| Some Gun Rights Activists Counterprotest Massive ‘March For Our Lives' Rallies Posted: 24 Mar 2018 11:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― As hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and activists
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| March for Our Lives: Youth send a message with rallies across the country Posted: 24 Mar 2018 08:43 AM PDT  Demonstrators filled the streets of Washington, DC and cities around the country, a chorus of young voices demanding change and telling legislators "enough."
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| The stories behind the signs at the March for Our Lives Posted: 24 Mar 2018 03:55 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — They were three generations of women, up from Harrisonburg, Va. for the March for Our Lives. Jan, the grandmother, held up a sign that said "My generation failed them."
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| The Rest Of The World Showed Up To March For Our Lives Posted: 24 Mar 2018 09:05 PM PDT  As the March For Our Lives protests took over cities across America, allies
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| Unafraid & Unapologetic: Student Activists Speak Out at March For Our Lives Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:50 AM PDT  Students are sending a strong message to the world: Our. Lives. Matter. On
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| French police officer hailed a hero after terror attack, dies from his injuries Posted: 24 Mar 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Arnaud Beltrame was one of the first officers to respond to the attack on a French supermarket, swapping places with a hostage.
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| France honours 'hero' officer who was killed after swapping himself for hostage Posted: 24 Mar 2018 09:32 AM PDT  Flags were flown at half-mast in gendarme stations across France as the country honoured the officer declared a national hero by President Emmanuel Macron after he swapped himself for a hostage and was killed by an Islamist gunman. "Arnaud Beltrame died in the service of the nation to which he had already given so much," Mr Macron said. "In giving his life to end the deadly plan of a jihadi terrorist, he fell as a hero." The 45-year-old Lieutenant Colonel in the gendarmerie died in hospital overnight from gun wounds after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage held by an attacker holed up in a supermarket in the southwestern town of Trèbes on Friday. Arnaud Beltrame, 45, took the place of a woman who gunman Radouane Lakdim was holding as a hostage Credit: AP Unbeknownst to his Morocco-born captor, who had by then killed three people in a shooting spree and wounded 16 more, he left his mobile phone on so police outside could hear what was happening inside the store. They stormed the building when they heard gunfire - the gunman shot and stabbed his captive - and shot dead the hostage-taker. Mr Beltrame was taken out alive and transported by helicopter to a nearby hospital, but died a few hours later. Carcassonne shooing - locator map They stormed the building when they heard gunfire and shot dead the hostage-taker. But Mr Beltrame was wounded in the intervention and died hours later. Tributes to the dead officer, who first took his place among the elite police special forces in 2003 and was decorated in 2007 after serving in Iraq, flooded in on Saturday morning as the country woke to the news of his death. The president was among the first to respond, with a long statement listing the gendarme's glittering career - which included four years handling security at the Elysée - and saying he "deserved the respect and admiration of the entire nation." The officer's name was the top trending hashtag on the French edition of Twitter, with members of the public in France and around the world paying tribute to what many of them called a "true hero." Police gather outside a supermarket in Trebes Credit: AP The name of the 25-year-old Islamist hostage-taker, Redouane Lakdim, who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, was the second most used term on Twitter. It was General Richard Lizurey, the director general of the national gendarmerie, who ordered the French tricolour to be flown at half-mast at stations across the country, saying he wanted to pay "solemn homage to the heroism of our comrade." Arnaud Beltrame was killed after swapping himself for a hostage in the town of Trebes, southwestern France Credit: AFP Locals placed flowers on the ground outside the barracks in the town of Carcassonne where Mr Beltrame was based. "At school, we were very scared," read one note placed by the flowers and signed by a little girl named Lilou. "You were very brave." "He gave his life for someone else, for a stranger," said the officer's brother Cédric. "He departed as a hero." Mr Beltrame's mother, speaking late on Friday while her son was still fighting for his life in hospital, said that when she heard the news that a gendarme had swapped himself for a hostage, she immediately "knew it was him." "He's always been like that. He is someone… who would do anything for his country," she said. Gendarmes and police officers at a supermarket after a hostage situation in Trebes Credit: REUTERS Mr Beltrame, who was married with no children, graduated from France's elite Saint-Cyr military academy in 1999. He later trained for the elite GIGN police force that specialises in counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, and at one point