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  • Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    ANGELA CHARLTON GREG KELLER

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    PARIS (AP) -- Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. It's the first suicide in decades at the landmark site, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, the...

  • Soldiers flood western Mexico to protect towns

    MARK STEVENSON

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel...

  • FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet

    KIMBERLY DOZIER

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them...

  • Protesters hurl firebombs as Chile leader speaks

    Updated: 1 hr ago

    SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech. The president was not exposed to...

  • UN: Poaching threatens central Africa peace

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council. In a...

  • Toronto mayor avoids questions about crack video

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued to duck questions Tuesday about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack cocaine despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment. The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic....

  • Guatemala ruling could keep ex-leader from prison

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The decision to annul the genocide conviction of Guatemala's former U.S-backed dictator and restart his trial could spawn interminable delays in the effort to see him jailed for the massacre of thousands of Mayans, victims' advocates said Tuesday. Some said they feared...

  • UN urges action to end child soldiers in Myanmar

    Updated: 2 hr ago

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's government has made progress in reducing the recruitment of children into the armed forces but still needs to stamp out the practice. Ban's comments came as Myanmar President Thein Sein was making a landmark visit to...

  • The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?

    Updated: 3 hr ago

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case...

  • Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral

    Updated: 3 hr ago

    CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants. The incident illustrated the hazards of the military...