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• Will Smith opening up, releasing memoir ‘Will’ in November

  20-06-2021 23:47
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith is ready to open up about his life story. Penguin Press announced Sunday that Smith will release his memoir called “Will” on Nov. 9. The actor-rapper shared a photo of the book’s cover art to more than 54 million of his followers on Instagram. Smith said he is finally ready to release his memoir after working on the book for the past two years. It will be published by the i Penguin Random House imprint of Penguin Press and is co-authored by M
  
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• Body of fourth tuber, age 7, found in North Carolina river

  20-06-2021 23:46
  
  EDEN, N.C. (AP) — Local officials in North Carolina say the body of a fourth tuber has been found in a river following a deadly accident in which a family on a recreational float went over a dam. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release Sunday that 7-year-old Isiah Crawford was the person who was found in the Dan River. The search continued for the last remaining tuber, 35-year-old Teresa Villano. The accident occurred Wednesday night when a group of nine pe
  
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• 8 kids in youth van among the 12 lives lost to Claudette

  20-06-2021 23:38
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Eight children in a van from a youth ranch for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate over the weekend — the most devastating blow from a tropical depression that claimed a total of 12 lives in Alabama. A man and his baby also died in the crash Saturday, and another man and child died when a tree fell on their house. The van belonged to the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, a youth home operated by the Alabama Sheriffs
  
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• Police: Oregon suspect forced woman to drive him 2K miles

  20-06-2021 23:37
  
  NORTH BEND, Oregon (AP) — Authorities say a man sought in the killings of his father and two other people in a small Oregon city forced a woman to drive him more than 2,000 miles in her car to Wisconsin, where he turned himself in. Police said Sunday that Oen Evan Nicholson approached Laura Johnson after she returned to her parking spot during a her lunch break on Friday in Springfield, Oregon, and forced her to drive him north. Authorities were notified Sunday morning that Nicholson had t
  
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• Temperatures will fall slightly over the next few days

  20-06-2021 23:32
  
  TUCSON - This is our last day of heat over 110 degrees before we see our highs fall back to the 104-108 range for the next week.Not the most exciting news to hear, but the hottest week of the year is in the rear view mirror.
  More moisture coming up from central Mexico will help our temperatures fall a bit and bring us some small rain chances.Isolated showers and thunderstorms will be possible from late Tuesday afternoon through Saturday.Our best chances for rain will come between the hours of 4
  
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• Armenian PM’s party far ahead in early election results

  20-06-2021 23:05
  
  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Early results in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections show the party of the acting prime minister far ahead of rivals. The country’s elections commission said Sunday that with votes counted from about 8% of Armenia’s 2008 precincts, Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party had nearly 62% of the vote with former president Robert Kocharyan’s party in a distant second place with 18%. One other party hovered near the 5% threshold to get sea
  
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• At least 18 killed in violence near US-Mexico border

  20-06-2021 23:02
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say gunmen in vehicles opened fire in the city of Reynosa on the U.S. border, killing at least 14 people and causing widespread panic. Security forces killed four suspects, including one who died near a border bridge. The attacks began Saturday afternoon in several neighborhoods in eastern Reynosa, which borders the Texan city of McAllen, according to the Tamaulipas state agency that coordinates security forces. Images posted on social med
  
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• ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ hits top mark at box office

  20-06-2021 22:41
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” has hit the top box office target. The Lionsgate’s film starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek brought in $11.6 million domestically to claim the No. 1 spot in its debut. The “Hitman” sequel notched “A Quiet Place Part II,” which took hold of the second spot in its fourth weekend of release. The Paramount horror-thriller became the first of the pandemic era to reach $
  
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• Excessive Heat Warning issued June 20 at 2:38PM MDT until June 20 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Phoenix AZ

  20-06-2021 22:38
  
  * WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions. Afternoon temperatures 105to 113.
  * WHERE…New River Mesa, Rio Verde/Salt River, Globe/Miami, SanCarlos, Dripping Springs, Superior and Tonto Basin.
  * 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
  
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• Far right falters as conservatives lead French regional vote

  20-06-2021 22:21
  
  PARIS (AP) — Polling agencies and early official results estimate that France’s traditional conservative party dominated the first round of regional elections, and that Marine Le Pen’s far right party performed less well than expected. The election Sunday was marked by exceptionally low turnout and campaigning around security and economic issues. Three polling agencies projected that traditional conservative party, The Republicans, would have the most overall votes, followed by
  
