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LONDON -- Prince William is completing his final shift in his job as an air ambulance pilot as he gets ready to take on more extensive royal duties.
The heir to the British throne is working the night shift Thursday at the East Anglian Air Ambulance, where he has been flying medical crews to emergencies such as traffic accidents for about two years.
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MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Police on Long Island are looking for the owner of a 77-pound tortoise found on the side of a road.
Newsday reports (http://nwsdy.li/2u1voB3 ) Nassau County police found the large African spurred tortoise in the Massapequa area.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to ban transgender service in the armed forces drove a wedge through military veterans in Congress, with one camp standing squarely behind the commander in chief and the other decrying his order as an ugly attack on dedicated troops.
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Russian intelligence agents attempted to spy on French President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year by creating fake Facebook personas, according to a U.S. congressman and two other people briefed on the effort.
About two dozen Facebook accounts were created to conduct surveillance on Macron campaign officials and others close to the centrist former financier as he sought to defeat far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen and other opponents in the two-round election, the sources said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two women accused of poisoning the estranged half brother of North Korea’s ruler in a bizarre airport assassination are expected to plead not guilty when they appear in a Malaysian court on Friday, their lawyers said.
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NEW YORK — Guess there's really no escaping Rikers Island afterall.
Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a section of New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex has been found on the island.
The inmate was captured around 3 a.m.
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