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• 'Terrorists' linked to murder of young Israeli soldier in West Bank arrested, IDF announces

  11-08-2019 23:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Two “terrorists” accused of murdering a 19-year-old off-duty soldier in the West Bank last week have been arrested, the Israeli military announced on Saturday.
  
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• A Minnesota father told police he dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head for being 'fussy.' The baby died

  11-08-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Matthew Hoisser, 35, complained that his son was "difficult" and "fussy," according to court documents. He dropped the baby on his head, killing him.
  
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• Coast Guard rescues 37 from capsized fishing boat off Central American coast

  11-08-2019 23:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Coast Guard rescued 37 people last week from a capsized fishing boat in off the coast of Central America.
  
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• Manhunt over: Escaped Tennessee inmate Curtis Ray Watson captured, death penalty possible

  11-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Curtis Ray Watson, 44, was charged with the murder of a correctional administrator after he escaped in the midst of a 15-year kidnapping sentence.
  
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• Hong Kong protests: Clashes as police fire tear gas into rail station

  11-08-2019 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Hong Kong is again rocked by violent unrest as it enters its 10th week of mass demonstrations.
  
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• Bear breaks into house and smashes wall to leave

  11-08-2019 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Police in Colorado said the bear broke through a wall "like the Kool-Aid Man".
  
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• DHS chief regrets 'unfortunate' timing of ICE raid of food processing plants in Mississippi

  11-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The sweep took place less than a week after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that targeted Hispanics.
  
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• Source: Jeffrey Epstein's cell was not monitored the night of his apparent suicide

  11-08-2019 22:45 via cnn.com
  • Trump promotes Epstein-Clintons conspiracy
  • Scaramucci says Trump will turn on everyone 'eventually,' then 'entire country'
  • Epstein's death 'raises serious questions'
  • Prince Andrew named in unsealed court documents
  • Opinion: The puzzle around Epstein's suicide
  
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• Trump administration defends Ice raids and says timing was 'unfortunate'

  11-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting head of homeland security admits raids in Mississippi were badly timed after El Paso attacks targeting Mexicans Acting secretary of homeland security Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks on the US-Mexico border in Arizona. Photograph: Randy Hoeft/APTrump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go.Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan a
  
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• Saudi Arabia's giant and secretive oil company will make its half-year profits public on Monday

  11-08-2019 22:28 via cnn.com
  Saudi Arabia's secretive state-owned oil company will host its first-ever earnings call Monday, a move that could signal the company is still planning a massive initial public offering.
  
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• Gold medalist explains why he knelt during national anthem

  11-08-2019 22:23 via cnn.com
  American gold medalist fencer Race Imboden knelt as the national anthem played at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, to protest racism, gun control, mistreatment of immigrants and President Donald Trump. Imboden talks to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield about why he decided to kneel.
  
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• BTS is taking an extended break from performing, and fans are crying... tears of joy

  11-08-2019 21:59 via cnn.com
  Mic drop, indeed -- the beloved Korean boy band BTS is taking a break.
  
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• Goldman Sachs economists say fears rise that U.S.-China trade war leading to recession

  11-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "We expect tariffs targeting the remaining $300bn of US imports from China to go into effect," the bank said in a note sent to clients.U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 1 that he would impose a 10% tariff on a final $300 billion worth of Chinese imports on Sept. 1, prompting China to halt purchases of U.S. agricultural products.China denies that it has manipulated the yuan for competitive gain.
  
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• UAE-backed separatists pull back after seizing Yemen's Aden

  11-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in the southern port city of Aden.Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that's been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015.
  
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• Probe of Michigan Police Officer's KKK Document May Lead to New Investigation of 2009 Shooting

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor says an internal investigation of a white police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display will help determine whether there will be further review of the officer’s 2009 fatal shooting of a black man.
  
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• Police arrest white supremacist for threatening Walmart attack

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A white supremacist has been arrested after he posted a message on Facebook threatening a shooting at a Walmart in Florida, police have said.Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested after making an online threat on Friday, according to police, just days after a gunman stormed a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. That suspect, Patrick Crusius, reportedly posted an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging forum 8chan shortly before the mass shooting. Mr Clayton reportedly wrote on Faceboo
  
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• Another 81 migrants rescued by charity ship off Libya

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  French charities SOS Mediterranean and MSF rescued another 81 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday, who joined 130 others aboard the ship the Ocean Viking, an AFP reporter said.The young men, mostly Sudanese, who had left Libya late Saturday in a blue rubber dinghy, clapped and cheered as the ship came into view.The ship, jointly operated by SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been patrolling international waters some 50 nautical miles off the coast of Tripoli.
  
