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Truck plunges into south Lebanon valley, driver rescued

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Suspected "terror" attack at Indonesian church; no serious casualties

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Indonesian police were investigating a suspected terror attack by a knife-wielding assailant on a priest during the Sunday service at a church, and a bomb squad had been deployed to determine whether the attacker's backpack contained explosives. There were no serious casualties, though the priest and his attacker suffered minor injuries, according to police in Medan city, northern Sumatra. A bomb squad was sent to the site to check whether the assailant was carrying explosives, in case the attack was a failed suicide bomb attempt. ...

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Barrel bombs kill at least 15 civilians in Syria's Aleppo: activists

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Kosovo prosecutor investigates president's ally for political favourtism

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An ally of Kosovo's president is under investigation for allegedly granting jobs at state institutions and companies to people based on their political affiliation, Kosovo's prosecutor said on Friday. Grabovci at the time of the phone taps was head of the parliamentary caucus of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), then led by Hashim Thaci, who was elected president in 2016 . EULEX was deployed in Kosovo in 2008 to handle cases of war crimes, organised crime and corruption deemed too sensitive or complex for Kosovo's own judiciary. ...

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Boredom hardest part of isolation: NASA crew

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Monotony was the hardest part of a yearlong NASA experiment about the mental and psychological rigors of long-term spaceflight, crew members said after the test ended. The six-member crew emerged Sunday from a dome in Hawaii, on the barren northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano, where they were studied as part of the U.S. space agency's mission to send people to Mars by the 2030s. The crew lived inside a structure 11 meters in diameter and 20 feet tall, emerging only if outfitted in spacesuits, never breathing the outside air or eating fresh produce. Heinicke said that having "something meaningful to work on" was key to helping her endure the yearlong mission. However, she also spoke of the difficulties of living in close quarters with the same group of people for a long time, and said she planned to stay in close contact with only three of the other five. The first HI-SEAS experiment involved studies about cooking on Mars and was followed by a four-month and an eight-month cohabitation mission. ...

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UEFA keeps it in the family as Champions League changed

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Stung by criticism that the competition has become too predictable, UEFA emphasized that it would continue to be open for teams from Europe's smaller national leagues although the number of places set aside for them would drop from five to four. UEFA also stopped short of guaranteeing captive places for certain big clubs, another possibility which sources said had been discussed privately over the past few months. Under the present system, the top three leagues have three places each while their fourth-placed teams must play off over two legs for a place in the group stage. UEFA uses a complicated coefficient to determine the rankings of the national leagues. ...

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McDonald's recalls millions of Happy Meals fitness bands

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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, the sun sets behind a McDonald's in Ebensburg, Pa. Starbucks and McDonalds told The Associated Press on July 18, 2016, that they're in the process of implementing technology to filter pornography from Wi-Fi connections at their stores. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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Pieters, Westwood, Kaymer are Europe’s Ryder Cup wildcards

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Belgian rookie Thomas Pieters and experienced duo Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer were named by Europe captain Darren Clarke as wildcard picks Tuesday to complete his Ryder Cup team. Clarke opted for the powerful 24-year-old Pieters over Scotland's Russell Knox and England's Luke Donald, bringing to six the number of rookies in the 12-man team who will defend the trophy against the United States in Hazeltine, Minnesota. Europe are out to win the Ryder Cup for the ninth time in 11 editions when the competition starts at Hazeltine National golf Club on Sept. 30 and Clarke said he was confident his team would thrive. American captain Davis Love will name three of his wildcard selections a week Sunday, with his final pick not being announced until five days before the tournament begins. ...

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Thieves steal $50,000 of medical equipment in Abra

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Wal-Mart takes Texas to court to crack liquor-sales market

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Wal-Mart's court fight to sell liquor at its stores in Texas looks to be back on track, but the courtroom is getting crowded. A federal appeals court is allowing a trade group representing liquor store operators to join a stalled federal lawsuit that the nation's largest retailer filed against the Texas agency that hands out permits to sell booze by the bottle. In trying to crack Texas' restrictions on package liquor licenses, some dating to the end of Prohibition, Wal-Mart contends that some of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission's rules amount to unconstitutional discrimination. Wal-Mart, with its 574 stores, markets and Sam's Club outlets in Texas, says it's the state's largest purveyor of beer and wine. The five-store limit and the prohibition on holding both a package store permit and a beer and wine retailer's permit go back to 1935, when the Texas Liquor Control Board was created after Prohibition ended. ...

