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• UCLA women beat No. 16 Arizona St 61-59 on Dean’s 3-pointer

  25-01-2019 23:19
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Japreece Dean made a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to lift UCLA past No. 16 Arizona State 61-59 on Friday.
  Lauryn Miller scored 17 points for the Bruins (10-9, 3-4 Pac-12). Dean finished with 14 points. Michaela Onyenwere had 11 and Lajahna Drummer added eight points and 11 rebounds.
  Courtney Ekmark led the Sun Devils (13-6, 4-4) with 14 points. Reili Richardson’s layup gave them a 59-58 lead with 36 seconds left. She finished with 12 points.
  Arizona State led 31-
  
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• Pima County and City of Tucson File Lawsuits Against Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors

  25-01-2019 22:31
  Pima County and the City of Tucson have filed separate but identical lawsuits in Superior Court against more than 20 national companies that manufacture and/or distribute opioids in the region, according to a press release. The lawsuits are intended to address the opioid epidemic and its impacts on citizens.Purdue Pharma Inc., The Purdue Frederick Company, Cephalon, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Ja
  
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• All Bets Are On: Arizona's Loss to USC, the Sorry State of The Pac-12 and More

  25-01-2019 21:57
  It's been a rough week (and year) for fans of Arizona men's basketball, with last night's historic loss to the USC Trojans serving as the latest chapter of futility. All Bets Are On host Christopher Boan discusses last night's follies, along with the state of Pac-12 men's basketball and whether the Los Angeles Rams can upset the mighty New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII on this week's episode.…
  
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• Key takeaways from Roger Stone’s indictment in Russia probe

  25-01-2019 20:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russia investigation snared another associate of President Donald Trump with the arrest of self-described political “dirty trickster” Roger Stone.
  The charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller reveal new details about how the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked material damaging to Hillary Clinton. But they don’t definitively answer the key question in the Russia probe: Did the Trump campaign coordinate with Russia&rsq
  
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• 12-year-old boy charged in slaying of South Texas boxer

  25-01-2019 17:55
  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police say a 12-year-old boy has been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a boxer at the victim’s South Texas home.
  Uvalde police said Thursday that the boy is charged in the slaying of John Duane VanMeter and is being held at a juvenile detention center.
  VanMeter’s girlfriend called 911 Wednesday evening saying someone had broken into their home, and police found the man with a gunshot wound to the head.
  Police Chief Daniel Rodriquez says
  
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• Arizona Suffers Historic Loss to USC in Los Angeles

  25-01-2019 17:32
  The Arizona Wildcats suffered their worst loss against the Southern California Trojans in 46 years on Thursday. The Wildcats (14-6, 5-2) were routed by the Trojans from the get-go, trailing wire-to-wire before  falling, 80-57, to the home side.…
  
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• Claytoon of the Day: Trippy Testimony

  25-01-2019 17:05
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• The Latest: French businesses get ready for ‘no-deal’ Brexit

  25-01-2019 16:35
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Brexit (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  France’s government has held a meeting with about 60 representatives of French businesses to detail a readiness plan as the risk of a no-deal Brexit is increasing.
  The plan aims at allowing businesses to identify the consequences and anticipate the costs in the event Britain leaves the European Union without a deal on March 29.
  Agnes Pannier-Runacher, deputy minister for economy and finance, said “we are aware that
  
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• Moses leaves Chelsea to join Fenerbahce on 18-month loan

  25-01-2019 16:35
  LONDON (AP) — Victor Moses has left Chelsea to join Fenerbahce on an 18-month loan after falling out of favor at the English club.
  Playing as a right wing back, the Nigerian was a key member of the Chelsea team that won the Premier League in 2017 and the FA Cup in 2018 under Antonio Conte.
  Moses has not started a league game this season under Conte’s replacement, Maurizio Sarri, who is no longer using wing backs after switching to a four-man defense.
  Moses heads to Turkey for his fou
  
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• The Latest: Sanders says White House wants shutdown deal

  25-01-2019 16:25
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local):
  10:20 a.m.
  White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the administration wants to negotiate a government shutdown deal but is not saying how much President Donald Trump wants as a “down payment” on his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
  Sanders spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday, a day after the Senate voted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the p
  
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• Nebraska Supreme Court dismisses suit from death-row inmates

  25-01-2019 16:19
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s temporary repeal of the death penalty didn’t invalidate the sentences of the death-row inmates who were awaiting execution at the time.
  The court upheld a lower court’s decision Friday to dismiss the lawsuit filed by eight death-row inmates. The inmates argued that the Legislature’s 2015 vote to abolish the death penalty effectively reduced their sentences to life in prison, even though a pet
  
