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Dodgers’ Corey Seager impressed during a September callup last year and tops the 2016 Shortstops Prospects list. The Phillies’ J.P. Crawford and Milwaukee’s Orlando Arcia follow Seager on the list.
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Barclays and Credit Suisse are fined a total of $ 154m (£108m) by US regulators for their US “dark pool” trading operations.
BBC News – Business

At least 71 people are reported killed in blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus, claimed by Islamic State.
BBC News – Middle East

Unknown gunmen kill at least 11 people at a girl’s 15th birthday party in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posts an Instagram video showing Russian opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov in a sniper’s crosshairs.
BBC News – Europe

UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.
BBC News – UK

US presidential candidates make a final pitch to people in Iowa, where the first votes for party nominations will be cast on Monday.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigeria is holding talks with the World Bank to help it fund a forecast $ 11bn (£7.7bn) budget deficit as it copes with falling oil revenue.
BBC News – Africa

A game of full court, one-on-one after a lengthy practice session can be grueling work, but there D.J.
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A’s catcher Stephen Vogt underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow Friday morning and is “fully expected to be ready by Opening Day,” the club stated in a release.
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Enes Kanter’s eyes grew wide with shock when he heard the numbers. To him, and many in Oklahoma City, the figures were unbelievable.
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Companies should be taxed on their UK sales, not profits, former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson says, after the row over Google’s tax arrangements.
BBC News – Business

The main Syrian opposition group is in Geneva for peace talks but says the Assad government must meet its demands if negotiations are to start.
BBC News – Middle East

The number of pregnant women in Colombia infected with the Zika virus – linked to birth defects – doubles in a week to nearly 2,000, officials say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey’s foreign ministry says it has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian plane violated its airspace near the Syrian border.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron asks a Labour MP to examine why black offenders are more likely to be jailed than white offenders in English and Welsh courts.
BBC News – UK

Liberal-leaning New York Times backs Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they bid to become their parties’ candidates in US presidential elections.
BBC News – US & Canada

A British helicopter pilot has been shot dead by elephant poachers he was tracking in Tanzania, the conservation charity for which he was working says.
BBC News – Africa

MLB.com’s Top 100 Prospects list was unveiled Friday, and it features a trio of players in the A’s organization: shortstop Franklin Barreto, lefty Sean Manaea and first baseman Matt Olson. Barreto is ranked at No. […]

Sitting in the press conference room 105 minutes before tip-off, Thunder Head Coach Billy Donovan said after a grueling four-game road sw
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