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MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. and Russian presidents have tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to stave off Moscow's invasion of Ukraine as heavy shelling continued Monday in a conflict in eastern Ukraine that is feared will spark the Russian offensive.French President Emmanuel Macron sought to broker a possible meeting between U.S.

PARIS (AP) — A modeling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape and sex trafficking of minors, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.Paris police are investigating Jean-Luc Brunel’s death at the historic La Sante prison in Paris, the

POMPEII, Italy (AP) — In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance of the heavily visited ruins.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brian Flores is back in the NFL.The Pittsburgh Steelers hired the former Miami Dolphins coach on Saturday to serve as a senior defensive assistant. Flores will specialize in working with Pittsburgh's linebackers, a group that includes NFL Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt.The hiring comes less than three weeks after Flores, who is Black, sued the NFL and

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Just in time for sea turtle mating season in the Florida Keys, a rehabilitated male loggerhead turtle was released Friday off Pigeon Key.“Sheldon,” named by his U.S. Coast Guard rescuers, was discovered earlier this month near the Old Seven Mile Bridge.

MOSCOW (AP) — Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full military mobilization Saturday amid a spike of violence in the war-torn region and fears in the West that Russia might use the strife as a pretext for an invasion.Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russia separatist government in Ukraine's Donetsk region, released a statement announcing a full troop

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — More than 1,000 rodents were found inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday as the chain issued a voluntary recall affecting items purchased from hundreds of stores in the South.A consumer complaint prompted officials to inspect the West Memphis, Arkansas, facility in January, the

BERWICK — Flames ripped through a home here Friday morning that the owners were in the process of fixing up from a fire roughly a year ago, neighbors said.The fire at 317 E. Second St., which was called in around 5 a.m., was spurred on by heavy winds.Firefighters from Berwick and surrounding communities quickly responded.The blaze shut down the streets around East Second and

NEW YORK (AP) — To plead the Fifth, or not to plead the Fifth?That is the question Donald Trump may face after a New York judge ordered the former president to testify in a long-running state civil investigation into his business practices.Trump's lawyers are almost certain to appeal Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling Thursday that Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and

THE RATE of road traffic accidents resulting in injury in the centre of Lerwick have decreased since traffic calming measures were introduced five years ago. A meeting of Shetland’s community safety and resilience board last week heard that the rate of injury accidents between...