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• Lawsuit filed over hit-and-run death of Nicki Minaj’s father

  21-03-2021 23:15
  
  MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Nicki Minaj’s mother has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the man who is accused of killing the rapper’s father in a hit-and-run crash last month. Charles Polevich is accused of striking Robert Maraj on Long Island on Feb. 12 and then driving off without calling 911. Maraj died at a hospital the next day. Polevich has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. Newsday reports that Carol Maraj’s lawsuit claims that Polevich was negligent, reckless and
  
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• Slain spa workers and customers mourned by families

  21-03-2021 22:45
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Mothers, grandmothers, brothers. They loved to cook, dance, sing and travel. They worked long hours, sometimes in settings their children little understood. These are the eight people killed by gunfire at three Atlanta-area massage businesses. Seven of the slain were women, and six of them were of Asian descent. Police charged a 21-year-old white man with the killings, saying he was solely responsible for the deadliest U.S. mass shooting since 2019. In the days since the sho
  
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• Red Flag Warning issued March 21 at 3:33PM MDT until March 21 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  21-03-2021 22:33
  
  The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a Fire WeatherWatch, which is in effect from Tuesday afternoon through Tuesdayevening.
  * AFFECTED AREA…Red flag warning this afternoon for fire weatherzone 154, only the Chiricahua Mountains along with the southeasthalf of fire weather zone 152. Fire weather watch Tuesday forthe sky islands of fire weather zone 154 in Cochise and SantaCruz Counties and the southern part of fire weather zone 152.
  * TIMING…Red flag warning through 6 P
  
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• The Latest: Arkansas Gov: end of mask mandate at month’s end

  21-03-2021 22:30
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that he believes his proposal to remove a mask mandate intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus will take place as planned at the end of the month.On CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ Hutchinson said goals he announced in February to lift the mask mandate, which include a positivity rate below 10%, or fewer than 750 hospitalizations, are being met and he believes the mask requirement will be lifted.“I set
  
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• Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor dies amid COVID-19 struggle

  21-03-2021 22:06
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has died. He was 65. Taylor’s family and the company say Taylor took his own life after suffering from symptoms related to COVID-19, including severe tinnitus. Tinnitus is a common condition involving ringing or or other noises in one or both ears. Experts say the coronavirus can exacerbate tinnitus problems. A statement says Taylor’s suffering greatly intensified in recent days and bec
  
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• Official confirms man now linked to 5 deaths

  21-03-2021 21:53
  
  A law enforcement official has identified the primary suspect in the killing of his ex-wife and three others found in a car in New Mexico. Authorities are still investigating claims made during a confession by Sean Lannon that he killed 11 other people. The official, who had direct knowledge of the probe, could not discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official says investigators are searching missing persons records and other police
  
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• Attack on kissing men fuels push for Italy hate crime law

  21-03-2021 21:50
  
  ROME (AP) — A recent attack in a Rome train station on two men who were kissing is fueling calls in Italy for quick passage of bill outlawing hate crimes against members of the LGBTQ community, women and people with disabilities. Italian TV on Sunday aired what it said was video footage of the attack, which occurred on the platform of a local train station in late February. Rome’s mayor and the area’s governor joined other politicians in denouncing the attack and pressing for t
  
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• Charles Lewis, former DC chief at AP and Hearst, has died

  21-03-2021 21:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Charles Lewis, a former Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press and The Hearst Newspapers who tirelessly advocated for the release of AP journalist Terry Anderson from kidnappers in Lebanon, died Saturday. He was 80. Lewis, of Arlington, Virginia, died at a hospital from complications from cancer. He had been fighting a series of illnesses the last several years, according to his wife, Vivian Chen. Open and friendly as a newsman, but tough and by the book in his
  
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• Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister

  21-03-2021 21:05
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and Palestinian officials have confirmed that Israel has revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister. Officials say Riad Malki was informed of the decision as he returned to the West Bank Sunday from a trip abroad that included a visit to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The move appears to have been Israeli retaliation for the Palestinian support for the ICC’s war crimes investigation against Israel. Losing the VIP card means Mal
  
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• AP sources: Iran threatens US Army post and top general

