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This file photo shows U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as he speaks with reporters. Schumer said Sunday that Trump must be willing to drop attempts to repeal his predecessor’s signature achievement, warning that Trump was destined to “lose again” on other parts of his agenda if he remained beholden to conservative Republicans. Photo by REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst .

The German party Die Linke (The Left) blames the SPD (Social Democrats) for the poor showing of left-wing parties in Sunday's elections in Saarland, where Angela Merkel's CDU recorded an unexpectedly strong victory.

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Snap Inc. received a deluge of bullish ratings from several Wall Street banks on Monday, sending the company's shares higher in pre-market trading. 

The banks included underwriters of the Snapchat parent's initial public offering who had been subject to a 25-day quiet period. 

Here's a rundown of the ratings:

• Goldman: Buy, $27 price target
• Morgan Stanley: Overweight, $28 price target
• Citi: Buy, $27 price target
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The father of a 4-year-old boy hit by a vehicle in Cincinnati says he doesn't condone the subsequent slaying of the driver and is sorry for the man's family.

Initial reports indicated the boy was struck in the street, but his father, Jamal Killings, tells WCPO-TV (http://bit.ly/2mCUgjL ) the child was on the curb. Killings says he tried to stop the car for going too fast in a neighborhood full of playing kids, and it swerved around him and struck his son.

Designated a national monument by Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency—over objections of many Utah officials—Bears Ears is starting to draw visitors to its buttes, mesas and Native American artifacts in the Four Corners area of Utah.

[Capital FM] Kampala, Uganda -Arriving in the Ugandan capital with a team where world and Olympic medalists figured prominently, that Kenya would dominate the women's senior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 wasn't an especially major surprise.

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After joining major global oil producers in production cuts to stabilize crude prices, Russia has prepared a conservative budget for the next three years based on oil prices of $40 per barrel.
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With so much in the air, the end of Lob City in Los Angeles could come sooner than we think. Injuries and overall attrition have the Clippers reeling... again.

The UK's new 12-sided £1 coins will be rolled out on Tuesday - but are we ready?

NEW YORK (AP) - Books on gun violence, Koch Industries and New York's history of immigration have won prizes for outstanding nonfiction work.

NEW YORK (AP) — Books on gun violence, Koch Industries and New York's history of immigration have won prizes for outstanding nonfiction work.

NEW YORK (AP) — Books on gun violence, Koch Industries and New York's history of immigration have won prizes for outstanding nonfiction work.

Prize officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Gary Younge's "Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives" won the $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for combining literary excellence and social concern. All three awards are presented by the Lukas Prize Project, named for the late author and journalist and co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

[Monitor] Kampala -Going by his form, Joshua Cheptegei was Uganda's favourite for an individual medal ahead of yesterday's IAAF World Cross-country Championships.

The trend in the great investing debate of active versus passive management is clear, but that doesn’t mean the issue is simple or even close to settled.

China voiced protest aimed at Japan following the visit of Japanese State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Jiro Akama to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Monday.

The 65-year-old Van Gaal has previously said that he has now retired from coaching. He has had two spells as Netherlands coach, taking the team to third place at the 2014 World Cup.

A motion has been tabled in the UK parliament condemning Pakistan's "arbitrary" move to declare the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region, bordering disputed PoK, as its fifth province.

"This will be giving a free ticket to racism and telling the whole world we don't care about minorities".

The national story is centred around the war against the Nazis rather than the empire

FTSE 100 falls in London as 'Trump trade' fade costs banks

The provider of information and big data analytics to the investment community has seen its goodwill balance swell due to serial acquisitions. Should investors worry?