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Serbia, Bosnian Serbs hold joint anti-terrorism drill

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France expels two Moroccans considered serious security threat

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Migrant influx pushes German population growth to highest since 1992

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Germany's population registered its biggest increase in more than 20 years in 2015, data showed on Friday, as record numbers of migrants entered the country. With 188,000 more people having died in Germany in 2015 than were born, overall the population rose by 978,000 to 82.2 million, its strongest rise since 1992 . The Interior Ministry has said 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year with the aim of seeking asylum, with just under 480,000 applying. All of Germany's 16 regions saw their populations increase. At the end of 2015 there were 8.7 million foreign nationals living in Germany, an increase of 14.7 percent compared with the previous year, with foreigners making up 10.5 percent of the population. ...

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Niger Delta Avengers say halted hostilities in Nigerian Delta

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Turkey demands US guarantees on Kurdish fighters' withdrawal

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Turkey on Tuesday repeated its demand that the Kurdish-backed Syrian fighters it has targeted in a cross-border offensive return east of the Euphrates, neither confirming or denying reports of a U.S.-brokered truce. Turkey did not confirm it had agreed to hold fire, saying only that it would hold the U.S. to a commitment that the Kurdish PYD party and its YPG militia would retreat eastwards. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter appealed to both sides to fight ISIS, not each other. Turkey hit back at the criticism from its NATO ally of its week-old operation, which is at both ISIS and the YPG. ...

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Health Ministry orders removal of trash dumped near Mount Lebanon hospital

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OPEC likely to compete, not freeze output

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Iran's plan to keep boosting crude production until it regains its OPEC market share is dimming prospects of collective action by major producers to freeze output, according to Patrick Allman-Ward, chief executive officer of Dana Gas PJSC. While the country supports action to stabilize the market, it won't participate in a freeze in output before regaining its presanctions share of OPEC production, state-run news service Shana reported Friday, citing Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh. A freeze would be the group's first decision to limit output since OPEC adopted a Saudi-led plan in 2014 allowing members to pump more to protect market share. Ghamsari said at the time that Iran was exporting about 2 million barrels of its daily output of 3.8 million. The kingdom boosted July output to a record 10.67 million barrels a day, according to OPEC. ...

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Three years on, 331 makes headway in startup ecosystem

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Circular 331's financial engineering made $615 million available to startups working under the knowledge economy, (4 percent of Lebanese banks' tier 1 equity as at Dec. 2015), with BdL guaranteeing 75 percent of invested funds. Roughly half of those, around $310 million, are currently committed by banks to VC funds, excluding a small amount invested directly by banks in startups without recourse to funds. BLOM itself has invested $45 million so far in VC funds. At present, six of the eight VC funds on the market (Impact Fund, Berytech Fund II, Leap, Division one, Cedar Mundi and the Phoenician fund), range in size between $50 million and $70 million, and are targeting startups in their middle/growth stages. Between them, Lebanese VC funds plan on investing in around 180 companies over the coming five years. With the three running VC funds having so far deployed 50 percent of their funds on average, the remaining committed but unused funds in the system are estimated at around $210 million. These can finance at least another 200 new startups (40 startups per year), at an average ticket of $1 million. ...

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Italy seeks better ways to house people homeless from quake

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Suspected militants surrender to Army

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Romas flee Ukraine village after girl's murder

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Maryland man accused of raping woman hours after shooting 2 men

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Myanmar actor jailed for cursing army with graffiti

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A Myanmar actor was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for scribbling curse-laden insults about the powerful army on his car, a police officer said Saturday. Tun Lin Thein, a 35-year-old who appears in Myanmar music videos, slammed the military as an "army of dogs" and spray-painted a number of other expletives across his silver Nissan in March. There have been several controversial defamation prosecutions carried out during Suu Kyi's first few months in power, including a six-month sentence handed to man who wrote a poem about having a tattoo of the former ex-army president on his penis. ...

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LA photo exhibition looks at dying

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Four years ago photographer Andrew George approached the medical director of a Los Angeles hospital with an unusual request. There was nothing macabre about the request, George says. He simply wanted to learn of and reflect the wisdom these people had gained in the hope that others could discover how to lead better, more fulfilling lives. Of the people George photographed, only Nelly Gutierrez – who has diabetes, liver failure, heart trouble and other ailments – still lives. Coincidentally, the LA exhibition opened just days after a San Diego woman suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease threw a farewell party for friends, then ended her life through assisted suicide. Now, the author of "Dying Well" says, medical professionals can concentrate on making a person's final days as fulfilling as possible rather than arguing about how those days should end. ...

