| Foreigners tried to influence the 2016 election – Not just Russia Posted: 19 May 2018 08:44 AM PDT  The New York Times reports Donald Trump Jr. allegedly met with an Israeli social media specialist and an emissary for the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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| Trump: 'Real Americans' Should Get 'Tough' On Russia Probe Posted: 20 May 2018 08:59 AM PDT  President Donald Trump attacked the credibility of special counsel Robert
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| China air force lands bombers on South China Sea island Posted: 19 May 2018 12:10 AM PDT  China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement. "A division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) recently organized multiple bombers such as the H-6K to conduct take-off and landing training on islands and reefs in the South China Sea in order to improve our ability to 'reach all territory, conduct strikes at any time and strike in all directions'," it said in the statement issued on Friday. It said the pilot of the H-6K bomber conducted assault training on a designated sea target and then carried out take-offs and landings at an airport in the area, describing the exercise as preparation for "the West Pacific and the battle for the South China Sea".
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| Why Meghan Markle's wedding is more personal for African Americans Posted: 18 May 2018 06:34 PM PDT  MSNBC's Joy Reid discusses with a panel of guests why Meghan Markle's wedding to Prince Harry feels more personal for African Americans.
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| Cougar Kills Mountain Biker In Washington State, Injures Companion Posted: 19 May 2018 09:28 PM PDT  A cougar attacked two mountain bikers in Washington state Saturday morning,
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| IS begins quitting last pocket of Syria's capital Posted: 20 May 2018 06:32 AM PDT  Islamic State group fighters began evacuating their final stronghold in southern Damascus on Sunday, a monitor said, bringing Syria's government closer than ever to flushing out the last threat to the capital. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used a combination of military pressure and evacuation deals in recent months to recapture territory around the capital from his armed opponents. Last month, troops and allied Palestinian militia launched a fierce offensive to oust IS from a cluster of districts in southern Damascus, including the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk.
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| Cuba: 110 died in plane crash, 3 survivors 'critical' Posted: 19 May 2018 05:48 PM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — The only three survivors of Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades were clinging to life Saturday, a day after their passenger jet crashed in a fireball in Havana's rural outskirts with 113 people on board.
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| Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Says Amazon Threats Are ‘Not In My Lane’ Posted: 20 May 2018 09:18 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, says it's not his
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| Father of Pakistani victim in Texas school shooting grieves Posted: 19 May 2018 08:09 AM PDT  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Abdul Aziz Sheikh sits on the ground floor of his Karachi home surrounded by mourning friends, relatives and local politicians that have come to give their condolences. Composed, he fights back tears. On the floor above, his wife is still in shock. The friends around her wail in grief.
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| Hounded by graft probe, fearing safety Malaysia's Najib seeks protection Posted: 20 May 2018 02:40 AM PDT  By Fathin Ungku KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak fears for his safety and has asked for police protection, his spokesman said on Sunday, a day after the ex-leader complained over the conduct of police searching properties for evidence of corruption. Having ruled Malaysia for nearly 10 years, Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, have been barred from leaving the country after his coalition's surprise defeat in an election on May 9. Najib has consistently denied all allegations of wrongdoing, but his image hasn't been helped by his wife's reputation for lavish spending.
