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• The Latest: Protests decry Brazil policies as toll tops 500K

  19-06-2021 23:57
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million.It’s a tragedy many critics blame on President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to minimize the disease.Thousands gathered Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, waving flags reading “Get out Bolsonaro.” Other marchers hoisted posters reading: “500 thousand deaths. It’s his fault.”Similar mar
  
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• Correction: Las Vegas-Drought Versus Growth story

  19-06-2021 23:57
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — In a story June 18, 2021, about a proposed land swap in the Las Vegas area aimed at balancing development and conservation, The Associated Press erroneously reported Marcie Henson’s title. She is the Clark County director of Environment and Sustainability, not Air Quality Department director.The post Correction: Las Vegas-Drought Versus Growth story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Search continues after 3 tubers die, 2 disappear at dam

  19-06-2021 23:38
  
  EDEN, N.C. (AP) — Rescue teams have continued to scour a North Carolina river for two missing tubers following a deadly accident in which a family went over a dam. The Greensboro News & Record reported Saturday that search teams still hadn’t found a 7-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman. The two were part of a group of nine that floated down the Dan River on inflatable tubes Wednesday and went over a dam that’s about 8 feet high. Four people were rescued Thursday, while th
  
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• Sheriff: Alabama man killed after pointing gun at deputies

  19-06-2021 23:28
  
  OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an armed 20-year-old man was fatally shot during a standoff with sheriff’s deputies and Alabama state troopers. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency troopers identified the slain man as Jeff Melvin of Salem, an unincorporated community that’s part of the Auburn metropolitan area. Sheriff Jay Jones said deputies received a call early Saturday morning about a man with a gun near the road. Deputies say they found Melvin armed with a shotgun. After ne
  
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• 11 hospitalized after church bus, vehicle crash in Arkansas

  19-06-2021 23:21
  
  CORNING, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a church bus collided Saturday with another vehicle on a northeastern Arkansas highway, sending least 11 people to the hospital. Clay County Sheriff Terry Miller said he believes there were 11 people aboard the Tennessee church bus and that they were all taken to hospitals. He said two of the church bus passengers were airlifted to hospitals in Memphis, while the others were taken to hospitals with either minor injuries or to be evaluated. Miller did no
  
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• Man suspected of 3 killings in Oregon town is still at large

  19-06-2021 23:19
  
  COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — A man sought in the killings of three people after a hit-and-run crash near a casino and a shooting at a marijuana dispensary in a small Oregon city is still at large. A prosecutor said the suspect wasn’t found after a manhunt Friday, and he’s considered armed and dangerous. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the man is suspected of killing a person and stealing their truck before running over two people Friday near a casino in the city of North Bend,
  
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• Missing men? Suns, Clips deal with uncertain status of stars

  19-06-2021 23:04
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers are still playing basketball deep into these NBA playoffs partly because they’ve learned to persevere in clutch moments without their biggest stars. That ability could be put to the test again for both teams in the Western Conference finals. The Suns and Clippers meet in Game 1 on Sunday in Phoenix with the status of some of their most important pieces in doubt. Suns point guard Chris Paul remains in the NBA’s COVID-19 he
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued June 19 at 2:56PM MDT until June 20 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Phoenix AZ

  19-06-2021 22:56
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 106to 114.
  * WHERE…New River Mesa, Rio Verde/Salt River, Globe/Miami, SanCarlos, Dripping Springs, Superior and Tonto Basin.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST Sunday.
  * IMPACTS…Very High Heat Risk. Increase in heat relatedillnesses, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke. Heat stroke can lead to death.An Excessive Heat Warning means that a period of very hottemperatures, even by local standards, will occur.
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued June 19 at 2:56PM MDT until June 19 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Phoenix AZ

  19-06-2021 22:56
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 98to 110.
  * WHERE…Southeast Gila County, Mazatzal Mountains andPinal/Superstition Mountains.
  * WHEN…Until 8 PM MST this evening.
  * IMPACTS…Very High Heat Risk. Increase in heat relatedillnesses, including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke. Heat stroke can lead to death.An Excessive Heat Warning means that a period of very hottemperatures, even by local standards, will occur. Actions shouldbe taken to
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued June 19 at 2:38PM MDT until June 20 at 10:00PM MDT by NWS Tucson AZ

