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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited the Gulf nation of Oman on his first official visit since the deadly Feb. 6 quake. Oman is one of few Arab countries that kept normal relations with Damascus after Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 over its crackdown on Arab Spring

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian president says the ex-Soviet nation will form a new territorial defense force amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine. President Alexander Lukashenko has cultivated close military ties with Russia, which used Belarusian territory to send troops into Ukraine nearly a year ago at the start of what the Kremlin calls its

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press The prosecution in the case of a fatal New Mexico film-set shooting made a stark turnaround Monday, dropping the possibility of a mandatory five-year sentence against Alec Baldwin, new court filings show. The actor-producer’s attorneys had earlier objected to the enhancement, saying it was unconstitutional because it was added after

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Italy have discussed military support for Ukraine and voiced agreement that the European Union should be made stronger politically while cutting down on bureaucracy. Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni — both right-wing politicians — said they were on the same page on

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus Monday as the university resumed normal operations, one week after a gunman shot and killed three students and injured five others. The 50,000-student university’s campus remained relatively quiet on the first day back,

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna says a man arrested Monday in the weekend killing of a Catholic auxiliary bishop is the husband of the victim’s housekeeper and had done work at his home. Luna says a SWAT team arrested Carlos Medina in

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies and family members of an opposition politician imprisoned in Russia say he’s been transferred to a penal colony in the northwest of the country and placed in restricted housing. Andrei Pivovarov, who was sentenced to four years in prison last year, was transferred from a

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man has been charged with participating in a Memphis shooting that left one person dead and 10 others injured. According to a police affidavit, 21-year-old Julius Michael Freeman of Memphis admitted to driving the shooter to and from the area where the gunman opened fire early Sunday and to handing

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has summoned Iran’s top diplomat in the U.K. after journalists based in the country were targeted for intimidation by Tehran. The Foreign Office said its Middle East director Vijay Rangarajan met with Iranian Chargé d’Affaires Mehdi Hosseini Matin to “make clear the U.K. will not tolerate threats to life and