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• Brexit: What happened on Monday?

  02-09-2019 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Jonathan Blake gives his daily roundup of the key Brexit events in British politics.
  
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• Desperate calls for help from flooded Bahamas islands

  02-09-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Port Saint Lucie (United States) (AFP) - The message was desperate, despondent and urgent.
  
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• US and Taliban reach agreement 'in principle' on Afghanistan, envoy says

  02-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's special envoy for Afghanistan said Monday that the US and the Taliban have reached an agreement "in principle," pending final approval by the President.
  
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• Police detain Russian opposition activist after Moscow protest

  02-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was detained by police on Monday after a weekend protest in Moscow, Navalny's spokeswoman said on Twitter.A few thousand Russians took to the streets of Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections to the capital's city legislature on Sept. 8, defying a ban enforced by detentions during previous protests.Protesters have been calling for the release of activists detained in earlier rallies, and Sobol on Saturday de
  
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• 4th time in 4 years: It's hurricane evacuation time in US

  02-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  It's become a hurricane-season ritual in the Southeast: When a storm threatens, coastal residents board up homes, load up SUVs and fill highways where the traffic lanes are reversed to offer a speedy escape inland.For some people, Hurricane Dorian is the fourth storm they have had to flee in four years.Forecasters are not sure if the core of the powerful system will ever strike the U.S. It is predicted to stay offshore as it spins north, paralleling the coasts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
  
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• Air Force flies through the eye of Hurricane Dorian

  02-09-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  US Air Force Hurricane Hunters captured footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Dorian.
  
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• Why Trump's constant attacks on an independent press are so dangerous

  02-09-2019 23:20 via cnn.com
  One of the most consistent features of the chaotic Trump presidency are the attacks against the press.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Floridians evacuate and grumble as Hurricane Dorian slowly nears

  02-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  At a retirement community in central Florida, elderly residents waited for a bus on Monday to take them to a shelter as one of the most monstrous Atlantic hurricanes on record crawled toward the state.Mary McNiff, 92, sat in her wheelchair waiting to board at the Good Samaritan Society in Kissimmee, near Orlando, one of more than a million people under evacuation orders along the U.S. East Coast on the Labor Day holiday.Forecasters warned it could still be dangerous as it drew closer to Florida
  
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• Nigerian lawmakers face public anger over planned purchase of luxury cars

  02-09-2019 22:39 via cnn.com
  A coalition of civil society groups has launched a lawsuit to block the purchase of luxury cars for principle officers in the Nigerian Senate.
  
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• Mayor of Jacksonville warns residents who ignore evacuation orders: If you call 911, you're likely on your own

  02-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Lenny Curry says his city is ready for Hurricane Dorian but urges residents not to underestimate the powerful storm.
  
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• Kevin Hart suffers major injuries in car crash

  02-09-2019 22:37 via cnn.com
  Actor-comedian Kevin Hart and two others were involved in a car crash in Calabasas, California early Sunday,according to a California Highway Patrol incident report obtained by CNN.
  
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• Osaka's quest to win back-to-back US Open titles comes to an end

  02-09-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  Naomi Osaka authored an indelible mark on the US Open when she comforted the sport's newest sensation, Coco Gauff, following their third-round match.
  
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• Naomi Osaka's quest to win back-to-back US Open titles comes to an end

  02-09-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  Naomi Osaka authored an indelible mark on the US Open when she comforted the sport's newest sensation, Coco Gauff, following their third-round match.
  
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• Hezbollah vows to strike 'deep inside' Israel if attacked again

  02-09-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened Monday to hit "deep inside" Israel, a day after an exchange of fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border sparked fears of a wider conflict between the arch-foes.Israel has not acknowledged that attack, but accused Hezbollah and Tehran of colluding to produce precision-guided missiles on Lebanese soil.Nasrallah on Monday said there were "no more red lines" in Hezbollah's confrontation with Israel.
  