  19-06-2021 22:38
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures from108 to 116.
  * WHERE…Most of south central to southeast Arizona, includingthe greater Tucson area.
  * WHEN…Until 9 PM MST Sunday.
  * IMPACTS…Extreme heat will significantly increase thepotential for heat related illnesses, particularly for thoseworking or participating in outdoor activities.Keep in mind you may need to adjust your plans based on thelatest health and safety guidelines from CDC and your localoff
  
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• Vacationing kids cited for dragging Florida gator with noose

  19-06-2021 22:30
  
  PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) — Three California children are in trouble after catching an alligator by its neck and dragging it to shore while vacationing near a Florida lake. Authorities say the children hooked a noose around the gator at Fay Lake Wilderness Park in Port St. John and dragged it to shore Thursday night. Florida Wildlife Commission spokesperson Chad Weber says the 16-year-old was issued a citation for feeding, enticing or molesting alligators. The 6-year-old and 8-year-old were
  
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• Activists protest EU migration policies at Croatian border

  19-06-2021 22:04
  
  MALJEVAC, Croatia (AP) — Dozens of human rights activists have briefly blocked Croatia’s border with Bosnia to protest European Union’s migration policies. The protesters on Saturday demanded that EU’s border agency, Frontex, be dismantled and countries end pushbacks of migrants trying to reach Western Europe. Waving banners reading “Stop deportation,” or “No human is illegal,” they parked cars at the border and shouted slogans against EU policies.
  
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• Juneteenth, recalling end of slavery, is marked across US

  19-06-2021 21:57
  
  Parades, picnics and lessons in history are all part of Juneteenth celebrations in the U.S. The day is carrying even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery. Juneteenth recalls June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas. In Detroit, teens repainted a block-long message, “Power to the People,” which was created last year. Officials in Bristol, Rhode Island
  
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• Bandit responsible for vehicle break-ins is a black bear

  19-06-2021 21:53
  
  THORNTON, N.H. (AP) — Surveillance video has helped police get to the bottom to a series of vehicle break-ins in Thornton, New Hampshire. Home security footage captured a black bear opening the door of a vehicle parked in a driveway and then crawling inside. Police believe the bear was rummaging for food and that the bear is responsible for causing damage to other vehicles. Police warned residents to remove food from their vehicles to avoid enticing the bear.The post Bandit responsible for
  
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• Clippers-Suns Western Conference finals preview capsule

  19-06-2021 21:45
  
  The Phoenix Suns are seeking their first NBA Finals trip since 1993. The Los Angeles Clippers are seeking their first in franchise history. They’ll meet in the Western Conference finals, starting sunday. Phoenix has been preparing this week without All-NBA point guard Chris Paul (health and safety protocols) and the Clippers haven’t said yet if they expect All-NBA forward Kawhi Leonard — who hurt his knee against Utah — to be back in this series. The irony is thick, in th
  
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• At least 11 hurt in Arkansas crash of church bus, vehicle

  19-06-2021 21:41
  
  CORNING, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a church bus collided with another vehicle on a northeastern Arkansas highway, injuring at least 11 people. Clay County Sheriff Terry Miller told television station KAIT that at least some of the injuries in Saturday’s collision are reportedly serious. He says the crash happened along Highway 67 north of Corning. The city is near Arkansas’ border with Missouri and about 170 miles (273 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock.The post At least 11
  
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• Driver rams cyclists in Arizona race, critically injuring 6

  19-06-2021 21:34
  
  SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Police say a driver in a pickup truck has plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders. Authorities say officers then chased down the driver Saturday and shot him outside a nearby hardware store. Police say six cyclists have been taken to a hospital in critical condition after the crash in the mountain town of Show Low, about a three-hour drive northeast of Phoenix. The 35-year-old suspect also has been hosp
  
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• Serbian state TV: Explosion again rocks munitions factory

  19-06-2021 21:31
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian state television RTS says an explosion has rocked a munitions factory in a central town that was hit by a fire and a series of blasts earlier this month. The report says one powerful explosion was heard just before 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) Saturday, followed by a several smaller blasts. Videos from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the Sloboda factory in Cacak as local media said a detonation shook the area. Authorities have ordered an evacuation of the area
  
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• Truck rams bicyclists in Arizona race, critically injuring 6

  19-06-2021 21:18
  
  SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Police say a pickup truck has plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders. Authorities say officers then chased down the driver Saturday and shot him outside a nearby hardware store. Police say six cyclists have been taken to a hospital in critical condition after the crash in the mountain town of Show Low, about a three-hour drive northeast of Phoenix. The 35-year-old suspect also has been hospitalized in
  