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4 Chad troops killed by 'Boko Haram mine'

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United Airlines flight diverts to Ireland after 16 hurt in turbulence

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Egyptian ambassador concludes Lebanon mission

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German military wants security checks on recruits, newspaper says

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(FILES) This file photo taken on March 23, 2016 shows German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen (C) posing with mountain infantry soldiers of the mountain infantry brigade 23 after she watched an exercise near the Bavarian village Bad Reichenhall, southern Germany, on March 23, 2016. / AFP / CHRISTOF STACHE

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Sidon residents livid after decades-old trees cut down

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Wild Verstappen is what Formula One needs

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Max Verstappen may not be winning many friends among other drivers – especially those from Ferrari – but his aggressive, unapologetic, fearless driving is wonderfully entertaining for fans. Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button are all in their mid-30s. Although three-time champion Lewis Hamilton is clearly very much on top of his game, and his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg is highly competitive, both drivers are 31 . At the Belgian GP, his second place in qualifying set another record as the youngest driver ever to start on a front row of the grid. His talent is unquestionable, but his attitude is, and the feeling in F1 circles is that Verstappen's tender age means he gets away with things that other drivers do not. Raikkonen criticized him after last month's Hungarian GP and again after the Belgian GP. Later in the race, Verstappen infuriated Raikkonen with aggressive blocking moves when the 36-year-old Finn tried to get past him at high speed. ...

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American woman indicted in China on charges of spying

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One dead, three wounded in blast at Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan

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Iraq says fires put out at four oil wells in town captured from ISIS

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Tottenham draws 1-1 with Liverpool in Premier League

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Danny Rose's second-half equalizer earned Tottenham a 1-1 draw against Liverpool on Saturday in a match between two outsiders for the English Premier League title. Tottenham has five points from three games, one more point than a Liverpool side that has played all of its matches away from home while the club completes the rebuilding of the Main Stand at Anfield. Liverpool started the second half better, too, with Premier League debutant Joel Matip glancing a header against the crossbar from a corner, only for Spurs to equalize against the run of play. ...

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Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seize two villages from Kurdish-allied forces: activists

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Hezbollah attacks militants on border

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Hezbollah fighters ambushed a group of militants belonging to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham outside the northeastern border town of Arsal Friday, the group's War Media Center said. The Army also arrested a man suspected of being the leader of a Daesh (ISIS) smuggling ring in Lebanon, local media reported Friday. Army intelligence arrested the suspected militant near the northern border town of Wadi Khaled. State media reported earlier Friday that Army Intelligence had also arrested two men accused of manufacturing and detonating bombs in northern Lebanon. ...

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South Africa finance minister to be charged for graft: City Press newspaper

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South Africa Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan may be charged this week for graft, the City Press newspaper reported Sunday, citing senior sources in the police, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), and the tax service. Thirty witnesses had been lined up to testify against Gordhan and three former officials from the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the paper said. Police summoned Gordhan this week in connection with an investigation into a "rogue spy unit" set up in the revenue service when he headed the organisation, rattling South African markets and sending the rand down 5 percent. ...

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Obama expected to meet with Philippines' Duterte on Sept. 6: White House

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Turkey PM vows retaliation after 'vile' Cizre attack

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Japan gunman kills construction worker in rare shooting

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Briton dies after trying to swim the Channel

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A ferry arrives into the port of Calais, northern France, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. There are more than 6,000 migrants fleeing conflict zones or poverty, according to local officials, at the rapidly growing new migrant camp outside Calais, hoping to make it across the English Channel to Britain. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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Trump vows to begin deportations immediately if sworn in

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House's next occupant. Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade's cousin will make African Americans support him, but the move instead triggered a firestorm of criticism. Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state during President Barack Obama's first term in office. Details of Trump's immigration policies remain scant. He rallied much of his primary support with a controversial hardline tone against illegal immigrants and his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. Trump also made appeals to black voters, promising to help African Americans find jobs. ...

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ISIS buried thousands in 72 mass graves: AP

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In this April 3, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi man prays for his slain relative, at the site of a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by ISIS militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base, in Tikrit, Iraq, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

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Statecraft lessons from northern Syria

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The unprecedented combination of political chaos, cross-cutting military confrontations and strategic contradictions in northern Syria reached a record-setting point two days ago. I salute them heartily, for this is a very sensible statement, and would make an excellent policy for any government involved in Syria. The really awkward problem, however, is that McGurk and the American government do not seem to follow their own rhetoric. The U.S. deserves special attention for the chaos-generating militarism that it has pursued for decades – due to its global and regional military reach and destructive impact, and incessantly attacking, sanctioning and boycotting adversaries, while unconvincingly calling for policies of communicating and deconflicting. Most bizarre of all, many people still want the U.S. to increase its military engagement in Syria to bring an end to the fighting. There will be no winners in this terrible series of overlapping wars in northern Syria, only destruction for the Syrian people, and more pain and troubles for their neighbors and the world. ...