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• The Latest: Afghan official: Blast kills at least 5, 50 hurt

  02-09-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  An Afghan official says at least five civilians are dead and around 50 are wounded after a large blast in the capital, Kabul.Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said the number of casualties from Monday night's bombing could grow as the blast destroyed a number of homes.The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the explosion, which came just hours after a U.S. envoy announced a deal had been reached "in principle" with the militant group for ending America's longest war.
  
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• Hong Kong leader says she'd quit if she could, according to leaked tape

  02-09-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  Hong Kong's beleaguered leader Carrie Lam has said she would quit if she had a choice and blamed herself for causing "unforgivable havoc" that has led to months of anti-government protests in the city, according to a leaked audio recording obtained by Reuters.
  
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• Carrie Lam says she'd quit as Hong Kong leader if she could, according to leaked tape

  02-09-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  Hong Kong's beleaguered leader Carrie Lam has said she would quit if she had a choice and blamed herself for causing "unforgivable havoc" that has led to months of anti-government protests in the city, according to a leaked audio recording obtained by Reuters.
  
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• Terrorizing civilians and bombing hospitals is a core part of Assad's strategy

  02-09-2019 22:03 via cnn.com
  In war zones, ambulances and hospital roofs are often clearly marked with a red cross or crescent to avoid accidental air strikes or other attacks. In Idlib, in the northwest of Syria, where the civil war has stretched into its eighth year, the UN has also shared the coordinates of medical facilities with Bashar al-Assad's forces and their Russian allies in order to avoid inadvertent attacks.
  
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• Hezbollah chief says 'no more red lines' against Israel

  02-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Monday there were "no more red lines" in the Lebanese movement's confrontation with Israel, threatening attacks deep inside the country a day after the two traded cross-border fire."Yesterday, the resistance broke Israel's biggest red line in decades," he said in a televised speech."But yesterday, the response was across the frontier," within Israel's internationally recognised borders, crossing what he said Israel considers a red line.
  
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• Brexit's most important week? Five things that happened on Monday

  02-09-2019 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  At the start of a potentially decisive week for Brexit, here are five key things that happened on Monday.
  
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• Dorian triggers massive flooding across Bahamas; at least 5 dead

  02-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Forecasters warned that Dorian could generate a storm surge as high as 23 feet.
  
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• UK PM to call election if Brexit strategy defeated: top official

  02-09-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call an election for October 14 if MPs vote against his Brexit strategy, a top official said Monday on the eve of a parliamentary showdown.MPs from Johnson's own Conservative Party are preparing to join opposition lawmakers in a vote on Tuesday to try to force him to delay Brexit if he cannot strike an agreement with Brussels in the next few weeks.A senior official said that if the government loses the vote, it would table a parliamentary vote for Wednes
  
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• Back to work blues are real and treatable

  02-09-2019 21:31 via cnn.com
  Dreaming at your desk about your recent vacation? Having trouble concentrating? Feeling depressed and wishing you were anywhere but at work? You are not alone.
  
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• Santa Cruz Island boat fire: dozens of people feared dead off California coast

  02-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Up to 39 people were onboard a diving boat that caught fire in the early hours of the morning, and five have been confirmed rescuedFirefighters respond to a boat fire off the coast of southern California Monday. Photograph: APUp to 34 people have been reported missing and are feared dead off the coast of southern California after a diving boat caught fire in the early hours of Monday morning, with crew members jumping off the deck to escape, while passengers were asleep below decks.The US Coast
  
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• Trump is golfing as hurricane threatens US

  02-09-2019 20:52 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump spent Monday visiting his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, and tweeting political grievances as a massive hurricane prepares to barrel up the East Coast of the United States.
  