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• 2 more lawsuits say doctor ordered lethal meds for patients

  25-01-2019 16:19
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two more lawsuits are alleging hospital patients were negligently or intentionally given lethal doses of pain medicine ordered by an Ohio doctor without the families’ knowledge.
  The Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System says Dr. William Husel (HYOO’-suhl) ordered excessive doses for at least 34 patients over several years. It fired Husel, notified authorities and put six pharmacists and 14 nurses on leave pending investigation.
  Husel’s lawyers are
  
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• GLAAD announces nominees for 30th annual media awards

  25-01-2019 16:15
  PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — GLAAD is honoring video games for the first time during its 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards.
  The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer advocacy group Friday announced 151 nominees in 27 categories for what the group says are fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.
  GLAAD says it added the video game category partly to “leverage the gaming community to grow LGBTQ acceptance.” The nominees are: Assassin’s Creed:
  
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• Interim UNC system president says campus calm is priority

  25-01-2019 16:14
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The interim president of North Carolina’s public universities says his priorities include preventing teachers and researchers from being distracted by problems swirling around the system.
  William Roper addressed the University of North Carolina’s governing board on Friday for the first time since the group pushed out his predecessor and the head of the flagship Chapel Hill campus. The university system also is grappling with the future of a dismantled C
  
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• Buchenwald memorial bans German far-right AfD from ceremony

  25-01-2019 16:14
  BERLIN (AP) — The memorial at Nazi ex-concentration camp Buchenwald is blocking members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party from attending Holocaust commemorations.
  The memorial says AfD members aren’t welcome until they “credibly distance themselves from the anti-democratic, anti-human rights, and historical revisionist positions of their party.”
  The dpa news agency reported Friday that AfD co-leader Joerg Meuthen accused the memorial of playing politics, sayi
  
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• Jesuit school, others settle Haiti sex abuse case for $60M

  25-01-2019 16:10
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — More than 130 people who say they were sexually abused as children at a now-defunct charity school in Haiti have reached a $60 million settlement with a Jesuit university in Connecticut and other defendants.
  The settlement was announced Friday and must be approved by a federal judge in Hartford.
  The defendants include Fairfield University, the Society of Jesus of New England, the Order of Malta and Haiti Fund Inc., which financially supported the Haitian school.
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• Coast Guard halts search for missing cruise crewmember

  25-01-2019 15:58
  MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard has ended the search for a crewmember from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida’s coast.
  According to the Royal Caribbean cruise line, co-workers saw the 26-year-old crewmember go overboard from the Majesty of the Seas early Thursday. The ship was about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Florida’s Hillsboro Inlet and sailing to Port Everglades at the end of a six-day cruise to the Bahamas.
  In a statement Friday, the Coast Guard said its sea
  
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• Missing boy, 3, found alive in North Carolina

  25-01-2019 15:57
  A 3-year-old North Carolina boy who had been missing since Tuesday was found alive Thursday night, the Craven County sheriff said.
  Casey Hathaway was found in Craven County at around 9:30 p.m.
  The boy’s parents, Brittany and Chris Hathaway, attended a news conference, and Brittany Hathaway hugged the search and rescue captain who found Casey, Capt. Shane Grier of Chocowinity EMS, saying “Thank him!”
  Casey Lynn Hathaway /Craven County Sheriff’s Office
  “He is go
  
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• British sports writer Hugh McIlvanney dies at age 84

  25-01-2019 13:43
  LONDON (AP) — Hugh McIlvanney, widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest and most authoritative sports writers, has died. He was 84.
  The Football Writers’ Association, of which McIlvanney was a life member, said the Scottish journalist died on Thursday after a battle with cancer.
  As a writer predominantly for British newspapers The Observer and then The Sunday Times, McIlvanney covered many of the biggest sporting events and forged close relationships with figures such as Mu
  
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• Pakistan to ease restrictions on visas to promote tourism

  25-01-2019 13:37
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has announced plans to ease visa restrictions for tourists from 90 countries, including the U.S. and Europe, in a bid to revive its tourism sector, decimated by years of negligence and problems with militants.
  Cabinet minister Fahmida Mirza announces the plans on Friday in Islamabad. She pledged authorities would do everything possible to ensure the safety of visiting tourists.
  Mirza says citizens of 175 countries will be able to obtain visas electronically, over
  
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• Mom arrested after baby found dead in home

