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[attach=full]20286[/attach] FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jimmie Johnson was still chasing Jamie McMurray and Kevin Harvick, trying to get back in front as the laps wound down at Texas Motor Speedway. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20285[/attach] Bloody faces, headless bodies, burned houses -- these are some of the stark and haunting images drawn by children who have fled deadly Boko Haram violence in neighbouring Nigeria for the relative safety of a refugee camp in western Chad. They are reconstructing the events they witnessed when Boko Haram Islamist fighters attacked their villages. "The day of the attack we were in front of our door when we saw the Boko Haram. When he goes to see what happens, a Boko Haram (fighter) comes in front of his house, shoots and starts a fire," says Nur Issiaka. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20284[/attach] Results were expected to be announced from Sunday in Nigeria's state governorship and local assembly polls, after voting wrapped up across the country. A total of 29 governorship and deputy governorship positions from Nigeria's 36 states are up for grabs and seats in all of the states' legislatures. The main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is seeking to build on its current control of 14 states after its candidate Muhammadu Buhari took the presidential race two weeks ago. President Goodluck Jonathan's ruling Peoples Democratic Party currently controls 21 states. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20283[/attach] PANAMA CITY (AP) — As usual when Latin America leftist leaders get together with U.S. officials, there were plenty of swipes at the U.S. during the seventh Summit of the Americas. Continue reading...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A brief look at the third round Saturday of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20274[/attach] COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A hundred scuba divers in the Maldives held an underwater protest demanding the release of jailed ex-president Mohamed Nasheed who became popular as an environmental activist during his presidency. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20273[/attach] CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen on a monthslong hunger strike to life in prison Saturday on charges of financing an anti-government sit-in and spreading false news. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20272[/attach] Tim Sherwood has insisted there is more to come from striker Christian Benteke after his Aston Villa side took a giant step towards Premier League survival with a 1-0 win victory away to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. Benteke's first-half winner ensured former Spurs boss Sherwood made a winning return to White Hart Lane as Villa moved six points clear of the bottom three to ease their relegation fears. It was a moment to savour for Sherwood, sacked by Tottenham after the end of last season. To score 12 goals in 25 games before I came in, was something wrong," said Sherwood, who took over at the Birmingham club following the sacking of former boss Paul Lambert in February. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20271[/attach] DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh braced for protests and fresh violence Sunday after a senior official of the largest Islamist party was executed on charges of crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war, the second man to be hanged since the government revived war crime trials that have sharpened political divisions in the South Asian nation. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20267[/attach] NATO believes that Russia has supplied more troops and weapons to pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine, a German newspaper reported on Sunday. "We have noticed again support for the separatists, with weapons, troops and training. Russia is still sending troops and arms from one side of the open border with Ukraine to the other," a NATO official, who was not named, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20266[/attach] BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona gave Real Madrid new hope in the Spanish league title race by stumbling to a draw despite spectacular goals from Lionel Messi and Neymar. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20265[/attach] U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff will visit Washington on June 30, raising hopes of closer ties that could increase trade between the two biggest economies in the Americas. Obama made the announcement during a meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of a regional summit in Panama City. The leftist Brazilian leader canceled a state visit to the United States in October 2013, after she was angered by revelations that U.S. spies had tapped her personal communications. U.S. officials believe a strong demonstration of support for Brazil will eventually unlock greater access to its $2.2 trillion economy, Latin America's biggest. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20264[/attach] Doctors at Lufthansa had recommended that pilot Andreas Lubitz, who is suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps, be given psychological treatment after he suffered a bout of depression, a German newspaper reported. Citing documents found by Germany's air transport authority, the Bild am Sonntag said the doctors wrote that "Lubitz should continue to receive psychological treatment, even though he was deemed fit to fly" by an independent expert in 2009. Lubitz had interrupted his flight training in 2009 and had told Lufthansa about his illness. A Lufthansa spokesman declined to comment when contacted by Bild. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20263[/attach] Rory McIlroy's dream of becoming just the sixth man to win all four Grand Slam titles lay in tatters on Saturday despite the Northern Irishman carding a fine 69 in the third round of the Masters. The world number one started the day a daunting 12 strokes behind leader Jordan Spieth and had a mountain to climb. Continue reading...