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• Iran says views converging with France on breaking impasse

  02-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said Monday its views have been converging with those of France on ways to save a nuclear deal at risk of unravelling since the US withdrew last year.Government spokesman Ali Rabiei also suggested President Hassan Rouhani could meet US counterpart Donald Trump if it served Iran's interests, while cautioning there was no need to meet an "agitator" in the current circumstances.Rouhani has had a series of phone calls with French President Emmanuel Macron in recent weeks aimed at salvaging the
  
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• Floridians evacuate and grumble as Hurricane Dorian slowly nears

  02-09-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  At a retirement community in central Florida, elderly residents waited for a bus on Monday to take them to a shelter as one of the most monstrous Atlantic hurricanes on record crawled toward the state.Mary McNiff, 92, sat in her wheelchair waiting to board at the Good Samaritan Society in Kissimmee, near Orlando, one of more than a million people under evacuation orders along the U.S. East Coast on the Labor Day holiday.Forecasters warned it could still be dangerous as it drew closer to Florida
  
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• Trucker, mail carrier at work, teen among Texas victims

  02-09-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The owner of a trucking company who was killed in West Texas had moved from Las Vegas after a 2017 mass shooting at a music festival because he thought it would be safer, a sister said.Rodolfo "Rudy" Arco, a native of Cuba, "felt that Odessa was the place to go.Maria Arco said her brother, 57, died instantly when shots were fired at his truck.
  
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• Witnesses describe scenes of devastation

  02-09-2019 20:33 via cnn.com
  Unrelenting rain. Shrieking winds. Catastrophic damage.
  
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• A Bugatti went 305 miles per hour. That's a record

  02-09-2019 20:30 via cnn.com
  After one of its cars made a high-speed run on a German test track, Bugatti says it is the first production auto manufacturer to make a car that exceeded 300 miles per hour.
  
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• Boris Johnson teases new elections

  02-09-2019 20:28 via cnn.com
  Speculation is mounting that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could call an early election in an effort to thwart rebels within his own party who want to stop him taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal, according to UK media reports.
  
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• Stop treating mass shootings like hurricanes

  02-09-2019 20:27 via cnn.com
  "If you look at the numbers, we're looking at an active shooter every other week in this country," said Christopher Combs, the lead FBI agent in charge of federal resources assisting in the investigation of Saturday's deadly mass shooting in Texas.
  
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• Carrie Lam says she would quit as Hong Kong CEO if she had a choice – audio

  02-09-2019 20:07 via theguardian.com
  The embattled Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said she has caused 'unforgivable havoc' by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to a leaked audio recording of remarks she made last week to a group of businesspeople.Lam admitted she now has 'very limited' options to resolve the crisis because the unrest has become a national security and sovereignty issue for China amid rising tensions with the United States.Hong Kong: I would quit if I had c
  
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• Defending US Open champion Naomi Osaka upset by Belinda Bencic

  02-09-2019 20:04 via cnn.com
  Naomi Osaka authored an indelible mark on the US Open when she comforted the sport's newest sensation, Coco Gauff, following their third-round match.
  
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• California boat fire: Eight confirmed dead as 25 remain missing near Santa Cruz Island

  02-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Four bodies have been recovered and a further four identified on the ocean floor following a fire on a diving boat off Santa Cruz Island, California.Lt Cmdr Matthew Kroll of the US Coast Guard said the bodies were found close to the wreckage of the Conception, which caught fire in the early hours while 33 passengers were asleep below deck.
  
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• Watch Dorian rip across the Bahamas

  02-09-2019 19:52 via cnn.com
  Hurricane Dorian is the strongest hurricane to ever hit the Bahamas. Watch it's power unfold.
  
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• In photos: Dorian batters the Bahamas

  02-09-2019 19:52 via cnn.com
  Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday, obliterating houses and wiping out power.
  
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• Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei fears for safety after refusing to quit World Championships

  02-09-2019 19:51 via cnn.com
  Saeid Mollaei should have been focusing on the defence of his World Judo Championship title. Instead, the Iranian judoka was fretting about his safety and his family's safety.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: millions in coastal US warned to 'get out now' ahead of storm

  02-09-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday issued mandatory evacuation orders as 155mph winds batter BahamasPeople check out the waves in the ocean as Hurricane Dorian continues to make its way toward the Florida coast on Monday in West Palm Beach, Florida.Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe islands of the northern Bahamas continued to receive a pounding from Hurricane Dorian’s 155mph winds on Monday before the most powerful Atlantic cyclone of modern times set its sights
  
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• West Texas gunman reportedly had been fired from his job hours before rampage

  02-09-2019 19:40 via cnn.com
  The 36-year-old gunman who left seven people dead in a West Texas killing rampage had been fired from his job hours before the massacre began, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials.
  
