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Danny Valencia homered and drove in three runs against his former Twins club, helping the A’s secure the series victory with a 7-4 win at the Coliseum on Tuesday night.
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OAKLAND – Bleary-eyed and both physically and emotionally spent, the Thunder walked off the court on Monday night for th
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Volkswagen profit tumbles 20% in the first three months of 2016 as it continues to grapple with the fallout from the diesel emissions scandal.
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Militants from the so-called Islamic State launch a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja.
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A second minister in Brazil’s new government resigns after a recording was published appearing to show him trying to derail a corruption investigation.
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President Francois Hollande of France insists that a controversial labour reform will not be withdrawn as strike action looms on the railways.
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Almost 75% of older children in England and Wales with diabetes are not getting key health checks, a study suggests.
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The director of Cincinnati zoo says he would do the same again after a gorilla, into whose enclosure a child fell, was shot dead.
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A Senegalese court jails Chad ex-leader Hissene Habre for life for crimes against humanity, in the first African Union-backed trial of a former ruler.
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A’s outfielder Coco Crisp belted a leadoff home run in support of starter Kendall Graveman, who held the Twins to two runs across six innings to pull out a 3-2 series-opening victory at Oakland Coliseum on Monday […]

“If you ask anybody coming into the season if you want one game to go to the NBA Finals, they’ll sign up for that,” an upbeat Kevin Duran
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Billy Butler hit a pinch-hit go-ahead single in the sixth before A’s starter Rich Hill departed with an apparent injury in Sunday’s 4-2 series-finale win over the Tigers at the Coliseum.
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New figures suggest 63% of shoppers who bought women’s clothes online in the last six months sent at least one item back to retailers.
BBC News – Business

The chief negotiator of Syria’s main opposition umbrella group resigns over what he called the failure of UN-brokered peace talks.
BBC News – Middle East

Olympiakos striker Alan Pulido has been kidnapped in Mexico’s northern border state of Tamaulipas, officials say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The leaders of France and Germany mark the 100th anniversary of the WW1 battle of Verdun in northern France with a call for European unity.
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The World Trade Organisation’s former director-general tells the BBC that the UK economy risks a “huge blow” if it votes to leave the EU on 23 June.
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Illegal immigrants in the US often get better care than the nation’s military veterans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says.
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Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.
BBC News – Africa

Flat-footed from 28 feet away at the top of the key, Golden State Warriors’ guard Klay Thompson barely squared his hips to the basket bef
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