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• Has Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller Lost Her Chief of Staff?

  28-05-2019 22:41
  Details are sketchy, but the ink was barely dry on last week's print edition (in which we introduced you to newly hired District 1 employees Tyler Mott and Bill Beard) that we heard a rumor that Mott was no longer working for Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller. Since Miller fancies herself a champion of transparency, we called her office to find out whether Mott, who had been serving as chief of staff, still had a job there.…
  
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• Rep. Tom O'Halleran To Visit Oro Valley for Budget Workshop

  28-05-2019 21:37
  After witnessing the dramatic 35-day government shutdown that ended in January, now is as good a time as ever to learn more about how the federal government prioritizes  its money.Representative Tom O'Halleran of Arizona's 1st Congressional District will be hosting a budget workshop and town hall at the Oro Valley Community Center, 10555 N. La Cañada Drive, today from 5:15 to 7 p.m.O'Halleran, who lives in Sedona, served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2001 to
  
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• Tucson Village Farm's U-Pick Tuesdays Switch to Summer Hours

  28-05-2019 19:16
  An oasis in our busy city, Tucson Village Farm (TVF), "built by and for the youth of our community," offers U-Pick every Tuesday afternoon and is now on summer hours from 5 to 7 p.m.
  The farm is open and welcomes the community to the garden east of Campbell Avenue to pick their own produce, support the local food network and get the freshest possible vegetables.…
  
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• Teen activist Thunberg urges leaders to admit climate crisis

  28-05-2019 13:35
  BERLIN (AP) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is urging world leaders to acknowledge that global warming “is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”
  Thunberg told political and business leaders at a conference in Austria on Tuesday that it’s their job to inform the public about the seriousness of the situation and the need for drastic action.
  The 16-year-old Swede said “we must admit that we are losing this battle,” and blasted politicians who tal
  
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• 2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep protest

  28-05-2019 13:35
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has sentenced two Belarusian men to prison for organizing a 2017 stunt in which young adults stripped naked at Auschwitz and chained themselves together to the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate as one man slaughtered a sheep.
  The District Court in Krakow on Tuesday confirmed that the man who killed the sheep, Adam Bialiatski, has been sentenced to a year in prison, while a second man, Mikita Valadzko, was given eight months. The remaining participant
  
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• US, Russia Finland in same group at 2020 hockey worlds

  28-05-2019 13:24
  ZURICH (AP) — The United States, Russia and defending champion Finland will join host Switzerland in an eight-team group based in Zurich at the 2020 hockey world championships.
  The International Ice Hockey Federation announced the groups Tuesday, two days after Finland beat Canada in this year’s title game in Slovakia.
  Top-ranked Canada heads the other eight-team group, which also includes 2017 and ’18 champion Sweden, in Lausanne. The venue is being built for the 2020 Youth Wi
  
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• NJ Transit bus kills boy, 10, who was riding bike

  28-05-2019 13:24
  BERGENFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Transit bus has struck and killed a 10-year-old boy riding his bike.
  The accident occurred on Memorial Day in Bergenfield. Police responded to 911 calls shortly before 4 p.m.
  They tell The North Jersey Record that the bus was making a left turn when it struck the boy as he was entering a crosswalk. Police also said the driver was a 58-year-old woman from Paterson, who was treated and released from a hospital after suffering distress following the accid
  
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• Ethiopia apologizes for map that erased neighboring Somalia

  28-05-2019 13:21
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s foreign affairs ministry has apologized for a map of Africa that erased neighboring Somalia.
  Spokesman Nebiat Getachew said in a statement on Tuesday an investigation had begun into how the map was posted on the ministry’s website over the weekend.
  He said the map was removed immediately after it was noticed and that “we have sincerely regretted any confusion and misunderstanding this incident might have caused.”
  The inaccurat
  
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• The Latest: Lawmakers want to choose EU Commission head

