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Afghan officials say Taliban attacks kill 11 troops, police
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's north and south have killed at least 11Afghan soldiers and policemen, the country's Defense Ministry and a provincial official said Monday. The violence comes even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last week announced his 21-member team to...
Sri Lankan leader frees soldier convicted in civilian deaths
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president on Thursday freed a soldier who was sentenced to death for killing eight civilians during the country's civil war. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office said he pardoned Sunil Ratnayake and ordered the justice ministry to release him. Ratnayake was among a...
50 Nigerian soldiers killed in deadly Boko Haram ambush
MAIDGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram extremists killed at least 50 soldiers during an ambush in northern Yobe state, one of the deadliest recent attacks on troops in Nigeria, according to military sources. The ambush happened as the military tried to launch an offensive against the Boko Haram militants,...
School closures extended; Wolf issues stay-at-home order
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday ordered residents of Pennsylvania's hardest-hit areas to stay home for at least two weeks to help combat the spread of the new coronavirus that has already sickened hundreds and caused six deaths statewide. He also extended a statewide schools shutdown through...
War-torn Syria braces for lockdown after first virus case
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrians rushed to stock up on food and fuel Monday amid fears that authorities would resort to even stricter measures after reporting the first coronavirus infection in the country, where the health care system has been decimated by nearly a decade of civil war. The arrival of the...
Attacks in Libya kill 5 despite calls for pause in fighting
CAIRO (AP) — At least five civilians were killed, including two members of the same family, by heavy shelling in Libya’s capital of Tripoli on Monday, officials in the U.N.-backed government said, despite increased international pressure to halt fighting over coronavirus concerns. Mortar shells...
Rocket attack in northwest Syria kills 2 Turkish soldiers
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in a rocket attack in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, Turkey's Defense Ministry said. A ministry statement said a third soldier was wounded in the attack, which it said was carried out by "radical groups." Turkey's artillery units...
Arizona history March 22-28
Sunday, March 22 On this date in 1875, the Silver King Mine was discovered in the Pinal Mountains. The first ore taken from the mine was assessed at $4,300 per ton. On this date in 1906, a meeting of the Board of School Trustees addressed the "unbecoming conduct" of six teachers in the Tucson Public Schools. The...
Military faces limitations in responding to virus outbreak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more. But the military faces limits. Its health care system is geared more toward handling combat casualties than infectious diseases. And there are logistical and legal...
Trump declares emergency; world steps up fight against virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States declared a state of emergency Friday as many European countries went on a war footing amid mounting deaths as the world mobilized to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic. At the White House, where President Donald Trump made the emergency decree, drug company...
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