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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cyclone battering Oman has killed three people, including a child. Cyclone Shaheen made landfall Sunday night just off from Muscat, Oman’s capital, with winds reaching up to 150 kph (93 mph). That’s according to the state-run Oman News Agency. The cyclone quickly lost strength and forecasters downgraded it

BY THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Yet again, Naomi Campbell stole the show at Paris Fashion Week. The veteran trod the runway of Lanvin’s flower-themed collection to screams from guests in a dramatic black cloak. Flowers are a natural touchstone for spring. Lanvin was the latest house to use florals this season,

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff says one man has been killed in a shooting in the parking lot of a Waffle House near a South Carolina interstate. Lee County Sheriff Daniel Simon said the 4 a.m. Sunday shooting also injured an employee and three customers inside the restaurant just off Interstate 20 in Bishopville,

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a former student at a Houston public charter school has been charged after confessing to shooting and wounding the campus principal. Houston police say 25-year-old Dexter Harold Kelsey confessed to the shooting Friday at YES Prep Southwest Secondary. Police say he’s been charged with aggravated assault against a public servant

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister has vowed to rebuild the island of La Palma, where a volcano eruption has spewed molten lava and a thick cloud of pyroclastic ash for two weeks. The eruption has destroyed houses, banana crops and is giving no indication that it will end anytime soon. Rivers of lava have

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police arrested a man early Sunday in connection with the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe. Homicide detectives with the Salt Lake City Police Department located 22-year-old Buk M. Buk in Draper and booked him on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder and felony discharge of a firearm.

ROME (AP) — A small private plane has crashed into a vacant office building in a Milan suburb. A prosecutor said all eight people aboard were killed in Sunday’s crash. Firefighters tweeted that no one other than those aboard were involved in the crash near a subway station in San Donato Milanese. The firefighters said

BY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say Houthi rebels have fired three ballistic missiles at a government-held central city, killing two children and wounding more than 30 people. The attack is the latest by the Iranian-backed Houthis on Marib. The rebels have for months been trying to retake the energy-rich

PARIS (AP) — An independent commission examining church sex abuse in France believes that 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of them priests, have worked in the church over the past 70 years. The estimate was given by the commission president, Jean-Marc Sauvé, in a newspaper interview published Sunday. The commission has been investigating for 2 1/2

SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast outside a Kabul mosque Sunday, a Taliban official said. It was the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since U.S. forces left at the end of August. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion fell

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blaze has ripped through a small, densely populated cay along a Honduran island, destroying or damaging more than 200 homes and sending hundreds of people fleeing by sea. The national Emergency Commission said Sunday it is analyzing the extent of the damage from the blaze a day earlier on Bonacca

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 only to be attacked by Alabama state troopers on  “Bloody Sunday.” A new project aims to identify more of the hundreds of people who were

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast at the entrance to a Kabul mosque Sunday, a Taliban official said, describing the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since U.S. forces left at the end of August. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion fell on Islamic

DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball bat killed three co-workers and injured another at the Florida home they shared. Polk County Sheriff’s officials say electrician Shaun Runyon punched his supervisor Friday and returned to the Davenport home

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands. A statement from the city of Huntington Beach says at least

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has reported a record daily death toll from COVID-19, the fifth time in a week that deaths have hit a new high. The national coronavirus task force said Sunday that 890 deaths were recorded over the past day, exceeding the 887 reported on Friday. The task force also said the number

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. territory feel like they’re living in the aftermath of a major storm: Students do homework by the light of dying cellphones. People who depend on

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s coronavirus relief package championed by President Joe Biden and Democrats. The American Rescue Plan signed into law in March included $350 billion for state and local governments. An Associated

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it is enlisting the military and the Shin Bet internal security agency as it tries to rein in a wave of violence in the country’s Arab sector. The Arab minority, which makes up around 20% of Israel’s population, has been convulsed by violent crime in recent years. Prime

LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — Survivors of a 2013 capsizing have joined residents of a tiny Italian isle to honor 368 migrants who perished on the anniversary of the offshore tragedy. Participants in the memorial ceremony Sunday tossed flowers into the Mediterranean’s crystalline waters off the island of Lampedusa. Among those who journeyed to the island