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A character test for America, while the world is watching

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To appreciate what's at stake for the world in this year's U.S. presidential election, it's useful to visit a place like Australia that has been one of our most faithful allies – and that appears to be mortified at what's happening in American politics. Most amazingly, in a country that has backed every American military action for a century, 59 percent of Australians say their country shouldn't join in U.S. military action if Trump is elected. Australians, like most U.S. allies, depend on a strong, confident America to lead a global system that's stable, and also supple enough to accommodate new players such as China. Trump's America would be a more selfish nation; it would look out more for itself and less for others. Yes, folks, TPP's demise would also hurt American workers by reducing U.S. access to the world's fastest-growing markets. This year is a character test for America, and you need only travel abroad to understand how intently the world is watching. ...

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Poverty, hardship embolden protesting Zimbabweans

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A failing economy and deepening poverty have spawned a wave of sporadic anti-government protests in Zimbabwe, the likes of which have not been seen in years. The protests rocking the southern African country since June indicate that Zimbabweans are no longer afraid of the repressive government of President Robert Mugabe and are refusing to be silenced. The "outburst of public anger" has come about as a response to various factors including economic hardships that have condemned millions to poverty, bad governance and infighting within the ruling ZANU-PF party over Mugabe's succession, according to political scientist Eldred Masunungure. Mugabe has been in power since independence from British colonial rule in 1980 . Zimbabweans have taken to Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp using the hashtag "ThisFlag" to share the hardships of living under Mugabe's rule and to organize protests. ...

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Flood waters stabilize in India, but thousands evacuated

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Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated in India's remote northeast after an artificial lake created by a landslide threatened their lives, even as flood water levels stabilized in the worst-hit areas of the north, officials said Friday. The misery eased somewhat, with rains ebbing over the past three days in Uttar Pradesh state where 200,000 people have moved to relief centers with their village homes submerged, said Deepak Singhal, a top state official. Air force helicopters dropped food packets to thousands of people in Allahabad district where thousands of people preferred to stay on the top floors of their flooded homes and wait for the water to recede rather than move into state-run relief camps, officials said. ...

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Clinton invokes father's memory to hit Trump on business

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Yellen suggests rate hike is coming

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the case for raising interest rates has strengthened in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation. Still Yellen declined to hint at whether the Fed might raise rates at its next policy meeting, Sept, 20-21, or at its subsequent meeting in mid-December. Yellen added that the Fed continues to believe that future rate increases will remain "gradual". At the time, the Fed foresaw four additional rate increases in 2016 . In advance of Yellen's speech Friday, George, Fischer and eight other Fed officials met Thursday with about 120 activists from the Campaign for Popular Democracy's Fed Up coalition. ...

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As hope fades, Italy rescue efforts stop

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Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake faded Friday, with the death toll rising to 278 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off. Three days after the quake struck the mountainous heart of the country, sniffer dogs and emergency crews continued to scour the town of Amatrice, which was leveled in the disaster, but there was no sign of life beneath the debris. An estimated 2,500 people were left homeless by the most deadly quake in Italy since 2009 . More than 1,050 aftershocks have hit the area since the 6.2 magnitude quake early Wednesday, bringing fresh damage to structures still standing. Italy has a large Romanian community, and some of the victims were residents in the country. ...

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ISIS claims responsibility for Yemen's Aden attack, says about 60 killed: group news agency

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Because of Syria’s war, Lebanon’s tobacco industry is booming

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Syria's conflict has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to Lebanon, putting a huge strain on the Lebanese economy and its already-crumbling infrastructure. Lebanon is hosting over a million registered Syrian refugees. Unofficially, the number of Syrians who have fled to Lebanon is estimated to be closer to 2 million. Others were not able to cover market demand after imports of tobacco stopped, leading to a sharp rise in demand for Lebanese cigarettes – particularly Cedars, a brand that is similar to Syria's widely smoked Hamra cigarettes. Demand in Lebanon is still high, due to the Syrian refugees and the introduction of two new premium labels, Cedars Silver and Cedars Plus, which have taken market share away from expensive imported brands. ...

