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Vandals chop up statue of Messi
A statue in Buenos Aires of soccer superstar Lionel Messi of Barcelona and Argentine national team fame has been vandalized, with the head, torso and arms all being removed, leaving only the legs and a soccer ball on display.
The rooster gets a stamp or two in Canada
Canada Post has given Lunar New Year celebrants something to crow about: two Year of the Rooster stamps.
So long from White House: Obama aims final messages at Trump
Barack Obama stepped behind the White House podium for the last time Wednesday, fielding questions from the crush of journalists crammed in for the occasion and offering assurances to Americans watching on TV.
Obama shortens Manning’s term, grants clemency to hundreds
President Barack Obama granted clemency to Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the transgender Army intelligence officer convicted of leaking more than 700,000 US documents to go free nearly three decades early.
Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave secrets to WikiLeaks
President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former US military intelligence who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in US history.
