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Consumer group probe of 500 refrigerators finds material on nearly half is made of unsafe plastic.
BBC News – Business

The field contains up to 80 billion barrels of oil, dwarfing the Gulf kingdom’s current reserves.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazil’s top court will rule on whether Lula should be jailed while he appeals against his sentence.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A proposal for a new inquiry into the Salisbury poisoning fails at the chemical weapons watchdog.
BBC News – Europe

Two fatalities in Hackney take the number of people killed in the capital to more than 50 this year.
BBC News – UK

President Donald Trump declared last week that the US would “be coming out of Syria very soon”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Eighteen hostages, including 12 Europeans, were taken while on a tourist excursion.
BBC News – Africa

It was about time for one of these games to come down to the wire.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Left-hander Sean Manaea, who turned in a dazzling seven-strikeout, 7 2/3-inning performance against the Angels in his season debut, hopes for more of the same against the Rangers on Wednesday. Manaea is 3-2 with a […]

NEW ORLEANS – Anthony Davis put the ball on the floor, and for the New Orleans Pelicans center it only takes one or two
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