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• Travel ban rewrite: Should judges parse Trump motives as well as the text?
• Philippines' Duterte ordered murders: ex-police aide
• Pence says US to hold Russia accountable, stand with NATO
• Democrat member of FEC to make early exit: NYT
• Explosive blog post details ‘abhorrent’ sexism at Uber
• Atlanta, other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars
• Nigeria urges AU to intervene over 'SAfrica killings'
• US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Patroling South China Sea
• Bouche à Oreille: Michelin mixup makes modest French café a star
• Scuffles at Thai temple as police hunt for monk
• Rep. Adam Schiff calls Trump's comment about press 'most alarming' remark since election
• Fantasy league aims to lure US students to economics
• Shocker! World’s first self-driving car race ends in a crash
• ‘Not My President’s Day’ protests in the U.S.
• President Trump’s Terrible One-Month Report Card
• Man dies after breaching security at Honolulu airport
• Kim Dotcom Eligible For US Extradition
• Indonesia Islamists urge ouster of Jakarta governor, plan more protests
• Debt-saddled Mongolia agrees $5.5 bn IMF bailout
• Trump administration drafts plan to raise asylum bar, speed deportations
• 2017 Mercedes-Maybach S550 4MATIC
• On frozen fields, North Korean farmers prep for battle ahead
• Police say newly freed gang member killed California officer
• Australia and UAE to explore deeper defense ties, A$1 billion in sales
• This new iPhone 8 feature might end up blowing our minds
• Women named to head Saudi bourse, major bank
• Trump Refers To Imaginary Attack In Sweden
• Police Build Kitty Condo for Stray Cat That Has Been Visiting Department For Years
• Turkey puts 47 on trial for 'coup plot to kill Erdogan'
• Philippines: Vietnamese ship attacked; 1 dead, 6 abducted
• Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes
• China names and shames cities over smog controls
• Governor's proposed gun permit fees come under fire
• Here’s how badly the Galaxy Note 7 destroyed Samsung’s reputation in the US
• Gambia celebrates Barrow's inauguration
• Is the Trump administration in chaos or 'running like a fine-tuned machine?'
• Sweden Has Most Foreign Born Citizens In Europe
• Global arms trade highest since Cold War: study
• ‘I am a Muslim too’ rally in Times Square
• ICE arrests man who escaped Illinois prison in 2003
• Solar-powered Africa “never more possible and less expensive”: energy chief
• Tribes lay remains of Kennewick Man to rest

Travel ban rewrite: Should judges parse Trump motives as well as the text? Posted: 20 Feb 2017 01:59 PM PST As the Trump administration readies a revised version of its executive order restricting immigration to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, some of the reported changes in wording could address problems that caused the original order to be blocked by multiple federal courts. Although the full text of the order has not been released, the success of such lawsuits could still hinge on the question of whether statements from Trump and his surrogates during his presidential campaign could be used against him as evidence of an unconstitutional motive, even if the statements came before his election. According to news reports, the administration is working carefully to address some of the more glaring legal holes in its original order.

Philippines' Duterte ordered murders: ex-police aide Posted: 20 Feb 2017 02:08 AM PST Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ran a death squad that killed many people, including a journalist and a pregnant woman, when he was mayor of a southern city, a retired policeman who claimed to be part of the group said Monday. Arthur Lascanas, sitting alongside three prominent human rights lawyers, broke down in tears as he listed a series of murders in Davao city that he alleged Duterte ordered either to eliminate critics or fight crime. Lascanas said he even killed his two brothers, who were involved in drug trafficking, due to "blind loyalty" to Duterte as well as cash rewards.

Pence says US to hold Russia accountable, stand with NATO Posted: 19 Feb 2017 06:19 AM PST MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday conveyed a message to jittery partners that the Trump administration will "hold Russia accountable" and maintain steadfast support for NATO, a military alliance the American commander in chief once dismissed as "obsolete."

