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GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Police investigating last night's deadly drive-by shootings in Southern California are studying a video posted on YouTube of a young man describing plans to shoot women. They're not saying whether the person in the video is a suspect in the shootings, which left seven people dead, including the suspected gunman. Seven others were wounded. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown says investigators are analyzing written and videotaped evidence that suggests it was "a premeditated mass murder."
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian officials say that at least three people have been killed in gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. A Belgian broadcasting company says a person with a backpack opened fire in the museum today, then fled. Police have closed off the area around the museum, near the center of Brussels, and numerous ambulances were at the scene.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Pope Francis is calling for an "urgent" end to the Syrian civil war and lamenting the refugee crisis it has spawned. Speaking in Jordan at the start of a three-day trip to the Middle East, the pope also urged greater religious rights for minority Christians across the region. He thanked Jordan's King Abdullah for encouraging what he called a "climate of serene coexistence" between Christians and Muslims.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the West of ignoring Russia's interests in Ukraine, especially when it comes to the prospect of its neighbor joining NATO. Speaking today to major international news agencies, Putin says the West as never had a substantive discussion with Russia about the possibility that the new government in Kiev could take Ukraine into the Western military alliance. Putin has said previously that the decision to annex Crimea was driven in part by the need to prevent NATO ships from ever being based on the Black Sea peninsula.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 90-year-old submarine veteran has spent years working to ensure that those who died serving on submarines during World War II are remembered. Paul Wittmer of suburban St. Louis has compiled biographical information on every man lost aboard a submarine during the war. The research fills six volumes. Serving aboard an American submarine was one of the most dangerous assignments in the war, with nearly 1 in 5 crew members losing their lives somewhere in the ocean depths.
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