  21-03-2021 20:48
  
  Iran has made threats against an Army post in Washington, D.C., and against the Army’s vice chief of staff. That’s according to two senior U.S. intelligence officials who weren’t authorized to publicly discuss national security matters and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The threats are one reason the Army has pushed for more security around Fort McNair, which sits alongside Washington’s bustling Waterfront District. City leaders are fighting the
  
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• Italian minister meets Libya’s new Tripoli government

  21-03-2021 20:29
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Italy’s top diplomat has become the most senior western official to travel to Libya after an interim government took power in the North African County last week. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has discussed Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah’s ties between the two countries along with migration. Libya has been in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 toppled longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi, who was later killed. Since then, the country has become
  
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• Sikh leaders celebrate upcoming holiday with vaccine clinic

  21-03-2021 20:24
  
  LONDON (AP) — Sikh leader Balwinder Singh Basra rolled up his sleeve to get a COVID-19 vaccine Sunday at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Luton, north of London. And he wanted everyone to know about it.
  Unlike most of the 756,873 people who received injections Sunday in the U.K., Basra, the gurdwara’s president, invited reporters and TV news to watch his shot to make sure the community would take notice.
  “I say to everyone. ‘I took the vaccine this morning and everyone should t
  
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• Mexico limits non-essential travel on southern border

  21-03-2021 20:14
  
  CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but essential travel at its shared border with Guatemala. Dozens of immigration agents lined the riverside Sunday asking those who landed on the giant innertube rafts that carry most of the cross-border traffic for documentation and turning many back. But those turned away weren’t migrants, they were the small-ti
  
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• In Kabul, Pentagon chief speaks of ‘responsible end’ to war

  21-03-2021 20:07
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, and he says the Biden administration wants to see “a responsible end” to America’s longest war. But Austin says the level of violence must decrease for “fruitful” diplomacy to have a chance. With questions swirling about how long U.S. troops will remain in the country, Austin said during the stop Sunday in Kabul that “in terms of an en
  
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• D-backs’ Clippard has shoulder sprain, out at least 6 weeks

  21-03-2021 20:06
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher Tyler Clippard has a sprained right shoulder and won’t throw for at least the next six weeks. The 36-year-old Clippard said the injury was diagnosed as a “capsule sprain” and his shoulder will be re-evaluated at the end of six weeks of rest. The right-hander signed a $2.25 million, one-year deal with the team in February. Clippard was injured while pitching against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday in Phoenix. Cli
  
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• Mother: White headmaster made Black son kneel during apology

  21-03-2021 19:26
  
  UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island mother says the white headmaster of her son’s Catholic school forced the 11-year-old Black student to kneel while apologizing and later explained that the punishment was an  “African way.” The Daily News reports that headmaster John Holian of St. Martin de Porres Marianist school was placed on temporary leave after details of the Feb. 25 incident came to light. The student’s mother, Trisha Paul, said it appeared that Holian
  
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• Albuquerque Fire officials: Man has died in a house fire

  21-03-2021 18:40
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a man has died in a house fire in Albuquerque. City fire crews responded to a single-family home around 6:15 a.m. Sunday and extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes. Albuquerque Fire Department officials say one man got himself out of the home safely, but another man was found in the back bedroom. They say the man was evacuated from the house, but had already died. The fire was mainly confined to the attic with major smoke damage throughout the hom
  
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• Canary Islands: 2-year-old rescued from migrant boat dies

  21-03-2021 18:28
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A 2-year-old girl from Mali who was rescued from a migrant boat near Spain’s Canary Islands and hospitalized in critical condition has died. The toddler named Nabody suffered a cardiac arrest and was resuscitated by emergency workers on the dock of Arguineguín upon arrival Tuesday. A health department spokeswoman said the child was being treated at a pediatric hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria but died Sunday. Nabody was among 52 people who departe
  
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• Cyclist dies after being hit by pickup truck in Catalina

  21-03-2021 18:27
  
  CATALINA (KVOA) - The Pima County Sheriff's Department has confirmed that one man has died after being hit from behind by a pickup truck while cycling on Mainsail Boulevard in Catalina Saturday night.49-year-old Chad Butler was pronounced dead at the scene. The intersection was closed for several hours as deputies investigated the scene.Information about the driver or if he has been charged with anything has yet to be released. We will update this article as more information comes into our newsr
  