Democrat member of FEC to make early exit: NYT Posted: 19 Feb 2017 12:05 PM PST A Democrat who sits on the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) is planning to resign before her term expires amid frustrations about partisan gridlock, the New York Times reported on Sunday. FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel told the Times in an interview she intended to submit her letter of resignation this week, a move that would open the door for President Donald Trump to make his own appointment to the panel. "The ability of the commission to perform its role has deteriorated significantly," Ravel told the newspaper.

Explosive blog post details ‘abhorrent’ sexism at Uber Posted: 19 Feb 2017 04:46 PM PST In a blog post published Sunday, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Riggetti details her experiences working for the company. Sadly, given she's a female engineer working at a thrusting, big-name Silicon Valley startup, the experiences are exactly what you'd expect. In the post, Riggetti details numerous instances of overt sexist behaviour. She reportedly sent evidence, including email and chat logs to HR, but ran into a brick wall multiple times. In the end, she says that her attempts to quietly report sexist behaviour were turned against her: I forwarded this absurd chain of emails to HR, and they requested to meet with me shortly after. I don't know what I expected after all of my earlier encounters with them, but this one was more ridiculous than I could have ever imagined. The HR rep began the meeting by asking me if I had noticed that *I* was the common theme in all of the reports I had been making, and that if I had ever considered that I might be the problem. I pointed out that everything I had reported came with extensive documentation and I clearly wasn't the instigator (or even a main character) in the majority of them - she countered by saying that there was absolutely no record in HR of any of the incidents I was claiming I had reported (which, of course, was a lie, and I reminded her I had email and chat records to prove it was a lie). She then asked me if women engineers at Uber were friends and talked a lot, and then asked me how often we communicated, what we talked about, what email addresses we used to communicate, which chat rooms we frequented, etc. -  an absurd and insulting request that I refused to comply with. When I pointed out how few women were in SRE, she recounted with a story about how sometimes certain people of certain genders and ethnic backgrounds were better suited for some jobs than others, so I shouldn't be surprised by the gender ratios in engineering. Our meeting ended with her berating me about keeping email records of things, and told me it was unprofessional to report things via email to HR. Beyond the reports to HR, Riggetti also details a company overrun with internal politics and management problems: In the background, there was a game-of-thrones political war raging within the ranks of upper management in the infrastructure engineering organization. It seemed like every manager was fighting their peers and attempting to undermine their direct supervisor so that they could have their direct supervisor's job. No attempts were made by these managers to hide what they were doing: they boasted about it in meetings, told their direct reports about it, and the like. Shortly after the blog post was published, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick issued a statement promising a (secret, internal) investigation into the matter, and reaffirmed Uber's committment to a equitable workplace where everyone isn't trying to stab each other in the back: "I have just read Susan Fowler's blog. What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in. It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new Chief Human Resources Officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber -- and anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired." This isn't the first time that Uber has run into human resources problems within its internal teams and management. In 2014, an Uber exec famously suggested digging up dirt on journalists to discredit them. That statement came in response to a journalist who had accused Uber of sexism once again. More recently, #DeleteUber trended on Twitter after Uber removed surge pricing at JFK airport during a taxi strike -- a strike that was in protest of President Trump's Muslim travel ban. The same hashtag is trending again tonight following Riggetti's blog post.

Atlanta, other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars Posted: 20 Feb 2017 08:27 AM PST ATLANTA (AP) — Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology.

Nigeria urges AU to intervene over 'SAfrica killings' Posted: 20 Feb 2017 08:27 AM PST Nigeria on Monday urged the African Union to step in to stop what it said were "xenophobic attacks" on its citizens and other Africans in South Africa. "This is unacceptable to the people and government of Nigeria," a senior presidential aide on foreign affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said in an emailed statement. There was no independent verification of the claimed number of deaths, which may have been the result of wider criminal activities rather than anti-immigrant sentiment.

