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• Updated: Slain Baton Rouge officer wrote emotional Facebook post

  18-07-2016 23:20
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — Just days before he was shot and killed, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was “physically and emotionally” tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. “I swear to God I love […]
  
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• Rail park draws protest in Los Lunas

  18-07-2016 23:20
  
  LOS LUNAS — Some San Clemente residents objected to a proposed 1,600-acre rail park at a recent planning and zoning meeting here, saying they didn’t  want an industrial park in their front yard. “You are taking our retirement from us, and I am too old to start all over,” San Clemente resident Annette Kaylor said […]
  
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• Textbook reignites Mexican-American studies flap in Texas

  18-07-2016 23:13
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Activists and educators on Monday called a Mexican-American studies textbook proposed for use across Texas biased and poorly researched and argued that its contents are especially offensive in a state where a majority of public school students are Hispanic. A battle over the high school text is shaping up to become the […]
  
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• Need hay? New website to the rescue

  18-07-2016 23:07
  
    BELEN— Livestock owners will now have an easier time finding hay dealers, thanks to a new website developed by a pair of New Mexico farmers. Owners and creators of hayfinders.com, Orlando Castillo and Joey Fresquez, know about the difficulty of locating hay and launched the site to connect the consumer directly to the farmer. […]
  
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• Woman who flipped car while allegedly drunk released with GPS monitor

  18-07-2016 23:04
  
  The woman Albuquerque police say admitted to drinking 30 beers before flipping her car, ejecting her 2-year-old daughter, was released from jail on a GPS monitor Monday.
  
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• Updated: Dissident delegates claim they can force vote over GOP rules

  18-07-2016 23:04
  
  CLEVELAND — Signaling a potentially boisterous start to the Republican convention, anti-Trump delegates claimed on Monday that they’d collected enough signatures of delegates to force a state-by-state roll call vote on changing party rules, a battle that party leaders hoped to avoid. It seemed highly unlikely that the insurgents would prevail. But it seemed possible […]
  
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• North Domingo Baca Park too dangerous to play soccer on

  18-07-2016 21:57
  
  A relatively new park in Albuquerque is currently in shambles. Some sports leagues say the North Domingo Baca Park is so dangerous that they're not willing to play there.
  
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• Updated: Team Tay Tay or Kimye? Fans pick sides after beef stirs

  18-07-2016 21:42
  
  NEW YORK — Taylor Swift probably wishes she could time travel back to “1989” after the month she’s having. On Sunday, her bitter feud with Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, exploded after Kardashian released a series of Snapchats that seemed to suggest that Swift lied when she said she didn’t know about, or […]
  
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• Updated: Judge: Most documents in Bundy case in Nevada to stay sealed

  18-07-2016 21:39
  
  LAS VEGAS — A federal magistrate judge in Las Vegas cited prosecutors’ concerns about threats of violence in a ruling that keeps many documents secret in the Nevada criminal case involving rancher Cliven Bundy and a 2014 armed standoff with government agents. U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen said she found a “credible risk” that public […]
  
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• Long lines at Brazil airports with new security measures

  18-07-2016 21:39
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — New, stricter security checks placed on Brazilian airports before the upcoming Olympics stalled travelers and delayed flights on Monday. Starting at 6 a.m., long, chaotic lines formed at the local Congonhas airport in Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo. Within a half-hour, more than 700 people were waiting on the building’s first […]
  
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• Woman arrested after claiming to have bomb at Federal Center

  18-07-2016 21:38
  
  LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A woman is under arrest after bringing what she claimed was a bomb to the sprawling Federal Center in suburban Denver. Sally Mayberry, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, said the woman walked up to one of the gates Monday and said she had a bomb. Mayberry said she had backpack […]
  
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• Inmate called ‘alleged assailant’ in prison worker’s slaying

  18-07-2016 21:38
  
  ABILENE, Texas — Authorities say the 21-year-old male inmate identified as the “alleged assailant” in the killing of a female corrections officer at Texas prison over the weekend allegedly attacked the woman as she entered a storage area near the kitchen. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials said Monday that the inmate was assigned to […]
  
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• Obama presents Vietnam War veteran with Medal of Honor

  18-07-2016 21:10 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest military honor to a Vietnam War veteran on Monday, noting that the story of retired Lt. Col. Charles Kettles’ bravery nearly 50 years ago serves as great inspiration at a time when Americans could use some.
  Kettles led helicopter flights carrying reinforcements to U.S. soldiers and evacuated the wounded after they were ambushed in combat operations near Duc Pho in May 1967, helping rescue more than 40 soldier
  
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• Judge delays officer shooting suspect’s weapons trial

