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• Fast-moving storm will bring pockets of heavy rain to Southland on Sunday

  17-02-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A fast-moving storm system is expected to bring heavy rain to parts of the Southland while dumping several inches of snow in the mountains.
  
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• Thousands brave freezing cold in vigil for Illinois shooting victims

  17-02-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Solemn mourners stood before five white crosses with the names of the dead that became a shrine to the victims bearingpictures and hand-written remembrances outside the factory where the shooting took place in Aurora, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago."My heart is broken again for the family members of the victims," said Mary Kay Mace, mother of the late Ryanne Mace, who was killed 11 years ago in a mass shooting at Northern Illinois University.It's a hard, difficult trek but it can be done
  
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• Man Utd's flexibility gives them advantage over Chelsea - Fletcher analysis

  17-02-2019 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher on the adaptability of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side giving his old side the edge over predictable Chelsea in their FA Cup tie.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: Trump's 'SNL' attack crosses the line

  17-02-2019 23:35 via cnn.com
  On Friday, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency because, as he put it, there's a "national security crisis on our border" marked by "an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs." With that type of calamity bearing down on our nation, you would expect Trump to be laser focused on the threat in the days that followed.
  
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• Yemen's warring parties agree on initial redeployment: U.N

  17-02-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni government and Houthi representatives have reached an agreement on the first phase of their redeployment of forces under a U.N.-sponsored deal for the warring armies to leave the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, the United Nations said on Sunday."The parties reached an agreement on Phase 1 of the mutual redeployment of forces," a statement by the U.N. spokesman's office said without giving details of exactly what the Iranian-aligned Houthis and the Saudi-backed government agreed.The United N
  
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• Politicians squabble over who is to blame for Amazon decision to ditch New York

  17-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Politicians bickered Sunday over who is to blame after Amazon canceled second headquarters in New York.
  
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• How many push-ups can you do? Study finds men who can do 40 have lower risk of heart disease

  17-02-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Active, middle-aged men who could do more than 40 push-ups in timed test had significantly lower risks for heart problems, according to a new study.
  
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• Vice President Pence Receives Awkward Silence in Munich After Offering 'Greetings' From President Trump

  17-02-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  "I bring greetings from the 45th President," Pence said to resounding silence
  
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• Man finds 30-year-old Apple computer in working order

  17-02-2019 22:17 via cnn.com
  A New York professor has Gen Xers reminiscing about their childhood after he posted images of his decades old Apple lle computer on Twitter Saturday night.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Celebrated Amazon Pulling Out of New York––But the Governor Says It Cost the City 25,000 Jobs

  17-02-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The spat between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Andrew Cuomo lays bare a growing divide over Amazon's decision to pull out of New York City.
  
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• 'Taking their last breath': IS hides among Syrian civilians

  17-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries' shared border. In that tiny patch on the banks of the Euphrates River, hundreds of militants are hiding among civilians under the shadow of a small hill — encircled by forces waiting to declare the territorial defeat of the extremist group.
  
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• Weld says six more years of Trump 'antics' would be bad for America

  17-02-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Weld said the national emergency that Trump declared on Friday to obtain funding for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border showed his readiness to divide the country."I don't think he knows how to act. He thinks he has to humiliate whoever he's dealing with or else he's half a man," Weld told ABC's "This Week" in an interview.Congress thought they had a deal. He says: 'Oh, you think you have a deal? I'm going to show you a deal. I'm going to show you who's boss,'" he added.  
  
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• Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner to register as sex offender after prison release

  17-02-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017.The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows the 54-year-old New York Democrat is currently in the custody of its Residential Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, New York.The prison bureau, federal prosecutors in New York and Weiner’s lawyer didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.
  
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• Polish PM cancels Israel visit amid new Holocaust tensions

  17-02-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki canceled his plans to attend a meeting of central European leaders in Israel starting Monday amid new tensions over how Polish behavior during the Holocaust is remembered and characterized.
  
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• Hamas takes control of Gaza goods crossing with Israel

  17-02-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas took control of the Palestinian side of the enclave's main goods crossing with Israel, the strip's interior ministry and an official news agency said Sunday.Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a near civil war with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah party.The PA administration at the goods crossing said Sunday that Hamas had "expelled (its) employees and banned them from entering the crossing", the official news agency Wafa reported.
  
