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BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say a key suspect in the Aug. 17 attack on a Bangkok shrine admits handing the bomber a backpack containing the explosive device just before the deadly blast. Police on Wednesday took the key suspect to the scene of the bombing and to a train station where the backpack handoff allegedly occurred to re-enact what happened. Public reenactments conducted in front of the media are common in Thai criminal investigations.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fourteen people are being treated for minor injuries after an engine of a British Airways jet caught fire Tuesday while getting ready to take off from a Las Vegas airport. Billowing black smoke and orange flames poured from under the plane's wings, sending passengers fleeing. A spokesman at McCarran International Airport says all 159 passengers and 13 crew members were able to get off the plane. It was supposed to fly to London.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria within days and will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in the Middle East. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government will pay $31 million more to keep 240,000 Syrians and Iraqis in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury selection has begun in Pittsburgh for a suspended Catholic priest charged with traveling to Honduras to have sex with poor street children during missionary trips. The Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr. has been jailed since last fall, when federal prosecutors accused him of molesting one boy and possessing child pornography. A new indictment in April added charges involving two other boys. The 70-year-old priest has denied the allegations.
NEW YORK (AP) — Chain restaurants across New York City may soon have to add a new item to their menus: a salt-warning symbol. The city's Board of Health plans to vote Wednesday on a groundbreaking rule that would slap a black-and-white salt-shaker emblem on chain-eatery dishes with more than the recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams of sodium. That's about a teaspoon.
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