  18-07-2016 21:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A federal judge has postponed the trial for an ex-convict charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm that authorities say was used in the shooting death of an Albuquerque police officer.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports the judge decided to postpone 35-year-old Davon Lymon’s trial at a hearing Monday, citing concerns over news coverage of the fatal shootings of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  The trial originally was scheduled for Aug
  
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• Judge seeks contempt finding in New Mexico food aid scandal

  18-07-2016 20:14 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A federal judge is recommending contempt findings against New Mexico officials for failures in the distribution and oversight of federal food and Medicaid health care benefits to the poor.
  Federal Magistrate Judge Carmen Garza on Monday recommended the appointment of a court-supervised monitor to ensure that that the New Mexico Human Services Department complies with standing court orders, decrees and federal law in the administration of federally funded benefits.
  Gar
  
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• Updated: Troon trumps Turnberry with better golf

  18-07-2016 20:10
  
  TROON, Scotland — Turnberry had the bigger stars. Troon had the better golf. That, along with 20 miles of Ayrshire coastline, might be all that separates two of the most compelling duels in 156 years of the British Open. To compare anything with the 1977 British Open used to be sacrosanct. For the last four […]
  
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• Today in History: July 18

  18-07-2016 20:03 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Monday, July 18, the 200th day of 2016. There are 166 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On July 18, 1976, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, competing at the Montreal Olympics, received the first-ever perfect score of 10 with her routine on uneven parallel bars. (Comaneci would go on to receive six more 10s in Montreal.)
  On this date:
  In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began, consuming most of the city for about a week. (Some blamed the fire on Emperor
  
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• Police: Gunman who killed 3 was ‘seeking out’ officers

  18-07-2016 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday, a day after three law enforcement officers were killed in the attack.
  The gunman’s “movements, his direction, his attention was on police officers,” state police Col. Mike Edmonson said. He would not elaborate but said the shooter was definitely “seeking out” police.
  Three other officers were wounded Sunday, o
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Relatives mark police custody death anniversary

  18-07-2016 19:26
  
  BALTIMORE — The Latest on the trial of an officer charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died after he was critically injured in the back of a police van. (all times local): 12:45 p.m. Family members of a man who died from injuries suffered in police custody […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Pokemon’ no: Trying, but failing to get the smartphone game

  18-07-2016 19:26
  
  MADISON, Wis. — No one, it seems, can escape “Pokemon Go.” Not the kids who slouch along my neighborhood sidewalks with their faces buried in their phones. Not the chic twenty-somethings who shuffle along Madison, Wisconsin’s Capitol square like they’re scanning a beach with metal detectors. Not even my fellow reporters, who are supposed to […]
  
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• Updated: US says fuel economy likely won’t meet 2025 targets

  18-07-2016 19:25
  
  DETROIT — The U.S. government says fuel economy of the nation’s fleet of cars and trucks won’t meet its targets in 2025 because low gas prices have changed the types of vehicles people are buying. Under standards set in 2012, automakers’ fleets were expected to get an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton condemns shooting of Baton Rouge officers

  18-07-2016 19:25
  
  CINCINNATI — Hillary Clinton on Monday called for an end to the “madness” after the death of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, condemning a series of recent shootings involving police and vowing to hold those who kill police officers legally accountable. “They represent the rule of law itself, if you take aim […]
  
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• Suspects charged in Sandoval County triple murder appear in court

  18-07-2016 19:25 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two of three people charged in a Sandoval County triple murder were in court Monday.
  Deputies say Samuel Perez Jimenez, Alberto Rodriquez and Omar Flores-Castillo killed 49-year-old Geraldine Sena, 33-year-old John Santistevan and a third unidentified person.
  Their bodies were found in a shallow grave in May in Sandoval County.
  Investigators believe they were all involved in a crime spree that spanned from Albuquerque to Mexico.
  Monday, Perez Jimenez pl
  
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• Suspect charged in Sandoval County triple murder appears in court

  18-07-2016 19:25 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of three people charged in a Sandoval County triple murder was arraigned in court Monday.
  Deputies say Samuel Perez Jimenez, Alberto Rodriquez and Omar Flores-Castillo killed 49-year-old Geraldine Sena, 33-year-old John Santistevan and a third unidentified person.
  Their bodies were found in a shallow grave in May in Sandoval County.
  Investigators believe they were all involved in a crime spree that spanned from Albuquerque to Mexico.
  Monday, Perez Jimenez ple
  
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• Archivists working through recently found Symington files

  18-07-2016 19:24
  
  PHOENIX — State archivists are going through hundreds of boxes of previously missing files from the administration of former Gov. Fife Symington, who was forced from office in 1997 after his later-overturned conviction in a bank fraud case. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/2aaKUWF ) that author Jack August, who is working on a biography of […]
  
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• Crews mopping up Timberon Fire that burned dozens of homes

