| Maxine Waters Responds To Death Threats: 'You'd Better Shoot Straight' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Days after she was forced to cancel events because of a "very serious" death
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| French gangster escapes from prison using a helicopter Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:06 AM PDT  Witnesses say several heavily-armed men landed a hijacked helicopter in the courtyard to free 46-year-old Redoine Faid, who was serving 25 years for murder.
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| Mexico Elects Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador In Landslide Posted: 01 Jul 2018 07:14 PM PDT  Mexico elected leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a landslide
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| Full Graham: Mueller investigation ‘not a ground for recusal’ from Supreme Court Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:50 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Chuck Todd that he believes President Trump's Supreme Court nominee won't have to recuse him or herself if questions of presidential power make their way to the Court.
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| 'Vilified too long': Teachers' unions fight back after supreme court ruling Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT  A supreme court decision puts unions' funding at risk. Gunshots ring out from the nearby hunting range across the railroad tracks in Westmoreland City, Pennsylvania, but Jason Davis is not easily deterred. "You never know what's going to happen when you knock on someone's door," says Davis as we get out of his car to start walking the hills of this blue-collar, Trump-supporting community in the foothills of the mountains of south-western Pennsylvania.
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| Philippine mayor on Duterte's 'narco-list' slain by 'sniper' Posted: 02 Jul 2018 12:52 AM PDT  A Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte's list of allegedly narcotics-linked officials was shot dead Monday by a "sniper" in a broad daylight attack at a town ceremony, police said. Antonio Halili was hit in the chest by a single shot fired from a distance, unleashing chaotic scenes during the weekly flag raising ceremony at the town hall in Tanauan, south of Manila. Town police chief Renato Mercado told AFP the shot was fired from about 150 metres (490 feet) away.
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| Tesla hits Model 3 production target, backs profit view Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Tesla, which Chief Executive Elon Musk hailed on Sunday as having become a "real car company," said it now expects to boost production to 6,000 Model 3s per week by late August, signaling confidence about resolving technical and assembly issues that have plagued the company for months. The electric carmaker's shares rose as much as 6.4 percent to $364.78 in early trading, after Tesla said it produced 5,031 Model 3 cars in the last seven days of the second quarter. Money-losing Tesla has been burning through cash to produce the Model 3, and delays have also potentially compromised Tesla's first-to-market position for a mid-priced, long-range battery electric car as a host of competitors prepare to launch rival vehicles.
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| Delta Apologizes to Busy Philipps for Rerouting Her Daughter on Separate Flight Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:41 AM PDT  The company refunded her money after the mix-up.
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| 11 bodies, 10 of them hanging, found at New Delhi home Posted: 01 Jul 2018 07:54 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India's capital said they found 11 bodies at a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging.
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| Voters in Mexico choose new president, thousands of officials in country’s largest election Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known by his initials, AMLO, leads in the polls. The election comes amid a U.S. border crisis as thousands travel through Mexico to the United States.
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| Ocasio-Cortez: Socialism is 'part of what I am, not all of what I am' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 11:59 PM PDT  Democratic House nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Chuck Todd that her brand of politics emphasizes access to housing, healthcare and education, during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press.
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| Crews rescue deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours in Alabama Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:52 PM PDT  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot (15-meter) crevice behind a house in Alabama.
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| 'We'll Fix This': Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump Posted: 02 Jul 2018 02:13 AM PDT  There are running jokes about how often Canadians tend to say "sorry." But on
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| Exclusive: Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters. It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Trump: I'm told I shouldn't ask my SCOTUS nominee about Roe v. Wade Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:20 AM PDT  President Trump said he probably won't ask potential Supreme Court candidates about their opinions on abortion before nominating Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's replacement. In a program that aired Sunday morning, Fox News journalist Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if he would ask his nominees beforehand how they might vote on Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision affirming that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion. Trump responded that he's been advised not to ask such specific questions and that he plans to appoint another conservative justice like Neil Gorsuch, whom Trump appointed to replace Antonin Scalia.
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| 6 Kids Attending Birthday Party Among 9 Stabbed At Apartment Complex Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:23 AM PDT  Six children were attending a birthday party when they were violently stabbed
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| 'I Am Here to Salute My President': Mexicans Celebrate Lopez Obrador's Left-Wing Landslide Posted: 02 Jul 2018 02:45 AM PDT  The festivities on Sunday night were the culmination of a 30-year struggle by the Mexican left to win the presidency
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| Gay activist attacked in Ukraine ahead of pride march Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:03 AM PDT  Unidentified assailants have attacked a gay activist in central Ukraine ahead of a gay pride parade he was helping prepare, LGBT rights activists said on Sunday. Borys Zolotchenko was severely beaten by a group of around 10 men in the centre of the industrial city Kryvyi Rig late Saturday, Gay Alliance Ukraine said. As a result of the attack, Zolotchenko was hospitalised, with Gay Alliance Ukraine releasing a picture of him with scratches on his face.
