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EDF has confirmed that its finance director has quit ahead of an expected final investment decision on the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power plant.
BBC News – Business

Billionaire Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani, accused by the West of sanctions-busting, has been sentenced to death for corruption, Iranian officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visits her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after he is questioned over corruption allegations.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The EU will seek to close the Balkan route for migrants, as leaders meet for an emergency summit on Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War Two.
BBC News – Europe

The UK will provide “vital military assets” to help a Nato mission tackling people smugglers in the Aegean Sea, David Cameron announces.
BBC News – UK

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan – whose marriage to Ronald Reagan was described as the US presidency’s greatest love affair – has died aged 94.
BBC News – US & Canada

Tunisian security forces kill 10 militants in fighting after they crossed the border from Libya, an army spokesman says.
BBC News – Africa

A’s catcher Josh Phegley, nursing a sore right shoulder early in camp, has been held back by manager Bob Melvin during the opening days of the Cactus League season. There’s no holding him back now. Phegley homered […]

MILWAUKEE – Breaking up the long four-game road trip with about 36 hours at home in Oklahoma City was the ideal way for
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Driverless lorries are to be trialled in the UK, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to confirm in his Budget speech this month.
BBC News – Business

Pope Francis describes a brutal attack on an old people’s home in Yemen that left four nuns and 12 others dead as “pointless slaughter”.
BBC News – Middle East

Murdered Honduran indigenous activist Berta Caceres, who led protests against a hydro-dam project, is laid to rest.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey’s biggest newspaper, Zaman, condemns its takeover by the authorities in a last independent edition, while supporters are tear-gassed outside.
BBC News – Europe

Chancellor George Osborne abandons plans to remove or change tax relief on pensions, after opposition from Conservative MPs and his pensions minister.
BBC News – UK

The front-runners for the nominations in the US presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, aim to extend their leads in Saturday’s primaries and caucuses.
BBC News – US & Canada

Islamist politician Hassan al-Turabi, one of the most divisive figures in Sudan’s turbulent history, dies at the age of 84.
BBC News – Africa

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 5, 2016 – The Oklahoma City Thunder has signed free agent center Nazr Mohammed to a contract, it wa
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Sean Manaea didn’t disappoint in his first act in green and gold. The A’s top pitching prospect quickly rid himself of any spare nerves and delivered a memorable performance in his spring debut, striking out four […]

A’s right-hander Chris Bassitt has traded in his high-effort delivery for a simplified version borrowed from ace Sonny Gray.
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OAKLAND – After 14 lead changes and 15 ties through three quarters, the tension in the building felt like a bubble about
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