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Police hunt suspects in India temple fire that killed 110

Police hunt suspects in India temple fire that killed 110

PARAVOOR, India (AP) – Medical teams on Monday tended to hundreds of people injured in a massive fire that killed at least 110 people, while authorities searched for those responsible for illegally putting on the fireworks display that caused the weekend blaze at a Hindu temple in southern India. Amid …

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Somalia: Man executed for journalists’ killings

Somalia: Man executed for journalists’ killings

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A former journalist who joined the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab was executed in Somalia’s capital for the killings of five Somali journalists. Hassan Hanafi Haji, who was extradited from Kenya last year on the request of the Somali government, was killed by firing squad at a …

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Fighting mars first day of cease-fire in war-torn Yemen

Fighting mars first day of cease-fire in war-torn Yemen

SANAA, Yemen (AP) – Residents of a western Yemeni city say fighting between Shiite rebels and government forces there has marred the first day of a U.N.-brokered cease-fire. The truce between the Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government, and rebel Houthis went into effect at midnight Sunday. It’s …

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Hiroshima, home of Mazda, oysters, trolleys and the Carp

Hiroshima, home of Mazda, oysters, trolleys and the Carp

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) – The host city of the annual Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting that ends Monday has been reborn seven decades after Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bomb in 1945. Here are five things to know about the western Japanese city of 1.2 million people, other …

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‘Cuban Twitter’ fallout found relief in FOIA’s glacial pace

‘Cuban Twitter’ fallout found relief in FOIA’s glacial pace

WASHINGTON (AP) – As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act. The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation …

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6th arrest in Belgium over attacks, new raid in Brussels

6th arrest in Belgium over attacks, new raid in Brussels

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities have detained a sixth person suspected of ties to the Brussels bombings, a group that includes the last known fugitive of last year’s Paris attacks and a Swedish fighter with possible links to attacks in both Brussels and Paris, prosecutors said Saturday. The arrests could …

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Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit

Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of people whose personal fates hinge on whether Britain leaves the European Union or stays don’t even have a say in the matter: Polish immigrants, a community so numerous that Polish has become Britain’s second most-spoken language. When Poland and many other countries …

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Virgin Mary statue stirs up debate in secular Uruguay

Virgin Mary statue stirs up debate in secular Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – The South American country of Uruguay has a long tradition of secularism, to the point that a popular president in the early 1900s insisted on writing the word “God” with a lowercase “g” whenever he wrote about his policies in local newspapers. So when the Catholic …

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Greece: 2 weeks or more to fix deportations

Greece: 2 weeks or more to fix deportations

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on the flow of people into Europe (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Greece says it will take at least two weeks to fix the process of deporting migrants from the eastern Aegean islands to Turkey. The country’s deputy foreign minister for European affairs, Nikos …

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In latest claim, N. Korea says it tests new rocket engine

In latest claim, N. Korea says it tests new rocket engine

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s latest belligerent declaration – that it successfully tested a new long-range rocket engine that could allow nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland – leaves outsiders in a familiar predicament. With only a few details and no independent confirmation of what happened, there’s the …

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