| Former CIA Dir. Calls Trump's Words 'Dishonorable Thing to Say' Posted: 08 Jul 2017 11:05 PM PDT  Exclsuively on Meet the Press, Former CIA Director John Brennan tells Chuck Todd that he doesn't think the president "demonstrates good negotiating skills" when it comes to Russia.
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| Pres. Trump Departs from G-20 Summit Claiming Victory, U.S. Isolated Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:01 AM PDT  While aides praised the president's accomplishments at his first G-20 summit, the U.S. isolated itself on issues like trade and climate change.
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| Wildfires Rage Across 11 Western States Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:07 AM PDT  The fires are being spurred on by record-breaking temperatures, strong winds and low humidity across much of the West.
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| Aerial videos capture terrifying wildfires scorching California Posted: 09 Jul 2017 10:35 AM PDT  Menacing red-orange flames and towering plumes of smoke smothered parts of California this weekend amid record-breaking heat and bone-dry gusts. Firefighters and scientists filmed the latest rash of Western wildfires from helicopters, drones, and stationary cameras, offering smoldering views. Dozens of structures have been destroyed and thousands of people fled their homes, though no deaths have been reported. SEE ALSO: Summers in Madrid could be as hot as those in Erbil, Iraq by 2100, research shows Videos taken on Saturday evening from the Oroville Dam in Northern California showed the ebb and flow of the Wall Fire in Butte County, which has so far scorched 4,400 acres. About 5,000 firefighters are now battling 14 large wildfires throughout the Golden State. In Southern California, wildfires burned amid record-setting heat. Downtown Los Angeles saw a high of 98 degrees on Saturday, beating out the 131-year record of 95 degrees set in 1886, according to the National Weather Service. To make matters worse, about 140,000 city residents suffered through the heat wave without air-conditioning late Saturday after an electrical receiving station exploded and caught on fire in the Northridge neighborhood. DWP plant #fire in #Northridge. The northridge mall has no power. pic.twitter.com/6Bx2JeV06o — Logan Byrnes (@LoganByrnes) July 9, 2017 Meanwhile, north of the city in San Luis Obispo County, the Alamo Fire ballooned overnight to encompass more than 24,000 acres, making it the largest fire currently burning in California, fire officials said Sunday. Operations continue on the #alamofire West of Tepesquet Canyon. #fire firefighters #fireseason #santamaria #biennacido #iaff #cpf A post shared by @santabarbaracountyfirefighters on Jul 8, 2017 at 2:17pm PDT #AlamoFire [update] off Hwy 166, near Twitchell Reservoir (San Luis Obispo Co) is now 19,000 acres & 10% contained. https://t.co/3KR0HM0UMK pic.twitter.com/KfA7fP27BU — CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 8, 2017 The nearby Whittier Fire, currently the third-largest wildfire, barreled over more than 5,000 acres and engulfed Los Padres National Forest. Flames and smoke temporarily prevented some 80 people — mostly children — from being evacuated from their campsite on Saturday, authorities said. The blaze "has real potential for growth" because the area hasn't burned in around seven decades, Andrew Madsen, the national forest public affairs officer, told NBC News . Vegetation Fire-#WhittierFire- A US Forest Service firefighter surveys flames as they continue to burn along Highway 154 near Cachuma Lake. pic.twitter.com/BXDbYKcJUt — SBCFireInfo (@EliasonMike) July 9, 2017 Wildfires are scorching California even as the state recovers from five years of severe drought. Record rainfall and snowpack in parts of the state earlier this year delayed the state of the wildfire season in some places. But it also led to explosive growth of vegetation, which could fuel future fires, the Associated Press noted. Firefighters battle a wildfire as it threatens to jump a road near Oroville, California, on July 8, 2017.Image: AP/REX/ShutterstockWhile blazes are often sparked by careless campers or arsonists, they're also striking more frequently, and burning for longer periods of time, due in part to human-caused climate change. As average temperatures rise, heat waves strike and rainfall disappears, the soil and plants are drying out faster, raising the long-term risk of wildfires, scientists say. WATCH: Firefighters in Dubai are using jetpacks to put out fires
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| Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City]( "Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City") These incredible, mind-bending aerial images offer a completely different way to view the vibrancy of New York City. Shot from above, some of the distorted images make the Big Apple appear like a planet, while others, photographed directly downward, make skyscrapers look like something out of an abstract artwork.