  25-01-2019 13:33
  Tucson Police are investigating the suspicious death of an infant girl.
  Police arrested the baby’s mother and have charged her with child abuse. 30-year-old Breanna Henson appeared before a judge on Thursday night and was then released.
  TPD responded to a home near Pantano and Irvington Thursday morning. Police said Henson was intoxicated when they arrived.. She told them she woke up to find her 8-month-old child unresponsive with a dog nearby. Police said the baby had punctures
  
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• Ethiopia bans street begging by Syrians in growing numbers

  25-01-2019 13:29
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia is banning street begging by Syrian nationals who have startled people by showing up in growing numbers in recent months.
  The deputy head of Ethiopia’s immigration office tells The Associated Press that “we have tolerated them for some time but we have now decided to ban the illegal practice. … They are becoming a burden.”
  Yemane Gebremeskel says some 560 Syrians entered between August and December and the majority leave when t
  
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• Hepatitis A Outbreak: number of cases rises to 40 in Pima County

  25-01-2019 13:26
  TUCSON – Pima County Health Department officials say there is a Hepatitis A outbreak in the county.
  There have now been 40 cases reported in Pima County since Nov. 1.
  Health officials are urging anyone who is at risk to get vaccinated against Hepatitis A.
  “Individuals that have had direct contact with someone that is positive for Hepatitis A and men having sex with men and folks living in really congregate sites like in shelters, rehab centers and those sort of situations,” sai
  
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• Global leaders call for action on climate change

  25-01-2019 13:21
  DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva urged the global elites to take a simple step to understand the urgency of combating climate change: “Get the picture of your children, your grandchildren in front of you.”
  Speaking on the last day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Georgieva warned that the potential “cost in terms of suffering is immeasurable” if the world can’t control a rise in temperatures.
  She dismissed the i
  
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• Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge

  25-01-2019 13:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, an associate of President Donald Trump, has been arrested in Florida.
  That’s according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, which says he faces charges including witness tampering, obstruction and false statements.
  Stone is scheduled to make a court appearance later Friday.
  Stone has been under scrutiny for months but has maintained his innocence.
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• Kosovo’s ex-freedom fighter released from jail

  25-01-2019 13:08
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lawyer says the former commander of Kosovo’s independence fighters has been released from jail.
  Tome Gashi on Friday said Sylejman Selimi, head of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the 1998-99 war, was released by a panel that found “he had been unfairly kept in jail after the Supreme Court decided last year to re-try his case.”
  Selimi was sentenced in 2015 to eight years of jail for mistreating civilians.
  Gashi said Selimi has not been officiall
  
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• Report says Dutch emissions cut target ‘out of reach’

  25-01-2019 13:05
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An environmental research institute says that the Netherlands is not doing enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions to levels ordered in a landmark court ruling.
  The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency says in a report published Friday that the target, confirmed last year by an appeals court, of reducing emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 is “out of reach.”
  The agency says that the reduction next year will likely amount to 21 percent
  
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• Zimbabwe’s violent crackdown continues with reports of rapes

  25-01-2019 13:02
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Reports of a violent crackdown continue in Zimbabwe as rights groups and others accuse security forces of raping women during house-to-house searches.
  Zimbabweans say abuses have not calmed since President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday denounced the violence as “unacceptable.” The unrest began last week as people protested a steep increase in fuel prices.
  The army asserts that uniformed perpetrators of abuses are “bogus elements” out to tarni
  
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• Puchner fastest, Goggia improves in 2nd downhill training

  25-01-2019 12:58
  GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Austrian skier Mirjam Puchner was fastest in the second training run for a World Cup downhill on Friday, with Olympic champion Sofia Goggia seventh as she worked on her comeback.
  Puchner raced down the almost 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) Kandahar course in 1 minute, 40.22 seconds down, finishing 0.08 seconds ahead of Corinne Suter and 0.25 ahead of Ramona Siebenhofer.
  Siebenhofer won both downhills in Cortina d’Apezzo, Italy, last weekend, and Suter w
  
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• Man who lost leg in Afghanistan helps Colin Powell with flat

  25-01-2019 12:57
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State and Army general Colin Powell got some help changing a flat tire from a man who lost a leg in Afghanistan.
  Powell posted on Facebook he was driving to Walter Reed Military Hospital when a tire blew out on Wednesday. A car pulled up and a man with an artificial leg got out.
  Powell says the man recognized him and wanted to help. He learned the man had lost his leg when he was a civilian employee in Afghanistan. The man finished changing the tire an
  
