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The A’s added infielder Joey Wendle and left-hander Jose Torres to their 40-man roster Friday, protecting them from next month’s Rule 5 Draft
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Whether it’s physically in the form of intricate pregame handshake routines or mentally in the film room and in huddles, Thunder players
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Hundreds of solar power jobs have been lost owing to planned cuts to subsidies, according to a survey that suggests thousands more jobs could be at risk industry-wide.
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Russia strengthens its anti-aircraft defences in Syria by moving up a cruiser and deploying new missiles at an air base.
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The Brazilian health ministry confirms a link between a mosquito-borne virus from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high incidence of birth defects.
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Body of Russian pilot killed when plane shot down on Syria border now in Turkey’s hands, to be handed to Russia.
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A Paris-style attack could “easily” happen in UK cities, says Defence Secretary Michael Fallon as he steps up efforts to win MPs’ backing for air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria.
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The suspect in a deadly gun attack on a Colorado family planning clinic said “no more baby parts” during his arrest, US media report.
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Pope Francis embarks on the last leg of his African tour with a visit to the Central African Republic, a country wracked by religious violence.
BBC News – Africa

As the Arizona Fall League’s six-week season concluded with Saturday’s championship game, MLBPipeline.com names its All-AFL Team, highlighted by Yankees catching prospect Gary Sanchez and rebounding Rangers […]

The rout was on in the second half, and there seemed to be a party in the stands inside Chesapeake Energy Arena.
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Black Friday sees an online spending surge on both sides of the Atlantic, although there were still long queues of US consumers hunting for bargains on the High Street.
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Israel is to open its first diplomatic mission in the UAE, Israel says, despite the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Australian mining giant BHP says mud spilled by the devastating collapse of a dam at a Brazilian mine is not toxic.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses a TV speech to warn President Putin not to “play with fire” over the downing of a Russian plane.
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The Anglican and Catholic churches, three councils, and both current and former MPs are to be investigated by the inquiry into child sexual abuse, its chair says.
BBC News – UK

At lest six people, four of them police officers, are injured in an exchange of fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in US city of Colorado Springs.
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A’s pitcher Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend, Eireann Dolan, spent the night before Thanksgiving hosting Syrian refugees for a holiday meal in Chicago.
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 21 people in attack on a Shia Muslim procession in Nigeria’s Kano state, eyewitnesses say.
BBC News – Africa

The Thunder used a fourth quarter rally to burst past the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, and with Thanksgiving Day sandwiched in betwe
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