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• Formula 2 driver killed in crash at Belgian Grand Prix

  31-08-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has died after a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has confirmed.
  
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• Driver killed in crash at Belgian Grand Prix

  31-08-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has died after a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has confirmed.
  
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• French cops detain man after knife attack kills 1, injures 9

  31-08-2019 23:16
  French authorities say an Afghan man seeking asylum in France has been detained.
  
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• 'Shut up': 911 dispatcher scolded drowning woman during her final moments, police say

  31-08-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Debra Stevens drowned while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher Saturday after flash floods swept her away. Police said they were working to "save" her.
  
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• Liverpool maintains perfect start to the season to stay top of Premier League

  31-08-2019 22:41 via cnn.com
  Four games, four wins.
  
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• One killed, 8 injured in knife attack outside Lyon, France

  31-08-2019 22:24 via cnn.com
  One person was killed and nine others wounded during a knife attack at a subway stop near Lyon, France, CNN affiliate BFM TV reported Saturday.
  
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• US strikes jihadists in Syria, monitor says 40 killed

  31-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  US forces attacked jihadist leaders in northwestern Syria on Saturday, the Pentagon said, in what a battlefield monitor called a missile strike that left at least 40 dead.The US strike came as renewed Syrian regime bombardment of Idlib province killed one civilian in a first violation of a Russian-backed truce for the region that came into effect just hours before, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The US Defense Department said its own attack targeted leaders of Al-Qaeda in the north
  
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• Watch a man brazenly light a cigarette at gunpoint during an armed robbery

  31-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  If you think you're cool under pressure, you've got absolutely nothing on a St. Louis man who -- in a scene that could have easily been part of a Tarantino movie -- calmly and brazenly lit a cigarette while the bar he was in was being robbed.Not only that, our fearless hero refused to let the robber snatch his smartphone away. All the while, the robber was carrying around an assault weapon that was later revealed to be a Hi-Point Carbine. If that sounds familiar, the Hi-Point Carbine was one of
  
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• One dead, nine wounded in French knife attack

  31-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man was killed and another nine wounded, three seriously, on Saturday in a knife attack near the French city of Lyon, a regional official and emergency services said. Two men, one armed with a knife and the other with a skewer, carried out the attack in Villeurbanne, a Lyon suburb, in southeastern France, the official said, without giving further details on the motive for the stabbing.
  
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• One dead, at least nine wounded in France after suspected knife attack

  31-08-2019 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  A suspect carrying a knife was arrested after assaulting residents at a bus stop, authorities said.
  
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• Ukraine, Poland want continued sanctions on Russia

  31-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Saturday he and Poland's president have agreed that sanctions ought to continue against Russia until Ukraine regains the territory it lost in Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea.Zelenskiy, accompanied by some members of his Cabinet, was on his first visit to Poland as president for political talks and to attend ceremonies planned for Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II.
  
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• 9 counts of attempted murder for student who allegedly opened fire in football stadium

  31-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Deangelo Parnell, 17, has been charged with nine counts of attempted murder for allegedly opening fire Friday into a stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
  
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• Trump tweets image of Iran's launch failure, but was it classified?

  31-08-2019 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  "I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened," Trump said.
  
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• One person was killed, 9 others wounded in knife attack outside Lyon, France

  31-08-2019 21:07 via cnn.com
  One person was killed and nine others wounded during a knife attack at a subway stop near Lyon, France, CNN affiliate BFM TV reported Saturday.
  
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• Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert killed in crash at Belgian Grand Prix

  31-08-2019 21:01 via cnn.com
  Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has died after a crash at the Belgian Grand Prix, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has confirmed.
  
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• Suit settled in teen suicide that led to Illinois law change

  31-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of 16-year-old Corey Walgren that focused on those questions has been resolved, with the city of Naperville expected to approve a settlement on Tuesday in which it and the local school district each agree to pay the Walgren family $125,000.Walgren's death on Jan. 11, 2017, three hours after a dean and in-school police officer at Naperville High School told the honor-roll student he might face child pornography charges also prompted a change in Illi
  
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• More than 54,000 citations issued in Maryland for passing school buses

  31-08-2019 21:00
  In the last year, the Montgomery County Police Department has issued more than 54,000 citations for passing school buses.
  