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• Editor of paper that endured newsroom shooting says goodbye

  19-06-2021 21:05
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The editor of the Capital Gazette is leaving the Maryland newspaper. Rick Hutzell worked at the Annapolis paper for more than three decades. He authored a farewell column that was published on the paper’s website on Saturday. Hutzell was editor when five employees were shot to death in the newsroom in 2018. He wrote Saturday that he became consumed with saving the paper and had worked with his colleagues to keep publishing. The paper won a special Pulitzer Prize
  
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• The Latest: Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll tops 500,000

  19-06-2021 21:04
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil said Saturday that more than 500,000 people in the country are confirmed to have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 2,000 daily deaths in recent days. Brazil’s reported death toll is second only to that of the U.S., where the number of lives lost has topped 600,000.
  Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga confirmed that the official death toll had passed 500,000.
  “I am w
  
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• Warsaw gay pride parade back after backlash, pandemic

  19-06-2021 20:58
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw has held its gay pride parade after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights. The Equality Parade on Saturday marks 20 years since the event was first held in the Polish capital. But it has not been held every year. It was banned twice in its early years by a conservative mayor who feared it would promote homosexuality, and last year was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The joyful celebration comes
  
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• Bike racers struck, pickup driver shot by police in Arizona

  19-06-2021 20:55
  
  SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Arizona say multiple people were struck and badly injured by a pickup truck during a community race event in a mountain town east of Phoenix, and the driver of the vehicle was shot by police. Police in Show Low said six people hurt in the Saturday morning crash were hospitalized in critical condition and at least two others reached the hospital themselves. They say the 35-year-old suspect also was hospitalized in stable condition. His name and hometown
  
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• Blaze at Moscow fireworks warehouse injures 4

  19-06-2021 20:43
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A warehouse holding a reported 15 metric tons (16.5 tons) of fireworks in central Moscow caught fire on Saturday, sending a huge cloud of smoke and a fusillade of explosions over the area. Three firefighters and a warehouse employee were injured and one firefighter was hospitalized. Three helicopters and a fireboat were dispatched to help put out the blaze at the warehouse, which sits 100 meters (320 feet) from the Moscow River near the sprawling Luzhniki sports complex. The
  
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• Major damage to Alabama mobile home park amid tropical storm

  19-06-2021 20:34
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a suspected tornado spurred by Tropical Storm Claudette demolished or badly damaged at least 50 homes in a small town just north of the Florida border. Sheriff Heath Jackson in Escambia County said a suspected tornado “pretty much leveled” a mobile home park, toppled trees onto houses and ripped the roof off of a high school gym. There were immediate no reports of deaths. Most of the damage was done in or near the towns of Brewton a
  
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• Greek policeman is arrested for 11 gas station robberies

  19-06-2021 20:28
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police say they have arrested one of their colleagues in Athens for 11 robberies at gas stations. The robberies took place between April 9 and early Saturday, a police announcement said. The policeman was arrested early Saturday and was immediately suspended from his duties. He was being questioned by authorities.The post Greek policeman is arrested for 11 gas station robberies appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Dolce&Gabbana’s “light therapy” collection celebrates life

  19-06-2021 19:50
  
  MILAN (AP) — Dolce & Gabbana are coaxing men off their sofas and back into the world, however it will be, with a resplendent collection inspired by the extravagant lighting installations that characterize southern Italian street festivals. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana called their collection “light therapy” for a world that has been mostly denied large gatherings for the last 15 months.  Their live runway show Saturday with a socially distanced audience
  
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• Reports: US student found killed in Russia, suspect arrested

  19-06-2021 19:00
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports said searchers have found the body of an American student who went missing several days earlier and that a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The body of Catherine Serou, 34, was found Saturday in a wooded area near the city of Bor, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. Russia’s Investigative Committee said a woman’s body was found in Bor and that a suspect with a record of serious crimes had been arrested, but did not give nam
  
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• Bidens’ older dog, Champ, has died; German Shepherd was 13

  19-06-2021 18:53
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says that Champ, the older of the family’s two dogs, has died “peacefully at home.” The German Shepherd was 13. The president and first lady Jill Biden got Champ from a breeder after Biden was elected vice president in 2008. Since then Champ has been a fixture at both the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory and now the White House. The Bidens say in a statement that  Champ “was our constant, cher
  
