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• Two children among 7 killed in midair collision

  25-08-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  Seven people were killed Sunday when a helicopter and a small plane collided in the air above the Spanish island of Mallorca, authorities said.
  
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• 7 dead after small plane and helicopter collide in midair

  25-08-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  Seven people were killed Sunday when a helicopter and a small plane collided in the air above the Spanish island of Mallorca, authorities said.
  
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• AP Interview: Sudan PM seeks end to country's pariah status

  25-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's new prime minister said in an interview Sunday that ending his country's international pariah status and drastically cutting military spending are prerequisites for rescuing a faltering economy.Abdalla Hamdok, a respected former official with the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, told The Associated Press that he has already talked to U.S. officials about removing Sudan from Washington's list of countries sponsoring terrorism, and portrayed their reaction as positive.Sudan stagnated f
  
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• The planet's most beautiful places

  25-08-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  The world's a spectacular place, full of hidden and overt beauty in every corner. But beauty's also subjective. It'd be impossible to get a unanimous decision on the most beautiful places around the world, but we believe this list is a good start to plan your travels.
  
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• Trump gives terse response on Iranian FM's appearance

  25-08-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  Even after President Donald Trump claimed all was well at the Group of 7 summit, which got underway Sunday on France's Atlantic coast, there was evidence of rancor behind the scenes.
  
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• Bat poo no longer blights church and interrupts service, as worshippers rejoice over new scheme

  25-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Enticing the next generation through their ancient doors, keeping donations topped up and ensuring that the organ is tuned usually rank high among any church’s list of priorities. For one congregation in Leicester, however, their problems have been somewhat more ungodly. For years, members of All Saints Church in Braunston-in-Rutland have been plagued by faeces dropping from the ceiling where a 500-strong colony of bats now reside.  This has meant that instead of praying or enjoying t
  
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• Morning mail: Ashes agony, Trump's G7 row, Centrelink shame

  25-08-2019 22:58 via theguardian.com
  Monday: Ben Stokes dragged England to a one-wicket win on a day of incredible Ashes drama. Plus: the tourists wrecking Prague Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 26 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Behind-the-scenes discord rattles G-7 summit despite Donald Trump's claim that all is well

  25-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump denied reports of tension among world leaders at the G-7 summit, but behind-the-scenes discord is rattling the gathering in France.
  
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• This plane made the first ever international passenger flight 100 years ago

  25-08-2019 22:49 via cnn.com
  On August 25, 1919 the first regular international passenger air service took place between London, England and Paris, France.
  
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• Authorities: Los Angeles deputy lied about sniper assault

  25-08-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Los Angeles County deputy lied when he said he was shot in the shoulder while standing in a sheriff's station parking lot last week and will face a criminal investigation, authorities said. "The reported sniper assault was fabricated" by Deputy Angel Reinosa, Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon said at a news conference late Saturday. Reinosa, 21, made a frantic radio call Wednesday claiming he'd been shot by someone in a nearby building as he walked to his car outside the Lancaster station, prompti
  
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• Macron's surprise G7 invite sparks confusion

  25-08-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  When Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, landed in Biarritz Sunday afternoon it appeared France's Emmanuel Macron, this year's G7 host, had pulled off an end run around his most powerful guest, US President Donald Trump.
  
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• Majority of Americans ‘Angry’ at Political System, Poll Shows

  25-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Amid an escalating trade war, fears of an economic downturn and a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls, a majority of Americans are simply “angry” at the U.S. political system, a new poll showed on Sunday.An NBC News and The Wall Street Journal survey asked 1,000 adults how much they agreed with the statement they “feel angry because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in W
  
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• An immersive 'Frozen' land is coming to Hong Kong Disneyland in 2021 — here's what it will look like

  25-08-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  At Disney's D23 Expo, Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, showed fans an expansion to Hong Kong Disneyland that is in the works.
  
