| Air strike kills 26 in Yemen: medics, military sources Posted: 10 Mar 2017 02:16 PM PST  An air strike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said. The raid took place at the entrance to the market that sells the mild narcotic leaf qat, which is very popular among Yemeni men. A military source close to Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said that by fleeing to the market, the rebels had used civilians as "human shields".
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| Helicopter crashes on outskirts of Istanbul; 7 killed Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:58 PM PST  ISTANBUL (AP) — A helicopter crashed on a highway on Istanbul's outskirts Friday after apparently hitting a television tower in dense fog, reports said. All seven people on board were killed, the city's mayor said.
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| Florida's death penalty fix heads to Gov. Rick Scott Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:43 PM PST ![Florida's death penalty fix heads to Gov. Rick Scott]( "Florida's death penalty fix heads to Gov. Rick Scott") TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will require a unanimous jury recommendation before the death penalty can be imposed under a bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Rick Scott on Friday.
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| Trump: Past ‘phony’ jobs numbers now ‘very real’ Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:28 PM PST  WASHINGTON — President Trump, who regularly argued that widely accepted government-compiled jobs figures under President Barack Obama were phony, now believes that upbeat employment statistics on his watch are "very real," the White House said Friday.
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| China developing stealth drones to evade anti-aircraft missiles Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:11 PM PST ![China developing stealth drones to evade anti-aircraft missiles]( "China developing stealth drones to evade anti-aircraft missiles") China's largest missile maker is developing military drones with stealth abilities that can evade anti-aircraft weapons, the official China Daily said on Thursday, in another advance for the country's ambitious military modernization program. "Drones have become an indispensable weapon in modern warfare because they can play an important role in high-resolution reconnaissance, long-distance precision strikes, anti-submarine operations and aerial combat," Wei Yiyin, deputy general manager of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, told the English language newspaper. Insisting it has no hostile intent, China is investing billions of dollars to update ageing equipment and develop new weapons, including stealth fighters and aircraft carriers.
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| EPA chief unconvinced on CO2 link to global warming Posted: 10 Mar 2017 12:54 PM PST ![EPA chief unconvinced on CO2 link to global warming]( "EPA chief unconvinced on CO2 link to global warming") The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on whether CO2 is a harmful pollutant that should be regulated. In an interview with CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration will make an announcement on fuel efficiency standards for cars "very soon," stressing that he and President Donald Trump believe current standards were rushed through. Pruitt, 48, is a climate change denier who sued the agency he now leads more than a dozen times as Oklahoma's attorney general.
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| Petition to suspend 'sexist' Polish MEP goes viral Posted: 10 Mar 2017 12:18 PM PST  More than 700,000 people had by Thursday signed a petition demanding the European Parliament suspend a Polish far-right MEP who said women should be paid less because they are weaker and less intelligent than men. Global civic movement Avaaz launched the online petition against MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke on Wednesday, International Women's Day. "We ask the European Parliament to suspend the Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke following his hateful remarks about women and migrants, and after making a Nazi salute in the chamber," the petition says.
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| Unhealthy eating is linked to 400,000 US deaths per year: study Posted: 10 Mar 2017 11:29 AM PST  Unhealthy eating habits can be blamed for more than 400,000 US deaths a year due to heart disease and related illnesses, researchers said Thursday. The problem is twofold: Americans are eating too much salty, fatty and sugary fare, and not enough fruit, vegetables and whole grains, experts said at a meeting of the American Heart Association in Portland, Oregon. "Low intake of healthy foods such as nuts, vegetables, whole grains and fruits combined with higher intake of unhealthy dietary components, such as salt and trans fat, is a major contributor to deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States," said lead study author Ashkan Afshin, assistant professor of global health at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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| Uber works to mend relationship with regulators Posted: 10 Mar 2017 11:14 AM PST ![Uber works to mend relationship with regulators]( "Uber works to mend relationship with regulators") By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc is working to mend its relationship with regulators as pressure mounts for the company to improve its business practices and temper Chief Executive Travis Kalanick's aggressive leadership style. Uber on Wednesday obtained the necessary permit to put its self-driving cars back on California streets, conceding to the state's rules after a public spat with regulators last year and initially refusing to apply for the $150 permit. The permit allows Uber back into its home state and the chief testing ground for self-driving cars, where 26 other companies - including Alphabet Inc, Tesla Motors and Ford Motor Co - are competing for a piece of the autonomous vehicle market and have obtained state permits.