  28-05-2019 13:16
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the European Union summit (all times local):
  12:45 p.m.
  European Parliament President Antonio Tajani says the legislature believes the new head of the EU executive Commission should be chosen from the candidates put forward by the political groupings in the parliament.
  That could put the legislature at odds with some EU leaders who want a wider choice in the search for a successor to Jean-Claude Juncker.
  According to the rules, the EU leaders have to take the
  
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• Australian navy pilots struck by lasers in South China Sea

  28-05-2019 13:09
  BEIJING (AP) — A witness says Australian navy helicopter pilots were hit by lasers while exercising in the South China Sea, forcing them to land as a precaution.
  Scholar Euan Graham, who was onboard the Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS Canberra on a voyage from Vietnam to Singapore, said in an account of the incident that the lasers had been pointed from fishing vessels while the Canberra was being trailed by a Chinese warship.
  China maintains a robust maritime militia in the South Chin
  
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• Iraq Kurdish region gets new president, opposition boycotts

  28-05-2019 12:52
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s self-governing Kurdish region has elected a new president in a parliamentary vote boycotted by a key opposition party.
  Former prime minister Nechirvan Barzani will follow his uncle Masoud Barzani in office. The elder Barzani resigned in November 2017 after a failed bid for independence from Iraq.
  The Barzani family and their Kurdistan Democratic Party have dominated Iraqi Kurdish politics for generations. The opposition Patriotic Union of Kurdistan stayed aw
  
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• Salvini vows to unite EU populists, lacks willing partners

  28-05-2019 12:46
  MILAN (AP) — Italy’s victorious right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, says the European elections have created “a new geography” of anti-elite sentiment in the EU. But it is far from certain that he will be able to forge a bloc from parties who are united around a strict euroskeptic, anti-migrant, anti-Islam platform, but little else.
  Salvini is hoping for 100 to 150 EU deputies to fight back against deeper EU integration in the 751-seat legislature, but the eight members of
  
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• Lawyer accuses Chris Brown of “disrespect” in rape case

  28-05-2019 12:35
  PARIS (AP) — The lawyer for a woman who filed a rape complaint in Paris against Chris Brown says the American rap artist “has thumbed his nose at and shown disrespect for the French legal system” after he did not attend a formal confrontation with the alleged victim.
  Brown was arrested in Paris in January then released from custody without charges pending further investigation of the woman’s allegations that he raped her at the French capital’s Mandarin Oriental Hot
  
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• All-white panda caught on camera in Chinese nature reserve

  28-05-2019 12:33
  BEIJING (AP) — A rare all-white giant panda has been photographed for what a Chinese nature reserve says is the first time.
  Wolong National Nature Reserve released a photo showing the panda as it crossed through a verdant forest in southwestern China.
  The panda lacks the usual black fur on its limbs and ears and around its eyes.
  The reserve, citing experts, said the albino panda is about 1 to 2 years old. It was caught by a camera that was triggered by the panda’s movement as it pass
  
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• Report: Wife of Iran presidential adviser shot dead at home

  28-05-2019 12:31
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A semi-official news agency in Iran says a wife of an adviser to President Hassan Rouhani has been shot and killed at her home.
  Tuesday’s report by the ISNA news agency says Mitra Najafi was killed in northern Tehran. She is the second wife of Mohammad Ali Najafi, a former reformist mayor of Tehran and a Rouhani confidant.
  The report did not elaborate. Such gun violence is incredibly rare in Iran, especially in the tony neighborhoods of northern Tehran, home to th
  
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• Seasoned diplomat appointed EU’s special envoy for Venezuela

  28-05-2019 12:27
  MADRID (AP) — The European Union says it has appointed former Uruguayan foreign minister and seasoned diplomat Enrique Iglesias as the bloc’s special envoy for Venezuela.
  Iglesias has been the head of the Inter-American Development Bank and SEGIB, a Madrid-based international organization representing Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal. He holds both Uruguayan and Spanish nationalities.
  According to a statement on Tuesday, Iglesias was appointed by the EU foreign affairs ch
  
