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Northern Star

Ireland faces wrangling as Sinn Fein aims to form government

February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Final results in Ireland’s general election show three parties in a virtual tie for seats, signalling weeks of tense negotiations ahead to form a coalition government.With all votes counted Tuesday, the center-right Fianna Fail party...

China denies cybertheft following Equifax accusations

February 11, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — China denied involvement in any hacking activities on Tuesday after the United States indicted four members of the Chinese military for allegedly breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing...

Spain searches for 67 missing at sea, rescues 119 others

By ARITZ PARRA | February 11, 2020

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Tuesday resumed the search for 67 migrants missing from a boat trying to reach European shores a day after maritime authorities rescued 119 others from cold Mediterranean waters.A spokeswoman with Spain's Maritime Rescue agency...

Virus storytellers challenge China’s official narrative

By JOHN LEICESTER and DAKE KANG | February 11, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — After nearly a week of roaming China's epidemic-struck city, filming the dead and the sickened in overwhelmed hospitals, the strain of being hounded by both the new virus and the country's dissent-quelling police started to tell.Chen...

Thai army chief: Gunman wasn’t treated fairly in land deal

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA | February 11, 2020

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's army commander said Tuesday the soldier who killed 29 people in a shooting rampage had not been treated fairly in a land deal involving his commander and such arrangements would have to be halted.The gunman killed his superior...

Trump pays tribute to 2 soldiers killed in Afghanistan

By JILL COLVIN and KEVIN FREKING | February 11, 2020

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pay respects to two U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan when a soldier dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire with a machine...

Rebuilding Afghanistan has a high human cost, US agency says

By RAHIM FAIEZ | February 11, 2020

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rebuilding Afghanistan has cost hundreds of lives, according to a new report released Tuesday by a U.S. government watchdog that monitors the billions of dollars Washington spends in the war-ravaged country.The Special Inspector...

Justice Department brings new suits over sanctuary policies

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ratcheted up legal pressure Monday on local governments over “sanctuary” policies that hinder federal immigration officers, bringing two new lawsuits and launching a coordinated messaging campaign to highlight...

Thai soldier’s deadly rampage reveals security lapses

By EMILY SCHMALL and GRANT PECK | February 10, 2020

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — As this Thai city mourns the 29 people killed in a weekend shooting rampage, many are questioning the apparent security lapses that allowed him to steal the weapons he used in the assault.It's still unclear how the...

Not all born in American Samoa want US citizenship

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | February 10, 2020

HONOLULU (AP) — Growing up in American Samoa, Filipo Ilaoa’s neighbors were his cousins on a plot of land full of banana and breadfruit trees shared by his extended family and overseen by a chief elected by his relatives.He worries a federal judge's...

New York Cardinal hopes to build bridges with Cuba visit

February 10, 2020

U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Monday he hopes that his visit to Cuba serves to build bridges between the peoples of the two countries amid tensions between their governments.Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, was invited to the island by Cuban President...

US counterintel strategy emphasizes protection of democracy

By ERIC TUCKER | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's top counterintelligence official said Monday that he was concerned Russia or other foreign adversaries could exploit the chaos of the Iowa caucuses to sow distrust in the integrity of America's elections.“How...