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• U.S. and Poland Ink 5G Security Agreement Amid Anti-Huawei Campaign

  02-09-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Poland agreed Monday to a deal designed to secure 5G wireless networks in the European country, a move that could result in blocking Huawei Technologies Co. and other Chinese telecommunications firms from its networks.The deal with Poland comes as the U.S. has been courting companies to reject Chinese technology in their next generation of wireless networks, telling allies it could put their citizens’ data at risk of espionage. It was signed by U.S. Vice Preside
  
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• California lawmakers eye bills on vaccines, guns, housing

  02-09-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  California state lawmakers have just two weeks remaining in their session to sort through hundreds of bills, some addressing volatile topics such as vaccinating children and shootings by police.The session that began in January will end Sept. 13 after lawmakers pile bills on the desk of freshman Gov. Gavin Newsom.Newsom supports a proposed crackdown on doctors who sell what health officials say are bogus medical exemptions for families who want to avoid having their children vaccinated.
  
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• Brother of British woman killed by expat husband pleads with UAE judge for murder sentence

  02-09-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a murdered British woman has said Dubai will set a "dangerous" precedent if it releases her husband from prison this week, two years after he bludgeoned her to death with a hammer.  Francis Matthew, 62, will fight his murder conviction on Wednesday on the grounds that his wife, Jane, provoked him during an argument at their Dubai family home. Two years into a potential 15 year sentence, his lawyers will claim she called him a “loser”, which provoked the attack. &nb
  
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• Trump is golfing as Dorian threatens US

  02-09-2019 19:24 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump spent Monday visiting his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, and tweeting political grievances as a massive hurricane prepares to barrel up the East Coast of the United States.
  
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• U.S. wants Brexit that encourages stability in Ireland: Vice President Pence

  02-09-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States wants the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union to protect stability on the island of Ireland and respect Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday.A proposed clause in Britain's EU divorce deal designed to protect the peace deal by ensuring an open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland has become the key sticking point in efforts to agree a managed exit before Britain's exit date of Oct. 31, raising fears of a chaotic wit
  
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• Texas gunman reportedly fired from job hours before attack

  02-09-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators seek motive in deadly West Texas drive-by mass shooting; Alicia Acuna reports from Odessa, Texas.
  
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• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam recorded saying she 'would resign if she could'

  02-09-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said she “would resign if she could”, according to an audio recording of a speech she gave to a group of businesspeople last week. In often anguished remarks, she apologised for igniting the “unforgivable chaos” in the city and said her room to respond was “very limited” as the Chinese government now considers the protest movement a national security issue. “If I have a choice,“ she said, &rdqu
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: ‘Extremely dangerous’ storm kills five in Bahamas as Donald Trump plays golf

  02-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people have been killed by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, the nation’s prime minister has revealed, as Donald Trump spent part of the day playing golf.As the Category 4 storm pummelled the Bahamas with 233kph (145mph) winds, triggering huge damage and massive flooding, Hubert Minnis said at least five people had been killed and that more than 20 had been injured.
  
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• Palestinians demand women's protection after suspicious death

  02-09-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Social media posts have alleged that Israa Ghrayeb, 21, died following beatings by her family members in a supposed "honour killing".The family denies the claims and insists Ghrayeb, from Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, had a stroke.The death has caused anger in the occupied West Bank, with the hashtag "We are all Israa Ghrayeb" trending on Palestinian social media.
  
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• One of Europe's biggest low-cost airlines fights for its life

  02-09-2019 18:35 via cnn.com
  Norwegian Air, Europe's third-largest low-cost carrier, is seeking a lifeline from bondholders as it grapples with a cash crunch.
  
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