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French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban

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French resorts were defiant after a ban on the burkini in a Riviera town was overturned, vowing to keep the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines on women who wear the full-body swimsuit. In a judgement expected to lead to bans being overturned in around 30 coastal towns, the State Council, France's highest administrative court, ruled Friday the measure was a "serious and clearly illegal violation of fundamental freedoms". The ruling, which only applied to the ban imposed by Villeneuve-Loubet, was quickly dismissed by several other towns, including Nice, which vowed to keep the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines on women who wear the full-body swimsuit. Police action to fine Muslim women for wearing burkinis on beaches in several towns, including in the tourist resorts of Nice and Cannes, has triggered a fierce debate about women's rights and the French state's strictly-guarded secularism. ...

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Number of extremist travelers grows, Canada security officials say

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The number of people who have traveled overseas from Canada and are suspected of engaging in "terrorism-related activities" has grown, security officials said on Thursday in a report that cited extremist violence as Canada's main defense threat. So-called "extremist travelers," who are suspected of traveling abroad for the purpose of militant activity, pose a range of security concerns for Canada, according to an annual report that gave an assessment of the threat landscape in 2015 and early 2016 . Another 60 extremist travelers had returned to Canada at the end of 2015 . The Liberals campaigned on a plan to scale back a 2015 law that gave increased powers to security authorities in the wake of two deadly attacks by homegrown radicals in 2014 . ...

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Second victim of Thai coastal town bombings dies

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A second person has died from injuries sustained when two bombs exploded earlier this week at a hotel in Thailand's southern coastal town of Pattani, officials said Friday. It was followed a string of bombings and arson attacks across seven provinces in Thailand's central south that killed four people and targeted tourist spots. Police and Thailand's ruling junta have ruled out links between Tuesday's attack and the tourist-town bombings. Police have issued warrants for three suspects in connection with the tourist town attacks but have given few details on the suspects. ...

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Iraq on track to retake Mosul this year, U.S. general says

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Number of dead in Italy quake climbs, first funerals to be held

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The number of people killed in an earthquake that flattened parts of central Italy rose to 267 Friday as rescue workers pulled more bodies from mounds of debris and families prepared to hold the first funerals. Some 928 aftershocks have hit the area around Amatrice and the nearby towns of Pescara del Tronto, Arquata del Tronto and Accumoli in the wake of Wednesday's 6.2 magnitude quake. Italy has a poor record of rebuilding after quakes. About 8,300 people who were forced to leave their houses after a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 are still living in temporary accommodation. Almost 30 people died in earthquakes in northern Italy in 2012 while more than 300 died in a quake in the L'Aquila disaster. ...

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Iran denies US accusation of arming Yemen rebels

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Brazil chief justice suspends Rousseff trial amid senators' row

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Japanese jet returns for second time after taking off for US

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Japan's new passenger jet Sunday aborted a test flight to the United States for the second time in two days because of an air conditioning defect, its maker said. On Saturday a Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) left Nagoya airport in central Japan for the U.S. but soon turned back due to air conditioning problems. Mitsubishi Heavy unveiled the jet -- which is about 35 meters (115-feet) long and seats about 80 passengers -- in October last year and has received more than 400 orders. ...

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U.S. lauds calm between Turkish military, Syrian anti-ISIS forces

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Bangladesh 'free of curse' after police kill militant: PM

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Bangladesh's prime minister said the nation was "free of another curse" Saturday after police stormed a militant hideout, shooting dead the suspected mastermind of an horrific attack on a cafe that killed 22 hostages. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina praised police and intelligence agencies for the operation which killed Tamim Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian believed to have planned the attack. The police raid came two days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to arrive in Bangladesh, the highest-ranked Western official to visit the South Asian nation since the attack. Police and the Bangladesh government rejected the IS claim, saying a new faction of homegrown militant group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) led by Chowdhury was behind the attack in which 20 hostages, including 18 foreigners, were killed along with two policemen. Bangladesh has been reeling from a deadly wave of attacks in the last three years, including on foreigners, rights activists and members of the country's religious minorities. ...

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Iranian ships' actions in Gulf increase risk of miscalculation: White House

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This US Navy photo obtained August 25, 2016 shows the patrol craft USS Squall (PC 7) as it transits in the Gulf acting as a small boat threat towards the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) during a simulated strait transit while participating in Spartan Kopis 15-01 on January 14, 2015. AFP / Navy Media Content Services / MC2 Anthony R. MARTINEZ

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Tennis: I'm not 100 percent, admits 'electric' Djokovic

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Novak Djokovic admitted Friday that he has undergone electric shock-style treatment to heal a worrying wrist injury, but he's still not 100 percent fit as he prepares to defend his US Open title. Djokovic has endured a rollercoaster summer since completing the career Grand Slam by winning the French Open in June. Djokovic said the reasons for his All England Club catastrophe were not physical but private. Since that loss, Djokovic has gone on to win a record 30th Masters crown at Toronto before his tearful exit from Rio. But despite the ups and downs, Djokovic said the Wimbledon loss may work in his favour. Djokovic begins his US Open campaign against big-serving Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, whose ranking has slipped to 228 in the world after a lengthy struggle with a knee injury. ...