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| China agrees to import more from U.S. Posted: 19 May 2018 03:11 PM PDT  After joint talks in Washington, China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America's trade deficit. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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| Cougar kills mountain biker and wounds another in Washington state Posted: 20 May 2018 06:03 AM PDT  Two friends on a morning mountain bike ride 30 miles (48 kilometres) east of Seattle were attacked by a cougar, killing one of the men and leaving the second hospitalised. The cougar was later found up a tree near the dead man's body, where agents for the state's Fish and Wildlife police shot and killed it hours after the Saturday attack, the Seattle Times reported. The names of neither man were immediately released. The 31-year-old survivor said he and his friend were mountain biking in the Lake Hancock forest area at about 11am when they realised they were being chased by the big cat. "So they stopped and they made a lot of noise, said Capt. Alan Myers of the state department of Fish and Wildlife, ''which is exactly what we counsel people to do. "The two victims then took a minute and were catching their breath about this amazing, incredibly scary event that just occurred and suddenly the victim (the survivor) was attacked again by this cougar. "It latched onto his head. He said he had his whole entire head in the jaws of this animal and was being shaken around very, very horribly." Here's a photo of the cougar that attacked two men on a mountain bike ride near North Bend today. One man died. Another man is at Harborview Medical Center tonight @komonews#komonews#Cougarattackpic.twitter.com/gVQSLL3CwB— Tammy Mutasa (@TammyKOMO) May 20, 2018 The second victim turned and started to run away, and the cougar went after him and killed the 32-year-old. The injured man rode for about 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) before getting mobile coverage and calling emergency services. Patient status update: The 31-year-old male who arrived at Harborview this afternoon as a result of a mountain lion attack near North Bend is being treated in the Emergency Dept. He is currently awake and alert and in serious condition.— Harborview Seattle (@harborviewmc) May 19, 2018 Sgt. Ryan Abbott said when rescuers arrived it took them about 30 minutes to locate the second victim, who was dead with the cougar standing on top of him. "The deputies shot at him and spooked him, and he ran off," he said. It took several hours before authorities found the cougar up a tree 45 to 182 metres away and killed it. While the cougar was being hunted, rescuers had to wait to retrieve the dead man's body. Rich Beausoleil, the state's bear and cougar specialist, said it was only the second fatality in the state in the last 94 years. "But it's one too many," he said. Cougars, also known as mountain lions and pumas, are a protected species, the Times reported. Each year, the state allows 250 cougars to be hunted and killed in 50 designated zones.
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| Saudis detain women's advocates ahead of driving ban lift Posted: 19 May 2018 06:19 AM PDT  Saudi authorities have arrested seven prominent women's rights advocates, dividing public opinion just weeks before the kingdom is set to lift its driving ban on women. Without naming those detained, Saudi Arabia's state security apparatus said seven people had been arrested for "attempting to undermine the security and stability of the kingdom... and to erode national unity". The crackdown comes even as the kingdom breaks with long-held restrictions on women and the mixing of the genders, with its driving ban on women slated to end June 24.
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| Hawaii lava evacuees grow weary as uncertainty drags on Posted: 20 May 2018 01:29 PM PDT  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Ed Arends grabbed what he could in the night and fled his 5-acre property, lava oozing from a crack in his neighborhood on Hawaii's Big Island.
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| More than 100 people killed as passenger plane crashes in Cuba Posted: 18 May 2018 06:26 PM PDT  An ageing airliner carrying 110 people crashed shortly after take off from Havana airport in Cuba on Friday, leaving just three survivors in the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades. The 39-year-old Boeing 737 had taken off on an internal flight when it went down into a cassava field not far from the end of the runway just after midday, bursting into flames and leaving huge plumes of black smoke. A local resident told Granma, the Cuban state newspaper, that the plane crashed after it attempted to return to the airport – making a turn and clipping electricity cables, then plummeting to the ground. Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Cuban president, visited the scene immediately and said: "There is a high number of people who appear to have died. "Things have been organised, the fire has been put out, and the remains are being identified." Granma reported there was a baby aged under two on board, plus four children. The Cubana Airlines Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport when the accident happened Credit: ADALBERTO ROQUE/ AFP The paper also said that the crew was "foreign" and that there were foreigners on board, but did not give details. The three survivors were taken to the Calixto Garcia hospital, in the Vedado district of Havana. Families of those on board were asked to bring photos of their loved ones to the scene, to assist with identification. The Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport en route to the town of Holguin – a flight of around an hour and a half. The plane crashed near a school and lay in a farm field, heavily damaged and burnt, with firefighters spraying water on its smouldering remains. Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the crash site Credit: AFP What appeared to be one of the wings of the plane was wedged among scorched tree trunks, but the main fuselage appeared to have been entirely destroyed. Firefighters and rescue workers combed through the wreckage, but there seemed little chance of finding survivors. The plane was believed to be a Cubana airlines flight. Mercedes Vazquez, director of air traffic, told Prensa Latina that the plane was owned by Damojh - a Mexican company which operates under the name Global. At a glance | Cuba A Global employee told AP that the plane was theirs. Cuban state television had earlier claimed that the plane was owned by Blue Panorama, an Italian firm, but they denied involvement. The Cuban state carrier had suspended its own domestic flights in March owing to a shortage of aircraft, according to security site Garda World. Cubana has also taken many of its aging planes out of service in recent months due to mechanical problems. The airline is notorious among Cubans for its frequent delays and cancellations, which Cubana blames on a lack of parts and airplanes due to the US trade embargo on the island. Friday's crash was Cuba's third major fatal accident since 2010. A survivor is loaded into an ambulance Credit: AFP Last year, a Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board. In November 2010, an AeroCaribbean flight from Santiago to Havana went down in bad weather as it flew over central Cuba, killing all 68 people, including 28 foreigners, in what was Cuba's worst air disaster in more than two decades. The last Cubana accident appears to have been on Sept. 4, 1989, when a chartered Cubana plane flying from Havana to Milan, Italy, went down shortly after takeoff, killing all 126 people on board, as well as at least two dozen on the ground. Cubana's director general, Capt. Hermes Hernandez Dumas, told state media last month that Cubana's domestic flights had carried 11,700 more passengers than planned between January and April 2018. It said that 64 per cent of flights had taken off on time, up from 59 per cent the previous year. "Among the difficulties created by the US trade embargo is our inability to acquire latest-generation aircraft with technology capable of guaranteeing the stability of aerial operations," he said. "Another factor is obtaining part for Cubana's aircraft."
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| Mark Kelly: Trump Rolled Over For NRA, Did Nothing About Guns After Parkland Posted: 18 May 2018 10:56 PM PDT  Former astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of shooting survivor and former Rep.
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| Iraq's al-Sadr says next government will be 'inclusive' Posted: 20 May 2018 12:51 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections, has sought to reassure Iraqis about their next government, saying it will be "inclusive" and mindful of their needs.
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| Texans turn to God as school rocked by latest shooting Posted: 20 May 2018 12:56 PM PDT  Grief-stricken families in southwestern Texas gathered in churches throughout Santa Fe on Sunday seeking spiritual succor following a massacre at the town's high school, the nation's latest mass shooting. As federal investigators search for a motive in the deadly attack, hundreds of people attended an emotional funeral service for a Pakistani exchange student, one of 10 people killed in Friday's rampage. The gunman has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student who is alleged to have used his father's shotgun and revolver to kill fellow classmates and two teachers.
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| California Man Wins Lottery 4 times in 6 Months For More Than $6 Million Posted: 20 May 2018 08:13 AM PDT  He said he doesn't know what caused his lucky streak.
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| U.S. sees strong shared interests with EU on Iran concerns Posted: 20 May 2018 12:22 PM PDT  WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday said it hopes to use strong shared interests that have emerged with its European Union partners in recent months to move forward on addressing Iran's nuclear program, missile development and role in regional conflicts. A State Department official said the shared interests could form a "foundation to continue to work together moving forward." Iran said on Sunday that it would join a meeting with diplomats from Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia in Vienna on Friday to discuss next steps after the May 8 decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to exit the 2015 nuclear accord.
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| Convicted killer in Malaysia scandal offers to tell all: report Posted: 19 May 2018 07:18 AM PDT  A Malaysian former police officer convicted of killing a young woman in a scandal linked to the country's disgraced ex-leader offered Saturday to reveal who ordered the grisly slaying in exchange for a full pardon, a media report said. Sirul Azhar Umar, now in Australian custody after fleeing Malaysia in 2015, has maintained that he was ordered by "important people" to murder the Mongolian woman, Altantuya Shaariibuu, in 2006. Altantuya was killed and her body blown up with military-grade explosives.
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| Justify Wins the Preakness Stakes and Is Now One Race Away From the Triple Crown Posted: 19 May 2018 04:07 PM PDT  He galloped to victory in a thick fog and on a sloppy track
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| The Week's Most Important Car Numbers Posted: 19 May 2018 06:00 AM PDT  From a new luxury SUV to the world's fastest GTI, these are the most important numbers of the week.
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| Parents Arrested After Five-Year-Old`s Body Found In Sacramento Storage Unit Posted: 19 May 2018 12:20 PM PDT  Police say five-year-old Cali Anderson died in the last two weeks, and her father and step-mother rented a car to take the child`s body from Reno to a Sacramento storage unit.
