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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz was one of seven people killed in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts last night. That's according to his business partner, Harold H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest. The crash came just days after Katz and Lenfest gained full control of The Inquirer by buying out their co-owners for $88 million in a deal that ended an ugly, months-long feud among the partners. Lenfest says he expects the sale to proceed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's national security adviser says Congress was well aware that the administration was considering trading Guantanamo Bay detainees for the only American prisoner of the Afghan war. Susan Rice tells ABC's "This Week" there were extensive consultations with lawmakers and that they knew the idea of trading detainees was on the table. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl) was freed yesterday after Obama agreed to release five high-level Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison in Cuba.
PARIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a Frenchman arrested in last weekend's killings at a Belgian Jewish museum claims responsibility in a video found after his arrest. They also say the suspect had traveled to Syria. Fears have been mounting in European countries that the hundreds of European radicals who are joining the fight in Syria against President Bashar Assad could stage attacks when they get home.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Nations says violence has claimed the lives of 799 Iraqis in May, the highest monthly death toll so far this year. Baghdad was hardest-hit, with 315 people killed. The figures issued by the U.N. mission to Iraq put last month's civilian death toll at 603, with 196 security forces killed. It says more than 1,400 other Iraqis were wounded, including more than 1,100 civilians.
LONDON (AP) — The last surviving child of British World War II leader Winston Churchill has died. Her son says Mary Soames says she died yesterday after a short illness. She was 91. The youngest of Churchill's five children wrote several books about her family. As her father led Britain's fight against Nazi Germany during World War II, she joined first the Red Cross and later military units, serving in London, Belgium and Germany with anti-aircraft batteries of the army's Auxiliary Territorial Service.
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