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[attach=full]19884[/attach] LONDON (AP) — Chelsea responded to conceding from Charlie Adam's ultra long-range strike and losing Diego Costa to a hamstring injury by beating Stoke 2-1, moving seven points clear at the top of the Premier League on Saturday. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19881[/attach] BERLIN (AP) — Robert Lewandowski struck on his first return to Borussia Dortmund as Bayern Munich defeated his former side 1-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday. Continue reading...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants of the Urhobo minority ethnic group blew up a natural gas pipeline in Nigeria's Delta state in the early hours on Friday, a Nigerian official said on Saturday. "The Urhobo militants who carried out the attack have claimed responsibility," said Isa Ado, spokesman for the Pulo Shield taskforce, made up of members of various Nigerian security forces investigating oil theft in Nigeria's oil-producing delta region. ... Continue reading...

[attach=full]19880[/attach] Saudi Arabian special forces are involved in the military operation against Shiite Huthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi adviser said Saturday. A Saudi-led coalition began air strikes on March 26 against the Iran-backed rebels, but says it has no plans for now to deploy ground forces. Army special forces supplied weapons and communications equipment to militia loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in the main southern city of Aden, the adviser told AFP. Naval special forces provided "coordination and guidance" to enable the loyalist fighters to launch a counter-attack on the rebels. Continue reading...

CAIRO (AP) — The head of an Egyptian human rights organization said Saturday he is being held in a central Cairo police station following a police raid on the group's online radio station. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19879[/attach] BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State extremists at Iraq's ancient city of Hatra destroyed the archaeological site by smashing sledgehammers into its walls and shooting Kalashnikov assault rifles at priceless statues, a new militant video purportedly from the group shows. Continue reading...

SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — Bafetimbi Gomis scored twice, including a spectacular overhead strike, as Swansea beat 10-man Hull 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday, dragging the visitors closer to the relegation scrap. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19872[/attach] LOS ANGELES (AP) — The total eclipse of the moon lasted only a short time, but it still dazzled. Continue reading...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A helicopter crashed outside Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, killing all six people on board, including a Malaysian lawmaker who was a former ambassador to the United States, officials said. Continue reading...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Sevilla beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at home on Saturday to stay in the hunt for a top-four finish in the Spanish league. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19871[/attach] A building earmarked to house asylum seekers was set ablaze overnight, German police said Saturday, in an eastern town where the mayor recently resigned over far-right protests against his plans to house refugees. Markus Nierth, mayor of Troeglitz in Saxony Anhalt state, stepped down last month saying he felt abandoned by local authorities in facing neo-Nazi hostility over his support for accommodating about 40 refugees in the small village. The fire broke out early Saturday in the building set to become a home for asylum seek in May, and "no one was hurt," a police spokeswoman told AFP. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19866[/attach] MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine weather bureau on Saturday downgraded Typhoon Maysak into a storm as thousands of people were told to leave the country's northeastern coastline where it was headed from the Pacific after killing four people and destroying hundreds of homes in Micronesia. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19865[/attach] Romania will expel seven foreign nationals accused of recruiting members for the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda and propagating their ideas in the eastern European country, officials said Saturday. The Bucharest court of appeal this week ruled in separate cases that the seven should be prohibited from returning to the country for between three to seven years, Romania's interior intelligence agency SRI said in a statement. Six of the foreigners made up a group "affiliated to radical ideologies of the Al-Qaeda and Islamic State terrorist groups" and carried out "Islamic extremist propaganda... (and) recruitment for religious and military training in conflict zones affected by terrorism," the statement said. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19864[/attach] DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The writer, a thin young man who fears the growing interweaving of religion and politics in Bangladesh, knows his turn could come next. What happened earlier this week, when the second secularist blogger in less than a month was hacked to death in the streets of the capital, made it clear he wasn't safe. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19863[/attach] Sky-gazers in part of the Pacific Rim will have the chance to observe an "unusually brief" total eclipse of the Moon on Saturday night. Weather conditions permitting, the eclipse -- which occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up so that the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow -- may be seen in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as well as western North America. In Sapporo, in northern Japan, some 400 people are expected to flock to an observatory to jointly observe "nature's great phenomenon" on Saturday night, an observatory official said. Fine weather is forecast in northern Japan, while skies are likely to be overcast in other areas, including Tokyo, according to Japan's meteorological agency. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19862[/attach] Fierce fighting for control of Yemen's main southern city Aden has left at least 185 people dead and more than 1,200 wounded, including many civilians, a medical official said Saturday. The port city, a last foothold of supporters of absent President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, has been shaken by more than a week of clashes between Shiite rebels and loyalist militia backed by Saudi-led air strikes. At least 185 dead and 1,282 wounded from the fighting have been counted in hospitals in Aden since March 26, the city's health department director Al-Kheder Lassouar said. Lassouar called on international organisations and Arab states participating in the coalition to provide emergency medical assistance to hospitals in Aden. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19861[/attach] KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Two hours before the Miami Open semifinal, Novak Djokovic practiced his returns in an empty stadium, the ball coming at him quickly because his hitting partner stood several feet inside the baseline to emulate big-serving John Isner. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19860[/attach] Dick Advocaat could not have asked for a more dramatic introduction to life at the Stadium of Light as his first home match in charge of Sunderland will be a fiercely-contested derby against Newcastle on Sunday. Thousands of Sunderland fans walked out of the ground long before the end of their previous home game against Aston Villa, when a 4-0 defeat ended the reign of Gus Poyet and left the Black Cats one point outside the Premier League's relegation zone. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19859[/attach] The UN Security Council will meet Saturday to discuss a Russian proposal for humanitarian pauses in the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, diplomats said. Russia called for the meeting of the 15-member council amid growing alarm over the rising civilian death toll from the fighting in Yemen. UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday she was "extremely concerned" about the fate of civilians trapped in fierce fighting after aid agencies reported that 519 people had been killed and nearly 1,700 injured in two weeks. The UN children's agency this week said at least 62 children had been killed and 30 injured over the past week in Yemen, and that more of them were being recruited as child soldiers. Continue reading...

[attach=full]19858[/attach] RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Residents in one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest complex of slums demonstrated Friday over the shooting death of a young boy in the shantytown, allegedly at the hands of police. Continue reading...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Queensland Reds lock and former Australia captain James Horwill has been suspended for one week after being sent off in the Super Rugby loss to the Melbourne Rebels on Friday. Continue reading...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A moderate earthquake rattled the Central American nation of Costa Rica on Friday. Continue reading...

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say they have seized a record amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas for a supermarket. Continue reading...

MADRID (AP) — Goals by Alberto Bueno and Manucho helped Rayo Vallecano rally to beat Eibar 2-1 away on Friday in the Spanish league. Continue reading...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — An argument over parking at an embassy in South America has caused a minor diplomatic row between neighboring Guyana and Suriname. Continue reading...