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Man dies, woman 'expected to survive' after helicopter crashes into a canal near Miami 12/28/2023 07:08am • MIAMI (AP) — Emergency workers in South Florida on Wednesday rescued two people, including one who later died, from a canal after their helicopter crashed. The helicopter, a Hughes 369 aircraft, was carrying two people from Fort Myers when it crashed into a canal about 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) we Indonesia's navy pushes a boat suspected of carrying Rohingya refugees out of its waters 12/28/2023 06:34am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's navy said Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province. The province that forms part of Sumatra island has seen an increasing number of arriving boats, most ca EXCLUSIVE: American prisoner Paul Whelan fears 'being left behind a third time' 12/28/2023 05:05am • On the fifth anniversary of his arrest in Moscow, American prisoner Paul Whelan is worried the U.S. government will overlook him again. During one of several phone calls to this reporter over the Christmas holiday, he said, “At this point, the five-year mark, I'm extremely concerned about being Hong Kong man jailed for 6 years after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge over a foiled bomb plot 12/28/2023 01:42am • HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge under a Beijing-imposed national security law for his involvement in a foiled plot to bomb court buildings. Prosecutors said Ho Yu-wang, 19, was the plot mastermind who plann Students in Indonesia protest the growing numbers of Rohingya refugees in Aceh province 12/28/2023 12:42am • BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Students in Indonesia’s Aceh province rallied on Wednesday, demanding the government drive away Rohingya refugees who have been arriving by sea in growing numbers. The protest came as police named more suspects in human trafficking of refugees. Over 1,500 Rohingya â Takeaways from AP investigation into Russia's cover-up of deaths caused by dam explosion in Ukraine 12/28/2023 12:34am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine — the flooding that followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. The AP' Today in History: December 28, U.S. Afghan war formally ends 12/28/2023 12:01am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2023. There are three days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 2014, the U.S. war in Afghanistan, fought for 13 bloody years and still raging, came to a formal end with a quiet flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul tha Bus collides head-on with truck in central India, killing at least 13 12/27/2023 09:44pm • NEW DELHI (AP) — A bus caught fire after colliding head-on with a truck on a highway in central India, killing at least 13 people, police said on Thursday. Twelve bus passengers died in the blaze and the truck driver was killed by the impact of the accident in Guna district in Madhya Pradesh state Texas highway chase ends with police ripping apart truck's cab and pulling the driver out 12/27/2023 08:58pm • CHANNELVIEW, Texas (AP) — Texas police on Wednesday ripped apart the cab of a tractor trailer and pulled the truck's driver out after pursuing him in a slow highway chase that shut down the road for hours. The dramatic confrontation on a stretch of highway east of Houston came hours after sheriff' US delegation meets with Mexico's government on migrant influx, as officials clear border tent camp 12/27/2023 08:02pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials moved to clear a migrant encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande river Wednesday as U.S. officials met with Mexico's president to press for measures to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border. Mexico began clearing tents, both occup Trapped in his crashed truck, an Indiana man is rescued after 6 days surviving on rainwater 12/27/2023 07:53pm • PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A 27-year-old man survived for six days on only rainwater while pinned tightly inside his crashed pickup truck beneath a highway bridge in northwest Indiana, police said. His ordeal ended when two men scouting for fishing spots Tuesday afternoon noticed the badly damaged vehic Illinois babysitter charged with stabbing 2 young girls is denied pretrial release 12/27/2023 07:16pm • WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman accused of stabbing two girls ages 4 and 1 while babysitting them was denied pretrial release by a judge Wednesday. Jennifer Kouchoukos, 51, of Naperville is charged with two counts each of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery to a child u Pro-Palestinian protesters block airport access roads in New York, Los Angeles 12/27/2023 07:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, snarling traffic as U.S. airlines contended with a rush of holiday travel. The demonstrations stopped cars on the outskirts of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Man fatally shot by Connecticut police was wanted in a 2022 shooting, fired at dog, report says 12/27/2023 06:41pm • STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A man who was fatally shot by police in Connecticut last week had a pistol and fired at a police dog as he attempted to flee from state troopers and other officers serving a warrant for a 2022 shooting, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the state's Of 87-year-old man fatally struck in Reston crosswalk identified 12/27/2023 05:29pm • A man killed while walking "against the signal" in a crosswalk in Reston, Virginia, on Tuesday morning has been identified by Fairfax County police. Peter McCandless, 87, of Reston, was attempting to cross the southbound lanes of Reston Parkway from west to east in the crosswalk but "against the