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• U.S. Senator Rubio, other officials visit site of Venezuelan aid

  17-02-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  While Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is refusing to allow in the food, medicine and other supplies, opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido has vowed to move hundreds of tonnes of the aid into the country on Feb 23.Guaido, who argues that Maduro's 2018 re-election was a sham, invoked constitutional provisions to declare himself the country's leader last month.Most Western countries and many of Venezuela's neighbors have recognized Guaido as the legitimate head of state, bu
  
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• Santa Ana: At least 4 killed in suspected DUI crash

  17-02-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  At least four people are dead and one other is in critical condition following a violent two-vehicle crash in Santa Ana early Sunday.
  
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• Saudi prince starts Asia tour with deals to invest $20 bn in Pakistan

  17-02-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a raft of investment deals Sunday worth up to $20 billion for the cash-strapped South Asian country, as Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman launched his Asia tour seeking to emerge from the Khashoggi affair.Pakistan is facing a serious balance of payments crisis and hopes the deals -- seven separate agreements and Memorandums of Understanding -- will provide welcome relief to its teetering economy.The crown prince, widely known as "MBS", is staging the high-pr
  
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• California mounts legal challenge to Donald Trump's state of emergency border wall plans

  17-02-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  California is set to become the first state to legally challenge Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall, its attorney general said on Sunday. After a failed attempt to convince Congress to sign off on his demand for $5.7 billion (£4.4 billion) to build a structure along the country's southern border with Mexico, the US president announced he would be invoking the controversial power on Friday. By doing so, he is now theoretically able to siph
  
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• Trump is sending aid to Venezuela. Venezuelans in the US say they need help, too

  17-02-2019 20:27 via cnn.com
  While the Trump administration sends humanitarian aid to Venezuela and ratchets up its rhetoric against Nicolas Maduro's regime, a growing group of Venezuelans who've fled to the United States are finding themselves in legal limbo and calling on Congress for help.
  
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• Ex-congressman Weiner released from prison after sexting scandal

  17-02-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Weiner, 54, has been released from the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, and is under the supervision of a residential re-entry management office in Brooklyn, according to prison records.The seven-term congressman who ran unsuccessfully several times for New York City mayor will be free on May 14, records show, about three months earlier than his 21-month sentence.The FBI discovered a trove of emails belonging to his then-wife, Huma Abedin, a senior aide to Hillary Clinton, on Wei
  
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• Watch Mike Pence gasp when no one claps at his terrible applause line

  17-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence isn't a complicated man. He likes Chili's, using his personal AOL account for official government business, and gay conversion therapy. And so, when he addressed attendees at the Middle East conference in Poland on Feb. 14, it's clear he believed that same down-home flavor that's treated him so well in Trump Country would garner rounds of applause from his European audience. That, dear reader, is where he went wrong.Speaking about the widely supported Iran nuc
  
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• Beckham looks to '70s, Westwood turns catwalk into protest

  17-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Victoria Beckham looked back to the 1970s at London Fashion Week on Sunday, while Vivienne Westwood turned her catwalk into a stage to protest issues ranging from climate change to Brexit.In front of an audience including Beckham's husband David and their children, models wore dresses and skirts slim fitted over the knee, some with abstract chain patterns.In a collection rich in vibrant colors and patterns, Beckham stuck to her signature silhouette of fitted skirt suits, which were checkered, an
  
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• Indian authorities detain 23 after deadly Kashmir attack

  17-02-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian forces have detained 23 men suspected of links to the Pakistan-based militant group that masterminded the bombing of an Indian security convoy that killed 44 paramilitary police, a top police official said on Sunday. The 23 men included members and sympathisers of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the militant group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, the deadliest on Indian security forces in decades. The attack has fuelled tensions between India and Pakistan. India has demanded Pakistan
  
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• Saudi Crown Prince signs $20 billion in agreements with Pakistan

  17-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Mohammed bin Salman met with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in a red carpet welcome before overseeing the historical deal. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Saudi crown prince begins Asia tour with $20 billion Pakistan investment pledge

  17-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Kicking off his tour of South Asia and China with a far higher Pakistan investment than expected, the crown prince said the $20 billion figure represents only the start of an economic tie-up that would bring the historic Muslim allies even closer."It’s big for phase 1, and definitely it will grow every month and every year, and it will be beneficial to both countries," said the crown prince."We have been a brotherly country, a friendly country to Pakistan.
  