  18-07-2016 18:46 via krqe.com
  
  TIMBERON, N.M. (AP) – Rain is helping firefighters as they continue to mop up a wildfire that burned dozens of homes and other buildings in the southern New Mexico mountain village of Timberon.
  An update Monday from fire managers say the fire is 80 percent contained, up from 60 percent Sunday.
  The fire burned nearly half a square-mile as well as approximately 70 structures, including 44 homes, and numerous vehicles.
  The fire started Wednesday and its cause is undetermined. Timberon is 25 m
  
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• Updated: Baton Rouge police killer: A former Marine from Kansas City

  18-07-2016 18:41
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The man who killed two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy in Baton Rouge was a former Marine sergeant who served in Iraq and had no known ties to any extremist groups. Gavin Eugene Long, a black man whose last known address was in Kansas City, Missouri, carried out the attack […]
  
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• APD to use buddy system in wake of shootings

  18-07-2016 18:38
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department is returning to the buddy system after officers were ambushed while responding to a suspicious person call in Louisiana.
  
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• McDonald’s, Starbucks agree to filter Wi-Fi porn

  18-07-2016 18:37 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s and Starbucks are implementing filtering technology that blocks customers using Wi-Fi from accessing pornography sites.
  The move follows a campaign from anti-pornography groups Enough is Enough and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation to demand the chains filter out pornography.
  Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s says in a statement that Wi-Fi filtering has been activated in the majority of its nearly 14,000 restaurants nationwide. A spokespers
  
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• Crews mopping up wildfire that burned dozens of homes

  18-07-2016 18:17
  
  TIMBERON, N.M. — Rain is helping firefighters as they continue to mop up a wildfire that burned dozens of homes and other buildings in the southern New Mexico mountain village of Timberon. An update Monday from fire managers say the fire is 80 percent contained, up from 60 percent Sunday. The fire burned nearly half […]
  
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• 3 injured in Lubbock in gunfire exchange during argument

  18-07-2016 18:17
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — Lubbock police say three people, including a 10-year-old, were injured when gunfire was exchanged during an argument involving several people. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening. Police say 22-year-old Kenneth Davis has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault following Saturday night’s shooting. Police are continuing to investigate […]
  
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• No charges for 3 Albuquerque officers in 2013 shooting

  18-07-2016 18:07
  
  Three Albuquerque police officers involved in the 2013 shooting of a suspect will not be charged.
  
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• Albuquerque police on scene near Montgomery, Washington

  18-07-2016 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police say officers are on scene at a home in northeast Albuquerque after arresting a suspect in connection to an armed robbery and carjacking.
  Police say they followed the suspect, who was driving a stolen vehicle, to the residence on Goodrich NE near Montgomery and Wyoming. Police were able to arrest the driver, but say there are still subjects inside the home.
  APD says the stolen vehicle is connected to an armed robbery that happened at a Circ
  
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• Albuquerque police arrest armed robbery, carjacking suspect

  18-07-2016 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police say officers have arrested a suspect in connection to an armed robbery and carjacking.
  Police say they followed the suspect, who was driving a stolen vehicle, to a residence on Goodrich NE near Montgomery and Wyoming.
  APD says the stolen vehicle is connected to an armed robbery that happened at a Circle K on Wyoming NE around 9 a.m. Monday morning.
  Police say a witness took down the license plate number of the getaway car, w
  
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• Updated: Fracking may worsen asthma for nearby residents, study says

  18-07-2016 17:58
  
  CHICAGO — Fracking may worsen asthma in children and adults who live near sites where the oil and gas drilling method is used, according to an 8-year study in Pennsylvania. The study found that asthma treatments were as much as four times more common in patients living closer to areas with more or bigger active […]
  
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• Navajo Nation Council set to begin summer session in Arizona

  18-07-2016 17:41 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – Navajo Nation lawmakers are expected to consider proposed legislation on mining as well as potential capital projects during their summer session in Window Rock, Arizona.
  The Farmington Daily Times reports that the session is slated to begin Monday and include proposed legislation that would regulate surface coal mining, reclamation and coal exploration on tribal land.
  Other proposals include a loan to build a travel center near the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort
  
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• UNM plans $180 million in construction over next 4 years

  18-07-2016 17:40
  
  One of New Mexico's largest universities is planning $180 million in construction projects on campus over the next four years including a proposed building that has been described as "a new public face" for the University of New Mexico.
  