trained to become a military freefall parachutist, a type of high-altitude parachuting most often carried out by special forces. He worked as an advisor at the ecology ministry for three years before going back to field work last year in the Aude region where his final - and fatal - intervention took place on Friday. Mr Beltrame had organised a training session in the region in December for just such a hostage situation. At the time, he armed his officers with paintball guns, according to Depeche du Midi, the local newspaper. "We want to be as close to real conditions as possible," he said then. The identities of the three other fatal casualties of Friday's attacks have been made public. Jean Mazières, a winemaker in his 60s, was the first to die when Lakdim hijacked the car he was travelling in in Carcassonne and shot him dead. The driver of the car, a Portuguese national, was seriously injured. Christian Medves was the butcher in the Super U shop in Trèbes. He was shot in the head when the attacker burst into the supermarket Hervé Sosna, a retired bricklayer, was a customer standing next to Medves when he was gunned down. Investigators probing Friday's attack are focusing on establishing how the gunman, who was known to police for petty crime and drug dealing, got his weapon and how he became radicalised. Radouane Lakdim, who authorities have named as the 26-year-old attacker responsible for the death of at least three people in southwest France Credit: AFP Police searching his home found notes referring to Isil that appeared to be a final testament. Two people have been detained over alleged links with a terrorist enterprise, one woman close to Lakdim and one friend of his, a 17-year-old male, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
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| Iowa Family Died of Gas Asphyxiation at Mexican Resort Posted: 25 Mar 2018 06:31 AM PDT  There was no sign of foul play or suicide, authorities said
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| Trolley cars abandoned in graveyard Posted: 25 Mar 2018 08:26 AM PDT ![Trolley cars abandoned in graveyard]( "Trolley cars abandoned in graveyard") Tucked away in these spooky woodlands, one man has amassed a huge collection of decaying trolley cars. Once a novel mode of public transport in the likes early 20th Century New York, the hauntingly beautiful trolleys are now at one with nature – a scene that abandoned location photographer Matthew Christopher was able to discover in a location not disclosed to the public. Matthew, of Abandoned America, has shot the roughly 40 trolleys at various stages throughout the years – his images ranging from those that still have their original paint jobs to rusted vehicles covered in graffiti.
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| Students March For Their Lives As Trump Chills At Golf Course, Largely Ignores Them Posted: 25 Mar 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Hundreds of thousands of protesters nationwide took to the streets Saturday to
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| Designer Of Deadly Kansas Waterslide Has 'No Engineering Credentials': Lawsuit Posted: 25 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PDT  The Kansas water park owner who helped design the waterslide that decapitated
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| UK regulators search Cambridge Analytica offices Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:05 PM PDT  British regulators on Friday began searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the scandal-hit communications firm at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, shortly after a judge approved a search warrant. Around 18 enforcement agents from the office of Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham entered the company's London headquarters at around 8:00pm (2000 GMT) to execute the warrant. The High Court granted the raid request less than an hour earlier, as Denham investigates claims that Cambridge Analytica may have illegally harvested Facebook data for political ends.
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| South L.A. Teen Gives Powerful Speech On Trauma Of Surviving Gun Violence Posted: 24 Mar 2018 11:09 AM PDT  A teen from South Los Angeles who lost her brother to gun violence commanded
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| South Korea says North agrees to hold summit preparation talks on March 29 Posted: 24 Mar 2018 12:54 AM PDT  By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to hold high-level talks with South Korea on March 29 at the border truce village of Panmunjom to prepare for a summit of their leaders planned for April, the South said on Saturday. A team of three officials will be led by Ri Son Gwon, the chairman of North Korea's committee for the peaceful reunification of the country, the North told its neighbor early on Saturday, the South's Unification Ministry said. "This morning, North Korea sent a message through a communication channel in Panmunjom agreeing to our suggestion made on the 22nd to hold high-level inter-Korea talks," the ministry said in a statement.
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| How short bursts of exercise could help you live a healthier life Posted: 24 Mar 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Duke University researchers found that adults who exercised for an hour a day cut their risk of death by more than half — no matter if they exercised in one big chunk of time or in short, 5-minute bursts throughout the day.