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• Austrian president formally dismisses Kurz’s government

  28-05-2019 12:19
  VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s president has formally dissolved the country’s government the day after Chancellor Sebastian Kurz lost a no-confidence vote in parliament.
  President Alexander Van der Bellen on Tuesday then temporarily appointed the same Cabinet ministers back into their old roles to ensure the government is properly run until he can appoint a caretaker government.
  That’s expected to happen within the next week, and that provisional government will govern until new
  
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• Deaths rise as Nepal issues more permits for Mount Everest

  28-05-2019 12:18
  NAMCHE, Nepal (AP) — Seasoned mountaineers say Nepal’s reluctance to limit the number of permits it issues to climb Mount Everest has caused dangerous overcrowding and contributed to a high death toll.
  Eleven people have died on the mountain this year, the highest number since 2015. The government has also issued its highest-ever number of permits, 381.
  Most of the deaths are attributed to altitude sickness.
  Once only accessible to well-heeled elite mountaineers, Nepal’s boomin
  
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• Thousands of US kindergartners unvaccinated without waivers

  28-05-2019 12:15
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but schoolchildren invoking such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse at all for lacking their shots.
  Instead, data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that a majority of unvaccinated or undervaccinated kindergartners in 10 of 27 s
  
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• US balks as Venezuela heads up UN-backed disarmament body

  28-05-2019 12:09
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.’s main disarmament body has walked out of its current session in Geneva to protest that Venezuela has taken the chair.
  Robert Wood insisted “a rogue state” was taking over, shortly after Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Valero became president of the Conference on Disarmament.
  Wood said that nothing that comes out of the current session would be legitimate. He said Tuesday that some members of the so-called Lima Group of countries
  
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• Youth wing urges German far right to change tack on climate

  28-05-2019 11:59
  BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany is urging party leaders to stop denying that man-made pollution contributes to climate change.
  The Young Alternative’s branch in the capital said Tuesday that climate change and environmental protection appear to have affected voters’ choices in the European Parliament elections.
  The environmentalist Green party almost doubled its share of the vote in Germany to 20.5%, while Alternative for Germany rec
  
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• Satellite images show crops on fire in Syria rebel enclave

  28-05-2019 11:26
  BEIRUT (AP) — New satellite photos show significant damage to Syrian villages and surrounding farmland as a result of a government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the country.
  The images, provided to The Associated Press by the Colorado-based Maxar Satellites on Tuesday, show fires in olive groves and orchards during harvest season around Kfar Nabudah and Habeet, two villages on the edge of Idlib province where fighting has focused. The fires were apparently sparked by intense bo
  
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• Hannover brings Mirko Slomka back as coach

  28-05-2019 11:26
  HANNOVER, Germany (AP) — Hannover is bringing Mirko Slomka back as coach in its bid to secure an immediate return to the Bundesliga.
  Hannover, which was relegated this season, has also promoted former forward Jan Schlaudraff to serve as sporting director.
  Slomka and Schlaudraff are associated with Hannover’s recent successful spell as coach and star player, respectively. Both reached the Europa League with the club in 2011 and 2012.
  Slomka was Hannover coach from January 2011-Decembe
  
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• Contenders to be next UK leader divided over no-deal Brexit

  28-05-2019 11:22
  LONDON (AP) — The race to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May is becoming a battle over whether Britain should leave the European Union without a divorce agreement — or whether that would cause economic and political mayhem.
  May’s Conservatives are reeling after the upstart Brexit Party won Britain’s election for European Parliament seats. The Conservatives came a humiliating fifth.
  That led some Conservatives, including leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab
  
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• Public transport strike: Delays at Amsterdam’s airport

