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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Colombians grapple with a big problem: wandering hippos

DORADAL, Colombia (AP) — Maria Jaramilla awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of her panicked mule. When she looked out across her small yard, her confusion turned to shock: A hippopotamus had wandered dow…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Austria's railway company says it has stopped all train traffic to and from Italy over virus concerns

VIENNA (AP) — Austria's railway company says it has stopped all train traffic to and from Italy over virus concerns.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
South Korea put on high alert, Italy battles virus outbreak

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said Sunday that he was putting his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, ordering officials to take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a soar…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Biden says he's not worried about Steyer in SC

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on presidential campaign developments (all times local):

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Haiti police exchange fire with troops near national palace

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police officers exchanged gunfire for hours Sunday with soldiers of the newly reconstituted army outside the national palace, in a dangerous escalation of protests over police p…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Warren pledges to legalize marijuana

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on presidential campaign developments (all times local):

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
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Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Nevada Dems won't offer detailed vote breakdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on presidential campaign developments (all times local):

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
10,000 mourn victims of racist shooting rampage in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Around 10,000 protesters marched through the central German town of Hanau on Sunday to mourn the nine people who were killed by an immigrant-hating gunman four days ago.

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Feds to investigate California bus rollover that killed 3

PALA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators are sending a team to the scene of a charter bus crash crash that killed three people and injured 18 others on a rain-slicked highway near San Diego, officials said Su…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Exit polls: Social Democrats win, far-right loses in Hamburg

BERLIN (AP) — The center-left Social Democrats won the most votes in the Hamburg state election Sunday, according to exit polls, followed by the environmentalist Green party in a vote that was overshadowed by a rac…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
3 children killed in gas tank explosion in North Macedonia

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Three children were killed and seven other members of the same family were seriously injured when a gas tank for cooking exploded in their home Sunday in northern Macedonia, authoriti…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
The Latest: Buttigieg camp raises doubt about Nevada results

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on presidential campaign developments (all times local):

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Carnival in Belgium again has Jewish stereotypes in parade

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Aalst Carnival parade included stereotypical depictions of Jews for the second year in a row and the Belgian government said that the anti-Semitism in the three-day festival embarrassed the nati…

Updated 6 years, 7 months ago
Dozens treated, evacuated after pipe ruptures in Mississippi

SATARTIA, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say they're testing the air quality after a pipe ruptured, prompting the evacuations of more than 300 residents and sending dozens of people to hospitals.