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• Saudi intercepts six Yemen rebel missiles: coalition

  25-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia intercepted six missiles fired by Yemeni rebels at the southern city of Jizan on Sunday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, as the insurgents escalate cross-border attacks.The missiles fired by the Iran-aligned Huthis targeted civilians in Jizan, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.The rebels' Al-Masirah television said the Huthis had launched 10 "Badr 1" ballistic missiles targeting military aircraft and apache helicopters in Jizan airpo
  
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• Driver kicks pregnant woman in stomach during fight at Chick-fil-A, police say

  25-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The pregnant woman tried to pull in front of her in the drive-thru lane, police said.
  
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• Trump gets Republican primary challenger

  25-08-2019 22:05 via cnn.com
  Conservative radio host and former Illinois US Rep. Joe Walsh will challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020, he announced Sunday.
  
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• NASA astronaut accused of accessing her estranged wife's bank account; first alleged crime in space

  25-08-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Anne McClain allegedly accessed her estranged wife's bank account while on the International Space Station. She denies doing 'anything improper.'
  
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• Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensions

  25-08-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.Since the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year, there has been an increasing tempo of attacks and alleged threats, notably this weekend, from unmanned aircraft flown by Tehran's and Washington's allies in the region.The appeal of the aircraft — they risk no pilots and can
  
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• Scaramucci and Walsh could be key to Trump's defeat

  25-08-2019 21:58 via cnn.com
  Indeed, as the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. The question now is: Do Democrats want to share a "bed" with people who have supported President Donald Trump until recently? The answer should be a resounding yes if Democrats are truly committed to making Trump a one-term president.
  
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• Multiple injured by lightning strike debris in Atlanta

  25-08-2019 21:58 via cnn.com
  Multiple people were wounded by debris after lightning struck a tree at a PGA golf tournament in Atlanta, the organizers said.
  
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• Innocent man jailed for 82 days and loses jobs for bringing three jars of honey back to US

  25-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea.Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favourite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.
  
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• Trump looks 'demoralized' at G7 meetings

  25-08-2019 21:45 via cnn.com
  In the face of possible economic distress, trade wars and a re-election campaign, conservative writer Bill Kristol says President Trump looks demoralized at the G7 meetings.
  
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• Britain can 'easily cope' with no-deal Brexit, claims Boris Johnson

  25-08-2019 21:45 via theguardian.com
  PM said EU leaders would be to blame for their ‘obduracy’ and that UK could withhold much of £39bn settlementBritain could “easily cope” with a no-deal Brexit, which would be the fault of EU leaders’ “obduracy”, Boris Johnson claimed at the summit of G7 countries in France, as he continued to resist mounting pressure to spell out his own plans for breaking the deadlock.“I think we can get through this, this is a great, great country, the UK,
  
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• The Latest: French, US officials talk tech tax at dinner

  25-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Taxes on tech giants and a French wine dispute are on the menu at a special dinner with top White House and French officials at the G-7 summit.A French official says French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire invited U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. trade representative Robert Lightizer and White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow to dinner Sunday night in the French resort of Biarritz.U.S. President Donald Trump is dining with other world leaders nearby.
  
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• A Georgia attorney thought a man hit his Mercedes with a golf ball. He ran him over and killed him, DA says

  25-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  An Atlanta attorney has been charged with murder after he allegedly struck and killed a real estate investor he says hit his car with a golf ball.
  
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• Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack

  25-08-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday, the first time it directly blames the Jewish state after several of the paramilitary force's bases were hit by suspicious blasts.The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Iraq's western desertic border with neighbouring Syria."As part of the string of Zionist attacks on Iraq, the evil Israeli crows have returned to target the Hashed al-Shaabi, this t
  
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• Timetable for US-UK trade deal is 'tight', says Boris Johnson

  25-08-2019 21:14 via theguardian.com
  Donald Trump had talked up prospects for ‘very big’ deal that could be achieved in a yearBoris Johnson has played down the prospects of striking a trade agreement with Donald Trump within 12 months, saying that timetable was “tight” and would require flexibility from the US.Trump talked up the prospects for a US-UK trade agreement when the two men met face to face in Biarritz on Sunday, for the first time since Johnson became prime minister. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump aides downplay 'order' to US companies to leave China

