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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — NATO is strengthening its military footprint along its eastern border immediately in response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. That's according to the head of the military alliance. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN'-derz fohg RAHS'-moo-sihn) says NATO's air policing aircraft will fly more sorties over the Baltic region west of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a senior U.S. official says diplomatic meetings tomorrow in Switzerland will attempt once again to ease tensions in Ukraine.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security officials in Nigeria say suspected Islamic militants have struck for a fourth time in three days, killing 20 people including a traditional ruler in attacks in the northeast Nigeria. Meanwhile, the military says all but eight of more than 100 teenage students kidnapped on Tuesday are free. Nigeria's 5-year-old Islamic uprising has claimed an estimated 4,000 dead.
MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — Korean officials say they are interviewing the captain and crew of a ferry that capsized and sank with 475 people aboard early today. Hours later, nearly 300 remain missing. Most of the passengers were high school students. The death toll has been put at six, with 55 injured. The accident happened off South Korea's southern coast.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man described by one prison psychiatrist as a "psychopath" and "one of the most dangerous people" the doctor had ever evaluated has been found guilty today of four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four Omaha people last summer. Nikko Jenkins, who represented himself, pleaded no contest to the murder counts, eight weapons counts associated with the killings and two separate counts of being a felon with a gun.
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police in a Los Angeles suburb say two fire trucks have collided, sending one of them into a restaurant. There were several injuries, some of them critical. TV video shows the back end of the truck protruding from a Chinese restaurant in Monterey Park. One of the injured appeared to be a firefighter.
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