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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia is hosting several dozen Chinese relatives of passengers on Flight 370 who are demanding more information from top officials about what happened to the airliner. Two-thirds of the passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane were Chinese, and Beijing has urged Malaysia to be more open about the investigation. Searchers continue to scour an area of the Indian ocean where the plane may have gone down.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — It was a nasty night in Tucson after the University of Arizona basketball team's overtime loss in the NCAA tournament. Tucson police say they shot pepper spray at several hundred fans who took to the streets and threw beer bottles and firecrackers at officers. Police say there were nine of 10 arrests.

PARIS (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry was about halfway home from a Middle East trip when he reversed course and headed to Paris for talks about Ukraine with Russia's foreign minister. Kerry is scheduled to meet with Sergey Lavrov (SEHR'-gay LAHV'-rahf) at the Russian ambassador's residence. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to the ministers' meeting in a call on Friday.

PARIS (AP) — France's ruling Socialist party, reeling from President Francois Hollande's (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWNDZ') record-low approval ratings and a string of embarrassing scandals, is bracing for a rout today in municipal elections across the country. Meanwhile, the far-right, anti-immigration National Front aims to build on its surprisingly strong finish amid record low turnout in the first round of voting last week.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 14-year-old boy digging a trout pond in the backyard of his father's Salt Lake City home stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an American Indian who lived about 1,000 years ago. Experts from the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts spent Friday removing the remains, which were confirmed by medical examiners as those of a person from a millennium ago. The site is being further examined for archaeological clues.

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