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In this May 15, 2021 photo, Consuewella Africa, 69, speaks during a gathering for the 36th Anniversary of the MOVE Bombing in Philadelphia. Consuewella Dotson Africa, a longtime member of the Black organization MOVE and mother of two children killed in the 1985 bombing of the group's home in Philadelphia, died on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in a hospital. She was 67. (Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
MOVE's 'Minister of Confrontation,' Consuewella Africa, dies

By Thalia Beaty Jun. 18, 2021 06:58 PM EDT

FILE - This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. The most prominent step on the death penalty by an administration led by a president who pledged during campaigning to eradicate capital punishment came this week when it asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence. (FBI via AP, File)
Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

By Michael Tarm Jun. 18, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

FILE— In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and lost his right hand to a book bombing reportedly carried out by Israel, died Monday, June 7, 2021, of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 07, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press May. 26, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Philadelphia Inquirer. May 20, 2021. Editorial: Mayor Kenney is responsible for making new MOVE investigation the last one Philly needs ...

Rabbi Shai Cherry poses for a photograph at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pa., Monday, April 26, 2021. Antisemites adopted a new tactic for spewing their hate when the COVID-19 pandemic closed synagogues and Jewish schools and community centers: Hijacking video conferences. On the morning of June 27, 2020, Rabbi Shai Cherry was leading a Shabbat service on Zoom for his congregation in a Philadelphia suburb when several guests with suspicious usernames began posting pornographic images and antisemitic messages like "Hitler should have finished the job." One of them posted Cherry's home address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Report: Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic 'Zoom bombing'

By Michael Kunzelman Apr. 27, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

Russia to resume flights to Egypt after 6-year hiatus

By Vladimir Isachenkov Apr. 23, 2021 11:59 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to resume direct flights to Egypt’s Red Sea resort towns more than six years after the downing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai...

FILE— In this Monday April 15, 2013 file photograph, emergency workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following two explosions in Boston.  Boston is marking eight years since the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon killed three people and injured scores of others. Acting Mayor Kim Janey on Thursday, April 15, 2021, paid a noontime visit to the downtown memorial marking the bombing site.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Boston marks 8 years since marathon bombing that killed 3

Apr. 15, 2021 06:17 PM EDT

Protesters take part in rally in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Clashes between small groups of demonstrators and police broke out in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki at the end of a march to protest a new law allowing the policing of university campuses. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)
Clashes break out at student protest in northern Greek city

Apr. 15, 2021 11:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021 file photo, Nationalists and Loyalists clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. The chaotic scenes during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland’s deep-rooted tensions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)
EXPLAINER: What is behind the latest unrest in N Ireland?

By Jill Lawless Apr. 10, 2021 02:43 AM EDT

Nationalist youths gesture towards a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain's exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Northern Ireland leaders seek calm after violence escalates

By Peter Morrison And Jill Lawless Apr. 08, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

A policeman lays injured on the road after an attack by protesters during clashes in Athens, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Severe clashes broke out Tuesday in Athens after youths protesting an incident of police violence attacked a police station with petrol bombs, and severely injured one officer. (AP Photo/Aggelos Barai)
Youths protesting police violence attack Athens precinct

Mar. 09, 2021 01:43 PM EST

Colorado man pleads guilty in pipe bomb case

Mar. 05, 2021 11:53 AM EST
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of making and possessing pipe bombs. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 55...

FILE - In this June 19, 2009 file photo, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon with a picture of the late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in the background, during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei was among the first and most powerful world leaders to suggest the coronavirus could be a biological weapon created by the U.S. (Meisam Hosseini/Hayat News Agency via AP, File)
The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories

By David Klepper, Farnoush Amiri And Beatrice Dupuy Feb. 15, 2021 12:10 AM EST

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2021. There are 321 days left in the year. Today’s...

Law enforcement personnel walk toward the Allina Health clinic, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, Minn. Authorities say multiple people were shot at the Minnesota health clinic on Tuesday and someone was taken into custody afterward. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
1 dead, 4 hurt in Minnesota health clinic shooting; man held

By Mohamed Ibrahim And Gretchen Ehlke Feb. 09, 2021 11:51 PM EST

Law enforcement personnel walk toward the Allina Health clinic, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, Minn. Authorities say multiple people were shot at the Minnesota health clinic on Tuesday and someone was taken into custody afterward. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Minnesota health clinic

By Mohamed Ibrahim And Gretchen Ehlke Feb. 09, 2021 01:36 PM EST

A Sri Lankan police officer walks crosses a road as special force soldiers ride motorbikes during 73rd Independence Day parade rehearsal with a calf elephant in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Sri Lanka's independence from British colonial rule is celebrated on Feb. 4 each year. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Sri Lanka leader vows action vs 2019 bombing militants

By Krishan Francis Feb. 04, 2021 02:14 AM EST

FILE - in this Sunday, April 14, 2019 file photo, Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako addresses the faithful during the Palm Sunday service at Mar Youssif Church in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s top Catholic official said Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 that a deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad hasn’t thwarted Pope Francis’ plans to visit, and he confirmed the pontiff would meet with the country’s top Shiite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, in a significant highlight of the first-ever papal trip to Iraq. The Chaldean patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, provided the first details of Francis’ March 5-8 itinerary during a virtual press conference hosted by the French bishops' conference. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Patriarch: Pope to meet Iraqi Shiite leader Sistani in Iraq

By Nicole Winfield And Samya Kullab Jan. 28, 2021 06:41 AM EST

Clouds hang over the Vesuvius volcano, background, as a woman walks in the Forum of the archeological site of Pompeii, southern Italy, during the inauguration of the museum Antiquarium, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii's museum is back in business, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city. Officials of the archaeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pompeii's museum comes back to life to display amazing finds

Jan. 25, 2021 12:38 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, people and security forces gather at the site of a deadly bomb attack in a market selling used clothes, in Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a rare suicide attack that rocked central Baghdad, killing 32 people and wounding dozens. In a statement late Thursday, the group said the bombing “targeted apostate Shiites." (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Islamic State claims deadly and rare twin blasts in Baghdad

Jan. 22, 2021 05:27 AM EST

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