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| The Latest: Spicer: No female White House staffers skip work Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:57 AM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on International Women's Day events (all times local):
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| Wisconsin men arrested in theft of 100,000 diapers Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:26 AM PST ![Wisconsin men arrested in theft of 100,000 diapers]( "Wisconsin men arrested in theft of 100,000 diapers") FOX CROSSING, Wis. (AP) — Two Wisconsin men are facing theft charges for allegedly stealing 100,000 diapers.
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| 2 shot dead in Stockholm suburb known for feuding gangs Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:06 AM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The fatal shooting of two men in their 20s is the latest incident in suburban feuds between criminal gangs fighting over territory, police in Stockholm said Thursday, calling the situation "alarming and very serious."
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| Mexico firework village parties again after tragedy Posted: 10 Mar 2017 09:28 AM PST  A Mexican village specializing in making fireworks that was devastated by a deadly pyrotechnic explosion moved to put the tragedy behind it with a spectacular fiery fiesta. Forty-two people died and 70 were injured when tonnes of fireworks ignited at a market in the village Tultepec, north of Mexico City a few days before Christmas last year.
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| Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence' Posted: 10 Mar 2017 08:54 AM PST  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he would work with tech companies to develop fixes for them. "This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said.
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| The Latest: Dutch PM tells Turkey minister: 'Don't show up!' Posted: 10 Mar 2017 08:39 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the growing tensions between Germany and Turkey (all times local):
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| #ProfessorRyan: House speaker’s health care PowerPoint becomes a meme Posted: 10 Mar 2017 08:23 AM PST  House Speaker Paul Ryan rolled up his sleeves on Thursday to sell the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, using a PowerPoint presentation to explain the GOP plan during his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
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| White House sharpens axe for Clean Power Plan Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:52 AM PST  Seven weeks into the Trump presidency, the coal industry and electric utilities are getting restless for their promised relief from the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon dioxide emissions. But they might not have to wait much longer, according to the authoritative energy news site E&E News, which is reporting that the administration is preparing to set the repeal in motion with an executive order as early as next week.
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| CIA Leaks Reveal Backdoors In Phones, TVs, and More Posted: 10 Mar 2017 02:44 AM PST  The CIA can turn these devices into recorders of everyday conversations.
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| In Montreal, mushrooms make the local economy go round Posted: 10 Mar 2017 02:10 AM PST  While delivering oyster mushrooms to restaurants in the heart of Montreal, Lysiane Roy Maheu stops to get a bucket filled with coffee grounds from a barista friend. Three times a week, Roy Maheu and her friend Dominique Lynch-Gauthier, both 35, harvest about 200 kilograms (about 440 pounds) of mushrooms, which are delivered to area restaurants the same day. By cultivating mushrooms from recycled resources, "we've eliminated waste," explains Lynch-Gauthier, co-founder of the urban farm specializing in high-quality oyster mushrooms, Blanc de Gris.
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| The Bentley EXP12 Speed 6e Is Bentley's Vision of an Electric GT Future Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:01 AM PST  An electric cabrio built by Bentley? Sign us up.
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| Bangladeshi asylum seekers tricked into radiation clean-up: media Posted: 10 Mar 2017 12:44 AM PST ![Bangladeshi asylum seekers tricked into radiation clean-up: media]( "Bangladeshi asylum seekers tricked into radiation clean-up: media") By Minami Funakoshi and Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Bangladeshi asylum seekers in Japan cleared up radioactive contamination from one of the world's worst nuclear disasters on the false promise doing so would win them permission to stay in the country longer, media reported on Wednesday. The Fukushima nuclear plant suffered multiple meltdowns after being hit by a tsunami triggered by a big earthquake on March 11, 2011. The two men, who arrived in Japan in 2013 saying they were escaping political persecution, said they were told by brokers and construction companies that their visas would be extended if they did decontamination work, the Chunichi newspaper reported.
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| Turkey warns US relations at risk if Kurds help retake Raqqa Posted: 10 Mar 2017 12:27 AM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The United States risks major damage to its relationship with NATO ally Turkey if the U.S. includes Kurdish forces in the fight to retake Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Thursday.
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| The 2017 RUF CTR Is A Brand-New Car With Classic Style and 700 Horsepower Posted: 10 Mar 2017 12:09 AM PST  The first car built on a RUF-designed carbon-fiber platform, it packs a twin-turbo engine and a top speed of 225 mph.
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| Markets Right Now: Slump in energy stocks pulls market lower Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:51 PM PST ![Markets Right Now: Slump in energy stocks pulls market lower]( "Markets Right Now: Slump in energy stocks pulls market lower") NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):
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| Pope Francis says he is open to studying whether priests can marry Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:35 PM PST  In an interview with a German newspaper, Pope Francis said he is open to studying whether priests can marry. The pope did add that revoking clerical celibacy is not a solution for priest shortages in rural areas.
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