| Photos of the day - March 19, 2017 Posted: 19 Mar 2017 02:03 PM PDT ![Photos of the day - March 19, 2017]( "Photos of the day - March 19, 2017") A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq; a baboon looks at the road in Amboseli National Park, Kenya; a woman places flowers on a train wagon at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, to mark the 74th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of its Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
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| In an Israeli warehouse, clues about Jesus' life and death Posted: 19 Mar 2017 01:47 PM PDT  BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — In a cavernous warehouse where Israel stores its archaeological treasures, an ancient burial box is inscribed with the name of Jesus.
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| Clashes in Syria capital after surprise rebel assault Posted: 19 Mar 2017 01:28 PM PDT  Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday as rebels and jihadists tried to fight their way into the city centre in a surprise assault on government forces. The attack comes just days before a fresh round of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva aiming at ending Syria's six-year war. Rebels and government forces agreed to a nationwide cessation of hostilities in December, but fighting has continued across much of the country, including in the capital.
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| Italy arrests Ghanaian for trafficking, torturing migrants Posted: 19 Mar 2017 01:14 PM PDT ![Italy arrests Ghanaian for trafficking, torturing migrants]( "Italy arrests Ghanaian for trafficking, torturing migrants") By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a Ghanaian man for alleged murder, rape, kidnapping and people-smuggling after migrants he is accused of mistreating attacked him at a reception center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. According to the arrest warrant, the African migrants turned on 20-year-old Sam Eric Ackom, known to his assailants as Fanti, when they recognized him as one of a gang that had kidnapped and tortured them in Libya during their voyage to Italy. The warrant, issued by police in the Sicilian city of Agrigento and seen by Reuters, illustrates the plight of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty who increasingly fall victim to criminal gangs operating in lawless Libya.
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| Correction: Radioactive Lab-Indictment story Posted: 19 Mar 2017 12:57 PM PDT ![Correction: Radioactive Lab-Indictment story]( "Correction: Radioactive Lab-Indictment story") KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a story March 17 about a Kansas man accused of tainting a lab with radioactive waste, The Associated Press misstated the name of an organization he founded. Ahmed el-Sherif founded the American Muslim Council of Greater Kansas City. The words "Kansas City" were mistakenly left off in the original story.
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| Cat exhibition in Bishkek Posted: 19 Mar 2017 12:41 PM PDT ![Cat exhibition in Bishkek]( "Cat exhibition in Bishkek") Cats breeders and owners from Kyrgyzstan gathered in Bishkek to present their feline pets. (Getty)
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| Pulitzer-winning New York columnist Jimmy Breslin dies at 88 Posted: 19 Mar 2017 12:24 PM PDT ![Pulitzer-winning New York columnist Jimmy Breslin dies at 88]( "Pulitzer-winning New York columnist Jimmy Breslin dies at 88") Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, a self-described "street reporter" who chronicled New York City life for decades and won acclaim for his coverage of the "Son of Sam" serial killings, died on Sunday morning at age 88. Breslin died at his home on Manhattan's West Side, said Michael Daly, a friend and a columnist at the New York Daily News, one of several newspapers where Breslin worked in his decades-long career. Breslin was believed to be 86 at the time of his death, but the columnist's family and doctor checked his birth certificate after his death and it showed him to be 88, the Daily News reported.
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| Saffron growers look to get a foothold in the US Posted: 19 Mar 2017 12:09 PM PDT  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — As spring crocus blooms approach, some growers have visions of a fall-flowering crocus that produces saffron, the world's most valuable spice.
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| In Iowa, more constituents flood a GOP town hall to protest Trump policies Posted: 19 Mar 2017 11:51 AM PDT ![In Iowa, more constituents flood a GOP town hall to protest Trump policies]( "In Iowa, more constituents flood a GOP town hall to protest Trump policies") Sen. Joni Ernst (R) of Iowa jostled with a tense crowd of constituents Friday, becoming the latest GOP leader to field criticism over what voters see as dangerous complacency under President Trump's agenda. Speaking at a town hall at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Senator Ernst was met by angry constituents who booed her responses to questions about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, climate change, and healthcare policy.
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| Top Dem on House intel panel hopes Comey ends ‘wild goose chase’ over Trump wiretap claims Posted: 19 Mar 2017 11:36 AM PDT  The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee continue to say they have seen no proof of President Trump's explosive, evidence-free claim that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower before the 2016 presidential election. "Was there a physical wiretap of Trump Tower?
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| Macron holds edge in French election race ahead of first debate Posted: 19 Mar 2017 11:18 AM PDT ![Macron holds edge in French election race ahead of first debate]( "Macron holds edge in French election race ahead of first debate") Emmanuel Macron remains favorite to win France's turbulent presidential election race, a poll showed on Sunday, on the eve of a first televised debate which could allow embattled conservative Francois Fillon to get back in contention. Macron, a former economy minister running as an independent centrist, would lead first-round voting with 26.5 percent, just ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen on 26 percent, before beating her 64-36 in the run-off, according to the Odoxa poll. Fillon scored 19 percent of first-round voting intentions in the poll, confirming the task faced by the one-time frontrunner to revive a campaign sapped by a fraud investigation.