  25-08-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's top aides on Sunday downplayed the idea of US companies being forced to abandon China any time soon, as an edict from the president ordering businesses to start looking for alternatives has been met with skepticism.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House economics advisor Larry Kudlow took to the airwaves from France, where Trump is participating in the G7 summit, to smooth out tensions in the business community prompted by Trump's Friday tweet.Mnuchin said that authorit
  
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• Seven people shot at two-year-old’s birthday party in Washington DC suburb

  25-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven people have been left hospitalised after a shooting at a two-year-old’s birthday party in a suburb of Washington DC.Police believe the incident, which took place on Saturday at around 9pm local time (1am GMT), may have been sparked by an “exchange of words” between party-goers and a bystander who had approached the group.
  
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• Police draw guns and deploy water cannon in clashes with Hong Kong protesters – video

  25-08-2019 20:48 via theguardian.com
  Hong Kong riot police fire warning shots and use water cannon for the first time since protests began in June to break through barricades and disperse crowds. The escalation in tensions came on the second consecutive day of violence, after clashes the night before during which police arrested 29 peopleHong Kong protests: police fire teargas at demonstratorsContinue reading...
  
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• China Signals Intervention as Hong Kong’s Protests Intensify

  25-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- China sent the strongest warning yet of using troops on Hong Kong’s streets where Beijing says protests have turned into a “Color Revolution,” with water cannons and tear gas fired in skirmishes between police and demonstrators in the 12th straight weekend of unrest.“It’s not only China central government’s authority but also its responsibility to intervene when riots take place in Hong Kong,” the state-run Xinhua News Agency said Sunday i
  
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• 2020 decisions don't have to be either far left or road to hell: Today's Toon

  25-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
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• G7 leaders vow to help Brazil fight fires, repair damage

  25-08-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they were preparing to help Brazil fight the fires burning across the Amazon rainforest and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers were being deployed to fight the blazes that have caused global alarm.Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country and others will talk with Brazil about reforestation in the Amazon once fires there have been extinguished."Of course (this is) Brazilian territory, but we have a question here of
  
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• Lindsey Graham warns Trump not to pull all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan

  25-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has long been eager to withdraw American troops out of the country.
  
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• Hong Kong Police Defend Officer Firing Gun During Protest

  25-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police defended an officer’s decision to fire a shot in the sky, calling it “the best option” as hundreds of protesters charged toward a fallen officer with metal poles and other weapons.“Our officer’s life was in great danger,” Yolanda Yu, a police senior superintendent, said at a briefing early Monday morning. “The use of force was indeed necessary and reasonable -- it was to protect any person, including the officer himse
  
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• G7: Trump's demands for Russia's readmission cause row in Biarritz

  25-08-2019 20:22 via theguardian.com
  US president argues Putin should be included in discussions on Iran, Syria and North KoreaDonald Trump has rowed with his fellow G7 leaders over his demand that Russia be readmitted to the group, rejecting arguments that it should remain an association of liberal democracies, according to diplomats at the summit in Biarritz.The disagreement led to heated exchanges at a dinner on Saturday night inside the seaside resort’s 19th-century lighthouse. According to diplomatic sources, Trump argue
  
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• Seven dead in Majorca air crash as sightseeing helicopter collides with ultralight plane

  25-08-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven people, including two children, died when a sightseeing helicopter and an ultralight aircraft crashed in mid-air over Majorca. The helicopter had three adults and two children on board, all of whom were killed. According to the Balearic Islands government it was believed they were all German. However, a local report suggested one of them may have been Italian. Two men in the ultralight, who were local to Majorca, also died. An ultralight is a form of small aircraft with only one or two sea
  
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• WRAPUP 5-Hezbollah leader says Israeli army to face quick retaliation to drone "attack" in Beirut

  25-08-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned the Israeli army stationed along the border with Lebanon that his movement was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli drones which crashed overnight in a suburb of Beirut.Nasrallah, whose Iran-backed movement fought a one-month war with Israel in 2006, issued the toughest warnings to his enemy in years.
  