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| Jimmy Kimmel Shreds 'Cowardly' Trump, Lawmakers After Texas School Shooting Posted: 18 May 2018 10:48 PM PDT  Jimmy Kimmel fiercely rebuked President Donald Trump and lawmakers on Friday
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| Kashmir shuts down to protest Indian leader Modi's visit Posted: 19 May 2018 06:52 AM PDT  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Separatist leaders called for a shutdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a daylong visit to review development work and inaugurate road projects.
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| Meghan Markle picks simple, sleek dress by Givenchy designer for wedding Posted: 19 May 2018 12:41 PM PDT  Meghan Markle picked a sleek sculpted dress by the British designer of couture house Givenchy for her marriage to Prince Harry on Saturday, worn with a five-meter long veil and a sparkling diamond tiara lent by Queen Elizabeth. The pure white long-sleeved gown with a boat neck had been eagerly anticipated by royal fans around the world, with speculation over which designer would be chosen starting soon after the couple announced their engagement in November. As the bride stepped out of her classic Rolls-Royce, Kensington Palace announced that Clare Waight Keller, who became the first female artistic director at famed French house Givenchy last year, had secured the coveted role of making the dress.
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| Principal apologizes for 'insensitive' prom tickets language Posted: 20 May 2018 12:53 PM PDT ![Principal apologizes for 'insensitive' prom tickets language]( "Principal apologizes for 'insensitive' prom tickets language") CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The principal of a New Jersey high school has apologized for what he called "insensitive" language on tickets for the upcoming senior prom.
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| Macedonia must revise constitution before name deal: Greece Posted: 19 May 2018 02:02 PM PDT  A 27-year name row between Greece and Macedonia cannot be resolved without consitutional revision in the neighbouring country, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Saturday amid hopes for a June deal. "As regards the debate surrounding (Macedonia's) name, the government will not enter more specific talks if the above requirements are not fulfilled first," Tsipras' office said in a statement. In a speech to his party later Saturday, Tsipras said the countries were "closer than ever before" to a solution.
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| Cuba plane crash: What we know Posted: 19 May 2018 04:31 PM PDT  - Among the 110 people killed were 99 Cubans, the six-person Mexican crew and five foreign passengers -- an Argentine couple, a Mexican woman and two people from Western Sahara, according to Cuba's Transport Minister Adel Yzquierdo. - The aircraft was a Boeing 737-200 leased to Cuba's state airline Cubana de Aviacion by Mexican company Global Air, also known as Aerolineas Damojh.
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| `I`m Just Tired of This`: Hundreds of Chicago Students Protest Gun Violence Posted: 20 May 2018 09:04 AM PDT  One day after 10 people were gunned down at a Texas high school, students in Chicago took to the streets Saturday to protest gun violence.
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| Maduro favored to win condemned Venezuela vote amid tepid turnout Posted: 20 May 2018 03:13 PM PDT  By Vivian Sequera and Corina Pons CARACAS/BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's leftist leader, Nicolas Maduro, looked set to win re-election on Sunday in what appeared to be a poorly attended vote condemned by foes as the "coronation" of a dictator and likely to bring new foreign sanctions. The vote could trigger additional sanctions from the United States, and more censure from the European Union and Latin America. The Trump administration said it would not recognize the "sham" election and was considering oil sanctions.
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| ‘I am not obstructing justice, I am seeking it’: Oakland mayor fires back at Trump after warning immigrants about raids Posted: 19 May 2018 08:04 AM PDT  The mayor of Oakland is pushing back on President Donald Trump's claims that she obstructed justice by warning undocumented immigrants of an impending federal raid. Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, wrote in a weekend op-ed that it was her "duty" to warn immigrants about the raid, which was set to target around 1,000 people living in the Bay Area earlier this year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has indicated that a tweet from the mayor prevented the arrest of as many as 800 people.
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| Arab Israelis in Haifa protest over Gaza killings Posted: 20 May 2018 12:59 PM PDT  Hundreds of Arab Israelis demonstrated Saturday evening in Haifa in solidarity with Gaza, where more than 60 Palestinians have died from Israeli fire in recent days, an AFP reporter said. Protesters shouted "down with the occupation, stop fascism" and denounced the arrests Friday of 19 people in the northern city during a previous rally held in solidarity with Gaza residents. A total of 62 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire on Monday, when thousands of Palestinians protested as the US officially moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after recognising the disputed city as the capital of Israel.
