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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Paul Pierrilus was deported two years ago from the U.S. to Haiti where he has been trying to survive in a chaotic and violent country where he wasn’t born and had never lived. Both his parents are Haitian but they emigrated to the French

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer who shot and killed a Black man as he lay in bed in his home last summer is no longer on the force. Columbus police said Friday evening that the officer had retired as of that day and “retired in bad standing due to the ongoing criminal

BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists have splashed a dark liquid over an art work near the German parliament building engraved with key articles from the country’s constitution, drawing condemnation from the speaker of parliament and other lawmakers. The Last Generation group said supporters on Saturday symbolically “soaked in ‘oil’” the installation — a series of

By FAZAL TAWAB Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The sister and a friend of a Pakistani national soccer team player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s coast says she took the voyage to find help for her disabled son. Local hospitals had told her that overseas treatment could be her only

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union countries on the Mediterranean Sea are pushing back against their northern neighbors for not accepting asylum-seekers under a voluntary relocation scheme. The ministers responsible for migration policy in Cyprus, Greece, Italy,

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil lawsuits related to

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a bus carrying 40 elementary school students home from a trip to the French Alps plunged down a wooded slope into a creek Saturday. The mayor of Corps, where the incident happened, says the driver and his partner were hospitalized with serious injuries, and 19 others were treated for

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s leader is urging French President Emmanuel Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda. But the French leader said Saturday during a stop in the Congolese capital that he’s awaiting the outcome of peace negotiation efforts before considering such a step. Congo accuses neighboring Rwanda of backing

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — A business jet was buffeted by severe turbulence over New England, causing a rare passenger death and forcing the aircraft to divert to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, officials said Saturday. Five people were aboard the Bombardier executive jet that was shaken by turbulence late Friday afternoon while traveling from

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) — To the chant of Buddhist prayers, friends and family of one of the soccer boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand in 2018 bid farewell to their teammate who died in the U.K. last month. The shrine for Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep was decorated