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• China's Loyal Wingman Drone Flies Alongside Manned Fighters

  31-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's another endorsement for the robotic flying buddy concept.
  
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• Trucker pleads guilty to California crash that killed 13

  31-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A trucker who fell asleep behind the wheel was sentenced to four years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to causing a tour bus crash on a Southern California freeway that killed 13 people in 2016, officials said.Bruce Guilford of Covington, Georgia, faced 42 charges of reckless driving and vehicular manslaughter.John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, said Guildford pleaded guilty to all counts Friday.
  
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• Rise of Donald Trump is ‘obscuring lessons of the second world war’, says Sadiq Khan

  31-08-2019 20:36 via theguardian.com
  Mayor of London condemns US president as ‘poster boy for white nationalism’ and Boris Johnson as ‘ever more rightwing’Sadiq Khan: Lessons of the second world war are at risk of being forgotten, or even rewritten
  The lessons of the second world war risk being forgotten because of the rise of “extreme” rightwing leaders such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, the mayor of London has said.Before events to mark the start of the conflict 80 years ago, when Germany
  
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• From Bodmin to Berlin, crowds vent their fury at Boris Johnson’s ‘coup’

  31-08-2019 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Protesters ranged from students at the prime minister’s old Oxford college to retired teachers, children and activistsIn Cambridge’s Market Square, a crowd of families, young people and silver-haired academics listened as Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy was read out. Many joined in, from memory, making a collective appeal for non-violent resistance: “Rise, like lions after slumber... Ye are many – they are few.” There were moments of more garrulou
  
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• Lessons of the second world war are at risk of being forgotten, or even rewritten | Sadiq Khan

  31-08-2019 20:29 via theguardian.com
  As we mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the second world war, with liberal democracies again under siege, Britain should be leading the fight against extremismEighty years ago, the start of the second world war saw Nazi Germany invading Poland. Six years later, up to 85 million people were dead. I’m in Poland this weekend to commemorate the start of the bloodiest war in human history.An entire generation of brave men and women around the globe sacrificed everything to defeat the si
  
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• One dead, eight wounded in French knife attack

  31-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man was killed and another eight people were wounded, three seriously, in a knife attack Saturday in the French city of Lyon, a regional official and emergency services said.Police have arrested the suspected attacker and placed him in custody for murder and attempted murder, the Lyon prosecutor's office told AFP.A police source said the man was an Afghan asylum-seeker.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian is churning towards Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – Here is where and when it's due to strike

  31-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian's path is nearing Florida, where it is no longer projected to make landfall, but still cause 'devastating hurricane-force winds.'
  
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• South African police officer arrested following female boxing champ's murder

  31-08-2019 20:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A police officer was arrested after a South African female boxing champion was fatally shot during a car chase in a coastal city, according to local reports.
  
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• Hong Kong protests: riot police storm metro station with batons

  31-08-2019 20:13 via theguardian.com
  Unrest deepens on anniversary of Beijing’s move to limit democratic reforms in territoryHong Kong riot police have stormed a metro station, using batons to beat passengers as violent clashes deepened political unrest in the city for the 13th weekend in a row.Lai, 31, returning home from protests, was in a train car that pulled into the Prince Edward mass transit railway stop in Kowloon just before 11pm. He saw at least 20 police officers on the station platform when suddenly five or six ra
  
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• Zhang Weili named China's first UFC champion after defeating Jessica Andrade in just 42 seconds

  31-08-2019 20:00 via cnn.com
  In 42 seconds, Zhang Weili made history.
  
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• It took Zhang Weili just 42 seconds to become China's first UFC champion

  31-08-2019 20:00 via cnn.com
  In 42 seconds, Zhang Weili made history.
  
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• Can fashion keep its cool … and help save the planet?