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• Beachgoers left 'gasping for breath' after incident in Essex

  25-08-2019 20:02 via theguardian.com
  People suffer coughing fits in Frinton and Clacton, leading to speculation of fuel spillEmergency services have been called to the seafront in Essex to investigate reports of people coughing and struggling to breathe.Police, the ambulance service and the fire service attended Fourth Avenue in Frinton, off the Esplanade, after receiving calls from beachgoers in distress shortly after 2pm on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• France says it told G7 partners "early enough" of Iran's Zarif visit

  25-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  France told its G7 partners of the Iranian foreign minister's surprise visit for side talks at a summit as soon as it was possible, a French official said on Sunday, after the White House said the move had surprised President Donald Trump.Asked why other countries weren't told earlier of the surprise visit, the Elysee official said: "They were informed early enough," adding that the diplomatic situation was too sensitive.Iran's foreign minister flew in for side talks at the G7 summit on Sunday a
  
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• Lebanon’s Hezbollah vows to shoot down Israeli drones after 2 go down near stronghold on ‘suicide mission’

  25-08-2019 20:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader vowed Sunday to shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace from now on after one allegedly crashed and another exploded in Beirut overnight.
  
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• Australia entering 'second convict age' as imprisonment rates soar

  25-08-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Incarceration rates have risen 130% since 1985, according to new research by Labor MP and economist Andrew LeighIndigenous Australians are now more likely to be in prison than African-Americans, according to new research by Labor parliamentarian and economist Andrew Leigh warning that Australia has entered “a second convict age”.Leigh’s new working paper finds that in 2018, around 43,000 Australians were in prison, a rate of 221 for every 100,000 adults – which he says is
  
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• Explainer: Why are the Amazon fires sparking a crisis for Brazil - and the world?

  25-08-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A record number of fires ravaging the Amazon has drawn international outrage because of the rainforest's importance to the global environment and prompted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to dispatch the military to assist in firefighting.WHY DOES THE AMAZON MATTER?The Amazon - 60% of which is in Brazil - is the world's largest tropical rainforest.
  
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• Joe Biden is my Harvard, not my 'safety school.' He really is my favorite 2020 Democrat.

  25-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Pundits say there's no enthusiasm for Joe Biden. Why is it so hard to believe that many people, including me, like him best of all the 2020 Democrats?
  
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• Bolivia president does about-face and will now accept aid to put out wildfires

  25-08-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Bolivian President Evo Morales did an about-face on Sunday and said he was now open to international aid to fight the blazes that have engulfed rural villages and doubled in size since Thursday.Morales is also suspending his campaign for re-election for at least a week, just two months from election day, to focus on the wildfires."There have been offers of aid," Morales told reporters on a tour of some of the impacted areas.
  
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• White House insists Trump has authority to block American companies from doing business in China

  25-08-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow asserted President Trump’s threat to block trade between private Americans businesses and China, saying he has “emergency economic power authority” to do so.
  
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• Stokes leads one of the most sensational comebacks in cricket history

  25-08-2019 19:22 via cnn.com
  It will be remembered as Headingley's last stand.
  
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• One of cricket's most sensational comebacks

  25-08-2019 19:22 via cnn.com
  It will be remembered as Headingley's last stand.
  
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• Hong Kong protests: police use water cannon on demonstrators

  25-08-2019 19:19 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of thousands had braved rain to stage peaceful march in triad-linked districtHong Kong police have fired teargas and for the first time used a water cannon to disperse protesters as a weekend of violent clashes dashed hopes of a return to peace after a week of relative calm.Hundreds of thousands of people had earlier braved rain on Sunday to stage a peaceful, police-sanctioned march in Tsuen Wan, an area of the city noted for its links with triad gangsters, after clashes on Saturday whe
  
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• Hong Kong protests: police us water cannon on demonstrators

  25-08-2019 19:19 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of thousands had braved rain to stage peaceful march in triad-linked districtHong Kong police have fired teargas and for the first time used a water cannon to disperse protesters as a weekend of violent clashes dashed hopes of a return to peace after a week of relative calm.Hundreds of thousands of people had earlier braved rain on Sunday to stage a peaceful, police-sanctioned march in Tsuen Wan, an area of the city noted for its links with triad gangsters, after clashes on Saturday whe
  
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