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| President Trump, Russian President Putin meet face-to-face at G-20 summit Posted: 09 Jul 2017 09:00 AM PDT  ABC News' Cecilia Vega reports on the key moments from the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
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| U.S. isolated on climate at summit of world leaders Posted: 08 Jul 2017 11:53 AM PDT  By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin HAMBURG (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to show off her skills as a mediator two months before a German election, achieved her primary goal at the meeting in Hamburg, convincing her fellow leaders to support a single communique with pledges on trade, finance, energy and Africa. Last month Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark international climate accord clinched two years ago in Paris.
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| Japan floods death toll rises to 15 Posted: 07 Jul 2017 09:42 PM PDT  The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, a government official said Saturday, as rescuers continued work to evacuate isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have devastated swathes of Kyushu -- the southernmost of Japan's four main islands -- after heavy rainfall, sweeping away roads and houses and destroying schools. Thousands of rescuers have been fighting through thick mud and battling rain to search for missing and stranded people, with more than 500 believed to still be cut off, according to public broadcaster NHK.
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| Kind 8-Year-Old Prays For Police Officers: 'We Support our Officers' Posted: 09 Jul 2017 08:55 AM PDT  Her mom says it's characteristic of her daughter to do so.
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| Escape by Drone? How Inmates Are Using Cell Phones to Evade Authority Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:17 AM PDT  Citing recent cases, local officials say escapes where inmates receive cell phone via drones are possible because federal authorities won't let them jam cell phone signals in state prisons.
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| Jailed Venezuela opposition leader Lopez given house arrest Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:24 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was released from prison and placed under house arrest Saturday after more than three years in a military lockup, a shock reversal by the government that fueled hopes for a broader amnesty for dozens of jailed activists in a country sliding ever deeper into political turmoil.
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| Tense Standoff at Wells Fargo in Georgia Posted: 07 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Authorities say the suspect walked into a Marietta, Georgia bank claiming to have a bomb while two employees were trapped inside.
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| Stepson Kills Stepfather, Posts Selfie With The Body On Twitter Posted: 09 Jul 2017 05:25 AM PDT  The neighbors said the father and the son had been fighting for about a month and the police had already come to their house before.
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| U.S. Bombers Carry Out Exercise in Korean Peninsula in Show of Force Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:04 AM PDT  Two U.S. B-1B bombers and American and South Korean fighter jets on Friday conducted an exercise that included practicing attack capabilities at a training range, in a show of force to North Korea days after that regime tested a ballistic missile.
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| 2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots Posted: 09 Jul 2017 11:51 AM PDT ![2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots]( "2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots") SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Police say two men are dead after a gunfight in which an off-duty Maryland state trooper intervened and fired shots.
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| Trump let Putin off the hook at the G20 summit – but does it matter? Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:50 AM PDT  Donald Trump held all the cards going into his first meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hamburg. Russia has been caught red-handed trying to derail the American presidential elections, its economy has been hobbled by western sanctions for its misdeeds on the world stage – redrawing Ukraine's borders, shooting down a civilian airliner – and by falling oil prices. Putin was the pariah at the party.
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| Teens Help Rescue Baby Girl After Coming Across Car Crash That Killed Her Mother Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:42 PM PDT  Hunter Hasenjaeger, 16, and Collin Barry, 17, were on their way home from a friend's house when they came upon a devastating collision.
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe in Singapore for medical treatment- paper Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:23 AM PDT  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, in his third such visit this year, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Africa's oldest ruler at 93, Mugabe was last in Singapore in May for what his spokesman George Charamba said then was treatment for eye problems. The Standard said he had left again for Singapore on Friday for more medical treatment.
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| Millions in Path of Deadly Storms from Kentucky to Pennsylvania Posted: 07 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Wind gusts at nearly 90 mph are blamed for killing a 72-year-old Grand Haven, Michigan homeowner when a large tree fell onto his house.
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| N. Korea warns of nuclear 'tipping point' over US bomber drill Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:45 PM PDT  North Korea on Sunday lashed out at a live-fire drill the US and South Korea staged in a show of force against Pyongyang, accusing Washington of pushing the peninsula to the "tipping point" of nuclear war. The allies held the rare live-fire drill as tensions grew over the peninsula following the North's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test held last week.