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• Witness tells of horror as truck rams into Arizona bike race

  20-06-2021 21:52
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Bicyclist Tony Quinones had only just shaken hands with a fellow cyclist and wished him good luck during this weekend’s community road race in an Arizona mountain town. Then he says a scene of horror emerged just several minutes after the start of Saturday’s race, when a truck sped into a crowd of cyclists. He said in an interview Sunday that bodies went over the top of the truck’s hood to the left and the right. Then he saw the cyclist he’d just met
  
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• Police: Man wanted in 3 Oregon deaths arrested in Milwaukee

  20-06-2021 21:50
  
  NORTH BEND, Oregon (AP) — Authorities say a man sought in the killings of his father and two other people at a casino campground and in a shooting at a marijuana dispensary in a small Oregon city has turned himself in to police in Milwaukee. Authorities said Sunday that investigators believe Oen Evan Nicholson drove the over 2,000 miles from the coastal city of North Bend to Wisconsin. He is believed to have abandoned his father’s truck after crashing it in Oregon on Friday. He is ex
  
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• Strong Will: Claye out for gold in return from Achilles tear

  20-06-2021 21:42
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Triple jumper Will Claye earned the top qualifying mark at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on his one and only attempt. That was a convincing statement that he’s back from a torn Achilles tendon. He also showed why he’s the gold medal favorite with the Tokyo Games on the horizon. It’s especially true with friend, top rival and two-time defending Olympic champion Christian Taylor sidelined by a torn Achilles tendon. Claye has finished runner-up
  
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• Officials: Deadly Pride parade crash appears unintentional

  20-06-2021 21:33
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a driver unintentionally slammed into spectators at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one person and seriously injuring another. Saturday’s crash at the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade initially drew speculation that it was a hate crime directed at the gay community. However, Wilton Manors Vice Mayor Paul Rolli said Sunday that the early investigation shows it was an accident. The driver was taken into custody, but i
  
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• The Latest: Blood shortage forces New England surgery delay

  20-06-2021 20:57
  
  BOSTON — Some New England hospitals are delaying or rescheduling surgeries because of a shortage of blood donations during the pandemic.
  “We haven’t seen anything like this in about 30 or 40 years at least,” Dr. Vishesh Chhibber, director of transfusion medicine at UMass Memorial Health, told the Boston Globe.
  Periodic, localized blood shortages are not uncommon, but this shortage is “unprecedented in its scope,” said Dr. Claudia Cohn, chief medical officer fo
  
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• Phoenix area, metro Las Vegas expecting cooler weather

  20-06-2021 20:57
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — After five consecutive days of 115-plus degree heat, the Phoenix metro area is expected to get some cooler weather this week. But there’s no break from wildfires that continue to grow around Arizona. Fire officials blame extreme heat for the spread of a wildfire that has grown to nearly 27 square miles (70 square kilometers) near Strawberry and Pine, mountain towns east of Interstate 17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff. Other wildfires still are active near Globe, Paulden
  
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• Yemeni officials say battle for key city intensifies

  20-06-2021 20:45
  
  MARIB, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say that heated battles have taken place in recent days between forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the country’s rebels around the strategic city of Marib. The rebels, known as the Houthis, have been trying to seize the area for months. Military officials and tribal leaders from the area said that an estimated dozens of fighters have been killed and injured in the recent fighting. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been
  
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• 1 killed and 5 wounded in shooting in Oakland; motive sought

  20-06-2021 20:18
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 22-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Oakland near the city’s Juneteenth celebration. Oakland police say the unidentified man was pronounced dead at a hospital after gunfire erupted Saturday evening near Lake Merritt. The other five victims wer males ages 16 to 27 and a woman in her 20s. They were hospitalized were in stable condition Saturday night.  Officials say two men running from the scene with gun
  
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• Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

  20-06-2021 20:17
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shutdown. An official from the state electric energy company said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.” He said that outages could result. He did not elaborate but this is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant, located in the southern port city of Bushehr.
  
