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Snipers kill 4 hostage-takers at Russian prison who claimed allegiance to Islamic State group 08/23/2024 12:23pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Snipers from Russia's National Guard on Friday killed four inmates who had stabbed four prison guards to death and briefly held others as hostages while declaring allegiance to the Islamic State group. The Federal Prison Service said that four inmates took eight prison guards and fou House fire in northern Serbia kills 6 08/23/2024 10:41am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� A house fire in a northern Serbian city early Friday killed six people, including four children, police said. The fire erupted around 3 a.m. in Novi Sad, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) north of Belgrade, the capital, said Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. An emergency doctor to Sports on TV for Aug. 24 - 25 08/23/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Aug. 24 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Adelaide at Sydney 10:30 p.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Greater Western Sydney at Western 4 a.m. (Sunday) FS1 ��� AFL: Port Adelaide at Fremantle AUTO RACING 5:25 a.m. ESPN Sports on TV for Aug. 26 - Sept. 1 08/23/2024 10:00am • Adv24 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Aug. 26 MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. FS1 ��� Houston at Philadelphia 9:30 p.m. FS1 ��� Tampa Bay at Seattle TENNIS Noon ESPN ��� ATP/WTA: The U.S. Open, First Round, New York 7 p.m. ESPN ��� ATP/WTA: The U.S. Open, First Round, 27 killed after a bus with Indian pilgrims drives off a Nepal highway and crash 08/23/2024 09:45am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� At least 27 people were killed and 16 others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims drove off a key highway and crashed on Friday in Nepal, officials said. The bus veered off Prithvi Highway and rolled toward a fast-flowing river. Its roof was ripped open bef An Iceland volcano erupts again but spares the nearby town of Grindavik for now 08/23/2024 09:17am • GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) ��� Lava continued to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland on Friday ��� the sixth time since December the volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption from a new fissure began shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday following a series of strong earthquakes and w A bird flu outbreak is spreading among cows in the US. Scientists are hunting for answers 08/23/2024 08:24am • AMES, Iowa (AP) ��� At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are not farmers, and other buildings look more like what you���d find at a modern univ 'Trust your tappers': Blind teenage swimmer David Kratochv��l is Czech medal hopeful at Paralympics 08/23/2024 03:40am • TACHOV, Czech Republic (AP) ��� Teenage swimmer David Kratochvil headlines the medal hopefuls of the Czech Republic���s team at the upcoming Paralympics in Paris. The 16-year-old Kratochvil used to play ice hockey until losing his sight because of a serious illness about 10 years ago. His decision t Searchers dig in muddy swamp near Bangkok where plane carrying 5 Chinese tourists, 4 Thais crashed 08/23/2024 03:16am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok on Friday for plane fragments and the remains of the five Chinese passengers and four Thai flight crew members believed killed in a crash shortly after takeoff. Around 300 officers and rescue volunteers have been Long-running battle over lucrative beach concessions between Italy and EU could be in final chapter 08/23/2024 12:14am • ROME (AP) ��� The latest chapter in a seemingly endless saga over the management of Italy���s lucrative beach concessions has set Italian beaches on fire this summer. For almost two decades, the European Commission has been locked in a legal tug-of-war with Italy over its beach concession practices, Today in History: August 23, farm workers��� ���Salad Bowl strike��� 08/23/2024 12:00am • Today is Friday, Aug. 23, the 236th day of 2024. There are 130 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike began, organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000-10,000 laborers walked off the job, leading to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. hist Keegan Bradley goes from last man in to leading BMW Championship 08/22/2024 10:54pm • CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) ��� Keegan Bradley went from a bundle of nerves waiting to see if he would advance in the PGA Tour postseason to a blissful day of birdies in mile-high air Thursday that led to a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead in the BMW Championship. Bradley, the newly appointed U.S. Ryder C Canada forces arbitration in freight train labor dispute to avert economic crisis. Union cries foul 08/22/2024 09:27pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Freight trains in Canada could be running again within days after the government forced the country���s two major railroads into arbitration with their labor union Thursday, a move aimed at averting potentially dire economic consequences across the country and in the U.S. if the tra Body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered from yacht wreckage, officials say 08/22/2024 08:57pm • PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) ��� The Italian coast guard said Thursday the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht whose builders had called unsinkable. One woman remains missing. She has not been identified, but Hannah Ly French destroyer rescues 29 mariners from oil tanker stricken in Red Sea attacks by Yemen rebels 08/22/2024 08:56pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack in the Red Sea by Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said Thursday, while also destroying a bomb-carrying drone boat in the area. The assault on the Sounion, the most serious