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Red Stripe Buys Jamaican Team A New Bobsled After Coach Quits
JBF allegedly refused to pay her and dispute that she owns the sled. She responded by quitting the team altogether, stating, "I've never known such disappointment in this sport, in my life". In addition to stepping away from the team, Kiriasis is claiming "legal responsibility" for the team's sled, the lack of which puts a damper on the team's training and competition for obvious reasons.
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Netanyahu condemns Polish PM for 'Jewish perpetrators' comment
According to figures from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis, who invaded Poland in 1939, also killed at least 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians. In January, Germany's Stralsund Mining Authority issued permission for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Germany's territorial waters taking into account all potential environmental impact of the construction.
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Cramer to hold 'US Senate campaign rally' Friday
Cramer, 56, is a former state Republican director and chairman. On Wednesday, Cramer said he was reconsidering whether to run out of "patriotism" and because people from his party didn't think Heitkamp could be beaten without him. Cramer has been teasing reconsideration for Senate since late last week. Campaign officials didn't immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
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Sacred Tibetan monastery in Lhasa hit by fire
The fire came at a particularly sensitive time, as Friday marked both the Tibetan New Year or Losar, and the Lunar New Year celebrated in the rest of China and in several other Asian nations. However, Phayul.com , a pro-Tibetan independence website which operates from New Delhi, claimed that the fire had destroyed a nearby shrine, not the Jokhang temple, which it said was undamaged.
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Hike In Gas Tax Under Consideration
On Monday, Trump's administration finally revealed the $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan by leveraging local and state tax dollars and private investment. That sentiment was seemingly echoed by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who told reporters at the White House that a fuel tax was not ideal, but the president "has not declared anything out of bounds, so everything is on the table".
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Iranian plane crash kills all 66 on board
State-run PressTV said 66 people were on board the plane, which disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Tehran's Mehrabad airport. The Iranian Red Crescent said it has deployed to the area, which was quite foggy at the time of the crash. Mehrabad is located in western Tehran and mainly functions as a domestic airport, although it also serves some worldwide routes.
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Trump Sources Facebook Ad Exec As Proof Russia Didn't Meddle In Election
President Donald Trump has said the indictment showed that his campaign did "nothing wrong". Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC. Mikhail Burchik, one of the indicted Russians , blasted the US justice system as "one-sided" following Rosenstein's announcement. In or around June 2016, for example, Russians posing online as Americans "communicated with a real USA person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization".
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Students, parents demand gun curbs after Florida slaughter
On Twitter , it was uttered by widely known figures such as commentator Jeff Greenfield (who took down his tweet as we prepared our fact check on his claim), U.S. "Let's protect Barron. And let's also protect all these other kids", she said Friday on CNN , her voice raising to a shout. The FBI had been tipped off that Cruz might be unsafe but failed to act, which it admitted in a statement on Friday.
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Dead In Mexico Helicopter Crash After Massive Earthquake
The helicopter crashed in Santiago Jamiltepec in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the state attorney general's office said . The 7.2 magnitude natural disaster and a magnitude 5.8 aftershock - both with epicenters in Oaxaca state - struck the region Friday, the US Geological Survey reported.
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Decisions made by voters' thumbs, not umpire's finger: Nawaz
She said that all segments of the society must think about development of the country and strengthening of democratic process. "Every constituency of Pakistan will be turned into Lodhran in 2018 polls". He said we launched power projects and ended load shedding besides eliminating terrorism in the country and restored peace in Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan.
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Trump Visits Emergency Workers Who Responded to School Shooting
Investigators said there were "some implications" for the teen's safety, but concluded that his "final level of risk is low as (he) resides with his mother, attends school and receives counseling" as an outpatient from a mental health center, the Sun Sentinel said.
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Oklahoma Sets Flu Death Record and Records 1st Pediatric Death This Season
But they are preventing just 25 percent of illnesses caused by the H3N2 virus. "In Australia, the flu vaccine was effective 10 percent". Thirty people with flu died during that period, 10 more than reported the previous week. That brings the total for this influenza season to 165. That was echoed by Jones who said individuals should do everything they can to protect themselves.