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| Mount Etna slowly 'sliding towards the Mediterranean Sea' Posted: 24 Mar 2018 08:20 AM PDT  Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, is slowly sliding towards the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have observed. The entire 3,350m (11,000ft) stratovolcano, located on the east coast of the Italian island of Sicily, is currently moving downslope at an average rate of 14 mm per year - or 1.4 metres over 100 years. Experts have warned the sliding could eventually lead to greater risk of large scale slope failure, which could trigger landslides, however researchers at The Open University emphasised there is currently no sign of that happening. Dr John Murray, lead author of the paper published in the Bulletin of Volcanology, stressed the minute movement currently posed no danger to life, but warned that monitoring the volcano for more significant changes was crucial. "At the moment there is no cause for concern from the sliding of the volcano towards the sea, the movement is just too small," Dr Murray told The Telegraph. "However, the possibility of things changing in the future needs to be taken seriously, so it is important to keep monitoring the movement." At a glance | Deadliest volcanic eruptions The UK-led team, who monitored the changes using GPS technology placed around the mountain, found the sliding is lubricated by the weak sediments beneath Etna and the slope of the basement. Dr Murray, who has been working for 49 years studying the active volcanoes of Mount Etna, said if a sector collapse were to occur, the results could be "catastrophic". "Around one million people live on Etna and its immediate surroundings, so the destruction of property and loss of life could be catastrophic; but I cannot emphasise enough that there is no sign of this happening at the present time," he explained. "Clearly even the mention of such a dangerous event would be very unnerving for the people who live on Etna, so I am anxious that they don't get the wrong impression." At a glance | Where are the world's most famous volcanoes? It is the first time basement sliding of an entire active volcano has been directly observed, with the team suggesting that similar edging may be taking place at other active volcanoes such as Mexico's Volcán de Colima and Mount Teide in Tenerife. Dr Murray said he did not expect the rate of movement to increase, but added: "I regard it as essential to keep measuring our stations, and will be on the lookout for any kind of change in rate of downslope sliding."
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| White House order would bar most transgender troops from serving Posted: 24 Mar 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Under the Trump administration's policy, most transgender individuals would be "disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances."
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| Emma Gonzalez leads moment of silence at March for Our Lives rally in D.C. Posted: 24 Mar 2018 12:50 PM PDT  Emma Gonzalez leads a moment of silence at the March for our Lives rally in D.C. to observe the time it took for a gunman to take 17 lives last month.
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| Killing of unarmed black man roils California's capital city Posted: 23 Mar 2018 08:11 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by Sacramento police has roiled California's capital city, leading to a protest that shut down a freeway and delayed an NBA game at the downtown arena. Stephon Alonzo Clark, 22, died in a hail of police gunshots Sunday night in the darkened backyard of the home where he had been staying with his grandparents. Police say they thought he was pointing a handgun but they found only a cellphone nearby.
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| UK watchdog reviews evidence after Cambridge Analytica search Posted: 24 Mar 2018 03:08 AM PDT  British regulators finished searching the offices of Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of a Facebook data scandal, before dawn on Saturday and said they would examine the evidence before considering "next steps". After receiving a warrant from a judge, about 18 enforcement agents from the Information Commissioner's Office entered the company's London offices at around 8:00 pm (2000 GMT) Friday. Cambridge Analytica, which worked on US President Donald Trump's election campaign, has been accused of illegally mining tens of millions of users' Facebook data and using it to target potential voters.
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| Woman Sneaks In Anti-Ted Cruz Message During Photo With Ted Cruz Posted: 25 Mar 2018 02:22 PM PDT  On Saturday, a Twitter user going by the name "Sukie," with the handle
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| Russia denies aiding Afghan Taliban in wake of U.S. general's comments Posted: 24 Mar 2018 11:46 PM PDT  Russia has rejected comments by NATO's top commander in Afghanistan that it has been supporting and even supplying weapons to the Taliban, in a clash of words that underlines growing tension over Moscow's involvement in the conflict. In an interview with the BBC last week, General John Nicholson said that Russia had been acting to undermine U.S. efforts in Afghanistan despite shared interests in fighting terrorism and narcotics, with indications that Moscow was providing financial support and even arms. "We've had weapons brought to this headquarters and given to us by Afghan leaders and said this was given by the Russians to the Taliban," he said.
