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Fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests
By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said. Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival. ...
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Some damage reported from 5.7 quake in N. Calif.
GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff says an earthquake in far northeastern California did not cause any injuries, but did cause moderate damages, including to a water tank.
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UK fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests
By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said. Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival. ...
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Kerry, Lavrov hold phone call on Syria peace conference
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone on Friday to discuss efforts to bring Syria's warring parties to a peace conference, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "The situation in Syria was discussed in the context of an international conference for a political settlement in the country," the ministry said in a statement on its website. Kerry and Lavrov last met on May 7 in Moscow and agreed to try to get the Syrian government and opposition to discuss an end to the more than 2-year-old civil war. ...
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Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge
MIAMI (AP) — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.
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Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours
NEW YORK (AP) — Kid Rock is a scalper.
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Suicide bomb hits Kabul as Taliban battle police
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. The explosion was followed by an hours-long gunbattle in the central district.
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News Corp. board approves split, stock buyback
NEW YORK (AP) — News Corp. says its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.
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French help Niger to kill last jihadist bombers
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — With the help of French special forces, Niger's military on Friday killed the last two jihadists holed up inside a dormitory on the grounds of a military garrison in the desert town of Agadez, and freed at least two soldiers who had been held hostage by the extremists, according to French and Nigerien officials.
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Stocks head lower, market on track for weekly loss
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is heading lower in early trading, putting it on track for its first weekly loss in a month.
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Uganda president ousts army boss amid dispute
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state.
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Threats made aboard diverted Pakistan plane - passenger
LONDON (Reuters) - A passenger aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane flying from Lahore to Manchester that was diverted under military jet escort to Stansted, northeast of London on Friday said someone had made threats against its crew. "We landed safely and then he (the pilot) announced that they had had some kind of threat from someone and that's why he landed the plane," the passenger, identified only as Munsif, told BBC television. He said he was sitting in the front of the plane but that the incident had happened at the back. ...
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Britain braces for possible copycat attacks
LONDON (AP) — Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier, whose grieving family spoke Friday of their loss.
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IRS replaces official who revealed targeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.
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Slovenia adopts debt cap to stave off crisis
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's parliament on Friday adopted a cap on public spending to try to convince foreign investors that the small eurozone country will not need an international bailout.
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China gives US regulators access to audit records
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has agreed to give U.S. regulators access to audit records for Chinese companies whose shares trade on U.S. stock exchanges, a step forward in a long-running dispute.
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Austria wants EU arms embargo to Syria extended
VIENNA (AP) — The European Union's arms embargo to Syria should be extended while a political solution is sought in its civil war and to maintain the safety of U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, Austria's foreign minister said Friday.
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UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.
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Passengers leaving Pakistani jet in Britain, no one injured
LONDON (Reuters) - Passengers were disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to London's Stansted Airport on Friday and no one has been hurt, an airport spokesman said. British fighter jets escorted the passenger plane to Stansted airport where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. (Reporting by Rhys Jones; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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Jersey shore reopens for 1st post-Sandy summer
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Guinness World Records confirms that a ribbon-cutting to mark the reopening of the Jersey shore following Superstorm Sandy has set a new world record.
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