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A teenage beachgoer killed by lightning on a beach in northern Greece 06/28/2024 03:12pm • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ��� A 13-year-old beachgoer died after being struck by lightning in northern Greece during a sudden summer rainstorm Friday, authorities said. A local official said the Greek girl had been swimming with her parents at Faros beach, near Poseidi in Halkidiki, a resort area so New charges against Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach involve 7 additional complainants 06/28/2024 02:36pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach who was arrested again this week is accused of sexually assaulting seven new complainants in alleged incidents from 1977 to as recently as February, court documents on Friday showed. The documents provide additional information Karen Read, a 'convenient outsider' accused of killing her Boston police boyfriend 06/28/2024 01:55pm • CANTON, Mass. (AP) ��� The woman accused of ramming her luxury SUV into her boyfriend and callously leaving him on the ground before a snowstorm had dated the future Boston police officer briefly in her 20s. They reconnected during the pandemic. Her father described her as a resilient woman who batt Boston officer John O'Keefe was called a 'patron saint' by the girlfriend accused of killing him 06/28/2024 01:42pm • CANTON, Mass. (AP) ��� John O���Keefe��� s title was Boston police officer, but to those who loved him, he was Johnny, J-J or affectionately, the Godfather. His girlfriend once called him ���the patron saint of Canton.��� That girlfriend, Karen Read, is now on trial, accused of killing O���Keefe in Emails sent to a Chinese dissident in the Netherlands about his family were fake, officials say 06/28/2024 11:53am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Emails sent to a Chinese dissident living in the Netherlands over his petition for asylum for his family members detained last year in Thailand were apparently fake, Dutch authorities said Friday. The announcement was the first public statement from officials in the Netherlands in Indictment accuses Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief of slow response as Robb Elementary gunman was 'hunting' children 06/28/2024 11:05am • UVALDE, Texas (AP) ��� Indictment accuses Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief of slow response as Robb Elementary gunman was 'hunting' children. Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules 06/28/2024 10:03am • (CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of an Oregon city that ticketed homeless people for sleeping outside, rejecting arguments that such ���anti-camping��� ordinances violate the Constitution���s ban on ���cruel and unusual��� punishment.Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for th What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from more betting slips to the last debate 06/28/2024 09:47am • LONDON (AP) ��� The U.K. general election on July 4 is just days away now, no doubt to the relief of the party leaders who have crisscrossed the country in a grueling month of campaigning. This campaign doesn't seem to have shifted the political dial much, if at all, with the left-of-center Labour P Debate takeaways: Trump confident, even when wrong, Biden halting, even with facts on his side 06/28/2024 09:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The presidential debate was a re-run that featured two candidates with a combined age of 159, but it went especially poorly for one of them, President Joe Biden. Already fighting voter concerns about his age, Biden, 81, was halting and seemed to lose his train of thought Thursday DC barbershop owner prosecutors call a 'dangerous predator' takes plea deal in rape case 06/28/2024 09:30am • A D.C. barbershop owner accused of drugging and raping multiple teenage girls has pleaded guilty to four of the sexual assaults in a plea deal with prosecutors. ���We are pleased with the plea agreement, because this will take a dangerous predator off the streets,��� said Prince George���s County Ukraine spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy. Then Russia invaded the country 06/28/2024 09:15am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� As an investigative journalist, then an activist, and later a lawmaker, Yehor Soboliev sought to expose corruption in business and government as a way to defend Ukraine's budding democracy. Now, as a soldier battling Russia, he's had to put those aims on hold as he fights alo FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate 06/28/2024 06:28am • President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered Japan protests sex assault cases involving US military on Okinawa and their delayed disclosure 06/28/2024 06:08am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s government protested Friday to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa which were only recently made public. In one case, an Air Force member is accused of assaulting a 16- 4 Serbs in Kosovo jailed in the killing of a moderate Serb politician in 2018 06/28/2024 05:32am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� A Kosovo court on Friday sentenced four ethnic Serbs to four to 10 years in jail for the killing of a moderate Serb leader. The Pristina court ruled that the defendants were part of an organized crime ring and had targeted the victim because of his moderate politics. The de Review: June Squibb is delightful as a grandma on a mission in ���Thelma��� 06/28/2024 04:56am • There are a lot of bad comedies about, and supposedly for, senior citizens. It���s especially depressing because the worst offenders, the ones that don���t just feel cheap and lazy but exploitative too, often feature our finest actors. They can take on the air of an unintentional horror film ��� and