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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Officials with the Russian airline Metrojet say something outside its plane caused it to crash in Egypt's Sinai desert. Viktor Yung, a director general of Metrojet, says "from the moment since the events took a tragic turn, the crew became incapacitated." Russia's emergency situations minister says he has examined both of the plane's black boxes and they're in good condition. Saturday's crash killed all 224 people on board as they flew from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, Russia.
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — The mayor of the Greek island of Lesbos says there's no more room to bury the increasing number of asylum-seekers killed in shipwrecks of smuggling boats coming in from nearby Turkey. The mayor tells Greece's Vima FM radio there are more than 50 bodies in the morgue on his eastern Aegean island that he's still trying to find a burial place for.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for last week's slaying of two Syrian activists in Turkey. In a video posted today, it warns that "the arm of the Islamic State will reach you, wherever you are." Two men were found dead in an apartment Friday. One of the men was a founding member of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently," a collective of activists who document the Islamic State group's atrocities in its de facto Syrian capital.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Doctors have arrived in Romania from overseas to help treat those injured in a fire in a Bucharest nightclub that killed at least 30 people. An emergency official says several specialists have arrived from Israel and France to help treat the 140 people who were hospitalized after the Friday night fire. Of those, 90 are in a critical or serious condition. The government says it will cover patients' medical costs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling for a break in the cycle of incarceration by helping former inmates successfully re-enter society. Today, Obama visits a drug treatment center in Newark, New Jersey, as he continues to push for overhauling the criminal justice system. In rare bipartisan fashion, Congress is considering legislation cutting sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, but Obama is trying to force attention to the plight offenders face once they're done serving their time.
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