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Russian women rout Swiss, will play Canada in semifinals
Kovalchuk freed himself at the top of circle, firing a one-time past Zapalski with.2 seconds remaining in the period, making it 3-0. By bouncing back after that opening-game loss, the Russian squad won Group B with a total of six points and earned an automatic bye into the quarterfinal round.
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Jury Awards $37 Million To Family Of Woman Killed By Baltimore Police
The officer then went into the apartment and fired three more rounds, striking Ms. Gaines three more times and also striking Kodi Gaines a second time, Mr. Officers said when they entered her apartment, they found Gaines holding a shotgun. Gaines' family sued the county and Cpl. An additional $300,000 was allocated to the deceased woman's estate.
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Don't tangle up Brexit, security issues, European Union tells UK
The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier takes the latter position. "The threats we have do not recognize the border between individual nations or discriminate between them", she said. The German chancellor was asked at a press conference in Germany whether she was annoyed by the United Kingdom government's failure to spell out clearly what it wants its future relationship with the European to look like.
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Streets become havens after strong quake hits Mexico
A helicopter carrying Mexican interior minister Alfonso Navarre to the site of the natural disaster has crashed in the landing, causing the deaths of several people on the ground. The quake did not directly cause fatalities, but damaged dozens of buildings and knocked out power for a million people, authorities said. The authorities activated quake alert systems in four states, and Mexico City .
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Social Media Attacks Against Women Accusing Patrick Brown Of Sexual Misconduct
Patrick Brown , who resigned as leader amid accusations of sexual misconduct, has been expelled from Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party caucus just days before the legislature is set to resume. It's an impossible dilemma: Brown is absolutely entitled to defend himself, even to want his leadership spot back, but every minute he spends fighting, he harms his party.
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Arizona State vs. Arizona - 2/15/18 College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Colorado: After winning their last three games in conference play, the Buffaloes lose an important game in a close Pac-12 conference race. Even though Arizona State lost the first meeting this season 84-78 at Tucson on December 30, the betting result was a push on the six-point spread in favor of Arizona .
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Pope Francis reactivates Vatican panel against child sex abuse
The Vatican's announcement of a renewed anti-paedophile panel comes just days after it was revealed that Pope Francis held regular private meetings with people abused by members of the priesthood. Francis has been under fire for remarks he made last month in Chile. The pope received a lot of backlash after initially dismissing those accusations.
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Internet Research Agency: Russian 'troll farm' that 'defrauded the US'
By late August 2016, the IRA had compiled a list of more than 100 Americans they had been in touch with, including "contact information. a summary of their political views, and activities they had been asked to perform by" the Russian organization, the indictment alleges .
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Henry Bolton ousted as Ukip leader as party falls further into chaos
Party members will gather in Birmingham on Saturday for an emergency general meeting to decide whether to endorse a vote of no confidence in Mr Bolton by UKIP's ruling body . There's probably been nothing like that since the Profumo affair or Diana and Dodi Fayed", he said. "The alternative is for the party to carry on down the path of self-destruction into irrelevance".
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Hoefflin leads Swiss 1-2 in slopestyle
She raised her arms after sticking the landing and her score of 91.20 was more than three points clear of the 88.00 Gremaud put up in her first run of the finals. "I just enjoyed the day". "It's really important to watch and be careful with concussion and if there was a concussion, she wouldn't compete today". Britain's Atkins produced a clean third run to score 84.60 and move into third place.
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What to watch from Pyeongchang Olympics on Day 6
Yun, 23, set the pace with a blistering first run, putting up a track record mark of 50.28 seconds. In response, celebrities have taken to social media to congratulate him and celebrate Yun Sung Bin's achievements. "I am very sorry to all the clean athletes we cheated", he said, and added that Russian Federation is still "lying and denying". The 27-year-old Austrian beat Switzerland's Beat Feuz and Norway's defending champion Kjetil Jansrud in a time of 1 minute 24.44 seconds.