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| Who Is Cello Bae? Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 19, Wows With Royal Wedding Solo Posted: 19 May 2018 07:35 AM PDT  Sheku Kanneh-Mason said he was "bowled over" to be invited to play.
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| A royal reception feast for 600: langoustines, quail eggs and rhubarb tartlets Posted: 19 May 2018 06:45 AM PDT  Guests of Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan were set to tuck into dishes including Scottish langoustines, grilled asparagus and rhubarb crumble tartlets at a lunchtime reception for the newlyweds. Canapes being served include poached free-range chicken in a lightly spiced yoghurt with roasted apricot, croquettes of confit Windsor lamb and garden-pea panna cotta with quail eggs and lemon verbena. There were also bowl foods such as pea and mint risotto with pea shoots, truffle oil and parmesan crisps, and 10-hour slow roasted Windsor pork belly, all washed down with champagne, wines and a range of soft drinks.
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| Cement, extreme cold experiments to launch on Orbital cargo ship Posted: 20 May 2018 12:16 PM PDT  Food for astronauts, new space gardening gear and an experiment on how cement forms in microgravity are poised to launch Monday to the International Space Station aboard Orbital ATK's unmanned Cygnus spacecraft. An extreme cold experiment and a European module to invite plug-and-play research are also among the three tons of cargo scheduled to blast off on an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia at 4:39 am (0839 GMT). The Cygnus delivery is the ninth in a series of launches by Orbital ATK, under a $1.9 billion contract with NASA to resupply the orbiting outpost.
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| Syria seeks to crush insurgent pocket, denies evacuation deal Posted: 20 May 2018 07:25 AM PDT  Syrian troops fought on Sunday to crush the last pockets of resistance by Islamic State militants trapped in an enclave south of Damascus, state media said, denying a report that insurgents had begun leaving in a withdrawal agreement. The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus would mark another milestone in President Bashar al-Assad's war effort, crushing the last besieged rebel enclave in western Syria. Syrian government forces and their allies have been battling to recover the enclave south of Damascus since defeating rebels in eastern Ghouta, also near the capital, in April.
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| Erdogan holds controversial election rally in Bosnia Posted: 20 May 2018 04:17 PM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday addressed thousands of expatriate Turks in Sarajevo at his only election rally outside Turkey after other European countries banned such events. The Bosnian capital was chosen for the event -- ahead of Ankara's presidential and parliamentary elections next month -- after European Union states such as Germany, Austria and the Netherlands barred Turkish politicians from electioneering in their countries, stoking tensions between Ankara and Brussels. Turkey is scheduled to go the polls on June 24, with three million expatriate Turks allowed to vote, including 1.4 million in Germany.
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| Sri Lanka warns of Tamil separatist resurgence Posted: 19 May 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Sri Lanka's president Saturday warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. Maithripala Sirisena said government forces had failed to quash the Tamil rebels' separatism, although they were militarily conquered by May 2009 following a no-holds-barred offensive. "We have defeated terrorism of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), but we have not been able to defeat their ideology," Sirisena said.
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| Hinchcliffe not expecting to run in Indianapolis 500 Posted: 20 May 2018 03:26 PM PDT  James Hinchcliffe watched the final day of Indianapolis 500 qualifying in street clothes, refusing to lobby for someone to give him their ride for "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
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| Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Leads 'SNL' Chorus Lamenting 'What I Did For Trump' Posted: 20 May 2018 01:10 AM PDT  It's been a long time coming, but "Sarah Palin" was back on "Saturday Night
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| 17-Year-Old's Wish to Take Prom Photos With the Mets Comes True Posted: 20 May 2018 01:25 PM PDT  She even got to dance with one of the players.
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| Amelia Thompson, Manchester Bombing Survivor, Shares a Hug With David Beckham at Royal Wedding Posted: 19 May 2018 06:05 AM PDT  Amelia Thompson, who survived the attack a year ago, was among the members of the public invited to the royal wedding.
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