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| French politician Simone Veil honored with Pantheon burial Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:37 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who repeatedly broke barriers for women in French politics and spearheaded the fight to legalize abortion, was buried at the Pantheon on Sunday, an honor reserved for French heroes.
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| The best signs from the Families Belong Together marches Posted: 30 Jun 2018 11:53 AM PDT  On Saturday, people around the U.S. gathered for Families Belong Together marches in solidarity with the migrant parents and children who've been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. As the New York Times reports, there are more than 2,000 children in detention centers, and concrete plans to return them to their parents are few and far between. At Saturday's marches, protestors carried signs demanding swift action. SEE ALSO: 7 activist groups supporting families at the border that need your help right now Plans for a June 30 "Day of Action" began earlier in the month, after reports of family separations and the devastating photos and audio that followed came to light. And while a massive protest took place in Washington D.C., people in cities all around the country — from New York to Hawaii — and even overseas made plans to march as well. Carrying signs admonishing the Trump administration for its cruel immigration policies, protesters turned out in droves to stand with separated families. These are some of the best signs we've seen so far: Next generation is leading #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/NhUkoI7UDP — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 30, 2018 #Portsmouth New Hampshire turned out! #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/ioXb1n6CgV — Kaz Brecher (@kazbrecher) June 30, 2018 This will never stop being my favorite sign. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/PSH562zcRk — ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) June 30, 2018 Doesn't take much thought to answer this question! #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/5jMzQqnQv0 — Nate C (@Gomab4lif) June 30, 2018 At the #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch in DC, one 4yo protester holds a sign she painted herself (with a little help from mom). Watching, her mother Karen says she can't imagine being parted from her child. pic.twitter.com/dZHlRQpx9H — Hannah Natanson (@hannah_natanson) June 30, 2018 A Washington D.C. protestor.Image: ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images Protestors in New York City.Image: Kena Betancur/Getty Images Image: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images Signs in New York.Image: Kena Betancur/Getty Images A sign in D.C.Image: ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images Signs in D.C.Image: AFP/Getty Images A sign in New York.Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images People marching in New York.Image: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAnd as a bonus: In D.C., Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the parents who've been separated from their children. "We're here because there's parents right now who can't sing lullabies to their kids...Don't stop. Don't give up until these families are united." - @Lin_Manuel #FamilesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/fKTASEND6v — Families Belong Together March (@WomenBelong) June 30, 2018 WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' most ludicrous moments as press secretary
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| Rebel-held Syrian towns accept Assad rule after regime bombardment Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:10 PM PDT  A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and defeat there would leave rebels with just one remaining stronghold - the area around Idlib province bordering Turkey in the northwest. Rebels met Russian negotiators on Saturday to seek peace terms for Daraa province, where most of their southwest territory is located, but said these failed. Moscow is Assad's strongest ally and its air power since 2015 has been crucial to his recapture of vast swathes of Syria. Local groups in many towns seized by the army in recent days had negotiated their own surrender deals independently of the main rebel operations rooms after heavy air raids. State television broadcast footage from inside the towns of Dael and al-Ghariya al-Gharbiya, where people were shown chanting pro-Assad slogans. Young boys sit atop a truck as they flee rebel-held areas of the city of Daraa Credit: MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images A war monitor and a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah said numerous other towns and villages had agreed to come back under Assad's rule. Fierce battles were still roiling the area around Daraa city, near the Jordanian border, where the army was trying to capture a disused air base, rebels said, and the northwestern chunk of Daraa province remains in opposition hands. Air raids meanwhile intensified, said the monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as displaced people flocked to the border areas least likely to be hit and the United Nations warned about a humanitarian catastrophe. After the peace talks failed on Saturday, warplanes launched a new wave of strikes on the rebel-held towns of Bosra al-Sham, al-Nuaima and other areas, the Observatory reported, causing deaths, injuries and damage. The army's offensive follows the capitulation of rebel enclaves near Homs and Damascus, including eastern Ghouta, which was recaptured after a scorched-earth assault that killed over a thousand civilians and laid waste to several towns. Syrians wait at the border areas near Jordan after they fled from the ongoing military operations by the Assad regime and its allies Credit: Ammar Al Ali /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Warfare in the southwest could risk a further escalation because of its proximity to Israel. The Israelis have already targeted Iran-backed militias fighting on Assad's side, which they have vowed to keep far from their country's borders. The government's offensive so far has focused on Daraa province, which borders Jordan, but not Quneitra province abutting the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The entire southwest is part of a "de-escalation zone" agreed last year by Russia, the US and Jordan. Despite Washington's threats that it would respond to breaches of that arrangement, it has shown no sign of doing so, and the opposition's top negotiator on Thursday accused it of having struck a "malicious deal" to stay silent.