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| Can You Record The Police In Public? Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:20 AM PDT  The matter has taken center stage as an increasing number of video clips of police encounters with unarmed black men and women have begun to circulate rapidly on social media. The initiation of the Black Lives Matter movement can also be attributed to this increasing role of technology in law enforcement by the police.
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| Prime Day just started early with an insane deal on the Amazon Echo Posted: 08 Jul 2017 04:00 AM PDT 
Woh, woh, woh... what exactly is going on here, Amazon? Prime Day 2017 isn't supposed to start until 9:00 PM ET on Monday, and yet here we are on Saturday looking at one of the craziest deals we've ever seen! Amazon typically sells refurbished Amazon Echo smart speakers for $135, which is a nice discount compared to the $180 the retailer charges for a new Echo. Then, every once in a while, the price might drop under $130 and that's a great time to grab one. Right now, however, Amazon has an insane deal for Prime subscribers that drops the price of the refurbished Amazon Echo speaker all the way down to $89.99. You read that correctly — $89.99! This price is good on Saturday only, and only while supplies last. Trust us, supplies are not going to last so you'll definitely want to snag one (or several) while you can. If you're not already a Prime member, sign up for a free 30-day trial and snag this deal without paying a penny for Prime. Here's what you need to know from the product page: - A Certified Refurbished Amazon Echo is refurbished, tested, and certified to look and work like new
- Plays all your music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more using just your voice
- Introducing Alexa calling and messaging, a new way to be together with family and friends. Just ask Alexa to call or message anyone with an Echo, Echo Dot, or the Alexa App.
- Fills the room with immersive, 360º omni-directional audio
- Hears you from across the room with far-field voice recognition, even while music is playing
- Answers questions, reads the news, reports traffic and weather, reads audiobooks from Audible, gives info on local businesses, provides sports scores and schedules, and more using the Alexa Voice Service
- Controls lights, fans, switches, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, locks, and more with compatible connected devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, Samsung SmartThings, Nest, ecobee, and others
- Always getting smarter and adding new features, plus thousands of skills like Uber, Domino's, DISH, and more
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| Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup Posted: 09 Jul 2017 09:29 AM PDT ![Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup]( "Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup") CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian and Palestinian leaders met in Cairo on Sunday amid signs of a rapprochement between Cairo and the Islamic militant Hamas group that could shake up Gaza's political landscape and sideline the Palestinian president.
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| G20 summit shows Trump took U.S. from first to worst on climate change in under a year Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:52 PM PDT  At the 2016 G-20 summit, in Hangzhou, China, world leaders united in a common determination to implement the Paris Climate Agreement before the end of the year. The U.S., led by then-President Barack Obama, was a key player in rounding up support for the agreement. It was difficult to imagine then that the U.S. would ever turn away from this agreement, widely regarded as the world's last, best chance to rein in global warming, that it had worked so hard to forge. Then President Donald Trump came along. Fast forward one year later, and the U.S., now under President Donald Trump, has become such a pariah on climate change that leaders of 19 of the 20 largest economies in the world signed onto a climate and energy agenda that demotes the U.S. to a mere footprint — literally — on one of its pages. SEE ALSO: How clean energy is transforming the world, in 5 charts In addition, America's major contribution to the climate change portion of the G-20's summary document, known as the G-20 communiqué, was to call for helping countries more easily obtain fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, whose use is causing global warming in the first place. The G-20 communiqué issued Saturday by all the leaders struck a compromise that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had sought, by declaring that "the Paris Agreement is irreversible" while taking note of Trump's widely criticized June 1 decision to withdraw from the agreement. The communiqué, which also addresses a host of other contentious issues including trade, reveals the rift that has opened up between the U.S. and the rest of the world when it comes to climate and energy priorities. Take this language the U.S. inserted into the document: "The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently and help deploy renewable and other clean energy sources..." In other words, let's ship countries more oil and gas to burn, and also some renewable energy too. Meanwhile, the climate and energy action plan discusses the need to devise plans to make deep cuts to greenhouse gases by the middle of this century, something climate scientists say is necessary in order to avert the worst consequences of global warming, but which the Trump administration is not devoting any time or resources to thinking about. "The direction of travel toward clean energy is loud and clear. The question remains how quickly the world will surge forward and how far behind the Trump administration will let the United States fall," said Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute, in light of the communiqué and the climate and energy action plan. Leaders of environmental groups praised the heads of the 19 nations that stood up to Trump on climate change. "The other 19 leaders of the world's largest economies stood shoulder to shoulder in unified support for the Paris Agreement," said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune, in a statement. "Given the choice between following Trump or standing strong for climate action, not a single world leader decided to back him," Brune said. "That's unprecedented, and it shows how deeply unpopular and misguided Trump's attack on the Paris Agreement has been, and how much damage it has done to U.S. credibility and standing in the world." WATCH: Trump is getting crushed at his own handshake game
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| Delta Passenger Arrested After Wild Brawl Breaks Out When He Allegedly Tries To Open Emergency Exit Door Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:25 AM PDT  The suspect hit a flight attendant over the head with a wine bottle.
