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Thai city copes with sorrowful fallout from mass shooting

By EMILY SCHMALL and PREEYAPA T. KHUNSONG | February 10, 2020

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives Monday after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country's worst mass shooting in an hourslong siege at a shopping...

Pope to visit Malta on May 31 in first foreign trip of 2020

February 10, 2020

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will visit the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on May 31, the Vatican said Monday, confirming the Pope's first foreign trip for the year.Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said he expected the visit would highlight...

UK calls virus “serious” health threat; will detain people

By DANICA KIRKA | February 10, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Britain has declared the new coronavirus that emerged from China a "serious and imminent threat to public health'' and announced new measures Monday to combat the spread of the disease.The U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said...

‘Oh deer!”: Man gets trampled in North Carolina parking lot

February 10, 2020

LOCUST, N.C. (AP) — A suspect escaped from a hit and run in a North Carolina McDonald's parking lot last month. But police aren't looking for who's responsible.Ken Worthy was leaving the restaurant in Locust with his wife and a Diet Coke in hand, when...

More than 450 civilians killed in central Mali last year

By KRISTA LARSON | February 10, 2020

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Islamic militants and ethnic-based militias killed more than 450 civilians in central Mali last year, making it the deadliest year in the region since the country's crisis began in 2012, Human Rights Watch said in a new report...

Drugs fail to slow decline in inherited Alzheimer’s disease

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | February 10, 2020

Two experimental drugs failed to prevent or slow mental decline in a study of people who are virtually destined to develop Alzheimer's disease at a relatively young age because they inherited rare gene flaws.The results announced Monday are another disappointment...

Greece: Emergency powers to build migrant detention camps

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and COSTAS KANTOURIS | February 10, 2020

Greece is planning to use emergency legal powers to create detention centers for migrants on five islands to try and speed up deportations back to Turkey, officials said Monday.Areas have been earmarked to create the new facilities on Lesbos and four...

Making Oscar history, ‘Parasite’ wins best picture

By JAKE COYLE | February 10, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a milestone win that instantly expanded the Oscars' horizons, Bong Joon Ho's masterfully devious class satire “Parasite” became the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards.“Parasite”...

Gunmen on motorcycles attack police post in northern Benin

By VIRGILE AHISSOU | February 10, 2020

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Men armed with rifles and machetes attacked a police station in Benin ne ar the border with troubled Burkina Faso, raising fears that Islamic extremist violence could be encroaching even further south, officials said.One policeman...

Schumer wants to protect whistleblowers amid Trump payback

By LISA MASCARO | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the nation's 74 inspectors general to protect government whistleblowers amid President Donald Trump’s ouster of key government officials in the impeachment probe.In a letter Monday...

Australian Parliament to call for Israel to return principal

By ROD McGUIRK | February 10, 2020

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament is expected to pass a motion on Monday calling for Israel to immediately extradite a former school principal wanted on dozens of charges of child sex abuse.The motion to be moved by lawmakers from...

Iraqi officials: US will grant vital Iran sanctions waiver

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB | February 10, 2020

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States has signaled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity imports, three Iraqi officials said this week, a move that would be a key...