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Iran: US killing of general was a miscalculation

By DAVID RISING | February 14, 2020

MUNICH (AP) — The U.S. killing of a top Iranian general was a miscalculation that has had the effect of bolstering support in Iraq for the removal of American troops, a longtime goal of Tehran, Iran's foreign minister said Friday.The U.S. killed Gen....

Kansas leader decries attempts to tie abortion, Medicaid

By JOHN HANNA | February 14, 2020

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker in Kansas on Friday disputed the claims of GOP colleagues that a bipartisan plan to expand the state's Medicaid program would lead to taxpayers funding elective abortions.Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning,...

Gunmen kill at least 21 in central Mali village

By BABA AHMED | February 14, 2020

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 21 people early Friday in central Mali in a village that suffered a massive attack last year, the government said.The gunmen attacked the village of Ogossagou in the Bankass circle in the central Mopti region,...

Feds probing how personal Medicare info gets to marketers

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | February 14, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog is launching a nationwide probe into how marketers may be getting seniors’ personal Medicare information aided by apparent misuse of a government system, officials said Friday.The audit will be formally announced...

Oregon landfill took 2M pounds of radioactive fracking waste

February 14, 2020

ARLINGTON, Ore. (AP) — A chemical waste landfill near the Columbia River in Oregon accepted hundreds of tons of radioactive fracking waste from North Dakota in violation of Oregon regulations that has alarmed environmental advocates. But the company...

Austria’s Kurz: German conservatives right to shun far-right

February 14, 2020

MUNICH (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who led a coalition with a far-right party in his first term, on Friday endorsed his German conservative counterparts' refusal to cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany.German politics...

Florida ‘red flag’ gun law used 3,500 times since Parkland

By TERRY SPENCER | February 14, 2020

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 23-year-old man who posted on Facebook, “I don't know why I don't go on a killing spree." A West Palm Beach couple who shot up their home while high on cocaine. A 31-year-old Gulf Coast man who pointed a semiautomatic...

EU chief unveils budget plan setting scene for tense summit

By LORNE COOK | February 14, 2020

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Council president unveiled Friday his proposal for the EU’s next long-term budget, but the figure falls far short of the demands of Europe’s parliament, which must ratify the spending package, setting the scene for tense...

Negative interest rates turn saving, borrowing upside down

By DAVID McHUGH and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | February 14, 2020

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Imagine a mortgage that pays you the interest, not the other way around. Or a savings account where it's the bank, not the saver, who collects interest.Welcome to the upside-down world of ultra-low and negative interest rates...

US film crew chasing Poland Holocaust story may face charges

February 14, 2020

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A team of U.S. award-winning documentary filmmakers pursuing a Holocaust-era story in western Poland could face charges of unauthorized excavation work, punishable by up to two years in prison, a Polish prosecutor said Friday.Seven...

Montenegro PM, Serbian church bishop meet on religious law

By PREDRAG MILIC | February 14, 2020

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro's prime minister on Friday met with the top Serbian Orthodox Church bishop in the country in a bid to defuse tensions over a contentious law on religious rights.The Serbian Church in Montenegro opposes the law,...

Kosovo-Serbia rail, road deals signed at security conference

By LLAZAR SEMINI | February 14, 2020

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Serbia and Kosovo on Friday signed U.S.-brokered deals on restoring railway and highway links.The deals were signed during an international security conference in Munich, Germany, said Richard Grenell, U.S. President Donald Trump’s...