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Turkey's pursuit of militants will be unrelenting: Erdogan

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Children of Daraya discover joy of sweets

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Yazan, a 4-year-old who has never known anything but deprivation, has finally discovered the joy of ice cream after being evacuated from the besieged town of Daraya near the capital of war-torn Syria. This week, under a deal between the government and rebel forces who controlled it, Daraya's thousands of civilians and rebel fighters were all evacuated from the town, devastated by constant bombardment. Yazan's family and many of the civilians were transferred to Hrajela, a village under government control located around 20 kilometers southeast of Daraya. In the two-day evacuation which started Friday, around 4,000 civilians were to be directed to reception centers and at least 700 rebels escorted to the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria, the state news agency SANA said. ...

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The burqa controversy and France’s characteristic values

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Many Western media outlets were highly critical of France's 2010 law banning face coverings, such as burqas that cover a woman's face and entire body, and local decrees adopted this year banning full-body "burkini" swimsuits on public beaches have drawn further negative attention. For starters, secularism – or laicite – is a defining principle of French society. Alongside French secularism is feminism, a principle also enshrined in the Constitution. With France's strong culture of feminism, many French citizens consider gender segregation and face covering to be repressive, even when they are said to be a woman's choice. French law forbids data-collection based on ethnicity or religion, but it is estimated that 8-9 percent of France's 66 million citizens are Muslim – alongside Germany, the largest Muslim population in Europe – and half are believed to be younger than 24 years old. Most French Muslims are not new arrivals, but came during the Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian independence movements in the 1960s, meaning that young Muslims today belong to the third generation of that immigration wave. However, many young Muslims feel frustrated with their living conditions and betrayed by the French promise of equality, leading them to question and challenge French principles. ...

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Theron, McConaughey get real on parenting

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Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey take on parental roles in their new film, "Kubo and the Two Strings". Off camera, the two Oscar winners discussed their real-life approach to raising kids. "Kubo and the Two Strings," the latest film from stop-motion animation studio Laika ("Coraline," "The Boxtrolls"), centers on a boy who ignites a long-dormant vendetta when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past. Theron and McConaughey play his trusted guides, Monkey and Beetle. A father of three, McConaughey said he's still navigating the balance between parent and friend, roles he finds "intersect and overlap". Theron, who has two children, said she's willing to transform into whatever her son and daughter need, just as her character transforms in the film. ...

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Rousseff allies fight impeachment in Brazil turmoil

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Angry quarrels erupted at suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's impeachment trial Friday, while her key ally, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faced corruption charges on a day of turmoil for Latin America's largest country. Witnesses for the defense were called Friday following the trial's opening day Thursday, when the case against Rousseff was presented. One witness, economist Luiz Gonzaga Belluzo, insisted that Rousseff did not violate the law, and that ousting her would be "an attack on democracy". A pro-impeachment vote would see Rousseff immediately removed from office. Two thirds of the Senate – 54 of the 81 senators – must back impeachment to remove Rousseff from office. If Rousseff goes, Michel Temer – Rousseff's former vice president turned bitter enemy – will be sworn in. Temer is hardly more popular than Rousseff, however: a recent opinion poll found only 14 percent of Brazilians thought he was doing a good job. ...

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Iran wants pre-sanctions oil market share: minister

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Iran wants its pre-sanctions share of the crude market, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Friday, dampening the prospects of agreement on an output freeze at an OPEC meeting next month. Friday he insisted there could be no talk of Iran abandoning its ambitions to restore its market share after last year's nuclear agreement with world powers led to the lifting of sanctions on its oil exports. Tehran says it has doubled its exports of oil and gas to 2.7 million barrels per day (bpd) since signing the nuclear deal in July last year. A previous OPEC attempt to freeze output collapsed in April largely because of Iran's refusal to join talks. ...

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US urges all donated blood undergo tests for Zika

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Donated blood should be tested for the Zika virus, which can cause birth defects, U.S. regulators warned amid a mounting outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in the United States. Stricter national safeguards are needed as evidence has emerged that Zika can be transmitted sexually, and that those infected often show no symptoms, the FDA said. More than 2,500 people in the United States have been diagnosed with Zika, along with more than 9,000 in the U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Friday, U.S. authorities announced the first known case of a man who had Zika but did not know because he showed no symptoms – and then subsequently infected his female partner during unprotected sex. Four out of five people who get Zika do not show any of the common symptoms, which may include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. ...

