| Ferguson residents struggling with daily life Posted: 23 Aug 2014 07:31 AM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Life in this working-class St. Louis suburb of modest brick homes and low-rise apartments hasn't been the same since Angelia Dickens' son tearfully told her, "The police shot a boy." |
| Bombings kill 30 in Iraq after Sunni mosque attack Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 30 people in Iraq on Saturday as the government investigated a deadly attack on a Sunni mosque the day before that has heightened sectarian tensions amid a fragile political transition.
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| Iran refuses UN nuclear watchdog access to Parchin base Posted: 23 Aug 2014 09:18 AM PDT  Iran will not give UN nuclear inspectors access to a military base outside Tehran that they have been seeking to visit since 2005, Defence Minister Hossein Dehgan said on Saturday. Dehgan's comments come just two days before a deadline for Iran to give its response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over historic allegations of a military dimension to its nuclear research. "The agency carried out several visits to Parchin (before 2005), took samples and found nothing untoward," Dehgan told the ISNA news agency. "There is therefore no reason for new access to Parchin as nothing new has come up since the last inspections."
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| Inverness hand weakened Celtic shock defeat Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:42 AM PDT  Inverness Caledonian Thistle handed Celtic a shock 1-0 defeat in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday as the Hoops paid the price for fielding a weakened side at the Caledonian Stadium. With Tuesday's crucial Champions League play-off second leg against NK Maribor in mind Celtic made no fewer than 10 changes while Inverness stuck with the side that defeated Motherwell last week. The Hoops had scored in their previous 58 league matches but they lacked the invention and urgency to find a way past a disciplined Inverness defence.
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| Spain's Belmonte wins 1,500 race at Euros Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:41 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Mireia Belmonte Garcia claimed gold for Spain with a continental record in the women's 1,500-meter freestyle at the European swimming championship on Saturday.
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| Swimming - Pellegrini claims third European 200m freestyle title Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT  - Federica Pellegrini proved once again she is Europe's queen of the 200m freestyle after claiming her third straight title at the European Championships in Berlin. The Italian has topped the podium at Olympic, world and European level since her debut on the rostrum at the 2004 Games in Athens when she won a silver medal in the 200m freestyle shortly after her 16th birthday. On Saturday, she denied Hungary's Katinka Hosszu a fourth individual gold medal with Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands third. Other winners at the Europa-Sportpark were Polish pair Konrad Czerniak and Radoslaw Kawecki in the 100m butterfly and 200m backstroke respectively, Great Britain's Adam Peaty in the 50m breaststroke with the German men winning a thrilling 4x200m freestyle relay to conclude the action.
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| Latvala leads as Ogier crashes out in Germany Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:38 AM PDT  Jari-Matti Latvala strengthened his grip on the Rally of Germany on Saturday as the Finn's Volkswagen teammate, defending world champion Sebastien Ogier, crashed out. Briton Kris Meeke, driving a Citroen DS3, is lying second with Hyundai's Thierry Neuville one minute adrift in third. Ogier's involvement in the ninth leg of the world rally championship came to a premature end when his Volkswagen Polo smashed into a roadside barrier on Stage 8, which was then cancelled for safety reasons. "We were in sixth gear on a long straight," Ogier said of Saturday's accident.
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| Big names missing in final U.S. roster for Spain Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The United States team will travel to Spain without some of the sport's biggest names to defend their title at the Basketball World Cup after a selection process described as one of the "most difficult" in recent years. With marquee players LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and Kevin Love opting out of selection and All-Star Paul George hurt, the U.S.
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| Clermont beat Brive to end losing away run Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:36 AM PDT  Clermont, fired by new fly-half Camille Lopez, made it two from two in the Top 14 with a drab 21-6 victory over Brive on Saturday. Lopez, a close season signing from relegated Perpignan, stepped into Brock James' boots at 10 and kicked five penalties and a drop-goal (18 points) in the win that broke Clermont's six-match losing away streak. The fly-half was making his competitive debut for Clermont alongside Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies and former All Blacks winger Zac Guilford, who received a late yellow card.
