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Cubans plug shrinking ‘bottleneck’ trying to enter US via Mexico

Burgeoning numbers of Cubans are trying to get into the U.S. via the Mexican border, creating a backlog of people on the Mexican side for months for their chance to apply for asylum.

Police seek rappers’ ties to shootings around Miami

Miami area law enforcement agencies are looking for connections between a series of weekend shootings that killed one rapper, wounded another rapper’s girlfriend and hit three bystanders.

Iraqis remain fearful of ‘defeated’ Islamic State militants

A year and a half after the Islamic State group was declared defeated in Iraq, the militants still evoke fear in the lands of their former so-called caliphate across northern Iraq.

Three oil tankers ‘sabotaged’ on major oil route

Two Saudi oil tankers and a Norwegian-flagged vessel were damaged in what Gulf officials described Monday as a “sabotage” attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

Sweden to pursue 10-year-old rape case against Assange

Swedish prosecutors say they are reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and seek his extradition after he serves a prison term in Britain for jumping bail.