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Bernie Loubier
September 21, 2019 - 1:19 pm

Polands President To Visit New Britain

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) _ The president of Poland is making his first visit to Connecticut. Andrzej Duda and his wife are making a stop in New Britain, which has a large Polish immigrant population. About 20,000 people of Polish decent live in the city. Duda is scheduled to attend Mass on Sunday at...
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AP
July 26, 2019 - 6:10 pm

Trump says Guatemala Signing Deal to Restrict Asylum Cases

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Friday that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. The so-called "safe third country'' agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on...
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AP
July 25, 2019 - 12:25 am

Puerto Rico Governor Says He Is Resigning August 2nd

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said late Wednesday that he will resign Aug. 2 after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers. A crowd of demonstrators...
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AP
July 24, 2019 - 9:42 pm

S. Korea says N. Korea Fired 2 Short-Ranged Missiles into Sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea on Thursday, South Korea's military said, the first weapons launches in more than two months as North Korean and U.S. officials struggle to restart nuclear negotiations. The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the...
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AP
July 18, 2019 - 8:15 pm

American Warship Destroys Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone in the same...
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AP
May 29, 2019 - 9:17 am

AP Report: 'Pain League' Allegedly Pushed Opioids In Italy

PARMA, Italy (AP) — The police huddled for hours each day, headphones on, eavesdropping on the doctor. They'd tapped his cellphone, bugged his office, planted a camera in a trattoria. They heard him boast about his power to help Big Pharma make millions pushing painkillers, and about all the money...
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Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
AP
April 15, 2019 - 5:10 pm

Massive fire engulfs beloved Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

PARIS (AP) — A catastrophic fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris' soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. The blaze...
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A forensics expert looks for clues inside a tram after a shooting incident in Utrecht, Netherlands, Monday, March 18, 2019. A gunman killed three people and wounded nine others on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, sparking a manhunt that saw heavily armed officers with sniffer dogs zero in on an apartment building close to the shooting. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
AP
March 18, 2019 - 4:37 pm

The Latest: Turkey condemns Dutch tram attack

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on a shooting in a tram in the Netherlands (all times local): 8 p.m. Turkey's foreign ministry has condemned the Utrecht tram shooting that killed at least three people. In a written statement Monday, the ministry said it "strongly" condemned the attack, "...
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March 18, 2019 - 9:57 am

US Sen. Murphy To Travel To UK, Ireland To Talk Brexit

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is scheduled to travel overseas to talk with officials in England, Ireland and Northern Ireland about how Brexit will affect relations between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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