Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Yahoo News compiled for the BBC's Biodun Iginla--12/1/15--in New York

Is Y-Gen now the Ben Franklin Generation?

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  • Iraqi Shi'ite militias pledge to fight U.S. forces if deployed

    Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim armed groups on Tuesday pledged to fight any U.S. forces deployed in the country after the United States said it was sending an elite special unit to help combat Islamic State. Defense Secretary Ash Carter offered few details on the new "expeditionary" group, but said…
    Reuters
  • Kids Are Boycotting School Lunches They Say Are Worse Than Prison Food

    The effort, called “The School Lunch Project: Culinary Denial,” was created in November by civics students at the school. Chicago Public Schools partnered with Philadelphia-based Aramark two years ago when the district, like several others across the nation, shifted to offering free meals to all…
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    Inside the abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center (14 photos)

    A spooky sight to behold! This is what a psychiatric hospital that has been abandoned for years looks like. Complete with bowling alley and a theater, the hospital shows just how much nature has weathered it over time as paint peels from the walls and the mattress gather dust. The shots were…
    Yahoo News

    Police: Sisters tried to strangle mom with computer cords

    WILLOWICK, Ohio (AP) — Two sisters tried to strangle their mom with braided computer cords on Thanksgiving and then tried to kill her with a towel and a pillow, investigators said.
    Associated Press

    Her Dress Dropped Jaws at the UK Fashion Awards

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  • Adobe Flash is finally dead

    Adobe Flash is dead, long live Adobe Flash. Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs famously penned a public letter about Adobe Flash back in 2010. Jobs wasn’t the first person to dislike Flash. In fact, developers had hated the technology for years because of its volatility and instability. But Jobs made…
    BGR News
  • Paris attacks: Muslim guard stopped suicide bomber from entering stadium

    Salim Toorabally, a 42-year-old Mauritian immigrant, was checking tickets at a turnstile outside the Stade de France when a man in a dark jacket tried to sneak past him, NBC News reports.
    Yahoo News

    Russia building new military bases on islands claimed by Japan

    Russia has begun building two modern military compounds on the far eastern Kuril islands, defence minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday, heightening long-running tensions with Japan over the disputed islands. Russia is "actively carrying out construction of military compounds on the islands of Iturup…
    AFP

    Woman admits killing 2 boyfriends 30-plus years apart

    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman convicted of fatally stabbing an ex-boyfriend to death more than 30 years ago admits to doing the same thing last year.
    Associated Press

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  • Hillary Clinton's Campaign Officially Dropped Her Maiden Name. Here's Why That Matters.

    Clinton has used her maiden name on and off throughout her political career. And that's her choice, not ours.
    Mic
  • Not so fast: Philippine frontrunner barred from running for president

    A Philippine senator abandoned in a church as a baby and until now the favorite to succeed Benigno Aquino as president was barred on Tuesday from running. Three members of the second division of the Commission on Election (Comelec) said Grace Poe could not run for president in elections in May…
    Reuters

    The 10 Best Exercises You Can Do for the Rest of Your Life

    Here are their votes for the 10 best exercises you can start doing today -- and stop doing, well, never. The exercise is functional (you can do it to get places), accessible (no gym needed) and "suitable for all ages and abilities," says Michelle Walters-Edwards, chair of the Department of Health…
    U.S.News & World Report

    Jewish Soviet spy who long duped Israel dies at 97

    The man considered the Soviet Union's most successful spy in Israel before being unmasked more than 30 years ago has died in Paris at the age of 97, his daughter said Tuesday. Israel sentenced Marcus Klingberg to 20 years in prison in 1983 for having passed information to Moscow on its biological…
    AFP

    What Are The Best 2015 Smartphones?

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  • Reinhard Gehlen: The Friendly Enemy

    World War II ended in June 1945; by September of that year, Nazi Reinhard Gehlen was showing up for work in the U.S. Do tell? Will tell.
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  • Australian former Hells Angels abducted in Thailand: police

    Thai police said Tuesday they are searching for a gang of foreigners believed to have abducted an Australian former Hells Angels gang member at gunpoint. Wayne Rodney Schneider, 37, was kidnapped on Monday by a group of masked men outside his house in Pattaya, a seaside resort town notorious for…
    AFP

    Hiv Is Treatable, But Only If You Know You're Positive

    DEAR ABBY: Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. With effective treatment, people with HIV can live as long as those without HIV. Fear, shame and ignorance remain barriers to testing and treatment, which can be more deadly than HIV itself.People with HIV who are in treatment need never develop advanced…
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    Photos of the day - December 1, 2015 (28 photos)

    The red ribbon, the international symbol for AIDS awareness highlighted on the skyscrapers in Arbat street during a campaign to mark World AIDS Day in Moscow, Russia, Romanian special forces servicemen wait on a bus before the beginning of the national day celebrations in Bucharest, Romania and…
    Yahoo News

    The Best of Cyber Monday

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  • Japan probes mystery boats carrying dead bodies off coast

    TOKYO (AP) — They drift into seas near Japan by the dozens every year, ghostly wrecked ships thought to come from impoverished North Korea.
    Associated Press
  • Bill Gates plots a surprise attack on the energy sector

    By Bruce Wallace PARIS (Reuters) - Bill Gates grows most animated when the talk turns to the "cool" new energy technologies that have yet to leave the lab. Gates was a rare civilian sharing the limelight alongside presidents and prime ministers at the opening session of Paris climate talks on…
    Reuters

    Trump says he should charge CNN for next debate appearance

    MACON, Ga. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump joked Monday that he may charge CNN for appearing in the next GOP primary debate — but probably won't because he'd be called a "chicken."
    Associated Press

    No charges after US boy, 13, shot dead for stealing

    A man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy as he was stealing from an unlocked car was arrested but US prosecutors declined to press charges, police said. Martinez Smith-Payne, who is black, was found unconscious and bleeding in a back alley when police were called about a shooting in St Louis,…
    AFP

    Forget The iPhone 6. Next Apple Sensation Revealed

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  • Israel PM admits forces operating in war-hit Syria

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time Tuesday that Israeli forces have been operating in Syria, where the Iran-backed regime is battling rebels including the jihadist Islamic State. "We occasionally carry out operations in Syria to prevent that country from becoming a front…
    AFP
  • Obama: U.S. has power to prevent gun homicides like shooting in Colorado

    President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States has power to do more to prevent gun homicides like last week's shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. "We are rightly determined to prevent terrorist attacks wherever they occur, whether in the United States or with friends and…
    Reuters

    Qaeda warns Saudi against executing jihadists

    Al-Qaeda warned Saudi authorities on Tuesday against executing jihadists on death row in the kingdom following reports that dozens of executions are imminent. "We have heard of executions that the government of Al-Saud intends to implement against mujahedeen brothers held captive. "Their blood will…
    AFP

    Anti-HIV pill, taken as needed, prevents infection in gay men

    By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) - The odds of getting HIV can be dramatically reduced by taking two pills prior to sex and two more after, according to a new study of 400 high-risk gay men and transgendered women published online by the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with World AIDS…
    Reuters

    Best fishing spots in America...revealed.

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