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Pride and fear as shells rain down on Turkish border town
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» AKçAKALE (TURKEY) - Mixed feelings permeated the Turkish town of Akcakale on the border with Syria on Thursday, with families fleeing a barrage of shells while others defiantly stayed to watch troops push into Syria.
Pressure mounts to repatriate and try IS foreign fighters
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's decision to take custody of dozens of high-value Islamic State militants from the under-siege Kurds avoided their possible release but raised the pressure on Washington and its allies to accept them for trial.
Aussie scheme lets cricketers bat on after having kids
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» SYDNEY - Cricket Australia unveiled a "game-changing" parental leave scheme Thursday designed to let players in its history-making women's team remain in the game while raising a family.
A million Californians without power as fire risk spreads south
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» LOS ANGELES - More than a million Californians were without electricity due to pre-emptive blackouts Thursday, but localized fires broke out as hot, windy conditions spread south toward Los Angeles.
Ukraine leader says troops must withdraw before Putin summit
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» KIEV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday threatened to call off a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin if all sides do not agree on plans to pull out troops from the east.
WeWork founder Adam Neumann removed from Forbes' billionaire list
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - Forbes on Thursday lopped more than $3 billion from its estimated net worth of WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann as the company faced skepticism regarding its future.
Apple chief defends pulling app used by Hong Kong protestors
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - Apple chief Tim Cook on Thursday defended the decision to pull an app used by protesters in Hong Kong to track police, according to a leaked email to employees obtained by a tech news site.
Artificial meat made in space coming to a store near you
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» NEW YORK: Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive in supermarkets.
Iran women freely attend football match for first time in decades
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» TEHRAN - Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions.
'Unacceptable' power cuts blasted as California fire risk spreads south
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of thousands of Californians were still without electricity due to pre-emptive blackouts Thursday as hot, windy conditions causing wildfires spread south toward Los Angeles, in a situation blasted as "unacceptable" by the state's governor.