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Study in mice shows Zika virus also attacks adult brain cells

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U.S. researchers have found that Zika can attack special populations of brain cells in adult mice in the part of the brain involved in learning and memory, raising new questions about how the virus may be impacting millions of adults who have been infected with the virus. The findings, published Thursday in the journal "Cell Stem Cell," are the first to look at whether Zika can attack the same kinds of cells in adult mice that they do in fetal mice. Gleeson wanted to see if Zika could attack these cells in adult mice. Gleeson said the study needs to be replicated by other scientists, and he wants to test other strains of Zika on adult mice at other times during an infection to see if those viruses have the same effect. ...

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Top separatist arrested in Indian Kashmir as toll hits 68

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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a top separatist leader, his aide said Saturday, as the region's chief minister met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defended a 50-day lockdown on the region. It came as the number of civilians killed since protests erupted in Kashmir last month after the shooting of a popular militant leader hit 68 Saturday, while a police constable was also shot dead. Kashmir has been divided between rivals India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947 . Wani's Hizbul Mujahideen and several other rebel groups have fought for decades some 500,000 Indian troops deployed in the territory, demanding independence for the region or a merger of the territory with Pakistan. ...

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German vice chancellor says can't see Turkey in EU anytime soon

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German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday he did not see Turkey joining the EU during his political career, adding that the bloc would not be in a position to take Turkey in even if Ankara met all the entry requirements tomorrow. Many EU countries are wary about the possibility of the large, mainly Muslim country becoming a member of the bloc and Europe has long worried that Turkey's anti-terrorism laws are used to quash dissent. "How would that work in a European Union that is currently losing one of its most important member states, that has been rattled, that doesn't know how it should reorganize itself?," he added, referring to Britain's recent vote to leave the bloc. He said Turkey might instead, in the distant future, become a partner "in an outer ring" of a changed EU. ...

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Lebanon hosts world blood donor youth conference

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Each year, the youth conference is hosted by a different member of the International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations. Getting members of the public to donate blood and, crucially, getting them to keep donating blood, is at the heart of the conference. In short, blood donation is critical to the efficient and effective functioning of a country's health care system. VNRBD currently makes up only 18-20 percent of blood donation in Lebanon, though this is a significant increase from 2012, when the figure was just 4 percent. Although all were aged under 30, many have a wealth of experience volunteering in blood donation organizations, with one delegate from Romania proudly declaring this was his 11th conference. So what are the key challenges facing the global effort to increase blood donation? ...

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Japan typhoon kills nine in elderly home

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Surging flood water brought by a powerful typhoon left nine people dead in an elderly care home in Japan, officials said Wednesday. The typhoon, which was packing winds over 160 kilometers (100 miles) an hour when it made landfall, also caused flooding on the northern island of Hokkaido. Typhoons usually approach Japan from the south and southwest before moving northward across the archipelago. Authorities Tuesday had warned of up to eight centimeters (three inches) of rain per hour, and said they expected flooding and landslides. ...

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Blatter wages one last battle against FIFA-imposed ban

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The former FIFA boss has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking to overturn a suspension imposed by world football's governing body. A full investigation and trial by FIFA's in-house court found Blatter and Platini both guilty of ethics violations. A FIFA appeals committee cut those penalties to six years in February, just before Blatter's successor and fellow Swiss national, Gianni Infantino, was elected as FIFA's president. Throughout the protracted saga, both Blatter and Platini have insisted the payment was part of a legitimate oral contract. Platini was hired by FIFA as a consultant from 1999 to 2002 and had not received his full compensation. ...

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Judge in Stanford rape case will stop hearing criminal cases

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The judge who gave a six-month jail term to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman will stop hearing criminal cases, a court official said Thursday, after a firestorm of criticism. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky has requested to be assigned to the court's civil division, more than two months after imposing the controversial sentence on Brock Allen Turner, 20, for the January 2015 attack, Presiding Judge Rise Jones Pichon said in a statement. In response to the sentence, lawmakers in California are moving a bill through the legislature that prohibits anyone convicted of sexual assault in the state from being sentenced just to probation. ...

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French environment minister announces partnerships in Iran

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Police snare 'China's Jack the Ripper': reports

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The original Jack the Ripper was a serial killer active in east London in the late Victorian era, who is widely believed to have murdered five women, mutilating several of them. Gao was identified after a relative was put under house arrest in Baiyin over allegations of a minor crime and had his DNA collected and tested, the China Daily said. Police concluded the killer they had been hunting for 28 years was a relation, and Gao's DNA matched the murderer's, it added. In several high-profile cases in recent years, China has exonerated wrongfully executed or jailed convicts after others came forward to confess their crimes, or in some cases because the supposed murder victim was later found alive. ...

