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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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Social media giant Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK after a major overhaul of its tax structure.
BBC News – Business

Turkey jails two Syrians over the drowning of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi whose death last year focused attention on the refugee crisis.
BBC News – Middle East

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is detained as part of a huge fraud inquiry into the state oil company Petrobras.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union in 2015 reached 1,255,600 – more than double the previous year, new figures suggest.
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Schools are closed and traffic is being disrupted as part of northern England is hit by heavy snow showers.
BBC News – UK

A day of unprecedented Republican attacks on White House front-runner Donald Trump continued in a TV debate for presidential rivals.
BBC News – US & Canada

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accuses foreign mining companies of stealing the country’s wealth, following a government decision to take over all the country’s diamond mines.
BBC News – Africa