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| Celebrity Real Estate: Julia Stiles Sells Gramercy Condo for $2.7 Million Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:35 AM PDT  Actress Julia Stiles is best known for starring in the 90s classic 10 Things I Hate About You and the mom classic Mona Lisa Smile, and now she's quietly picked up a...
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| Rugby League - Hall's try-double sees Leeds end Challenge Cup hoodoo Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:31 AM PDT  - Ryan Hall scored two tries as Leeds beat Yorkshire rivals Castleford 23-10 in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Victory marked the end of a Challenge Cup jinx for Leeds, whose last six appearances in the final had all ended in defeat. Leeds got off to a flying start through Tom Briscoe but his fifth-minute try was soon cancelled out by Castleford's Daryl Clark.
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| Schalke's poor start continues, Bellarabi scores in ninth second Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Schalke 04's poor start to the German season continued as they fell to a 2-1 defeat at Hanover on Saturday as Bayer Leverkusen's Karim Bellarabi hit the Bundesliga's fastest ever goal after nine seconds. Schalke were dumped out of the German Cup by third division Dynamo Dresden on Monday but Klaas Jan-Huntelaar's goal looked set to give them victory on the opening weekend of the Bundesliga. Last season the Dutch striker's 12 goals helped Schalke finish third and he opened his account for the new campaign 90 seconds into the second half.
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| National Zoo celebrating panda's first birthday Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT  The National Zoo in Washington is throwing a panda party.
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| Israeli airstrike collapses Gaza apartment tower Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:28 AM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. |
| Mercedes welcome Ecclestone trial settlement Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:28 AM PDT  By Alan Baldwin SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS Belgium (Reuters) - Formula One needs a strong leader and Bernie Ecclestone's $100 million court settlement to end a bribery trial in Germany is positive for the sport's future, Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff said on Saturday. "I think what is important is stability in Formula One," the Austrian told reporters after his drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, title rivals, qualified first and second at the Belgian Grand Prix. We had one of these today." Team bosses and the sport's 83-year-old commercial supremo Ecclestone held a meeting in the Mercedes paddock hospitality unit before qualifying, their first since the Briton agreed the settlement with the Munich court earlier this month.
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| Rallying - Latvala leads as Ogier crashes out in Germany Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:27 AM PDT  - Jari-Matta Latvala strengthened his grip on the Rally of Germany on Saturday as the Finn's Volkswagen teammate, defending world champion Sebastien Ogier, crashed out.
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| Libya Islamists say they have taken Tripoli airport Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT  Islamist fighters in the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition said on Saturday they have captured Tripoli airport after 10 days of clashes with nationalist militiamen. A statement shown on screen on An-Nabaa television, regarded as close to the Islamists, said: "Fajr Libya announces that it totally controls Tripoli international airport." The strategic site 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the Libyan capital, has been shut since July 13 amid skirmishes between the Islamists and nationalist fighters from Zintan west of Tripoli, who had held the airport since the 2011 fall of long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Earlier on Saturday, leaders of the Islamist coalition, partly comprising fighters from Misrata, east of Tripoli, said their forces were advancing on the airport, having taken a bridge and a military base.
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| Russian aid trucks leave; highlight dire needs Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:21 AM PDT  DONETSK, Russia (AP) — Hundreds of Russian aid trucks returned home from rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Saturday, highlighting a dire need for long-term assistance to the region where homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by months of fighting.
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| Costa scores again as Chelsea snare Foxes Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:20 AM PDT  Diego Costa scored for the second match in succession as Chelsea made it two Premier League wins from two matches this season with a 2-0 victory at home to newly-promoted Leicester City on Saturday. After a goalless first half, Chelsea twice almost took the lead at the start of the second period. Oscar hit the far post with a curling shot from the right before Branislav Ivanovic's header was well saved by Kasper Schmeichel, son of former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter. Leicester, who held Everton to a 2-2 draw last week, then had a chance of their own when David Nugent burst clear only for the Foxes striker to be denied by Thibault Courtois, again preferred by Jose Mourinho to Petr Cech, when one-on-one with the keeper.
