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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Inquirer says one of the newspaper's co-owners is among the seven people killed in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts. Lewis Katz was one of two business moguls who bought out their partners last week with an $88 million bid for The Inquirer, which also operates the Philadelphia Daily News and the news website Philly.com. The Gulfstream IV crashed in flames last night while taking off for Atlantic City, New Jersey, killing everyone aboard.
BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. soldier freed in Afghanistan after nearly five years in captivity has been taken to an American military hospital in Germany for evaluation. It's not clear how long Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl) will stay there before returning to the United States. The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center says it will proceed "at a pace with which he is comfortable" as it evaluates his condition and assists in his recovery.
PARIS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say a Frenchman arrested in last weekend's killings at a Brussels Jewish museum had traveled to Syria and claimed responsibility for the shootings in a video. Prosecutors say the suspect had tried to film the killings on May 24 but his camera failed. A video found after his arrest shows his weapons and clothes, and includes his voice claiming responsibility for the attack.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police have captured a suspected Muslim rebel bomber wanted in a 2009 attack that killed two U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers. Police say the suspect was one of the militants who placed a powerful land mine that hit a passing Humvee. The blast killed two U.S. soldiers and a Filipino marine who were delivering supplies to U.S. Seabees building a school and digging a well in a poor village.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Seven people have died after climbing down a well in Cambodia to retrieve about 75 cents. Police say they died from a lack of oxygen at the bottom of the 16-foot-deep well. The sister of three of the dead says the money that was accidentally dropped into the well by her father was considered a "huge" amount for their poor family.
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