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Municipalities must stick to govt trash plan: Chehayeb

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Chehayeb, who heads a committee responsible for implementing the government's trash plan, said that "capable" municipalities can work outside of the "centralized plan" in treating their waste. He said such municipalities should however abide by the "health and environmental" conditions in the trash plan. The temporary solution is due to last four years, allowing the government to develop a long-term plan to tackle the country's waste issues. The Finance and Budget Committee will convene again Wednesday in the presence of the municipal unions of Metn, Kesrouan, Baabda and the Burj Hammoud and Jdeideh-Boushrieh-Sadd municipalities to discuss possible solutions. ...

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US fears over ISIS group's SE Asia expansion

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ISIS extremists are eyeing expansion into Southeast Asia by joining forces with local extremists, a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official warned Friday. There have been only relatively minor attacks and plots blamed on ISIS affiliates in the region, but analysts fear the group could become more effective. The suspects' alleged leader, Gigih Rahmat Dewa, is accused of planning the attack with Bahrun Naim, a leading Indonesian militant who is believed to be fighting with ISIS in Syria. Singapore on Aug. 19 announced it had detained two men under its tough internal security law after discovering they intended to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS. ...

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West Ham sign Zaza on loan from Juventus

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Air strike kills Yemeni family of Yemeni imam: witness, medic

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Obama to meet with Turkey's Erdogan on Sept 4

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No danger of split after Russia-Iran spat

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For the time being, there will be no divorce in the Russian-Iranian "marriage of convenience," analysts say, after a public spat was quickly contained following Moscow's announcement of its use of an Iranian air base to launch strikes on Syria. Earlier this week, Russia said it halted its operations from the Iranian Hamedan base having completed its objectives, adding that further use of the base will be carried out if the situation in Syria warrants it. Vakil speculated that Russia might have capitalized on a possible limited coordination with Iran to make it public that it is using the Hamedan base. Therefore, Balanche concludes, having disagreements over issues such as the Russia's publicizing of its use of Iran's air base or even the fate of Assad become "details" in the face of their wider shared interests in the region. When asked to elaborate on Iran and Russia's political objectives in Syria, with Moscow appearing more prone to negotiate Assad's fate with the west than Tehran, Balanche said the latest diplomatic developments indicate that the issue of Assad is not "important anymore". ...

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4 suspects killed in running gun battle in Mexico

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Quake survivors erupt in anger at funeral plan; govt relents

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Italian quake survivors rebelled in anger Monday over the government's plan to hold a state funeral for their loved ones in an airport hangar in a distant town and let them watch it on screens in their emergency tent camp. The mayor of Amatrice, the hardest-hit of the three medieval towns flattened by the quake, was also upset. 231 of the quake's 292 victims have been found in Amatrice, with the death toll rising by two Monday afternoon when two bodies were extracted from rubble. A separate state funeral, for 35 victims from other towns, was held Saturday in Ascoli Piceno, a town unscathed by the quake. Nearly 2,700 quake survivors needing shelter have been staying in 58 tent camps or at other shelters arranged by Italy's Civil Protection agency. ...

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General Security marks 71st anniversary

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Turkey extradites 5 Macedonians planning to join ISIS

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Khalil to submit 2017 budget to Cabinet

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Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil Wednesday appealed to ministers and lawmakers to discuss and approve the 2017 draft budget he intends to submit to the Cabinet within the next 48 hours. Most observers believe that the new draft budget will be put on the back burner and will have the same fate as other bills. Ministerial sources said last Friday that there were at least three major obstacles that could torpedo the 2017 draft fiscal plan, including the $11 billion spent by former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government between 2005 and 2009, the financing of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and calls for including a long-standing wage-hike bill for civil servants into the budget. ...

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Health Ministry shuts 22 unlicensed gyms in Chouf district

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Suicide attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town: officials

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Alcacer has Barcelona medical ahead of proposed move

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Barcelona are on the verge of completing a reported 30 million euro ($33.57 million) move for Spain international Paco Alcacer from Valencia after the striker arrived for a medical with the La Liga champions Monday. Alcacer, who turns 23 Tuesday, came through the ranks at Valencia and made his debut in 2010, although he spent the 2012-13 season on loan at Getafe. Should the move go through, Alcacer will become the fourth Barcelona player to join from Valencia in the last four years. ...

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