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• Gunmen kill at least 14 in attacks near US-Mexico border

  20-06-2021 20:15
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say gunmen in vehicles opened fire in the city of Reynosa on the U.S. border, killing at least 14 people and causing widespread panic. Security forces killed four suspects, including one who died near a border bridge. The attacks began Saturday afternoon in several neighborhoods in eastern Reynosa, which borders the Texan city of McAllen, according to the Tamaulipas state agency that coordinates security forces. Images posted on social med
  
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• Pollsters: French conservatives lead 1st round regional vote

  20-06-2021 20:12
  
  PARIS (AP) — Polling agencies have estimated that France’s traditional conservative party dominated the first round of regional elections, and that Marine Le Pen’s far right party performed less well than expected. The election Sunday was marked by exceptionally low turnout and campaigning around security and economic issues. Three polling agencies projected that traditional conservative party The Republicans would have the most overall votes, followed by Le Pen’s Nationa
  
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• Pollsters estimate French conservatives dominate 1st round of regional elections; Le Pen’s far-right party trails

  20-06-2021 20:05
  
  PARIS (AP) — Pollsters estimate French conservatives dominate 1st round of regional elections; Le Pen’s far-right party trails.The post Pollsters estimate French conservatives dominate 1st round of regional elections; Le Pen’s far-right party trails appeared first on KVOA.
  
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• Video shows California deputy kicking suspect in head

  20-06-2021 19:52
  
  VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A California sheriff’s deputy is under criminal investigation after he was recorded on video kicking a pursuit suspect in the head while the man appeared to be surrendering. The Sun newspaper reports the San Bernardino County deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave. The suspect was riding a motorcycle Wednesday when he failed to pull over for a traffic stop and led the deputy on a high-speed chase. He eventually ditched the bike and hid under a
  
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• Police: Man wanted in 3 Oregon deaths arrested in Wisconsin

  20-06-2021 19:31
  
  NORTH BEND, Oregon (AP) — A man sought in the killings of his father and two other people at a casino campground and a shooting at a marijuana dispensary in a small Oregon city has turned himself into authorities in Wisconsin. Police didn’t immediately release details about where exactly Oen Evan Nicholson ended up in Wisconsin and how got there after Friday’s wave of violence in the coastal city of North Bend. Officials in Oregon planned to speak with the media late Sunday mor
  
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• EU diplomat: mistrust at core of Lebanon political crisis

  20-06-2021 19:31
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief says a struggle for power and strong mistrust is at the heart of the fight between Lebanese political leaders and the deadlock over government formation for months. A power struggle has emerged between premier-designate Saad Hariri, named to the post in October, one one side, and President Michel Aoun and his son-in-law Gebran Bassil, who heads the largest bloc in parliament, on the other. The political deadlock has worsened the
  
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• Famed escapee Buddy the beefalo adjusting to life in Florida

  20-06-2021 19:12
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Officials at a Florida sanctuary say that a bison hybrid who roamed the woods in Connecticut for months after escaping on the way to a slaughterhouse has adjusted to his new life. Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary in Gainesville posted on Facebook this month that Buddy the beefalo “has fully integrated into the herd” and has not tried to escape since the second day after he arrived. The  800- to 900-pound (360- to 410-kilogram) beefalo bolted on Aug. 3,
  
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• Mesa wig store gets support after backlash over mask mandate

  20-06-2021 19:11
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A wig store in suburban Phoenix serves people who have lost their hair from chemotherapy and continues to require shoppers to wear masks to protect people with cancer from COVID-19.  But last month, the shop started receiving harassing phone calls after the founder of an anti-mask group tried to ruin the business by posting the store’s name, phone number and address on social media.  Since then, Sunny’s Hair and Wigs has received an outpouring of su
  
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• Suspect arraigned in killing of American student in Russia

  20-06-2021 19:06
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A court in central Russia has arraigned a suspect on murder charges in the death of an American woman studying at a local university. The body of 34-year-old Catherine Serou was found Saturday in the woods area near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. She had been missing since Tuesday. Her mother, Beccy Serou, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, told National Public Radio that her daughter had last texted her: “In a car with a stranger. I hop
  
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• 12 dead in Alabama due to Claudette, including 10 children

  20-06-2021 19:04
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Tropical Depression Claudette has claimed 12 lives in Alabama as the storm swept across the southeastern U.S., causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people, including nine children, were killed in a 15-vehicle crash Saturday, according to Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock, who said the vehicles likely hydroplaned on wet roads. Eight of the dead were associated with the Alabama Sheriffs Youth Ranches. Multiple people were also inj
  
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• Netanyahu’s moving out, but not soon enough for critics

  20-06-2021 19:00
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu says he and his family will move out of Israel’s official prime minister’s residence by July 10, nearly a month after he was ousted from office following a record 12-year reign. That’s not soon enough for critics who have long accused the Netanyahus of treating the office and its trappings as their own private property. His opponents see it as another way of undermining the legitimacy of the new government sworn in a week ago. The relat
  
