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CANADA CANADIAN MINISTER: I WAS TOLD TO TAKE OFF MY TURBAN

A Canadian Cabinet minister said Thursday he was subject to a discriminatory security check at Detroit’s airport that caused Canada to complain to U.S. government officials. Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains he was asked to remove his turban at Detroit Metro Airport on his way back to Canada last year. He said there were challenges with the swab machine and he was recalled from the gate and brought back to security where he was asked to take the turban off. He said when they realized who he was they allowed him to travel and not take it off. Bains complained to Canada’s foreign minister who then complained to U.S. officials. He said U.S. officials expressed regret and apologized and he’s accepted the apology. / AP

MEXICO KILLERS OF 3 STUDENTS DISSOLVED 12 VICTIMS IN ACID

A drug cartel’s assassins who killed three film students apparently mistaken for members of a rival gang and dissolved their bodies in acid did the same thing to nine other people, authorities said. Interior Secretary Alfonso Navarrete said investigators had detected DNA from 12 separate people in residual fats found at a location where one of the killers confessed to having dissolved bodies in sulfuric acid. Navarrete did not say if any of the DNA profiles matched those of the three film students who were abducted kast March 19. The three students were working on a film for school at a house that was being watched by Jalisco New Generation drug cartel members. The house had once been used by a rival drug gang, and the Jalisco cartel suspected the students were part of that gang. / AP

NORTH KOREA NORTH KOREA SAYS IT WILL CONDUCT NO MORE ICBM TESTS

North Korea has told a United Nations aviation agency that it will not conduct unannounced missile tests or further intercontinental ballistic missile launches because its nuclear arms program is now complete and it no longer needs to do such testing. The pledge was made in meetings between North Korean officials and representatives of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization who were in Pyongyang for talks this week, an ICAO statement said on Friday. Ri Yong Son, deputy director general of North Korea’s aviation administration, said the North’s “national nuclear arms program was complete.” Ri said North Korea will enhance its cooperation and communications between military and civil aviation authorities. / AP

ARGENTINA ARGENTINES OPPOSE MOVE OF PRESIDENT TO ASK IMF’S HELP

It seemed like a collective moan could be heard across Argentina as President Mauricio Macri uttered three words that many in this country associate with the worst of times: International Monetary Fund. Macri annunced this week that he will seek a financing deal with the IMF following a sharp devaluation of its currency. The move has brought back bad memories for Argentines who blame the IMF for encouraging free-market policies that led to the country’s worst economic crisis in 2001. “Historically, the image of the IMF has been something very traumatic for us Argentines,” Jorge Fidler, a 72-year-old accountant, said of the economic crunch, which included government turmoil with five presidents in just two weeks. “This really is a bitter pill to swallow.” / AP

INDONESIA INDONESIA’S MOST ACTIVE VOLCANO ERUPTS, SPEWS ASH

Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted early Friday, spewing sand and pyroclastic material and sending an ash column as high as 5,500 meters (18,045 feet) into the sky. The sudden eruption was accompanied by a rumbling sound with medium to strong pressure, Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. People living within 5 kilometers of the crater evacuated to barracks set up for the displaced or left for other safe places. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Nugroho said Adi Sucipto airport in Yogyakarta was closed for about one hour due to the spread of volcanic ash. It has reopened. The eruption, however, did not raise the alert status of Merapi. / AP

AUSTRALIA 7 FOUND DEAD WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS AT RURAL PROPERTY

Seven people including four children were found dead with gunshot wounds Friday at a rural property in southwest Australia in what could be the country’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, police said. Police would not comment on the possibility of murder-suicide, but they are not looking for a suspect. After being alerted by a phone call before dawn, police found the bodies and two guns at the property in Osmington, a village of fewer than 700 people near the tourist town of Margaret River, Western Australia state Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said. Police won’t say who made the call. The bodies of two adults were found outside a building and the rest were found inside. They all resided at the property, he said. / AP