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The A’s selected Florida left-hander A.J. Puk with the sixth overall section of the 2016 Draft on Thursday.
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The downturn in the UK oil and gas sector is expected to have led to 120,000 job losses by the end of the year, according to a report.
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The first deliveries of food aid since 2012 reach the besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya.
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The economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski wins a cliff-hanger presidential election in Peru, but unclear ballots must be settled by electoral court.
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French President Francois Hollande warns against attempts to disrupt Euro 2016 with strike action, as the football tournament prepares for its opening match.
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Leaving the EU would lead to an emergency budget, more cuts in public spending and tax rises, senior Labour figures will claim.
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US President Barack Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton as Democratic Party presidential nominee.
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Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it has killed 60 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an African Union base in Somalia.
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Milwaukee starter Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Scooter Gennett drove in three runs as the Brewers completed a two-game sweep of the A’s with a 4-0 win on Wednesday night.
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One third of WPP investors have failed to back Sir Martin Sorrell’s £70m pay deal at the advertising firm’s annual general meeting.
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Three people have been killed and six wounded in a shooting by two gunmen at a shopping centre in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, officials say.
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Brazil’s chief prosecutor seeks the arrest of top politicians from the party of interim president Michel Temer, local media say.
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Austria’s far right Freedom Party lodges a challenge to last month’s presidential poll, which it narrowly lost, citing numerous irregularities.
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Ex-BHS owner Dominic Chappell is branded “a liar” who threatened “to kill” the retailer’s chief executive, by managers appearing before MPs.
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Pressure is building on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi, one of only two men to win the Africa Cup of Nations as a player and a coach, dies at the age of 54.
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Chris Carter homered twice to provide some breathing room for Brewers starter Zach Davies, who carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning of a 5-4 win over the A’s on Tuesday night at Miller Park.
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When the Thunder started the 2015-16 season 7-6 and slogged through a stretch of eight losses in 12 games after the All-Star Break, there
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A high Draft pick is merely a consolation prize for a disappointing season. That the A’s enter next week’s Draft with their highest pick in 18 years, then, speaks to how well they’ve performed on the field in that […]

Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has admitted to problems with some practices at the company’s Derbyshire warehouse, ahead of his appearance before MPs.
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