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• NATO chief says missile pact in danger after Russia talks

  25-01-2019 12:54
  BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia shows no sign of respecting a major Cold War-era missile treaty, less than a week before the United States is expected to start pulling out of the pact.
  Speaking after NATO-Russia talks in Brussels, Stoltenberg said Friday that “the treaty is now in jeopardy and unfortunately we have not seen any signs of (a) breakthrough.”
  The 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Sovi
  
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• Field hockey aims for combined Korea in Olympic qualifying

  25-01-2019 12:47
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The governing body of field hockey says it is working with South Korea and North Korea to combine teams and try to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
  The International Hockey Federation hosted both Korean federations in Lausanne last week to discuss “future steps to reach the goal of playing together as one team.” It follows an initial meeting in India in November.
  A combined Korean team played in women’s ice hockey at the Pyeongchang Olympi
  
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• Video shows brutality of knife attack on helpless inmates

  25-01-2019 12:42
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A newly released video shows the brutality of an Ohio inmate’s knife attack on four prisoners who were handcuffed to a table and unable to defend themselves.
  The video obtained by The Associated Press reveals for the first time the extent of the victims’ injuries and raises questions about how the bloody attack happened inside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, one of Ohio’s most secure prisons.
  The attacker is seen stabbing the i
  
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• China authorities investigating 2 explosions in northeast

  25-01-2019 12:40
  BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are investigating two explosions in a basement car park and a 30th floor apartment in northeastern China that left one person dead and one injured.
  Police in the city of Changchun said in a microblog message that the blasts Friday afternoon in the Wanda complex were being investigated as criminal acts.
  Few details were given other than that the apartment explosion occurred at 3:16 p.m.
  Calls to the building’s management office rang unanswered Friday
  
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• Yun wins World Cup skeleton race, takes overall lead

  25-01-2019 12:34
  ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic champion Yun Sungbin of South Korea got his first World Cup skeleton win of the season Friday, moving him back into the overall lead by the slimmest of margins.
  Yun edged Alexander Tretiakov by two-tenths of a second, and now leads the Russian in the race to be the overall World Cup champion this season by a single point — 1,045-1,044.
  Russia also got third in the men’s race, with Nikita Tregubov grabbing that bronze. The top American fini
  
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• UN human rights expert to visit Turkey over Khashoggi murder

  25-01-2019 12:31
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The United Nations is dispatching a human rights expert to Turkey over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
  The U.N., in a statement Friday, said Agnes Callamard will head an international inquiry, starting with a weeklong visit to Turkey on Monday.
  The Washington Post columnist, who wrote critically about the Saudi crown prince, was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
  The expert on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings is to evaluate
  
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• Cyprus court rejects organ trafficking suspect’s extradition

  25-01-2019 12:25
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A lawyer representing a man sought in Russia in connection with an organ trafficking case says a Cypriot court has rejected Moscow’s request to extradite him.
  Lawyer Yaniv Habari told the Associated Press Friday the court accepted the defense’s argument that a delay in seeking the extradition of his Israeli client, Moshe Harel, compromised his right to a fair trial.
  Harel will remain in custody pending an appeal. He was arrested when he arrived in Cyprus
  
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• Special counsel’s office: Trump associate Roger Stone arrested in Florida, charged with witness tampering, other crimes

  25-01-2019 12:24
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel’s office: Trump associate Roger Stone arrested in Florida, charged with witness tampering, other crimes.
  The post Special counsel’s office: Trump associate Roger Stone arrested in Florida, charged with witness tampering, other crimes appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• Berlin police seize 3 Hitler paintings as possible fakes

  25-01-2019 12:13
  BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police say three watercolor landscapes allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler are being examined by experts to determine if they are fakes.
  Police spokesman Martin Halweg said Friday the paintings were seized from a city auction house before they could be sold after they had received a complaint questioning their authenticity.
  The paintings, dated 1910 and 1911 and signed “A. Hitler,” were due to be auctioned Thursday. Halweg says they’re now being
  
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• Georgia to keep British fugitive behind bars for 3 months

  25-01-2019 12:12
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A court in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia has ruled to keep a fugitive British man for three months behind bars pending possible extradition.
  Jack Shepherd has fled Britain while on bail over the manslaughter of a 24-year-old woman who died when Shepherd’s speedboat hit a log and flipped on the River Thames in London in 2015. The 31-year-old Shepherd showed up at a police station in Tbilisi, Georgia, earlier this month and turned himself in.
  The court in Tb
  
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• Chepngetich wins Dubai Marathon in 3rd fastest women’s time