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• Queen beams as she returns to Ascot after COVID-19 hiatus

  19-06-2021 18:19
  
  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has attended the final day of the Ascot races, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act against climate change. The 95-year-old queen has attended Ascot almost every year of her seven-decade reign. She was absent last year, when the event was held without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. Her return came two months after the death of her husband, Prince Philip. Dressed in a mint-green outfit, the queen smile
  
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• Myanmar rejects UN resolution urging arms embargo

  19-06-2021 18:19
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar has rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an arms embargo against the Southeast Asian nation and condemning the military’s February seizure of power. The Foreign Ministry statement released Saturday said the resolution was “based on one-sided sweeping allegations and false assumptions.” The U.N. General Assembly resolution passed Friday and is not legally binding. It called on all countries “to prevent the flow of arms into M
  
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• The Latest: Daily infections soar in Russia; Moscow hard hit

  19-06-2021 18:09
  
  MOSCOW — Russia’s national coronavirus taskforce on Saturday reported 17,906 new infections, more than double the daily tally from early June.
  More than half of the new infections are in Moscow, where cases have tripled this month. The soaring case count has caused alarm among officials, who have increased measures to obstruct the spread.Moscow, its outlying area and two other Russian regions this week ordered mandatory vaccinations for workers in retail, education and other service
  
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• Arizona researchers to study cross-border childhood asthma

  19-06-2021 17:42
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Arizona will be launching a study of how prone Hispanic children are to asthma in Tucson compared with their peers on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora. The study will follow 500 pregnant women of Mexican descent in both cities and their newborns for the next five years to see how prevalent asthma is. The Arizona Daily Star reported that the study will look into how the risk of asthma is affected by the “
  
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• Correction: Juneteenth-Companies story

  19-06-2021 17:41
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story June 18, 2021, story about companies facing pressure to offer a paid day off for Juneteenth, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the CEO of Ichor Strategies. He is Eric Eve, not Erin Eve.  The post Correction: Juneteenth-Companies story appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Warsaw pride parade back after backlash and pandemic break

  19-06-2021 17:33
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw has held its gay pride parade after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights. The Equality Parade on Saturday marks 20 years since the event was first held in the Polish capital. But it has not been held every year. It was banned twice in its early years by a conservative mayor who feared it would promote homosexuality, and last year was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The joyful and colorful celeb
  
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• Putin names Lavrov, Shoigu to United Russia elections list

  19-06-2021 16:55
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says his foreign minister and his defense minister will head the candidates’ list for the dominant United Russia party in September’s parliamentary election. By placing Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the list, Putin aims to increase voter enthusiasm for the party whose support has been waning. Both Shoigu and Lavrov have substantial popularity for their firm positions on the military and and ch
  
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• Police hunt driver who hit UK pubgoers after Euro 2020 game

  19-06-2021 16:45
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police are hunting for a man who fired shots from an air gun and drove into people who had gathered at a central England pub to watch an England-Scotland soccer match. West Midlands Police said four people were injured. The police force said the driver of a silver Volvo fired a BB gun before hitting people outside the Gigmill pub in Stourbridge soon after the Euro 2020 competition game ended on Friday night. A man and a woman in their 20s are being treated in a hospit
  
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• ‘Protected them to death’: Elder-care COVID rules under fire

  19-06-2021 16:26
  
  Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes. Rules designed to protect the nation’s most vulnerable from COVID-19 are still being enforced despite widespread vaccination of residents, and plummeting infections and deaths. Frustration has set in as families around the country visit their dads this Father’s Day weekend. Family members say limited visitation, physical distancing and shutdowns make little sense at t
  
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• Memphis erases Confederate general from its public spaces

  19-06-2021 16:10
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis, Tennessee, since he moved there in 1852 with his family. Defenders consider him a hero for his Civil War exploits. Detractors call him a violent racist and note his early leadership role in the Ku Klux Klan. Now his remains are set to be moved to a new Confederate museum in Columbia, Tennessee. With the approval of Forrest’s relatives, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have
  
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• Amid reform movement, some GOP states give police more power

  19-06-2021 16:09
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals and moved instead in the other direction. Lawmakers have granted greater powers to officers, made it harder to discipline them and expanded their authority to crack down on demonstrations. The states include Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming. The bill sponsors acted in the wake of the nationwide protests that followed George Fl
  
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• Afghanistan running out of oxygen as COVID surge worsens