US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Patroling South China Sea Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:31 PM PST China has warned against challenging its sovereignty in the region despite competing claims by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Bouche à Oreille: Michelin mixup makes modest French café a star Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:40 PM PST Last week, Bouche à Oreille, a café in Bourges, central France, found itself suddenly in possession of a Michelin star. The eatery, which serves hearty dishes of beef bourguignon and lasagna to its clientele of locals, was taken aback by the arrival of swarms of new visitors. Thanks to their identical names, and eerily similar street addresses, the Michelin website had listed the Bourges café on its website by mistake.

Scuffles at Thai temple as police hunt for monk Posted: 20 Feb 2017 03:25 AM PST By Cod Satrusayang and Aukkaraporn Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Monks and police scuffled on Monday at a Buddhist temple in Thailand where security forces are trying to arrest an influential former abbot on money-laundering charges. The standoff at the scandal-hit Dhammakaya Temple represents one of the biggest challenges to the authority of Thailand's junta since it took power in 2014. Police said they would try to avoid violence while threatening arrest for followers of the sprawling temple who have defied orders to leave and instead flocked there, hampering the search for 72-year-old Phra Dhammachayo.

Rep. Adam Schiff calls Trump's comment about press 'most alarming' remark since election Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:58 AM PST The ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee is interviewed on "This Week."

Fantasy league aims to lure US students to economics Posted: 18 Feb 2017 07:03 PM PST Have you needed to use your high school chemistry recently? The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, part of the US central bank system, is on the forefront of trying to make economic and personal finance information accessible to the general public, and especially to students.

Shocker! World’s first self-driving car race ends in a crash Posted: 20 Feb 2017 11:40 AM PST The world's first race on a professional track involving self-driving cars ended, not surprisingly, with a crash. As part of the Roborace competition held in Buenos Aires over the weekend, one of the two self-driving Devbot vehicles involved in the race slammed into a wall after miscalculating a particularly sharp turn. While the Devbot vehicles weren't going all out, they weren't exactly driving at a leisurely pace either. At their best, both cars were driving in excess of 100 MPH, with one reaching a top speed of 115 MPH at one point. In addition to racing around the track at high speeds, it's worth noting that each car can communicate with the other as to prevent them from crashing into each other. Unfortunately, the racetrack wall proved to be an insurmountable foe. As for the software malfunction that caused the crash, Roborace's Justin Cooke explained what happened in an interview with the BBC: One of the cars was trying to perform a manoeuvre, and it went really full-throttle and took the corner quite sharply and caught the edge of the barrier. It's actually fantastic for us because the more we see these moments the more we are able to learn and understand what was the thinking behind the computer and its data. Indeed, for as far along as self-driving software and hardware has progressed, it's clear that there's still a lot of work to be done before self-driving cars can replace human drivers completely across all driving environments. While the DevBot vehicles are designed such that they "can be driven by a human or a computer", the versions used in the race over the weekend did not have any humans inside. Photos of the crash can be seen here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSbSUeKEj00

‘Not My President’s Day’ protests in the U.S. Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:09 PM PST Thousands of people in cities around the country turned out to demonstrate against the policies of President Trump on Monday in a protest that organizers called "Not My President's Day." Yahoo News dispatched reporters to cover the major demonstrations in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Follow our LIVE BLOG throughout the day for the latest updates. See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr

President Trump’s Terrible One-Month Report Card Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:00 PM PST How to assess the damage after the first 30 days.

Man dies after breaching security at Honolulu airport Posted: 18 Feb 2017 09:51 PM PST HONOLULU (AP) — A man is dead after he breached security at Honolulu International Airport and stopped breathing, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

Kim Dotcom Eligible For US Extradition Posted: 20 Feb 2017 03:07 AM PST The New Zealand High Court said, however, that the extradition is not based on copyright grounds, and Dotcom's legal team is "confident" the decision will be reversed.