  31-08-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The catwalk world of glamour and luxury hides a business that thrives on wasteful consumerism. Now the climate crisis is forcing a rethinkIn the last days of August, an influx of slender women to midtown Manhattan signals the onset of fashion week, the biannual round of catwalk shows. After passing on to London, Milan and then Paris, the prevailing sensibility coheres into an agreed style.Only this season, the last of the decade, that sensibility may be about to evaporate. A summer of fire in th
  
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• Hong Kong police seen beating protesters in clash at metro station – video

  31-08-2019 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Clashes broke out between protesters and police at Hong Kong's Prince Edward station on Saturday in the 13th consecutive weekend of anti-government and anti-police demonstrations. Police were seen hitting passengers with their batons, spraying pepper spray and pointing rubber pellet guns toward demonstrators on the subway. A number of protesters were arrested and escorted off the station platform by police.Hong Kong protests: demonstrators build fire near police headquartersContinue reading...
  
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• Maryland court: teen girl who sexted friends violated child pornography laws

  31-08-2019 19:51 via theguardian.com
  Teenager sent sexually explicit video of herself to friendsLegal expert calls ruling ‘a ridiculous reading of the statute’The top court in Maryland ruled this week that a teen who sent a sexually explicit cellphone video of herself to two friends violated state child pornography law.The teen, referred to in court papers as SK, did not have to register as a sex offender but was ordered to undergo electronic monitoring and probation, which required drug tests and anger management class
  
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• Greece offers sculpture swap in bid for Parthenon marbles

  31-08-2019 19:41 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis makes pitch for pragmatic deal to end historic battle over Elgin treasuresTo Greece’s delight, a bust of Pericles now graces 10 Downing Street. Within hours of assuming office as prime minister, Boris Johnson had placed a plaster likeness of the Athenian soldier-statesman, whom he has long admired, on his desk. Johnson’s knowledge of the ancient world – he studied classics at Oxford and once boasted that he could recite the first 100 lines of
  
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• Protests turn fiery in Hong Kong

  31-08-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters torched a pile of barricades on Saturday as chaos returned to the streets of Hong KongPolice used water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters on the streets earlier in the day.Using blue dye, which is used elsewhere to help police identify demonstrators later on. Police also fired round after round of tear gas and protesters took cover behind umbrellas between the local headquarters of China's People's Liberation Army and the government. As demonstrators threw bricks dug up from
  
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• Taliban launch 'massive attack' on northern Afghanistan city, government says

  31-08-2019 19:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Taliban have launched a major attack in the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz, the government said on Saturday, igniting gun battles with security forces, as America's longest war continues.
  
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• Google Doodle celebrates Punjabi writer Amrita Pritam's 100th birthday

  31-08-2019 19:32 via cnn.com
  Google paid tribute to Punjabi writer and poet Amrita Pritam on Saturday with a doodle in celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday.
  
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• Sirhan Sirhan: Robert Kennedy assassin stabbed in prison

  31-08-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who was convicted of shooting Robert F Kennedy was stabbed in a California prison by a fellow inmate.Sirhan Sirhan, 75, was taken to hospital after the attack at the Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility, where he is serving a life sentence for the 1968 killing of the senator and presidential candidate.
  
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• Seahawks acquire Jadeveon Clowney from Texans

  31-08-2019 19:15 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  The Texans, who currently do not have a general manager, are sure to take plenty of criticism for this deal.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian may be similar to Matthew — but stronger and slower, forecaster warns

  31-08-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  While residents should "think in Matthew terms," the storm could still come over the Florida Coast, forecaster Bryan Norcross said.
  
