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By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Army soldiers and other responders found 35 bodies inside a well after a structure built over it collapsed as a large crowd of Hindu faithful prayed at a festival for the god Rama, a state government official said Friday. Nearly 140 rescuers used ropes and ladders

MONTREAL (AP) — The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service in Canada says it is investigating the discovery of six bodies in a marshy area near Quebec’s border with New York state. Police said Thursday that they are awaiting the results of post-mortem and toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. Police also say they are

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The goal of silencing the guns in Africa this decade is being challenged by climate change, terrorism, coups and the continent’s history, the head of the African Union initiative told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. Attaining the goal is at risk even after the

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s indictment was quietly brought to the clerk’s office at a Manhattan criminal courthouse just before closing time Thursday. A woman and two men in suits walked in past reporters who’ve been staking out the office for weeks, turned a corner and disappeared through

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say two officers and a man with a gun were wounded in a shooting in Memphis on Thursday night. The Memphis Police Department said on Twitter that officers were responding to a call about a man with a gun at about 7:30 p.m. when all three were shot. The officers

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican government experts say they are concerned that a traveling display of mummies from the 1800s may pose a health risk to the public. The preserved corpses were unintentionally mummified when they were buried in dry, mineral-rich soil in the state of Guanajuato. Some still have hair, leathery skin and their

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago teen accused of fatally shooting his 17-year-old girlfriend, a 9-year-old girl and the child’s father has been told a grand jury has indicted him on three charges of first-degree murder. Seventeen-year-old Byrion Montgomery of Bolingbrook went before a Will County judge Thursday and was informed that the grand

By DÉBORA REY and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — One of the world’s highest inflation rates is making it more difficult to make ends meet in Argentina, where at the end of last year nearly four of every 10 people were poor, official figures revealed Thursday. Poverty increased to 39.2% of

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been indicted in the death of his wife who has not been seen since Jan. 1. A top prosecutor said Thursday that Brian Walshe faces first degree murder charges in the death of his wife as well as misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and improper conveyance