By Kinda Makieh DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy said on Saturday he was confident the Syrian government would cooperate in alleviating the situation facing some 18,000 people in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus that Islamic State militants are battling to take over. Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, the deputy to the U.N. envoy to Syria, told Reuters the United Nations would work with the Damascus government to ensure the safety of the Palestinians and Syrians in Yarmouk on the Damascus outskirts. Ramzi said he left a meeting Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Saturday "quite satisfied and confident that there will be very good cooperation". Continue reading...

[attach=full]20254[/attach] WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It was World War II, Warsaw was under German occupation, and the wife of the director of the Warsaw zoo spotted Nazis approaching the white stucco villa that she and her family inhabited on the zoo grounds. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20253[/attach] A Cairo court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 13 others on Saturday, and jailed a US-Egyptian citizen for life over Islamist protest violence. Two of the 14 defendants sentenced to death have fled the country and will immediately face a retrial if apprehended. The defendants were accused of plotting unrest from their headquarters in a sprawling Cairo protest camp in the months after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. Among those sentenced to life in prison was Mohamed Soltan, a US-Egyptian citizen who is on hunger strike. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20252[/attach] By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - Local militiamen in the Yemeni city of Aden said they captured two Iranian military officers advising Houthi rebels during fighting on Friday evening. Tehran has denied providing military support for Houthi fighters, whose advances have drawn air strikes by a regional coalition led by Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic's main rival for influence in the Gulf. If confirmed, the presence of two Iranian officers, who the local militiamen said were from an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, would further worsen relations between Tehran and Riyadh who are vying for dominance in the region. A Houthi mortar shell fired into Saudi territory on Friday killed three officers and injured two others, a statement from the kingdom's Defence Ministry carried by state media said on Saturday, bringing Saudi casualties in the conflict to six. Continue reading...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Highlanders came from behind with a three-try burst to beat the Crusaders 25-20 and push the seven-time champions out of the playoff places in Super Rugby on Saturday. Continue reading...

By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey sent extra troops, reconnaissance planes and armed helicopters into its eastern Agri province on Saturday after four soldiers were wounded in a clash with Kurdish insurgents, the military said. The government said militants from the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were trying to destabilize the country before a parliamentary election in June. "We have sent reconnaissance planes, armed helicopters and additional ground troops to the region and the clash is still ongoing." No one from the PKK was immediately available for comment. Ankara and the PKK agreed to a ceasefire two years ago, as part of negotiations to end a three-decade insurgency that has killed 40,000 people. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20247[/attach] Compiègne (France) (AFP) - Geraint Thomas said he was a marked man at last week's Tour of Flanders but hopes the attention on Bradley Wiggins at Sunday's Paris-Roubaix will help him. Kristoff, though, admits that Roubaix is not ideally suited to his abilities. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20246[/attach] MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's president says the U.N. refugee agency will help six former Guantanamo prisoners obtain housing in his country. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20245[/attach] JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christians have gathered in Jerusalem for an ancient fire ceremony that celebrates Jesus' resurrection. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20244[/attach] Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university. Kenya has in the past accused Islamist militants of hiding out in Dadaab camp which it now wants the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR to move across the border to inside Somalia. “We have asked the UNHCR to relocate the refugees in three months, failure to which we shall relocate them ourselves," Deputy President William Ruto said in a statement. “The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” he said, referring to the university that was attacked on April 2. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20242[/attach] SHANGHAI (AP) — If Mercedes was concerned about the progress of chief rival Ferrari this Formula One season, its drivers didn't show it during qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix. Continue reading...