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Mohammad al-Mir, 13, has won three world titles for his super fast maths skills. from BBC News - Home http://ift.tt/2zRGmRy

ANKARA (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday that she would work to speed up the transfer of financial assistance promised by the European Union to Turkey as part of a migrant deal, Turkish presidential sources said. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2ni6aR5

With two young children, Marica Ricutti could not handle shifts starting at 7am. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2AKYgWf

Fox News Breaking News Alert McCain to vote for Senate tax reform bill 11/30/17 10:58 AM

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they detained two once-powerful officials who had run the oil ministry and state energy company PDVSA as part of a deepening anti-corruption purge also seen as a power play by leftist President Nicolas Maduro. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2nh4441

GENEVA (Reuters) - Representatives of Syria's warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2zD9wjq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it had ratified the prior appointment of its administrative law judges. from Reuters: U.S. http://ift.tt/2j4uykt

The White House is discussing a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA chief Mike Pompeo - US media. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2irNuN6

ACCRA (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron fears Islamist militants have scored military and symbolic victories in West Africa while a regional military force has struggled to get off the ground, a French presidential source said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2AeQTFv

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran protesters set up barricades and clashed with police near a vote-counting center on Thursday, following a widely criticized presidential election that produced no clear result in four days and which the opposition says was fraudulent. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2irIHLL

A former parliamentary candidate says he felt suicidal after being falsely accused of abusing a child. from BBC News - Home http://ift.tt/2nfizoR

(Reuters) - A Turkish-Iranian gold trader on Thursday told jurors in a federal court in Manhattan that he met with representatives of an Indian company in 2012 to discuss moving Iranian funds out of India, a new development in a case that has so far centered on Turkey. from Reuters: U.S. http://ift.tt/2iqkOUA

One mum's story of how a tax "loophole" is stopping her getting the money she says she needs. from BBC News - Home http://ift.tt/2Afdgux

Holocaust survivor groups ask how a Polish artist was able to make the film at the Stutthof camp. from BBC News - World http://ift.tt/2zAJKfn

Jacinda Ardern gives Ed Sheeran a citizen test from BBC News - Home http://ift.tt/2AstosS

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said on Thursday he would not serve in the next coalition government being put together by the leader of his conservative party, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2ApmbtV

(Reuters) - A Turkish-Iranian gold trader on Thursday told jurors in a Manhattan federal court that he met with representatives of an Indian company in 2012 to discuss moving Iranian funds out of India, a new development in a case that has so far centered on Turkey. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2AqCIO1

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his insults against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday and also dismissed a Chinese diplomatic effort as having failed to rein in Pyongyang's weapons program, as Russia accused Washington of provocation. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2kbljm8

ROME/ANKARA (Reuters) - China is financing billions of dollars worth of Chinese-led projects in Iran, making deep inroads into the economy while European competitors struggle to find banks willing to fund their ambitions, Iranian government and industry officials said. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2zCaSuw

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday called a U.S. decision to withdraw the Congressional press credentials of Russia's RT broadcaster because of its status as "a foreign agent" in the United States an unfriendly step. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2nhw1sq

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish lender Aktif Bank said on Thursday it had not violated any U.S. or international sanctions, after it was mentioned in the U.S. case regarding Iran sanctions violations. from Reuters: World News http://ift.tt/2zCb5Ok