  28-05-2019 11:08
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport is warning passengers about likely delays due to a nationwide public transport strike.
  Most Dutch buses, trains, trams and ferries lay idle Tuesday as unions held a one-day strike as part of a campaign against rising retirement ages.
  Schiphol spokeswoman Madelon van der Hof says about 80 flights have been canceled at the airport. National carrier KLM offered passengers the option of changing their bookings free of charge to avoid the
  
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• France seeks to save IS jihadis from death penalties in Iraq

  28-05-2019 11:06
  PARIS (AP) — France’s foreign minister says his government is working to spare four French former members of the Islamic State group from execution after Iraq sentenced them to death.
  However, France has made no effort to bring back captured French IS fighters, including the four sentenced this week.
  Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian reiterated France’s position on Tuesday, saying the four terrorists should be tried where they committed their crimes.
  But he said on France-Int
  
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• Austria: photo show of Holocaust survivors vandalized again

  28-05-2019 10:49
  BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s president has condemned the repeated destruction of photos of Holocaust survivors exhibited on a central Vienna street.
  Alexander van der Bellen tweeted Monday that he was “deeply concerned” by the vandalism.
  The Austrian news agency APA reported that the larger-than-life portraits of Holocaust survivors were defaced for the third time. In the most recent attack, The photos were cut across the faces of the survivors late Sunday night. Previously, s
  
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• EU leaders converge on Brussels to haggle over top jobs

  28-05-2019 10:46
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are converging on Brussels to haggle over who should lead the 28-nation bloc’s key institutions for the next five years after weekend elections shook up Europe’s political landscape.
  Presidents and prime ministers will meet over dinner Tuesday evening to choose who should take over as head of the EU’s powerful executive branch, the European Commission, currently led by Jean-Claude Juncker.
  They are also likely to weigh candidates for
  
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• Spanish police arrest soccer players for match-fixing

  28-05-2019 10:45
  MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league says several soccer players have been arrested for suspected match-fixing in Spain.
  The league says the arrests were carried out by the National Police on Tuesday, and says it instigated the investigation by denouncing the suspected match-fixing.
  The police say the operation is ongoing.
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• Sierra Leone soccer head acquitted on corruption charges

  28-05-2019 10:40
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The head of the Sierra Leone soccer federation has been acquitted on corruption charges, opening the way for FIFA to lift an international ban on the West African country.
  Sierra Leone soccer association president Isha Johansen and secretary general Chris Kamara were acquitted because of a lack of evidence nearly two years after first being charged.
  They had been accused by the government’s anti-corruption commission of misappropriation of money and abus
  
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• Sudan protesters begin 2-day strike to press ruling military

  28-05-2019 10:39
  KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s protest leaders have launched a two-day general strike to press the ruling military to hand over power to a civilian-led authority.
  Wajdi Saleh, a negotiator for the protesters, says they resorted to holding the strike after negotiations with the military council became deadlocked over the makeup and leadership of a sovereign council that would run the country in a three-year transition period.
  The Sudanese Professionals’ Association, which spearh
  
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• With crisis unresolved, Israel seems headed toward elections

  28-05-2019 10:29
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed the first of three motions required for the chamber to dissolve itself as the country appears headed toward another snap election.
  The measure passed on Tuesday with a 66-44 majority, and a tentative election date was set for Sept. 17.
  Last month’s election seemed to have promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another fresh mandate to rule. But a shocking crisis with his longtime ally and erstwhile rival Avigdor Lieberman thru
  
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• SAS says 6-day pilot strike cost it $68 million

  28-05-2019 10:12
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines says that a six-day pilot strike that led to the cancellation of 4,000 flights and affected more than 370,000 passengers cost 650 million kronor ($68 million).
  SAS says that the walkout, which ended May 2 when the sides reached a three-year collective bargaining agreement, “negatively impacted” its second quarter, for which it reported a 1.2-billion kronor ($125 million) loss.
  CEO Richard Gustafson says it “added to the cha
  
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• Indonesia police allege plot to kill top officials

