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[attach=full]21231[/attach] German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Sunday that society must "never close its eyes" to anti-Semitism as she joined Holocaust survivors to mark 70 years since the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. After laying a wreath with a former French deportee, Merkel thanked ageing survivors of the death camp who had travelled to Dachau, northwest of Munich, for sharing their life stories, saying she was "greatly moved" so many had made the journey. American forces liberated the Dachau camp on April 29, 1945 and discovered on arrival the unspeakable horror that had led to the death of around 43,000 people from starvation or disease. Similar 70th anniversary commemorations have taken place at other former camps this year, beginning in January with Auschwitz in what was Nazi-occupied Poland, but Dachau is the only one Merkel has attended. Continue reading...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says at least 18 people died and another three were injured when a minibus plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of the northwestern Badghis province. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21225[/attach] SHANGHAI (AP) — In the still, early hours, cadres make their way down tree-lined paths. They walk through a polished lobby, down dim hallways and settle themselves in rows in plain, wood-paneled classrooms. Here, they sit at the vanguard of the Communist Party of China. Continue reading...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani police officer says eight members of a wedding party died when metal dowry furniture strapped to the bus they were traveling in struck a power line. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21224[/attach] World number one Rory McIlroy and England's Paul Casey battled to a standstill in the $9.25 million WGC-Championship Match Play in California Saturday and face a dawn start to resume their match for a place in the last four. McIlroy missed a six foot birdie putt to snatch victory on the third sudden death hole leaving Casey relieved to have survived. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21223[/attach] LAS VEGAS (AP) — Manny Pacquiao said a right shoulder injury prevented him from fighting at his best in his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21218[/attach] Many also ran souvenir pullouts filled with pictures of Prince William and his wife Kate proudly showing off their newborn daughter. The papers were filled with shots of the proud parents and the baby's older brother, one-year-old Prince George, who made a rare public appearance. "A sister for George!" said The Sunday Telegraph broadsheet, with a full front-page picture of the baby cradled in her mother's arms. The Sun and its rival tabloid the Sunday Mirror also had carbon copy front pages, with the unusually (for them) lower-case headline "Sleeping cutie" and a full front-page picture of the snoozing princess's face poking out from the baby car seat. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21217[/attach] Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson hailed his side's fighting spirit as the champions came from behind to claim a final day 2-2 draw with Rangers at Tynecastle. Rangers, who had been hoping to pip Hibernian to second spot in the Scottish Championship, raced into a two goal lead thanks to first-half goals from Darren McGregor and Kenny Miller. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21216[/attach] Newcastle head coach John Carver accused defender Mike Williamson of deliberately getting sent off after his side went down 3-0 at Leicester City in the Premier League. The centre-back was shown a second yellow card for clattering into Jamie Vardy on the touchline with 26 minutes left, before fellow defender Daryl Janmaat was also dismissed for a second bookable offence. A Leonardo Ulloa brace, either side of a goal by captain Wes Morgan, handed Leicester a comfortable victory on Saturday that took them to within a point of their opponents in the battle to avoid relegation. Newcastle's fans branded their players "gutless", "spineless" and "cowards" as they boarded the team bus afterwards and while Carver was similarly disappointed, he reserved his sharpest criticism for Williamson. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21215[/attach] LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Three times in seven years, Bob Baffert left the Kentucky Derby empty-handed. Two seconds and a sixth-place finish by the wagering favorite. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21214[/attach] The English Premier League crown will be within Chelsea's grasp on Sunday when they host Crystal Palace needing three points to become champions. While their early-season free-flowing football has faded, Chelsea have unquestionably been the season's stand-out team as they seek a first English title since 2010. The circumstances of their last coronation were quite different, with a side steered by Carlo Ancelotti eviscerating Wigan Athletic 8-0 at Stamford Bridge on the campaign's final day to set a new Premier League scoring record of 103 goals in a season. The current Chelsea team have faced accusations that they are 'boring' over the past few weeks, following a run of seven wins by a single-goal margin and three draws. Continue reading...