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• Second rescue boat heading to Lampedusa in potential new stand-off with Rome

  31-08-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A second migrant rescue boat is heading towards the south Italian island of Lampedusa, potentially creating another stand-off with Italian authorities who are banning non-governmental organizations from bringing migrants ashore.Italy's outgoing interior minister Matteo Salvini has imposed a closed ports policy in the last year to stem illegal immigration from North Africa, calling for other European countries to share responsibility for refugees' shelter.The Alan Kurdi boat, operated by the Germ
  
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• Anthoine Hubert killed in F2 crash with Juan Manuel Correa at Spa

  31-08-2019 19:07 via theguardian.com
  • Hubert’s car hit barriers then collided with Correa’s
  • FIA confirms death and that Correa is in a stable conditionThe FIA has announced that the French driver Anthoine Hubert died after a major accident during the Formula 2 feature race at the Belgian Grand Prix. The race was cancelled after the crash on the second lap at Spa-Francorchamps. The high-speed incident involving Hubert and Juan Manuel Correa saw both cars take major damage but Hubert’s almost disintegra
  
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• Opioid makers facing US lawsuits eye new market in India

  31-08-2019 19:00
  Opioid makers, facing lawsuits in the United States, are eyeing a new market in India.
  
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• Israel risks becoming the fall guy in Donald Trump’s ‘shadow war’ with Iran | Simon Tisdall

  31-08-2019 18:57 via theguardian.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu is counting on fear of conflict with Iran to win crucial election votesDonald Trump’s offer to talk peace with Iran sent a shiver of alarm through Israel’s political and security establishment last week. With a too-close-to-call general election looming on 17 September, Benjamin Netanyahu is counting on his hardline anti-Tehran alliance with Washington – and fear of conflict – to win him crucial votes. A North Korea-style Trump tryst with Iran’s p
  
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• Anger as US parks service announces largest mobile phone coverage expansion in history

  31-08-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The hills of one of America’s most spectacular national parks will soon be alive with the sound of mobile phone ring tones, after Grand Teton approved controversial plans for phone coverage inside one of the country's most treasured national parks. The biggest expansion of telecoms coverage in the history of the national parks service comes as campaigners battle to maintain peace and serenity in the wilderness across the US. “It’s a harbinger of what’s to come,” war
  
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• One dead and nine wounded after suspected knife attack in France

  31-08-2019 18:48 via theguardian.com
  Police arrest one suspect and are hunting a second after stabbings in Villeurbanne, near LyonOne person has been killed and at least nine others wounded near Lyon in central France after a suspected knife attack, a police source told Reuters.A suspect who was carrying a knife was arrested after the attack on Saturday in the city of Villeurbanne, while authorities were hunting for a suspected second attacker believed to be carrying a metal spike used to roast meat. Continue reading...
  
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• Asylum-seeker arrested in France knife attack that left 1 dead, 9 wounded

  31-08-2019 18:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A knife attack at a public transit station in eastern France Saturday has left one person dead and five others injured, according to reports.
  
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• Meet Todrick Hall, a Taylor Swift pal who preaches inclusion

  31-08-2019 18:45 via nbcnews.com
  Hall, who co-produced Swift's anti-hate anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” has been preaching about self-acceptance and gay pride for much of his career.
  
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• 'I love Tiffany': Donald Trump defends daughter after Madeleine Westerhout ousted from White House

  31-08-2019 18:37 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on defending his youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, on the heels of his longtime personal assistant's ouster.
  
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• British police urged to assist New York investigators with Epstein case

  31-08-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  British police should assist the New York investigators with their inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, a source close to one of his victims has said. New York authorities have repeatedly said that they will continue investigating whether he had co-conspirators, and will not let the case die with the disgraced financier. Epstein, 66, died on August 10 from what a coroner ruled was suicide, while awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail. New York prosecutors are now turning the
  
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• German media, lawmakers point finger at Moscow over executed Georgian

  31-08-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite Russian denials, German politicians and media are blaming Moscow for the Berlin assassination of a Georgian who once fought Russian forces in Chechnya, an affair that could spark a diplomatic crisis.One security source, in comments to German weekly Der Spiegel, described the killing as a second Skripal affair -- referring to the attempt on the life of a former Russian agent in England last year.On Friday, August 23, German police arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya repu
  
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• Russian trolls US Open crowd after win: 'I won because of you'

  31-08-2019 18:14 via cnn.com
  Daniil Medvedev has become this year's US Open villain.
  
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