  19-06-2021 16:04
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Health officials say Afghanistan is fast running out of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID worsen. Hospitals are rationing their oxygen supplies, as Afghans desperate for oxygen bang on the doors of the few suppliers begging for cylinders for sick loved ones. Health ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigir Nazery says the government is in a race against time as it hurries to install oxygen producing factories in 10 of its worst-hit provinces. But even in the Afghan
  
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• Confederate leader’s Memphis past erased with body’s removal

  19-06-2021 15:48
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis, Tennessee, since he moved there in 1852 with his family. Defenders consider him a hero for his Civil War exploits. Detractors call him a violent racist and note his early leadership role in the Ku Klux Klan. Now his remains are set to be moved to a new Confederate museum in Columbia, Tennessee. With the approval of Forrest’s relatives, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have
  
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• An architect of European unity moves ahead on sainthood path

  19-06-2021 15:08
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A French statesman whose efforts helped pave the way for what eventually became the European Union has moved ahead on the Catholic church’s path toward possible sainthood. The Vatican said Pope Francis on Saturday approved a decree declaring the “heroic virtues” of Roberto Schuman, who, as a French foreign minister in 1950, developed a plan to promote European economic in hopes of furthering peace. Schuman died in 1963 after serving as the first presid
  
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• Guinea declares end to latest Ebola outbreak that killed 12

  19-06-2021 14:59
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea that emerged in February and killed 12 people. The latest outbreak was the first to emerge in Guinea since a deadly outbreak from 2014 to 2016 killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa. That originated in the same region before spreading to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. Guinea’s latest outbreak was declared Feb. 14 after three cases were detected in Gouecke, a rural com
  
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• Democrats see springboard for health care in high court win

  19-06-2021 14:44
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Affordable Care Act is now secure in the framework of the nation’s health care programs, and Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond. After the Supreme Court rejected the latest challenge to the Obama-era health law, some Democrats say it feels like a historic opportunity. They want to expand insurance coverage for working-age people and their families, add new benefits to Medicare for older people and reduce prescription drug costs for patients and taxpaye
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Putin’s twisted tale on rival; Biden GOP jab

  19-06-2021 14:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin faulted his imprisoned political rival for leaving Russia without legal permission, omitting the vital detail that the departure was, literally, an unconscious decision: Alexei Navalny was in a coma.
  After meeting President Joe Biden in Geneva, Putin also weighed in on U.S. affairs in distorted ways as he tried to equate the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with his political opposition at home and argued against the evidence that the Unit
  
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• The Latest: Virus cases, deaths at 3-month low in Pakistan

  19-06-2021 14:36
  
  ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Saturday reported the lowest daily number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths in the past three months.Federal authorities reported 27 deaths and 974 new confirmed cases. That brings the total deaths to 21,940 and more than 947,000 cases since the virus first appeared last year.With a steady decline in cases, the worst-affected southern Sindh province announced Saturday that it was easing restrictions in the commercial hub, Karachi, other major urban centers and in rur
  
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• Mississippi city added to Marquis de Lafayette trail

  19-06-2021 14:36
  
  NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A city in Mississippi is now part of a trail commemorating what was then a nationwide tour by a general who had fought in both the American and French revolutions. The Marquis de Lafayette visited Natchez on April 18, 1825, during the second and final year of that tour. At President James Madison’s invitation, he visited all 24 states then in the union. The Natchez Democrat reports that a marker describing his stay there was unveiled Wednesday at a lot overlooki
  
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• Metal fans mosh at 1st UK live music festival since pandemic

  19-06-2021 14:12
  
  LONDON (AP) — Thousands of heavy metal fans are camping, singing — and even moshing — at Britain’s first full music festival since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The three-day Download Festival at Donington Park in central England is one of a series of test events to see whether mass gatherings can resume without triggering outbreaks of COVID-19. About 10,000 fans, a tenth of the festival’s pre-pandemic attendance, secured tickets to watch more than 40 U.K.-
  
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• The Latest: UK holds 1st festival since pandemic start

  19-06-2021 12:50
  
  LONDON — Thousands of heavy metal fans are camping, singing — and even moshing — in the rain at Britain’s first full music festival since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
  The three-day Download Festival, taking place at Donington Park in central England, is one of a series of test events to see whether mass gatherings can resume without triggering outbreaks of COVID-19.
  About 10,000 fans, a tenth of the festival’s pre-pandemic attendance, have tickets to watch
  
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