Trade friction grows as U S EU Japan seek tariff exemptions
Washington officials met with European and Japanese counterparts in Brussels amid the Trump administration's aluminum and steel tariffs. EU leaders pledge to challenge the tariffs at the WTO while laying out potential countermeasures totaling about 3.5 billion dollars. Australia is briefly exempted. Canada and Mexico already were.
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UK police identify 200 witnesses in Skripal nerve attack
Interior minister Amber Rudd says investigators have spoken with over 200 witnesses and review more than 240 pieces of evidence in the Salisbury nerve agent case involving former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Police say the victims remain critically ill.
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Gunman at California veterans home was decorated veteran
Albert Wong, 36, a Sacramento native and former Army service member with Afghanistan duty, held three women hostage at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville before a standoff left all captives dead. He had been treated for PTSD at Pathway Home and was a former Pathway patient, with multiple medals and an Expert Marksmanship Badge.
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Nun in Perry case dies in courtroom collapse
Sister Catherine Rose Holzman aged 89 addressed a Los Angeles TV camera and then collapsed in a courtroom and died. She had opposed Katy Perry's bid to buy the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent in Los Feliz. The 40 year convent ownership was contested after a 2016 ruling over Vatican rights to the property.
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Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libyan coast as smugglers push boats
Libyan coast guard and international aid ships rescued hundreds of migrants Saturday amid a surge of craft toward Italy. A dinghy off Zawiya carried 125 people, another boat near Garabulli had 112 passengers, and a third vessel near Abu Kamash held 98 migrants.
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Tijuana judge charged with smuggling
A Tijuana municipal judge Eduardo Francisco Luis Peinado was charged in San Diego Federal Court with drug smuggling after 38 pounds of cocaine were found hidden in his car at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was arrested Feb. 10 and reportedly fired the same day for an undisclosed work issue.
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