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| China rejects U.S. criticism over jet encounter Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:19 AM PDT  China on Saturday called US criticism of an approach by one of its jets to a US Navy patrol plane off the Chinese coast earlier this week "completely groundless" and said its pilot had maintained a safe distance from the US aircraft. The strongly-worded statement attributed to Ministry of National Defense spokesman Yang Yujun was a response to a diplomatic complaint the Pentagon filed with Beijing on Friday. The complaint concerned an August 19 encounter about 215 km (135 miles) east of China's Hainan Island in which a Chinese fighter jet came within meters (yards) of a US P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine and reconnaissance plane and, the US claimed, performed acrobatic maneuvers around it. In its statement, the Chinese defense ministry said the J-11 jet was conducting routine checks and described the pilot's actions as professional.
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| Thousands turn out for rally over chokehold death Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Thousands of people expressing grief, anger and hope for a better future have taken to New York City streets to protest the chokehold death of an unarmed black man by a white police officer.
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| Baltics mark 25 years since anti-Soviet human chain Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:13 AM PDT  The Baltic states on Saturday marked 25 years since two million people joined hands in a landmark human chain linking up their capitals to demand freedom from the Soviet Union. All three Baltic prime ministers gathered in Riga to commemorate the anniversary of this act of peaceful defiance that spanned more than 600 kilometres (400 miles) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian republics of the Soviet Union and became known as the Baltic Way. "The Baltic Way was our way to freedom –- a way for our countries to show the rest of the world that we wanted to be free," Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma said alongside her Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts at the national library. "I stood near the Lithuanian border," recalled 67-year-old Andrejs Cirulis, adding that the human chain experience was a "very positive feeling".
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| Merkel urges Ukraine truce as Russia convoy returns home Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:11 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed for a new ceasefire in crisis talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday, as a controversial Russian convoy returned home. The visit by Merkel -- the most influential Western leader to call on Kiev since the crisis erupted in the ex-Soviet state -- came ahead of crunch talks next Tuesday between Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside top EU officials. Tensions surged on Friday when Russia sent scores of trucks it said were carrying aid to the stricken insurgent stronghold of Lugansk in an unauthorised move Kiev described as a "direct invasion".
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| Thousands march in New York City to protest police chokehold death Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:09 AM PDT  By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Reverend Al Sharpton led thousands of chanting but peaceful activists in a march across Staten Island on Saturday to protest the death of Eric Garner, who died after New York City police put him in a banned chokehold last month. "If you can do it to him, then you can do it to any citizen and we are not going to be silent when that happens," Sharpton said at a pre-rally speech at the Mt. Sinai United Christian Church in the borough where Garner died. "Let's make this a peaceful march and get justice for my husband so that this doesn't happen to anybody else," Esaw Garner said in a somber tone to protesters. The demonstration was also in response to the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American who was shot dead by a white police officer this month in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking more than a week of violent confrontations, Sharpton said.
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| Yemen Shiite rebels weigh draft deal on new government Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Yemen's government put a draft proposal to rebels on forming a technocrat government Saturday, a spokesman said, as fears mount that a new wave of violence could hit the impoverished nation. A presidential delegation handed the document to representatives of Shiite Huthi rebels, who have camped in their thousands around Sanaa this week, pressing the government to quit. In a bid to avert deadly clashes, the presidential committee has been holding talks with rebel commander Abdulmalik al-Huthi in his northern Saada stronghold since Thursday to convince his group to join a new government.
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| Delaware man arrested for burglary and drug possession Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:02 AM PDT  Troopers arrested a Felton, Delaware man Friday evening after a burglary investigation led to a methamphetamine operation.
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| Iceland raises volcano alert to red Posted: 23 Aug 2014 10:02 AM PDT  Iceland raised its alert over the nation's largest volcanic system to red on Saturday, banning all air traffic in the area, after detecting a small sub-glacial eruption. A major explosion at the Bardarbunga volcano could signal a replay of the global travel chaos triggered when another Icelandic peak blew four years ago, creating a massive ash cloud across Europe. "There is an ongoing eruption beneath the glacial surface, probably a small eruption which has not been enough to melt the ice cap," Iceland Met Office official Theodor Hervasson told AFP. Police said a number of tourists were being evacuated in an area located north of the Bardarbunga volcano, which lies in southeast Iceland.
