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PORTLAND – After fighting hard all game, the Thunder had built an eight point lead with 3:19 remaining, and seemed to be
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A’s general manager Billy Beane said he has no intentions of trading Sonny Gray, despite heavy interest in the starting pitcher from “some pretty aggressive suitors.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan.
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The City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, is “not going soft on the banks”, its interim chief executive Tracey McDermott says.
BBC News – Business

Aid for the besieged Syrian village of Madaya, a rebel-held village near the Lebanese border, has been delayed until Monday by last-minute hitches.
BBC News – Middle East

Officials in Argentina say a huge manhunt has netted only one of three fugitive murderers, hours after claiming that all had been caught.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

German police use water cannon against anti-migrant protesters, amid controversy about a wave of assaults on women – some of them by migrants.
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Proposals to improve more than 100 of England’s worst housing estates are to be outlined by the prime minister.
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The Mexican government says it will begin the process of extraditing recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the US.
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Gunmen kill two Egyptian policemen in the city of Giza in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State, officials say.
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LOS ANGELES – At shootaround on
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A 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, turns its focus to shortstop after covering second base […]

German carmaker Volkswagen reports its first drop in VW brand sales in 11 years as the company continues to cope with its emissions scandal.
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Gunmen open fire on hotel in Egyptian resort of Hurghada, injuring at least one tourist, reports say
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Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured six months after his escape from jail, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The head of Cologne’s police is leaving his post “to restore public trust in the police” following sex attacks on women at New Year.
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Seven staff at a young offenders institution in Kent are suspended over allegations of abuse and assault on teens uncovered by a BBC investigation.
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A police officer in Philadelphia was ambushed by a man who pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials say.
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The Islamic State group (IS) says it was behind a bomb attack which targeted a police training centre in Libya on Thursday, killing at least 65 people.
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