Monday, November 16, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 17/11/2015





France bombs Islamic State HQ, hunts attacker who got away
Attacks in ParisFrance launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria.



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Clinton campaign defends debate 9/11 remarks




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Donald Trump: ‘O’Malley is a clown’; ‘Hillary is owned by Wall Street’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/John Raoux)During Saturday’s Democratic debate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley called Donald Trump an “immigrant-bashing carnival barker.”



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Vigil honors California student slain in Paris attacks
A woman places flowers at a makeshift shrine in honor of Nohemi Gonzalez at California State University in Long Beach, CaliforniaMore than 1,000 people overflowed a ballroom at California State University, Long Beach, on Sunday to honor and remember an exchange student who was cut down indiscrimately by suspected Islamic State militants in Paris on Friday. Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, was dining at a restaurant fired upon by gunmen as part of a coordinated assault that killed 132 people and wounded more than 300 in the French capital city. Gonzalez, of El Monte, California, was a senior at CSULB just south of Los Angeles.



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About 1,500 Mormons resign from church in protest of same-sex policy
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their supporters walk near the Salt Lake Temple after mailing their membership resignation to the church in Salt Lake City, UtahAbout 1,500 Latter-day Saints have submitted letters of resignation from the Mormon Church to protest a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults, movement organizers said on Sunday. More than 1,000 people gathered on Saturday near the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to protest the policy they see as discriminatory and harmful to families, with many standing in long lines to submit their resignations, they said. A similar protest called "The Utah Rally for Love, Equality, Family and Acceptance" is set for next Saturday in the same area.



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Pentagon says five Guantanamo detainees transferred to United Arab Emirates
A U.S. Marine guard tower overlooks the Northeast gate leading into Cuba territory at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval BaseFive detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred to the government of the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Defense Department said on Sunday. The transferred detainees were identified by the Pentagon as Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani.



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Paris attacks: Video shows firefight outside Bataclan
A police officer takes cover behind a car while a rescue worker runs outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, France, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2015. Several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said, announcing that he was closing the country's borders and declaring a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)An award-winning French photographer captured dramatic video footage of police as they surrounded the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 89 people were killed during Friday's terror attacks in Paris.



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Belgian connection: At least 3 held in Brussels over Paris attacks
French soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower which remained closed on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country's deadliest violence since World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)Officials pursue emerging links between the Paris attacks and an Islamist bastion in France's northern neighbor.



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Clinton wobbled on foreign policy in debate




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Clinton cites 9/11 in defending Wall Street donations
Hillary Clinton tried to deflect an attack on her political donations from Wall Street bankers by saying that they stemmed from her connection, as a U.S. senator from New York, to the downtown Manhattan community devastated by the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.

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Sanders scores applause for Eisenhower quip




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