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• Driver rams racing cyclists in Arizona, 6 critically injured

  20-06-2021 18:59
  
  SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine why a 35-year-old man driving a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists during a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring six riders. The driver was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after fleeing the crash scene Saturday and being shot by police outside a nearby hardware store in the mountain town of Show Low about a three-hour drive northeast of Phoenix. He wasn’t identified Four of the injured riders wer
  
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• Ivory Coast’s former president Gbagbo attends Mass in public

  20-06-2021 18:56
  
  ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has attended Mass, one of his first public appearances since returning home after nearly a decade in exile. The ex-president, who was acquitted of war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court two years ago, was seen at Abidjan’s St. Paul Cathedral on Sunday. Gbagbo greeted supporters at his former campaign headquarters after arriving Thursday then spent the last few days out of public sight. Ivorians ar
  
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• Israeli PM: World powers must ‘wake up’ on Iran nuclear deal

  20-06-2021 18:56
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has opened his first Cabinet meeting since swearing in his new coalition government last week with a condemnation of the new Iranian president. He said Sunday that Iran’s presidential election was a sign for world powers to “wake up” before returning to a nuclear agreement with Tehran. Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, was elected Saturday with 62% of the vote amid a historically low voter turnou
  
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• 1 killed, 5 wounded in shooting near Lake Merritt in Oakland

  20-06-2021 18:27
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 22-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Oakland near the city’s Juneteenth celebration. Oakland police say the unidentified man was pronounced dead at a hospital after gunfire erupted Saturday evening near Lake Merritt. The other five victims wer males ages 16 to 27 and a woman in her 20s. They were hospitalized were in stable condition Saturday night.  Officials say two men running from the scene with gun
  
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• Body of fourth tuber has been found in North Carolina river

  20-06-2021 18:10
  
  EDEN, N.C. (AP) — Local officials in North Carolina say the body of a fourth tuber has been found in a river following a deadly accident in which a family on a recreational float went over a dam. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Sunday that authorities received a 911 call about 10 a.m. reporting a body in the Dan River. The sheriff’s office said crews have begun efforts to recover the body. The victim’s identity is yet to be confirmed. Two tub
  
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• Take 2: Spacewalking astronauts install new solar panel

  20-06-2021 17:58
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts have installed a powerful new solar panel outside the International Space Station. France’s Thomas Pesquet and NASA’s Shane Kimbrough picked up Sunday where they left off four days earlier, when spacesuit and other problems interrupted their work. They had to use some muscle, but their efforts paid off Sunday with the new 63-foot panel unfurling all the way. NASA plans a third spacewalk Friday to install a second panel. These
  
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• Arizona reports 385 new COVID-19 cases and 5 more deaths

  20-06-2021 17:51
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 385 new cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths. They say the state now has recorded 889,727 known cases of the disease and 17,843 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic started more than a year ago. Arizona Department of Health Services officials reported 641 new cases and 16 deaths Saturday. It was the highest single-day case number since June 2. Nearly 6.3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administer
  
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• Trump cowboy seeks 2nd act in politics after Capitol breach

  20-06-2021 17:10
  
  TULAROSA, N.M. (AP) — He rodeoed in a Buffalo Bill-style Wild West show, carried his message on horseback from the Holy Land to Times Square and was invited to the White House to meet the president. But luck may have run out for Couy Griffin after the cowboy, pastor and county commission rode to national political fame by embracing President Donald Trump with a series of horseback caravans. Griffin came crashing down with a defiant stand against President Joe Biden’s election. He is
  
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• Schmeichel: Outpouring of support shows ‘the reason I play’

  20-06-2021 17:05
  
  COPENHAGEN (AP) — Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel says the outpouring of support in the wake of Christian Eriksen’s collapse at the European Championship has shown how soccer can unite an entire country and why it’s so special to play for a national team. Schmeichel says “to see that football can unite a country the way it has the last few days” is the reason he plays. Eriksen and the entire Denmark team have received a flood of messages and well-wishes since t
  
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• Kansas officer critically hurt, suspect dead after shootout

  20-06-2021 17:00
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police officer is in critical condition and the person who fired at officers is dead after a shootout in Wichita. Two police officers were checking on the welfare of two women at a home in south Wichita around 10:15 p.m. when the shooting began. Wichita Police Capt. Wendell Nicholson said someone inside the home started shooting, and one of the officers was hit several times. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. When other officers arrived, the su
  