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• Police: Man stabs 8 during fight at Detroit hookah bar

  21-03-2021 18:10
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a man stabbed eight people during fight at a Detroit hookah lounge, leaving three people in critical condition. Police say the fight started at around 4:40 a.m. Sunday inside the Tiaga Hookah Lounge before spilling out into the parking lot. Officer Dan Donakowski says a preliminary investigation showed that gunshots were fired, but that no one was struck by them. He says the 34-year-old man who allegedly stabbed the eight people was taken into custody. The
  
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• Ex-top aide to former Maltese PM charged with corruption

  21-03-2021 18:09
  
  ROME (AP) — A former top government aide in Malta who was investigated by a journalist later killed by a car bomb has been arraigned in a Maltese court on charges of money-laundering, fraud and corruption. Keith Schembri entered a not-guilty plea to the charges, which stem from an investigation of alleged financial crimes going back years. Schembri was now-former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff and  for years one of Malta’s more politically influential figure
  
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• Biden aims to prevent border crossings from swamping agenda

  21-03-2021 18:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is scrambling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge at the U.S.-Mexico border that threatens to overshadow its ambitious legislative agenda. Administration officials say Biden inherited an untenable situation that resulted from what they say was President Donald Trump’s undermining and weakening of the immigration system. But as Congress pivots to immigration legislation, stories of unaccompanied minors and families trying
  
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• Thr Daily Saguaro: Sunday, 3/21

  21-03-2021 18:00
  
  Photos were shot in and around the Tucson Mountains, especially in Tucson Mountain Park and Saguaro National Park West.…
  
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• The Daily Saguaro: Sunday, 3/21

  21-03-2021 18:00
  
  Photos were shot in and around the Tucson Mountains, especially in Tucson Mountain Park and Saguaro National Park West. All photos were shot with an iPhone 6, except for a few recent ones on an iPhone 12.…
  
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• France’s limited lockdown beset by glitches as cases rise

  21-03-2021 18:00
  
  PARIS (AP) — Residents of Paris and several other regions of France have spent their first weekend under a limited monthlong lockdown. While the French government insisted the rules would be less strict than in the past, the measures have been criticized as messy. A local travel authorization certificate posted online was so ridiculed by French media for its unnecessary complexity that the Interior Ministry scrapped it within hours. The form the French government requires to travel greater
  
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• Government attack on hospital in northwestern Syria kills 6

  21-03-2021 17:33
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Rescuers and activists say artillery shells fired from government areas have hit a major hospital in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria, killing at least six civilians, wounding medical staff and forcing it to shut down. The shells landed Sunday at the entrance and in the courtyard of the hospital in Atareb, a town in rural western Aleppo. That’s according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The hospital is located underground to avoid t
  
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• Acclaimed Egyptian feminist Nawal Saadawi dies at age 89

  21-03-2021 17:25
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Nawal Saadawi, a renowned Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist, whose writings have stirred controversy for decades in an overwhelming conservative society, has died of age-related health problems in Cairo, officials said. She was 89. Egypt’s Culture Minister Inas Abdel-Dayem mourned Saadawi’s passing on Sunday, saying her writings had created a great intellectual movement. Born in October 1931 in a Nile Delta village, Saadawi studied medicine in Cairo Univ
  
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• Biden calls Turkey’s exit from treaty for women unwarranted

  21-03-2021 17:24
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has called Turkey’s abandonment of an international agreement aimed at preventing violence against women “deeply disappointing.” In a White House statement posted Sunday, Biden said Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention was “a disheartening step backward for the international movement to end violence against women globally.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended Turkey’s participation in th
  
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• Biden administration tries to get control of border, story

  21-03-2021 16:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As migrants surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden’s administration has been caught on its heels and is now scrambling to manage a humanitarian and political challenge that threatens to overshadow its ambitious agenda. The White House dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to four Sunday news shows in an effort to stress that it was working to get things under control. Administration officials say Biden inherited an untenable situati
  
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• Arizona reports 488 new COVID-19 cases and 12 more deaths

  21-03-2021 16:39
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials on Sunday reported 488 new confirmed COVID-19 cases with 12 more deaths amid indications of continued slowing of the coronavirus outbreak. Arizona’s pandemic totals rose to 836,253 cases and 16,745 known deaths since the pandemic began. The number of infections is thought to be far higher than reported because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick. State health officials
  