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• Bolsonaro: Brazil doesn't need Germany's biodiversity funds

  11-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the South American country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region."The country doesn't need this," the far-right president known for his ties to agribusiness told reporters about a possible loss of German funding in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest.Citing Environment Minister Svenja Schulz, German daily Tagesspiegel reported Saturday the governmen
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Unveils New Plan to Reduce U.S. Gun Deaths by 80%

  11-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of her plan's details, like the elimination of the Senate filibuster, might have difficulty finding legislator support
  
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• Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast

  11-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Puti
  
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• CORRECTED-Russians killed in rocket blast put forward for awards

  11-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia will consider bestowing posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vl
  
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• For rescued migrant, Libya stay was worst ordeal on way to Europe

  11-08-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A young Ivorian mother endured a string of hardships before finally boarding the Ocean Viking rescue ship, but she says she would rather have died at sea than have to return to a Libyan detention centre where beatings were routine.The 28-year-old, who would give only her first name Bintu, was rescued Friday along with two of her children, aged one and three, and is now recovering aboard the charity ship Ocean Viking.Libya has been mired in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and kill
  
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• Why the EU isn't baulking at UK's no-deal Brexit threats

  11-08-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  Boris Johnson is trying to scare Europe into giving him a better Brexit deal.
  
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• Williams retires with back injury in Rogers Cup final

  11-08-2019 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Bianca Andreescu wins the Rogers Cup after Serena Williams retires with a back injury while a break down in the first set.
  
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• Chelsea thrashed by Manchester United

  11-08-2019 20:37 via cnn.com
  Frank Lampard's first Premier League game as Chelsea manager ended in a humiliating defeat by Manchester United at Old Trafford.
  
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• Chelsea humbled by Manchester United on Premier League opening weekend

  11-08-2019 20:37 via cnn.com
  Frank Lampard's first Premier League game as Chelsea manager ended in a humiliating defeat by Manchester United at Old Trafford.
  
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• 'Absolutely gutting' - GB disqualified from 4x400m relay for naming shot putter in squad

  11-08-2019 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Great Britain are disqualified from the men's 4x400m relay at the European Athletics Team Championships after a shot putter was named in the line-up.
  
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• Over 3,800 workers at Tyson Foods beef plant in Kansas out of work after fire

  11-08-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Tyson Foods spokesman Worth Sparkman said the plant would remain closed indefinitely and there were no details yet on the cause of the fire and or the extent of the damage.Independent trader Dan Norcini said the cattle market could respond negatively to news of the fire, but the impact would depend on how long the plant stays closed.Tyson said in a statement that it would meet with workers in shifts at the facility on Monday to answer their questions.
  
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• Manchester United 4-0 Chelsea: Marcus Rashford stars in fine win

  11-08-2019 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Marcus Rashford scores twice as Manchester United begin their Premier League campaign with an emphatic win over Chelsea at Old Trafford.
  
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• Hajj transport poses challenge for Saudi hosts

  11-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have reached nearly 2.5 million pilgrims this year and transporting all of these pilgrims is a challenge", Saudi Transport Minister Nabil al-Amoudi told AFP.According to the minister, "7,400 planes full of pilgrims arrived this year via Jeddah and Medina airports" and "more than 18,000 buses were mobilised" for the hajj.One of the largest gatherings in the world, the hajj is a set of rites unchanged for 14 centuries that takes place over five days between the holy city of Mecca and the surro
  
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• British seaside town cordoned off after people experience vomiting, sore eyes, officials say

  11-08-2019 20:06 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A section of a British seaside town had to be cordoned off for several hours on Sunday after several people experienced vomiting and sore eyes from what officials described as a "hazardous material incident."
  
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• Democrats rip Trump for promoting conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein's death

  11-08-2019 20:03 via nbcnews.com
  “This is another example of our president using this position of public trust to attack his political enemies," Beto O'Rourke said.
  
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• Escaped Tennessee inmate found after four-day manhunt

  11-08-2019 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  Curtis Ray Watson, who is serving prison time for aggravated kidnapping, is suspected of killing a corrections administrator as he escaped.
  
