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When Canada's big-city mayors sat down with their federal counterparts in Ottawa last week, there was a somewhat different tone to the discussions.

Alex Sandro scored a derby-winning goal as Juventus bounced back from their Champions League collapse against Tottenham with a 1-0 victory at Torino. Juve, who surrendered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at home to Spurs in the first leg of their last-16 clash in midweek, edged Sunday's Derby della Mole thanks to Alex Sandro's 33rd-minute strike. The Brazilian tapped home at the back post after Federico Bernardeschi, had barged his way to the byline on the right and driven the ball across goal. Bernardeschi... Читать дальше...

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday accused judges of unfairly "throwing out" skier Anton Kushnir from the Olympic final, after rousing the country's diplomats the night before to get them to complain to the IOC.

Die 17-Jährige besiegt im Salzburger Endspiel der Generationen Betina Pirker und empfiehlt sich für höhere Aufgaben.

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• Republicans Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, and Sen. James Lankford all voiced their support for gun legislation on the Sunday morning talk show circuit.
• The change in tune came after the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday left 17 dead.
• Even conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh came out in favor of some gun regulation.

In the wake of the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this week... Читать дальше...

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• NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft flew over the Great Red Spot in July 2017.
• The probe provided the closest-ever photographs of the gigantic storm.
• However, planetary scientists think the Great Red Spot could soon weaken and fade into a "Great Red Memory" within a few decades.
• A signature storm on Neptune is vanishing, too.

Get a good look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot while you can. The giant storm as we know it today is shrinking... Читать дальше...

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In a rare visit, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval quietly travelled to Bhutan earlier this month where they held extensive talks with the Bhutanese leadership on key strategic issues including the situation in Doka La and the Chinese building defence infrastructure around the plateau, authoritative government sources said.

Two-time defending champion Canada, unbeaten Sweden and undefeated Czech Republic advanced to the Olympic men's hockey quarter-finals with impressive victories on Sunday.

President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI via Twitter on Saturday night, asserting that the organization was preoccupied investigating his presidential campaign and neglected to follow up on information about the shooter who killed 17 when he opened fire at a Florida high school on Wednesday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions went on with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. Sessions spoke to Maria after another week where Americans learned the FBI ignored calls to investigate mass murdered Nikolas Cruz at least two times before last Wednesday’s Florida school shooting. Florida Governor Rick Scott called on Wray to step down […]

Oberursel (dpa) - Der stellvertretende SPD-Vorsitzende Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel hat Fehler der Parteispitze nach dem Scheitern der Jamaika-Gespräche im vergangenen November eingeräumt. «Wir hätten einfach mal die Füße stillhalten und in dieser Phase Dinge zu Ende denken sollen», sagte er am Sonntag bei einem SPD-Mitgliedertreffen in Oberursel. Dort warb er für eine Zustimmung zum Koalitionsvertrag. In der Vereinbarung mit den Christdemokraten habe sich die SPD in vielen Punkten durchgesetzt, argumentierte der hessische SPD-Landeschef. Читать дальше...

Augsburg (dpa) - Der VfB Stuttgart hat beim FC Augsburg seinen ersten Auswärtssieg der Saison gefeiert. Das Team von Trainer Tayfun Korkut bezwang den FCA am Sonntag 1:0 (1:0). Nationalstürmer Mario Gomez erzielte den Siegtreffer für die Gäste bereits in der ersten Halbzeit (27. Minute). Ein vermeintlicher Ausgleichstreffer der Gastgeber wurde im ersten Durchgang nach Videobeweis zurückgenommen. Schiedsrichter Tobias Stieler schickte FCA-Trainer Manuel Baum in der zweiten Halbzeit wegen Meckerns auf die Tribüne. Читать дальше...

Police arrested one man and are looking for the second person who raped a woman in the bathroom of a Manhattan apartment party. George Ballo, 26, was busted on Wednesday night for sexually assaulting the 25-year-old woman at a party at the Fulton Houses on West 17th Street near Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, cops said....

Le Centre d'intégration scolaire (CIS), qui reçoit les élèves ayant des troubles de comportement de la grande région de Montréal, devra peut-être mettre fin à la mission de rééducation sociale qu'il remplit depuis 50 ans, s'il n'arrive pas à se trouver un nouveau toit.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR),North-West Zonal office, Kaduna, says it is investigating alleged diversion of 40,000 litres of fuel meant for Gombe. The Head, Down Stream, of the Zonal Office, Yahaya Maishera, said this while releasing the fuel at the NNPC Mega Station on Saturday in Mando, Kaduna. Maishera said the fuel was loaded... View Article

Russian news reports say a gunman has opened fire on people leaving a church service in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, killing and least five people and wounding four others. The Tass news agency said the shooting occurred Sunday outside a church in the town of Kizlyar.  The assailant was killed by police. "The shooter was shot dead," Kizlyar’s Mayor Alexander Shuvalov told Tass, adding that two police officers were among those wounded. The motive for the shooting is not known. Dagestan... Читать дальше...

On Sunday, a gunman in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan opened fire at people celebrating Maslenitsa, a traditional Russian folk holiday that symbolizes the end of winter and precedes the Great Lent for Orthodox Christians. As a result of the incident, five people, including the perpetrator, have been killed while five others were injured.

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Despite aircraft carriers' immense cost, the Navy believes there is no replacing a well-armed, aircraft equipped, sovereign piece of US territory, powered by dual nuclear reactors.

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen was fond of saying that without "flattops" the US has "less of a voice, less of an influence." Evidently, many of the worlds nations also believe this is true. 

The last few years have seen a number of interesting developments for aircraft carriers. Читать дальше...

Tatjana Pinto über 60 Meter und Konstanze Klosterhalfen über 3000 Meter haben für die Knaller bei den deutschen Hallen-Meisterschaften gesorgt. Aber auch andere Leichtathleten brachten sich in Dortmund für die WM in Birmingham in Schwung.Dortmund (dpa) - Tatjana Pinto glänzte mit einer Weltklassezeit, Konstanze Klosterhalfen knackte einen Uralt-Rekord. Die Sprinterin und das Lauftalent haben bei den deutschen Meisterschaften der Leichtathleten in Dortmund für die Highlights gesorgt. Zwei Wochen vor der Hallen-WM in Birmingham (1. Читать дальше...

Amid reports of Turkey allegedly launching a gas attack in Syria, Kurdish YPG groups in Afrin are calling on the Syrian army to meddle in to protect their borders from Turkish combat men, a YPG representative Nuri Mahmud told RIA Novosti.

Amid reports of Turkey allegedly launching a gas attack in Syria, Kurdish YPG groups in Afrin are calling on the Syrian army to meddle in to protect their borders from Turkish combat men, a YPG representative Nuri Mahmud told RIA Novosti.

Amid reports of Turkey allegedly launching a gas attack in Syria, Kurdish YPG groups in Afrin are calling on the Syrian army to meddle in to protect their borders from Turkish combat men, a YPG representative Nuri Mahmud told RIA Novosti.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on the crash of an Iranian passenger plane in southern Iran (all times local): 6:10 p.m. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency is saying that the death toll in a commercial airplane crash is 65. IRNA reported Sunday night that one passenger did not make the flight. That puts the toll at 65, with 59 passengers and six crew members killed. Authorities initially said the crash killed 66. The Aseman Airlines ATR-72 crashed near its destination of the southern Iranian city of Yasuj... Читать дальше...