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HONOLULU (AP) — Sewage is fouling popular beach in Hawaii for the second time in a week. Hawaii American Water says a million gallons of treated but not yet disinfected wastewater was discharged from the East Honolulu Wastewater Treatment plant into the ocean on Tuesday, after a power cable that runs the chlorination system shorted out. Authorities closed Sandy Beach and its surroundings. Earlier in the week, beaches near Waikiki were closed following a similar issue.
CHELAN, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters are holding their own against the largest wildfire on record in Washington state. Rising temperatures and increasing winds have been stoking the 450-square-mile Okanogan (oh-kah-NAH'-guhn) Complex fire. But officials say fire lines "are holding. The wind has helped clear out some of the heavy smoke the fire is producing, and that's allowed aircraft to join the fight.
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks are higher in Friday trading. Yesterday's revised estimate of U.S. economic growth to 3.7 percent is boosting traders' outlook. Japan's benchmark Nikkei is up 3 percent. Meanwhile, oil is continuing its rebound. Benchmark U.S. crude oil is trading above $43 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after posting its biggest one-day gain in six years on Thursday, when in leapt more than 10 percent.
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police say three people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a food struck on an Austrian highway. Meanwhile, an Associated Press photographer at the scene of another migrant disaster off the Libyan coast says authorities are collecting bodies. Details of what happened and the number of migrants who have drowned is unclear at this point.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Indian and Pakistani border guards have been trading gunfire in the divided region of Kashmir. Both sides are blaming each other for "unprovoked firing and shelling" on villages near the disputed border. Pakistan's army says Indian attacks have killed six civilians in one village, while India's border forces say three Indians have been killed. Tension has mounted after talks between the national security advisers of the two counties were called off because of disagreements related largely to Kashmir.
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