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• England 33-19 Wales: All the tries from Twickenham

  11-08-2019 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch all the tries and an epic drop goal from Elliot Daly as England beat Wales 33-19 at Twickenham to end the visitors' 14-match unbeaten run.
  
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• '#ClintonBodyCount': Trump's sharing of Epstein conspiracy theory draws outrage

  11-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump drew widespread backlash after sharing a baseless conspiracy theory tying the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected convicted sex offender, to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  
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• The Arctic town at the centre of a Norway-Russia 'spy war'

  11-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  When Frode Berg was a guard on the border near Kirkenes, Norway, in the 1990s and 2000s, relations with neighbouring Russia were so good that he would do joint patrols and go fishing with his colleagues from across the line. They drank vodka toasts after holding an annual cross-border ski race. But in recent years this town of 3,500 on Norway's Arctic coast has found itself caught up in a geopolitical chess game between Nato and Russia. Mr Berg became the first pawn to be captured when he was ar
  
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• Versace apologies in flap over T-shirts sold in China

  11-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian fashion house Versace apologized Sunday in China for selling T-shirts that it said attached incorrect country names to cities, after being attacked on social media for challenging China's territorial integrity. Versace did not identify the T-shirt in its own post on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media site, but the Global Times newspaper said the item mislabeled Hong Kong and Macao as countries. Both are former European colonies that were returned to China in the late 1990s.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: How conspiracy theories spread after financier's death

  11-08-2019 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  After the financier was found dead in his jail cell, unsubstantiated theories quickly spread online.
  
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• Hundreds evacuated from fire in Spain's Canary Islands

  11-08-2019 19:39 via cnn.com
  A fire raging in Spain's Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa has prompted the evacuation of a thousand people, the islands' President Ángel Víctor Torres said on Sunday.
  
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• Fire in Spain's Canary Islands causes major evacuations

  11-08-2019 19:39 via cnn.com
  A fire raging in Spain's Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa has prompted the evacuation of a thousand people, the islands' President Ángel Víctor Torres said on Sunday.
  
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• Beto O’Rourke says Trump retweeting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies to distract from ‘terrorist attack in El Paso’

  11-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke has lashed out at Donald Trump for retweeting a conspiracy theory connecting Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, saying the president was distracting from “an epidemic of gun violence” occurring “every single day” under his watch.The former Democratic congressman from Texas called out Mr Trump and “unfounded conspiracy theories” in an interview with CNN on Sunday after the president retweeted a post over the
  
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• Britain's Chadwick wins inaugural women-only W Series

  11-08-2019 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Britain's Jamie Chadwick finishes fourth at Brands Hatch to clinch the inaugural women-only W Series with a dramatic battle in the final race.
  
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• John Bolton heads to London for highest-ranking US visit since Johnson became PM

  11-08-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  National security adviser John Bolton headed to London Sunday to start a two-day trip of meeting key players in the new government, marking the highest ranking US official to visit the United Kingdom since Boris Johnson became prime minister.
  
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• Bolton takes hard line to London

  11-08-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  National security adviser John Bolton headed to London Sunday to start a two-day trip of meeting key players in the new government, marking the highest ranking US official to visit the United Kingdom since Boris Johnson became prime minister.
  
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• America's inaction on gun control continues to mystify the world

  11-08-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  After repeated mass shootings in the United States have continued with no changes to gun control, the rest of the world looks on in confusion. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
  
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• Tanzania tanker explosion victims buried in mass funeral

  11-08-2019 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Many were trying to recover fuel from an overturned tanker when it exploded and killed 71 people.
  
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• Rashford double as Man Utd spoil Lampard's Chelsea debut as boss

  11-08-2019 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Marcus Rashford scores twice as Manchester United begin their Premier League campaign with an emphatic win over Chelsea at Old Trafford.
  
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• Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump

  11-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats eager to oust President Donald Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an eleventh-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested.“I don’t see anybody that’s on this stage right now that can take President Trump one-on-one,” Bannon, a key player in Trump’s 2016 victory, said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
  
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• Law enforcement officials capture an escaped Tennessee inmate

  11-08-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The manhunt for an escaped Tennessee prison inmate has come to an end. Police captured the man after catching him on a home surveillance camera.
  
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• Steve Scalise: Don’t blame Trump for mass shootings

  11-08-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president's no more responsible for that shooting as your next guest, Bernie Sanders, is for my shooting,” the Louisiana congressman said.
  
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