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• Polish PM cancels trip to Israel in wake of comments on Poles in Holocaust

  17-02-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's prime minister has canceled a trip to Israel in the wake of reported remarks made by his Israeli counterpart suggesting Polish complicity during the Holocaust, an aide in his office told Polish media on Sunday.A government spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki would not attend the summit and would send Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz instead.Morawiecki informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his decision to cancel his visit in a telepho
  
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• CNN uncovers more Russian-backed Facebook videos

  17-02-2019 19:53 via cnn.com
  Facebook suspended several pages published by a Russia-backed viral video company after CNN's inquiries. Donie O'Sullivan shares his reporting with Brian Stelter, and Stelter says he perceives that Facebook is making up the rules as it goes along in an attempt to clean up its site.
  
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• 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris secures an early endorsement from California Gov. Gavin Newsom

  17-02-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic strategist Scott Bolden and former National Republican Senatorial Committee general counsel Dan Palmer weigh in on California Sen. Kamala Harris’ ability to win the 2020 democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• Donald Trump demands Britain puts jihadists on trial as Isil makes desperate last stand

  17-02-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has demanded Britain and its continental neighbours repatriate their captured Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters and put them on trial - or face the terrorists being set free to "permeate Europe." In a strongly-worded message tweeted late on Saturday night, the US president warned he would have little choice but to release approximately 800 "jihadists" currently held by American-backed Kurdish forces in Syria. He said now was the time for the ant-Isil coalition partners t
  
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• Sex abuse survivors say Vatican summit must deliver action

  17-02-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholics who were sexually abused by clergy are insisting that decisive actions to confront the decades-long problem of pedophile priests and church cover-ups must come out of an upcoming Vatican summit.
  
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• Israel to withhold $138 mln from Palestinians over prisoner payments

  17-02-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said its security cabinet on Sunday decided to withhold $138 million (122 million euros) in tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to prisoners jailed for attacks on Israelis.A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the withheld cash would be equal to that paid by the PA last year to "terrorists imprisoned in Israel, to their families and to released prisoners".Israel alleges the payments encourage further violence.
  
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• Julian Zelizer: Why Joe Biden shouldn't run for president

  17-02-2019 19:14 via cnn.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is not the right Democratic candidate for 2020. And yet, he may soon enter the Democratic race.
  
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• Israel trims funds to Palestinians over militant stipends

  17-02-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Under interim peace deals, Israel collects taxes on behalf the Palestinians, who put the current sums at $222 million a month.With negotiations stalled since 2014, Israel has at times withheld money as a measure of protest or pressure.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, though facing steep aid cuts by Donald Trump's administration that he has boycotted over perceived bias, has held to paying stipends to the families of Palestinians jailed as security offenders or killed by Israel.
  
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• Inmate saves infant from locked SUV using his car theft skills

  17-02-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The sheriff admits it was a unique situation, allowing an inmate to use his skill set to break into a car for the right reasons.
  
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• Assad warns Syria's Kurds that US will not protect them

  17-02-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Bashar al-Assad warned Syria's Kurds Sunday that their ally the United States would not protect them against any Turkish offensive as Washington looks to withdraw it troops.The US is set to pull out its soldiers from Syria after allied Kurdish-led forces capture the Islamic State group's last holdout in the war-torn country.Any withdrawal risks leaving the Kurds exposed to a long threatened attack by neighbouring Turkey, which views Kurdish fighters as "terrorists".
  