LONDON (AP) — The wife of Queens Park Rangers defender Rio Ferdinand has died aged 34 following a short battle with cancer. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21198[/attach] Former US president Jimmy Carter on Saturday urged Palestinians to hold elections to end the de facto division of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Islamist-run Gaza Strip. He was speaking at a joint news conference with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the Palestinian political capital Ramallah in the West Bank. "We hope that sometime we'll see elections all over the Palestinian area and east Jerusalem and Gaza and also in the West Bank," said Carter, a member of the independent Elders Group of global leaders. In 2006, a year after Abbas was elected, Hamas won the most recent Palestinian legislative elections. Continue reading...

PRAGUE (AP) — Russia's campaign at the ice hockey world championship has received a blow after forward Danis Zaripov was ruled out for the rest of the tournament. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21197[/attach] YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — The first group of nearly 300 Nigerian girls and women released from Boko Haram were brought by the military to the safety of a refugee camp in the country's northeast Saturday evening. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21196[/attach] ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday praised the zeal of an 18th-century Franciscan missionary he will make a saint when he visits the United States this fall but whom Native Americans say brutally converted indigenous people to Christianity. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21195[/attach] Italian prosecutors opened an investigation on Saturday into rioting in Milan that disrupted the start of Expo 2015, while opposition parties called on the interior minister to resign. The violence marred the opening day of the Expo, a global fair focused on the theme of sustainable food production, that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said would help put a new face on Italy after years of economic decline. Milan's anti-terrorism prosecutors opened an investigation into allegations of major acts of vandalism, which carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years, against five people who have been arrested and other as-yet-unknown perpetrators. With local and regional elections bringing about 17 million Italians to the ballot box later his month, opposition Northern League and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement both pressed Interior Minister Angelino Alfano to resign. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21194[/attach] LONDON (AP) — A princess is born. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21193[/attach] PADANG BESAR, Thailand (AP) — Thai police trekked into the mountains and dug up 26 bodies from dozens of shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp that's been linked to human trafficking networks, which activists say are "out of control" in the Southeast Asian country. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21192[/attach] LOS ANGELES (AP) — Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wrapped up his U.S. visit in Los Angeles on Friday where he shared his vision for strengthened economic and political ties between the two allies. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21191[/attach] MUNICH (AP) — Top-seeded Andy Murray won two matches Saturday and advanced to the BMW Open final with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. Continue reading...

Burundi protest organizers on Saturday called for a two-day halt to demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's move to seek a third term, which they says violates the constitution and endangers the peace deal that ended a civil war in 2005. There have been six straight days of protests in the capital Bujumbura, marking the biggest political crisis in the small, landlocked nation in the heart of Africa since the ethnically fueled civil war came to an end. "We decided to stop demonstrations for two days, first to allow those who lost their family members in the protests to observe mourning and, second, we want the protesters to regain energy before resuming the fight Monday," said Pacifique Nininahazwe, head of Focode, one of the 300 civil society groups that have called for the demonstrations. Police said two officers and a civilian were killed late on Friday in two separate grenade attacks in the capital Bujumbura. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21190[/attach] Western powers are getting set to counter an expertly crafted Russian disinformation campaign over Ukraine which has left them wrong-footed too many times for comfort. The aim is to win the daily battle for the news headlines, to get the EU and NATO story out to show that Russia's message falls well short of the truth. "In Russia, the EU is described as though it is a conspiracy of homosexuals ... the old myths of the Cold War are back," Robert Pszczel, spokesman in Moscow for NATO, told AFP. Russia's annexation last year of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula as Kiev pledged its future to the European Union has plunged relations with Moscow into deep freeze, with no sign of any improvement soon. Continue reading...

Replacement Blade Thomson scored a brilliant 62nd-minute which gave the Hurricanes a four-try bonus point and clinched their 29-23 win over the Crusaders Saturday, keeping them atop the Super Rugby table. Continue reading...

[attach=full]21189[/attach] "Air strikes by the coalition early on Friday on the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province killed 52 civilians," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdel Rahman told AFP that Kurdish militiamen and Syrian rebel fighters were clashing with IS in a town roughly two kilometres (1 mile) away. "But Birmahle is only civilians, with no IS positions and no clashes," he said. Abdel Rahman said "not a single IS fighter" was killed in the strikes on the village, but that raids on a nearby town had killed at least seven jihadists. Continue reading...