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• Gun waiting periods rare in US states but more may be coming

  21-03-2021 16:18
  
  Lawmakers and advocates say if the suspect in the  deadly Atlanta-area shootings had been forced to wait before getting a gun, he might not have acted on his impulse. Police say the suspect legally bought a 9 mm handgun not long before the attack, which spread fear and anger through Asian American communities nationwide. Within hours, authorities say, he had killed eight people, seven of them women and six of Asian descent, in a rampage targeting massage businesses. Georgia and some other s
  
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• Phoenix police: Woman walking on tracks fatally hit by train

  21-03-2021 16:08
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police in Phoenix are investigating the death of a female pedestrian who was struck by a train. Witnesses say the woman was hit around 6 p.m. Saturday as she walking on the train tracks. Police say it’s still unclear why she was on the tracks. The woman was declared dead at the scene. Her name and age haven’t been released yet.The post Phoenix police: Woman walking on tracks fatally hit by train appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Missing vulnerable adult in Vail

  21-03-2021 16:08
  
  VAIL (KVOA) - The Pima County Sheriff's Department is currently searching for 84-year-old Frank Fields who was last seen on the 14600 block of South Avenida Lago De Plata in Vail around 7AM this morning traveling on foot.Fields is 5'7" and around 135 pounds. Fields was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt with blue jeans.If anyone has any information about Fields' whereabouts they are asked to call 911.
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• Navajo Nation reports 5 more COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

  21-03-2021 16:03
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has reported four more COVID-19 related deaths and five new cases as the total number of cases approaches the 30,000 mark since the pandemic began. The latest numbers released Saturday night pushed the tribe’s pandemic total to 29,998 confirmed cases and 1,233 known deaths. The Navajo Nation had a soft reopening Monday with 25% capacity for some businesses under certain restrictions.  Still, mask mandates and daily curfews remain. &nbs
  
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• Some states to seek gun waiting periods after shootings

  21-03-2021 15:47
  
  Lawmakers and advocates say if the suspect in the  deadly Atlanta-area shootings had been forced to wait before getting a gun, he might not have acted on his impulse. Police say the suspect legally bought a 9 mm handgun not long before the attack, which spread fear and anger through Asian American communities nationwide. Within hours, authorities say, he had killed eight people, seven of them women and six of Asian descent, in a rampage targeting massage businesses. Georgia and some other s
  
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• A year into pandemic, veterans halls ‘barely hanging’ on

  21-03-2021 15:17
  
  NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Local bars and halls run by Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion posts have fallen on hard times during the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers say many risk permanent closure after states ordered them, like other bars and halls, to shutter last spring. Local veterans groups argue that their facilities aren’t simply private watering holes and should have been allowed to reopen sooner. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, VFW Post 3260 dissolved and sold off i
  
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• North Korean man extradited to US in sanctions case

  21-03-2021 15:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Korean citizen was taken into U.S. custody on Saturday after being extradited from Malaysia to face money laundering charges, making him the first North Korean extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Mun Chol Myong was in the custody of the FBI in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. His extradition came after a Malaysian court rejected his assertion that the charges were politically motivated. A U.S. judge issued a warrant f
  
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• AP sources: Iran threatens US Army base and top general

  21-03-2021 15:05
  
  Iran has made threats against an Army base in the nation’s capital and against the Army’s vice chief of staff. That’s according to two senior U.S. intelligence officials who weren’t authorized to publicly discuss national security matters and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The threats are one reason the Army has pushed for more security around Fort McNair, which sits alongside Washington’s bustling Waterfront District. City leaders are figh
  
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• Palestinians expand vaccination campaign after UN shipment

  21-03-2021 15:00
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry has started administering the first doses of coronavirus vaccines received from the World Health Organization’s COVAX program to health care workers and older people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization and its partners running the COVAX program delivered 61,400 vaccines to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday. About one third was shipped to the blockaded, Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. On Sunday,
  
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• Mars findings cataloged in Navajo language

  21-03-2021 15:00
  
  Mars findings cataloged in Navajo languageThe post Mars findings cataloged in Navajo language appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• A rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout backfired in some US states