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• Victoria Beckham goes 'retro' at London Fashion Week show

  17-02-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Exaggerated collars, leopard print and a strong colour palette: British designer Victoria Beckham turned to "pinches of the '70s" as she showcased her latest collection Sunday at London Fashion Week.The former Spice Girl chose the rarified galleries of the Tate Britain museum, a neoclassical building home to some of the country's most treasured art, for only her second catwalk show in the British capital."I have been thinking about what women want, about modern femininity," she told audiences in
  
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• Stop 'whitesplaining' racism to me

  17-02-2019 18:52 via cnn.com
  Health officials issue public warnings about spikes in everything from the flu to the measles. But there is one contagion authorities are ignoring:
  
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• Fox News hosts claim 'coup' against Trump

  17-02-2019 18:41 via cnn.com
  Brian Stelter and his panel examine Fox News' use of the word "coup" after former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview with CBS that the Justice Department held meetings about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and questioned whether there was cabinet support to remove President Trump.
  
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• Israel clears Palestinians from Jerusalem home claimed by settlers

  17-02-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli police on Sunday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, after the supreme court ruled Jewish claimants were the rightful owners.An AFP photographer said residents of the neighbourhood in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem scuffled with police, who stood guard as about a dozen Israeli settlers took possession of the large building.Rania Abu Asab, who lived in the house with her husband, their children and his aunt, stood weeping outside as
  
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• 'SNL' host Don Cheadle makes fashion statement, dons Trump Soviet Union jersey

  17-02-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Don Cheadle, who performed hosting duties on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live," made a fashion statement about Trump as he closed the show.
  
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• Everyone had an opinion about how to hang the curtains: on a woman's right to use tools | Phoebe Paterson de Heer

  17-02-2019 18:00 via theguardian.com
  I had to gain the confidence that always seemed to come naturally to my partner to release my inner handywoman
  Last year my partner and I moved into a new house. The whole exercise was exhilarating – finally, a place we owned – but it also unearthed in me a desperation, a deep frustration. For a long time I’ve wanted to be someone who fixes things, builds things, someone who is capable in practical day-to-day tasks. I own tools, I have ideas and I tinker with my surroundings, b
  
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• Bill De Blasio Slams Amazon’s ‘Abuse of Corporate Power’

  17-02-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  “They couldn’t handle the heat in the kitchen,” de Blasio said.Separately, de Blasio said he had not ruled out a 2020 presidential run, but would take his message about corporations nationwide regardless of his decision.Amazon’s announcement has sparked a furious debate over whether local officials and activists should be blamed for losing New York an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 high-paying tech jobs, or whether the firm had reacted too rashly to public concerns.
  
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• Trump policies unite allies against him at European security forum

  17-02-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Promising that "America will be back" once Donald Trump leaves office, Biden won a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference from delegates who find the president's brusque foreign policy stance hard to like.Biden's successor, Mike Pence, was met with silence at a reception in the palatial Bavarian parliament on Friday evening after he delivered his signature line: "I bring you greetings from the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump."His four-day trip to Europe su
  
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• Samantha Vinograd: Trump's emergency declaration is a threat to US security

  17-02-2019 17:41 via cnn.com
  Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States, modeled on the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the President almost daily.
  
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• Trump to veto Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez resolution blocking national emergency unless Republicans lend support

  17-02-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his presidency over a national emergency declaration his critics have slammed as an unconstitutional power grab, a senior White House official said on Sunday.White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday that “the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration”.The president declared the emergency Friday in an effort to go around Congress to fund his border wall.
  
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• How tough will President Trump be on China?

  17-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Hudson Institute director for the Center for Chinese Strategy Michael Pillsbury says Trump’s tariffs have brought the Chinese to the negotiating table.
  
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• The media spent more than 100 minutes covering Jussie Smollett’s attack claims, the left rushed to judgement

  17-02-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The Chicago police have revealed the story is starting to fall apart.
  
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• NASA posts image of ghostly blue objects, deep in the cosmos

  17-02-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  When a star is born, a chaotic light show ensues.  NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope captured vivid bright clumps moving through the cosmos at some 1,000 light years from Earth. The space agency called these objects clear "smoking gun" evidence of a newly formed star — as new stars blast colossal amounts of energy-rich matter into space, known as plasma.  Seen as the vivid blue, ephemeral clumps in the top center of the new image below, these are telltale signs of an energ
  
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• British ISIS bride who wants to return to UK gives birth to boy

  17-02-2019 17:18 via cnn.com
  A British teenager who left the UK to join ISIS in 2015 and now hopes to return home, has given birth, her family's lawyer said Sunday.
  
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