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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Tear gas is in the air again in Ferguson, Missouri, where racial tensions have simmered since Saturday's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer. Heavily-armed officers responded with tear gas and smoke bombs after objects were thrown during an evening face-off. Two reporters say they were handled roughly and arrested while at a McDonalds not far from the scene of Saturday's shooting. They were released without charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says it's less likely that a major operation will be needed to rescue Iraqis from atop a mountain where they fled to avoid Sunni extremists. A military team flown to Sinjar Mountain reported back that there are several thousand refugees, not the tens of thousands reported last week. Some of them were apparently able to escape because of U.S. airstrikes against the group Islamic State.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials in South Korea say North Korea launched three short-range projectiles less than an hour before Pope Francis arrived in Seoul. It's the first papal visit in 25 years to South Korea. Francis plans to reach out to the North during his five-day trip in a Mass for peace and reconciliation on the war-divided Korean Peninsula.
CAIRO (AP) — Another temporary cease-fire is in effect between Israel and Hamas. It started at midnight local time, but not before five militant rockets were fired and Israel responded by striking targets in Gaza. Egypt's foreign minister is leading indirect talks and says the sides have agreed to a five-day extension. The time will be used in an effort to negotiate a longer-term truce.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and other politicians have signed a statement calling on the Discovery Channel to drop the series "Amish Mafia." The statement says the show is a "bigoted portrayal" of the religious sect and misrepresents the Amish in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County as a "crime-ridden culture."
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