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LUHANSKE, Ukraine (AP) — Except for the area around a key rail hub, officials say the latest cease-fire in eastern Ukraine seems to be working. The cease-fire has kindled slender hopes of reprieve from the conflict between the government troops and Russian-backed separatists that has claimed more than 5,300 lives since it began in April. Part two of the peace deal will involve a pullback of heavy weapons.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police say they shot and killed a man early today who had been suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing two men, including a Danish Jew. Five police officers were also wounded in the attacks. Officials say the man may have been trying to emulate the Paris attacks.
UNDATED (AP) — From Ohio into parts of Kentucky and Tennessee as well as New England, the weather is nasty or expected to be later. Blizzard warnings are up in New England. Whiteout conditions in Ohio and Western New York caused deadly road accidents and another storm is expected to bring sleet, freezing rain and snow from southern Kansas and Missouri through Kentucky and Tennessee and into the Deep south starting this evening and through tomorrow.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unwelcome visitor got nasty on a flight that was supposed to fly from Los Angeles to Portland. Alaska Airlines spokesman Cole Cosgrove says Flight 567 was taxing on the runway Saturday night when a scorpion stung a woman on the hand. The plane returned to the gate and the woman was checked by medics. She refused additional medical treatment but didn't get back on the plane. Flight attendants dispatched the arachnid.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has exhorted 20 new cardinals to reach out to all those who have been shunned, physically or spiritually, by the church or society. Celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Basilica today with those he installed as cardinals a day earlier, Francis told them that they can't stand by passively watching the suffering of the world. Francis says "the way of the Church is not to condemn anyone for eternity."
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