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Russians blank US in Olympic hockey clash
There was no T.J. Oshie moment to be had as Team USA was blanked by the Olympic Athletes from Russian Federation, 4-0. This will be a rematch of the first Group B contest between the two in the preliminary round last Saturday, when Switzerland pounded the overmatched Korea 8-0.
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FBI 'Deeply Regrets' Failing to Investigate Tip About Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Cruz , a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday. "The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami field office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken".
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Anfernee McLemore dislocates left ankle against SC
Auburn was trailing, 45-23, at the time of McLemore's injury. The Tigers outscored SC 50-38 in the second half, but it wasn't enough to fully close the 21-point first half deficit. Next up for Auburn is a home matchup against Alabama Wednesday night. AU out-rebounded USC 30-17 in the second half. Bryce Brown missed his first eight 3-point attempts and finished 2-of-13 from beyond the arc, scoring 10 points.
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Black Panther, a huge step for the African identity
The Walt Disney Co movie , which features a predominantly black cast, is set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda . For many in line, they explained that they were glad to be able to see positive images of African Americans on the big screen.
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Trump praises Florida emergency services as he visits mass shooting survivors
The first couple visited Broward Health North Hospital, where a white house official said they would thank medical staff "for their life-saving assistance". "Imagine if my kids went to school and never came back, very hard", Bernstein said. He slammed Trump for avoiding to talk about gun control and instead, tweeting that it was just a 'mental health issue '.
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Four IDF Soldiers Wounded in Shabbos Afternoon Bomb Blast Along Gaza Border
It is still unclear whether any soldiers were injured in the attack. The army said that two of the wounded soldiers suffered serious injuries, and two were moderately wounded, when the explosive device detonated near them. "In a widescale operation, several terror targets were attacked, among them terror tunnels being built by the Hamas terror organization and running from the Zeitoun area towards Israeli territory, a military site near Netzarim which belongs to Hamas' special forces, and ...
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A sunny start this morning. Snow moves in this evening
In areas with winter storm warnings , snow is likely to fall at a rate of one to two inches per hour, according to the Weather Channel . It is more of a snow event north and west of town. Between a tenth and quarter-inch of rain is possible. If the arctic front can move in fast, higher amounts of snow are possible, if it takes longer to arrive, then we are looking at more of a heavy, wet, slushy snow.
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Trial of suspected serial child killer concludes in Pakistan
Police also said that Imran's DNA matched those found on seven other girls' bodies, Reuters reports . Speaking to reporters in Kasur on Saturday, Zainab's mother said the court had handed down a just and right punishment to the rapist and murderer of her child, Express News reported.
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Nathan Chen Lands Unprecedented Six Quads in Redemption Skate
While the competition is still ongoing, the score could be enough for him to take home the gold medal! And he returned to Gangneung Ice Arena to complete the statement he'd hoped to make in his Olympic debut at the PyeongChang Games. "Just happy. I can't say any more". After a tough day in the short program, it was an uphill battle for the three Americans who were sitting in the middle of a highly competitive field and they weren't in position to medal heading into the free skate.
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State of emergency in Ethiopia as country's prime minister resigns
The state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said "The ruling EPRDF coalition's council met and chose to impose emergency rule in the Horn of Africa country". But critics say the strong economic performance comes at the cost of democracy and freedom, with the current government in power since 1991. It capped a tumultuous week that saw Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resign, a strike in the country's largest region and a massive prisoner amnesty .
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Russian Federation getting away with attack on U.S. troops
Even as the Kremlin denies any official link to them, scores of Russian mercenaries wounded in US strikes in Syria are being treated at Defense Ministry hospitals. Two Trump administration officials said the U.S used a military hotline to communicate with the Russian side to warn that it was about to launch air strikes.
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Today's natural disaster in England and Wales: Massive for British standards
Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed the quake had been felt in its control room and it was experiencing a high volume of calls in relation to the incident. The natural disaster struck at around 2.30pm today (Saturday, February 17). Beth Dowding, works at a cafe there, in Ynystawe in Swansea. 'It was a significant feeling that went on for about two seconds - I was moving from left to right suddenly despite being stood on the same spot.