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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels today to address the migrant crisis, after more than 10,000 people from countries in conflict were plucked from seas between Italy and Libya in a week. EU President Donald Tusk is urging the leaders from the 28 nations "to agree on very practical measures," including "strengthening search-and-rescue possibilities, by fighting the smugglers and by discouraging their victims from putting their life at risk, while reinforcing solidarity."
PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister says five attacks have been prevented from happening in France since a January assault by Islamic extremist gunmen left 20 people dead. Manuel Valls spoke on French radio today after a would-be gunman was stopped from carrying out attacks on French churches on Sunday. Authorities say the 24-year-old from Algeria was stopped only because he called for an ambulance after accidentally shooting himself in the leg. Authorities say the man is also a suspect in the shooting death of a French woman.
BEIJING (AP) — Search teams in northern China have now recovered the bodies of 21 coal miners who died when the shaft where they were working filled with water. After days of frantic rescue efforts following Sunday's accident, the final death toll was confirmed today by a government official in Datong. More than 600 rescuers had been working to pump water from the shaft and drill holes from the surface. A total of 247 miners were underground when water rushed into the shaft and 223 made it safely to the surface.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months after she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as attorney general, Loretta Lynch will finally get a confirmation vote in the Senate today. Lynch is expected to win approval with the support of all Democrats and at least five Republicans. If confirmed, she would replace Eric Holder and become the nation's first black female attorney general.
NEW YORK (AP) — Clean-water advocate Christopher Swain says environmental experts have been working hard to clean up a federal Superfund site in New York City, but Swain went for a swim in the still-polluted Gowanus Canal on Wednesday, which was Earth Day. Swain wore a yellow-and-black protective suit and a green swim cap as he spent about 30 minutes in water he said tasted like "mud, poop, ground-up grass, detergent, gasoline." A sign warned people to stay out of the water. After the swim, Swain gargled with hydrogen peroxide.
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