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• ‘El Mercadito’ in LA no longer feels the love, looks to evolve

  18-07-2016 17:27
  
  LOS ANGELES — Pedro Rosado arrived in Los Angeles from Yucatan, Mexico, in 1968, the same year a three-story shopping center known as El Mercado de Los Angeles opened in Boyle Heights. After laboring 80 hours a week for three years as a janitor and a truck driver, Rosado subleased and then bought a little […]
  
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• The Journey: Stock-market fluctuations hit retirement funds hard

  18-07-2016 17:25
  
  Retirement got more expensive this month. The shock of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent investors running for the exits, too, so they gobbled up bonds and pushed yields lower. Meanwhile, market analysts warned that stocks are poised for a downtrend given their recent run-up while earnings growth fell. Before stock markets stabilized, […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Full Frontal’ host Samantha Bee en route to GOP convention

  18-07-2016 17:21
  
  NEW YORK — It seems everyone has gone to the Republican National Convention. But Samantha Bee already went to Cleveland and came back home — and lived to tell her audience about it. “We wanted to get out of the studio, and that’s what we did,” said Bee from the Manhattan office of her TBS […]
  
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• Updated: Officer acquitted in Baltimore police custody death case

  18-07-2016 17:19
  
  BALTIMORE — A judge acquitted a Baltimore police officer of manslaughter and other charges Monday in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was critically injured in a police transport van. It was the fourth straight trial prosecutors failed to win in the case. Lt. Brian Rice, the highest-ranking of six officers charged, […]
  
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• 2 charged after guinea pig killed before lacrosse game

  18-07-2016 17:19
  
  WOODHAVEN, Mich. — Two young people are charged with animal cruelty after authorities say they killed a guinea pig before a Detroit-area high school lacrosse game. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office announced Monday that 18-year-old Tanner Coolsaet and 17-year-old Michael Roth are each charged with killing or torturing animals. The court in the Detroit suburb […]
  
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• Officer acquitted in Baltimore police custody death case

  18-07-2016 17:18 via krqe.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge acquitted a Baltimore police officer of manslaughter and other charges Monday in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was critically injured in a police transport van.
  It was the fourth straight trial prosecutors have failed to win in the case.
  Lt. Brian Rice, the highest-ranking of six officers charged in the case, faced charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. Williams previously dismissed a second-degree assault
  
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• Doctor shortage means longer wait times for patients

  18-07-2016 16:56
  
  Getting in to see a doctor in New Mexico is easier said than done.
  
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• Designer Tom Ford putting Santa Fe ranch up for sale

  18-07-2016 16:53 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is putting his sprawling Santa Fe ranch on the market.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Saturday that Ford’s 20,000-acre ranch is up for sale and area real estate insiders say the asking price is $75 million.
  Cerro Pelon Ranch in the Galisteo Basin is seen as one of the largest private holdings in Santa Fe County.
  It was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and includes reflecting pools, staff quarters and an airstri
  
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• Valle Vista Elementary School in southwest Albuquerque on lockdown

  18-07-2016 16:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police say Valle Vista Elementary School in southwest Albuquerque is currently on lock down due to police activity.
  Albuquerque Public Schools posted to their Twitter page that the lock down is in response to a suspicious person in the area.
  APS says about 120 students are in summer school there.
  No further information is available at this time.Valle Vista ES locked down due to a suspicious person in the area.
  — APS (@ABQschools) July 18, 2016
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• Lock down lifted at southwest Albuquerque school

  18-07-2016 16:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police said Valle Vista Elementary School in southwest Albuquerque was on lock down Monday morning due to police activity.
  Albuquerque Public Schools posted to their Twitter page that the lock down is in response to a suspicious person in the area.
  The lock down has since been lifted, according to APS.
  APS says about 120 students are in summer school there.
  No further information is available at this time.Lockdown lifted!
  — APS (@ABQschools)
  
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• NM delegates arrive in Cleveland to tight security, fun events

  18-07-2016 16:34
  
  CLEVELAND – Good morning from Cleveland, Ohio – site of the 2016 Republican National Convention. The New Mexico delegation – 24 delegates and 21 alternates – arrived Sunday and checked into their hotel at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Middleburg, Ohio, about a 15-minute drive from downtown Cleveland. Hotel location at the national conventions […]
  
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• Updated: US officers see unexpected slip in Taliban violence

  18-07-2016 16:33
  
  ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — After inflicting heavy losses on weakened Afghan security forces a year ago, the Taliban under new leadership have been surprisingly slow to ramp up attacks at the midpoint of the traditional fighting season, senior American military officers said Sunday. In an Associated Press interview, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman […]
  
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• Updated: Truck rampage in Nice rattles an already unsettled France

  18-07-2016 16:33
  
  PARIS — The Bastille Day truck attack in Nice may have shaken France’s collective psyche, further unnerving a country already traumatized by extremist attacks that have become alarmingly more frequent. Yet there is hope that the French, while shaken, will not be defeated. Despite being under a heightened state of emergency, French security forces failed […]
  
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