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| March for our Lives: Parkland student Emma Gonzalez ends Washington rally by telling crowd to 'fight for your lives' - as it happened Posted: 23 Mar 2018 10:45 PM PDT  Thirty-eight days after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, hundreds of thousands of students across the country have taken to to the streets in an anti-gun violence protest of unprecedented size. The marches – which consists of a main event in Washington DC alongside sister protests in New York, Los Angeles and hundreds of communities across the country and around the world – is the culmination of weeks of planning by student survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting in which 17 people were killed on Valentine's Day. The focal point was the March for Our Lives rally in Washington DC, but tens of thousands also turned out in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Minneapolis in demonstrations sparked by the survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine's Day.
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| Kaine: Bolton may have problems getting security clearance Posted: 25 Mar 2018 03:22 PM PDT  Kevin Corke reports from West Palm Beach, FL
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| Discover Top 10 Tech Features Of The 2019 VW Touareg Posted: 25 Mar 2018 12:06 AM PDT |
| Relatives Mourn the Loss of Family of 4 Who Died While on Vacation in Mexico Posted: 24 Mar 2018 12:54 PM PDT  It s unclear what caused their deaths.
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| 'Black Panther' The U.S.'s Highest Grossing Superhero Film Of All Time Posted: 24 Mar 2018 02:28 PM PDT  In the U.S., "Black Panther" is officially the king of superhero films.
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| 2 firefighters killed, 3 injured trying to reach fatal wreck Posted: 24 Mar 2018 08:01 PM PDT ![2 firefighters killed, 3 injured trying to reach fatal wreck]( "2 firefighters killed, 3 injured trying to reach fatal wreck") PRATT, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia firefighters were killed and three others were injured when a volunteer fire department's truck flipped while responding to a call about a highway accident that also had three fatalities, authorities said Saturday night.
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| Donald Trump Sticks With Ban On Most Transgender Troops Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:23 PM PDT  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he's sticking to his ban on
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| Dozens arrested as Belarus opposition marks 'Freedom Day' Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:22 AM PDT  Belarusian authorities on Sunday arrested around 30 protesters in Minsk ahead of a banned opposition march while detaining activists across the country, human rights group Viasna said. The Belarusian opposition is marking the 100th anniversary of the short-lived Belarusian People's Republic of 1918-19 that it sees as the foundation of an independent Belarus. It accuses President Alexander Lukashenko of consciously erasing Belarusian identity and "russifying" the former Soviet republic.
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| As Syrian rebels quit Ghouta, Douma stands alone Posted: 24 Mar 2018 01:32 PM PDT  Syrian rebels began pulling out of several towns in their former enclave of eastern Ghouta on Saturday, surrendering them to the government and leaving the besieged city of Douma as their last bastion there. It comes after a month-long assault that devastated the already battered eastern Ghouta, an area of farmland and towns that was one of the first centers of the uprising in 2011 and the last major rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus. Ten buses carrying fighters along with their families and other civilians started to leave the enclave after dark, the vanguard of a convoy heading into exile in northwestern Syria.
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| Police: Officer kills driver who tried to pin him with car Posted: 23 Mar 2018 07:08 PM PDT ![Police: Officer kills driver who tried to pin him with car]( "Police: Officer kills driver who tried to pin him with car") LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A police officer shot and killed a suspect who was trying to pin him with a car, authorities on Florida's Gulf Coast said Friday.
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| Video of Uber Crash Raises More Questions Posted: 24 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  Experts say the SUV's laser and radar sensors should have spotted Herzberg and her bicycle in time to brake.
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| Black Dragon: This Is Taiwan's Super 'Gun' That Would Blast China in a War Posted: 25 Mar 2018 07:07 AM PDT  In the video below, Taiwanese troops roll a Black Dragon on rails from its underground lair on Kinmen — before firing it with a really big bang. It's worth remembering there was a time when the islands were at the front line of a long and violent conflict, one characterized by frequent artillery duels and commando raids. Now the islands are tourist attractions and Taiwan's military presence fell sharply … decades ago.
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| UK investigators search London office of firm at centre of Facebook data storm Posted: 24 Mar 2018 04:24 AM PDT  Investigators from Britain's data watchdog searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the centre of a storm over allegations it improperly harvested Facebook data to target U.S. voters. About 20 officials, wearing black jackets with "ICO Enforcement" on them, arrived at the firm's central London offices on Friday evening soon after a High Court judge granted a search warrant sought by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The officials, who were let into the building by security guards, were seen checking books and papers through the windows of the second-floor offices on London's busy New Oxford Street, a Reuters witness said.
