Craig Taylor

INDIANAPOLIS – After a
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Cashback credit cards provider Capital One is cutting the rewards it offers on its products, blaming a European Parliament ruling to cap “interchange fees”.
BBC News – Business

An Egyptian court confirms the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 13 others for subversion.
BBC News – Middle East

Spanish police break up an extortion ring run by Chilean jail inmates who allegedly cold-called Spanish civilians demanding kidnap ransoms.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Turkey’s main opposition party accuses state TV of abusing public office for banning its election campaign advert.
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The Conservatives pledge an extra £8bn a year for the NHS in England by 2020 but Labour and the Lib Dems question how the “unfunded” promise will be paid for.
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US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro hold talks in Panama, the first negotiations between the two countries’ leaders in half a century.
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Kenya’s deputy president tells the UN to close the Dadaab refugee camp for Somalis after 147 students in Garissa were killed by Somali militants.
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Dion Waiters saw the shot go up, checked on his defensive assignment then planted himself in perfect position.
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The Thunder took a day off on Wednesday to fill up its gas tank. On Thursday, it was time to rev up the engine.
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UK industrial output rose by just 0.1% in February, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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Pakistan parliament calls for neutrality in Yemen conflict, snubbing Saudi Arabia’s request to join anti-Houthi coalition.
BBC News – Middle East

The US and Cuban foreign ministers meet in Panama ahead of a regional summit, the highest such talks in more than 50 years.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Poland remembers the 2010 Smolensk air disaster which killed its president and top officials – a crash not yet fully explained.
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The Conservatives pledge three days paid volunteering leave a year and no above-inflation rail fare rises until 2020, but Labour say neither policy is new or fully funded.
BBC News – UK

South Carolina officials have released a new video showing the moments before a US police officer shot dead an unarmed black man in the back.
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South Africa’s University of Cape Town removes the statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes in front of cheering crowds after weeks of protests.
BBC News – Africa

There are points in any NBA season when
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Officials at the US’s central bank were split about when to raise interest rates, latest minutes from the Federal Reserve reveal.
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Fresh fighting is reported in the centre of the Yemeni city of Aden between Houthi rebels and militiamen loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
BBC News – Middle East