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The multi-part Around the Horn series, which features a position-by-position look at Oakland’s projected starters and backup options heading into the season, resumes in center field.
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Tesco is stopping offering 24-hour shopping at 76 of its stores – around one in five – as online shopping hits customer numbers.
BBC News – Business

Peace talks on Syria begin in Geneva, but the main opposition groups have so far stayed away.
BBC News – Middle East

President Dilma Rousseff calls on the whole of Brazilian society to help combat the spread of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Unidentified attackers throw a live hand grenade at a migrant hostel in south-western Germany but it fails to detonate, police say.
BBC News – Europe

UK mother Tareena Shakil, who took her toddler son to Syria, is found guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State and encouraging terror.
BBC News – UK

US and UK spy agencies have hacked into Israeli air force communications since the 1990s, documents linked to US whistleblower Edward Snowden say.
BBC News – US & Canada

The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR).
BBC News – Africa

Not too long ago, Thunder guard Dion Waiters was cheering on youngsters performing agility ladder drills and sweat-inducing burpees at th
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Sonny Gray is carrying a heavier load this year, in more ways than one. Oakland’s ace is primed to take on a leadership role in a mostly young rotation in 2016. Gray, just 26 himself but soon entering his third […]

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The European Competition Commissioner says she is willing to investigate Google’s tax arrangements as the SNP write to the EC to complain.
BBC News – Business

Campaigner Malala Yousufzai calls for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children denied access to school.
BBC News – Middle East

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Sweden is making plans to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum-seekers over coming years, the interior minister is quoted as saying.
BBC News – Europe

The UK is to accept more unaccompanied child refugees from Syria and other conflict zones – but the government has not said how many.
BBC News – UK

Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed protest at a wildlife refuge in Oregon who was arrested on Tuesday, urges the remaining occupiers to go home.
BBC News – US & Canada

Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo is due to go on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity, the former first head of state to appear at the ICC.
BBC News – Africa

Josh Reddick is back in familiar territory, holding down the fort in right field. The fan favorite has been roaming these grounds since joining the organization following the 2011 season, and he could potentially […]

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