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Schools in Canada province closed by threat, but no device found
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island (Reuters) - Canadian police evacuated all schools in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Wednesday after a bomb threat, but authorities said the situation was under control after no explosive device was found.
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Soccer-Iceland says dropped from FIFA 17 game after rights dispute
STOCKHOLM, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The Iceland team that grabbed headlines at Euro 2016 has been left out of Electronic Arts's highly-anticipated FIFA 17 video game due to a dispute over image rights, the country's soccer chiefs said.
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No charges for Maryland policeman who killed armed black woman
(Reuters) - No charges will be filed against a Maryland police officer who fatally shot an armed black woman during a standoff that she live-streamed over the internet, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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Middleman in 'napkin' insider trading ring gets one year in prison
(Reuters) - A mortgage broker who was the middleman in an insider trading ring involving stock tips passed on napkins and Post-its in New York's Grand Central Terminal to a Morgan Stanley stockbroker was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday.
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Poetry, pugs raise awareness for new FAFSA timeline
NEW YORK (Reuters) - What does a pug looking at a computer have to do with the Oct. 1 start date for parents and students to fill out the federal financial aid form known as the FAFSA?
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Judge dismisses case against North Carolina's gay marriage opt-out law
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge threw out a challenge to a North Carolina law that allows government officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if they cite religious objections, claiming the couples who brought the suit failed to establish they were harmed by the law.
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New mayor kills off Rome's bid for 2024 Olympics
ROME (Reuters) - Rome's new mayor, Virginia Raggi, pulled the plug on the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics, saying staging the summer games would bury the Italian capital under mountains of debt and tonnes of cement.
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Obama welcomes Colombia peace deal as an historic achievement
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed on Wednesday a peace deal between Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels to end Latin America's longest war, describing it as an "historic achievement."
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Kansas argues against boost in school funding
(Reuters) - Kansas sought on Wednesday to avoid a court ruling that could force the cash-strapped state to increase school funding by more than $1 billion.
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