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Death toll in Turkey avalanche disaster rises to 41Video
ISTANBUL — The death toll from a pair of avalanches in eastern Turkey climbed to 41 Thursday, Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency said as search teams aided by sniffer dogs scanned the avalanche field for bodies. The first avalanche late Tuesday killed five people in eastern Van province, which borders...
China opens new hospitals for virus patients, deaths top 560Video
BEIJING — China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people’s lives and fueling economic fears. A first group of patients was expected to start testing a...
Police: 4 dead after shooting at Indianapolis apartment
INDIANAPOLIS — Four people have been found fatally shot inside an apartment in Indianapolis, authorities said. Officers responded about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday to reports of shots being fired and found three men and one woman with apparent gunshot wounds, said Indianapolis police Assistant Chief Chris Bailey. They were pronounced dead...
Israeli-Palestinian violence spikes a week after Trump plan
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in clashes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and a third in Jerusalem after he opened fire at a police officer, hours after a car-ramming attack elsewhere in the city wounded 12 Israeli soldiers. Tensions have soared following last week’s release of...
Man dies in snow-trapped car in Serbia amid bad weather
BELGRADE, Serbia — An elderly man has died in his snow-trapped car in Serbia, while blizzards and strong winds left villages and roads blocked during a spate of bad weather in central and eastern Europe. Serbian police said Thursday they found the man’s body while rescuing around 20 people, including...
Prosecutors nearing finish as last Weinstein accuser returnsVideo
NEW YORK — Prosecutors at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial are on schedule to rest their case Thursday after more than two weeks of testimony, including graphic accounts from six among scores of women who’ve accused him of vile behavior. The last of the accusers to testify, model Lauren Marie Young,...
Court weighing arguments in Dayton gunman school records case
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Six months after a 24-year-old man who had reportedly exhibited disturbing behavior as a teenager gunned down nine people in Dayton, the Ohio Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether a student’s right to privacy ends with death. Media groups including The Associated Press are seeking...
Bernie Madoff seeks prison release, citing terminal kidney failure
NEW YORK — Epic Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff asked a federal judge Wednesday to grant him a “compassionate release” from his 150-year prison sentence, saying he has terminal kidney failure and less than 18 months to live. Madoff’s attorney filed court papers saying the 81-year-old has end-stage kidney disease and...
New Jersey dentist agrees to suspension after 15 patients sickened, 1 dies
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey oral surgeon has agreed to a five-year license suspension after 15 patients were sickened by a bacterial heart infection and one died. Dr. John Vecchione on Monday also agreed to pay $293,500 in penalties. He initially had fought the allegations. “Dr. Vecchione spent years...
Snowfall blankets Texas, Oklahoma; Deep South to see stormsVideo
EL PASO, Texas — A powerful winter storm in the central United States dropped snow as far south as El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday while areas of the Deep South were at risk of severe weather including tornadoes and torrential rains, forecasters said. Winter storm warnings or advisories were in...
Pope Francis defrocks founder of another Latin America-based order
VATICAN CITY — Another founder of a Catholic religious movement has been defrocked for sexual misconduct and abusing his power, the latest in a string of purportedly orthodox, charismatic priests who turned out to be predators. Pope Francis defrocked the Argentine priest, Roberto Juan Yannuzzi, after a four-year investigation determined...
Report: At least 138 sent from U.S. to El Salvador were killed
WASHINGTON — At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch says in a new report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge here. A majority of the deaths documented...
Plane skids off runway in Istanbul, breaks into pieces
ANKARA, Turkey — A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces. Passengers were seen evacuating through cracks in the plane and authorities said some had been injured. Television footage showed serious damage to the plane, with the fuselage...
Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó to meet WednesdayVideo
WASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is getting a long-sought meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday and another show of U.S. support for the Venezuelan people, the White House said. Guaidó was a guest Tuesday night at Trump’s State of the Union address. Lawmakers applauded as Trump introduced...
U.S. general slips into Iraq for talks to salvage relations
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East slipped quietly into Iraq Tuesday, as the Trump administration works to salvage relations with Iraqi leaders and shut down the government’s push for an American troop withdrawal. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie became the most senior U.S....
Italy, Turkey screen all arriving passengers for coronavirusVideo
ROME — Italy and Turkey said Wednesday they were taking the temperatures of all arriving airline passengers in new prevention measures aimed at halting the spread of a virus outbreak that has killed hundreds of people in China. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said thermal cameras installed at Turkish airports...
U.K. government, at odds with media, eyes BBC funding change
LONDON — Britain’s government announced Wednesday it is considering a change in the way the BBC is funded that would severely dent the coffers of the nation’s public broadcaster. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government — which is increasingly at odds with the country’s news media — said it would...
Avalanche in Turkey wipes out rescue team; dozens dead overallVideo
ANKARA, Turkey — An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find two people missing in an earlier avalanche. Officials said 23 rescue workers were killed while others were still buried under the snow. Wednesday’s avalanche...
China deaths rise to 490, Japan confirms 10 virus cases on shipVideo
BEIJING — Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in Thailand showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it. Ten people from the cruise ship tested positive...
9 killed, including 3 kids, at video game arcade in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Four gunmen shot to death nine people at a video game arcade in western Mexico, and among the dead were three children aged 12, 13 and 14. Prosecutors in the state of Michoacan said late Monday the attack left two other people wounded. The attackers were apparently...
Mexican migrants send home $36 billion, remittances rise 7%
MEXICO CITY — Mexican migrants working abroad sent home a record $36 billion in remittances in 2019, the country’s central bank reported Tuesday. That was an increase of 7% in remittances from 2018, when they totaled $33.67 billion. It was the highest level of remittances on record, and is higher...
Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests
MIAMI — Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” Florida authorities said. Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34, were pulled over in Santa Rosa County on Saturday after a trooper clocked them...
Hong Kong reports virus death as workers strike at hospitals
BEIJING — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as thousands of medical workers went on strike for a second day Tuesday to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely. The new virus caused its first death in the semi-autonomous territory, adding to growing fears it is spreading locally. All...
Official: 2nd student dies after truck hits Oklahoma runnersVideo
MOORE, Okla. — A second suburban Oklahoma City high school student has died after a group of cross-country runners was struck by a pickup truck that authorities say was driven by man whose son was killed in a traffic crash over the weekend, a school official said Tuesday. Sophomore Yuridia...
Girl’s fall into grease pit prompts W.Va. bill to hike fines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After a 5-year-old girl fell into a restaurant grease pit and was rescued, West Virginia’s Senate has passed legislation that would toughen fines for restaurants that have unsecured lids on the containers. The state Senate passed the bill Tuesday, 33-0. One member was absent. It now goes...
