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Turkey’s foreign ministry says it has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian plane violated its airspace near the Syrian border.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron asks a Labour MP to examine why black offenders are more likely to be jailed than white offenders in English and Welsh courts.
BBC News – UK

Liberal-leaning New York Times backs Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they bid to become their parties’ candidates in US presidential elections.
BBC News – US & Canada

A British helicopter pilot has been shot dead by elephant poachers he was tracking in Tanzania, the conservation charity for which he was working says.
BBC News – Africa

MLB.com’s Top 100 Prospects list was unveiled Friday, and it features a trio of players in the A’s organization: shortstop Franklin Barreto, lefty Sean Manaea and first baseman Matt Olson. Barreto is ranked at No. […]

Sitting in the press conference room 105 minutes before tip-off, Thunder Head Coach Billy Donovan said after a grueling four-game road sw
Oklahoma City Thunder

The multi-part Around the Horn series, which features a position-by-position look at Oakland’s projected starters and backup options heading into the season, resumes in center field.
OAK Homepage News

Tesco is stopping offering 24-hour shopping at 76 of its stores – around one in five – as online shopping hits customer numbers.
BBC News – Business

Peace talks on Syria begin in Geneva, but the main opposition groups have so far stayed away.
BBC News – Middle East

President Dilma Rousseff calls on the whole of Brazilian society to help combat the spread of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Unidentified attackers throw a live hand grenade at a migrant hostel in south-western Germany but it fails to detonate, police say.
BBC News – Europe

UK mother Tareena Shakil, who took her toddler son to Syria, is found guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State and encouraging terror.
BBC News – UK

US and UK spy agencies have hacked into Israeli air force communications since the 1990s, documents linked to US whistleblower Edward Snowden say.
BBC News – US & Canada

The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR).
BBC News – Africa

Not too long ago, Thunder guard Dion Waiters was cheering on youngsters performing agility ladder drills and sweat-inducing burpees at th
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Sonny Gray is carrying a heavier load this year, in more ways than one. Oakland’s ace is primed to take on a leadership role in a mostly young rotation in 2016. Gray, just 26 himself but soon entering his third […]

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The European Competition Commissioner says she is willing to investigate Google’s tax arrangements as the SNP write to the EC to complain.
BBC News – Business

Campaigner Malala Yousufzai calls for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children denied access to school.
BBC News – Middle East

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean