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Turkish lira trades below 6.0 against the dollar The lira lost approximately 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, but has bounced back strongly since the beginning of the week, with gains...

Right-wing candidate Duque wins Colombian presidential election   Ivan Duque becomes Colombia's youngest president in Sunday's run-off election, beating leftist Gustavo Petro following a campaign fought largely over the future of the government's peace deal with...

Waffle House shooting suspect arrested by Nashville police   Authorities mounted a massive manhunt for Travis Reinking after the Sunday morning shooting that left four dead and injured others at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville,...

Austria deploys police, troops for immigration exercise on border   The drill is part of the right-wing government's efforts to discourage migrants from setting off to find a home in central Europe. Policemen attend an exercise to...

Venezuela, Panama agree to restore envoys, air links     The rapprochement between the two countries comes after a diplomatic crisis erupted in late March when Panama added a string of senior Venezuelan officials to a list...

Trump is determined to take down Amazon — and it could be terrible news for HQ2   Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO and founder. Drew Angerer / Getty Images   President Donald Trump is "obsessed" with Amazon...

Twitter algorithm detects terrorist accounts before they can tweet By Kim Darrah   While Twitter suggests there is no “magic algorithm” for identifying terrorism-related content on the internet, the company’s own internal algorithm appears to be closer...

Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc planned 'domestic terrorist attack' since July, prosecutors say By Morgan Winsor   https://youtu.be/ufVwVjq8-zw WatchFBI warns potential targets that suspicious packages may still be in the mail The man accused of mailing more than a...

CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  By Brian Stelter, CNN     https://youtu.be/z7BOWQihC7M New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, the gifted chef, storyteller and writer who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for...

Veggie Black Bean Enchiladas This post is brought to you by Frontier Co-op. Last Wednesday, I drove straight from hot yoga, sweaty and all, to girls’ night. My girls love me, so they didn’t complain. Lately,...

Gunman kills three in Maryland before fleeing   A manhunt has been launched for 37-year-old black Radee Labeeb Prince, who police believe was associated with the granite business in the town of Edgewood where the shooting...

Annabell Lee by  Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden...

Could a German 28-hour week make waves across Europe?   Nearly one million employees with Germany's powerful metalworking union IG Metall won higher pay and the right to a reduced working week. Germany's powerful metalworking union IG...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives birth to baby girl   New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the second elected leader in the world to hold office while pregnant. Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto gave birth...

US orders migrant parents to vacate with children or without them – report   NBC reports the Trump administration is giving some parents, who were separated from their children after entering the US illegally, the option...

Financing Infrastructure with Value Capture: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly   President Trump’s infrastructure investment program was circulated recently. Page 24 of the program states that “value capture” financing will be required for any...

Why are Samsung's emojis different from everyone else? Alex Hern   From a cookie that’s definitely not a cookie to a yellow flag when everyone else sees red, sending emojis is fraught enough without manufacturers changing things. It’s...

Colombia suspends peace talks with ELN rebels   Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has suspended peace talks with ELN rebels after the group claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks that killed seven police officers...

Greece counts cost of deadliest wildfires in memory   Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town have killed at least 81 people including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to...

Hurricane Harvey claims second victim in Texas as threat of flooding rises Tom Dart in Houston and Edward Helmore in New York   The strongest hurricane to hit US in 13 years kills at least two...

Greek Cypriot president wins second term     Nicos Anastasiades won re-election as Greek Cypriot leader since voters gave a thumbs-up to his record in containing an economic meltdown in 2013 and conducting abortive peace talks with...

Chaos in Merkel's coalition after key minister offers to resign   German Chancellor Angela Merkel is attempting to end a migration, refugee and asylum row with her conservative allies by holding more talks with Interior Minister...

Are psychopaths good or bad for your business? Angela Youngman   There's increasing evidence that psychopaths are rising to the top of businesses; it's more important than ever for organisations to understand what this means. Recruitment processes for...

Best Cauliflower roast on stove top!! by Gouthami Yuvarajan   I am back with a new recipe and today it is Cauliflower Roast. I love anything that is roasted , the best being potatoes (check...