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| ABC's Karl Schmid Reveals He Is HIV Positive In Moving Facebook Post Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:22 AM PDT  Los Angeles-based ABC correspondent Karl Schmid said he struggled for nearly a
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| David Hogg: We are going to make guns the voting issue Posted: 24 Mar 2018 10:59 AM PDT  Parkland, Florida school shooting survivor speaks out at the Washington D.C. March for Our Lives.
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| Mnuchin Touts Trump's Call For Unconstitutional Line-Item Veto Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Congress should somehow reinstate the line-item veto even though
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| The Latest: Closing arguments set in police slaying trial Posted: 23 Mar 2018 07:38 PM PDT ![The Latest: Closing arguments set in police slaying trial]( "The Latest: Closing arguments set in police slaying trial") NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a man accused of killing a New Orleans police officer (all times local):
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| EU Russia envoy holds crisis talks over spy poisoning Posted: 25 Mar 2018 12:36 PM PDT  The EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini held crisis talks with the bloc's ambassador to Moscow Sunday after he was recalled over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England. EU leaders summoned envoy Markus Ederer back to Brussels for consultations as international pressure builds on Moscow over the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury. At a summit on Friday, the bloc unanimously backed Britain's assessment that the Kremlin was to blame for the incident -- the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War 2.
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| Uber to sell Southeast Asia business to rival Grab - source Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:56 AM PDT  Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, in what would be the U.S. company's second retreat from Asia. The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the first big consolidation in the industry in Southeast Asia, home to about 640 million people, and will put pressure on rivals such as Indonesia's Go-Jek, backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and China's Tencent Holdings Ltd . As part of the transaction, Uber would get a stake of as much as 30 percent in the combined business, the source said.
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| Who Makes Tires For The World's Most Expensive Car? Posted: 24 Mar 2018 03:17 AM PDT  Well, Pirelli does now. It's just announced a new addition to its historic range – for the 65-year-old, $38-million Ferrari 250 GTO...
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| Gaza's Hamas rulers hold large military drill amid tensions Posted: 25 Mar 2018 02:00 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Islamic militant group that rules Gaza staged a large-scale military drill in the impoverished territory on Sunday.
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| World cities go dark as Earth Hour climate campaign circles globe Posted: 24 Mar 2018 10:13 PM PDT  The Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and Moscow's Red Square were among the world landmarks to go dark Saturday, as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change. Earth Hour, which started in Australia in 2007, is being observed by millions of supporters in 187 countries, who turned off their lights at 8:30 p.m. local time in what organisers describe as the world's "largest grassroots movement for climate change". "It aims to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the environment and wildlife," Earth Hour organiser WWF Australia chief Dermot O'Gorman told AFP.
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| Nigeria talking to Boko Haram about possible ceasefire Posted: 25 Mar 2018 01:13 PM PDT  By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent cessation of hostilities, the country's information minister said on Sunday. It is the first time in years the government has said it is talking to Boko Haram about a ceasefire in an insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of people since 2009. President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has repeatedly said it is willing to hold talks with the group.
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| Apple boss Tim Cook pleads with US and China to call off trade war Posted: 25 Mar 2018 10:19 AM PDT  Apple boss Tim Cook has called for "calm heads" amid growing fears China and the US could be on the brink of a trade war. China later announced a $3bn list of US goods, including pork, apples and stainless steel pipes, which could be hit by higher tariffs in retaliation to Washington's accusation that Beijing improperly acquired foreign technology. Speaking at the China Development Business Forum in Beijing on Saturday, Mr Cook urged businesses to keep their lines of communication open, reports CNN.
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| Family disputes California police account in shooting of black man Posted: 23 Mar 2018 09:35 PM PDT  The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by police officers in the backyard of his grandparents' house in Sacramento, California, disputes the police account that he had earlier been breaking windows, the family's attorney said on Friday. Two officers, responding to a report of someone shattering car windows, fatally shot Stephon Clark, 22, on Sunday night. Police on Wednesday released body camera and helicopter video of the shooting in Sacramento, the state capital, sparking street protests the next day.
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| FBI seeks motive for fiery van crash at California air base Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:33 PM PDT  ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they are stumped as to why a man who emigrated 25 years ago from India drove a flaming minivan full of propane tanks and gasoline cans through the main gate of a major Northern California Air Force Base this week, but see no evidence of terrorism.
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