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| Trump Rips Harley-Davidson For Overseas Operation — Just Like His Own Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:55 PM PDT  Donald Trump is continuing to hammer Harley-Davidson over the motorcycle
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| Sharks drag woman who ignored warnings not to feed them into water Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:09 AM PDT  A woman on vacation in western Australia says she decided to hand-feed the sharks while boating when she was pulled into the water.
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| Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:11 PM PDT ![Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions]( "Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions") Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S. economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. Since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal which lifted most sanctions in 2015, the rial currency has dropped up to 40 percent in value, prompting protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers. Speaking after three days of those protests, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the U.S. sanctions were aimed at turning Iranians against their government.
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| FBI arrest man over alleged 4th July terror attack in Cleveland Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:58 AM PDT  An Ohio man has been arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack for US Independence Day, following a months-long FBI investigation. Officials alleged that Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, also known as Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, planned to fill a van with explosives and target people watching fireworks in downtown Cleveland on the Fourth of July. The 48-year-old allegedly expressed his desire to join al-Qaeda and to conduct a US-based attack that would "hit them in their core".
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| African Union chief says 'time to act' on South Sudan Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:22 PM PDT  African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat called Saturday for measures against the key players in the conflict in South Sudan, saying "we are used to them not respecting their commitments". "The situation in South Sudan is serious. The humanitarian and security situation is increasingly difficult.
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| Japan's 84-year-old emperor has dizziness, advised to rest Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:25 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's 84-year-old Emperor Akihito was advised to rest after feeling nauseous and dizzy early Monday and canceled or postponed his duties.
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| Bear Cub With Burned Feet Rescued From Colorado Fire Posted: 01 Jul 2018 01:24 PM PDT  She will eventually return to the wild.
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| London's V&A Museum to stage 'reimagined' hit Dior expo Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:21 PM PDT  London's Victoria and Albert Museum said Sunday it plans a reprise in 2019 of a Christian Dior retrospective that last year drew record numbers to the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris. The show, to run from February 2 to July 14, promises to be "the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior," the V&A said in a statement. "Spanning 1947 to the present day, 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' will trace the history and impact of one of the 20th centuryâ s most influential couturiers," the statement said.
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| Merkel moves to placate coalition partners in crucial migrant meeting Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:02 PM PDT  Angela Merkel will move to end the rebellion in her creaking coalition government on Sunday after announcing bilateral deals with 14 EU member states to accept the return of asylum seekers to the countries where they first arrived. The agreements announced yesterday are aimed at placating her conservative Bavarian CSU coalition partners who have threatened to unilaterally shut Germany's borders if Mrs Merkel does not adopt a more hardline migration policy. Analysts said that the German chancellor's future remained deeply uncertain despite her apparently winning enough concessions at last week's European Council summit to placate her CSU partners. Both Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party and the Bavarian CSU party will meet in Germany's parliament on Sunday afternoon in a bid to broker a truce with the CSU and it's chairman Horst Seehofer, who serves as her interior minister. A CDU source said that there was a general expectation that both sides would "muddle through" but added warned against presuming that a deal would be done, given how unpredictable the CSU leadership was, and how "stubborn" Mrs Merkel could be. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff of the opposition Free Democrats (FDP) said both the CDU and the CSU were now so erratic no-one should predict the outcome. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer backed Mrs Merkel into a corner Credit: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke "I do not know anyone in Berlin who dares to make predictions about the behaviour of the CSU," he told Die Welt. Already strains were showing yesterday after Mrs Merkel wrote an eight-page letter outlining her European Council deal, including the 14 bilateral agreements and a plan to have "anchor centres" to process migrants at Germany's borders. The agreements included Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, which have all been harsh critics of Mrs Merkel's welcoming stance to migrants, as well as Belgium and France but notably did not include frontline states of Italy and Spain, or Germany's neighbour Austria. The letter caused Markus Söder, the CSU prime minister of Bavaria, to say that the EU had created space for unilateral action by Germany on its borders - an interpretation that was swiftly shot down by the CDU. "Unilateral measures at the expense of other countries are not what is meant," Mrs Merkel's office said in a statement. Bavaria bore the brunt of Mrs Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders in 2015, angering the CSU which is a sister-part of the CDU which does not field candidates in the southern German state. Scaling up the EU's border agency The CSU went back into coalition with Mrs Merkel after a protracted six-month negotiation which ended last March with a three-way 'grand coalition' agreement that included the Social Democrat (SPD). The CSU has taken a hard line on migration in a bid to boost support ahead of key October local elections where current polls show the party at risk of losing its outright majority because of the rise of the hard-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD). Analysts warned that even if Mrs Merkel and Mr Seehofer could patch up their differences, the truce was likely to fail again and had done lasting damage, according to an editorial in Der Spiegel. "Even if the two sister parties can come to an agreement they will not recover from this horrible theatre for a long time," the paper wrote.
