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Swiss village cashes in as tourists pay to visit dock featured in hit K-drama ‘Crash Landing On You’

Swiss village cashes in as tourists pay to visit dock featured in hit K-drama ‘Crash Landing On You’

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss village has cashed in on a pay-for-entry turnstile used by avid tourists who flock each day to a lakeside dock featured in the hit South Korean Netflix series “Crash Landing ...

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Elderly man dies as wildfires rage in Turkey, forcing evacuations and road closures

Elderly man dies as wildfires rage in Turkey, forcing evacuations and road closures

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Firefighters on Thursday discovered the body of an elderly man after extinguishing a wildfire near a village in western Turkey, while crews elsewhere continued to battle anot...

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Unusually early swarms of midges plague tourist hotspot in Tuscany

Unusually early swarms of midges plague tourist hotspot in Tuscany

Millions of midges have emerged from the Orbetello lagoon in Italy’s popular Tuscany region, darkening the windshields of cars, blackening the walls of buildings and jeopardisi...

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UN report: Africa food insecurity on the rise even as global trend shows improvement

UN report: Africa food insecurity on the rise even as global trend shows improvement

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Food insecurity is rising in many parts of Africa, with the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet surpassing 1 billion — some two-thirds of the continent’s popula...

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Calmer weather helps contain Oakland, California, fire that forced evacuations

Calmer weather helps contain Oakland, California, fire that forced evacuations

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Firefighting crews took advantage of calmer weather Sunday to increase containment of a small wildfire in Oakland, California, that burned two homes and forced more than 500...

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Firefighters still on hand more than a week after start of trash fire in Maine

Firefighters still on hand more than a week after start of trash fire in Maine

ORRINGTON, Maine (AP) — It’s going to take about two weeks to remove smoldering debris from a Maine town’s trash incinerator after a fire burned in the waste for a week, officials said Tuesday. F...

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