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Capital One to let users pay bills via Amazon’s Echo

NEW YORK (AP) – Capital One has teamed with Amazon to let owners of Amazon’s Echo smart speaker system pay their bills and get other account information through voice commands. Amazon’s Echo speakers use a voice-command service called Alexa to help users perform various tasks, such as turning on smart …

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Germany says it has obtained files on Islamic State members

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s federal criminal police said Thursday they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group and believe them to be authentic. The announcement came after Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State files on the border …

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NKorea to liquidate SKorean assets, fires missiles into sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea responded Thursday to new sanctions from South Korea by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North. The moves are the latest in …

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