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NEW YORK (AP) — The funeral is today for Cardinal Edward Egan, a Vatican theological force who led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for almost a decade. The 82-year-old Roman Catholic prelate died Thursday after suffering a heart attack. Thousands attended a viewing yesterday at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Egan is to be interred in a crypt under the main altar of the cathedral.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert says officials will take "a hard look" at security procedures in South Korea and then make a decision on any needed changes. Lippert left a South Korean hospital today after five days of treatment because of a knife attack by a man screaming about Korean unification. Lippert says he feels "pretty darn good, all things considered."
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Interior Ministry says two houses are being searched following the arrest of two people suspected of preparing for terror attacks in Spain. The houses are in a north African enclave surrounded by Morocco on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other. A ministry statement says the arrests are connected to the January detention of 4 others belonging to the same jihadi terror cell.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The official IRNA news agency reports a hard-line ayatollah has been chosen as the new chairman of Iran's most influential clerical body, the 86-member Assembly of Experts. The group is charged with choosing or dismissing the nation's supreme leader. IRNA says Mohammad Yazdi, currently the deputy chairman, got 47 votes from among 73 clerics who attended the session.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 6-year-old lawsuit linked to the collapse years ago of a company that sold prepaid funerals has ended with a $491 million damage award by a federal jury in St. Louis. Federal investigators had described the business as nothing more than an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors say money that should have been in trust was used to enrich the company's officers and others.
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