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Judges Sentences Man for Firearm Possession
District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez on Thursday sentenced Michael Lewis to 75
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Crucian Christmas Carnival 2016: Adult Parade
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'Together, Forever'
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Super Saturday: Sanders and Cruz take states but Trump and Clinton hit back
The Guardian - 20 min 51 sec ago
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Senator wins Kansas and Maine, Trump takes Louisiana and Kentucky
Clinton loses Kansas and Nebraska but enjoys big win in Louisiana
American crossroads: Reagan, Trump and the devil down south
To Trump, or not to Trump: the existential question of CPAC
A ferocious week of attacks on Donald Trump appeared to loosen his grip on the Republican
presidential race on “Super Saturday”, while Bernie Sanders showed there may also be some life
left in the Democratic race.
Related: It's time to clear the way for Ted Cruz to take on Donald Trump | John Stoehr
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Politics of disillusionment and the rise of Trump
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 29 min 27 sec ago
We need to find a means of revitalising the democratic process.
Clashes follow state takeover of Turkey's Zaman daily
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 38 min 28 sec ago
Police fire tear gas and plastic bullets at protesters by offices of Zaman, which has reopened
under government control.
Benin election: Record numbers vie to become president
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 40 min 45 sec ago
Thirty-three candidates are standing in election to replace President Boni Yayi, who is stepping
down after two terms.
Australian sex abuse victims dismayed at no Pope visit
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 1 hour 4 min ago
Vatican said 15 victims in Rome could not meet the pontiff as they didn't make request through
proper channels.
Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis
The Guardian - 1 hour 20 min ago
Attorney general, who stated publicly for the first time that he supports marriage equality, says
same-sex marriage plebiscite and parliamentary vote will happen this year
A plebiscite on same-sex marriage, and legislation to change the Marriage Act if the plebiscite is
carried, will be held by the end of this year, the attorney general, George Brandis, has confirmed.
Related: Sydney Mardi Gras: Turnbull and Shorten join thousands at parade
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Anti-migrant Slovak PM loses majority
BBC World - 1 hour 28 min ago
Slovakia's leftist-nationalist PM Robert Fico wins the general election but loses his majority in
parliament, while an extreme right party also wins seats.
China's President Xi: Taiwan never to 'split' again
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 1 hour 30 min ago
Warning comes after self-governing island's landslide election win for pro-independence leader
in January.
Woman found dead in elevator 30 days after power cut off by building workers
The Guardian - 1 hour 30 min ago
Maintenance crew detained after failing to check if anyone was in the elevator of a residential
building in the city of Xi’an, in China’s north-west
A building maintenance crew has been detained after a woman was found dead inside an elevator
that had its power improperly cut off 30 days earlier, local Chinese authorities have said.
The Gaoling district government in the north-western city of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, said on
Saturday that two maintenance workers turned off the power source on 30 January in a
residential building after they were called to check on a glitch. However, they failed to check if
anyone was inside the elevator.
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Second 'missing' Hong Kong bookseller returns from China
The Guardian - 1 hour 43 min ago
Cheung Chi-ping arrives back home two days after authorities released his boss, Lui Por, but
three publishers remain on the mainland
A second of five Hong Kong booksellers detained on the Chinese mainland has returned home,
according to police.
Cheung Chi-ping, who went missing in October after a trip to visit relatives in Shenzhen, was
released just two days after his boss Lui Por, a general manager at the Mighty Current publishing
house, was also allowed to return to Hong Kong.
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Ted Cruz wins dent Donald Trump's momentum
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 1 hour 56 min ago
Texas senator splits Saturday's contests with frontrunner, while Sanders beats Clinton in two
states in Democratic race.
Donald Trump: Can I have a pledge? Raise your hand
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 1 hour 59 min ago
Social media goes into overdrive after crowd salutes Republican frontrunner at campaign event
in Florida.
VIDEO: MSF: Children ill in migrant camp
BBC World - 2 hours 7 min ago
Hundreds of children stranded in a migrant camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia are
suffering from worrying respiratory infections because of poor weather conditions and a lack of
hygiene, according to the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Boris Johnson: suspending BCC chief for EU referendum remarks is
'scandalous'
The Guardian - 2 hours 8 min ago
London mayor says John Longworth was ‘immediately crushed by the agents of project fear’ for
suggesting the UK might be better off outside the EU
Boris Johnson has condemned one of the UK’s biggest business groups after it suspended its
director general for suggesting the UK could have a brighter future outside the European Union.
The London mayor claimed that John Longworth, the leader of the British Chambers of
Commerce (BCC), had become a victim of “project fear” – the label used by Brexit campaigners
to criticise the tactics used by David Cameron and his allies backing a Remain vote.
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Slovakia: PM Fico wins election but fails on majority
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH - 2 hours 22 min ago
Anti-refugee Smer party captures most votes but will be hard-pressed to form a government as
the EU looks on.
Sri Lanka brings back war-time measures to fight gangs
The Guardian - 2 hours 37 min ago
Road blocks and random vehicle checks return seven years after war ended in effort to combat
surge in drug smuggling and serious crime
Sri Lanka’s police have re-introduced war-time road blocks and random checks on vehicles
following a surge in gang-related shootings in the capital.
More than 100 police stations in Colombo and its suburbs have been asked to erect snap blocks,
a common practice during the island’s separatist war that ended nearly seven years ago, police
spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.
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Trump and Cruz seek 'one-on-one' battle
BBC World - 2 hours 49 min ago
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz urge other candidates to quit the race for the Republican US
presidential nomination after they win two states each in the latest voting.
First Draft: ‘Don’t Write Us Off,’ Bernie Sanders Says After Caucus Wins on
Saturday
New York Times - 3 hours 6 min ago
In a telephone interview from Detroit, Bernie Sanders acknowledged having work to do with
minority voters but said wins in Nebraska and Kansas gave him momentum.
Bronwyn Bishop told by Tony Abbott’s office 'not to give helicopter apology'
The Guardian - 3 hours 13 min ago
Niki Savva, author of book The Road To Ruin, says Bishop wanted to ‘lay it all on the line’, but
was told by Abbott’s office this would imply guilt and affect others
Bronwyn Bishop was instructed by Tony Abbott’s office not to apologise for the $5,000
helicopter ride that cost the former speaker her job, a new book reveals.
The Road to Ruin author Niki Savva has revealed Bishop wanted to “lay it all on the line” and
issue a “grovelling” apology for taking the expensive ride at the taxpayers’ expense.
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From Trump to Merkel: how the world is divided between fear and openness |
Ulrich Speck
The Guardian - 3 hours 23 min ago
The Republican candidate and German chancellor are polar opposites in the key struggle of our
age
Two major concepts define the political struggle in the west today. One can be termed
“globalism”, which is currently most prominently represented by the German chancellor, Angela
Merkel. The other is “territorialism”, a view that the very likely Republican candidate for the US
elections in November, Donald Trump, represents.
At the core of the debate is the meaning of borders: should they be porous or tightly controlled?
Are they mainly an obstacle to the free and productive flow of ideas, people, goods and
information and should therefore be largely dismantled? Or are massive borders welcome and
indispensable as a protection against all kinds of real or perceived threats such as competition
and terrorism?
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