Indonesia Islamists urge ouster of Jakarta governor, plan more protests Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:04 AM PST Indonesian Islamist groups on Monday called on the government to suspend the Christian governor of the capital and for the courts to convict him of blasphemy, demands they will make again at a rally outside parliament on Tuesday. Islamist groups have held two big rallies since November against the governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for insulting the Koran, and in the midst of an election in which he hopes to win a second term. "Our demands to parliament are that they urge the government to suspend Purnama ... and urge the Supreme Court and judges to detain him and impose the maximum sentence," said Muhammad al Khaththath of the Islamic People's Forum.

Debt-saddled Mongolia agrees $5.5 bn IMF bailout Posted: 19 Feb 2017 10:07 PM PST Mongolia has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $5.5 billion bailout package, officials announced, as the debt-wracked country tries to stabilise its economy. The landlocked north Asian nation has been hit hard by a more than 50 percent fall over the past five years in the price of copper, its main export. Billions of dollars' worth of natural resources lie buried beneath Mongolia's sprawling steppes, but development has been delayed for years and slowing growth in its biggest customer China has hobbled the economy.

Trump administration drafts plan to raise asylum bar, speed deportations Posted: 19 Feb 2017 12:00 PM PST By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security has prepared new guidance for immigration agents aimed at speeding up deportations by denying asylum claims earlier in the process. The new guidelines, contained in a draft memo dated February 17 but not yet sent to field offices, directs agents to only pass applicants who have a good chance of ultimately getting asylum, but does not give specific criteria for establishing credible fear of persecution if sent home. The guidance instructs asylum officers to "elicit all relevant information" in determining whether an applicant has "credible fear" of persecution if returned home, the first obstacle faced by migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border requesting asylum.

2017 Mercedes-Maybach S550 4MATIC Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:15 PM PST A perfectly restrained chauffeur-mobile.

On frozen fields, North Korean farmers prep for battle ahead Posted: 19 Feb 2017 05:38 PM PST PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Plug your noses and ready your "Juche fertilizer." It's time to prep the frozen fields in North Korea.

Police say newly freed gang member killed California officer Posted: 20 Feb 2017 05:35 PM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gang member who was recently freed from jail killed his cousin and stole his car Monday then shot and killed a California police officer and wounded his partner before being wounded himself, authorities said.

Australia and UAE to explore deeper defense ties, A$1 billion in sales Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:15 AM PST Australia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will explore closer defense ties after a meeting on Sunday between a senior Australian government minister and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. Australia's Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne and Sheikh Mohammed, who is also Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, met on the sidelines of the biennial International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi.