  28-05-2019 10:03
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say four senior officials, including two Cabinet ministers and the national spy chief, were targeted for assassination as part of a plot possibly linked to last week’s post-election riots.
  National Police chief Tito Karnavian told a news conference Tuesday that details of the plot were obtained from interrogations of arrested rioters.
  Seven people died in two nights of rioting last week in Jakarta after official election results confirmed t
  
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• The Latest: Russia says Kosovo stoking tensions with Serbia

  28-05-2019 10:01
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The Latest on tensions between Serbia and Kosovo (all times local):
  1:20 p.m.
  Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused Kosovo of stoking ethnic tensions with Serbia after heavily armed Kosovo police entered a Serb-dominated region in northern Kosovo and arrested some two dozen people.
  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Tuesday that Kosovo “provoked” Serbia by sending its police force to enter Serb-populated regions of
  
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• Arizona Legislature adjourns after passing $11.8B budget

  28-05-2019 10:00
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature has adjourned for the year after passing an $11.8 billion budget and giving child sex-abuse victims more time to sue their assailants.
  The Legislature called it quits just before 1 a.m. Tuesday.
  The end of the 2019 legislative session came after Senate Republicans resolved an impasse that left budget talks in a stalemate for days. Lawmakers voted unanimously to give childhood sexual assault victims until their 30th birthday to sue their assailants, a
  
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• The Latest: Iran’s Guard says it doesn’t fear war with US

  28-05-2019 09:33
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere in the Mideast amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran (all times local):
  1:15 p.m.
  Iran’s influential Revolutionary Guard says it doesn’t fear a possible war with the United State and claims that America hasn’t grown in power.
  The remarks by the Guard spokesman, Gen. Ramazan Sharif, come as tensions between Washington and Tehran soared recently over America d
  
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• Merkel warns of populists’ rise in Europe

  28-05-2019 09:02
  BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany has to be more vigilant when it comes to nationalist movements across Europe because of the country’s Nazi past.
  Merkel, who was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in Berlin, said in excerpts released Tuesday that Germany has to face up to populists who are finding mainstream support and recount “what history has brought.”
  Referring to populist parties across the continent that were boosted by European Parlia
  
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• Iran’s top diplomat unimpressed with Japan mediation offer

  28-05-2019 08:59
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister appears unimpressed with Japan’s offer to mediate in a crisis between Tehran and Washington, and says President Donald Trump should make his intentions clear about any talks with Iran through actions, not words.
  Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a late Monday tweet: “Actions_not words_will show whether or not that’s
  Trump said Monday in Japan that he’d back Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to open a communication
  
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• Serbian troops placed on alert after Kosovo police arrests

  28-05-2019 08:51
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has ordered its troops to full alert after reports that Kosovo police entered Serb-populated regions of the former Serbian province.
  Serbia’s state TV said Tuesday that Kosovo’s special police “burst into” northern Kosovo and made several arrests. There was no confirmation of the action from Pristina.
  Serbian government official Marko Djuric says the Kosovo police action is designed to intimidate and expel Serbs from Kosovo and present
  
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• No. 1 Naomi Osaka finally starts her French Open on Day 3

  28-05-2019 08:50
  PARIS (AP) — Naomi Osaka’s bid for a third consecutive Grand Slam title finally gets started on Day 3 of the French Open.
  The No. 1-seeded Osaka never has been past the third round in three previous appearances at Roland Garros.
  She carries a 14-match winning streak at majors into Tuesday.
  The Japanese star plays 90th-ranked Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the second match on the Court Philippe Chatrier.
  Osaka won the U.S. Open last September and then the Australian Open in January.
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• Normandy tries to keep alive ‘infinite gratitude’ for D-Day

  28-05-2019 08:45
  SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France (AP) — With fewer veterans and witnesses able to share personal memories of D-Day, the French who owe their freedom to the battle are more determined than ever to keep its memory alive.
  President Donald Trump and other world leaders will gather in Normandy next week to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
  The battle still looms large throughout the coastal region. Normandy beaches, cemeteries and World War II memorials embody what French President Mac
  