  25-01-2019 12:09
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya ran the third fastest time for a woman in winning the Dubai Marathon on Friday.
  Chepngetich crossed the line in 2 hours, 17 minutes, 8 seconds, beating the course record by more than two minutes.
  Only Paula Radcliffe and Mary Keitany have run a women’s marathon quicker.
  Worknesh Degefa of Ethiopia finished in second place in 2:17.41, the fourth fastest time ever.
  In the men’s race, Getaneh Molla of Ethiopia also broke
  
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• Families hoping for justice from prescription bribes trial

  25-01-2019 12:05
  BOSTON (AP) — The trial of a drug company founder accused of scheming to bribe doctors into prescribing a powerful painkiller is putting a spotlight on the deadly opioid crisis.
  Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor has said he committed no crimes and believes he will be vindicated at trial, which begins Monday in Boston’s federal court.
  Kapoor and other former Insys employees are accused of conspiring to pay doctors bribes and kickbacks that were disguised as fees for speaking
  
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• Lebanon signs oil storage deal with Russia’s Rosneft

  25-01-2019 11:57
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has signed a deal with Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, to upgrade and operate storage installations in country’s northern city of Tripoli.
  Lebanon’s outgoing energy minister, Cesar Abi Khalil, told reporters Friday that Rosneft will manage storage operations.
  Abi Khalil says they will start with the development of 450,000 metric tons of capacity, likely to be expanded to 1.5 million metric tons in the future.
  The facilities were built about 90
  
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• Czech lawmakers adopt common definition of anti-Semitism

  25-01-2019 11:48
  PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Parliament’s lower house has adopted a resolution that recognizes a common international definition of anti-Semitism.
  Although the definition by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is not binding, lower house speaker Radek Vondracek says it could help authorities deal with hate crimes.
  The 2016 definition says anti-Semitism is “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” It includes attacks against Jewi
  
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• Olympic marathon champion Sumgong banned 8 years

  25-01-2019 11:46
  MONACO (AP) — Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong has banned for eight years after being accused of lying at an earlier doping hearing.
  Sumgong was already banned for four years after testing positive for the banned substance EPO in 2017, but is now out of action until 2027 after an arbiter ruled she deliberately produced false records of a hospital visit to explain the failed drug test.
  Sumgong turned 34 last month, making it unlikely she will return to elite-level running when her b
  
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• Yellow vests and opponents gearing up for protests in France

  25-01-2019 11:39
  PARIS (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators will again take to the streets across France this weekend in protest at French president Emmanuel Macron’s policies, while anti-yellow vest groups also plan to use street action, to condemn violence.
  More than two months after starting their revolt over fuel tax increases, yellow vest protesters remain mobilized and have called for an 11th straight weekend of protests.
  About 84,000 people protested last weekend, around the same number as the we
  
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• Rescue for trapped Spanish boy reaches critical hours

  25-01-2019 11:28
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say that rescue experts are using explosives to make their way through a 4-meter (13-foot) wall of hard rock to reach the space where a 2-year-old boy has been trapped for 12 days.
  The government’s office in the southern province of Malaga says Friday that it took around 16 hours to dig the first half.
  The country is holding its breath and following every turn of events in the frantic effort to recover Julen Rosello, who fell down a narrow 110-meter
  
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• Russia drops appeal against athletics doping ban

  25-01-2019 11:17
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s athletics federation has dropped its legal challenge against its ban from international competitions.
  Russia has been banned from international meetings since 2015 because of doping, though dozens of top athletes have been allowed to compete by the IAAF in a neutral status.
  In September, the Russian federation appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, including a claim it was unfair for the IAAF to require access to evidence of past doping cases stored at
  
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• Death toll from Indonesian floods, landslides, climbs to 59

  25-01-2019 11:13
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A disaster official says the number of people killed after days of torrential rain triggered flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has climbed to 59 with 25 others missing.
  Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman, says more bodies were recovered Friday as floodwaters and rainfall subsided in several areas.
  Thirteen districts and cities in South Sulawesi province including the capital, Makassar, have been a
  
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• Gunman kills 2 men in separate shootings, then kills himself

  25-01-2019 11:09
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a gunman opened fire at a hotel bar in central Pennsylvania, killing a man and wounding two other people, then broke into a home where he fatally shot another man before killing himself.
  The initial shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. Thursday at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar & Grill in State College, about two miles (3 kilometers) from Penn State University’s main campus.
  Authorities say 21-year-old Jordan Witmer, of Bellefonte, shot and kill
  
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