This new iPhone 8 feature might end up blowing our minds Posted: 20 Feb 2017 06:33 AM PST Amid rumors that the iPhone 8 will incorporate advanced facial recognition features, the Hebrew-language website Calcalist (via Times of Israel) is reporting that Apple recently acquired Realface, an up-and-coming Israeli startup with impressive real-time facial recognition software. Lending credence to rumors that the iPhone 8 may forgo the use of Touch ID in favor of facial recognition, Realface's software is said to be sophisticated enough such that it can reliably be used as a foundation for mobile-based biometric authentication. As is often the case when Apple acquires a company, Realface's web presence has already been wiped from the web. Still, thanks to the magic of Google, we were able to poke around and dig up some intriguing nuggets of information about the company's promising technology. Realface boasts that it's AI software rests upon deep learning methods and is so reliable and quick that the end-result is an absolutely seamless user experience. "Our technology provides our customers and end-users with the highest level of authentication and security available on all platforms," says Realface. "We have proprietary IP in the field of frictionless face recognition and effective learnings from facial features." Incidentally, Realface's technology is also capable of filtering out photos of faces and advanced sculptures designed to trick the software into thinking that a device's camera is honed in on an actual human face. Further, Realface claims that its software can recognize faces with a 99.67% success rate, an impressive figure that is even higher than the average 97.5% success rate exhibited by humans. To this point, a profile on Realface from last year relays that the company's technology is so advanced that it can even distinguish between identical twins with alarming and impressive accuracy. Below is a quick and dirty demo of the software in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNlkxGmIgW0 What's particularly interesting is that Realface's technology is not only capable of discerning individual faces, but can also analyze specific facial expressions as a means to determine a user's mood. If this sounds somewhat familiar, Apple last year acquired Emotient, a company with similar AI technology of its own. Now as for what Apple is planning to do with its growing portfolio of AI-based facial recognition software, well, that's the million dollar question. While initial speculation centered on Apple rolling out augmented reality features, perhaps similar to what the beloved MSQRD app does, more recent rumblings suggest that Apple wants to position facial recognition as a means to identify users and securely authorize sensitive transactions. Again, there are even reports that facial recognition might ultimately serve as a replacement for Touch ID. While this seems far-fetched, Ming Chi-Kuo -- an analyst with the best track record regarding Apple rumors -- seems to think otherwise. In a recently issued research note, Kuo claims that the iPhone 8's rumored edgeless design cannot, for whatever reason, coexist peacefully with Touch ID. Consequently, Kuo relays that Apple wants to eventually replace Touch ID with a facial recognition solution. When it comes to Apple, the old adage that when there's smoke, there's fire is generally true. That being the case, it stands to reason that facial recognition will be a huge and incredibly exciting component of the iPhone 8 user experience.

Women named to head Saudi bourse, major bank Posted: 20 Feb 2017 07:41 AM PST Women have been named to head Saudi Arabia's stock exchange and a major bank, the institutions announced, despite the kingdom's social restrictions on females. Samba Financial Group on Sunday said Rania Mahmoud Nashar had begun work as chief executive officer. The announcement came three days after the Saudi stock exchange, known as Tadawul, named Sarah al-Suhaimi as chairman of its board.

Trump Refers To Imaginary Attack In Sweden Posted: 19 Feb 2017 02:36 AM PST During his Saturday rally in Melbourne, Florida, President Donald Trump linked the large number of refugees in Sweden to an incident "last night" that never actually occurred.

Police Build Kitty Condo for Stray Cat That Has Been Visiting Department For Years Posted: 19 Feb 2017 12:57 PM PST One officer spent several nights working on the condo.

Turkey puts 47 on trial for 'coup plot to kill Erdogan' Posted: 20 Feb 2017 08:02 AM PST One of the nearly 50 suspects in an alleged plot to assassinate Turkey's president admitted involvement in the botched July 15 putsch bid as the mass trial opened Monday. Forty-four suspects, mainly soldiers, are under arrest over the alleged plot to kill Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while three others still on the run are being tried in absentia at the court in the southern city of Mugla. Onlookers heckled the accused as they stepped out of the buses that took them from prison, shouting "we want the death penalty!" and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest").

Philippines: Vietnamese ship attacked; 1 dead, 6 abducted Posted: 20 Feb 2017 04:53 AM PST MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen attacked a Vietnamese cargo ship off the Philippines' southern tip, killing a Vietnamese crewman and abducting six others including the vessel's captain, the Philippine coast guard and the ship's owner said Monday.

Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes Posted: 19 Feb 2017 02:53 PM PST FLORIDA, N.Y. (AP) — When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. But she soon realized that her home had been ransacked, and that her other dog, Quigley, was lying dead on his favorite blanket in the living room.

China names and shames cities over smog controls Posted: 19 Feb 2017 07:34 PM PST China's environment ministry has named and shamed several cities in the north of the country for not doing enough to cope with smog, state news agency Xinhua reported. Large parts of northern China have been blanketed in choking smog this winter, defying repeated government efforts to tackle the problem. Pollution alerts are common in northern China, especially during bitterly cold winters when energy demand, much of it met by coal, soars.

