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A 90th minute winner from joint player-boss Lee Clarke helped Blackstones to a 2-1 away victory at Huntingdon Town on Saturday.

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South Korea's Pyeongchang, host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics, will welcome nearly one million athletes and spectators to its quiet slice of the Korean Peninsula this month.

The county of Pyeongchang is one of the safest places to live and visit across the globe — with one major catch. It sits only 50 miles from the border of North Korea, which has raised the prospect of war with a series of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests in recent months.

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CAIRO — Egypt's air force pounded militant targets in northern and central Sinai early on Saturday, the military said, the second day of an assault to try and crush an insurgency that has killed hundreds of people since 2013.

BEIRUT — Daesh militants battled Syrian insurgents in the northwestern province of Idlib on Friday, a monitoring group and a rebel commander said, accusing pro-government forces of opening a corridor for the extremists to reach the region.

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• Olympic pin trading is as much a part of the Olympics as the sports themselves.
• Olympic pins date back to the first Summer Games in Athens in 1896.
• Everyone from athletes to spectators to journalists all take part in the pin trading tradition.
• Knowledgeable pin traders said the most coveted pin from the London 2012 Olympics was one that featured a tiny Pikachu.

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States considers the latest incident on the Israeli-Syrian border to be Iran's "calculated escalation" of tension, US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Saturday.

Police said Saturday that two police officers were fatally shot at a home in the Columbus suburb of Westerville, Ohio. A suspect is in custody.

Rookie defenseman will partner with Connor Murphy on the blue line; Patrick Sharp scratched for the fifth time in the last seven games.

A draft of a Pentagon report on the attack in Niger that killed four American soldiers, four Nigerien soldiers and an Nigerien interpreter last October calls for a smaller, more cautious U.S. military presence in West Africa, according to sources who spoke to The New York Times. That could emphasize the need for deeper diplomatic and political engagement in the Sahel, given ongoing security challenges and difficulties in funding and coordinating a regional task force. Militant groups Details... Читать дальше...

Hundreds celebrated the temporary stay of deportation for immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir during a rally in Manhattan’s Foley Square Saturday. “They want to make America white again,” Ragbir told a crowd of some 300 supporters. “But America was never white in the first place.” Ragbir was to be deported to Trinidad and Tobago Saturday morning,...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea’s president marked Day Two of the North Korean Kim dynasty’s southern road tour Saturday, part of an accelerating diplomatic thaw that included some Korean liquor over lunch and the shared joy of watching a “unified” Korea team play hockey at the Olympics.

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Journalists from across the media are expressing outrage after CNN published a glowing piece about how Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un, is ‘stealing the show at the Winter Olympics,’ in Pyongyang, South Korea.   The piece, which took three reporters to write, also claimed Kim Yo Jong is North Korea’s […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Rose McGowan has broken a days-long silence to express sympathy over the suicide of her former manager, whose family has criticized the actress and activist. In an Instagram post Saturday, McGowan wrote that she hopes the family of Jill Messick can find some "solace" and blames her death on Harvey Weinstein. Messick killed herself last week, reportedly distraught after details emerged about alleged sexual misconduct by Weinstein. McGowan has said that the Hollywood producer raped... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rose McGowan has broken a days-long silence to express sympathy over the suicide of her former manager, whose family has criticized the actress and activist. In an Instagram post Saturday, McGowan wrote that she hopes the family of Jill Messick can find some "solace" and blames her death on Harvey Weinstein. Messick killed herself last week, reportedly distraught after details emerged about alleged sexual misconduct by Weinstein. McGowan has said that the Hollywood producer raped... Читать дальше...