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Facebook reported a 195% jump in its first quarter net income as advertising continued to grow.
BBC News – Business

A media advocacy group condemns the sentencing by a court in Iran of four reformist journalists to between five and 10 years in prison.
BBC News – Middle East

With 100 days to go before the Olympic Games get under way in Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic flame has been handed over in Athens to the Brazilian authorities.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam appears before a French judge hours after his extradition from Belgium.
BBC News – Europe

South Yorkshire Police’s chief constable David Crompton is suspended in the wake of the Hillsborough inquest findings.
BBC News – UK

Donald Trump gives details of his foreign policy in a speech, a day after sweeping to a win in five US Republican primaries.
BBC News – US & Canada

A soldier suspected of killing 11 people at a military barracks in Cape Verde is arrested after a 24-hour manhunt, the authorities say.
BBC News – Africa

One night after the Tigers’ offense broke out of an early-season slumber against the A’s, Rich Hill put it back to sleep. The former University of Michigan standout tossed seven scoreless innings, taking advantage […]

A rarity in this series against the Dallas Mavericks, a Thunder offensive possession had been stymied.
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Former BHS owner Sir Philip Green is expected to be called to appear before MPs to face questions over the retailer’s collapse into administration.
BBC News – Business

Thousands of supporters of the Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protest in Baghdad at the continuing political crisis and lack of reform.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuela’s supreme court rejects an opposition-backed constitutional amendment to cut short the term of President Nicolas Maduro.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukraine commemorates the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – the worst in history – with a series of events.
BBC News – Europe

Ninety-six football fans who died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, the inquests conclude.
BBC News – UK

Voters in five north-eastern US states will cast ballots in primaries that could cement the leads of frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
BBC News – US & Canada

South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar returns to Juba to take the post of vice-president as part of a deal to end two years of civil war.
BBC News – Africa

On Sunday, Andrew Triggs got called into the office of Triple-A Nashville Sounds manager Steve Scarsone and was told he’d broken a walkie-talkie. Triggs was confused, until Scarsone said his next sentence.
OAK Homepage News

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 25, 2016 – The Oklahoma City Thunder advanced to the 2016 Western Conference Semifinals after defea
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Eric Surkamp’s latest assignment was no walk in the park, but Sunday’s start against a potent right-handed heavy Blue Jays lineup at least offered the left-hander yet another opportunity to keep grasp of a spot in […]

With the floor spread and a defender clamped on to Kevin Durant along the wing, the Thunder went with another option in the fourth quarte
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