Governor's proposed gun permit fees come under fire Posted: 19 Feb 2017 04:31 AM PST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gun rights supporters and state Republican lawmakers are fighting huge gun permit fee increases proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, saying they would price many people out of being able to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Here’s how badly the Galaxy Note 7 destroyed Samsung’s reputation in the US Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:28 PM PST It goes without saying that the spontaneous combustion of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 was a big deal, but rarely do we get an opportunity to see the impact of tech gaffes on public sentiment quantified. A new Harris Poll ranking the "reputation quotient" of the 100 most recognizable brands in the United States provides just that, and the picture isn't good one for Samsung. In fact, it's pretty dire. In last year's reputation ratings, Samsung landed in the seventh position out of 100 companies, beaten only by Amazon, Apple, and Google on the tech side of things. Fast forward to today, and Samsung has found itself barely squeezing into the top half of the chart with the number 49 spot on the rankings. As big of a drop in the charts as it has taken, it's interesting to note that Samsung's actual reputation rating only actually dropped from 80.44 to 75.17. Harris considers a rating of 80+ to be "Excellent," and groups ratings of 75 to 79 into the "Very Good" category. Additionally, both Apple and Google took hits in their ratings as well, though not nearly as drastic — Apple fell from 83.03 to 82.07 and Google dipped from 82.97 to 82.00. The study is conducted via interviews with US adults, each of which are asked to rate companies that they are familiar with. According to the methodology of the research, each company received a rating from approximately 300 respondents. The timing of the study wasn't particularly favorable to Samsung, having been conducted from late November to mid December of 2016, which was precisely when Samsung was in the midst devising a way to remotely kill off the Note 7s that were still in the hands of owners.

Gambia celebrates Barrow's inauguration Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:41 AM PST Thousands celebrated Saturday as new Gambian President Adama Barrow retook his oath of office, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle. February 18 is also the anniversary of The Gambia's independence from Britain, but many are also calling the day the birth of a third republic following the ousting of Yahya Jammeh at the ballot box. Tens of thousands packed the venue, singing and dancing, an AFP correspondent said.

Is the Trump administration in chaos or 'running like a fine-tuned machine?' Posted: 19 Feb 2017 08:41 AM PST ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports the latest in politics on "This Week."

Sweden Has Most Foreign Born Citizens In Europe Posted: 20 Feb 2017 07:27 AM PST The scrutiny of President Donald Trump's recent comments about Sweden continued Monday.

Global arms trade highest since Cold War: study Posted: 19 Feb 2017 03:11 PM PST Worldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by a demand from the Middle East and Asia, a study said Monday. Between 2012-2016, arms imports in terms of volume by countries in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43 percent of global imports, a 7.7 rise compared to the previous 2007-2011 period, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). "Transfer of major weapons in 2012-16 reached their highest volume for any five-year period since the end of" the Cold War, the independent institute said in a statement.

‘I am a Muslim too’ rally in Times Square Posted: 19 Feb 2017 11:34 AM PST Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier hosted a large demonstration in Times Square on Sunday in response to Trump's executive order barring travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.

ICE arrests man who escaped Illinois prison in 2003 Posted: 19 Feb 2017 11:58 AM PST CHICAGO (AP) — A man who escaped from an Illinois prison in 2003 while serving an eight-year sentence on a drug charge has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in Atlanta.

Solar-powered Africa “never more possible and less expensive”: energy chief Posted: 20 Feb 2017 02:16 AM PST By Maina Waruru ABU DHABI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A "solar revolution" is coming to Africa, comparable in scale and importance to the rapid surge in mobile phone use on the continent two decades ago, predicts the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Fast-dropping costs for solar power, combined with plenty of sun and a huge need for electricity on a continent where many are still without it, means solar has huge potential in Africa, said Adnan Amin, the director general of IRENA. "Africa's solar potential is enormous," he said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Tribes lay remains of Kennewick Man to rest Posted: 20 Feb 2017 11:32 AM PST KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — The ancient bones of the Kennewick Man have been returned to the ground.

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