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South Africa ends rescue efforts at collapsed building and revises figures: 33 dead, no more missing 05/17/2024 09:58am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa ended Friday after nearly two weeks, as authorities released a major revision of their figures and said they now believe that no one else Anne Arundel Co. elementary school teacher charged with sex abuse of multiple students 05/17/2024 09:52am • A third grade teacher in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is under arrest and being held without bond on dozens of sex abuse charges. Authorities said the charges against 44-year-old Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel of Severna Park involved students and dated back as far as August 2022. The abuse alleg Moroccan asylum-seeker gets life sentence for killing UK retiree in attack motivated by war in Gaza 05/17/2024 08:57am • LONDON (AP) — A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas was sentenced Friday to at least 45 years in prison for what the judge termed a terrorist act. Ahmed Alid told police after his arrest that he’d killed 70-year-old Terence Ca Man kills 2 officers at police station in Malaysia in a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah attack 05/17/2024 08:32am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A man stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two police officers early Friday in what’s being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack. The man also injured another officer before being shot dead. Material linked to Jemaah Islamiyah, a shadowy Sout A man is convicted in Malawi over a TikTok video showing a caricature of the president dancing 05/17/2024 08:18am • BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A man in Malawi was convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an animated figure with Chakwera's face superimposed on it doing some wacky dance moves. Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday, which said he had p AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Oregon's primaries 05/17/2024 07:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries on Tuesday, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November. Oregon's 5th Congressional District is home to one of the top Democratic primaries in the country. It pits Jamie McLeod-Skinner against Janelle By ESPN reports Scottie Scheffler detained for not following police instruction during traffic delays outside Valhalla 05/17/2024 07:28am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — ESPN reports Scottie Scheffler detained for not following police instruction during traffic delays outside Valhalla. What does a DC ward manager do? Meet the first one: Ward 8's Wendy Glenn 05/17/2024 05:39am • In a building off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Southeast, Wendy Glenn sat behind a desk, helping residents connect to the services that the District has to offer them. She's the city's first ward manager, a position D.C. plans to introduce to all eight wards. Her team will operate out of t How DC-area educators envision the AP African American Studies course evolving 05/17/2024 05:35am • Students who take the Advanced Placement African American Studies course will learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, but other topics, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, are optional, according to the College Board's framework for the course. The fo German council approves a revised plan by Tesla to expand its plant near Berlin 05/17/2024 05:01am • BERLIN (AP) — A local council in Germany approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a proposal which has drawn persistent protests this year. Councilors in the Gruenheide municipality, just outside Berlin, voted 11-6 Thursday evening with two abs A look at assassinations and assassination attempts this century 05/17/2024 04:10am • Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was seriously wounded in an apparent assassination attempt just weeks before a Europe-wide election that has been deeply divisive. He was shot multiple times in an attack in the town of Handlova that authorities described as politically motivated, although the Suspected militants bomb a girl's school overnight in northwest Pakistan 05/17/2024 03:29am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a girl's school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure, police said Friday, although no one was hurt in the overnight attack. The attack happened in South Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It French police say a man shot and killed outside a synagogue came at officers with a knife and a metal bar 05/17/2024 03:23am • PARIS (AP) — French police say a man shot and killed outside a synagogue came at officers with a knife and a metal bar. Team captain and two other players arrested over alleged soccer match-fixing in Australia 05/17/2024 03:21am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australian professional soccer was rocked Friday by accusations that the captain of A-League club Macarthur FC paid two younger teammates up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a scheme set up by a South American gambling connection. The play French Interior Ministry says police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning synagogue attack 05/17/2024 02:32am • PARIS (AP) — French Interior Ministry says police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning synagogue attack.