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  AP Exclusive: Cuba softens new law on artistic expression

  December 06, 2018 1:30 IST

  Cuba is softening the impact of a heavily criticized new law that would have given government inspectors power to shut down any exhibition or performance deemed to violate the country's socialist revolutionary values

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  Trump's push for tariffs squeezes a weakening global economy

  December 06, 2018 1:30 IST

  Trump's push for tariffs squeezes an already weakening global economy

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  French media reports: French President Macron abandons fuel tax rise amid fears of new protest violence

  December 06, 2018 1:30 IST

  French media reports: French President Macron abandons fuel tax rise amid fears of new protest violence

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  Atlanta's Martinez wins MVP award in Major League Soccer

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  After record-breaking season, Josef Martinez of Atlanta United has claimed the MVP award in Major League Soccer

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  La protección estricta del Amazonas fomenta la productividad agrícola en Brasil

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rachael Garrett, Boston University(THE CONVERSATION) Jair Bolsonaro, el nuevo presidente de Brasil, deberá tomar varias decisiones importantes durante su mandato de cuatro años: cómo enfrentar la violencia, por ejemplo, y estimular una economía estancada. Estas decisiones tendrán un gran impacto sobre los brasileños, que salieron seriamente divididos después de la elección polémica

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  The Latest: Airbnb removes Costa Rica listing after slaying

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  Airbnb says it has removed the vacation rental listing in Costa Rica where a woman was staying when she was slain

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  Hong Kong businessman convicted of bribing leaders of Chad and Uganda to land oil rights for Chinese energy firm

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  Hong Kong businessman convicted of bribing leaders of Chad and Uganda to land oil rights for Chinese energy firm

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  Dragged carpet roll investigated in Alaska man's death

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  Alaska State Troopers are reviewing the death of a 56-year-old Fairbanks man whom they initially thought had died in a traffic crash

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  Lawyer for family of slain Italian warns Egypt suspects

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  The lawyer for the family of an Italian researcher tortured and killed in Egypt is urging the five key Egyptian suspects to come forward and say what they know

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  Int'l court prosecutor reports progress in Palestinian probe

  December 06, 2018 1:00 IST

  International Criminal Court prosecutors intend to complete "as early as possible" a long-running preliminary investigation into allegations of crimes in the Palestinian territories

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  Mexico City's 1st elected female mayor takes office

  December 06, 2018 0:45 IST

  The first elected female mayor of Mexico City has been sworn into office, and immediately announced she would dissolve the riot police

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  Ukrainian ex-pilot Savchenko on hunger strike in prison

  December 06, 2018 0:45 IST

  A celebrated former military pilot in jail on charges of plotting an attack on parliament says she has started refusing food and water in protest

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  Disneyland tower suggested as Legionnaires' disease source

  December 06, 2018 0:45 IST

  A health official testified that a cooling tower that provides mist to make Disneyland guests more comfortable was the likely source for 22 cases in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak last year near the theme park

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  Memories of Bush humor brought smiles to sorrowful farewell

  December 06, 2018 0:45 IST

  Memories of George H.W. Bush's underappreciated sense of humor drew laughter and brought smiles to the sorrowful mourning of the death of American's 41st president

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  Ivy League a cappella group cuts Disney song amid criticism

  December 06, 2018 0:30 IST

  An all-male a cappella group at an Ivy League university has pulled a Disney movie song from its act following a student newspaper column that suggested the lyrics helped promote "toxic masculinity."

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  Former President George H.W. Bush's casket leaves Washington National Cathedral, awaits flight home to Texas for burial

  December 06, 2018 0:15 IST

  Former President George H.W. Bush's casket leaves Washington National Cathedral, awaits flight home to Texas for burial

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  Aegean signs preliminary deal to buy Pratt & Whitney engines

  December 06, 2018 0:15 IST

  Greece's dominant Aegean Airlines has signed a preliminary agreement with Pratt & Whitney to provide new fuel-efficient and lower-pollution engines for up to 62 new passenger jets

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  Uffizi aims to slash tourist crowds, stop ticket scalpers

  December 05, 2018 23:45 IST

  Uffizi aims to slash tourist crowds, stop ticket scalpers at Italy's most-visited art museum

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  Van Morrison's latest finds him in relaxed, swinging groove

  December 05, 2018 23:15 IST

  Music Review: The 40th studio album from Van Morrison finds the Belfast-born legend in a relaxed, swinging groove, offering a mix of new compositions and covers of classic tunes by John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and other greats

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  Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia moves forward

  December 05, 2018 23:00 IST

  Serie A has announced the date and venue of the Italian Super Cup, which will be played in Saudi Arabia next month despite calls for the game to be moved after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi

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  Man avoids jail time for sham marriage immigration schemes

  December 05, 2018 23:00 IST

  A Massachusetts man who entered into six sham marriages to help foreign-born women skirt U.S. immigration laws has avoided prison

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  Presidents club assembles for Bush funeral, Trump on fringes

  December 05, 2018 23:00 IST

  Current and former occupants of the Oval Office are coming together to honor a late member of their exclusive fraternity: the former presidents club

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  Texas death sentence again thrown out over disability claims

  December 05, 2018 22:45 IST

  Texas' highest criminal court has again vacated the death sentence of Dallas man convicted in the 1980s so a jury can reconsider whether he's intellectual disabled

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  Lena Dunham sorry for supporting writer accused of assault

  December 05, 2018 22:45 IST

  Lena Dunham is apologizing to actress Aurora Perrineau for defending a writer who Perrineau accused of sexual misconduct

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  Despite Afghan deaths, slow peace efforts, NATO vows to stay

  December 05, 2018 22:45 IST

  Fifteen years after NATO took the lead on international security efforts in Afghanistan, the alliance's foreign ministers are reaffirming their commitment to stay the course despite mounting Afghan casualties and the slow pace of peace moves

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  NFL refs back official accused of calling player vulgar name

  December 05, 2018 22:45 IST

  NFL Referees Association questions why league isn't focusing more attention on Bills DE Jerry Hughes for threatening umpire Roy Ellison following Buffalo's game at Miami

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  Will the United States ever get back on a bipartisan 'Middle Way?'

  December 05, 2018 22:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University(THE CONVERSATION) Our nation has been ripped apart by political discord, ad hominem attacks and deep rifts between the dominant political parties.But history provides a lesson about how the United States can return to bipartisanship and more civil political discourse. The period I want to focus on covers the years from 1953 to 1961 and the

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  Residents of California town leveled by fire can go home

  December 05, 2018 22:30 IST

  Officials are allowing some residents of a California town leveled by a wildfire last month to return home