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| Venus Williams' Car Accident Surveillance Video Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:05 PM PDT  The tennis star's car accident surveillance video show's her lawfully entering the intersection.
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| 'Oh My God, It Is Obama.' Baby Snags Presidential Selfie Posted: 09 Jul 2017 08:55 AM PDT  An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos she snapped of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama
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| Germany's G20 street chaos puts political heat on Merkel Posted: 08 Jul 2017 08:45 AM PDT  Raging street battles that marred Germany's G20 summit have sparked a political fight over how Hamburg could descend into "mob rule" and why Chancellor Angela Merkel chose a hotbed of leftist militancy as the venue. Germany's top-selling Bild daily was withering in its condemnation of the chaos that saw far-left and anarchist radicals torch rows of cars, loot shops and hurl rocks and bottles from burning barricades at riot police. Sadly, it applies in Hamburg," the newspaper thundered Saturday, slamming the summit as a "debacle".
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| Man Proposes While Being Arrested, Girlfriend Says Yes Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:11 PM PDT  It's not clear if he's been released yet.
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| Spain's running of the bulls: No gorings on Day 3 Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:49 AM PDT  PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — After five gorings on the first two days of this year's San Fermin festival, officials in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona said Sunday's third running of the bulls was quick and resulted in only minor injuries.
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| Kenya interior minister dies in hospital Posted: 08 Jul 2017 12:44 AM PDT  Kenya's interior minister has died in hospital, the government said on Saturday, a month before the country is due to hold national elections. "It is with deep sorrow and shock that we announce the sudden passing on of Interior CS Retired General Joseph Nkaissery," Joseph Kinyua, the chief of staff and head of the public service, said in a statement. President Uhuru Kenyatta is running against his long-time rival, veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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| Donald Trump posts G20 slideshow set to Make America Great Again anthem Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:51 PM PDT  Donald Trump speaks at a women and development event at the G20 summit. Donald Trump's trip to Hamburg for the G20 saw Trump frozen out by many of his international partners while he continued to baffle observers with his eagerness to give Russia the benefit of the doubt on election hacking.
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| Shepherds mauled in Romania bear attack Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:02 PM PDT  Two shepherds were seriously injured in a bear attack Saturday in Romania's remote Carpathian mountains, reigniting debate over a government decision to suspend an annual culling programme. Romania is home to around 60 percent of Europe's brown bears -- some 6,000, a quarter of which roam the mountains around Harghita. There have been seven bear attacks there in 2017 alone, prompting anger among locals.
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| Deals, Expectations For Amazon Prime Day Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:30 AM PDT  More consumers are expected to tune in this yea for Amazon Prime Day than previous years. Here are other expectations for the self-proclaimed holiday.
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| The Best Products at Trader Joe's (According to the Employees Who Know Them Best) Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT  This article, The Best Products at Trader Joe's (According to the Employees Who Know Them Best), originally appeared on Chowhound. Before I had witnessed its majesty firsthand, I couldn't understand the intense enthusiasm surrounding Trader Joe's.