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| Saudi-led coalition calls for U.N. supervision of Yemen port Posted: 19 Mar 2017 11:02 AM PDT ![Saudi-led coalition calls for U.N. supervision of Yemen port]( "Saudi-led coalition calls for U.N. supervision of Yemen port") A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen called on Sunday for the United Nations to place a strategic port under its supervision after a helicopter attack on a boatload of Somali refugees left 42 dead. The refugees had departed from the western port city of Hodeidah en route to Sudan when the gunship opened fire on Friday, the United Nations refugee agency said. The Red Sea port near the Bab al-Mandab strait is under the control of Yemen's armed Houthi movement, which has been fighting Saudi Arabia and its allies in a two-year-old conflict.
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| Three US soldiers wounded in Afghan 'insider attack' Posted: 19 Mar 2017 10:45 AM PDT  Three American troops were wounded Sunday when an Afghan soldier opened fire in southern Helmand province, officials said, in the first known "insider attack" on international forces this year. No insurgent group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack in Camp Antonik in Washer district, which highlights long-simmering tensions between Afghan and foreign forces. "Three US soldiers were wounded this afternoon when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at a base in Helmand province.
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| German Social Democrat Schulz chosen to challenge Merkel Posted: 19 Mar 2017 10:27 AM PDT  Martin Schulz on Sunday officially became Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief rival at Germany's September general election, leading the leftwing challenge to unseat arguably the world's most powerful woman. The bearded Social Democrat, already credited with giving his ailing party a strong shot in the arm, was unanimously elected SPD leader and standard bearer at a one-day congress in Berlin. In a speech to the SPD rank and file, the 61-year-old attempted to harness this momentum against Merkel, whose conservatives just a few months ago had an apparently invincible lead in the polls.
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| White House security boosted after arrest Posted: 19 Mar 2017 10:10 AM PDT  The US Secret Service has bolstered security at the White House after a man was arrested making threats at one its checkpoints, a third such security scare in just over a week. "On March 18, 2017 at approximately 11:05 pm, an individual drove a vehicle up to a Secret Service checkpoint located at 15th Street and E Street NW," a Secret Service spokesman said in the latest of a series of White House security concerns. "Upon contact with the individual, US Secret Service Uniform Division Officers detained the individual and declared his vehicle suspicious.
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| Price says passing health care bill through House and Senate 'a fine needle' to be thread Posted: 19 Mar 2017 09:56 AM PDT  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price weighs in on the GOP health care bill.
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| Afghan soldier killed after shooting, wounding 3 US troops Posted: 19 Mar 2017 09:39 AM PDT ![Afghan soldier killed after shooting, wounding 3 US troops]( "Afghan soldier killed after shooting, wounding 3 US troops") KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan soldier opened fire Sunday inside a base in the southern Helmand province, wounding three U.S. soldiers before being shot dead.
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| Somalia wants Saudi probe of refugee boat attack Posted: 19 Mar 2017 09:23 AM PDT  Somalia has called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to investigate an incident in which dozens of Somali refugees were shot dead on board a boat. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack that killed more than 40 Somali refugees in waters off the coast of war-torn Yemen early on Friday. The bloodshed was quickly condemned by UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdusalam Omer urged the Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels in Yemen to investigate.
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| Secret Service arrests bike rack jumper near White House Posted: 19 Mar 2017 09:06 AM PDT A person was arrested Saturday after jumping over a bike rack in an apparent bid to reach the fence outside the White House, the Secret Service said. President Donald Trump was away in Florida at the time. A Secret Service official speaking on condition of anonymity said the person was not found to be carrying any weapons.
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| Israel threatens to 'destroy' Syrian air defence systems Posted: 19 Mar 2017 08:49 AM PDT  Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defence systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. "The next time the Syrians use their air defence systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation," Lieberman said on Israeli public radio. Israeli warplanes hit several targets in Syria on Friday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the strikes targeted weapons bound for Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement.
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| High court pick Gorsuch is harsh critic of assisted suicide Posted: 19 Mar 2017 08:15 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch made it clear in a book and other writings what he thinks about assisted suicide and euthanasia: He's not a fan.
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| Tillerson lauds China-US contacts in meeting with leader Xi Posted: 19 Mar 2017 07:57 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — The United States is looking forward to the first meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday, on the final day of a swing through Asia dominated by concerns over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
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| Paris Orly Airport attacker wanted to kill, die for Allah Posted: 19 Mar 2017 07:41 AM PDT  Soldiers at Paris' busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said.
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| Rep. Will Hurd and Rep. Joaquin Castro on Monday's House Intel Committee hearing Posted: 19 Mar 2017 07:24 AM PDT  The House Intelligence Committee members weigh in on the president's wiretap allegations.
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| Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student Posted: 19 Mar 2017 07:09 AM PDT ![Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student]( "Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student") Tad Cummins, 50, who is believed to be armed with two hand guns, was placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's top 10 "most wanted" list on Friday on charges of aggravate kidnapping and having sexual contact with a minor. Cummings, who is married, was fired from his Maurey County high school teaching job on Tuesday after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with student Beth Thomas, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Thomas was last seen on Monday just before 8 a.m. CT when a friend dropped her off at a Shoney's family-style restaurant parking lot in Columbia, Tennessee, a city about 45 miles south of Nashville.
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