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PARIS (AP) — France is sending a military unit to Mali to secure the site where an Air Algeria plane crashed with 116 aboard. Most of the dead were French citizens. The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off early Thursday from Burkina Faso. The plane crashed during a rainstorm in a restive area of Mali, near the Burkina Faso border.
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the Security Cabinet is meeting to discuss international cease-fire efforts, but also the option of expanding its ground operation in Gaza. A Palestinian health official says the Gaza death toll has risen to 808, with 115 Palestinians killed on Thursday. Israeli police say thousands of security forces have been deployed around Jerusalem's Old City in preparation for possible Palestinian protests Friday. Protests also have spread to the West Bank.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is weighing giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The plan would involve screening young people in Honduras, one of the world's most violent nations, to determine whether they qualify for refugee status. Similar in-country screening programs were set up in East Asia after the Vietnam War and in Haiti in the 1990s.
DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in Darby, Pennsylvania are investigating why a patient fatally shot a caseworker who had accompanied him to a psychiatric crisis center. Authorities say Richard Plotts shot the caseworker, and then his psychiatrist pulled out his own gun and shot Plotts, wounding him. Investigators say Plotts may have had issues with the doctor over his treatment plan.
BEIJING (AP) — General Motors Co. and its main Chinese partner are recalling nearly 20,000 imported Cadillac SRX sport utility vehicles and Chevy Camaros to replace defective seat bolts. GM says the defect might cause seats to descend to their lowest position, possibly causing a safety hazard. This is GM's third recall in China in 14 months.
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