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• UEFA probes discrimination at Euro 2020 games in Hungary

  20-06-2021 16:57
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — UEFA says it is investigating “potential discriminatory incidents” at two European Championship games in Hungary. The governing body of European soccer says a “UEFA ethics and disciplinary inspector has been appointed” to conduct an investigation. UEFA didn’t say what form of discrimination it was investigating or how it might have been expressed. It didn’t set out a timeline for when the inspector would report back or when there
  
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• Diplomats: Progress made in Vienna at Iran nuclear talks

  20-06-2021 16:48
  
  VIENNA (AP) — Top diplomats say further progress has been made at talks between Iran and global powers to try to negotiate and restore a landmark 2015 agreement to contain Iranian nuclear development that was later abandoned by the Trump administration. They said Sunday that it’s now up to the governments involved in the negotiations to make political decisions. It was the first official meeting since Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won a landslide victory in the country&rsquo
  
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• Official: Crash, “likely” due to storm, kills 10 in Alabama

  20-06-2021 16:30
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — An official tells local media that 10 people – including nine children – are dead after a two-vehicle crash in storm-drenched Alabama. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock says did not release the names of the victims in Saturday’s crash but said that vehicles likely hydroplaned on wet roads. Butler County Sheriff Danny Bond said multiple people were also injured. It was not clear how many were injured. A tropical storm swept across the southeastern U.S. on
  
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• Libya’s interim government reopens Mediterranean highway

  20-06-2021 16:19
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s interim authorities reopened on Sunday the Mediterranean coastal highway linking the country’s long-divided eastern and western cities, in the latest bid to reunite the territories after years of civil war. The announcement comes three days ahead of an international conference on Libya that will be hosted by Germany and the United Nations in Berlin, to try to set the stage for general election before the end of this year. The coastal road has been closed si
  
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• Egypt: Suez Canal ship case adjourned for settlement talks

  20-06-2021 16:01
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has adjourned the case of a hulking cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year.  Sunday’s decision to pause hearings until July 4 came after both legal teams of the Suez Canal and the vessel’s owners asked for more time for negotiations that aim at resolving their financial dispute. The dispute centers on the compensation amount the Suez Canal Authority is claiming for the salvage of the vessel Ever Given, wh
  
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• Family seeks 2nd chance at charging officer in man’s death

  20-06-2021 15:54
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will decide whether to file charges against a police officer who killed a man sitting in a parked car using a rarely invoked legal process. Joseph Mensah shot three people in a span of five years while he was an officer in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa. Prosecutors declined to charge him each time. The family of one of the men killed, Jay Anderson, asked a Milwaukee judge in February to launch a John Doe investigation into Anderson’s death.
  
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• The Latest: Delta variant behind spike of cases in Portugal

  20-06-2021 15:50
  
  LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese authorities have confirmed suspicions that the new delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a spike in new cases in the Lisbon region.
  Portugal’s National Health Institute said Sunday that the highly infectious variant that was first found in India has a prevalence of 60% of new cases in the nation’s capital.
  The recent surge in infections caused authorities last week to ban all travel in and out of Lisbon on the weekends. The measure went into
  
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• Munich wants rainbow-colored stadium for game with Hungary

  20-06-2021 15:48
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Hungary may play its final group game at the European Championship in a stadium lit up in rainbow colors. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter says he is going to write to UEFA to ask for permission for Germany’s stadium to be lit up with the colors as a sign against homophobia and intolerance when the team plays Hungary on Wednesday. Munich’s city council already called for the stadium to be lit in rainbow colors for the final group game to protest a law recently passed by
  
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• Russia’s ambassador heads back to US after recall

  20-06-2021 15:19
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s ambassador is returning to the United States three months after being recalled as tensions rose between Moscow and Washington. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden agreed at their summit in Geneva last week on the return of Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov and U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan, who left for the U.S. in April. Antonov on Sunday boarded an Aeroflot flight to New York and then was to travel to Washington. No date for Sullivan&rsq
  
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• Israel arrests Arab suspects in mob killing of Jewish man

  20-06-2021 15:16
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have arrested eight Arab suspects in the killing of an Israeli Jewish man during a wave of ethnic violence last month. Yigal Yehoshua, 56, died after being pelted with rocks during clashes between Arabs and Jews in the mixed city of Lod. Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in Jerusalem clashed on a nightly basis during the holy month of Ramadan in April and May over restrictions on public gatherings and attempts by settlers to evict dozens of
  
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