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| Streets of Ferguson stay calm after violent nights Posted: 23 Aug 2014 08:19 AM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson's streets were peaceful for a third night as tensions between police and protesters continued to subside after nights of violence and unrest erupted when a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old.
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| Boston bombing suspect's lawyers seek dismissal Posted: 22 Aug 2014 05:46 PM PDT  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys are citing concerns over jury selection in their request to put proceedings on hold.
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| Firefighters still in hospital after Ky. 'ice bucket challenge' mishap Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:53 PM PDT  Two central Kentucky firefighters are still hospitalized a day after they were shocked by a power line while helping out with an "ice bucket challenge."
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| Oregon gunman planned to kill 'bunch' of people Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:27 PM PDT  Suspect who fatally shot father, camper in Oregon left behind notes detailing his plans.
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| Hamas leader: Don't compare us to ISIL Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:09 PM PDT Khaled Meshaal has taken pains to disassociate his organization from James Foley's killers. |
| Gaza gunmen execute 18 alleged spies; mortar kills Israeli boy Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:45 PM PDT  Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel on Friday, accelerating a crackdown on suspected informers after Israeli forces tracked down and killed three senior Hamas commanders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate the fight against Hamas, vowing the group would "pay a heavy price" after a four-year-old Israeli boy was killed by a mortar attack from Gaza, the first Israeli child to die in the six-week conflict. Shortly after his remarks, Palestinian officials said Israel had flattened a house in a Gaza City air strike, wounding at least 40 people. Israel's military spokesman said another ground war was possible if necessary to stop the rocket fire.
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| 173 MH17 crash victims identified Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:28 PM PDT  Forensic experts have identified 46 additional victims of the downed MH17 flight, bringing to 173 the total number of passengers killed whose identity has been verified, the Dutch justice ministry said Friday. "Among the 46 victims, 26 were of Dutch nationality," the ministry said in a statement. "The relatives of victims have been informed," it said, adding that the nationalities of non-Dutch fatalities would remain private "at the request of these countries' embassies". The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 exploded over insurgent-held east Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 on board, with the West accusing Russia-backed separatists of shooting it down and Moscow blaming Kiev.
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| Manziel fined $12K for obscene gesture on Monday Night Football Posted:  The Browns rookie quarterback received a $12,000 fine from the NFL for an obscene hand gesture during Monday's 24-23 preseason loss to the Redskins, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Manziel extended his middle finger at the Washington bench following a third-quarter incompletion.
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| Pakistan's anti-government protests stay peaceful, for now Posted: 22 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Anti-government protesters have called for the resignations of two brother leaders.
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| Ebola: Liberia's president talks containment efforts Posted: 22 Aug 2014 11:12 AM PDT  Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf expressed joy today about the recovery of American missionaries Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric. "We want to thank them for the service that they have rendered our country. And I'm glad Dr. Brantly said he's going to come back to Liberia. We just love him," President Sirleaf said. Ebola outbreak: Liberia's president talks containment efforts
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| Cyberattack at U.S. government contractor affects 25,000 workers Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT  A cyberattack at a company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compromised data of at least 25,000 government workers, and that number could rise, an agency official said on Friday.
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| Russia’s ‘direct invasion’: What we know and don't know Posted: 22 Aug 2014 10:04 AM PDT  On Friday, as a Russian "aid convoy" of 280 trucks crossed the Ukrainian border, NATO said that the Russian military was sending Russian-manned artillery units into rebel-held eastern Ukraine, which certainly sounds like a formal military invasion, though NATO and the US have declined to call it that. This comes one week after a separate "incursion" of Russian military forces had crossed into eastern Ukraine, raising surprisingly difficult to answer questions about whether this now constituted a formal war between Russia and Ukraine. Did Russia really invade Ukraine outright?
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| Reid apologizes for Asian jokes in Vegas Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:48 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is apologizing for jokes he made about Asians during a luncheon in Las Vegas this week.
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