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| Cancer patient who lost half of his face has it reconstructed by pioneering surgeon Posted: 08 Jul 2017 08:21 AM PDT  A man who lost half of his face when doctors removed a cancerous tumour that had grown to the size of a melon has had it rebuilt by a pioneering surgeon. Tim McGrath, 38, was devastated when a rare form of soft tissue cancer called Synovial Sarcoma left him with a huge growth that had to be cut away by medics in 2015. The operation left Mr McGrath, from Michigan, "heartbroken" while he lived with exposed flesh for a year as his body rejected several attempts to reconstruct his face.
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| Egypt raid kills IS suspects after deadly Sinai attack Posted: 08 Jul 2017 12:16 PM PDT  Egyptian police said they killed 14 alleged Islamic State group members Saturday in a raid on a training camp, a day after the jihadists conducted a deadly attack on soldiers. Funerals were held across the country for at least 21 soldiers killed in Friday's attack in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, one of deadliest against the military in years. The interior ministry said police officers raided a desert training camp in the eastern province of Ismailiya, killing the 14 alleged militants.
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| Priest Arrested For Allegedly Pulling Out Gun During Road Rage Incident Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:07 PM PDT  No one was injured.
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| Kenya's interior minister dies a month before election Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:39 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Nkaissery, Kenya's interior minister and a retired general, died Saturday in a Nairobi hospital a month before the East African country's presidential election. He was 67.
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| Hawaii renews bid to narrow Trump travel ban Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:33 AM PDT  The state of Hawaii renewed its bid to narrow President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, following court rulings which said the state had taken the wrong procedural approach in attempts to challenge the administration's policy earlier this week. In a court filing late on Friday, Hawaii's attorney general asked a Honolulu judge to issue an injunction allowing grandparents and other family members to travel to the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court last month let the ban on travel from six Muslim-majority countries go forward with a limited scope, saying it could not apply to anyone with a credible "bona fide relationship" with a U.S. person or entity.
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| G20 launches plan to fight poverty in Africa Posted: 08 Jul 2017 11:34 AM PDT  G20 nations launched an unprecedented initiative Saturday at the group's summit in Germany to fight poverty in Africa, but critics called the plan half-hearted. Under German Chancellor Angela Merkel's "Investment Compacts", an initial seven African countries would pledge reforms and receive technical support in order to attract new private investment. Germany's partner nations are Ghana, Ivory Coast and Tunisia, while Ethiopia, Morocco, Rwanda and Senegal are also taking part.
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| Why Children From Low-Income Families Develop Earlier Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:10 PM PDT  Kids from low-income families more likely to develop earlier, which could have long-lasting health effects.
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| Why Does Coffee Upset My Stomach? Posted: 09 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT  For specialty-coffee professionals (that is, baristas and roasters and coffee importers), "acidity" is actually a positive attribute: It's the term used to describe the fruit-like sparkle a certain coffee will have in its flavor profile.
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| More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:47 AM PDT  More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. The minimum age for marriage across most of the US is 18, but every state has exemptions – such as parental consent or pregnancy – which allow younger children to tie the knot. In May, the high-profile Republican governor for New Jersey declined to sign into law a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception.
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| India puts Kashmir in lockdown on rebel's death anniversary Posted: 08 Jul 2017 05:13 AM PDT  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir clashed with government forces Saturday as they defied a stringent curfew on the anniversary of the killing of a charismatic rebel leader whose death triggered open defiance against Indian rule.
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| French suspect held for planning attack with Belgian pair Posted: 09 Jul 2017 03:34 AM PDT  A 42-year-old French national appeared in court Sunday on suspicion of plotting an attack with multiple weapons alongside two Belgian brothers who were charged in Brussels this week, judicial sources said. The suspect is believed to be connected to Akim and Khalid Saouti, two brothers who were charged in Brussels on Wednesday with belonging to a "terrorist group" and were believed to be planning an attack with a large stash of weapons including Kalashnikov rifles. The pair, who were arrested the previous night in the Brussels suburb of Anderlecht, are brothers of convicted jihadist Said Saouti, a member of the Kamikaze Riders, a notorious bikers' club based in Brussels.
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| How You Can Feel Younger Right Now Posted: 09 Jul 2017 05:05 PM PDT  Do you ever wonder why some people just look better than others? The Doctors are joined by dermatologist Dr. Ava Shamban to explain why. "It is true that aging is inevitable, but we can control the rate at which we age," Dr. Shamban tells urologist Dr. Jennifer Berman. Can one skincare product added to your daily routine make a difference?
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