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Ohio River near Pittsburgh is closed as crews search for missing barge, one of 26 that broke loose 04/15/2024 03:17pm • A stretch of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh remained closed to maritime traffic on Monday as crews equipped with sonar looked for a barge believed to have sunk over the weekend — one of more than two dozen barges that broke loose and floated down the rain-swollen river. The U.S. Coast Guard launch Retrial scheduled in former Ohio deputy’s murder case 04/15/2024 02:21pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The retrial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy who was charged with murder in the killing of a 23-year-old Black man is scheduled for this fall. The Oct. 31 trial date for Jason Meade, who is white, was confirmed during a status conference held Monday by Franklin County Comm Alexandria's poet laureate, a child of Palestinian refugees, creates potent art from the devastation in Gaza 04/15/2024 01:45pm • Alexandria Poet Laureate Zeina Azzam first found it difficult to write about the war in Israel amid the ongoing conflict that started last October. Now, her words about the children of Gaza have been translated into five languages and recited everywhere from senators’ offices to churches, from Filmfest DC brings go-go to the Kennedy Center and streakers to The Wharf 04/15/2024 01:06pm • Get ready for 62 films from 36 countries over 11 days for one exciting film festival. The 38th annual Filmfest DC returns to the nation's capital from April 18 to 28. "Hey D.C., come out, come see great films from around the world," Festival Director Tony Gittens told WTOP. "Our main hub i Prince Harry in legal setback about security protection in UK 04/15/2024 12:31pm • LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s fight for police protection in the U.K. received another setback on Monday, when a judge rejected his request to appeal an earlier ruling upholding a government panel’s decision to limit his access to publicly funded security after giving up his status as a working Israel orders eviction of Palestinian family from east Jerusalem property, reigniting a legal battle 04/15/2024 12:27pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Monday ordered the eviction of a Palestinian family in a contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem, the latest in a legal saga that has come to symbolize the conflicting claims to the holy city. The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been the focus of a long-running Sudden heavy rains in Oman kill at least 17 including schoolchildren whose bus was overtaken 04/15/2024 11:12am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Oman on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, killing at least 17 people as rescuers searched for survivors, authorities said Monday. In one incident, a group of school children and a driver died when their vehicle was In North Macedonia, two inmates walked out of hospital. Now, police are accused of helping them 04/15/2024 10:05am • SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia say 17 police officers serving at a prison in the country’s capital Skopje were detained Monday on suspicion of assisting in the separate escapes last year of two inmates, including a murder convict. The office of public prosecution s Supreme Court rejects appeal from Black Lives Matter activist over Louisiana protest lawsuit 04/15/2024 10:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsuit to go forward against a Black Lives Matter activist who led a protest in Louisiana in which a police officer was injured. Civil rights groups and free speech advocates have warned that the suit threatens the right to protest. The just Analysis: Iran upends decades of shadow warfare in direct attack on Israel as tensions mount at home 04/15/2024 09:28am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's direct attack on Israel over the weekend upended decades of its shadowy warfare by proxy, something Tehran has used to manage international repercussions for its actions. But with both economic and political tensions at home boiling, the country's Shiite t Sydney attack victims include a mother who saved her baby, a Chinese grad student and an architect 04/15/2024 09:19am • SYDNEY (AP) — The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women. A police officer shot and killed the man who had attacked people at the busy Westfield Bondi Junction mall, and his family said he had a long history of schizophrenia, lacked social skills and Australian police probe why man who stabbed 6 people to death in a Sydney mall targeted women 04/15/2024 08:48am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said on Monday. The killer's father blamed his son's frustra Police say a man is arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney, with no major injuries. 04/15/2024 07:13am • SYDNEY (AP) — Police say a man is arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney, with no major injuries. Testimony begins in lawsuit accusing Japanese police of racial profiling 04/15/2024 04:39am • TOKYO (AP) — A civil lawsuit accusing Japanese police of racial profiling opened Monday with emotional testimony from plaintiffs who said they were constantly stopped and questioned without good reason. The case, filed in January by three residents of Japan with overseas ancestry, including an Am Solomon Islands' elections could impact China's influence in the South Pacific 04/15/2024 03:18am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon Islands, goes to the polls on Wednesday in an election that could shape the region’s future. Current Prime Minister Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who switched the Solomons’ allegi