  21-03-2021 14:52
  
  Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. A surprising new analysis found that states such as South Carolina, Florida and Missouri that raced to offer the vaccine to ever-larger groups of people have vaccinated smaller shares of their population than those that moved more slowly and methodically, such as Hawaii and Connecticut. The explanation, as experts see it: The rapid expansion
  
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• Doctors protest in Myanmar as state violence continues

  21-03-2021 14:20
  
  MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Health care workers have marched through Myanmar’s second-biggest city, kicking off another day of countrywide protests against last month’s coup. Elsewhere police have used violence against protesters and security forces have shot dead at least one person. About 100 doctors, nurses, medical students and pharmacists, wearing the long white coats, lined up Sunday morning on a main road in Mandalay to chant slogans and voice their opposition to the Feb. 1
  
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• Infections continue to climb in Turkey amid relaxed measures

  21-03-2021 13:55
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s weekly regional COVID-19 figures keep increasing as the country keeps relaxed restrictions in place for now. Health ministry statistics released late Saturday showed the rate of infection as more than 251 cases per 100,000 in Istanbul, the country’s largest city. That’s an increase of 41% since last week. Turkey’s president announced this week that relaxed restrictions, like in-restaurant dining and reduced curfews, would continue “for
  
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• Pope decries lack of access to drinking water for many

  21-03-2021 13:47
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging more efforts to ensure all people have access to drinking water. In remarks on Sunday, Francis lamented that far “too many people have access to (only) a little water and that which is possibly polluted.” He encouraged all to “reflect on the value of this marvelous and non-substitutive gift of God.” He said water isn’t some good of commerce but “fount of life and of health.” The post Pope decries lack
  
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• Philippine defense chief asks Chinese flotilla to leave reef

  21-03-2021 13:43
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense chief has demanded more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias to leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Sunday the Chinese flotilla’s presence was a “provocative action of militarizing the area.” A government watchdog overseeing the disputed region said about 220 Chinese vessels were seen moored at Whitsun Reef, which Beijing also claims, on March 7. It re
  
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• Whiskey makers face worsening hangover from trade dispute

  21-03-2021 13:33
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A hangover from Trump-era tariff disputes could become more painful for American whiskey distillers unless their entanglement in the trans-Atlantic fight is resolved soon. Bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey were left out of recent breakthroughs to rebuild U.S trade relations with the European Union and the United Kingdom. But the EU’s and UK’s 25% tariffs on American whiskey remain and the EU’s rate is set to double in June. A spirits advoca
  
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• Married 66 years, husband, wife die minutes apart of virus

  21-03-2021 13:31
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida couple who spent decades as missionaries and ministers died 15 minutes apart of COVID-19. Bill and Esther Ilnisky were married almost 67 years when they died recently at a Palm Beach County hospice. Their daughter says while she misses them, she is consoled by the fact that they died together. The Ilniskys spent 10 years in Jamaica and seven in Lebanon as Christian missionaries. They then moved to West Palm Beach in the 1970s and spent four decades ru
  
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• Pope decries shame of racism, like ‘virus’ lurking in wait

  21-03-2021 13:20
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has denounced racism, likening it to a virus that lurks in waiting and continues to be shameful. Francis in a tweet on Sunday called racism “a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting.” Francis said “instances of racism continues to shame us.” He cited no particular instance. The United Nations marks March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
  
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• Supply bottlenecks leave ships stranded, businesses stymied

  21-03-2021 13:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A trade bottleneck born of the COVID-19 outbreak has U.S. businesses waiting for shipments from Asia _ while off the coast of California, dozens of container ships have been anchored, unable to unload their cargo.  The problems began when Americans stayed home and dramatically changed their buying habits _ instead of clothes, they bought electronics, fitness equipment and home improvement products. U.S. companies flooded Asian factories with orders. And that led to a c
  
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• The Latest: Romania sets record for virus patients in ICUs

  21-03-2021 13:10
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania on Sunday recorded its highest number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units since the pandemic began.The increasing pressure on ICU wards — where today 1,334 people are currently receiving care — comes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the Eastern European country.Over the past week, Romania has been recording its highest number of infections in three months — on some days more than 6,000 new daily cases.On Saturday, health officials co
  
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