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• Maoist rebels attack Indian government forces, wounding 11

  28-05-2019 08:24
  PATNA, India (AP) — Police say Maoist rebels have triggered a blast in eastern India, wounding eight paramilitary soldiers and three police officers carrying out a search operation in a forested area.
  Police officer D.K. Pandey says the wounded soldiers have been hospitalized in Ranchi, the state capital, after Tuesday’s attack. The soldiers belonged to a special jungle warfare unit.
  The explosive is suspected to have been buried in a dirt track.
  Early this month, Maoist rebels attac
  
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• UN reveals rights abuse at thriving markets in North Korea

  28-05-2019 08:17
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.N. report says North Koreans working in hundreds of capitalistic-style markets are often abused and forced to engage in bribery to survive.
  The U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report released Tuesday that a failed public distribution system in North Korea has led to the rise of market activities over the past two decades.
  But it says a lack of adequate reforms and an uncertain legal environment at these markets mean that many people face a host of human rig
  
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• UN agency: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018

  28-05-2019 07:59
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations children’s agency says attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018, compared to the year before.
  UNICEF’s press release on Tuesday says the number of attacks on schools went from 68 in 2017, to 192 in 2018. It was the first time school attacks had increased since 2015.
  The agency says one of the reasons for the spike was that schools were used as voter registration and polling centers in last year parliamentary elections.
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• Arizona Baseball reacts to missing NCAA Tournament for 2nd straight season

  28-05-2019 07:59
  TUCSON – Despite a hot finish to the regular season, the Arizona baseball team will miss the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season. Here’s reaction from the Wildcat baseball team (from Monday’s sportcast):On Monday, the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced the 64 teams competing for the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Unfortunately, the Wildcats was left off the list this tournament.THE BRACKET https://t.co/9o40NFMihV#RoadToOmaha pic.twitter.com/Mht
  
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• UA softball excited to hit road for College World Series

  28-05-2019 07:55
  TUCSON –  Arizona’s opening-round matchup at the 2019 Women’s College World Series is set. Here’s more with the Cats from Monday’s sportscast:UA softball team celebrates after birth to 2019 College World Series. Malia Martinez has the look of excitement (among others).
  The sixth-seeded Wildcats (47-12) will meet the third-seeded Washington Huskies (50-7) on Thursday, May 30 at 9 a.m. MST/11 a.m. CDT at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City
  
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• The Latest: Trump promises help for Oklahoma twister victims

  28-05-2019 07:54
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on damaging storms across the central United States (all times local):
  7:15 a.m.
  The president has tweeted his support for tornado survivors in Oklahoma, where two people were killed and 29 were injured by a twister that struck a motel and mobile home park over the weekend.
  Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he spoke with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from Japan and told him that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the “federal government are
  
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• Sentencing set for Alabama man in $2M scam

  28-05-2019 07:23
  OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to federal charges in a $2 million scam that sucked in an Alabama town is due in state court to face additional counts.
  Records show Kyle Sandler has signed papers showing he plans to plead guilty Tuesday to a state theft charge involving more than $2,500 that was taken from a bank.
  A federal judge already has sentenced Sander to a more than five-year term, and the state case will resolve criminal charges against the man.
  Sandler founded a busi
  
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• The Latest: Head of Japan school condemns ‘savage’ attack

  28-05-2019 04:28
  KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing attack at a school bus stop in a city outside Tokyo (all times local):
  7:30 p.m.
  The head of a Japanese school has condemned a “savage” knife attack on students waiting for a school bus in which a 6th grade student and a parent were killed, and said he is struggling to contain his anger.
  Tetsuro Saito, the head of Caritas Gakuen, told a news conference that “My heart is broken with pain when I think of the innocent children
  
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