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25 from missing Malaysian boat rescued; search on for 6 more

  KUALA LUMPUR / AP Twenty-five, mostly Chinese tourists, were rescued on Sunday after spending more than a day drifting in Malaysian waters after their boat sank, officials said. Six of the 31 people on board were still missing Sunday evening, Shahidan Kassim, a minister in the prime minister’s department, told reporters in Sabah state. The boat’s captain and a ...

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Netanyahu says US embassy should be in Jerusalem

  JERUSALEM / AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the American embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, injecting himself once again into a charged campaign trail promise of US President Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s comments at his weekly Cabinet meeting appeared aimed at countering reports that Israel was concerned about the fallout ...

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Trump mulling fate of ‘young immigrants’

  WASHINGTON / AP Missing from President Donald Trump’s blitz of immigration orders was any mention of the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants protected from deportation by former President Barack Obama. That omission has left immigration advocates hopeful Trump has softened his opposition to what he once derided as “illegal amnesty,” while others say he has quickly abandoned ...

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