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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

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

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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