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BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a busy market in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-based Syrian opposition fighters early Sunday, killing at least three people, rescue workers and a war monitor said. The bomb exploded in the town of Aziz in Aleppo province. Volunteers with the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, said the …

TROY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio said they have closed the case on a six-decade-old homicide of a woman whose remains were found in a gravel pit and a canal channel. Miami County Prosecutor Anthony Kendall approved closing the case based on information from a key witness to the 1964 murder of Daisy Shelton and statements from a suspect, …

TAXCO, México (AP) — Una turba golpeó brutalmente hasta la muerte a una mujer sospechosa del secuestro y asesinato de una niña antes de que se iniciara el jueves una famosa procesión de la Semana Santa en la ciudad turística de Taxco, al sur de México. Tras la golpiza la mujer falleció en una agencia de la Fiscalía estatal mientras …

CHICAGO (AP) — Eileen O’Neill Burke, a former appellate judge, has won the Democratic primary for Cook County state’s attorney over Clayton Harris III, an attorney with party backing. The race is open because State’s Attorney Kim Foxx decided not to seek a third term. It was among the most spirited and competitive contests in the March 19 Illinois primary. …

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to four years for his role in a St. Paul killing that prompted police in Minneapolis to execute a search warrant that led to the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by a police officer in a case that focused scrutiny on the use of no-knock warrants. Feysal Jama Ali, 18, …

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired rockets with heavy warheads at towns in northern Israel, saying it used the weapons against civilian targets for the first time Thursday in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes the night before that killed nine, including what the group said were several paramedics. There were no reports of Israelis hurt in the rocket …

LIMA (AP) — La firma china COSCO Shipping, que construye un gran puerto en Perú, indicó el martes que una reciente demanda de la autoridad portuaria local para anular la exclusividad en la explotación de servicios esenciales en el puerto afecta la seguridad y estabilidad jurídica de sus inversiones. En un comunicado entregado a The Associated Press, COSCO Shipping —la …

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise Monday night, sending the two pilots to a hospital. A Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesperson told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache helicopter assigned …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. warning to Russia couldn’t have been plainer: Two weeks before the deadliest attack in Russia in years, Americans had publicly and privately advised President Vladimir Putin’s government that “extremists” had “imminent plans” for just such slaughter. The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. intelligence community called the “duty …

PESHAWAR, Pakistán (AP) — Un atacante suicida en el noroeste de Pakistán estrelló su auto lleno de explosivos contra un vehículo el martes y mató a cinco ciudadanos chinos y su conductor paquistaní, indicaron funcionarios policiales y del gobierno. El ataque ocurrió en Shangla, un distrito de la provincia de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, según el jefe de la policía local, Bakhat …