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Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19
April 19, 2021 - 8:54 AM

PARIS - Michel Kilo, an exiled veteran Syrian opposition figure, died Monday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived, family and friends said. He was 81.
Prosecutor: FedEx shooter didn't have 'red flag' hearing
April 19, 2021 - 8:52 AM

INDIANAPOLIS - A former FedEx employee who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana's “red flag” law after his mother called police last year to say her son might commit “suicide by cop," a prosecutor said Monday.
Insurer to pay $8M to Black man paralyzed by Iowa officer
April 19, 2021 - 8:50 AM

IOWA CITY, Iowa - An insurance company for the City of Cedar Rapids will pay $8 million to a Black motorist who was paralyzed after a white police officer shot him during a 2016 traffic stop, both sides announced Monday.
US sends team to probe fatal Tesla crash with no driver
April 19, 2021 - 8:49 AM

DETROIT - Federal safety regulators have sent a team to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla in a Houston suburb in which local authorities say no one was behind the wheel.
Endangered venomous Mexican lizards hatch at zoo in Poland
April 19, 2021 - 8:42 AM

WARSAW, Poland - Two endangered Mexican beaded lizards have hatched at the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland, boosting the population of the venomous lizards.
Israel's Netanyahu backs bill for direct election for PM
April 19, 2021 - 8:37 AM

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for a new law to allow the direct election of the nation's leader as a way to break the country's two-year political deadlock.
Rwanda report blames France for 'enabling' the 1994 genocide
April 19, 2021 - 8:35 AM

PARIS - The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes about France’s role before and during the horror in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in 1994.
Key events since George Floyd's arrest and death
April 19, 2021 - 8:32 AM

MINNEAPOLIS - A timeline of key events that began with George Floyd's arrest on May 25, 2020, by four police officers in Minneapolis:
Cuba's Communist Party chooses Miguel Díaz-Canel as leader
April 19, 2021 - 8:31 AM

HAVANA - In many ways, Cuba's new maximum leader is nothing like those who have governed the island for the past six decades.
Egypt: 3 militants involved in Christian's slaying killed
April 19, 2021 - 8:29 AM

CAIRO - Egypt police killed three suspected militants allegedly involved in the slaying of a Coptic Christian man kidnapped more than five months ago in a restive part of Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
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World News

Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

Prosecutor: FedEx shooter didn't have 'red flag' hearing

Insurer to pay $8M to Black man paralyzed by Iowa officer

US sends team to probe fatal Tesla crash with no driver

Endangered venomous Mexican lizards hatch at zoo in Poland

Israel's Netanyahu backs bill for direct election for PM

Rwanda report blames France for 'enabling' the 1994 genocide

Key events since George Floyd's arrest and death

Cuba's Communist Party chooses Miguel Díaz-Canel as leader

Egypt: 3 militants involved in Christian's slaying killed

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