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| U.S. Ambassador To Estonia Resigns Over Trump's European Union Comments Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:50 PM PDT  The U.S. ambassador to Estonia has announced his resignation, saying he is
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| U.S. has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:56 PM PDT ![U.S. has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton]( "U.S. has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton") By Hyonhee Shin and Doina Chiacu SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea's weapons programs could be dismantled within a year, as the United States and North Korea resumed working-level talks. Bolton told CBS's "Face the Nation" that Washington has devised a program to dismantle North Korea's weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological and nuclear - and ballistic missile programs in a year, if there is full cooperation and disclosure from Pyongyang.
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| Teen's police killing tests long-frustrated black Pittsburgh Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:48 AM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station.
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| Is TooFaced about to launch a skincare line? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:46 AM PDT  TooFaced could be set to double down on its debut into skincare by expanding its range. The makeup brand's co-founder and CEO, Jerrod Blandino, has hinted in an interview with HelloGiggles that a full skincare line could be on the way, following the label's debut in December, when it launched its cult "Glow Job" face mask. "I'm actually tip-toeing in skin care based on our Hangover line," Blandino told the publication.
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| 2019 BMW X4 First Drive: Better Style, More Substance Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:02 PM PDT  The coupe-inspired version of the BMW X3 feels just like its more conventionally styled sibling, and that's a good thing.
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| Fury sparked after 11-year-old Thai girl married to Malaysian man Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:57 AM PDT  The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a "child predator". Malaysian Muslims below the age of 16 are allowed to marry if they obtain the permission of a religious court. But the country's women and families ministry said there was no record of religious authorities approving the union, which took place last month across the border in Thailand's largely Muslim far south. "Our officers have gone to the house and met the girl's mother. We are waiting for more reports before deciding on the next course of action," deputy prime minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was quoted as saying by the Sunday Star newspaper. The 41-year-old husband could be jailed for six months if he married without permission. Malaysian activists have called for law reform to end child marriage, which they said was widespread among the country's Muslim population. Some 16,000 Malaysian girls below the age of 15 are already married, advocates claim. "Marrying a 11-year-old girl is like the behaviour of a child predator or paedophile," child activist Syed Azmi Alhabshi said. Mr Alhabshi said the man was a prosperous trader and already married to two women while the girl's parents were impoverished rubber farmers. Muslim men are allowed to marry up to four wives in Malaysia. The United Nations children's agency Unicef said it was "outraged" by the incident. "It is shocking and unacceptable. Unicef... calls on the government to make good its manifesto promise to ban child marriage," said the agency's Malaysia representative Marianne Clark-Hattingh.
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| Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT  A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday. The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which it said was five metres (16 feet) long, on Thursday in the seas off Cabrera island and followed it for over an hour, it said on its Facebook page, posting a picture. "In the past years there have been possible unconfirmed sightings and various rumours, but this is the first scientific verification of the presence of a Carcharodon (great white shark) in Spanish waters in at least 30 years," it wrote.
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| LeBron James Is A Los Angeles Laker Posted: 01 Jul 2018 05:26 PM PDT  LeBron James is now a Laker.
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| White House Backs Off Trump Tweet Claiming Saudi Agreement To Produce More Oil Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:11 PM PDT  The White House late Saturday issued a statement backing down from President
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| Interior minister offers to resign, in blow to German coalition Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:13 PM PDT  By Jörn Poltz and Thomas Escritt MUNICH/BERLIN (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer offered his resignation to party colleagues late on Sunday, party officials said, escalating a row over migration with Chancellor Angela Merkel that threatens her fragile government. Seehofer said he was ready to step down as minister and as chair of his Christian Social Union (CSU) at a meeting where his party's leadership was discussing whether to accept immigration proposals Merkel brought back from Brussels last week. The move makes the future of Merkel's government even more uncertain, since her Christian Democrats party (CDU) relies on the Bavarian conservative CSU to maintain power through a coalition formed three months ago to end a political vacuum.
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| Family separation highlights immigration in Arizona midterms Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:33 AM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The outrage sparked by the sights, sounds and stories of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the outsized role immigration will play in the midterms in Arizona.
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