surprising because even though Tesla has managed to turn the auto industry on its head, investors at the end of the day remain preoccupied with how many cars Tesla manages to deliver each and every q
  
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• Teen's bar mitzvah gives Houston chance to commiserate, heal

  03-09-2017 18:54 via yahoo.com
  BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) — It wasn't a typical bar mitzvah, but then nothing has been typical in the Houston area since Harvey came ashore as a powerful hurricane and left whole sections of the city underwater, including its predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
  
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• Premiership: Leicester Tigers 23-27 Bath Rugby

  03-09-2017 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Bath hold on to beat Leicester on the Premiership's opening weekend and secure a first win at Welford Road since 2003.
  
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• Vote ruling by chief justice surprises Kenyans, but not his colleagues

  03-09-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  By Katharine Houreld and Maggie FickNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Supreme Court ruling to scrap last month's presidential election was shaped by a new chief justice who proved a staunch defender of judicial independence on a continent where judges are often seen as being under the thumb of executive powers.David Maraga's declaration that the Aug. 8 election was void and demand for a new poll with 60 days shocked many in the East African nation and abroad."We knew this case was coming and he was th
  
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• 'We'll See,' Donald Trump Says On Attacking North Korea Following Latest Nuclear Test

  03-09-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Hours after North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, President Donald Trump on Sunday said the military option against Pyongyang remains on the table.
  
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• Justice Department Confirms There is No Evidence Barack Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower

  03-09-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  "Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps"
  
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• Walter Becker, Guitarist Who Co-Founded Steely Dan, Dead at Age 67

  03-09-2017 18:18 via nbcnews.com
  Walter Becker, co-founder of the influential jazz-rock band Steely Dan, died on Sunday at age 67, according to his website, which did not disclose the cause of death.
  
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• Sara Netanyahu undergoes lie detector test in bid to deflect fraud investigation 

  03-09-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, has undergone a lie-detector test in an attempt to deflect allegations she misused public funds.  Police are investigating her on fraud and breach of trust charges after the former caretaker of her official residence made claims she had told him to inflate the number of guests at dinners and to record their purpose as state instead of private in order to receive more money for them.  She has denied the charges. Avi Hadad, the owne
  
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• 'Duck Dynasty' Star And 'Dancing With The Stars' Alum Reveals Struggle With Eating Disorder

  03-09-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  Sadie Robinson, known for appearing on 'Duck Dynasty' and 'Dancing With The Stars,' says she suffered from an eating disorder
  
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• Vuelta a Espana: Miguel Angel Lopez wins stage 15 as Chris Froome widens lead

  03-09-2017 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Chris Froome increases his overall lead at the Vuelta a Espana as Miguel Angel Lopez impressively wins the challenging stage 15.
  
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